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<h1>The World English Bible</h1>

The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. That means that it is not copyrighted. However, "World English Bible" is a Trademark of eBible.org.

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2020 stable text edition

#OUTLINE:1,Preface to the World English Bible
<i>What is the Holy Bible?</i>

The Holy Bible is a collection of books and letters written by many people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. These books tell us how we can be saved from the evil of this world and gain eternal life that is truly worth living. Although the Holy Bible contains rules of conduct, it is not just a rule book. It reveals God’s heart—a Father’s heart, full of love and compassion. The Holy Bible tells you what you need to know and believe to be saved from sin and evil and how to live a life that is truly worth living, no matter what your current circumstances may be.

The Holy Bible consists of two main sections: the Old Testament (including Psalms and Proverbs) and the New Testament (Matthew through Revelation). The Old Testament records God’s interaction with mankind before He sent His son to redeem us, while recording prophesy predicting that coming. The New Testament tells us of God’s Son and Anointed One, Jesus, and the wonderful salvation that He purchased for us.

The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more than happy to help you apply His message to your life.

The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written mostly in the common street Greek (not the formal Greek used for official legal matters). The Holy Bible is translated into many languages, and being translated into many more, so that everyone may have an opportunity to hear the Good News about Jesus Christ.<footnote:"*">“Christ” means “Anointed One”.</footnote>

<i>Why was the World English Bible translated?</i>

There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English. Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This restricts publication and republication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet, use of extensive quotations in books, etc. The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject.

Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don’t even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the whole World English Bible in book form, bind it in leather and sell it. You may incorporate it into your Bible study software. You may make and distribute audio recordings of it. You may broadcast it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God’s Word before God, and reserve the name “World English Bible” for faithful copies of this translation.

<i>How was the World English Bible translated?</i>

The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. A custom computer program updated the archaic words and word forms to contemporary equivalents, and then a team of volunteers proofread and updated the grammar. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated.

<i>What is different about the World English Bible?</i>

The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The World English Bible is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. It is not formal in its language, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.

The World English Bible doesn’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. Hebrew has no such thing as upper and lower case, and the original Greek manuscripts were written in all upper case letters. Attempting to add in such a distinction raises some difficulties in translating dual-meaning Scriptures such as the coronation psalms.

The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.”  The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.

Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:
<blockquote>
The order of <bcv=Mat 23:13-14>Matthew 23:13 and 14</bcv> is reversed in some translations.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<bcv=Luk 17:36>Luke 17:36</bcv> and <bcv=Acts 15:34>Acts 15:34,</bcv> which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<bcv=Rom 14:24-26>Romans 14:24-26</bcv> in the WEB may appear as <bcv=Rom 16:25-27>Romans 16:25-27</bcv> in other translations.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<bcv=1John 5:7-8>1 John 5:7-8</bcv> contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.
</blockquote>

With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible doesn’t differ very much from several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.

<i>Does the World English Bible include the Apocrypha?</i>

The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations.  The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.

The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: Tobit, Judith, Esther from the Greek Septuagint, The Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (also called The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach), Baruch, The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. In this edition, The Letter of Jeremiah is included as chapter 6 of Baruch. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. These three are included in Daniel (Greek), in context, as they make more sense that way.

The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

The Slavonic Bible includes 2 Esdras, but calls it 3 Esdras. This same book is in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate as 4 Esdras.

An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.

Among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, opinions vary widely on the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, as do the collective names they give them. Many regard them as useful in gaining additional understanding of the Old and New Testaments and the hand of God in history, even if they don’t give them the same status as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. They are included here in support of the churches and individuals who read them and use them, as separate from, but frequently used with, the core canon of the 66 books of the Holy Bible.

<i>What are MT, TR, and NU?</i>

In the footnotes, MT refers to the Greek Majority Text New Testament, which is the authoritative basis for this translation. TR stands for Textus Receptus, which is the Greek Text from which the King James Version New Testament was translated. NU stands for the Nestle-Aland/UBS critical text of the Greek New Testament, which is used as a basis for some other Bible translations.

<i>More Information</i>

For answers to frequently asked questions about the World English Bible, please visit our web site at WorldEnglish.Bible.

#OUTLINE:1,Genesis
<h2>The First Book of Moses,
<br>
Commonly Called Genesis</h2>

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the beginning, God<footnote:1>1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> created the heavens and
the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:2">2 </verse></sup>The earth was formless and empty.
Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s
Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:3">3 </verse></sup>God said, “Let there be light,” and there was
light. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:4">4 </verse></sup>God saw the light, and saw that it was good.
God divided the light from the darkness. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:5">5 </verse></sup>God
called the light “day”, and the darkness he called
“night”. There was evening and there was morning,
the first day.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:6">6 </verse></sup>God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from
the waters.” <key:bcv=Genesis 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:7">7 </verse></sup>God made the expanse, and divided
the waters which were under the expanse from the
waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
<key:bcv=Genesis 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:8">8 </verse></sup>God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening
and there was morning, a second day.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:9">9 </verse></sup>God said, “Let the waters under the sky be
gathered together to one place, and let the dry land
appear;” and it was so. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:10">10 </verse></sup>God called the dry land
“earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he
called “seas”. God saw that it was good. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:11">11 </verse></sup>God said,
“Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and
fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their
seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:12">12 </verse></sup>The earth
yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind,
and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after
their kind; and God saw that it was good. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:13">13 </verse></sup>There
was evening and there was morning, a third day.
<key:bcv=Genesis 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:14">14 </verse></sup>God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse
of the sky to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and
years; <key:bcv=Genesis 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:15">15 </verse></sup>and let them be for lights in the expanse
of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was
so. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:16">16 </verse></sup>God made the two great lights: the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night. He also made the stars. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:17">17 </verse></sup>God set them in the
expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, <key:bcv=Genesis 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:18">18 </verse></sup>and to
rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness. God saw that it was
good. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:19">19 </verse></sup>There was evening and there was morning,
a fourth day.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:20">20 </verse></sup>God said, “Let the waters abound with living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the
open expanse of the sky.” <key:bcv=Genesis 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:21">21 </verse></sup>God created the large
sea creatures and every living creature that moves,
with which the waters swarmed, after their kind,
and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it
was good. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:22">22 </verse></sup>God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
birds multiply on the earth.” <key:bcv=Genesis 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:23">23 </verse></sup>There was evening
and there was morning, a fifth day.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:24">24 </verse></sup>God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures
after their kind, livestock, creeping things,
and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it
was so. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:25">25 </verse></sup>God made the animals of the earth after
their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and
everything that creeps on the ground after its kind.
God saw that it was good.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:26">26 </verse></sup>God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after
our likeness. Let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and
over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:27">27 </verse></sup>God created man in his own image. In God’s
image he created him; male and female he created
them. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:28">28 </verse></sup>God blessed them. God said to them, “Be
fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the sky, and over every living thing that moves on
the earth.” <key:bcv=Genesis 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:29">29 </verse></sup>God said, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:29 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I have given you
every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface
of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit
yielding seed. It will be your food. <key:bcv=Genesis 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:30">30 </verse></sup>To every
animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky,
and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which
there is life, I have given every green herb for food;”
and it was so.

<key:bcv=Genesis 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 1:31">31 </verse></sup>God saw everything that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. There was evening and
there was morning, a sixth day.

#BCV:Genesis 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:1">1 </verse></sup>The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array
were finished. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:2">2 </verse></sup>On the seventh day God finished
his work which he had done; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he had done.
<key:bcv=Genesis 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:3">3 </verse></sup>God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy,
because he rested in it from all his work of creation
which he had done.

<key:bcv=Genesis 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:4">4 </verse></sup>This is the history of the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created,
in the day that Yahweh<footnote:1>2:4 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> God made the earth and
the heavens. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:5">5 </verse></sup>No plant of the field was yet in the
earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up;
for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the
earth. There was not a man to till the ground, <key:bcv=Genesis 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:6">6 </verse></sup>but a
mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole
surface of the ground. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh God formed man
from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh God planted a garden eastward,
in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had
formed. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Out of the ground Yahweh God made
every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food, including the tree of life in the middle
of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:10">10 </verse></sup>A river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from there it was parted, and became
the source of four rivers. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The name of the first is
Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold; <key:bcv=Genesis 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:12">12 </verse></sup>and the gold of that land
is good. Bdellium<footnote:1>2:12 or, aromatic resin</footnote> and onyx stone are also there.
<key:bcv=Genesis 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the
same river that flows through the whole land of
Cush. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:14">14 </verse></sup>The name of the third river is Hiddekel.
This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The
fourth river is the Euphrates. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to
cultivate and keep it. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh God commanded
the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree
of the garden; <key:bcv=Genesis 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:17">17 </verse></sup>but you shall not eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that
you eat of it, you will surely die.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man
to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable
to<footnote:1>2:18 or, suitable for, or appropriate for. </footnote> him.” <key:bcv=Genesis 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Out of the ground Yahweh God formed
every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky,
and brought them to the man to see what he would
call them. Whatever the man called every living
creature became its name. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:20">20 </verse></sup>The man gave names
to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to
every animal of the field; but for man there was not
found a helper comparable to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh God
caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the
man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh in its place. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh God made a woman
from the rib which he had taken from the man, and
brought her to the man. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:23">23 </verse></sup>The man said, “This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She
will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out
of Man.” <key:bcv=Genesis 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore a man will leave his father
and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they
will be one flesh. <key:bcv=Genesis 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 2:25">25 </verse></sup>The man and his wife were both
naked, and they were not ashamed.

#BCV:Genesis 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the serpent was more subtle than any
animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He
said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall
not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:2">2 </verse></sup>The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat
fruit from the trees of the garden, <key:bcv=Genesis 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:3">3 </verse></sup>but not the fruit
of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God
has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch
it, lest you die.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:4">4 </verse></sup>The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t
really die, <key:bcv=Genesis 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:5">5 </verse></sup>for God knows that in the day you eat it,
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:6">6 </verse></sup>When the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that
the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took
some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her
husband with her, and he ate it, too. <key:bcv=Genesis 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Their eyes
were opened, and they both knew that they were
naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made
coverings for themselves. <key:bcv=Genesis 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:8">8 </verse></sup>They heard Yahweh
God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the
day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the
garden.

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him,
“Where are you?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:10">10 </verse></sup>The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid
myself.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:11">11 </verse></sup>God said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you
not to eat from?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:12">12 </verse></sup>The man said, “The woman whom you gave to
be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I
ate it.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have
you done?”
<br>
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and
I ate.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh God said to the serpent,
<br>
“Because you have done this,
<br>
you are cursed above all livestock,
<br>
and above every animal of the field.
<br>
You shall go on your belly
<br>
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:15">15 </verse></sup>I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
<br>
and you will bruise his heel.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:16">16 </verse></sup>To the woman he said,
<br>
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
You will bear children in pain.
<br>
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:17">17 </verse></sup>To Adam he said,
<br>
“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and have eaten from the tree,
<br>
about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You
shall not eat of it,’
<br>
the ground is cursed for your sake.
<br>
You will eat from it with much labor all the days of
your life.

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:18">18 </verse></sup>It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
<key:bcv=Genesis 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:19">19 </verse></sup>You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until
you return to the ground,
<br>
for you were taken out of it.
<br>
For you are dust,
<br>
and you shall return to dust.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:20">20 </verse></sup>The man called his wife Eve because she would
be the mother of all the living. <key:bcv=Genesis 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh God made
garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife,
and clothed them.

<key:bcv=Genesis 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become
like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he
reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life,
and eat, and live forever —” <key:bcv=Genesis 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh
God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which he was taken. <key:bcv=Genesis 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 3:24">24 </verse></sup>So he drove out
the man; and he placed cherubim<footnote:1>3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10. </footnote> at the east of the
garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

#BCV:Genesis 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:1">1 </verse></sup>The man knew<footnote:1>4:1 or, lay with, or, had relations with </footnote> Eve his wife. She conceived,<footnote:1>4:1 or, became pregnant</footnote>
and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a
man with Yahweh’s help.” <key:bcv=Genesis 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Again she gave birth,
to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep,
but Cain was a tiller of the ground. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:3">3 </verse></sup>As time
passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from
the fruit of the ground. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Abel also brought some
of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh
respected Abel and his offering, <key:bcv=Genesis 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:5">5 </verse></sup>but he didn’t
respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry,
and the expression on his face fell. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to
Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression
of your face fallen? <key:bcv=Genesis 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:7">7 </verse></sup>If you do well, won’t it be lifted
up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its
desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.” <key:bcv=Genesis 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Cain
said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.”
While they were in the field, Cain rose up against
Abel, his brother, and killed him.

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your
brother?”
<br>
He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s
keeper?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice
of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
<key:bcv=Genesis 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Now you are cursed because of the ground, which
has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s
blood from your hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:12">12 </verse></sup>From now on, when you
till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you.
You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is
greater than I can bear. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, you have driven
me out today from the surface of the ground. I will
be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and
a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill
me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays
Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.”
Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone
finding him would not strike him.

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the
land of Nod, east of Eden. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Cain knew his wife.
She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built
a city, and named the city after the name of his
son, Enoch. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became
the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father
of Methushael. Methushael became the father of
Lamech. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Lamech took two wives: the name of
the first one was Adah, and the name of the second
one was Zillah. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Adah gave birth to Jabal, who
was the father of those who dwell in tents and have
livestock. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:21">21 </verse></sup>His brother’s name was Jubal, who was
the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
<key:bcv=Genesis 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of
every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal
Cain’s sister was Naamah. <key:bcv=Genesis 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Lamech said to his
wives,
<br>
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
<br>
You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
for I have slain a man for wounding me,
a young man for bruising me.

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:24">24 </verse></sup>If Cain will be avenged seven times,
truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to
a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has
given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain
killed him.” <key:bcv=Genesis 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 4:26">26 </verse></sup>A son was also born to Seth, and he
named him Enosh. At that time men began to call
on Yahweh’s name.

#BCV:Genesis 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:1">1 </verse></sup>This is the book of the generations of Adam.
In the day that God created man, he made him in
God’s likeness. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:2">2 </verse></sup>He created them male and female,
and blessed them. On the day they were created,
he named them Adam.<footnote:1>5:2 “Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.</footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Adam lived one hundred
thirty years, and became the father of a son in his
own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:4">4 </verse></sup>The days of Adam after he became the father of
Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the
father of other sons and daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:5">5 </verse></sup>All the days
that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years,
then he died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Seth lived one hundred five years, then became
the father of Enosh. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Seth lived after he became
the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and
became the father of other sons and daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:8">8 </verse></sup>All
of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years,
then he died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father
of Kenan. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Enosh lived after he became the father
of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became
the father of other sons and daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:11">11 </verse></sup>All of the
days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he
died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Kenan lived seventy years, then became the
father of Mahalalel. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Kenan lived after he became
the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years,
and became the father of other sons and daughters
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:14">14 </verse></sup>and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred
ten years, then he died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became
the father of Jared. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Mahalalel lived after he
became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty
years, and became the father of other sons and
daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:17">17 </verse></sup>All of the days of Mahalalel were eight
hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then
became the father of Enoch. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Jared lived after he
became the father of Enoch eight hundred years,
and became the father of other sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:20">20 </verse></sup>All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixtytwo
years, then he died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the
father of Methuselah. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:22">22 </verse></sup>After Methuselah’s birth,
Enoch walked with God for three hundred years,
and became the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:23">23 </verse></sup>All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixtyfive
years. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Enoch walked with God, and he was
not found, for God took him.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Methuselah lived one hundred eightyseven
years, then became the father of Lamech.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Methuselah lived after he became the father
of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and
became the father of other sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:27">27 </verse></sup>All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty-nine years, then he died.

<key:bcv=Genesis 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:28">28 </verse></sup>Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years,
then became the father of a son. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:29">29 </verse></sup>He named him
Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work
and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground
which Yahweh has cursed.” <key:bcv=Genesis 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:30">30 </verse></sup>Lamech lived after
he became the father of Noah five hundred ninetyfive
years, and became the father of other sons and
daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:31">31 </verse></sup>All the days of Lamech were seven
hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
<key:bcv=Genesis 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 5:32">32 </verse></sup>Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah
became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

#BCV:Genesis 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:1">1 </verse></sup>When men began to multiply on the surface
of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
<key:bcv=Genesis 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:2">2 </verse></sup>God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful,
and they took any that they wanted for themselves
as wives. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not
strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so
his days will be one hundred twenty years.” <key:bcv=Genesis 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:4">4 </verse></sup>The
Nephilim<footnote:1>6:4 or, giants </footnote> were in the earth in those days, and
also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s
daughters and had children with them. Those were
the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
<key:bcv=Genesis 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only
evil. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh
said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from
the surface of the ground—man, along with animals,
creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry
that I have made them.” <key:bcv=Genesis 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:8">8 </verse></sup>But Noah found favor in
Yahweh’s eyes.

<key:bcv=Genesis 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:9">9 </verse></sup>This is the history of the generations of Noah:
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the
people of his time. Noah walked with God. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Noah
became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:11">11 </verse></sup>The earth was corrupt before God, and
the earth was filled with violence. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:12">12 </verse></sup>God saw the
earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had
corrupted their way on the earth.

<key:bcv=Genesis 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:13">13 </verse></sup>God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all
flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through
them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
<key:bcv=Genesis 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make
rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside
with pitch. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:15">15 </verse></sup>This is how you shall make it. The
length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,<footnote:1>6:15 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> its
width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:16">16 </verse></sup>You
shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it
to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship
in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and
third levels. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:17">17 </verse></sup>I, even I, will bring the flood of waters
on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath
of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the
earth will die. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:18">18 </verse></sup>But I will establish my covenant
with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your
sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Of
every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two
of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with
you. They shall be male and female. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the birds
after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of
every creeping thing of the ground after its kind,
two of every sort will come to you, to keep them
alive. <key:bcv=Genesis 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Take with you some of all food that is eaten,
and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for
you, and for them.” <key:bcv=Genesis 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Thus Noah did. He did all that
God commanded him.

#BCV:Genesis 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your
household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness
before me in this generation. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall
take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the
male and his female. Of the animals that are not
clean, take two, the male and his female. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Also
of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and
female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the
earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:4">4 </verse></sup>In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the
earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy
every living thing that I have made from the surface
of the ground.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded
him.

<key:bcv=Genesis 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
of waters came on the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Noah went into
the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’
wives, because of the floodwaters. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Clean animals,
unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps
on the ground <key:bcv=Genesis 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:9">9 </verse></sup>went by pairs to Noah into the
ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
<key:bcv=Genesis 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:10">10 </verse></sup>After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the
earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:11">11 </verse></sup>In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in
the second month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, on that day all the fountains of the great
deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
<key:bcv=Genesis 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:12">12 </verse></sup>It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
<key:bcv=Genesis 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:13">13 </verse></sup>In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and
Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the
three wives of his sons with them, entered into the
ship— <key:bcv=Genesis 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:14">14 </verse></sup>they, and every animal after its kind, all
the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every
bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Pairs
from all flesh with the breath of life in them went
into the ship to Noah. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Those who went in, went
in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded
him; then Yahweh shut him in. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:17">17 </verse></sup>The flood was
forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and
lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the
earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:18">18 </verse></sup>The waters rose, and increased greatly on
the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the
waters. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The waters rose very high on the earth.
All the high mountains that were under the whole
sky were covered. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:20">20 </verse></sup>The waters rose fifteen cubits<footnote:1>7:20 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
higher, and the mountains were covered. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:21">21 </verse></sup>All
flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds,
livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth, and every man. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:22">22 </verse></sup>All on the dry land,
in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life,
died. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Every living thing was destroyed that was on
the surface of the ground, including man, livestock,
creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were
destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and
those who were with him in the ship. <key:bcv=Genesis 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 7:24">24 </verse></sup>The waters
flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

#BCV:Genesis 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:1">1 </verse></sup>God remembered Noah, all the animals, and
all the livestock that were with him in the ship;
and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The
waters subsided. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:2">2 </verse></sup>The deep’s fountains and the
sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from
the sky was restrained. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:3">3 </verse></sup>The waters continually
receded from the earth. After the end of one
hundred fifty days the waters receded. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:4">4 </verse></sup>The ship
rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:5">5 </verse></sup>The
waters receded continually until the tenth month.
In the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
the tops of the mountains were visible.
<key:bcv=Genesis 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:6">6 </verse></sup>At the end of forty days, Noah opened the
window of the ship which he had made, <key:bcv=Genesis 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:7">7 </verse></sup>and he
sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the
waters were dried up from the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:8">8 </verse></sup>He himself
sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from
the surface of the ground, <key:bcv=Genesis 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:9">9 </verse></sup>but the dove found no
place to rest her foot, and she returned into the
ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of
the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took
her, and brought her to him into the ship. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:10">10 </verse></sup>He
waited yet another seven days; and again he sent
the dove out of the ship. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:11">11 </verse></sup>The dove came back
to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a
freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the
waters were abated from the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:12">12 </verse></sup>He waited yet
another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she
didn’t return to him any more.

<key:bcv=Genesis 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:13">13 </verse></sup>In the six hundred first year, in the first month,
the first day of the month, the waters were dried
up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of
the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of
the ground was dry. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:14">14 </verse></sup>In the second month, on
the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was
dry.

<key:bcv=Genesis 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:15">15 </verse></sup>God spoke to Noah, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:16">16 </verse></sup>“Go out of the
ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’
wives with you. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Bring out with you every living
thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds,
livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and
his sons’ wives with him. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Every animal, every
creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on
the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
<key:bcv=Genesis 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of
every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh
smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his
heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more
for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s
heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike
every living thing, as I have done. <key:bcv=Genesis 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 8:22">22 </verse></sup>While the earth
remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day and night will not
cease.”

#BCV:Genesis 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:1">1 </verse></sup>God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them,
“Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:2">2 </verse></sup>The
fear of you and the dread of you will be on every
animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky.
Everything that moves along the ground, and all the
fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Every
moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I
gave you the green herb, I have given everything to
you. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:4">4 </verse></sup>But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you
shall not eat. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:5">5 </verse></sup>I will surely require accounting for
your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will
require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of
every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
<key:bcv=Genesis 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed
by man, for God made man in his own image. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Be
fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the
earth, and multiply in it.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:8">8 </verse></sup>God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him,
saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:9">9 </verse></sup>“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant
with you, and with your offspring after you, <key:bcv=Genesis 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:10">10 </verse></sup>and
with every living creature that is with you: the
birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth
with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every
animal of the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:11">11 </verse></sup>I will establish my covenant
with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by
the waters of the flood. There will never again be
a flood to destroy the earth.” <key:bcv=Genesis 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:12">12 </verse></sup>God said, “This is
the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that is with you,
for perpetual generations: <key:bcv=Genesis 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:13">13 </verse></sup>I set my rainbow in the
cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between
me and the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:14">14 </verse></sup>When I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, <key:bcv=Genesis 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:15">15 </verse></sup>I
will remember my covenant, which is between me
and you and every living creature of all flesh, and
the waters will no more become a flood to destroy
all flesh. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:16">16 </verse></sup>The rainbow will be in the cloud. I
will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living creature of
all flesh that is on the earth.” <key:bcv=Genesis 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:17">17 </verse></sup>God said to Noah,
“This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is on the
earth.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:18">18 </verse></sup>The sons of Noah who went out from the ship
were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of
Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:19">19 </verse></sup>These three were the sons of Noah, and
from these the whole earth was populated.
<key:bcv=Genesis 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a
vineyard. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:21">21 </verse></sup>He drank of the wine and got drunk. He
was uncovered within his tent. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Ham, the father
of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told
his two brothers outside. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Shem and Japheth took
a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went
in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their
father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t
see their father’s nakedness. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:24">24 </verse></sup>Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:25">25 </verse></sup>He said,
<br>
“Canaan is cursed.
<br>
He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:26">26 </verse></sup>He said,
<br>
“Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
<br>
Let Canaan be his servant.

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:27">27 </verse></sup>May God enlarge Japheth.
<br>
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
<br>
Let Canaan be his servant.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:28">28 </verse></sup>Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the
flood. <key:bcv=Genesis 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 9:29">29 </verse></sup>All the days of Noah were nine hundred
fifty years, and then he died.

#BCV:Genesis 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of the
sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons
were born to them after the flood.

<key:bcv=Genesis 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:2">2 </verse></sup>The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog,
Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:3">3 </verse></sup>The sons
of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
<key:bcv=Genesis 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:4">4 </verse></sup>The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim,
and Dodanim. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Of these were the islands of the
nations divided in their lands, everyone after his
language, after their families, in their nations.
<key:bcv=Genesis 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:6">6 </verse></sup>The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and
Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah,
Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah
were: Sheba and Dedan. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Cush became the father
of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the
earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:9">9 </verse></sup>He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh.
Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter
before Yahweh”. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The beginning of his kingdom
was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Out of that land he went into Assyria, and
built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:12">12 </verse></sup>and Resen between
Nineveh and the great city Calah. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Mizraim
became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim,
Naphtuhim, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the
Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
<key:bcv=Genesis 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn),
Heth, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:16">16 </verse></sup>the Jebusites, the Amorites, the
Girgashites, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:17">17 </verse></sup>the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
<key:bcv=Genesis 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:18">18 </verse></sup>the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
Afterward the families of the Canaanites were
spread abroad. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:19">19 </verse></sup>The border of the Canaanites was
from Sidon —as you go toward Gerar —to Gaza —
as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboiim—to Lasha. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:20">20 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Ham,
after their families, according to their languages, in
their lands and their nations.

<key:bcv=Genesis 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Children were also born to Shem (the elder
brother of Japheth), the father of all the children
of Eber. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:22">22 </verse></sup>The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur,
Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of Aram
were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Arpachshad
became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the
father of Eber. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:25">25 </verse></sup>To Eber were born two sons.
The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days
the earth was divided. His brother’s name was
Joktan. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Joktan became the father of Almodad,
Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:27">27 </verse></sup>Hadoram, Uzal,
Diklah, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Obal, Abimael, Sheba, <key:bcv=Genesis 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Ophir, Havilah,
and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Their
dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward
Sephar, the mountain of the east. <key:bcv=Genesis 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:31">31 </verse></sup>These are the
sons of Shem, by their families, according to their
languages, lands, and nations.

<key:bcv=Genesis 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 10:32">32 </verse></sup>These are the families of the sons of Noah, by
their generations, according to their nations. The
nations divided from these in the earth after the
flood.

#BCV:Genesis 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:1">1 </verse></sup>The whole earth was of one language and of
one speech. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:2">2 </verse></sup>As they traveled east,<footnote:1>11:2 LXX reads “from the east”.</footnote> they found
a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:3">3 </verse></sup>They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks,
and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for
stone, and they used tar for mortar. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:4">4 </verse></sup>They said,
“Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower
whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name
for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the
surface of the whole earth.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men built. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh
said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all
have one language, and this is what they begin
to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them,
which they intend to do. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Come, let’s go down,
and there confuse their language, that they may
not understand one another’s speech.” <key:bcv=Genesis 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:8">8 </verse></sup>So Yahweh
scattered them abroad from there on the surface
of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore its name was called Babel, because there
Yahweh confused the language of all the earth.
From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the
surface of all the earth.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:10">10 </verse></sup>This is the history of the generations of Shem:
Shem was one hundred years old when he became
the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Shem lived five hundred years after he became
the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of
more sons and daughters.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became
the father of Shelah. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Arpachshad lived four
hundred three years after he became the father of
Shelah, and became the father of more sons and
daughters.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father
of Eber. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Shelah lived four hundred three
years after he became the father of Eber, and became
the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the
father of Peleg. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:17">17 </verse></sup>Eber lived four hundred thirty
years after he became the father of Peleg, and
became the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father
of Reu. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Peleg lived two hundred nine years after
he became the father of Reu, and became the father
of more sons and daughters.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:20">20 </verse></sup>Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the
father of Serug. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Reu lived two hundred seven
years after he became the father of Serug, and
became the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Serug lived thirty years, and became the father
of Nahor. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:23">23 </verse></sup>Serug lived two hundred years after he
became the father of Nahor, and became the father
of more sons and daughters.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became
the father of Terah. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Nahor lived one hundred
nineteen years after he became the father of Terah,
and became the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Terah lived seventy years, and became the
father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

<key:bcv=Genesis 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of
Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor,
and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of
the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
<key:bcv=Genesis 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of
Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s
wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was
also the father of Iscah. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Sarai was barren. She
had no child. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:31">31 </verse></sup>Terah took Abram his son, Lot the
son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughterin-
law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of
the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They
came to Haran and lived there. <key:bcv=Genesis 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 11:32">32 </verse></sup>The days of Terah
were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

#BCV:Genesis 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country,
and your relatives, and your father’s house, and
go to the land that I will show you. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:2">2 </verse></sup>I will make of
you a great nation. I will bless you and make your
name great. You will be a blessing. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:3">3 </verse></sup>I will bless
those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats
you with contempt. All the families of the earth will
be blessed through you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:4">4 </verse></sup>So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot
went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old
when he departed from Haran. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Abram took Sarai
his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions
that they had gathered, and the people whom they
had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into
the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of
Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Abram passed through the land to the
place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time,
Canaanites were in the land.

<key:bcv=Genesis 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give
this land to your offspring.”<footnote:1>12:7 or, seed</footnote>
<br>
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had
appeared to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:8">8 </verse></sup>He left from there to go to the
mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent,
having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There
he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s
name. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Abram traveled, still going on toward the
South.

<key:bcv=Genesis 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:10">10 </verse></sup>There was a famine in the land. Abram went
down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the
famine was severe in the land. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:11">11 </verse></sup>When he had come
near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See
now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look
at. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:12">12 </verse></sup>It will happen that when the Egyptians see
you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me,
but they will save you alive. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Please say that you
are my sister, that it may be well with me for your
sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:14">14 </verse></sup>When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians
saw that the woman was very beautiful. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:15">15 </verse></sup>The
princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to
Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s
house. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:16">16 </verse></sup>He dealt well with Abram for her
sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male
servants, female servants, female donkeys, and
camels. <key:bcv=Genesis 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
<key:bcv=Genesis 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that
you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that
she was your wife? <key:bcv=Genesis 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Why did you say, ‘She is
my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now
therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Pharaoh commanded men concerning him,
and they escorted him away with his wife and all
that he had.

#BCV:Genesis 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all
that he had, and Lot with him —into the South.
<key:bcv=Genesis 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in
gold. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:3">3 </verse></sup>He went on his journeys from the South as
far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at
the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, <key:bcv=Genesis 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:4">4 </verse></sup>to the place
of the altar, which he had made there at the first.
There Abram called on Yahweh’s name. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Lot also,
who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
<key:bcv=Genesis 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:6">6 </verse></sup>The land was not able to bear them, that they
might live together; for their possessions were so
great that they couldn’t live together. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:7">7 </verse></sup>There was
strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock
and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites
and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
<key:bcv=Genesis 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife
between you and me, and between your herdsmen
and my herdsmen; for we are relatives. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Isn’t the
whole land before you? Please separate yourself
from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go
to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I
will go to the left.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of
the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere,
before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,
like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt,
as you go to Zoar. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:11">11 </verse></sup>So Lot chose the Plain of
the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they
separated themselves from one other. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Abram
lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities
of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
<key:bcv=Genesis 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked
and sinners against Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Genesis 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated
from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the
place where you are, northward and southward and
eastward and westward, <key:bcv=Genesis 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:15">15 </verse></sup>for I will give all the land
which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
<key:bcv=Genesis 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:16">16 </verse></sup>I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth,
so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then
your offspring may also be counted. <key:bcv=Genesis 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Arise, walk
through the land in its length and in its width; for I
will give it to you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by
the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built
an altar there to Yahweh.

#BCV:Genesis 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:1">1 </verse></sup>In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch,
king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and
Tidal, king of Goiim, <key:bcv=Genesis 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:2">2 </verse></sup>they made war with Bera,
king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab,
king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the
king of Bela (also called Zoar). <key:bcv=Genesis 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:3">3 </verse></sup>All these joined
together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt
Sea). <key:bcv=Genesis 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:4">4 </verse></sup>They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years,
and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:5">5 </verse></sup>In the
fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who
were with him came and struck the Rephaim in
Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim
in Shaveh Kiriathaim, <key:bcv=Genesis 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:6">6 </verse></sup>and the Horites in their
Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Genesis 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:7">7 </verse></sup>They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also
called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in
Hazazon Tamar. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:8">8 </verse></sup>The king of Sodom, and the
king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went
out; and they set the battle in array against them in
the valley of Siddim <key:bcv=Genesis 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:9">9 </verse></sup>against Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar,
and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the
five. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:10">10 </verse></sup>Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar
pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled,
and some fell there. Those who remained fled to
the hills. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:11">11 </verse></sup>They took all the goods of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
<key:bcv=Genesis 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:12">12 </verse></sup>They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived
in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
<key:bcv=Genesis 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:13">13 </verse></sup>One who had escaped came and told Abram,
the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of
Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother
of Aner. They were allies of Abram. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:14">14 </verse></sup>When Abram
heard that his relative was taken captive, he led
out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born
in his house, and pursued as far as Dan. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:15">15 </verse></sup>He
divided himself against them by night, he and his
servants, and struck them, and pursued them to
Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:16">16 </verse></sup>He
brought back all the goods, and also brought back
his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also,
and the other people.

<key:bcv=Genesis 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:17">17 </verse></sup>The king of Sodom went out to meet him after
his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and
the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh
(that is, the King’s Valley). <key:bcv=Genesis 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Melchizedek king of
Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of
God Most High. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:19">19 </verse></sup>He blessed him, and said, “Blessed
be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven
and earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Blessed be God Most High, who has
delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Abram gave him a tenth of all.

<key:bcv=Genesis 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:21">21 </verse></sup>The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the
people, and take the goods for yourself.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted
up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of
heaven and earth, <key:bcv=Genesis 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:23">23 </verse></sup>that I will not take a thread nor
a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you
should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 14:24">24 </verse></sup>I will accept
nothing from you except that which the young men
have eaten, and the portion of the men who went
with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take
their portion.”

#BCV:Genesis 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things Yahweh’s word came to
Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Abram said, “Lord<footnote:1>15:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.</footnote> Yahweh, what will you give
me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit
my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” <key:bcv=Genesis 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Abram said,
“Behold, you have given no children to me: and,
behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
“This man will not be your heir, but he who will
come out of your own body will be your heir.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now
toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to
count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring
will be.” <key:bcv=Genesis 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:6">6 </verse></sup>He believed in Yahweh, who credited it
to him for righteousness. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to Abram, “I am
Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees,
to give you this land to inherit it.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:8">8 </verse></sup>He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I
will inherit it?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years
old, a female goat three years old, a ram three
years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” <key:bcv=Genesis 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:10">10 </verse></sup>He
brought him all these, and divided them in the
middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but
he didn’t divide the birds. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:11">11 </verse></sup>The birds of prey
came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them
away.

<key:bcv=Genesis 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:12">12 </verse></sup>When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your
offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not
theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them
four hundred years. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:14">14 </verse></sup>I will also judge that nation,
whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out
with great wealth; <key:bcv=Genesis 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:15">15 </verse></sup>but you will go to your fathers
in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:16">16 </verse></sup>In
the fourth generation they will come here again, for
the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.” <key:bcv=Genesis 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:17">17 </verse></sup>It came
to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch
passed between these pieces. <key:bcv=Genesis 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:18">18 </verse></sup>In that day Yahweh
made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given
this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt
to the great river, the river Euphrates: <key:bcv=Genesis 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:19">19 </verse></sup>the land
of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
<key:bcv=Genesis 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:20">20 </verse></sup>the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, <key:bcv=Genesis 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 15:21">21 </verse></sup>the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites.”

#BCV:Genesis 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children.
She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was
Hagar. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:2">2 </verse></sup>Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh
has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my
servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.”
Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Sarai, Abram’s
wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after
Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and
gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:4">4 </verse></sup>He
went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw
that she had conceived, her mistress was despised
in her eyes. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is
your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and
when she saw that she had conceived, she despised
me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:6">6 </verse></sup>But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in
your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.”
Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her
face.

<key:bcv=Genesis 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water
in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to
Shur. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:8">8 </verse></sup>He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did
you come from? Where are you going?”
<br>
She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my
mistress Sarai.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your
mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply
your offspring, that they will not be counted for
multitude.” <key:bcv=Genesis 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold,
you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call
his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your
affliction. <key:bcv=Genesis 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:12">12 </verse></sup>He will be like a wild donkey among
men. His hand will be against every man, and every
man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all
of his brothers.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:13">13 </verse></sup>She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to
her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have
I even stayed alive after seeing him?” <key:bcv=Genesis 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore
the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.<footnote:1>16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”. </footnote> Behold, it is
between Kadesh and Bered.

<key:bcv=Genesis 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called
the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
<key:bcv=Genesis 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore
Ishmael to Abram.

#BCV:Genesis 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:1">1 </verse></sup>When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh
appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God
Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:2">2 </verse></sup>I will
make my covenant between me and you, and will
multiply you exceedingly.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Abram fell on his face. God talked with him,
saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:4">4 </verse></sup>“As for me, behold, my covenant is with
you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Your name will no more be called Abram, but your
name will be Abraham; for I have made you the
father of a multitude of nations. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:6">6 </verse></sup>I will make you
exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you.
Kings will come out of you. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:7">7 </verse></sup>I will establish my
covenant between me and you and your offspring
after you throughout their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God to you and to your
offspring after you. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:8">8 </verse></sup>I will give to you, and to
your offspring after you, the land where you are
traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession. I will be their God.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:9">9 </verse></sup>God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall
keep my covenant, you and your offspring after
you throughout their generations. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:10">10 </verse></sup>This is my
covenant, which you shall keep, between me and
you and your offspring after you. Every male
among you shall be circumcised. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall be
circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be
a token of the covenant between me and you. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:12">12 </verse></sup>He
who is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you, every male throughout your generations, he
who is born in the house, or bought with money
from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:13">13 </verse></sup>He who is born in your house, and he who is
bought with your money, must be circumcised. My
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:14">14 </verse></sup>The uncircumcised male who is not
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul
shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my
covenant.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:15">15 </verse></sup>God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife,
you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall
be Sarah. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:16">16 </verse></sup>I will bless her, and moreover I will give
you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will
be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come
from her.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed,
and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him
who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is
ninety years old, give birth?” <key:bcv=Genesis 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Abraham said to
God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:19">19 </verse></sup>God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear
you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.<footnote:1>17:19 Isaac means “he laughs”.</footnote> I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant for his offspring after him. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:20">20 </verse></sup>As for
Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly. He will become the father of
twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:21">21 </verse></sup>But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom
Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:22">22 </verse></sup>When he finished talking with him, God went
up from Abraham. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:23">23 </verse></sup>Abraham took Ishmael his
son, all who were born in his house, and all who
were bought with his money: every male among
the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the
flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had
said to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:24">24 </verse></sup>Abraham was ninety-nine years old
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
<key:bcv=Genesis 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:25">25 </verse></sup>Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he
was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:26">26 </verse></sup>In the
same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were
circumcised. <key:bcv=Genesis 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 17:27">27 </verse></sup>All the men of his house, those born
in the house, and those bought with money from a
foreigner, were circumcised with him.

#BCV:Genesis 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre,
as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:2">2 </verse></sup>He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three
men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to
meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself
to the earth, <key:bcv=Genesis 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:3">3 </verse></sup>and said, “My lord, if now I have found
favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your
servant. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Now let a little water be fetched, wash
your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:5">5 </verse></sup>I will
get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart.
After that you may go your way, now that you have
come to your servant.”
<br>
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:6">6 </verse></sup>Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and
said, “Quickly prepare three seahs<footnote:1>18:6 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks</footnote> of fine meal,
knead it, and make cakes.” <key:bcv=Genesis 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Abraham ran to the
herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave
it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:8">8 </verse></sup>He took
butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and
set it before them. He stood by them under the tree,
and they ate.

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:9">9 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “There, in the tent.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “I will certainly return to you at about
this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will
have a son.”
<br>
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well
advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
“After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord
being old also?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah
laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am
old?’ <key:bcv=Genesis 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set
time I will return to you, when the season comes
around, and Sarah will have a son.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,”
for she was afraid.
<br>
He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:16">16 </verse></sup>The men rose up from there, and looked toward
Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on
their way. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham
what I do, <key:bcv=Genesis 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:18">18 </verse></sup>since Abraham will surely become
a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the
earth will be blessed in him? <key:bcv=Genesis 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:19">19 </verse></sup>For I have known
him, to the end that he may command his children
and his household after him, that they may keep
the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice;
to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham
that which he has spoken of him.” <key:bcv=Genesis 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh said,
“Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great,
and because their sin is very grievous, <key:bcv=Genesis 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:21">21 </verse></sup>I will go
down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad
as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will
know.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:22">22 </verse></sup>The men turned from there, and went toward
Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume
the righteous with the wicked? <key:bcv=Genesis 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:24">24 </verse></sup>What if there are
fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume
and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who
are in it? <key:bcv=Genesis 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:25">25 </verse></sup>May it be far from you to do things like
that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that
the righteous should be like the wicked. May that
be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth
do right?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, then I will spare the whole place for
their sake.” <key:bcv=Genesis 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Abraham answered, “See now, I have
taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I
am dust and ashes. <key:bcv=Genesis 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:28">28 </verse></sup>What if there will lack five of
the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for
lack of five?”
<br>
He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five
there.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:29">29 </verse></sup>He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if
there are forty found there?”
<br>
He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:30">30 </verse></sup>He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I
will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:31">31 </verse></sup>He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to
speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found
there?”
<br>
He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s
sake.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:32">32 </verse></sup>He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and
I will speak just once more. What if ten are found
there?”
<br>
He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 18:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 18:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh went his way as soon as he had finished
communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned
to his place.

#BCV:Genesis 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:1">1 </verse></sup>The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot
sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose
up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to
the earth, <key:bcv=Genesis 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:2">2 </verse></sup>and he said, “See now, my lords, please
come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash
your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your
way.”
<br>
They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all
night.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:3">3 </verse></sup>He urged them greatly, and they came in with
him, and entered into his house. He made them a
feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:4">4 </verse></sup>But before they lay down, the men of the city, the
men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young
and old, all the people from every quarter. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:5">5 </verse></sup>They
called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men
who came in to you this night? Bring them out to
us, that we may have sex with them.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Lot went out to them through the door, and
shut the door after himself. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:7">7 </verse></sup>He said, “Please, my
brothers, don’t act so wickedly. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:8">8 </verse></sup>See now, I have
two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out
to you, and you may do to them what seems good to
you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because
they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:9">9 </verse></sup>They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This
one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he
appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse
with you than with them!” They pressed hard on
the man Lot, and came near to break the door. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:10">10 </verse></sup>But
the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot
into the house to them, and shut the door. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:11">11 </verse></sup>They
struck the men who were at the door of the house
with blindness, both small and great, so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:12">12 </verse></sup>The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else
here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and
whomever you have in the city, bring them out of
the place: <key:bcv=Genesis 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:13">13 </verse></sup>for we will destroy this place, because
the outcry against them has grown so great before
Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who
were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get
up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the
city!”
<br>
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:15">15 </verse></sup>When the morning came, then the angels hurried
Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two
daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in
the iniquity of the city.” <key:bcv=Genesis 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:16">16 </verse></sup>But he lingered; and the
men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two
daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him;
and they took him out, and set him outside of the
city. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:17">17 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when they had taken them
out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look
behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain.
Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:19">19 </verse></sup>See
now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and
you have magnified your loving kindness, which
you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t
escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I
die. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:20">20 </verse></sup>See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is
a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little
one?), and my soul will live.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:21">21 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your
request concerning this thing also, that I will not
overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until
you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was
called Zoar.<footnote:1>19:22 Zoar means “little”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:23">23 </verse></sup>The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came
to Zoar. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on
Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the
sky. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:25">25 </verse></sup>He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew
on the ground. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:26">26 </verse></sup>But Lot’s wife looked back from
behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:27">27 </verse></sup>Abraham went up early in the morning to the
place where he had stood before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:28">28 </verse></sup>He
looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the
land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:29">29 </verse></sup>When God destroyed the cities of the plain,
God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the
cities in which Lot lived.

<key:bcv=Genesis 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:30">30 </verse></sup>Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he
was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his
two daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:31">31 </verse></sup>The firstborn said to the younger,
“Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth
to come in to us in the way of all the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:32">32 </verse></sup>Come,
let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 19:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:33">33 </verse></sup>They made their father drink wine that night:
and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father.
He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she
arose. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:34">34 </verse></sup>It came to pass on the next day, that the
firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last
night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine
again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we
may preserve our father’s family line.” <key:bcv=Genesis 19:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:35">35 </verse></sup>They made
their father drink wine that night also. The younger
went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay
down, nor when she got up. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:36">36 </verse></sup>Thus both of Lot’s
daughters were with child by their father. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:37">37 </verse></sup>The
firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the
father of the Moabites to this day. <key:bcv=Genesis 19:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 19:38">38 </verse></sup>The younger
also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He
is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
#BCV:Genesis 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Abraham traveled from there toward the land of
the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He
lived as a foreigner in Gerar. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Abraham said about
Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king
of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:3">3 </verse></sup>But God came to
Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him,
“Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman
whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Abimelech had not come near her. He
said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
<key:bcv=Genesis 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she
herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in
the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my
hands.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:6">6 </verse></sup>God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know
that in the integrity of your heart you have done
this, and I also withheld you from sinning against
me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
<key:bcv=Genesis 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a
prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live.
If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will
die, you, and all who are yours.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:8">8 </verse></sup>Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called
all his servants, and told all these things in their ear.
The men were very scared. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to
us? How have I sinned against you, that you have
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You
have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
<key:bcv=Genesis 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see,
that you have done this thing?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:11">11 </verse></sup>Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the
fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for
my wife’s sake.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Besides, she is indeed my sister,
the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of
my mother; and she became my wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:13">13 </verse></sup>When God
caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said
to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show
to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my
brother.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants
and female servants, and gave them to Abraham,
and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Abimelech
said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where
it pleases you.” <key:bcv=Genesis 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:16">16 </verse></sup>To Sarah he said, “Behold, I
have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver.
Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that
are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:17">17 </verse></sup>Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech,
his wife, and his female servants, and they
bore children. <key:bcv=Genesis 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 20:18">18 </verse></sup>For Yahweh had closed up tight all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of
Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

#BCV:Genesis 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh
did to Sarah as he had spoken. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Sarah conceived,
and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the
set time of which God had spoken to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Abraham
called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah
bore to him, Isaac.<footnote:1>21:3 Isaac means “He laughs”. </footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Abraham circumcised his
son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had
commanded him. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:5">5 </verse></sup>Abraham was one hundred years
old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:6">6 </verse></sup>Sarah
said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears
will laugh with me.” <key:bcv=Genesis 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:7">7 </verse></sup>She said, “Who would have
said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?
For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:8">8 </verse></sup>The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made
a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom
she had borne to Abraham, mocking. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore
she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her
son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with
my son, Isaac.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:11">11 </verse></sup>The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
on account of his son. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:12">12 </verse></sup>God said to Abraham,
“Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the
boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah
says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring
will be named through Isaac. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:13">13 </verse></sup>I will also make a
nation of the son of the servant, because he is your
child.” <key:bcv=Genesis 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and took bread and a container of water, and gave
it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her
the child, and sent her away. She departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:15">15 </verse></sup>The
water in the container was spent, and she put the
child under one of the shrubs. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:16">16 </verse></sup>She went and sat
down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow
shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death
of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her
voice, and wept. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:17">17 </verse></sup>God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky,
and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t
be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy
where he is. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him
with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:19">19 </verse></sup>God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water. She went, filled the container with water,
and gave the boy a drink.

<key:bcv=Genesis 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:20">20 </verse></sup>God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived
in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an
archer. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:21">21 </verse></sup>He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His
mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:22">22 </verse></sup>At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain
of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with
you in all that you do. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Now, therefore, swear to
me here by God that you will not deal falsely with
me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But
according to the kindness that I have done to you,
you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have
lived as a foreigner.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:24">24 </verse></sup>Abraham said, “I will swear.” <key:bcv=Genesis 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Abraham
complained to Abimelech because of a water well,
which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken
away. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:26">26 </verse></sup>Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has
done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear
of it until today.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:27">27 </verse></sup>Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave
them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
<key:bcv=Genesis 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:28">28 </verse></sup>Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:29">29 </verse></sup>Abimelech said to Abraham, “What
do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by
themselves, mean?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:30">30 </verse></sup>He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs
from my hand, that it may be a witness to me,
that I have dug this well.” <key:bcv=Genesis 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore he called
that place Beersheba,<footnote:1>21:31 Beersheba can mean “well of the oath” or “well of seven”.</footnote> because they both swore
an oath there. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:32">32 </verse></sup>So they made a covenant at
Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the
captain of his army, and they returned into the land
of the Philistines. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:33">33 </verse></sup>Abraham planted a tamarisk
tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name
of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. <key:bcv=Genesis 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 21:34">34 </verse></sup>Abraham lived as
a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
#BCV:Genesis 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, God tested Abraham, and
said to him, “Abraham!”
<br>
He said, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:2">2 </verse></sup>He said, “Now take your son, your only son,
Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of
Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one
of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:3">3 </verse></sup>Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled
his donkey; and took two of his young men with
him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place
of which God had told him. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:4">4 </verse></sup>On the third day
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far
off. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here
with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there.
We will worship, and come back to you.” <key:bcv=Genesis 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on
Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the
knife. They both went together. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:7">7 </verse></sup>Isaac spoke to
Abraham his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am, my son.”
<br>
He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where
is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Abraham said, “God will provide himself the
lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both
went together. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:9">9 </verse></sup>They came to the place which God
had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and
laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid
him on the altar, on the wood. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Abraham stretched
out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
<key:bcv=Genesis 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and
said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
<br>
He said, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:12">12 </verse></sup>He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do
anything to him. For now I know that you fear God,
since you have not withheld your son, your only
son, from me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:13">13 </verse></sup>Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw
that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket
by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of
his son. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Abraham called the name of that place
“Yahweh Will Provide”.<footnote:1>22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing </footnote> As it is said to this day, “On
Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second
time out of the sky, <key:bcv=Genesis 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:16">16 </verse></sup>and said, “ ‘I have sworn
by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done
this thing, and have not withheld your son, your
only son, <key:bcv=Genesis 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:17">17 </verse></sup>that I will bless you greatly, and I will
multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the
heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore.
Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
<key:bcv=Genesis 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:18">18 </verse></sup>All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your
offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
<key:bcv=Genesis 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:19">19 </verse></sup>So Abraham returned to his young men, and
they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham
lived at Beersheba.

<key:bcv=Genesis 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:20">20 </verse></sup>After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold,
Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother
Nahor: <key:bcv=Genesis 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel
the father of Aram, <key:bcv=Genesis 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:22">22 </verse></sup>Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph,
and Bethuel.” <key:bcv=Genesis 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Bethuel became the father
of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother. <key:bcv=Genesis 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 22:24">24 </verse></sup>His concubine, whose name
was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and
Maacah.

#BCV:Genesis 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years.
This was the length of Sarah’s life. <key:bcv=Genesis 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Sarah died
in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of
Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to
weep for her. <key:bcv=Genesis 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Abraham rose up from before his
dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:4">4 </verse></sup>“I
am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give
me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I
may bury my dead out of my sight.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:5">5 </verse></sup>The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
to him, <key:bcv=Genesis 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:6">6 </verse></sup>“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God
among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs.
None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury
your dead.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:7">7 </verse></sup>Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, to the children of Heth. <key:bcv=Genesis 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:8">8 </verse></sup>He
talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should
bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat
for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, <key:bcv=Genesis 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:9">9 </verse></sup>that he may sell
me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in
the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it
to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the
children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered
Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth,
even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
<key:bcv=Genesis 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:11">11 </verse></sup>“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I
give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of
the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your
dead.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Abraham bowed himself down before the people
of the land. <key:bcv=Genesis 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:13">13 </verse></sup>He spoke to Ephron in the
audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if
you will, please hear me. I will give the price of
the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead
there.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:14">14 </verse></sup>Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
<key:bcv=Genesis 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:15">15 </verse></sup>“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land
worth four hundred shekels of silver<footnote:1>23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.</footnote> between me
and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named
in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred
shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’
standard.

<key:bcv=Genesis 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:17">17 </verse></sup>So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah,
which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which
was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that
were in all of its borders, were deeded <key:bcv=Genesis 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:18">18 </verse></sup>to Abraham
for a possession in the presence of the children of
Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
<key:bcv=Genesis 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:19">19 </verse></sup>After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the
cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that
is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 23:20">20 </verse></sup>The field, and
the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the
children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.

#BCV:Genesis 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Abraham was old, and well advanced in
age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house,
who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your
hand under my thigh. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:3">3 </verse></sup>I will make you swear by
Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth,
that you shall not take a wife for my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:4">4 </verse></sup>But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives,
and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:5">5 </verse></sup>The servant said to him, “What if the woman
isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring
your son again to the land you came from?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:6">6 </verse></sup>Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t
bring my son there again. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of
heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and
from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and
who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to
your offspring—he will send his angel before you,
and you shall take a wife for my son from there. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:8">8 </verse></sup>If
the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall
be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not
bring my son there again.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:9">9 </verse></sup>The servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning
this matter. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:10">10 </verse></sup>The servant took ten of his master’s
camels, and departed, having a variety of good
things of his master’s with him. He arose, and
went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:11">11 </verse></sup>He
made the camels kneel down outside the city by the
well of water at the time of evening, the time that
women go out to draw water. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:12">12 </verse></sup>He said, “Yahweh,
the God of my master Abraham, please give me
success today, and show kindness to my master
Abraham. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, I am standing by the spring
of water. The daughters of the men of the city are
coming out to draw water. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:14">14 </verse></sup>Let it happen, that the
young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your
pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and
I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the
one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By
this I will know that you have shown kindness to my
master.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:15">15 </verse></sup>Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah
came out, who was born to Bethuel the son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother,
with her pitcher on her shoulder. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:16">16 </verse></sup>The young lady
was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had
known her. She went down to the spring, filled her
pitcher, and came up. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:17">17 </verse></sup>The servant ran to meet
her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water
from your pitcher.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:18">18 </verse></sup>She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and
let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a
drink. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:19">19 </verse></sup>When she had finished giving him a drink,
she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until
they have finished drinking.” <key:bcv=Genesis 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:20">20 </verse></sup>She hurried, and
emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again
to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:21">21 </verse></sup>The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining
silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his
journey prosperous or not. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:22">22 </verse></sup>As the camels had
done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half
a shekel<footnote:1>24:22 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> weight, and two bracelets for her hands
of ten shekels weight of gold, <key:bcv=Genesis 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:23">23 </verse></sup>and said, “Whose
daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in
your father’s house for us to stay?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:24">24 </verse></sup>She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel
the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.” <key:bcv=Genesis 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:25">25 </verse></sup>She
said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed
enough, and room to lodge in.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:26">26 </verse></sup>The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:27">27 </verse></sup>He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my
master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving
kindness and his truth toward my master. As for
me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of
my master’s relatives.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:28">28 </verse></sup>The young lady ran, and told her mother’s
house about these words. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:29">29 </verse></sup>Rebekah had a brother,
and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man,
to the spring. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:30">30 </verse></sup>When he saw the ring, and the
bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard
the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is
what the man said to me,” he came to the man.
Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:31">31 </verse></sup>He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do
you stand outside? For I have prepared the house,
and room for the camels.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:32">32 </verse></sup>The man came into the house, and he unloaded
the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels,
and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men
who were with him. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:33">33 </verse></sup>Food was set before him to
eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my
message.”
<br>
Laban said, “Speak on.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:34">34 </verse></sup>He said, “I am Abraham’s servant. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh
has blessed my master greatly. He has become
great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver
and gold, male servants and female servants, and
camels and donkeys. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:36">36 </verse></sup>Sarah, my master’s wife,
bore a son to my master when she was old. He has
given all that he has to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:37">37 </verse></sup>My master made me
swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son
from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land
I live, <key:bcv=Genesis 24:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:38">38 </verse></sup>but you shall go to my father’s house, and to
my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 24:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:39">39 </verse></sup>I asked
my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:40">40 </verse></sup>He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will
send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You
shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of
my father’s house. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:41">41 </verse></sup>Then you will be clear from my
oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t
give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:42">42 </verse></sup>I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the
God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper
my way which I go— <key:bcv=Genesis 24:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:43">43 </verse></sup>behold, I am standing by
this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden
who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please
give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:44><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:44">44 </verse></sup>then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for
your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh
has appointed for my master’s son.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 24:45><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:45">45 </verse></sup>Before I
had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah
came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She
went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her,
‘Please let me drink.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 24:46><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:46">46 </verse></sup>She hurried and let down
her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and
I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and
she also gave the camels a drink. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:47><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:47">47 </verse></sup>I asked her,
and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The
daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah
bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the
bracelets on her hands. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:48><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:48">48 </verse></sup>I bowed my head, and
worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of
my master Abraham, who had led me in the right
way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his
son. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:49><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:49">49 </verse></sup>Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my
master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:50><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:50">50 </verse></sup>Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing
proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad
or good. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:51><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:51">51 </verse></sup>Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her,
and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as
Yahweh has spoken.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:52><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:52">52 </verse></sup>When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he
bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:53><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:53">53 </verse></sup>The
servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He
also gave precious things to her brother and her
mother. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:54><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:54">54 </verse></sup>They ate and drank, he and the men who
were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up
in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my
master.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:55><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:55">55 </verse></sup>Her brother and her mother said, “Let the
young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten.
After that she will go.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:56><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:56">56 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh
has prospered my way. Send me away that I
may go to my master.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:57><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:57">57 </verse></sup>They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask
her.” <key:bcv=Genesis 24:58><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:58">58 </verse></sup>They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will
you go with this man?”
<br>
She said, “I will go.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:59><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:59">59 </verse></sup>They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her
nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:60><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:60">60 </verse></sup>They
blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may
you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands,
and let your offspring possess the gate of those who
hate them.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 24:61><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:61">61 </verse></sup>Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on
the camels, and followed the man. The servant took
Rebekah, and went his way. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:62><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:62">62 </verse></sup>Isaac came from the
way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of
the South. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:63><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:63">63 </verse></sup>Isaac went out to meditate in the field
at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked.
Behold, there were camels coming. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:64><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:64">64 </verse></sup>Rebekah lifted
up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the
camel. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:65><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:65">65 </verse></sup>She said to the servant, “Who is the man
who is walking in the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.”

She took her veil, and covered herself. <key:bcv=Genesis 24:66><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:66">66 </verse></sup>The
servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
<key:bcv=Genesis 24:67><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 24:67">67 </verse></sup>Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent,
and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He
loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s
death.

#BCV:Genesis 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Abraham took another wife, and her name was
Keturah. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:2">2 </verse></sup>She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan,
Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Jokshan became the
father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan
were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:4">4 </verse></sup>The
sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida,
and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, <key:bcv=Genesis 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:6">6 </verse></sup>but Abraham
gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines.
While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac
his son, eastward, to the east country. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:7">7 </verse></sup>These are
the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he
lived: one hundred seventy-five years. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Abraham
gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an
old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his
people. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in
the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the
son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre, <key:bcv=Genesis 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:10">10 </verse></sup>the
field which Abraham purchased from the children
of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his
wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:11">11 </verse></sup>After the death of Abraham, God blessed
Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:12">12 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian,
Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:13">13 </verse></sup>These are
the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to the order of their birth: the firstborn
of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:14">14 </verse></sup>Mishma, Dumah, Massa, <key:bcv=Genesis 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:15">15 </verse></sup>Hadad, Tema, Jetur,
Naphish, and Kedemah. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:16">16 </verse></sup>These are the sons
of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their
villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes,
according to their nations. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:17">17 </verse></sup>These are the years of
the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years.
He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to
his people. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:18">18 </verse></sup>They lived from Havilah to Shur that
is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived
opposite all his relatives.

<key:bcv=Genesis 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:19">19 </verse></sup>This is the history of the generations of Isaac,
Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of
Isaac. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:20">20 </verse></sup>Isaac was forty years old when he took
Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of
Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be
his wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:21">21 </verse></sup>Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife,
because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated
by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:22">22 </verse></sup>The
children struggled together within her. She said, “If
it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to her,
<br>
“Two nations are in your womb.
<br>
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
The one people will be stronger than the other
people.
<br>
The elder will serve the younger.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:24">24 </verse></sup>When her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
behold, there were twins in her womb. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:25">25 </verse></sup>The first
came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They
named him Esau. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:26">26 </verse></sup>After that, his brother came out,
and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named
Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:27">27 </verse></sup>The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a
man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in
tents. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:28">28 </verse></sup>Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his
venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. <key:bcv=Genesis 25:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:29">29 </verse></sup>Jacob boiled stew.
Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:30">30 </verse></sup>Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of
that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his
name was called Edom.<footnote:1>25:30 “Edom” means “red”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Genesis 25:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:31">31 </verse></sup>Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:32">32 </verse></sup>Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What
good is the birthright to me?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 25:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:33">33 </verse></sup>Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
<br>
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
<key:bcv=Genesis 25:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 25:34">34 </verse></sup>Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and
drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised
his birthright.

#BCV:Genesis 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:1">1 </verse></sup>There was a famine in the land, in addition to
the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to
Gerar. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t
go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you
about. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Live in this land, and I will be with you,
and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to
your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish
the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:4">4 </verse></sup>I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the
sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring.
In your offspring all the nations of the earth will
be blessed, <key:bcv=Genesis 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:5">5 </verse></sup>because Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my requirements, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Isaac lived in Gerar. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:7">7 </verse></sup>The men of the place asked
him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he
was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the
men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because
she is beautiful to look at.” <key:bcv=Genesis 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:8">8 </verse></sup>When he had been
there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines
looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac
was caressing Rebekah, his wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Abimelech called
Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife.
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ ”
Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die
because of her.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:10">10 </verse></sup>Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to
us? One of the people might easily have lain with
your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Abimelech commanded all the people, saying,
“He who touches this man or his wife will surely be
put to death.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:12">12 </verse></sup>Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the
same year one hundred times what he planted.
Yahweh blessed him. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:13">13 </verse></sup>The man grew great,
and grew more and more until he became very
great. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:14">14 </verse></sup>He had possessions of flocks, possessions
of herds, and a great household. The Philistines
envied him. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:15">15 </verse></sup>Now all the wells which his father’s
servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father,
the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you
are much mightier than we.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Isaac departed from there, encamped in the
valley of Gerar, and lived there.

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:18">18 </verse></sup>Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they
had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for
the Philistines had stopped them after the death of
Abraham. He called their names after the names by
which his father had called them. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:19">19 </verse></sup>Isaac’s servants
dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing<footnote:1>26:19 Or, living. Or, fresh. </footnote>
water. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:20">20 </verse></sup>The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s
herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called
the name of the well Esek,<footnote:1>26:20 “Esek” means “contention”. </footnote> because they contended
with him. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:21">21 </verse></sup>They dug another well, and they argued
over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.<footnote:1>26:21 “Sitnah” means “hostility”. </footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:22">22 </verse></sup>He
left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t
argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth.<footnote:1>26:22 “Rehoboth” means “broad places”. </footnote> He
said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and
we will be fruitful in the land.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:23">23 </verse></sup>He went up from there to Beersheba. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh
appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the
God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I
am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your
offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:25">25 </verse></sup>He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s
name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s
servants dug a well.

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with
Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his
army. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:27">27 </verse></sup>Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to
me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from
you?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:28">28 </verse></sup>They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was
with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath
between us, even between us and you, and let’s
make a covenant with you, <key:bcv=Genesis 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:29">29 </verse></sup>that you will do us no
harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have
done to you nothing but good, and have sent you
away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:30">30 </verse></sup>He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
<key:bcv=Genesis 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:31">31 </verse></sup>They rose up some time in the morning, and
swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away,
and they departed from him in peace. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:32">32 </verse></sup>The same
day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning
the well which they had dug, and said to him,
“We have found water.” <key:bcv=Genesis 26:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:33">33 </verse></sup>He called it “Shibah”.<footnote:1>26:33 Shibah means “oath” or “seven”. </footnote>
Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba”<footnote:1>26:33 Beersheba means “well of the oath” or “well of the seven”</footnote> to
this day.

<key:bcv=Genesis 26:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:34">34 </verse></sup>When Esau was forty years old, he took as
wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and
Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. <key:bcv=Genesis 26:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 26:35">35 </verse></sup>They
grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

#BCV:Genesis 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:1">1 </verse></sup>When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son,
and said to him, “My son?”
<br>
He said to him, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:2">2 </verse></sup>He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the
day of my death. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:3">3 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please take your
weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to
the field, and get me venison. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Make me savory
food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may
eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:5">5 </verse></sup>Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his
son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison,
and to bring it. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:6">6 </verse></sup>Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son,
saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau
your brother, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:7">7 </verse></sup>‘Bring me venison, and make
me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before
Yahweh before my death.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:8">8 </verse></sup>Now therefore, my son,
obey my voice according to that which I command
you. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Go now to the flock and get me two good
young goats from there. I will make them savory
food for your father, such as he loves. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall
bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he
may bless you before his death.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth
man. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:12">12 </verse></sup>What if my father touches me? I will seem
to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on
myself, and not a blessing.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:13">13 </verse></sup>His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on
me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them
for me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:14">14 </verse></sup>He went, and got them, and brought them to
his mother. His mother made savory food, such as
his father loved. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:15">15 </verse></sup>Rebekah took the good clothes
of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the
house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:16">16 </verse></sup>She put the skins of the young goats on his hands,
and on the smooth of his neck. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:17">17 </verse></sup>She gave the
savory food and the bread, which she had prepared,
into the hand of her son Jacob.

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:18">18 </verse></sup>He came to his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:19">19 </verse></sup>Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.
I have done what you asked me to do. Please
arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may
bless me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:20">20 </verse></sup>Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have
found it so quickly, my son?”
<br>
He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me
success.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:21">21 </verse></sup>Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I
may feel you, my son, whether you are really my
son Esau or not.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:22">22 </verse></sup>Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him,
and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands
are the hands of Esau.” <key:bcv=Genesis 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:23">23 </verse></sup>He didn’t recognize him,
because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s
hands. So he blessed him. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:24">24 </verse></sup>He said, “Are you really
my son Esau?”
<br>
He said, “I am.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:25">25 </verse></sup>He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of
my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought
him wine, and he drank. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:26">26 </verse></sup>His father Isaac said to
him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.” <key:bcv=Genesis 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:27">27 </verse></sup>He
came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of
his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
“Behold, the smell of my son
<br>
is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has
blessed.

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:28">28 </verse></sup>God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth,
<br>
and plenty of grain and new wine.

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:29">29 </verse></sup>Let peoples serve you,
<br>
and nations bow down to you.
<br>
Be lord over your brothers.
<br>
Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
<br>
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:30">30 </verse></sup>As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob,
and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of
Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his
hunting. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:31">31 </verse></sup>He also made savory food, and brought
it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father
arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul
may bless me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:32">32 </verse></sup>Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”
He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:33">33 </verse></sup>Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then,
is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me,
and I have eaten of all before you came, and have
blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:34">34 </verse></sup>When Esau heard the words of his father, he
cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and
said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my
father.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:35">35 </verse></sup>He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and
has taken away your blessing.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:36">36 </verse></sup>He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For
he has supplanted me these two times. He took
away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my
blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing
for me?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:37">37 </verse></sup>Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him
your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him
for servants. I have sustained him with grain and
new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:38">38 </verse></sup>Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one
blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my
father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:39">39 </verse></sup>Isaac his father answered him,
<br>
“Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the
earth,
<br>
and of the dew of the sky from above.
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:40">40 </verse></sup>You will live by your sword, and you will serve
your brother.
<br>
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:41">41 </verse></sup>Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with
which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart,
“The days of mourning for my father are at hand.
Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:42">42 </verse></sup>The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to
Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger
son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau
comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:43">43 </verse></sup>Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee
to Laban, my brother, in Haran. <key:bcv=Genesis 27:44><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:44">44 </verse></sup>Stay with him
a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
<key:bcv=Genesis 27:45><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:45">45 </verse></sup>until your brother’s anger turns away from you,
and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I
will send, and get you from there. Why should I be
bereaved of you both in one day?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 27:46><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 27:46">46 </verse></sup>Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a
wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the
daughters of the land, what good will my life do
me?”

#BCV:Genesis 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded
him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house
of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from
there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s
brother. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:3">3 </verse></sup>May God Almighty bless you, and make
you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a
company of peoples, <key:bcv=Genesis 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:4">4 </verse></sup>and give you the blessing of
Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you,
that you may inherit the land where you travel,
which God gave to Abraham.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram
to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

<key:bcv=Genesis 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:6">6 </verse></sup>Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and
sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife
from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him
a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan;” <key:bcv=Genesis 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:7">7 </verse></sup>and that Jacob obeyed
his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan
Aram. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:8">8 </verse></sup>Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan
didn’t please Isaac, his father. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:9">9 </verse></sup>So Esau went to
Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he
had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s
son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

<key:bcv=Genesis 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:11">11 </verse></sup>He came to a certain place, and
stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He
took one of the stones of the place, and put it under
his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:12">12 </verse></sup>He
dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and
its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of
God were ascending and descending on it. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold,
Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the
God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.
I will give the land you lie on to you and to your
offspring. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:14">14 </verse></sup>Your offspring will be as the dust of
the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west,
and to the east, and to the north, and to the south.
In you and in your offspring, all the families of the
earth will be blessed. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, I am with you, and
will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you
again into this land. For I will not leave you until I
have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:16">16 </verse></sup>Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said,
“Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know
it.” <key:bcv=Genesis 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:17">17 </verse></sup>He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this
place is! This is none other than God’s house, and
this is the gate of heaven.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:18">18 </verse></sup>Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put under his head, and set
it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:19">19 </verse></sup>He
called the name of that place Bethel, but the name
of the city was Luz at the first. <key:bcv=Genesis 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Jacob vowed a vow,
saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me
in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat,
and clothing to put on, <key:bcv=Genesis 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:21">21 </verse></sup>so that I come again to my
father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
<key:bcv=Genesis 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 28:22">22 </verse></sup>then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar,
will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I
will surely give a tenth to you.”

#BCV:Genesis 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the
land of the children of the east. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:2">2 </verse></sup>He looked, and
saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep
lying there by it. For out of that well they watered
the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:3">3 </verse></sup>There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the
stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its
place. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:4">4 </verse></sup>Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are
you from?”
<br>
They said, “We are from Haran.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of
Nahor?”
<br>
They said, “We know him.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is
coming with the sheep.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:7">7 </verse></sup>He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day,
not time to gather the livestock together. Water the
sheep, and go and feed them.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:8">8 </verse></sup>They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are
gathered together, and they roll the stone from the
well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:9">9 </verse></sup>While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel
came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:10">10 </verse></sup>When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban,
his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his
mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the
stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock
of Laban his mother’s brother. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:11">11 </verse></sup>Jacob kissed
Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:12">12 </verse></sup>Jacob
told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and
that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her
father.

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:13">13 </verse></sup>When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his
sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced
him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house.
Jacob told Laban all these things. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:14">14 </verse></sup>Laban said to
him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob
stayed with him for a month. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:15">15 </verse></sup>Laban said to Jacob,
“Because you are my relative, should you therefore
serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages
be?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:16">16 </verse></sup>Laban had two daughters. The name of the
elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was
Rachel. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:17">17 </verse></sup>Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was
beautiful in form and attractive. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:18">18 </verse></sup>Jacob loved
Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for
Rachel, your younger daughter.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:19">19 </verse></sup>Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you,
than that I should give her to another man. Stay
with me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They
seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had
for her.

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:21">21 </verse></sup>Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my
days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:22">22 </verse></sup>Laban gathered together all the men of the
place, and made a feast. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:23">23 </verse></sup>In the evening, he took
Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He
went in to her. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:24">24 </verse></sup>Laban gave Zilpah his servant to
his daughter Leah for a servant. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:25">25 </verse></sup>In the morning,
behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this
you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for
Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:26">26 </verse></sup>Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to
give the younger before the firstborn. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:27">27 </verse></sup>Fulfill the
week of this one, and we will give you the other
also for the service which you will serve with me for
seven more years.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:28">28 </verse></sup>Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave
him Rachel his daughter as wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:29">29 </verse></sup>Laban gave
Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her
servant. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:30">30 </verse></sup>He went in also to Rachel, and he loved
also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him
seven more years.

<key:bcv=Genesis 29:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:31">31 </verse></sup>Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he
opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:32">32 </verse></sup>Leah
conceived, and bore a son, and she named him
Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked
at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 29:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:33">33 </verse></sup>She conceived again, and bore a son, and said,
“Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he
has therefore given me this son also.” She named
him Simeon. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:34">34 </verse></sup>She conceived again, and bore a
son. She said, “Now this time my husband will
be joined to me, because I have borne him three
sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi. <key:bcv=Genesis 29:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 29:35">35 </verse></sup>She
conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This
time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named
him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

#BCV:Genesis 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:1">1 </verse></sup>When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob,
“Give me children, or else I will die.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:2">2 </verse></sup>Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he
said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from
you the fruit of the womb?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:3">3 </verse></sup>She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to
her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may
obtain children by her.” <key:bcv=Genesis 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:4">4 </verse></sup>She gave him Bilhah her
servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:5">5 </verse></sup>Bilhah
conceived, and bore Jacob a son. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:6">6 </verse></sup>Rachel said, “God
has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has
given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:7">7 </verse></sup>Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore
Jacob a second son. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:8">8 </verse></sup>Rachel said, “I have wrestled
with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have
prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:9">9 </verse></sup>When Leah saw that she had finished bearing,
she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob
as a wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:10">10 </verse></sup>Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:11">11 </verse></sup>Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:12">12 </verse></sup>Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:13">13 </verse></sup>Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call
me happy.” She named him Asher.

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:14">14 </verse></sup>Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to
his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please
give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:15">15 </verse></sup>Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you
have taken away my husband? Would you take away
my son’s mandrakes, also?”
<br>
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you
tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:16">16 </verse></sup>Jacob came from the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must
come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my
son’s mandrakes.”

He lay with her that night. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:17">17 </verse></sup>God listened to
Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:18">18 </verse></sup>Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I
gave my servant to my husband.” She named him
Issachar. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:19">19 </verse></sup>Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth
son to Jacob. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:20">20 </verse></sup>Leah said, “God has endowed me
with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with
me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named
him Zebulun. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:21">21 </verse></sup>Afterwards, she bore a daughter,
and named her Dinah.

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:22">22 </verse></sup>God remembered Rachel, and God listened to
her, and opened her womb. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:23">23 </verse></sup>She conceived, bore
a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:24">24 </verse></sup>She named him Joseph,<footnote:1>30:24 Joseph means “may he add”.</footnote> saying, “May Yahweh
add another son to me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:25">25 </verse></sup>When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to
Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own
place, and to my country. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:26">26 </verse></sup>Give me my wives and
my children for whom I have served you, and let
me go; for you know my service with which I have
served you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:27">27 </verse></sup>Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in
your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh
has blessed me for your sake.” <key:bcv=Genesis 30:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:28">28 </verse></sup>He said, “Appoint
me your wages, and I will give it.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:29">29 </verse></sup>Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served
you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:30">30 </verse></sup>For it was little which you had before I came, and
it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed
you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for
my own house also?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:31">31 </verse></sup>Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If
you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your
flock and keep it. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:32">32 </verse></sup>I will pass through all your flock
today, removing from there every speckled and
spotted one, and every black one among the sheep,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This
will be my hire. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:33">33 </verse></sup>So my righteousness will answer
for me hereafter, when you come concerning my
hire that is before you. Every one that is not
speckled and spotted among the goats, and black
among the sheep, that might be with me, will be
considered stolen.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:34">34 </verse></sup>Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your
word.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 30:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:35">35 </verse></sup>That day, he removed the male goats that
were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats
that were speckled and spotted, every one that had
white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep,
and gave them into the hand of his sons. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:36">36 </verse></sup>He set
three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:37">37 </verse></sup>Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond,
and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them,
and made the white appear which was in the rods.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:38">38 </verse></sup>He set the rods which he had peeled opposite
the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks
came to drink. They conceived when they came to
drink. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:39">39 </verse></sup>The flocks conceived before the rods, and
the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:40">40 </verse></sup>Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of
the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in
Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and
didn’t put them into Laban’s flock. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:41">41 </verse></sup>Whenever
the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the
rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering
troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
<key:bcv=Genesis 30:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:42">42 </verse></sup>but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them
in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger
Jacob’s. <key:bcv=Genesis 30:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 30:43">43 </verse></sup>The man increased exceedingly, and had
large flocks, female servants and male servants, and
camels and donkeys.

#BCV:Genesis 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob
has taken away all that was our father’s. He has
obtained all this wealth from that which was our
father’s.” <key:bcv=Genesis 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:2">2 </verse></sup>Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s
face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your
fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with
you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the
field to his flock, <key:bcv=Genesis 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:5">5 </verse></sup>and said to them, “I see the expression
on your father’s face, that it is not toward
me as before; but the God of my father has been with
me. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:6">6 </verse></sup>You know that I have served your father with
all of my strength. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:7">7 </verse></sup>Your father has deceived me,
and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t
allow him to hurt me. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:8">8 </verse></sup>If he said, ‘The speckled
will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled.
If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then
all the flock bore streaked. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:9">9 </verse></sup>Thus God has taken
away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:10">10 </verse></sup>During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw
in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped
on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:11">11 </verse></sup>The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’
and I said, ‘Here I am.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:12">12 </verse></sup>He said, ‘Now lift up your
eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on
the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I
have seen all that Laban does to you. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:13">13 </verse></sup>I am the God
of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you
vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this
land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:14">14 </verse></sup>Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet
any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s
house? <key:bcv=Genesis 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Aren’t we considered as foreigners by
him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our
money. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:16">16 </verse></sup>For all the riches which God has taken
away from our father are ours and our children’s.
Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his
wives on the camels, <key:bcv=Genesis 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:18">18 </verse></sup>and he took away all his
livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered,
including the livestock which he had gained
in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the
land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:19">19 </verse></sup>Now Laban had gone to shear his
sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim<footnote:1>31:19 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property. </footnote> that were her
father’s.

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:20">20 </verse></sup>Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he
didn’t tell him that he was running away. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:21">21 </verse></sup>So he
fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over
the River, and set his face toward the mountain of
Gilead.

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:22">22 </verse></sup>Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had
fled. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:23">23 </verse></sup>He took his relatives with him, and pursued
him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the
mountain of Gilead. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:24">24 </verse></sup>God came to Laban the Syrian
in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful
that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:25">25 </verse></sup>Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had
pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with
his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:26">26 </verse></sup>Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that
you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters
like captives of the sword? <key:bcv=Genesis 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:27">27 </verse></sup>Why did you flee
secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that
I might have sent you away with mirth and with
songs, with tambourine and with harp; <key:bcv=Genesis 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:28">28 </verse></sup>and didn’t
allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now
have you done foolishly. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:29">29 </verse></sup>It is in the power of
my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father
spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you
don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:30">30 </verse></sup>Now,
you want to be gone, because you greatly longed
for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my
gods?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:31">31 </verse></sup>Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid,
for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from
me by force.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 31:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:32">32 </verse></sup>Anyone you find your gods with shall
not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours
with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that
Rachel had stolen them.

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:33">33 </verse></sup>Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent,
and into the tent of the two female servants; but
he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent,
and entered into Rachel’s tent. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:34">34 </verse></sup>Now Rachel had
taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle,
and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but
didn’t find them. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:35">35 </verse></sup>She said to her father, “Don’t let
my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for
I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find
the teraphim.

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:36">36 </verse></sup>Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob
answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my
sin, that you have hotly pursued me? <key:bcv=Genesis 31:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:37">37 </verse></sup>Now that
you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you
found of all your household stuff? Set it here before
my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge
between us two.

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:38">38 </verse></sup>“These twenty years I have been with you. Your
ewes and your female goats have not cast their
young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:39">39 </verse></sup>That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to
you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it,
whether stolen by day or stolen by night. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:40">40 </verse></sup>This
was my situation: in the day the drought consumed
me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from
my eyes. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:41">41 </verse></sup>These twenty years I have been in your
house. I served you fourteen years for your two
daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have
changed my wages ten times. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:42">42 </verse></sup>Unless the God
of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of
Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have
sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and
the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:43">43 </verse></sup>Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my
daughters, the children are my children, the flocks
are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What
can I do today to these my daughters, or to their
children whom they have borne? <key:bcv=Genesis 31:44><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:44">44 </verse></sup>Now come, let’s
make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness
between me and you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 31:45><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:45">45 </verse></sup>Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
<key:bcv=Genesis 31:46><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:46">46 </verse></sup>Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They
took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by
the heap. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:47><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:47">47 </verse></sup>Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,<footnote:1>31:47 “Jegar Sahadutha” means “Witness Heap” in Aramaic. </footnote> but
Jacob called it Galeed.<footnote:1>31:47 “Galeed” means “Witness Heap” in Hebrew.</footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 31:48><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:48">48 </verse></sup>Laban said, “This heap
is witness between me and you today.” Therefore
it was named Galeed <key:bcv=Genesis 31:49><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:49">49 </verse></sup>and Mizpah, for he said,
“Yahweh watch between me and you, when we
are absent one from another. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:50><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:50">50 </verse></sup>If you afflict my
daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my
daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness
between me and you.” <key:bcv=Genesis 31:51><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:51">51 </verse></sup>Laban said to Jacob, “See
this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set
between me and you. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:52><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:52">52 </verse></sup>May this heap be a witness,
and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over
this heap to you, and that you will not pass over
this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:53><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:53">53 </verse></sup>The
God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of
their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore
by the fear of his father, Isaac. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:54><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:54">54 </verse></sup>Jacob offered a
sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to
eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the
mountain. <key:bcv=Genesis 31:55><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 31:55">55 </verse></sup>Early in the morning, Laban rose up,
and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed
them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
#BCV:Genesis 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:1">1 </verse></sup>Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:2">2 </verse></sup>When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s
army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.<footnote:1>32:2 “Mahanaim” means “two camps”. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:3">3 </verse></sup>Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau,
his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:4">4 </verse></sup>He commanded them, saying, “This is what you
shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant,
Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban,
and stayed until now. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:5">5 </verse></sup>I have cattle, donkeys,
flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have
sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your
sight.’ ” <key:bcv=Genesis 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:6">6 </verse></sup>The messengers returned to Jacob, saying,
“We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to
meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.
He divided the people who were with him, along
with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two
companies. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:8">8 </verse></sup>He said, “If Esau comes to the one
company, and strikes it, then the company which
is left will escape.” <key:bcv=Genesis 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:9">9 </verse></sup>Jacob said, “God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who
said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your
relatives, and I will do you good,’ <key:bcv=Genesis 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:10">10 </verse></sup>I am not worthy
of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all
the truth, which you have shown to your servant;
for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and
now I have become two companies. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:11">11 </verse></sup>Please deliver
me from the hand of my brother, from the hand
of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me
and the mothers with the children. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:12">12 </verse></sup>You said, ‘I
will surely do you good, and make your offspring as
the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because
there are so many.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:13">13 </verse></sup>He stayed there that night, and took from that
which he had with him a present for Esau, his
brother: <key:bcv=Genesis 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:14">14 </verse></sup>two hundred female goats and twenty
male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:15">15 </verse></sup>thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten
bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:16">16 </verse></sup>He
delivered them into the hands of his servants, every
herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over
before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:17">17 </verse></sup>He commanded the foremost, saying, “When
Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying,
‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are
these before you?’ <key:bcv=Genesis 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:18">18 </verse></sup>Then you shall say, ‘They are
your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my
lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’ ” <key:bcv=Genesis 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:19">19 </verse></sup>He
commanded also the second, and the third, and all
that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you
shall speak to Esau, when you find him. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall
say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob,
is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with
the present that goes before me, and afterward I will
see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:21">21 </verse></sup>So the present passed over before him, and he
himself stayed that night in the camp.
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:22">22 </verse></sup>He rose up that night, and took his two wives,
and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and
crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:23">23 </verse></sup>He took them,
and sent them over the stream, and sent over that
which he had. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:24">24 </verse></sup>Jacob was left alone, and wrestled
with a man there until the breaking of the day.
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:25">25 </verse></sup>When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him,
the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the
hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
<key:bcv=Genesis 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:26">26 </verse></sup>The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless
me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:27">27 </verse></sup>He said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob”.

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:28">28 </verse></sup>He said, “Your name will no longer be called
Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and
with men, and have prevailed.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:29">29 </verse></sup>Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name
is?” So he blessed him there.

<key:bcv=Genesis 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:30">30 </verse></sup>Jacob called the name of the place Peniel;<footnote:1>32:30 Peniel means “face of God”.</footnote>
for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my
life is preserved.” <key:bcv=Genesis 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:31">31 </verse></sup>The sun rose on him as he
passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his
thigh. <key:bcv=Genesis 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 32:32">32 </verse></sup>Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat
the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the
thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of
Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

#BCV:Genesis 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,
Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men.
He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and
the two servants. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:2">2 </verse></sup>He put the servants and their
children in front, Leah and her children after, and
Rachel and Joseph at the rear. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:3">3 </verse></sup>He himself passed
over in front of them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his
brother.

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:4">4 </verse></sup>Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his
neck, kissed him, and they wept. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:5">5 </verse></sup>He lifted up his
eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said,
“Who are these with you?”
<br>
He said, “The children whom God has graciously
given your servant.” <key:bcv=Genesis 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the servants came near
with their children, and they bowed themselves.
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:7">7 </verse></sup>Leah also and her children came near, and bowed
themselves. After them, Joseph came near with
Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:8">8 </verse></sup>Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company
which I met?”
<br>
Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:9">9 </verse></sup>Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that
which you have be yours.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:10">10 </verse></sup>Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor
in your sight, then receive my present at my hand,
because I have seen your face, as one sees the face
of God, and you were pleased with me. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:11">11 </verse></sup>Please take
the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt
graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He
urged him, and he took it.

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:12">12 </verse></sup>Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go,
and I will go before you.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:13">13 </verse></sup>Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the
children are tender, and that the flocks and herds
with me have their young, and if they overdrive
them one day, all the flocks will die. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:14">14 </verse></sup>Please let
my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead
on gently, according to the pace of the livestock
that are before me and according to the pace of the
children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:15">15 </verse></sup>Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of
the people who are with me.”
<br>
He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of
my lord.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:16">16 </verse></sup>So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:17">17 </verse></sup>Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house,
and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the
name of the place is called Succoth.<footnote:1>33:17 succoth means shelters or booths. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:18">18 </verse></sup>Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem,
which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from
Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. <key:bcv=Genesis 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:19">19 </verse></sup>He
bought the parcel of ground where he had spread
his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor,
Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
<key:bcv=Genesis 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 33:20">20 </verse></sup>He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe
Israel.<footnote:1>33:20 El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty”. </footnote>

#BCV:Genesis 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to
Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
<key:bcv=Genesis 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:2">2 </verse></sup>Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince
of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her,
and humbled her. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:3">3 </verse></sup>His soul joined to Dinah, the
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and
spoke kindly to the young lady. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:4">4 </verse></sup>Shechem spoke to
his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady
as a wife.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:5">5 </verse></sup>Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his
daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the
field. Jacob held his peace until they came. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:6">6 </verse></sup>Hamor
the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Jacob came in from the field when
they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were
very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in
lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not
to be done. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:8">8 </verse></sup>Hamor talked with them, saying, “The
soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter.
Please give her to him as a wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:9">9 </verse></sup>Make marriages
with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our
daughters for yourselves. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall dwell with us,
and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it,
and get possessions in it.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:11">11 </verse></sup>Shechem said to her father and to her brothers,
“Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you
will tell me I will give. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:12">12 </verse></sup>Ask me a great amount for
a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but
give me the young lady as a wife.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:13">13 </verse></sup>The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and
Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke,
because he had defiled Dinah their sister, <key:bcv=Genesis 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:14">14 </verse></sup>and said
to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to
one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to
us. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:15">15 </verse></sup>Only on this condition will we consent to you.
If you will be as we are, that every male of you be
circumcised, <key:bcv=Genesis 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:16">16 </verse></sup>then will we give our daughters to
you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we
will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
<key:bcv=Genesis 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:17">17 </verse></sup>But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised,
then we will take our sister,<footnote:1>34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”</footnote> and we will be gone.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:18">18 </verse></sup>Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem,
Hamor’s son. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:19">19 </verse></sup>The young man didn’t wait to
do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s
daughter, and he was honored above all the house
of his father. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:20">20 </verse></sup>Hamor and Shechem, his son, came
to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of
their city, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:21">21 </verse></sup>“These men are peaceful with
us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in
it. For behold, the land is large enough for them.
Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s
give them our daughters. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:22">22 </verse></sup>Only on this condition
will the men consent to us to live with us, to become
one people, if every male among us is circumcised,
as they are circumcised. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:23">23 </verse></sup>Won’t their livestock
and their possessions and all their animals be ours?
Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will
dwell with us.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 34:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:24">24 </verse></sup>All who went out of the gate of his city listened
to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male
was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his
city. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:25">25 </verse></sup>On the third day, when they were sore, two
of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers,
each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting
city, and killed all the males. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:26">26 </verse></sup>They killed Hamor
and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword,
and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went
away. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:27">27 </verse></sup>Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered
the city, because they had defiled their sister.
<key:bcv=Genesis 34:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:28">28 </verse></sup>They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys,
that which was in the city, that which was in the
field, <key:bcv=Genesis 34:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:29">29 </verse></sup>and all their wealth. They took captive all
their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder
everything that was in the house. <key:bcv=Genesis 34:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:30">30 </verse></sup>Jacob said to
Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make
me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number.
They will gather themselves together against me
and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my
house.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 34:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 34:31">31 </verse></sup>They said, “Should he deal with our sister as
with a prostitute?”

#BCV:Genesis 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:1">1 </verse></sup>God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel,
and live there. Make there an altar to God, who
appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau
your brother.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who
were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that
are among you, purify yourselves, and change your
garments. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:3">3 </verse></sup>Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will
make there an altar to God, who answered me in
the day of my distress, and was with me on the way
which I went.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:4">4 </verse></sup>They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which
were in their hands, and the rings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which
was by Shechem. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:5">5 </verse></sup>They traveled, and a terror of
God was on the cities that were around them, and
they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:6">6 </verse></sup>So Jacob
came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land
of Canaan, he and all the people who were with
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:7">7 </verse></sup>He built an altar there, and called the place
El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him,
when he fled from the face of his brother. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:8">8 </verse></sup>Deborah,
Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below
Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon
Bacuth.

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:9">9 </verse></sup>God appeared to Jacob again, when he came
from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:10">10 </verse></sup>God said
to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not
be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.”
He named him Israel. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:11">11 </verse></sup>God said to him, “I am God
Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a
company of nations will be from you, and kings will
come out of your body. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:12">12 </verse></sup>The land which I gave to
Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your
offspring after you I will give the land.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:13">13 </verse></sup>God went up from him in the place where he
spoke with him. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:14">14 </verse></sup>Jacob set up a pillar in the place
where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He
poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on
it. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:15">15 </verse></sup>Jacob called the name of the place where God
spoke with him “Bethel”.

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:16">16 </verse></sup>They traveled from Bethel. There was still
some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel
travailed. She had hard labor. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:17">17 </verse></sup>When she was in
hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid,
for now you will have another son.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:18">18 </verse></sup>As her soul was departing (for she died), she
named him Benoni,<footnote:1>35:18 “Benoni” means “son of my trouble”. </footnote> but his father named him
Benjamin.<footnote:1>35:18 “Benjamin” means “son of my right hand”.</footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 35:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:19">19 </verse></sup>Rachel died, and was buried on the
way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). <key:bcv=Genesis 35:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:20">20 </verse></sup>Jacob set
up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of
Rachel’s grave to this day. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:21">21 </verse></sup>Israel traveled, and
spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:22">22 </verse></sup>While
Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with
Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons
of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi,
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:25">25 </verse></sup>The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s
servant): Dan and Naphtali. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:26">26 </verse></sup>The sons of Zilpah
(Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the
sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan
Aram. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:27">27 </verse></sup>Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre,
to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham
and Isaac lived as foreigners.

<key:bcv=Genesis 35:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:28">28 </verse></sup>The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty
years. <key:bcv=Genesis 35:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 35:29">29 </verse></sup>Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was
gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and
Jacob, his sons, buried him.

#BCV:Genesis 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:1">1 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of
Esau (that is, Edom). <key:bcv=Genesis 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:2">2 </verse></sup>Esau took his wives from the
daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon,
the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite; <key:bcv=Genesis 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:3">3 </verse></sup>and Basemath,
Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:4">4 </verse></sup>Adah bore
to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:5">5 </verse></sup>Oholibamah
bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of
Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and
all the members of his household, with his livestock,
all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had
gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land
away from his brother Jacob. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:7">7 </verse></sup>For their substance
was too great for them to dwell together, and the
land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of
their livestock. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:8">8 </verse></sup>Esau lived in the hill country of
Seir. Esau is Edom.

<key:bcv=Genesis 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:9">9 </verse></sup>This is the history of the generations of Esau
the father of the Edomites in the hill country of
Seir: <key:bcv=Genesis 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:10">10 </verse></sup>these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz,
the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the
son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:11">11 </verse></sup>The sons of
Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
Kenaz. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:12">12 </verse></sup>Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s
son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are
the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:13">13 </verse></sup>These are
the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and
Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath,
Esau’s wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:14">14 </verse></sup>These were the sons of Oholibamah,
the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon,
Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and
Korah.

<key:bcv=Genesis 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:15">15 </verse></sup>These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the
sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman,
chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, <key:bcv=Genesis 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:16">16 </verse></sup>chief Korah,
chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs
who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These
are the sons of Adah. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:17">17 </verse></sup>These are the sons of
Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief
Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who
came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the
sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:18">18 </verse></sup>These are the
sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief
Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs who came
of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:19">19 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and
these are their chiefs.

<key:bcv=Genesis 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:20">20 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the
inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon,
Anah, <key:bcv=Genesis 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:21">21 </verse></sup>Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the
chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir
in the land of Edom. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:22">22 </verse></sup>The children of Lotan were
Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:23">23 </verse></sup>These
are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal,

Shepho, and Onam. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:24">24 </verse></sup>These are the children of
Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the
hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys
of Zibeon his father. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:25">25 </verse></sup>These are the children
of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter
of Anah. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:26">26 </verse></sup>These are the children of Dishon:
Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:27">27 </verse></sup>These are
the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:28">28 </verse></sup>These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:29">29 </verse></sup>These are the chiefs who came of the Horites:
chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:30">30 </verse></sup>chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These
are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to
their chiefs in the land of Seir.

<key:bcv=Genesis 36:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:31">31 </verse></sup>These are the kings who reigned in the land of
Edom, before any king reigned over the children of
Israel. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:32">32 </verse></sup>Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom.
The name of his city was Dinhabah. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:33">33 </verse></sup>Bela died,
and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in
his place. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:34">34 </verse></sup>Jobab died, and Husham of the land of
the Temanites reigned in his place. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:35">35 </verse></sup>Husham died,
and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name
of his city was Avith. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:36">36 </verse></sup>Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his place. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:37">37 </verse></sup>Samlah died, and
Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:38">38 </verse></sup>Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor
reigned in his place. <key:bcv=Genesis 36:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:39">39 </verse></sup>Baal Hanan the son of Achbor
died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of
his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel,
the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
<key:bcv=Genesis 36:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:40">40 </verse></sup>These are the names of the chiefs who came
from Esau, according to their families, after their
places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief
Alvah, chief Jetheth, <key:bcv=Genesis 36:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:41">41 </verse></sup>chief Oholibamah, chief
Elah, chief Pinon, <key:bcv=Genesis 36:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:42">42 </verse></sup>chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mibzar, <key:bcv=Genesis 36:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 36:43">43 </verse></sup>chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are
the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in
the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father
of the Edomites.

#BCV:Genesis 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:1">1 </verse></sup>Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels,
in the land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:2">2 </verse></sup>This is the history of the
generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years
old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was
a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s
wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to
their father. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:3">3 </verse></sup>Now Israel loved Joseph more than
all his children, because he was the son of his old
age, and he made him a tunic of many colors. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:4">4 </verse></sup>His
brothers saw that their father loved him more than
all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t
speak peaceably to him.

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:5">5 </verse></sup>Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his
brothers, and they hated him all the more. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:6">6 </verse></sup>He
said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have
dreamed: <key:bcv=Genesis 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:7">7 </verse></sup>for behold, we were binding sheaves in
the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood
upright; and behold, your sheaves came around,
and bowed down to my sheaf.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:8">8 </verse></sup>His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign
over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?”
They hated him all the more for his dreams and
for his words. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:9">9 </verse></sup>He dreamed yet another dream,
and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I
have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the
sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to
me.” <key:bcv=Genesis 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:10">10 </verse></sup>He told it to his father and to his brothers.
His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What
is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and
your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves down to the earth before you?” <key:bcv=Genesis 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:11">11 </verse></sup>His
brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying
in mind.

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:12">12 </verse></sup>His brothers went to feed their father’s flock
in Shechem. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:13">13 </verse></sup>Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your
brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I
will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:14">14 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is
well with your brothers, and well with the flock;
and bring me word again.” So he sent him out
of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
<key:bcv=Genesis 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:15">15 </verse></sup>A certain man found him, and behold, he was
wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What
are you looking for?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me,
please, where they are feeding the flock.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:17">17 </verse></sup>The man said, “They have left here, for I heard
them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ”
<br>
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them
in Dothan. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:18">18 </verse></sup>They saw him afar off, and before he
came near to them, they conspired against him to
kill him. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:19">19 </verse></sup>They said to one another, “Behold, this
dreamer comes. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:20">20 </verse></sup>Come now therefore, and let’s
kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we
will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will
see what will become of his dreams.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:21">21 </verse></sup>Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their
hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.” <key:bcv=Genesis 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:22">22 </verse></sup>Reuben
said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on
him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand,
to restore him to his father. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:23">23 </verse></sup>When Joseph came to
his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the
tunic of many colors that was on him; <key:bcv=Genesis 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:24">24 </verse></sup>and they
took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was
empty. There was no water in it.

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:25">25 </verse></sup>They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted
up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of
Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their
camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going
to carry it down to Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:26">26 </verse></sup>Judah said to his
brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and
conceal his blood? <key:bcv=Genesis 37:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:27">27 </verse></sup>Come, and let’s sell him to the
Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he
is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:28">28 </verse></sup>Midianites who were merchants passed by,
and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit,
and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces
of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 37:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:29">29 </verse></sup>Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph
wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:30">30 </verse></sup>He
returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no
more; and I, where will I go?” <key:bcv=Genesis 37:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:31">31 </verse></sup>They took Joseph’s
tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic
in the blood. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:32">32 </verse></sup>They took the tunic of many colors,
and they brought it to their father, and said, “We
have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your
son’s tunic or not.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 37:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:33">33 </verse></sup>He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic.
An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without
doubt torn in pieces.” <key:bcv=Genesis 37:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:34">34 </verse></sup>Jacob tore his clothes,
and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for
his son many days. <key:bcv=Genesis 37:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:35">35 </verse></sup>All his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to
be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol<footnote:1>37:35 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
<key:bcv=Genesis 37:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 37:36">36 </verse></sup>The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

#BCV:Genesis 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time, Judah went down from his brothers,
and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name
was Hirah. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:2">2 </verse></sup>There, Judah saw the daughter of a
certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her,
and went in to her. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:3">3 </verse></sup>She conceived, and bore a son;
and he named him Er. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:4">4 </verse></sup>She conceived again, and
bore a son; and she named him Onan. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:5">5 </verse></sup>She yet again
bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib
when she bore him. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:6">6 </verse></sup>Judah took a wife for Er, his
firstborn, and her name was Tamar. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:7">7 </verse></sup>Er, Judah’s
firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh
killed him. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:8">8 </verse></sup>Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your
brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s
brother to her, and raise up offspring for your
brother.” <key:bcv=Genesis 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:9">9 </verse></sup>Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t
be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife,
he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should
give offspring to his brother. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:10">10 </verse></sup>The thing which he
did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him
also. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-inlaw,
“Remain a widow in your father’s house, until
Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he
also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in
her father’s house.

<key:bcv=Genesis 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:12">12 </verse></sup>After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of
Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up
to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend
Hirah, the Adullamite. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:13">13 </verse></sup>Tamar was told, “Behold,
your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear
his sheep.” <key:bcv=Genesis 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:14">14 </verse></sup>She took off the garments of her
widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and
wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which
is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah
was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a
wife. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:15">15 </verse></sup>When Judah saw her, he thought that she
was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:16">16 </verse></sup>He
turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let
me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was
his daughter-in-law.
<br>
She said, “What will you give me, that you may
come in to me?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “I will send you a young goat from the
flock.”
<br>
She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you
send it?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your
staff that is in your hand.”
<br>
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she
conceived by him. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:19">19 </verse></sup>She arose, and went away, and
put off her veil from her, and put on the garments
of her widowhood. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:20">20 </verse></sup>Judah sent the young goat by
the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the
pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find
her. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:21">21 </verse></sup>Then he asked the men of her place, saying,
“Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the
road?”
<br>
They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:22">22 </verse></sup>He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found
her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has
been no prostitute here.’ ” <key:bcv=Genesis 38:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:23">23 </verse></sup>Judah said, “Let her
keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young
goat, and you haven’t found her.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 38:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:24">24 </verse></sup>About three months later, Judah was told,
“Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute.
Moreover, behold, she is with child by
prostitution.”
<br>
Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 38:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:25">25 </verse></sup>When she was brought out, she sent to her fatherin-
law, saying, “I am with child by the man who
owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose
these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 38:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:26">26 </verse></sup>Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is
more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to
Shelah, my son.”

He knew her again no more. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:27">27 </verse></sup>In the time of her
travail, behold, twins were in her womb. <key:bcv=Genesis 38:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:28">28 </verse></sup>When
she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife
took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying,
“This came out first.” <key:bcv=Genesis 38:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:29">29 </verse></sup>As he drew back his hand,
behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why
have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore
his name was called Perez.<footnote:1>38:29 Perez means “breaking out”. </footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 38:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 38:30">30 </verse></sup>Afterward his brother
came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand,
and his name was called Zerah.<footnote:1>38:30 Zerah means “scarlet” or “brightness”.</footnote>

#BCV:Genesis 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:1">1 </verse></sup>Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard,
an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the
Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous
man. He was in the house of his master the
Egyptian. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:3">3 </verse></sup>His master saw that Yahweh was with
him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper
in his hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:4">4 </verse></sup>Joseph found favor in his sight. He
ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer
over his house, and all that he had he put into his
hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:5">5 </verse></sup>From the time that he made him overseer in
his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed
the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s
blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in
the field. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:6">6 </verse></sup>He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand.
He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for
the food which he ate.

Joseph was well-built and handsome. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:7">7 </verse></sup>After
these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on
Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:8">8 </verse></sup>But he refused, and said to his master’s wife,
“Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me
in the house, and he has put all that he has into my
hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:9">9 </verse></sup>No one is greater in this house than I am,
and he has not kept back anything from me but you,
because you are his wife. How then can I do this
great wickedness, and sin against God?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:10">10 </verse></sup>As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t
listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:11">11 </verse></sup>About
this time, he went into the house to do his work,
and there were none of the men of the house inside.
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:12">12 </verse></sup>She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with
me!”
<br>
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:13">13 </verse></sup>When she saw that he had left his garment in her
hand, and had run outside, <key:bcv=Genesis 39:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:14">14 </verse></sup>she called to the men
of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold,
he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He
came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a
loud voice. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:15">15 </verse></sup>When he heard that I lifted up my
voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran
outside.” <key:bcv=Genesis 39:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:16">16 </verse></sup>She laid up his garment by her, until his
master came home. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:17">17 </verse></sup>She spoke to him according
to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom
you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:18">18 </verse></sup>and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his
garment by me, and ran outside.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 39:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:19">19 </verse></sup>When his master heard the words of his wife,
which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what
your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
<key:bcv=Genesis 39:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:20">20 </verse></sup>Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the
prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were
bound, and he was there in custody. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:21">21 </verse></sup>But Yahweh
was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and
gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the
prison. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:22">22 </verse></sup>The keeper of the prison committed to
Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the
prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible
for it. <key:bcv=Genesis 39:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 39:23">23 </verse></sup>The keeper of the prison didn’t look after
anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh
was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made
it prosper.

#BCV:Genesis 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of
Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:2">2 </verse></sup>Pharaoh was angry with his two officers,
the chief cup bearer and the chief baker. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:3">3 </verse></sup>He
put them in custody in the house of the captain of
the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph
was bound. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:4">4 </verse></sup>The captain of the guard assigned
them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They
stayed in prison many days. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:5">5 </verse></sup>They both dreamed a
dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man
according to the interpretation of his dream, the
cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who
were bound in the prison. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:6">6 </verse></sup>Joseph came in to them
in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they
were sad. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:7">7 </verse></sup>He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were
with him in custody in his master’s house, saying,
“Why do you look so sad today?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:8">8 </verse></sup>They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream,
and there is no one who can interpret it.”
Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong
to God? Please tell it to me.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:9">9 </verse></sup>The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph,
and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in
front of me, <key:bcv=Genesis 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:10">10 </verse></sup>and in the vine were three branches.
It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its
clusters produced ripe grapes. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:11">11 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s cup was
in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed
them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh’s hand.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:12">12 </verse></sup>Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation:
the three branches are three days. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:13">13 </verse></sup>Within three
more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and
restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s
cup into his hand, the way you did when you were
his cup bearer. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:14">14 </verse></sup>But remember me when it is well
with you. Please show kindness to me, and make
mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of
this house. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:15">15 </verse></sup>For indeed, I was stolen away out of
the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done
nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:16">16 </verse></sup>When the chief baker saw that the interpretation
was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in
my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread
were on my head. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:17">17 </verse></sup>In the uppermost basket there
were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the
birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 40:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:18">18 </verse></sup>Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation.
The three baskets are three days. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:19">19 </verse></sup>Within three
more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off
you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will
eat your flesh from off you.” <key:bcv=Genesis 40:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:20">20 </verse></sup>On the third day,
which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for
all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the
chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker
among his servants. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:21">21 </verse></sup>He restored the chief cup
bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh’s hand; <key:bcv=Genesis 40:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:22">22 </verse></sup>but he hanged the chief
baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. <key:bcv=Genesis 40:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 40:23">23 </verse></sup>Yet the
chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot
him.

#BCV:Genesis 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:1">1 </verse></sup>At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed,
and behold, he stood by the river. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, seven
cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, seven
other cattle came up after them out of the river,
ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the
brink of the river. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:4">4 </verse></sup>The ugly and thin cattle ate up
the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:5">5 </verse></sup>He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold,
seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy
and good. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:7">7 </verse></sup>The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven
healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold,
it was a dream. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:8">8 </verse></sup>In the morning, his spirit was
troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s
magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his
dreams, but there was no one who could interpret
them to Pharaoh.

<key:bcv=Genesis 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh,
saying, “I remember my faults today. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:10">10 </verse></sup>Pharaoh
was angry with his servants, and put me in custody
in the house of the captain of the guard, with
the chief baker. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:11">11 </verse></sup>We dreamed a dream in one
night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the
interpretation of his dream. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:12">12 </verse></sup>There was with us
there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain
of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted
to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man
according to his dream. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:13">13 </verse></sup>As he interpreted to us, so
it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged
him.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 41:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and
they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He
shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came
in to Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:15">15 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have
dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can
interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when
you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:16">16 </verse></sup>Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in
me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:17">17 </verse></sup>Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold,
I stood on the brink of the river; <key:bcv=Genesis 41:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:18">18 </verse></sup>and behold,
seven fat and sleek cattle came up out of the river.
They fed in the marsh grass; <key:bcv=Genesis 41:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:19">19 </verse></sup>and behold, seven
other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly
and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
for ugliness. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:20">20 </verse></sup>The thin and ugly cattle ate up the
first seven fat cattle; <key:bcv=Genesis 41:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:21">21 </verse></sup>and when they had eaten
them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten
them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.
So I awoke. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:22">22 </verse></sup>I saw in my dream, and behold, seven
heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:23">23 </verse></sup>and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin,
and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:24">24 </verse></sup>The thin heads of grain swallowed up the
seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians,
but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:25">25 </verse></sup>Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh
is one. What God is about to do he has declared to
Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:26">26 </verse></sup>The seven good cattle are seven years;
and the seven good heads of grain are seven years.
The dream is one. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:27">27 </verse></sup>The seven thin and ugly cattle
that came up after them are seven years, and also
the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east
wind; they will be seven years of famine. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:28">28 </verse></sup>That is
the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has
shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:29">29 </verse></sup>Behold,
seven years of great plenty throughout all the land
of Egypt are coming. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:30">30 </verse></sup>Seven years of famine will
arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten
in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the
land, <key:bcv=Genesis 41:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:31">31 </verse></sup>and the plenty will not be known in the
land by reason of that famine which follows; for it
will be very grievous. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:32">32 </verse></sup>The dream was doubled to
Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God,
and God will shortly bring it to pass.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:33">33 </verse></sup>“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet
and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:34">34 </verse></sup>Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers
over the land, and take up the fifth part of the
land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous
years. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:35">35 </verse></sup>Let them gather all the food of these good
years that come, and store grain under the hand of
Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:36">36 </verse></sup>The food will be to supply the land against the
seven years of famine, which will be in the land of
Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the
famine.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 41:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:37">37 </verse></sup>The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of all his servants. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:38">38 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said
to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this,
a man in whom is the Spirit of God?” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:39><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:39">39 </verse></sup>Pharaoh
said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of
this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:40><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:40">40 </verse></sup>You shall be over my house. All my people will be
ruled according to your word. Only in the throne
I will be greater than you.” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:41><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:41">41 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said to
Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land
of Egypt.” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:42><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:42">42 </verse></sup>Pharaoh took off his signet ring from
his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed
him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain
about his neck. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:43><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:43">43 </verse></sup>He made him ride in the second
chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow
the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:44><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:44">44 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without
you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in
all the land of Egypt.” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:45><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:45">45 </verse></sup>Pharaoh called Joseph’s
name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the
daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph
went out over the land of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Genesis 41:46><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:46">46 </verse></sup>Joseph was thirty years old when he stood
before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from
the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all
the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:47><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:47">47 </verse></sup>In the seven plenteous years
the earth produced abundantly. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:48><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:48">48 </verse></sup>He gathered up
all the food of the seven years which were in the
land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He
stored food in each city from the fields around that
city. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:49><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:49">49 </verse></sup>Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea,
very much, until he stopped counting, for it was
without number. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:50><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:50">50 </verse></sup>To Joseph were born two sons
before the year of famine came, whom Asenath,
the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to
him. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:51><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:51">51 </verse></sup>Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh,<footnote:1>41:51 “Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”. </footnote> “For”, he said, “God has made me forget
all my toil, and all my father’s house.” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:52><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:52">52 </verse></sup>The name
of the second, he called Ephraim:<footnote:1>41:52 “Ephraim” sounds like the Hebrew for “twice fruitful”.</footnote> “For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 41:53><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:53">53 </verse></sup>The seven years of plenty, that were in the
land of Egypt, came to an end. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:54><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:54">54 </verse></sup>The seven years
of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said.
There was famine in all lands, but in all the land
of Egypt there was bread. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:55><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:55">55 </verse></sup>When all the land of
Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go
to Joseph. What he says to you, do.” <key:bcv=Genesis 41:56><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:56">56 </verse></sup>The famine
was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened
all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians.
The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 41:57><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 41:57">57 </verse></sup>All
countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain,
because the famine was severe in all the earth.

#BCV:Genesis 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt,
and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at
one another?” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:2">2 </verse></sup>He said, “Behold, I have heard
that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and
buy for us from there, so that we may live, and
not die.” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:3">3 </verse></sup>Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy
grain from Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:4">4 </verse></sup>But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin,
Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said,
“Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:5">5 </verse></sup>The sons
of Israel came to buy among those who came, for
the famine was in the land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:6">6 </verse></sup>Joseph was
the governor over the land. It was he who sold to
all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came,
and bowed themselves down to him with their faces
to the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:7">7 </verse></sup>Joseph saw his brothers, and he
recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them,
and spoke roughly with them. He said to them,
“Where did you come from?”
<br>
They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:8">8 </verse></sup>Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t
recognize him. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:9">9 </verse></sup>Joseph remembered the dreams
which he dreamed about them, and said to them,
“You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness
of the land.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:10">10 </verse></sup>They said to him, “No, my lord, but your
servants have come to buy food. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:11">11 </verse></sup>We are all one
man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are
not spies.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:12">12 </verse></sup>He said to them, “No, but you have come to see
the nakedness of the land!”

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:13">13 </verse></sup>They said, “We, your servants, are twelve
brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan;
and behold, the youngest is today with our father,
and one is no more.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:14">14 </verse></sup>Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying,
‘You are spies!’ <key:bcv=Genesis 42:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:15">15 </verse></sup>By this you shall be tested. By
the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here,
unless your youngest brother comes here. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:16">16 </verse></sup>Send
one of you, and let him get your brother, and you
shall be bound, that your words may be tested,
whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of
Pharaoh surely you are spies.” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:17">17 </verse></sup>He put them all
together into custody for three days.
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:18">18 </verse></sup>Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and
live, for I fear God. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:19">19 </verse></sup>If you are honest men, then let
one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but
you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:20">20 </verse></sup>Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your
words be verified, and you won’t die.”
They did so. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:21">21 </verse></sup>They said to one another, “We
are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that
we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged
us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress
has come upon us.” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:22">22 </verse></sup>Reuben answered them,
saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against
the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also,
behold, his blood is required.” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:23">23 </verse></sup>They didn’t know
that Joseph understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:24">24 </verse></sup>He turned himself
away from them, and wept. Then he returned to
them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from
among them, and bound him before their eyes.
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags
with grain, and to restore each man’s money into
his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it
was done to them.

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:26">26 </verse></sup>They loaded their donkeys with their grain,
and departed from there. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:27">27 </verse></sup>As one of them opened
his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging
place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the
mouth of his sack. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:28">28 </verse></sup>He said to his brothers, “My
money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their
hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to
one another, saying, “What is this that God has done
to us?” <key:bcv=Genesis 42:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:29">29 </verse></sup>They came to Jacob their father, to the
land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened
to them, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 42:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:30">30 </verse></sup>“The man, the lord of the land,
spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the
country. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:31">31 </verse></sup>We said to him, ‘We are honest men.
We are no spies. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:32">32 </verse></sup>We are twelve brothers, sons
of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is
today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 42:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:33">33 </verse></sup>The
man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will
know that you are honest men: leave one of your
brothers with me, and take grain for the famine
of your houses, and go your way. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:34">34 </verse></sup>Bring your
youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you
are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will
deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in
the land.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 42:35><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:35">35 </verse></sup>As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s
bundle of money was in his sack. When they and
their father saw their bundles of money, they were
afraid. <key:bcv=Genesis 42:36><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:36">36 </verse></sup>Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have
bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more,
Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin
away. All these things are against me.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:37><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:37">37 </verse></sup>Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two
sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my
care, and I will bring him to you again.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 42:38><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 42:38">38 </verse></sup>He said, “My son shall not go down with you;
for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm
happens to him along the way in which you go, then
you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to
Sheol.”<footnote:1>42:38 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

#BCV:Genesis 43:0
<P align="center"><h3>43</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:1">1 </verse></sup>The famine was severe in the land. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:2">2 </verse></sup>When they
had eaten up the grain which they had brought out
of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy
us a little more food.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:3">3 </verse></sup>Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly
warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless
your brother is with you.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 43:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:4">4 </verse></sup>If you’ll send our brother
with us, we’ll go down and buy you food; <key:bcv=Genesis 43:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:5">5 </verse></sup>but if you
don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said
to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother
is with you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:6">6 </verse></sup>Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly,
telling the man that you had another brother?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:7">7 </verse></sup>They said, “The man asked directly concerning
ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is
your father still alive? Have you another brother?’
We just answered his questions. Is there any way we
could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother
down?’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:8">8 </verse></sup>Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy
with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may
live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our
little ones. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:9">9 </verse></sup>I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand
will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you,
and set him before you, then let me bear the blame
forever; <key:bcv=Genesis 43:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:10">10 </verse></sup>for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would
have returned a second time by now.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:11">11 </verse></sup>Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must
be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of
the land in your bags, and carry down a present
for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices
and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; <key:bcv=Genesis 43:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:12">12 </verse></sup>and take double
money in your hand, and take back the money that
was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps
it was an oversight. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:13">13 </verse></sup>Take your brother also, get
up, and return to the man. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:14">14 </verse></sup>May God Almighty
give you mercy before the man, that he may release
to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am
bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:15">15 </verse></sup>The men took that present, and they took
double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got
up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:16">16 </verse></sup>When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the
house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the
men will dine with me at noon.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:17">17 </verse></sup>The man did as Joseph commanded, and the
man brought the men to Joseph’s house. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:18">18 </verse></sup>The men
were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s
house; and they said, “Because of the money that
was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re
brought in; that he may seek occasion against us,
attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our
donkeys.” <key:bcv=Genesis 43:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:19">19 </verse></sup>They came near to the steward of
Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door
of the house, <key:bcv=Genesis 43:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:20">20 </verse></sup>and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed
came down the first time to buy food. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:21">21 </verse></sup>When we
came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and
behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his
sack, our money in full weight. We have brought
it back in our hand. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:22">22 </verse></sup>We have brought down other
money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who
put our money in our sacks.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:23">23 </verse></sup>He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid.
Your God, and the God of your father, has given you
treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He
brought Simeon out to them. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:24">24 </verse></sup>The man brought
the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water,
and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys
fodder. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:25">25 </verse></sup>They prepared the present for Joseph’s
coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat
bread there.

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:26">26 </verse></sup>When Joseph came home, they brought him the
present which was in their hand into the house, and
bowed themselves down to the earth before him.
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:27">27 </verse></sup>He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your
father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he
yet alive?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 43:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:28">28 </verse></sup>They said, “Your servant, our father, is well.
He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:29">29 </verse></sup>He
lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother,
his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest
brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God
be gracious to you, my son.” <key:bcv=Genesis 43:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:30">30 </verse></sup>Joseph hurried, for
his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a
place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept
there. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:31">31 </verse></sup>He washed his face, and came out. He
controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 43:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:32">32 </verse></sup>They served him by himself, and them by
themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by
themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with
the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the
Egyptians. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:33">33 </verse></sup>They sat before him, the firstborn
according to his birthright, and the youngest according
to his youth, and the men marveled with
one another. <key:bcv=Genesis 43:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 43:34">34 </verse></sup>He sent portions to them from
before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as
much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry
with him.

#BCV:Genesis 44:0
<P align="center"><h3>44</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:1">1 </verse></sup>He commanded the steward of his house, saying,
“Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they
can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s
mouth. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:2">2 </verse></sup>Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s
mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He
did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
<key:bcv=Genesis 44:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:3">3 </verse></sup>As soon as the morning was light, the men were
sent away, they and their donkeys. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:4">4 </verse></sup>When they
had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off,
Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the
men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why
have you rewarded evil for good? <key:bcv=Genesis 44:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:5">5 </verse></sup>Isn’t this that
from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed
divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ” <key:bcv=Genesis 44:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:6">6 </verse></sup>He
overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
<key:bcv=Genesis 44:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:7">7 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Why does my lord speak
such words as these? Far be it from your servants
that they should do such a thing! <key:bcv=Genesis 44:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, the
money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
brought again to you out of the land of Canaan.
How then should we steal silver or gold out of your
lord’s house? <key:bcv=Genesis 44:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:9">9 </verse></sup>With whomever of your servants it
is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s
slaves.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “Now also let it be according to your
words. He with whom it is found will be my slave;
and you will be blameless.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:11">11 </verse></sup>Then they hurried, and each man took his
sack down to the ground, and each man opened
his sack. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:12">12 </verse></sup>He searched, beginning with the oldest,
and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in
Benjamin’s sack. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:13">13 </verse></sup>Then they tore their clothes, and
each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the
city.

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:14">14 </verse></sup>Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house,
and he was still there. They fell on the ground
before him. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:15">15 </verse></sup>Joseph said to them, “What deed is
this that you have done? Don’t you know that such
a man as I can indeed do divination?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 44:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:16">16 </verse></sup>Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What
will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has
found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we
are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose
hand the cup is found.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so.
The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will
be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your
father.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 44:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh,
my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my
lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against
your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:19">19 </verse></sup>My
lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father,
or a brother?’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:20">20 </verse></sup>We said to my lord, ‘We have a
father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a
little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone
is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
<key:bcv=Genesis 44:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:21">21 </verse></sup>You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to
me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:22">22 </verse></sup>We said to
my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he
should leave his father, his father would die.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:23">23 </verse></sup>You
said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother
comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
<key:bcv=Genesis 44:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:24">24 </verse></sup>When we came up to your servant my father, we
told him the words of my lord. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:25">25 </verse></sup>Our father said,
‘Go again and buy us a little food.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:26">26 </verse></sup>We said, ‘We
can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us,
then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s
face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:27">27 </verse></sup>Your
servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my
wife bore me two sons. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:28">28 </verse></sup>One went out from me,
and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t
seen him since. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:29">29 </verse></sup>If you take this one also from me,
and harm happens to him, you will bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’<footnote:1>44:29 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 44:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:30">30 </verse></sup>Now therefore
when I come to your servant my father, and the boy
is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s
life; <key:bcv=Genesis 44:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:31">31 </verse></sup>it will happen, when he sees that the boy is
no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring
down the gray hairs of your servant, our father,
with sorrow to Sheol.<footnote:1>44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> <key:bcv=Genesis 44:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:32">32 </verse></sup>For your servant became
collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t
bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my
father forever.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 44:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:33">33 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please let your
servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and
let the boy go up with his brothers. <key:bcv=Genesis 44:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 44:34">34 </verse></sup>For how will I
go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I
see the evil that will come on my father.”
#BCV:Genesis 45:0
<P align="center"><h3>45</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 45:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all
those who stood before him, and he called out,
“Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else
stood with him, while Joseph made himself known
to his brothers. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:2">2 </verse></sup>He wept aloud. The Egyptians
heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:3">3 </verse></sup>Joseph
said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father
still live?”
<br>
His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were
terrified at his presence. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:4">4 </verse></sup>Joseph said to his brothers,
“Come near to me, please.”
<br>
They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your
brother, whom you sold into Egypt. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:5">5 </verse></sup>Now don’t be
grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold
me here, for God sent me before you to preserve
life. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:6">6 </verse></sup>For these two years the famine has been in
the land, and there are yet five years, in which there
will be no plowing and no harvest. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:7">7 </verse></sup>God sent me
before you to preserve for you a remnant in the
earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:8">8 </verse></sup>So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God,
and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of
all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:9">9 </verse></sup>Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This
is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me
lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will
be near to me, you, your children, your children’s
children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you
have. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:11">11 </verse></sup>There I will provide for you; for there are
yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty,
you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt,
and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and
bring my father down here.” <key:bcv=Genesis 45:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:14">14 </verse></sup>He fell on his brother
Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on
his neck. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:15">15 </verse></sup>He kissed all his brothers, and wept on
them. After that his brothers talked with him.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:16">16 </verse></sup>The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house,
saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:17">17 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said
to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your
animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:18">18 </verse></sup>Take
your father and your households, and come to me,
and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt,
and you will eat the fat of the land.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 45:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:19">19 </verse></sup>Now you are
commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land
of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and
bring your father, and come. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:20">20 </verse></sup>Also, don’t concern
yourselves about your belongings, for the good of
all the land of Egypt is yours.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 45:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh,
and gave them provision for the way. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:22">22 </verse></sup>He gave
each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin
he gave three hundred pieces of silver and
five changes of clothing. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:23">23 </verse></sup>He sent the following to
his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things
of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain
and bread and provision for his father by the way.
<key:bcv=Genesis 45:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:24">24 </verse></sup>So he sent his brothers away, and they departed.
He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the
way.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 45:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:25">25 </verse></sup>They went up out of Egypt, and came into the
land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:26">26 </verse></sup>They told
him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler
over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he
didn’t believe them. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:27">27 </verse></sup>They told him all the words
of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw
the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the
spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. <key:bcv=Genesis 45:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 45:28">28 </verse></sup>Israel said,
“It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go
and see him before I die.”

#BCV:Genesis 46:0
<P align="center"><h3>46</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 46:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:1">1 </verse></sup>Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his
father, Isaac. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:2">2 </verse></sup>God spoke to Israel in the visions of
the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
<br>
He said, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 46:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:3">3 </verse></sup>He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t
be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make
of you a great nation. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:4">4 </verse></sup>I will go down with you into
Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s
hand will close your eyes.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 46:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:5">5 </verse></sup>Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of
Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones,
and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had
sent to carry him. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:6">6 </verse></sup>They took their livestock, and
their goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and came into Egypt —Jacob, and all his
offspring with him, <key:bcv=Genesis 46:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:7">7 </verse></sup>his sons, and his sons’ sons
with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters,
and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
<key:bcv=Genesis 46:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:8">8 </verse></sup>These are the names of the children of Israel,
who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob’s firstborn. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons of Reuben: Hanoch,
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:10">10 </verse></sup>The sons of Simeon:
Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the
son of a Canaanite woman. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:11">11 </verse></sup>The sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:12">12 </verse></sup>The sons of Judah:
Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan
died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were
Hezron and Hamul. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:13">13 </verse></sup>The sons of Issachar: Tola,
Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:14">14 </verse></sup>The sons of Zebulun:
Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:15">15 </verse></sup>These are the sons of
Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with
his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and
his daughters were thirty-three. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of Gad:
Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
<key:bcv=Genesis 46:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:17">17 </verse></sup>The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah,
and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber
and Malchiel. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:18">18 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore
to Jacob, even sixteen souls. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Rachel,
Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:20">20 </verse></sup>To Joseph in
the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest
of On, bore to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Benjamin: Bela,
Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim,
Huppim, and Ard. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:22">22 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Rachel,
who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
<key:bcv=Genesis 46:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:23">23 </verse></sup>The son of Dan: Hushim. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Naphtali:
Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:25">25 </verse></sup>These are
the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel,
his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the
souls were seven. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:26">26 </verse></sup>All the souls who came with
Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in
addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were
sixty-six. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:27">27 </verse></sup>The sons of Joseph, who were born to
him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the
house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
<key:bcv=Genesis 46:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:28">28 </verse></sup>Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show
the way before him to Goshen, and they came into
the land of Goshen. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:29">29 </verse></sup>Joseph prepared his chariot,
and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen.
He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while. <key:bcv=Genesis 46:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:30">30 </verse></sup>Israel said to
Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face,
that you are still alive.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 46:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:31">31 </verse></sup>Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s
house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and
will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house,
who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
<key:bcv=Genesis 46:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:32">32 </verse></sup>These men are shepherds, for they have been
keepers of livestock, and they have brought their
flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’ <key:bcv=Genesis 46:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:33">33 </verse></sup>It
will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will
say, ‘What is your occupation?’ <key:bcv=Genesis 46:34><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 46:34">34 </verse></sup>that you shall say,
‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from
our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’
that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every
shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
#BCV:Genesis 47:0
<P align="center"><h3>47</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said,
“My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their
herds, and all that they own, have come out of the
land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of
Goshen.” <key:bcv=Genesis 47:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:2">2 </verse></sup>From among his brothers he took five
men, and presented them to Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:3">3 </verse></sup>Pharaoh
said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds,
both we, and our fathers.” <key:bcv=Genesis 47:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:4">4 </verse></sup>They also said
to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in
the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’
flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of
Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants
dwell in the land of Goshen.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:5">5 </verse></sup>Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father
and your brothers have come to you. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:6">6 </verse></sup>The land
of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your
brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them
dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able
men among them, then put them in charge of my
livestock.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:7">7 </verse></sup>Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set
him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:8">8 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:9">9 </verse></sup>Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage
are one hundred thirty years. The days of the
years of my life have been few and evil. They have
not attained to the days of the years of the life of
my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” <key:bcv=Genesis 47:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:10">10 </verse></sup>Jacob
blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of
Pharaoh.

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:11">11 </verse></sup>Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and
gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the
best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
had commanded. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:12">12 </verse></sup>Joseph provided his father,
his brothers, and all of his father’s household with
bread, according to the sizes of their families.
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:13">13 </verse></sup>There was no bread in all the land; for the
famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt
and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the
famine. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:14">14 </verse></sup>Joseph gathered up all the money that
was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land
of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and
Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:15">15 </verse></sup>When the money was all spent in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians
came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why
should we die in your presence? For our money
fails.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:16">16 </verse></sup>Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will
give you food for your livestock, if your money is
gone.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:17">17 </verse></sup>They brought their livestock to Joseph, and
Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses,
and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the
donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange
for all their livestock for that year. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:18">18 </verse></sup>When that
year was ended, they came to him the second year,
and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how
our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock
are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight
of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:19">19 </verse></sup>Why
should we die before your eyes, both we and our
land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our
land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that
we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be
desolate.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:20">20 </verse></sup>So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for
Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his
field, because the famine was severe on them, and
the land became Pharaoh’s. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:21">21 </verse></sup>As for the people,
he moved them to the cities from one end of the
border of Egypt even to the other end of it. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:22">22 </verse></sup>Only
he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests
had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion
which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t
sell their land. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:23">23 </verse></sup>Then Joseph said to the people,
“Behold, I have bought you and your land today for
Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall
sow the land. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:24">24 </verse></sup>It will happen at the harvests, that
you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will
be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for
them of your households, and for food for your little
ones.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:25">25 </verse></sup>They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us
find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be
Pharaoh’s servants.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:26">26 </verse></sup>Joseph made it a statute concerning the land
of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the
fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t
become Pharaoh’s.

<key:bcv=Genesis 47:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:27">27 </verse></sup>Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land
of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions
therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:28">28 </verse></sup>Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life,
were one hundred forty-seven years. <key:bcv=Genesis 47:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:29">29 </verse></sup>The time
came near that Israel must die, and he called his son
Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor
in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh,
and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury
me in Egypt, <key:bcv=Genesis 47:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:30">30 </verse></sup>but when I sleep with my fathers, you
shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
burying place.”
<br>
Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 47:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 47:31">31 </verse></sup>Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him.
Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

#BCV:Genesis 48:0
<P align="center"><h3>48</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, someone said to Joseph,
“Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his
two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:2">2 </verse></sup>Someone told
Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes
to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
on the bed. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:3">3 </verse></sup>Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty
appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and
blessed me, <key:bcv=Genesis 48:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:4">4 </verse></sup>and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you
fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a
company of peoples, and will give this land to your
offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:5">5 </verse></sup>Now your two sons, who were born to you in the
land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are
mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and
Simeon, will be mine. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:6">6 </verse></sup>Your offspring, whom you
become the father of after them, will be yours. They
will be called after the name of their brothers in
their inheritance. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:7">7 </verse></sup>As for me, when I came from
Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan
on the way, when there was still some distance to
come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way
to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

<key:bcv=Genesis 48:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:8">8 </verse></sup>Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are
these?”

<key:bcv=Genesis 48:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:9">9 </verse></sup>Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons,
whom God has given me here.”
<br>
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless
them.” <key:bcv=Genesis 48:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:10">10 </verse></sup>Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,
so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them
near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced
them. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:11">11 </verse></sup>Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I
would see your face, and behold, God has let me
see your offspring also.” <key:bcv=Genesis 48:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:12">12 </verse></sup>Joseph brought them
out from between his knees, and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:13">13 </verse></sup>Joseph took them
both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s
left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:14">14 </verse></sup>Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it
on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his
left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands
knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:15">15 </verse></sup>He
blessed Joseph, and said,
<br>
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and
Isaac walked,
<br>
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:16">16 </verse></sup>the angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
bless the lads,
<br>
and let my name be named on them,
<br>
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:17">17 </verse></sup>When Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him.
He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from
Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:18">18 </verse></sup>Joseph said
to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the
firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 48:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:19">19 </verse></sup>His father refused, and said, “I know, my son,
I know. He also will become a people, and he also
will be great. However, his younger brother will
be greater than he, and his offspring will become a
multitude of nations.” <key:bcv=Genesis 48:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:20">20 </verse></sup>He blessed them that day,
saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make
you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim
before Manasseh. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:21">21 </verse></sup>Israel said to Joseph, “Behold,
I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring
you again to the land of your fathers. <key:bcv=Genesis 48:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 48:22">22 </verse></sup>Moreover I
have given to you one portion above your brothers,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.”

#BCV:Genesis 49:0
<P align="center"><h3>49</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:1">1 </verse></sup>Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which
will happen to you in the days to come.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:2">2 </verse></sup>Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:3">3 </verse></sup>“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength,
<br>
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:4">4 </verse></sup>Boiling over like water, you shall not excel,
because you went up to your father’s bed,
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:5">5 </verse></sup>“Simeon and Levi are brothers.
<br>
Their swords are weapons of violence.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:6">6 </verse></sup>My soul, don’t come into their council.
My glory, don’t be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
<br>
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:7">7 </verse></sup>Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
<br>
I will divide them in Jacob,
<br>
and scatter them in Israel.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:8">8 </verse></sup>“Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:9">9 </verse></sup>Judah is a lion’s cub.
<br>
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
as a lioness.
<br>
Who will rouse him up?

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:10">10 </verse></sup>The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
<br>
The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:11">11 </verse></sup>Binding his foal to the vine,
<br>
his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine,
<br>
his robes in the blood of grapes.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:12">12 </verse></sup>His eyes will be red with wine,
<br>
his teeth white with milk.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:13">13 </verse></sup>“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
<br>
His border will be on Sidon.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:14">14 </verse></sup>“Issachar is a strong donkey,
<br>
lying down between the saddlebags.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:15">15 </verse></sup>He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
<br>
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
<br>
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:16">16 </verse></sup>“Dan will judge his people,
<br>
as one of the tribes of Israel.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:17">17 </verse></sup>Dan will be a serpent on the trail,
an adder in the path,
<br>
that bites the horse’s heels,
<br>
so that his rider falls backward.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:18">18 </verse></sup>I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:19">19 </verse></sup>“A troop will press on Gad,
<br>
but he will press on their heel.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:20">20 </verse></sup>“Asher’s food will be rich.
<br>
He will produce royal dainties.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:21">21 </verse></sup>“Naphtali is a doe set free,
<br>
who bears beautiful fawns.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:22">22 </verse></sup>“Joseph is a fruitful vine,
<br>
a fruitful vine by a spring.
<br>
His branches run over the wall.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:23">23 </verse></sup>The archers have severely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecuted him:

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:24">24 </verse></sup>But his bow remained strong.
<br>
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:25">25 </verse></sup>even by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
<br>
with blessings of heaven above,
<br>
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:26">26 </verse></sup>The blessings of your father have prevailed above
the blessings of my ancestors,
<br>
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
<br>
on the crown of the head of him who is separated
from his brothers.

<key:bcv=Genesis 49:27><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:27">27 </verse></sup>“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
<br>
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the plunder.”
<key:bcv=Genesis 49:28><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:28">28 </verse></sup>All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and
this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed
them. He blessed everyone according to his own
blessing. <key:bcv=Genesis 49:29><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:29">29 </verse></sup>He instructed them, and said to them,
“I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with
my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron
the Hittite, <key:bcv=Genesis 49:30><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:30">30 </verse></sup>in the cave that is in the field of
Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land
of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field
from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. <key:bcv=Genesis 49:31><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:31">31 </verse></sup>There
they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There
they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there
I buried Leah: <key:bcv=Genesis 49:32><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:32">32 </verse></sup>the field and the cave that is
therein, which was purchased from the children of
Heth.” <key:bcv=Genesis 49:33><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 49:33">33 </verse></sup>When Jacob finished charging his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last
breath, and was gathered to his people.

#BCV:Genesis 50:0
<P align="center"><h3>50</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:1><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:1">1 </verse></sup>Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him,
and kissed him. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:2><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:2">2 </verse></sup>Joseph commanded his servants,
the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians
embalmed Israel. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:3><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:3">3 </verse></sup>Forty days were used for
him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm.
The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:4><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:4">4 </verse></sup>When the days of weeping for him were past,
Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now
I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in
the ears of Pharaoh, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 50:5><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:5">5 </verse></sup>‘My father made me
swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my
grave which I have dug for myself in the land of
Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and
bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

<key:bcv=Genesis 50:6><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:6">6 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just
like he made you swear.”

<key:bcv=Genesis 50:7><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:7">7 </verse></sup>Joseph went up to bury his father; and with
him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders
of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:8><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:8">8 </verse></sup>all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his
father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks,
and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:9><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:9">9 </verse></sup>Both chariots and horsemen went up with him.
It was a very great company. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:10><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:10">10 </verse></sup>They came to
the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the
Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great
and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father
seven days. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:11><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:11">11 </verse></sup>When the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of
Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by
the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel
Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:12><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:12">12 </verse></sup>His sons
did to him just as he commanded them, <key:bcv=Genesis 50:13><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:13">13 </verse></sup>for his
sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried
him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for
a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:14><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:14">14 </verse></sup>Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers,
and all that went up with him to bury his father,
after he had buried his father.

<key:bcv=Genesis 50:15><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:15">15 </verse></sup>When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father
was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will
hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil
which we did to him.” <key:bcv=Genesis 50:16><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:16">16 </verse></sup>They sent a message to
Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he
died, saying, <key:bcv=Genesis 50:17><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:17">17 </verse></sup>‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please
forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their
sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please
forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God
of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke
to him. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:18><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:18">18 </verse></sup>His brothers also went and fell down
before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your
servants.” <key:bcv=Genesis 50:19><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:19">19 </verse></sup>Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid,
for am I in the place of God? <key:bcv=Genesis 50:20><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:20">20 </verse></sup>As for you, you meant
evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save
many people alive, as is happening today. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:21><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:21">21 </verse></sup>Now
therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and
your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke
kindly to them.

<key:bcv=Genesis 50:22><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:22">22 </verse></sup>Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s
house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
<key:bcv=Genesis 50:23><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:23">23 </verse></sup>Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation.
The children also of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. <key:bcv=Genesis 50:24><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:24">24 </verse></sup>Joseph
said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely
visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the
land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.” <key:bcv=Genesis 50:25><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:25">25 </verse></sup>Joseph took an oath from the children of
Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you
shall carry up my bones from here.” <key:bcv=Genesis 50:26><sup><verse bcv="Genesis 50:26">26 </verse></sup>So Joseph
died, being one hundred ten years old, and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

#OUTLINE:1,Exodus
<h2>The Second Book of Moses,
<br>
Commonly Called Exodus</h2>

<key:bcv=Exodus 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the names of the sons of Israel,
who came into Egypt (every man and his household
came with Jacob): <key:bcv=Exodus 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and
Judah, <key:bcv=Exodus 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, <key:bcv=Exodus 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Dan and
Naphtali, Gad and Asher. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:5">5 </verse></sup>All the souls who came
out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph
was in Egypt already. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Joseph died, as did all his
brothers, and all that generation. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the
land was filled with them.

<key:bcv=Exodus 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who
didn’t know Joseph. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to his people, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:9 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
the people of the children of Israel are more
and mightier than we. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Come, let’s deal wisely
with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that
when any war breaks out, they also join themselves
to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out
of the land.” <key:bcv=Exodus 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore they set taskmasters over
them to afflict them with their burdens. They built
storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
<key:bcv=Exodus 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:12">12 </verse></sup>But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and the more they spread out. They
started to dread the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:13">13 </verse></sup>The
Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel
serve, <key:bcv=Exodus 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:14">14 </verse></sup>and they made their lives bitter with hard
service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of
service in the field, all their service, in which they
ruthlessly made them serve.

<key:bcv=Exodus 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:15">15 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives,
of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah,
and the name of the other Puah, <key:bcv=Exodus 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:16">16 </verse></sup>and he said,
“When you perform the duty of a midwife to the
Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool,
if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a
daughter, then she shall live.” <key:bcv=Exodus 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:17">17 </verse></sup>But the midwives
feared God,<footnote:1>1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> and didn’t do what the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
<key:bcv=Exodus 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:18">18 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and
said to them, “Why have you done this thing and
saved the boys alive?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:19">19 </verse></sup>The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the
Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for
they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife
comes to them.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:20">20 </verse></sup>God dealt well with the midwives, and the people
multiplied, and grew very mighty. <key:bcv=Exodus 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Because
the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
<key:bcv=Exodus 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You
shall cast every son who is born into the river, and
every daughter you shall save alive.”
#BCV:Exodus 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:1">1 </verse></sup>A man of the house of Levi went and took a
daughter of Levi as his wife. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The woman conceived
and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine
child, she hid him three months. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:3">3 </verse></sup>When she could
no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for
him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put
the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s
bank. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:4">4 </verse></sup>His sister stood far off, to see what would
be done to him. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s daughter came down
to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by
the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds,
and sent her servant to get it. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:6">6 </verse></sup>She opened it, and
saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had
compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the
Hebrews’ children.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the
Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
you?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
The young woman went and called the child’s
mother. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this
child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you
your wages.”

The woman took the child, and nursed it. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The
child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s
daughter, and he became her son. She named him
Moses,<footnote:1>2:10 “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.</footnote> and said, “Because I drew him out of the
water.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:11">11 </verse></sup>In those days, when Moses had grown up, he
went out to his brothers and saw their burdens.
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his
brothers. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:12">12 </verse></sup>He looked this way and that way, and
when he saw that there was no one, he killed the
Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:13">13 </verse></sup>He went out the second day, and behold, two
men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other.
He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you
strike your fellow?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge
over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the
Egyptian?”
<br>
Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is
known.” <key:bcv=Exodus 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he
sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he
sat down by a well.

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters.
They came and drew water, and filled the troughs
to water their father’s flock. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The shepherds came
and drove them away; but Moses stood up and
helped them, and watered their flock. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:18">18 </verse></sup>When they
came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that
you have returned so early today?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:19">19 </verse></sup>They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the
hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water
for us, and watered the flock.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is
it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may
eat bread.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Moses was content to dwell with the man. He
gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:22">22 </verse></sup>She bore a
son, and he named him Gershom,<footnote:1>2:22 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.</footnote> for he said, “I
have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:23">23 </verse></sup>In the course of those many days, the king of
Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because
of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came
up to God because of the bondage. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:24">24 </verse></sup>God heard
their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. <key:bcv=Exodus 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 2:25">25 </verse></sup>God
saw the children of Israel, and God understood.

#BCV:Exodus 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro,
his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led
the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came
to God’s mountain, to Horeb. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>3:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> angel
appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle
of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses
said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the
bush is not burned.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:4">4 </verse></sup>When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God
called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said,
“Moses! Moses!”
<br>
He said, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your
sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy
ground.” <key:bcv=Exodus 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Moreover he said, “I am the God of your
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.”
<br>
Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look
at God.

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of
my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their
cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their
sorrows. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:8">8 </verse></sup>I have come down to deliver them out
of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
out of that land to a good and large land, to a land
flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Now, behold, the cry
of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I
have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians
oppress them. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Come now therefore, and I will
send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go
to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of
Israel out of Egypt?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:12">12 </verse></sup>He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will
be the token to you, that I have sent you: when
you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall
serve God on this mountain.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your
fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What
is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:14">14 </verse></sup>God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he
said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM
has sent me to you.’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:15">15 </verse></sup>God said moreover to Moses,
“You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me
to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my
memorial to all generations. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Go and gather the
elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of
Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I
have surely visited you, and seen that which is done
to you in Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:17">17 </verse></sup>I have said, I will bring you
up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with
milk and honey.” ’ <key:bcv=Exodus 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:18">18 </verse></sup>They will listen to your voice.
You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the
king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please
let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:19">19 </verse></sup>I know
that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to
go, no, not by a mighty hand. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:20">20 </verse></sup>I will reach out my
hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I
will do among them, and after that he will let you
go. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:21">21 </verse></sup>I will give this people favor in the sight of
the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you
go, you shall not go empty-handed. <key:bcv=Exodus 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 3:22">22 </verse></sup>But every
woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who
visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and
clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on
your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

#BCV:Exodus 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not
believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say,
‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your
hand?”
<br>
He said, “A rod.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:3">3 </verse></sup>He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
<br>
He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake;
and Moses ran away from it.

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand,
and take it by the tail.”
<br>
He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and
it became a rod in his hand.

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:5">5 </verse></sup>“This is so that they may believe that Yahweh,
the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to
you.” <key:bcv=Exodus 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put
your hand inside your cloak.”
<br>
He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white
as snow.

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:7">7 </verse></sup>He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when
he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned
again as his other flesh.

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:8">8 </verse></sup>“It will happen, if they will not believe you or
listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will
believe the voice of the latter sign. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:9">9 </verse></sup>It will happen,
if they will not believe even these two signs or listen
to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the
river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which
you take out of the river will become blood on the
dry land.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,<footnote:1>4:10 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.</footnote> I am not
eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have
spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and
of a slow tongue.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth?
Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind?
Isn’t it I, Yahweh? <key:bcv=Exodus 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore go, and I will
be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall
speak.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone
else.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he
said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite?
I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he
is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he
will be glad in his heart. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall speak to him,
and put the words in his mouth. I will be with
your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you
what you shall do. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:16">16 </verse></sup>He will be your spokesman to
the people. It will happen that he will be to you a
mouth, and you will be to him as God. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall
take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do
the signs.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Moses went and returned to Jethro his fatherin-
law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return
to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether
they are still alive.”
<br>
Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return
into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are
dead.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them
on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt.
Moses took God’s rod in his hand. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh said
to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that
you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have
put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he
will not let the people go. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall tell Pharaoh,
‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn, <key:bcv=Exodus 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:23">23 </verse></sup>and I
have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve
me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I
will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:24">24 </verse></sup>On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met
Moses and wanted to kill him. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Zipporah
took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and
cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a
bridegroom of blood to me.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:26">26 </verse></sup>So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a
bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
<key:bcv=Exodus 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness
to meet Moses.”
<br>
He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and
kissed him. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:28">28 </verse></sup>Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words
with which he had sent him, and all the signs with
which he had instructed him. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron
went and gathered together all the elders of the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:30">30 </verse></sup>Aaron spoke all the words
which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the
signs in the sight of the people. <key:bcv=Exodus 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 4:31">31 </verse></sup>The people
believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had
visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen
their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
worshiped.

#BCV:Exodus 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to
Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel,
says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast
to me in the wilderness.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should
listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know
Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:3">3 </verse></sup>They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met
with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he
fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:4">4 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you,
Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work?
Get back to your burdens!” <key:bcv=Exodus 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said, “Behold,
the people of the land are now many, and you make
them rest from their burdens.” <key:bcv=Exodus 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:6">6 </verse></sup>The same day
Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people
and their officers, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:7">7 </verse></sup>“You shall no longer give
the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them
go and gather straw for themselves. <key:bcv=Exodus 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall
require from them the number of the bricks which
they made before. You shall not diminish anything
of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying,
‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Let heavier work
be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t
let them pay any attention to lying words.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:10">10 </verse></sup>The taskmasters of the people went out with
their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying,
“This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you
straw. <key:bcv=Exodus 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Go yourselves, get straw where you can
find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’
” <key:bcv=Exodus 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:12">12 </verse></sup>So the people were scattered abroad
throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble
for straw. <key:bcv=Exodus 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:13">13 </verse></sup>The taskmasters were urgent saying,
“Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was
straw!” <key:bcv=Exodus 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:14">14 </verse></sup>The officers of the children of Israel,
whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them,
were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you
fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in
making brick as before?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the officers of the children of Israel came
and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this
way with your servants? <key:bcv=Exodus 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:16">16 </verse></sup>No straw is given to your
servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold,
your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your
own people.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:17">17 </verse></sup>But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle!
Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be
given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number
of bricks!”

<key:bcv=Exodus 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:19">19 </verse></sup>The officers of the children of Israel saw that
they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not
diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”

<key:bcv=Exodus 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:20">20 </verse></sup>They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along
the way, as they came out from Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Exodus 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:21">21 </verse></sup>They
said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge,
because you have made us a stench to be abhorred
in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
<key:bcv=Exodus 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord,
why have you brought trouble on this people? Why
is it that you have sent me? <key:bcv=Exodus 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 5:23">23 </verse></sup>For since I came
to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought
trouble on this people. You have not rescued your
people at all!”

#BCV:Exodus 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what
I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let
them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them
out of his land.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:2">2 </verse></sup>God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:3">3 </verse></sup>I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I
was not known to them. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:4">4 </verse></sup>I have also established
my covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived
as aliens. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Moreover I have heard the groaning
of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep
in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
<key:bcv=Exodus 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh,
and I will bring you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out
of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an
outstretched arm, and with great judgments. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:7">7 </verse></sup>I
will take you to myself for a people. I will be your
God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God,
who brings you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:8">8 </verse></sup>I will bring you into the land which I
swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and
I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they
didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for
cruel bondage.

<key:bcv=Exodus 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:11">11 </verse></sup>“Go in, speak
to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold,
the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How
then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised
lips?” <key:bcv=Exodus 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Aaron, and gave them a command to the children
of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Exodus 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:14">14 </verse></sup>These are the heads of their fathers’ houses.
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch,
and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families
of Reuben. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:15">15 </verse></sup>The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and
Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families
of Simeon. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:16">16 </verse></sup>These are the names of the sons of
Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of
Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:17">17 </verse></sup>The
sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to
their families. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:18">18 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath: Amram, and
Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the
life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
<key:bcv=Exodus 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These
are the families of the Levites according to their
generations. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Amram took Jochebed his father’s
sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron
and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were
one hundred thirty-seven years. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of
Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:22">22 </verse></sup>The sons of
Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Aaron took
Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of
Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and
Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Korah:
Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families
of the Korahites. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of
the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him
Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses
of the Levites according to their families. <key:bcv=Exodus 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:26">26 </verse></sup>These
are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said,
“Bring out the children of Israel from the land of
Egypt according to their armies.” <key:bcv=Exodus 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:27">27 </verse></sup>These are those
who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses
and Aaron.

<key:bcv=Exodus 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:28">28 </verse></sup>On the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in
the land of Egypt, <key:bcv=Exodus 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:29">29 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “I am
Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell
you.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to
me?”

#BCV:Exodus 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you
as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be
your prophet. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall speak all that I command
you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh,
that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:3">3 </verse></sup>I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my
signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:4">4 </verse></sup>But
Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand
on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the
children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:5">5 </verse></sup>The Egyptians shall know that I am
Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and
bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded
them, so they did. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses was eighty years old, and
Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to
Pharaoh.

<key:bcv=Exodus 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:9">9 </verse></sup>“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a
miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod,
and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become
a serpent.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and
they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron
cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his
servants, and it became a serpent. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Pharaoh
also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They
also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing
with their enchantments. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:12">12 </verse></sup>For they each cast
down their rods, and they became serpents; but
Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s
heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them,
as Yahweh had spoken.

<key:bcv=Exodus 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is
stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Go to
Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out
to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to
meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned
to a serpent in your hand. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall tell him,
‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to
you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve
me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t
listened.” <key:bcv=Exodus 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “In this you shall know
that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the
rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in
the river, and they shall be turned to blood. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:18">18 </verse></sup>The
fish that are in the river will die and the river will
become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink
water from the river.” ’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses,
“Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your
hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers,
over their streams, and over their pools, and over all
their ponds of water, that they may become blood.
There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt,
both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded;
and he lifted up the rod, and struck
<br>
the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the
waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:21">21 </verse></sup>The fish that were in the river died. The river
became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water
from the river. The blood was throughout all the
land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:22">22 </verse></sup>The magicians of Egypt did the
same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s
heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them,
as Yahweh had spoken. <key:bcv=Exodus 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Pharaoh turned and went
into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:24">24 </verse></sup>All the Egyptians dug around the river for water
to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.
<key:bcv=Exodus 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck
the river.

#BCV:Exodus 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and
tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people
go, that they may serve me. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:2">2 </verse></sup>If you refuse to let
them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with
frogs. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:3">3 </verse></sup>The river will swarm with frogs, which will
go up and come into your house, and into your
bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of
your servants, and on your people, and into your
ovens, and into your kneading troughs. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:4">4 </verse></sup>The frogs
shall come up both on you, and on your people, and
on all your servants.” ’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses,
“Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod
over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools,
and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land
of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:7">7 </verse></sup>The magicians did the same thing with
their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the
land of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and
said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs
from me and from my people; and I will let the
people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of
setting the time that I should pray for you, and for
your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be
destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in
the river only.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.”
<br>
Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that
you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our
God. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:11">11 </verse></sup>The frogs shall depart from you, and from
your houses, and from your servants, and from your
people. They shall remain in the river only.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and
Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which
he had brought on Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh did according
to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of
the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:14">14 </verse></sup>They gathered them together in heaps, and the
land stank. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:15">15 </verse></sup>But when Pharaoh saw that there was
a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to
them, as Yahweh had spoken.

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out
your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it
may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:17">17 </verse></sup>They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand
with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and
there were lice on man, and on animal; all the
dust of the earth became lice throughout all the
land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:18">18 </verse></sup>The magicians tried with their
enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t.
There were lice on man, and on animal. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the
magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;”
but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t
listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he
comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what
Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may
serve me. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Else, if you will not let my people go,
behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on
your servants, and on your people, and into your
houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full
of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:22">22 </verse></sup>I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen,
in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies
shall be there, to the end you may know that I
am Yahweh on the earth. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:23">23 </verse></sup>I will put a division
between my people and your people. This sign
shall happen by tomorrow.” ’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh did so; and
there came grievous swarms of flies into the house
of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the
land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of
the swarms of flies.

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and
said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:26">26 </verse></sup>Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we
shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to
Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they
stone us? <key:bcv=Exodus 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:27">27 </verse></sup>We will go three days’ journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he
shall command us.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:28">28 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may
sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only
you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you.
I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may
depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from
his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go
to sacrifice to Yahweh.” <key:bcv=Exodus 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses went out from
Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:31">31 </verse></sup>Yahweh did
according to the word of Moses, and he removed
the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants,
and from his people. There remained not one.
<key:bcv=Exodus 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 8:32">32 </verse></sup>Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he
didn’t let the people go.

#BCV:Exodus 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh,
and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the
Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may
serve me. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:2">2 </verse></sup>For if you refuse to let them go, and
hold them still, <key:bcv=Exodus 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:3">3 </verse></sup>behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your
livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on
the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on
the flocks with a very grievous pestilence. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will make a distinction between the livestock of
Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall
die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow
Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.” <key:bcv=Exodus 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh
did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock
of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of
Israel, not one died. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Pharaoh sent, and, behold,
there was not so much as one of the livestock of
the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was
stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall become small dust over all the land of
Egypt, and shall be boils and blisters breaking out
on man and on animal, throughout all the land of
Egypt.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:10">10 </verse></sup>They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before
Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the
sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking out
on man and on animal. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:11">11 </verse></sup>The magicians couldn’t
stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils
were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to
Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him,
‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews,
says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:14">14 </verse></sup>For this time I will send all my plagues against
your heart, against your officials, and against your
people; that you may know that there is no one
like me in all the earth. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:15">15 </verse></sup>For now I would have
stretched out my hand, and struck you and your
people with pestilence, and you would have been
cut off from the earth; <key:bcv=Exodus 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:16">16 </verse></sup>but indeed for this cause
I have made you stand: to show you my power,
and that my name may be declared throughout all
the earth, <key:bcv=Exodus 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:17">17 </verse></sup>because you still exalt yourself against
my people, that you won’t let them go. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold,
tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt
since the day it was founded even until now. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Now
therefore command that all of your livestock and all
that you have in the field be brought into shelter.
The hail will come down on every man and animal
that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home,
and they will die.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the
servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their
livestock flee into the houses. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Whoever didn’t
respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his
livestock in the field.

<key:bcv=Exodus 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand
toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land
of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb
of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens,
and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning
flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail
on the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:24">24 </verse></sup>So there was very severe
hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had
not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a
nation. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:25">25 </verse></sup>The hail struck throughout all the land of
Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal;
and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke
every tree of the field. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:26">26 </verse></sup>Only in the land of Goshen,
where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron,
and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh
is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:28">28 </verse></sup>Pray
to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty
thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall
stay no longer.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out
of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh.
The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any
more hail; that you may know that the earth is
Yahweh’s. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:30">30 </verse></sup>But as for you and your servants, I
know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:31">31 </verse></sup>The flax and the barley were struck, for the
barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
<key:bcv=Exodus 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:32">32 </verse></sup>But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for
they had not grown up. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:33">33 </verse></sup>Moses went out of the city
from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh;
and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was
not poured on the earth. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:34">34 </verse></sup>When Pharaoh saw that
the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased,
he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and
his servants. <key:bcv=Exodus 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 9:35">35 </verse></sup>The heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as
Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

#BCV:Exodus 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for
I have hardened his heart and the heart of his
servants, that I may show these my signs among
them; <key:bcv=Exodus 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:2">2 </verse></sup>and that you may tell in the hearing of your
son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done
to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among
them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to
him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews,
says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself
before me? Let my people go, that they may serve
me. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Or else, if you refuse to let my people go,
behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your
country, <key:bcv=Exodus 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:5">5 </verse></sup>and they shall cover the surface of the
earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth.
They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped,
which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat
every tree which grows for you out of the field.
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all
your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians,
as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers
have seen, since the day that they were on the
earth to this day.’ ” He turned, and went out from
Pharaoh.

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will
this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they
may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know
that Egypt is destroyed?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron were brought again to
Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh
your God; but who are those who will go?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses said, “We will go with our young and with
our old. We will go with our sons and with our
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for
we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:10">10 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let
you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly
before your faces. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Not so! Go now you who
are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you
desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s
presence.

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand
over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may
come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of
the land, even all that the hail has left.” <key:bcv=Exodus 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses
stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and
Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that
day, and all night; and when it was morning, the
east wind brought the locusts. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:14">14 </verse></sup>The locusts went
up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the
borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before
them there were no such locusts as they, nor will
there ever be again. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:15">15 </verse></sup>For they covered the surface
of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened,
and they ate every herb of the land, and all the
fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There
remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the
field, through all the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Pharaoh
called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I
have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against
you. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Now therefore please forgive my sin again,
and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take
away from me this death.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west
wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them
into the Red Sea.<footnote:1>10:19 “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.</footnote> There remained not one locust
in all the borders of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:20">20 </verse></sup>But Yahweh hardened
Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of
Israel go.

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand
toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the
land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and
there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt
for three days. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:23">23 </verse></sup>They didn’t see one another, and
nobody rose from his place for three days; but all
the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve
Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay
behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Moses said, “You must also give into our hand
sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice
to Yahweh our God. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Our livestock also shall go
with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we
must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t
know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we
come there.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:27">27 </verse></sup>But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he
wouldn’t let them go. <key:bcv=Exodus 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Pharaoh said to him, “Get
away from me! Be careful to see my face no more;
for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
<key:bcv=Exodus 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see
your face again no more.”

#BCV:Exodus 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more
plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he
will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely
thrust you out altogether. <key:bcv=Exodus 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Speak now in the ears
of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor,
and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold.” <key:bcv=Exodus 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh gave the people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man
Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the
sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the
people.

<key:bcv=Exodus 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About
midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
<key:bcv=Exodus 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:5">5 </verse></sup>and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall
die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his
throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant
who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of
livestock. <key:bcv=Exodus 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:6">6 </verse></sup>There will be a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been,
nor will be any more. <key:bcv=Exodus 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:7">7 </verse></sup>But against any of the
children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move
its tongue, against man or animal, that you may
know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the
Egyptians and Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:8">8 </verse></sup>All these servants of yours
will come down to me, and bow down themselves to
me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow
you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from
Pharaoh in hot anger.

<key:bcv=Exodus 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to
you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land
of Egypt.” <key:bcv=Exodus 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron did all these wonders
before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out
of his land.

#BCV:Exodus 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land
of Egypt, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:2">2 </verse></sup>“This month shall be to you the
beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Speak to all the congregation of
Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to
their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; <key:bcv=Exodus 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:4">4 </verse></sup>and if
the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his
neighbor next to his house shall take one according
to the number of the souls. You shall make your
count for the lamb according to what everyone can
eat. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a
year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from
the goats. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall keep it until the fourteenth
day of the same month; and the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:7">7 </verse></sup>They shall take some of the blood, and put it on
the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses
in which they shall eat it. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:8">8 </verse></sup>They shall eat the meat
in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened
bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t eat
it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with
fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:10">10 </verse></sup>You
shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but
that which remains of it until the morning you shall
burn with fire. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:11">11 </verse></sup>This is how you shall eat it: with
your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet,
and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it
in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:12">12 </verse></sup>For I will go
through the land of Egypt in that night, and will
strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both
man and animal. I will execute judgments against
all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:13">13 </verse></sup>The blood
shall be to you for a token on the houses where you
are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and
no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike
the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:14">14 </verse></sup>This day shall be a memorial for
you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall
keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an
ordinance forever.

<key:bcv=Exodus 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread;
even the first day you shall put away yeast out of
your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from
the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be
cut off from Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:16">16 </verse></sup>In the first day there shall be
to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a
holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in
them, except that which every man must eat, only
that may be done by you. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall observe the
feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I
have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore you shall observe this day throughout
your generations by an ordinance forever. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:18">18 </verse></sup>In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the
twenty first day of the month at evening. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:19">19 </verse></sup>There
shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven
days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that
soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel,
whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the
land. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your
habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel,
and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according
to your families, and kill the Passover. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:22">22 </verse></sup>You
shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two
door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None
of you shall go out of the door of his house until the
morning. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:23">23 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will pass through to strike
the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the
lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass
over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to
come in to your houses to strike you. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall
observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to
your sons forever. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:25">25 </verse></sup>It shall happen when you have
come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he
has promised, that you shall keep this service. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:26">26 </verse></sup>It
will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do
you mean by this service?’ <key:bcv=Exodus 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:27">27 </verse></sup>that you shall say, ‘It is
the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over
the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when
he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ ”
The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:28">28 </verse></sup>The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh
had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:29">29 </verse></sup>At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive
who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of
livestock. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:30">30 </verse></sup>Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a
great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where
there was not one dead. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:31">31 </verse></sup>He called for Moses
and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out
from among my people, both you and the children
of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:32">32 </verse></sup>Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have
said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:33">33 </verse></sup>The Egyptians were urgent with the people,
to send them out of the land in haste, for they
said, “We are all dead men.” <key:bcv=Exodus 12:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:34">34 </verse></sup>The people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in their clothes on their
shoulders. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of Israel did according to
the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:36">36 </verse></sup>Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they let them have what they
asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

<key:bcv=Exodus 12:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:37">37 </verse></sup>The children of Israel traveled from Rameses
to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot
who were men, in addition to children. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:38">38 </verse></sup>A mixed
multitude went up also with them, with flocks,
herds, and even very much livestock. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:39><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:39">39 </verse></sup>They baked
unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they
were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and
they had not prepared any food for themselves.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:40><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:40">40 </verse></sup>Now the time that the children of Israel lived
in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:41><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:41">41 </verse></sup>At the
end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of
Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:42><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:42">42 </verse></sup>It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is
that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all
the children of Israel throughout their generations.
<key:bcv=Exodus 12:43><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:43">43 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the
ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat
of it, <key:bcv=Exodus 12:44><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:44">44 </verse></sup>but every man’s servant who is bought for
money, when you have circumcised him, then shall
he eat of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:45><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:45">45 </verse></sup>A foreigner and a hired servant shall
not eat of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:46><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:46">46 </verse></sup>It must be eaten in one house.
You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the
house. Do not break any of its bones. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:47><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:47">47 </verse></sup>All the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:48><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:48">48 </verse></sup>When a
stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would
like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males
be circumcised, and then let him come near and
keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land;
but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:49><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:49">49 </verse></sup>One
law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the
stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.” <key:bcv=Exodus 12:50><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:50">50 </verse></sup>All
the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded
Moses and Aaron, so they did. <key:bcv=Exodus 12:51><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 12:51">51 </verse></sup>That same day,
Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their armies.

#BCV:Exodus 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:2">2 </verse></sup>“Sanctify to
me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb
among the children of Israel, both of man and of
animal. It is mine.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses said to the people, “Remember this day,
in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought
you out from this place. No leavened bread shall
be eaten. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Today you go out in the month Abib.
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:5">5 </verse></sup>It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land
of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to
your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk
and honey, that you shall keep this service in this
month. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread,
and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the
seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen
with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all
your borders. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall tell your son in that day,
saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for
me when I came out of Egypt.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall be for a sign
to you on your hand, and for a memorial between
your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth;
for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out
of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall therefore keep this ordinance
in its season from year to year.

<key:bcv=Exodus 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:11">11 </verse></sup>“It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the
land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to
your fathers, and will give it to you, <key:bcv=Exodus 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:12">12 </verse></sup>that you shall
set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and
every firstborn that comes from an animal which
you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Every
firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb;
and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its
neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man
among your sons. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:14">14 </verse></sup>It shall be, when your son asks
you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you
shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought
us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:15">15 </verse></sup>When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go,
Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of
livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that
opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn
of my sons I redeem.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:16">16 </verse></sup>It shall be for a sign on your
hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by
strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:17">17 </verse></sup>When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t
lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines,
although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps
the people change their minds when they see war,
and they return to Egypt”; <key:bcv=Exodus 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:18">18 </verse></sup>but God led the people
around by the way of the wilderness by the Red
Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out
of the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Moses took the bones of
Joseph with him, for he had made the children of
Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and
you shall carry up my bones away from here with
you.” <key:bcv=Exodus 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:20">20 </verse></sup>They took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Exodus 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of
cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in
a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might
go by day and by night: <key:bcv=Exodus 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 13:22">22 </verse></sup>the pillar of cloud by day,
and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from
before the people.

#BCV:Exodus 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before
Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by
the sea. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,
‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has
shut them in.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:4">4 </verse></sup>I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and
he will follow after them; and I will get honor over
Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians
shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:5">5 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt was told that the people had
fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants
was changed toward the people, and they said,
“What is this we have done, that we have let Israel
go from serving us?” <key:bcv=Exodus 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:6">6 </verse></sup>He prepared his chariot, and
took his army with him; <key:bcv=Exodus 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:7">7 </verse></sup>and he took six hundred
chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with
captains over all of them. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh hardened the
heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the
children of Israel; for the children of Israel went
out with a high hand.<footnote:1>14:8 or, defiantly.</footnote> <key:bcv=Exodus 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:9">9 </verse></sup>The Egyptians pursued
them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his
horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping
by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:10">10 </verse></sup>When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel
lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them; and they were very afraid.
The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:11">11 </verse></sup>They
said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in
Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Why have you treated us this way, to bring us
out of Egypt? <key:bcv=Exodus 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Isn’t this the word that we spoke
to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we
may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been
better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in
the wilderness.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid.
Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which
he will work for you today; for you will never
again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to
me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go
forward. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Lift up your rod, and stretch out your
hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children
of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry
ground. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, I myself will harden the hearts
of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I
will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his
armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:18">18 </verse></sup>The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when
I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his
chariots, and over his horsemen.” <key:bcv=Exodus 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The angel of
God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and
went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved
from before them, and stood behind them. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:20">20 </verse></sup>It
came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of
Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it
gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other
all night.

<key:bcv=Exodus 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and
Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east
wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:22">22 </verse></sup>The children of Israel went
into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and
the waters were a wall to them on their right hand
and on their left. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:23">23 </verse></sup>The Egyptians pursued, and
went in after them into the middle of the sea: all
of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
<key:bcv=Exodus 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:24">24 </verse></sup>In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and
of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:25">25 </verse></sup>He
took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them
heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from
the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against
the Egyptians!”

<key:bcv=Exodus 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand
over the sea, that the waters may come again
on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their
horsemen.” <key:bcv=Exodus 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the
morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against
it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle
of the sea. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:28">28 </verse></sup>The waters returned, and covered
the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s
army that went in after them into the sea. There
remained not so much as one of them. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:29">29 </verse></sup>But
the children of Israel walked on dry land in the
middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to
them on their right hand and on their left. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:30">30 </verse></sup>Thus
Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of
the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead
on the seashore. <key:bcv=Exodus 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Israel saw the great work which
Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared
Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his
servant Moses.

#BCV:Exodus 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this
song to Yahweh, and said,
<br>
“I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the
sea.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Yah is my strength and song.
<br>
He has become my salvation.
<br>
This is my God, and I will praise him;
<br>
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh is a man of war.
<br>
Yahweh is his name.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:4">4 </verse></sup>He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into
the sea.
<br>
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:5">5 </verse></sup>The deeps cover them.
<br>
They went down into the depths like a stone.
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in
pieces.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:7">7 </verse></sup>In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow
those who rise up against you.
<br>
You send out your wrath. It consumes them as
stubble.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:8">8 </verse></sup>With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were
piled up.
<br>
The floods stood upright as a heap.
<br>
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the
sea.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:9">9 </verse></sup>The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I
will divide the plunder.
<br>
My desire will be satisfied on them.
<br>
I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy
them.’

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:10">10 </verse></sup>You blew with your wind.
<br>
The sea covered them.
<br>
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:12">12 </verse></sup>You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:13">13 </verse></sup>“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people
that you have redeemed.
<br>
You have guided them in your strength to your
holy habitation.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:14">14 </verse></sup>The peoples have heard.
<br>
They tremble.
<br>
Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of
Philistia.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of
Moab.
<br>
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted
away.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Terror and dread falls on them.
<br>
By the greatness of your arm they are as still as
a stone,
<br>
until your people pass over, Yahweh,
<br>
until the people you have purchased pass over.
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:17">17 </verse></sup>You will bring them in, and plant them in the
mountain of your inheritance,
<br>
the place, Yahweh, which you have made for
yourself to dwell in:
<br>
the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have
established.

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:19">19 </verse></sup>For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his
chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and
Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them;
but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the
middle of the sea. <key:bcv=Exodus 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Miriam the prophetess, the
sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and
all the women went out after her with tambourines
and with dances. <key:bcv=Exodus 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Miriam answered them,
“Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea,
and they went out into the wilderness of Shur;
and they went three days in the wilderness, and
found no water. <key:bcv=Exodus 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:23">23 </verse></sup>When they came to Marah,
they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for
they were bitter. Therefore its name was called
Marah.<footnote:1>15:23 Marah means bitter. </footnote> <key:bcv=Exodus 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:24">24 </verse></sup>The people murmured against Moses,
saying, “What shall we drink?” <key:bcv=Exodus 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Then he cried to
Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw
it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet.
There he made a statute and an ordinance for them,
and there he tested them. <key:bcv=Exodus 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:26">26 </verse></sup>He said, “If you will
diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and
will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay
attention to his commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which
I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who
heals you.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 15:27">27 </verse></sup>They came to Elim, where there were twelve
springs of water and seventy palm trees. They
encamped there by the waters.

#BCV:Exodus 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:1">1 </verse></sup>They took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came to the
wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai,
on the fifteenth day of the second month after their
departing out of the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:2">2 </verse></sup>The whole
congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:3">3 </verse></sup>and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish
that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of
Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we
ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out
into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain
bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go
out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may
test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:5">5 </verse></sup>It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they
shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall
be twice as much as they gather daily.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron said to all the children of
Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh
has brought you out from the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:7">7 </verse></sup>In
the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because
he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who
are we, that you murmur against us?” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses
said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the
evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you,
because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you
murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings
are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of
the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for
he has heard your murmurings.’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:10">10 </verse></sup>As Aaron spoke
to the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
they looked toward the wilderness, and behold,
Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:12">12 </verse></sup>“I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Israel. Speak to them,
saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the
morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you
will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:13">13 </verse></sup>In the evening, quail came up and covered
the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around
the camp. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:14">14 </verse></sup>When the dew that lay had gone,
behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a
small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:15">15 </verse></sup>When the children of Israel saw it, they said to
one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know
what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread
which Yahweh has given you to eat. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:16">16 </verse></sup>This is the
thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it
everyone according to his eating; an omer<footnote:1>16:16 An omer is about 2.2 liters or about 2.3 quarts</footnote> a head,
according to the number of your persons, you shall
take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:17">17 </verse></sup>The children of Israel did so, and some gathered
more, some less. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:18">18 </verse></sup>When they measured it with
an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over,
and he who gathered little had no lack. They each
gathered according to his eating. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Moses said to
them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but
some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred
worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with
them. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:21">21 </verse></sup>They gathered it morning by morning,
everyone according to his eating. When the sun
grew hot, it melted. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:22">22 </verse></sup>On the sixth day, they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each
one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and
told Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to them, “This is that which
Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a
holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want
to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and
all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be
kept until the morning.’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:24">24 </verse></sup>They laid it up until the
morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become
foul, and there were no worms in it. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:25">25 </verse></sup>Moses said,
“Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh.
Today you shall not find it in the field. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:26">26 </verse></sup>Six days
you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the
Sabbath. In it there shall be none.” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:27">27 </verse></sup>On the seventh
day, some of the people went out to gather, and they
found none. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “How long
do you refuse to keep my commandments and my
laws? <key:bcv=Exodus 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:29">29 </verse></sup>Behold, because Yahweh has given you the
Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the
bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no
one go out of his place on the seventh day.” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:30">30 </verse></sup>So the
people rested on the seventh day.

<key:bcv=Exodus 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:31">31 </verse></sup>The house of Israel called its name “Manna”,<footnote:1>16:31 “Manna” means “What is it?” </footnote>
and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste
was like wafers with honey. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:32">32 </verse></sup>Moses said, “This is
the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an
omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations,
that they may see the bread with which I fed you in
the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land
of Egypt.’ ” <key:bcv=Exodus 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:33">33 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and
put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before
Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 16:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:34">34 </verse></sup>As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
before the Testimony, to be kept. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to
an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they
came to the borders of the land of Canaan. <key:bcv=Exodus 16:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 16:36">36 </verse></sup>Now
an omer is one tenth of an ephah.<footnote:1>16:36 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote>

#BCV:Exodus 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:1">1 </verse></sup>All the congregation of the children of Israel
traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according
to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in
Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to
drink. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore the people quarreled with Moses,
and said, “Give us water to drink.”
<br>
Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with
me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:3">3 </verse></sup>The people were thirsty for water there; so the
people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why
have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our
children, and our livestock with thirst?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do
with these people? They are almost ready to stone
me.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the
people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and
take the rod in your hand with which you struck
the Nile, and go. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, I will stand before
you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike
the rock, and water will come out of it, that the
people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the
elders of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:7">7 </verse></sup>He called the name of the place
Massah,<footnote:1>17:7 Massah means testing. </footnote> and Meribah,<footnote:1>17:7 Meribah means quarreling. </footnote> because the children of
Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh,
saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in
Rephidim. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for
us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I
will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in
my hand.” <key:bcv=Exodus 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:10">10 </verse></sup>So Joshua did as Moses had told him,
and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur
went up to the top of the hill. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:11">11 </verse></sup>When Moses held
up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his
hand, Amalek prevailed. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:12">12 </verse></sup>But Moses’ hands were
heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him,
and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other
side. His hands were steady until sunset. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Joshua
defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the
sword. <key:bcv=Exodus 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a
memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of
Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of
Amalek from under the sky.” <key:bcv=Exodus 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses built an altar,
and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.<footnote:1>17:15 Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi </footnote> <key:bcv=Exodus 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 17:16">16 </verse></sup>He
said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with
Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”

#BCV:Exodus 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ fatherin-
law, heard of all that God had done for Moses
and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought
Israel out of Egypt. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent
her away, <key:bcv=Exodus 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:3">3 </verse></sup>and her two sons. The name of one
son was Gershom,<footnote:1>18:3 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”. </footnote> for Moses said, “I have lived as
a foreigner in a foreign land”. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:4">4 </verse></sup>The name of the
other was Eliezer,<footnote:1>18:4 Eliezer means “God is my helper”.</footnote> for he said, “My father’s God was
my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:5">5 </verse></sup>Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’
sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness
where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro,
have come to you with your wife, and her two sons
with her.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and
bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of
their welfare, and they came into the tent. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses
told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all
the hardships that had come on them on the way,
and how Yahweh delivered them. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:9">9 </verse></sup>Jethro rejoiced
for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to
Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the
hand of the Egyptians. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:10">10 </verse></sup>Jethro said, “Blessed be
Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who
has delivered the people from under the hand of the
Egyptians. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Now I know that Yahweh is greater
than all gods because of the way that they treated
people arrogantly.” <key:bcv=Exodus 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron
came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with
Moses’ father-in-law before God.

<key:bcv=Exodus 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:13">13 </verse></sup>On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people,
and the people stood around Moses from the
morning to the evening. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:14">14 </verse></sup>When Moses’ father-inlaw
saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What
is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you
sit alone, and all the people stand around you from
morning to evening?”

<key:bcv=Exodus 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the
people come to me to inquire of God. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:16">16 </verse></sup>When they
have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between
a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the
statutes of God, and his laws.” <key:bcv=Exodus 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Moses’ father-inlaw
said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:18">18 </verse></sup>You will surely wear away, both you, and this
people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for
you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel,
and God be with you. You represent the people
before God, and bring the causes to God. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:20">20 </verse></sup>You
shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall
show them the way in which they must walk, and
the work that they must do. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Moreover you shall
provide out of all the people able men which fear
God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place
such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Let
them judge the people at all times. It shall be that
every great matter they shall bring to you, but every
small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it
be easier for you, and they shall share the load with
you. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:23">23 </verse></sup>If you will do this thing, and God commands
you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these
people also will go to their place in peace.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:24">24 </verse></sup>So Moses listened to the voice of his father-inlaw,
and did all that he had said. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Moses chose
able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over
the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:26">26 </verse></sup>They judged
the people at all times. They brought the hard
cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves. <key:bcv=Exodus 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Moses let his father-in-law depart,
and he went his way into his own land.
#BCV:Exodus 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:1">1 </verse></sup>In the third month after the children of Israel
had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same
day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:2">2 </verse></sup>When
they had departed from Rephidim, and had come
to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the
wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the
mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses went up to God, and Yahweh
called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is
what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel: <key:bcv=Exodus 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:4">4 </verse></sup>‘You have seen what I did to
the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings,
and brought you to myself. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:5">5 </verse></sup>Now therefore, if you
will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant,
then you shall be my own possession from among all
peoples; for all the earth is mine; <key:bcv=Exodus 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:6">6 </verse></sup>and you shall be
to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These
are the words which you shall speak to the children
of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses came and called for the elders of the
people, and set before them all these words which
Yahweh commanded him. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:8">8 </verse></sup>All the people answered
together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we
will do.”
<br>
Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to
you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when
I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.”
Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and
sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them
wash their garments, <key:bcv=Exodus 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:11">11 </verse></sup>and be ready for the third
day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down
in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:12">12 </verse></sup>You
shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be
careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or
touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain
shall be surely put to death. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:13">13 </verse></sup>No hand shall touch
him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through;
whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When
the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the
mountain.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Moses went down from the mountain to the
people, and sanctified the people; and they washed
their clothes. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to the people, “Be ready
by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with
a woman.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:16">16 </verse></sup>On the third day, when it was morning, there
were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on
the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud
trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp
trembled. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:17">17 </verse></sup>Moses led the people out of the camp
to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the
mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:18">18 </verse></sup>All of Mount Sinai smoked, because
Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke
ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mountain quaked greatly. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:19">19 </verse></sup>When the sound of the
trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and
God answered him by a voice. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh came down
on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh
called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses
went up.

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the
people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze,
and many of them perish. <key:bcv=Exodus 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Let the priests also,
who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest
Yahweh break out on them.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:23">23 </verse></sup>Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come
up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set
bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring
Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the
people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he
break out against them.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 19:25">25 </verse></sup>So Moses went down to the people, and told
them.

#BCV:Exodus 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:1">1 </verse></sup>God<footnote:1>20:1 After “God”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker. </footnote> spoke all these words, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:2">2 </verse></sup>“I am
Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:3">3 </verse></sup>“You shall have no other gods before me.
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:4">4 </verse></sup>“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor
any image of anything that is in the heavens above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth: <key:bcv=Exodus 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:5">5 </verse></sup>you shall not bow yourself down
to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God,
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, on the third and on the fourth
generation of those who hate me, <key:bcv=Exodus 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:6">6 </verse></sup>and showing
loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:7">7 </verse></sup>“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your
God,<footnote:1>20:7 or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain</footnote> for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who
misuses his name.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:8">8 </verse></sup>“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:10">10 </verse></sup>but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your
God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor
your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor
your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your
stranger who is within your gates; <key:bcv=Exodus 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:11">11 </verse></sup>for in six days
Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore
Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:12">12 </verse></sup>“Honor your father and your mother, that your
days may be long in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:13">13 </verse></sup>“You shall not murder.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:14">14 </verse></sup>“You shall not commit adultery.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:15">15 </verse></sup>“You shall not steal.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:16">16 </verse></sup>“You shall not give false testimony against your
neighbor.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:17">17 </verse></sup>“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his
male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor
his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:18">18 </verse></sup>All the people perceived the thunderings, the
lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the
mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they
trembled, and stayed at a distance. <key:bcv=Exodus 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:19">19 </verse></sup>They said to
Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen;
but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for
God has come to test you, and that his fear may
be before you, that you won’t sin.” <key:bcv=Exodus 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:21">21 </verse></sup>The people
stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the
thick darkness where God was.

<key:bcv=Exodus 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall
tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen
that I have talked with you from heaven. <key:bcv=Exodus 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall
most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of
gold for yourselves to be alongside me. <key:bcv=Exodus 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall
make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice
on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,
your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I
record my name I will come to you and I will bless
you. <key:bcv=Exodus 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:25">25 </verse></sup>If you make me an altar of stone, you shall
not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool
on it, you have polluted it. <key:bcv=Exodus 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 20:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall not go up by
steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be
exposed to it.’

#BCV:Exodus 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:1">1 </verse></sup>“Now these are the ordinances which you shall
set before them:

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:2">2 </verse></sup>“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six
years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without
paying anything. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:3">3 </verse></sup>If he comes in by himself, he
shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his
wife shall go out with him. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:4">4 </verse></sup>If his master gives him
a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife
and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall
go out by himself. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:5">5 </verse></sup>But if the servant shall plainly
say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children.
I will not go out free;’ <key:bcv=Exodus 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:6">6 </verse></sup>then his master shall bring
him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the
doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through
with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:7">7 </verse></sup>“If a man sells his daughter to be a female
servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:8">8 </verse></sup>If she doesn’t please her master, who has married
her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He
shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people,
since he has dealt deceitfully with her. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:9">9 </verse></sup>If he
marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a
daughter. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:10">10 </verse></sup>If he takes another wife to himself, he
shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her
marital rights. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:11">11 </verse></sup>If he doesn’t do these three things
for her, she may go free without paying any money.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:12">12 </verse></sup>“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall
surely be put to death, <key:bcv=Exodus 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:13">13 </verse></sup>but not if it is unintentional,
but God allows it to happen; then I will
appoint you a place where he shall flee. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:14">14 </verse></sup>If a
man schemes and comes presumptuously on his
neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my
altar, that he may die.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:15">15 </verse></sup>“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother
shall be surely put to death.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:16">16 </verse></sup>“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him,
or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put
to death.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:17">17 </verse></sup>“Anyone who curses his father or his mother
shall surely be put to death.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:18">18 </verse></sup>“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with
a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is
confined to bed; <key:bcv=Exodus 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:19">19 </verse></sup>if he rises again and walks around
with his staff, then he who struck him shall be
cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and
shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly
healed.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:20">20 </verse></sup>“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with
a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall
surely be punished. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, if his
servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be
punished, for the servant is his property.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:22">22 </verse></sup>“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so
that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm
follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the
woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:23">23 </verse></sup>But if any harm follows, then you must take life
for life, <key:bcv=Exodus 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:24">24 </verse></sup>eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot, <key:bcv=Exodus 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:25">25 </verse></sup>burning for burning, wound
for wound, and bruise for bruise.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:26">26 </verse></sup>“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s
eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his
eye’s sake. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:27">27 </verse></sup>If he strikes out his male servant’s
tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the
servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:28">28 </verse></sup>“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the
bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be
eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held
responsible. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:29">29 </verse></sup>But if the bull had a habit of goring
in the past, and this has been testified to its owner,
and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a
woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall
also be put to death. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:30">30 </verse></sup>If a ransom is imposed on
him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life
whatever is imposed. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Whether it has gored a son
or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment
it shall be done to him. <key:bcv=Exodus 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:32">32 </verse></sup>If the bull gores a male
servant or a female servant, thirty shekels<footnote:1>21:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces.</footnote> of silver
shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be
stoned.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:33">33 </verse></sup>“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and
doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:34">34 </verse></sup>the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall
give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall
be his.

<key:bcv=Exodus 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:35">35 </verse></sup>“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it
dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its
price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
<key:bcv=Exodus 21:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 21:36">36 </verse></sup>Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of
goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in,
he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal
shall be his own.

#BCV:Exodus 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:1">1 </verse></sup>“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or
sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four
sheep for a sheep. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:2">2 </verse></sup>If the thief is found breaking
in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no
guilt of bloodshed for him. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:3">3 </verse></sup>If the sun has risen
on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make
restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold
for his theft. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:4">4 </verse></sup>If the stolen property is found in his
hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he
shall pay double.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:5">5 </verse></sup>“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten
by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another
man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best
of his own field, and from the best of his own
vineyard.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:6">6 </verse></sup>“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that
the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the
field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall
surely make restitution.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:7">7 </verse></sup>“If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff
to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house,
if the thief is found, he shall pay double. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:8">8 </verse></sup>If the
thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall
come near to God, to find out whether or not he has
put his hand on his neighbor’s goods. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:9">9 </verse></sup>For every
matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey,
for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing,
about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of
both parties shall come before God. He whom God
condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:10">10 </verse></sup>“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an
ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is
injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; <key:bcv=Exodus 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:11">11 </verse></sup>the oath
of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not
put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner
shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:12">12 </verse></sup>But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole
shall make restitution to its owner. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:13">13 </verse></sup>If it is torn
in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not
make good that which was torn.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:14">14 </verse></sup>“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s,
and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with
it, he shall surely make restitution. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:15">15 </verse></sup>If its owner
is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased
thing, it came for its lease.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:16">16 </verse></sup>“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to
be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a
dowry for her to be his wife. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:17">17 </verse></sup>If her father utterly
refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:18">18 </verse></sup>“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:19">19 </verse></sup>“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely
be put to death.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:20">20 </verse></sup>“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh
only, shall be utterly destroyed.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:21">21 </verse></sup>“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him,
for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:22">22 </verse></sup>“You shall not take advantage of any widow or
fatherless child. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:23">23 </verse></sup>If you take advantage of them at
all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their
cry; <key:bcv=Exodus 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:24">24 </verse></sup>and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you
with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and
your children fatherless.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:25">25 </verse></sup>“If you lend money to any of my people with
you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a
creditor. You shall not charge him interest. <key:bcv=Exodus 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:26">26 </verse></sup>If
you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you
shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:27">27 </verse></sup>for that is his only covering, it is his garment for
his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen,
when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am
gracious.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:28">28 </verse></sup>“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler
of your people.

<key:bcv=Exodus 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:29">29 </verse></sup>“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest
and from the outflow of your presses.
“You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall do likewise with your cattle and with
your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days,
then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
<key:bcv=Exodus 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 22:31">31 </verse></sup>“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you
shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the
field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

#BCV:Exodus 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:1">1 </verse></sup>“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t
join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious
witness.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:2">2 </verse></sup>“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You
shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to
pervert justice. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall not favor a poor man in
his cause.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:4">4 </verse></sup>“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey
going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him
again. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:5">5 </verse></sup>If you see the donkey of him who hates you
fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You
shall surely help him with it.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:6">6 </verse></sup>“You shall not deny justice to your poor people
in their lawsuits.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:7">7 </verse></sup>“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the
innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the
wicked.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:8">8 </verse></sup>“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds
those who have sight and perverts the words of the
righteous.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:9">9 </verse></sup>“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know
the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the
land of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:10">10 </verse></sup>“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall
gather in its increase, <key:bcv=Exodus 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:11">11 </verse></sup>but the seventh year you
shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your
people may eat; and what they leave the animal of
the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal
with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:12">12 </verse></sup>“Six days you shall do your work, and on the
seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your
donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant,
and the alien may be refreshed.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:13">13 </verse></sup>“Be careful to do all things that I have said to
you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or
even let them be heard out of your mouth.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:14">14 </verse></sup>“You shall observe a feast to me three times a
year. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall observe the feast of unleavened
bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread,
as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the
month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no
one shall appear before me empty. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:16">16 </verse></sup>And the feast
of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you
sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the
end of the year, when you gather in your labors out
of the field. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Three times in the year all your males
shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:18">18 </verse></sup>“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not
remain all night until the morning.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall bring the first of the first fruits of
your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s
milk.

<key:bcv=Exodus 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:20">20 </verse></sup>“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you
by the way, and to bring you into the place which I
have prepared. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:21">21 </verse></sup>Pay attention to him, and listen to
his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon
your disobedience, for my name is in him. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:22">22 </verse></sup>But
if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I
speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies,
and an adversary to your adversaries. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:23">23 </verse></sup>For my
angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the
Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them
off. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall not bow down to their gods, nor
serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall
utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless
your bread and your water, and I will take sickness
away from among you. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:26">26 </verse></sup>No one will miscarry or
be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of
your days. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:27">27 </verse></sup>I will send my terror before you, and
will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I
will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:28">28 </verse></sup>I will send the hornet before you, which will drive
out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from
before you. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:29">29 </verse></sup>I will not drive them out from before
you in one year, lest the land become desolate,
and the animals of the field multiply against you.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Little by little I will drive them out from before
you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
<key:bcv=Exodus 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:31">31 </verse></sup>I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the
sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the
River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land
into your hand, and you shall drive them out before
you. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall make no covenant with them, nor
with their gods. <key:bcv=Exodus 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 23:33">33 </verse></sup>They shall not dwell in your land,
lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve
their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

#BCV:Exodus 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:1">1 </verse></sup>He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel; and worship from a distance. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Moses alone
shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come
near. The people shall not go up with him.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s
words, and all the ordinances; and all the people
answered with one voice, and said, “All the words
which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up
early in the morning and built an altar at the base
of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve
tribes of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:5">5 </verse></sup>He sent young men of the children
of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses took
half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:7">7 </verse></sup>He took the book
of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the
people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh
has said, and be obedient.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the
people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the
covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning
all these words.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel went up. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:10">10 </verse></sup>They saw the God
of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of
sapphire<footnote:1>24:10 or, lapis lazuli</footnote> stone, like the skies for clearness. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:11">11 </verse></sup>He
didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of
Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
<key:bcv=Exodus 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the
mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the
stone tablets with the law and the commands that I
have written, that you may teach them.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and
Moses went up onto God’s Mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:14">14 </verse></sup>He said to
the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to
you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever
is involved in a dispute can go to them.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud
covered the mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory settled on
Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The
seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle
of the cloud. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:17">17 </verse></sup>The appearance of Yahweh’s glory
was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain
in the eyes of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Moses entered
into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the
mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty
days and forty nights.

#BCV:Exodus 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, that they take an offering for me.
From everyone whose heart makes him willing you
shall take my offering. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:3">3 </verse></sup>This is the offering which
you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:4">4 </verse></sup>blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, <key:bcv=Exodus 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:5">5 </verse></sup>rams’
skins dyed red, sea cow hides,<footnote:1>25:5 or, fine leather </footnote> acacia wood, <key:bcv=Exodus 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:6">6 </verse></sup>oil
for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the
sweet incense, <key:bcv=Exodus 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:7">7 </verse></sup>onyx stones, and stones to be set
for the ephod and for the breastplate. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Let them
make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:9">9 </verse></sup>According to all that I show you, the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture,
even so you shall make it.

<key:bcv=Exodus 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:10">10 </verse></sup>“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its
length shall be two and a half cubits,<footnote:1>25:10 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> its width a
cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall
overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a
gold molding around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall cast four rings
of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two
rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings
on the other side of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall make poles of
acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:14">14 </verse></sup>You
shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of
the ark to carry the ark. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:15">15 </verse></sup>The poles shall be in
the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall put the covenant which I shall give
you into the ark. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall make a mercy seat of
pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length,
and a cubit and a half its width. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall make
two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make
them at the two ends of the mercy seat. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:19">19 </verse></sup>Make one
cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other
end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends
of one piece with the mercy seat. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:20">20 </verse></sup>The cherubim
shall spread out their wings upward, covering the
mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward
one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be
toward the mercy seat. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall put the mercy
seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put
the covenant that I will give you. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:22">22 </verse></sup>There I will meet
with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubim which are on
the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for
the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Exodus 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:23">23 </verse></sup>“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its
length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and
its height one and a half cubits. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall overlay
it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall make a rim of a hand width around it.
You shall make a golden molding on its rim around
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put
the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:27">27 </verse></sup>The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for
the poles to carry the table. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:28">28 </verse></sup>You shall make the
poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold,
that the table may be carried with them. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:29">29 </verse></sup>You
shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its
bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall
make them of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall set bread of
the presence on the table before me always.
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:31">31 </verse></sup>“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The
lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its
base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall
be of one piece with it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:32">32 </verse></sup>There shall be six branches
going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp
stand out of its one side, and three branches of the
lamp stand out of its other side; <key:bcv=Exodus 25:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:33">33 </verse></sup>three cups made
like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a
flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms
in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six
branches going out of the lamp stand; <key:bcv=Exodus 25:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:34">34 </verse></sup>and in the
lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms,
its buds and its flowers; <key:bcv=Exodus 25:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:35">35 </verse></sup>and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two
branches of one piece with it, for the six branches
going out of the lamp stand. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:36">36 </verse></sup>Their buds and their
branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one
beaten work of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:37">37 </verse></sup>You shall make its
lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give
light to the space in front of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:38">38 </verse></sup>Its snuffers and its
snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 25:39><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:39">39 </verse></sup>It shall be made
of a talent<footnote:1>25:39 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces </footnote> of pure gold, with all these accessories.
<key:bcv=Exodus 25:40><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 25:40">40 </verse></sup>See that you make them after their pattern, which
has been shown to you on the mountain.
#BCV:Exodus 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:1">1 </verse></sup>“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with
ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make
them with the work of a skillful workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:2">2 </verse></sup>The
length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,<footnote:1>26:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the
curtains shall have one measure. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Five curtains
shall be coupled together to one another, and the
other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the
one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you
shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is
outermost in the second coupling. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall make
fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make
fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the
second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one
another. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and
couple the curtains to one another with the clasps.
The tabernacle shall be a unit.

<key:bcv=Exodus 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:7">7 </verse></sup>“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a
covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven
curtains. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:8">8 </verse></sup>The length of each curtain shall be thirty
cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits:
the eleven curtains shall have one measure. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:9">9 </verse></sup>You
shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shall double over the
sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:10">10 </verse></sup>You
shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops
on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in
the second coupling. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall make fifty clasps
of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and
couple the tent together, that it may be one. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:12">12 </verse></sup>The
overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the
tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over
the back of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:13">13 </verse></sup>The cubit on the one
side and the cubit on the other side, of that which
remains in the length of the curtains of the tent,
shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this
side and on that side, to cover it. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall make
a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and
a covering of sea cow hides above.

<key:bcv=Exodus 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:15">15 </verse></sup>“You shall make the boards for the tabernacle
of acacia wood, standing upright. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Ten cubits shall
be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits
the width of each board. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:17">17 </verse></sup>There shall be two
tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus
you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle,
for the south side southward. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall make
forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two
sockets under one board for its two tenons, and
two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:20">20 </verse></sup>For the second side of the tabernacle, on the
north side, twenty boards, <key:bcv=Exodus 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:21">21 </verse></sup>and their forty sockets
of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:22">22 </verse></sup>For the far side of
the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall make two boards for the corners of the
tabernacle in the far side. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:24">24 </verse></sup>They shall be double
beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole
to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them
both; they shall be for the two corners. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:25">25 </verse></sup>There
shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and
two sockets under another board.

<key:bcv=Exodus 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:26">26 </verse></sup>“You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for
the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, <key:bcv=Exodus 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:27">27 </verse></sup>and
five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side
of the tabernacle, for the far side westward. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:28">28 </verse></sup>The
middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass
through from end to end. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:29">29 </verse></sup>You shall overlay the
boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for
places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with
gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall set up the tabernacle according to
the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:31">31 </verse></sup>“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It
shall be the work of a skillful workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall
hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold;
their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
<key:bcv=Exodus 26:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:33">33 </verse></sup>You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and
shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within
the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from
the most holy for you. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:34">34 </verse></sup>You shall put the mercy
seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy
place. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:35">35 </verse></sup>You shall set the table outside the veil, and
the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the
tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table
on the north side.

<key:bcv=Exodus 26:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:36">36 </verse></sup>“You shall make a screen for the door of the
Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. <key:bcv=Exodus 26:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 26:37">37 </verse></sup>You
shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and
overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of
gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.
#BCV:Exodus 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:1">1 </verse></sup>“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five
cubits<footnote:1>27:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be
square. Its height shall be three cubits.<footnote:1>27:1 The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.</footnote> <key:bcv=Exodus 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall
make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be
of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
<key:bcv=Exodus 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and
its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire
pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:4">4 </verse></sup>You
shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On
the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four
corners. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall put it under the ledge around
the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway
up the altar. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall make poles for the altar,
poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
<key:bcv=Exodus 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:7">7 </verse></sup>Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles
shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall
make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
<key:bcv=Exodus 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:9">9 </verse></sup>“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for
the south side southward there shall be hangings
for the court of fine twined linen one hundred
cubits long for one side. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:10">10 </verse></sup>Its pillars shall be twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks
of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
<key:bcv=Exodus 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Likewise for the length of the north side, there
shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its
pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze;
the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
<key:bcv=Exodus 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:12">12 </verse></sup>For the width of the court on the west side shall be
hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:13">13 </verse></sup>The width of the court on the east
side eastward shall be fifty cubits. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:14">14 </verse></sup>The hangings
for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:15">15 </verse></sup>For the
other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:16">16 </verse></sup>For the gate
of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and
their sockets four. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:17">17 </verse></sup>All the pillars of the court
around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of
silver, and their sockets of bronze. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:18">18 </verse></sup>The length of
the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width
fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine
twined linen, and their sockets of bronze. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:19">19 </verse></sup>All the
instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and
all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of
bronze.

<key:bcv=Exodus 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:20">20 </verse></sup>“You shall command the children of Israel, that
they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light,
to cause a lamp to burn continually. <key:bcv=Exodus 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 27:21">21 </verse></sup>In the Tent
of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the
covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order
from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be
a statute forever throughout their generations on
the behalf of the children of Israel.

#BCV:Exodus 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:1">1 </verse></sup>“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with
him, near to you from among the children of Israel,
that he may minister to me in the priest’s office:
Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
Aaron’s sons. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall make holy garments for
Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:3">3 </verse></sup>You
shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I
have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they
make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may
minister to me in the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:4">4 </verse></sup>These are
the garments which they shall make: a breastplate,
an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a
sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your
brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in
the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:5">5 </verse></sup>They shall use the gold, and the
blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine
linen.

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:6">6 </verse></sup>“They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple,
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
skillful workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:7">7 </verse></sup>It shall have two shoulder straps
joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined
together. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The skillfully woven band, which is on
it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of
gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
<key:bcv=Exodus 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on
them the names of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Six of
their names on the one stone, and the names of the
six that remain on the other stone, in the order of
their birth. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:11">11 </verse></sup>With the work of an engraver in stone,
like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the
two stones, according to the names of the children
of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in
settings of gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall put the two stones on
the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of
memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear
their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for
a memorial. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall make settings of gold, <key:bcv=Exodus 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:14">14 </verse></sup>and
two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like
cords of braided work. You shall put the braided
chains on the settings.

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:15">15 </verse></sup>“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the
work of the skillful workman; like the work of the
ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:16">16 </verse></sup>It shall be square and folded double; a span<footnote:1>28:16 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.) </footnote>
shall be its length, and a span its width. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:17">17 </verse></sup>You
shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones:
a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first
row; <key:bcv=Exodus 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:18">18 </verse></sup>and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire,<footnote:1>28:18 or, lapis lazuli</footnote>
and an emerald; <key:bcv=Exodus 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:19">19 </verse></sup>and the third row a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst; <key:bcv=Exodus 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:20">20 </verse></sup>and the fourth row a
chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be
enclosed in gold in their settings. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:21">21 </verse></sup>The stones
shall be according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the
engravings of a signet, everyone according to his
name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:22">22 </verse></sup>You
shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of
braided work of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall make on the
breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two
rings on the two ends of the breastplate. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall
put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings
at the ends of the breastplate. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:25">25 </verse></sup>The other two ends
of the two braided chains you shall put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the
ephod in its forepart. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall make two rings of
gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the
breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of
the ephod inward. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:27">27 </verse></sup>You shall make two rings of
gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps
of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by
its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the
ephod. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:28">28 </verse></sup>They shall bind the breastplate by its rings
to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it
may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod,
and that the breastplate may not swing out from
the ephod. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:29">29 </verse></sup>Aaron shall bear the names of the
children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on
his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a
memorial before Yahweh continually. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall
put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart,
when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear
the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart
before Yahweh continually.

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:31">31 </verse></sup>“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of
blue. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:32">32 </verse></sup>It shall have a hole for the head in the
middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work
around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail,
that it not be torn. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:33">33 </verse></sup>On its hem you shall make
pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet,
all around its hem; with bells of gold between and
around them: <key:bcv=Exodus 28:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:34">34 </verse></sup>a golden bell and a pomegranate,
a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem
of the robe. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:35">35 </verse></sup>It shall be on Aaron to minister: and
its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy
place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that
he not die.

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:36">36 </verse></sup>“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and
engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY
TO YAHWEH.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 28:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:37">37 </verse></sup>You shall put it on a lace of blue, and
it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the
sash. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:38">38 </verse></sup>It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron
shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the
children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy
gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that
they may be accepted before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:39><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:39">39 </verse></sup>You shall
weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a
turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work
of the embroiderer.

<key:bcv=Exodus 28:40><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:40">40 </verse></sup>“You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You
shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands
for them, for glory and for beauty. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:41><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:41">41 </verse></sup>You
shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on
his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and
consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may
minister to me in the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Exodus 28:42><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:42">42 </verse></sup>You shall
make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh.
They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.
<key:bcv=Exodus 28:43><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 28:43">43 </verse></sup>They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they
go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come
near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that
they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a
statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.

#BCV:Exodus 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:1">1 </verse></sup>“This is the thing that you shall do to them to
make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s
office: take one young bull and two rams without
defect, <key:bcv=Exodus 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:2">2 </verse></sup>unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed
with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
You shall make them of fine wheat flour. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:3">3 </verse></sup>You
shall put them into one basket, and bring them in
the basket, with the bull and the two rams. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:4">4 </verse></sup>You
shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the
Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron
the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and
the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully
woven band of the ephod. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall set the
turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the
turban. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:7">7 </verse></sup>Then you shall take the anointing oil, and
pour it on his head, and anoint him. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall
bring his sons, and put tunics on them. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall
clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind
headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood
by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron
and his sons.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:10">10 </verse></sup>“You shall bring the bull before the Tent of
Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their
hands on the head of the bull. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall kill
the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall take of the blood of the bull,
and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger;
and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of
the altar. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall take all the fat that covers the
innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and
the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:14">14 </verse></sup>But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung,
you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a
sin offering.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:15">15 </verse></sup>“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and
his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood,
and sprinkle it around on the altar. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall cut
the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its
legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a
burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:19">19 </verse></sup>“You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and
his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the
ram. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Then you shall kill the ram, and take some
of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of
Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons,
and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the
big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood
around on the altar. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall take of the blood
that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on
his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him:
and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and
his sons, and his sons’ garments with him. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:22">22 </verse></sup>Also
you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the
fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver,
the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the
right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration), <key:bcv=Exodus 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:23">23 </verse></sup>and
one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall put all of this in Aaron’s
hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them
for a wave offering before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall take
them from their hands, and burn them on the altar
on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before
Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:26">26 </verse></sup>“You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of
consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before
Yahweh. It shall be your portion. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:27">27 </verse></sup>You shall
sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the
thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and
which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even
of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for
his sons. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:28">28 </verse></sup>It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their
portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is
a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from
the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:29">29 </verse></sup>“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his
sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be
consecrated in them. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:30">30 </verse></sup>Seven days shall the son
who is priest in his place put them on, when he
comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the
holy place.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:31">31 </verse></sup>“You shall take the ram of consecration and
boil its meat in a holy place. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:32">32 </verse></sup>Aaron and his sons
shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that
is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:33">33 </verse></sup>They shall eat those things with which atonement
was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a
stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:34">34 </verse></sup>If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of
the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall
burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten,
because it is holy.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:35">35 </verse></sup>“You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according
to all that I have commanded you. You shall
consecrate them seven days. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:36">36 </verse></sup>Every day you shall
offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You
shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement
for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:37">37 </verse></sup>Seven days
you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify
it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever
touches the altar shall be holy.

<key:bcv=Exodus 29:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:38">38 </verse></sup>“Now this is that which you shall offer on the
altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
<key:bcv=Exodus 29:39><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:39">39 </verse></sup>The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and
the other lamb you shall offer at evening; <key:bcv=Exodus 29:40><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:40">40 </verse></sup>and
with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah<footnote:1>29:40 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of
fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin<footnote:1>29:40 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth of a hin is about 1.6 liters.</footnote> of
beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for
a drink offering. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:41><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:41">41 </verse></sup>The other lamb you shall offer
at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal
offering of the morning and according to its drink
offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made
by fire to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:42><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:42">42 </verse></sup>It shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations at the door
of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will
meet with you, to speak there to you. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:43><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:43">43 </verse></sup>There I
will meet with the children of Israel; and the place
shall be sanctified by my glory. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:44><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:44">44 </verse></sup>I will sanctify the
Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify
Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s
office. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:45><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:45">45 </verse></sup>I will dwell among the children of Israel,
and will be their God. <key:bcv=Exodus 29:46><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 29:46">46 </verse></sup>They shall know that I am
Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the
land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am
Yahweh their God.

#BCV:Exodus 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:1">1 </verse></sup>“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You
shall make it of acacia wood. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:2">2 </verse></sup>Its length shall be
a cubit,<footnote:1>30:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> and its width a cubit. It shall be square,
and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall
be of one piece with it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall overlay it with
pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns;
and you shall make a gold molding around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:4">4 </verse></sup>You
shall make two golden rings for it under its molding;
on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make
them; and they shall be for places for poles with
which to bear it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall make the poles of
acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:6">6 </verse></sup>You
shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the
covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the
covenant, where I will meet with you. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:7">7 </verse></sup>Aaron shall
burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning.
When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:8">8 </verse></sup>When
Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a
perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your
generations. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall offer no strange incense on
it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you
shall pour no drink offering on it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:10">10 </verse></sup>Aaron shall
make atonement on its horns once in the year; with
the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in
the year he shall make atonement for it throughout
your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:12">12 </verse></sup>“When you
take a census of the children of Israel, according to
those who are counted among them, then each man
shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh when you
count them, that there be no plague among them
when you count them. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:13">13 </verse></sup>They shall give this, everyone
who passes over to those who are counted, half
a shekel according to the shekel<footnote:1>30:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> of the sanctuary
(the shekel is twenty gerahs<footnote:1>30:13 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains </footnote>); half a shekel for an
offering to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:14">14 </verse></sup>Everyone who passes over to
those who are counted, from twenty years old and
upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:15">15 </verse></sup>The
rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not
give less, than the half shekel,<footnote:1>30:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> when they give the
offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your
souls. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall take the atonement money from
the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the
service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a
memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh,
to make atonement for your souls.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:18">18 </verse></sup>“You shall
also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze,
in which to wash. You shall put it between the
Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put
water in it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:19">19 </verse></sup>Aaron and his sons shall wash their
hands and their feet in it. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:20">20 </verse></sup>When they go into
the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water,
that they not die; or when they come near to the
altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire
to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:21">21 </verse></sup>So they shall wash their hands and
their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute
forever to them, even to him and to his descendants
throughout their generations.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:22">22 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
<key:bcv=Exodus 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:23">23 </verse></sup>“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five
hundred shekels;<footnote:1>30:23 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds. </footnote> and of fragrant cinnamon half as
much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant
cane, two hundred and fifty; <key:bcv=Exodus 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:24">24 </verse></sup>and of cassia five
hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
and a hin<footnote:1>30:24 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.</footnote> of olive oil. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall make it into a
holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the
art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
<key:bcv=Exodus 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting,
the ark of the covenant, <key:bcv=Exodus 30:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:27">27 </verse></sup>the table and all its
articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar
of incense, <key:bcv=Exodus 30:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:28">28 </verse></sup>the altar of burnt offering with all
its utensils, and the basin with its base. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:29">29 </verse></sup>You
shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy.
Whatever touches them shall be holy. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall
anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that
they may minister to me in the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:31">31 </verse></sup>You
shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This
shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your
generations. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:32">32 </verse></sup>It shall not be poured on man’s
flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its
composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.
<key:bcv=Exodus 30:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:33">33 </verse></sup>Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts
any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his
people.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 30:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:34">34 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet
spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum: sweet
spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an
equal weight of each. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:35">35 </verse></sup>You shall make incense of
it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned
with salt, pure and holy. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:36">36 </verse></sup>You shall beat some of it
very small, and put some of it before the covenant
in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with
you. It shall be to you most holy. <key:bcv=Exodus 30:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:37">37 </verse></sup>You shall
not make this incense, according to its composition,
for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Exodus 30:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 30:38">38 </verse></sup>Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it,
he shall be cut off from his people.”

#BCV:Exodus 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:2">2 </verse></sup>“Behold, I have
called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:3">3 </verse></sup>I have filled him with
the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
<key:bcv=Exodus 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:4">4 </verse></sup>to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in bronze, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:5">5 </verse></sup>and in cutting of stones for
setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds
of workmanship. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, I myself have appointed
with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted
I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I
have commanded you: <key:bcv=Exodus 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:7">7 </verse></sup>the Tent of Meeting, the
ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all
the furniture of the Tent, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:8">8 </verse></sup>the table and its vessels,
the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar
of incense, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:9">9 </verse></sup>the altar of burnt offering with all its
vessels, the basin and its base, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:10">10 </verse></sup>the finely worked
garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest,
the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s
office— <key:bcv=Exodus 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:11">11 </verse></sup>the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet
spices for the holy place: according to all that I have
commanded you they shall do.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:13">13 </verse></sup>“Speak also
to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you
shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me
and you throughout your generations, that you may
know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:14">14 </verse></sup>You
shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to
you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to
death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul
shall be cut off from among his people. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Six days
shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath
of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does
any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to
death. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore the children of Israel shall keep
the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout
their generations, for a perpetual covenant. <key:bcv=Exodus 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:17">17 </verse></sup>It is a
sign between me and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and
on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 31:18">18 </verse></sup>When he finished speaking with him on Mount
Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant,
stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
#BCV:Exodus 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:1">1 </verse></sup>When the people saw that Moses delayed coming
down from the mountain, the people gathered
themselves together to Aaron, and said to him,
“Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for
as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of
the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become
of him.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:2">2 </verse></sup>Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings,
which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons,
and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:3">3 </verse></sup>All the people took off the golden rings which
were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:4">4 </verse></sup>He received what they handed him, fashioned it
with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf.
Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which
brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:5">5 </verse></sup>When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it;
and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow
shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:6">6 </verse></sup>They rose up early on the next day, and offered
burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and
the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up
to play.

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for
your people, whom you brought up out of the
land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! <key:bcv=Exodus 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:8">8 </verse></sup>They
have turned away quickly out of the way which
I commanded them. They have made themselves
a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have
sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel,
which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people,
and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Now
therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn
hot against them, and that I may consume them;
and I will make of you a great nation.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh,
why does your wrath burn hot against your
people, that you have brought out of the land
of Egypt with great power and with a mighty
hand? <key:bcv=Exodus 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:12">12 </verse></sup>Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He
brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains,
and to consume them from the surface of the
earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away
from this evil against your people. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:13">13 </verse></sup>Remember
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom
you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will
multiply your offspring<footnote:1>32:13 or, seed</footnote> as the stars of the sky, and
all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your
offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:14">14 </verse></sup>So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he
said he would do to his people.

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses turned, and went down from the mountain,
with the two tablets of the covenant in his
hand; tablets that were written on both their sides.
They were written on one side and on the other.
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:16">16 </verse></sup>The tablets were the work of God, and the writing
was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:17">17 </verse></sup>When Joshua heard the noise of the people as
they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise
of war in the camp.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout
for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for
being overcome; but the noise of those who sing
that I hear.” <key:bcv=Exodus 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:19">19 </verse></sup>As soon as he came near to the camp,
he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger
grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands,
and broke them beneath the mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:20">20 </verse></sup>He took
the calf which they had made, and burned it with
fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the
water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:21">21 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do
to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:22">22 </verse></sup>Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow
hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:23">23 </verse></sup>For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go
before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what
has become of him.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:24">24 </verse></sup>I said to them, ‘Whoever has
any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me;
and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:25">25 </verse></sup>When Moses saw that the people were out of
control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing
derision among their enemies), <key:bcv=Exodus 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:26">26 </verse></sup>then Moses
stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever
is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!”
<br>
All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together
to him. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:27">27 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of
Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh,
and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout
the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every
man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of Levi did according to the word of
Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people
that day. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves
today to Yahweh, for every man was against his
son and against his brother, that he may give you
a blessing today.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:30">30 </verse></sup>On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You
have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh.
Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this
people have sinned a great sin, and have made
themselves gods of gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:32">32 </verse></sup>Yet now, if you will,
forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of
your book which you have written.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 32:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned
against me, I will blot him out of my book. <key:bcv=Exodus 32:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:34">34 </verse></sup>Now
go, lead the people to the place of which I have
spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you.
Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish
them for their sin.” <key:bcv=Exodus 32:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 32:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh struck the people,
because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron
made.

#BCV:Exodus 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from
here, you and the people that you have brought up
out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will
give it to your offspring.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:2">2 </verse></sup>I will send an angel before
you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:3">3 </verse></sup>Go to a land flowing with milk and honey;
but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiffnecked
people, lest I consume you on the way.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:4">4 </verse></sup>When the people heard this evil news, they
mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of
Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go
up among you for one moment, I would consume
you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you,
that I may know what to do to you.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of Israel stripped themselves of
their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:7">7 </verse></sup>Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it
outside the camp, far away from the camp, and
he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who
sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting,
which was outside the camp. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:8">8 </verse></sup>When Moses went
out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood,
everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses,
until he had gone into the Tent. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:9">9 </verse></sup>When Moses
entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended,
stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke
with Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:10">10 </verse></sup>All the people saw the pillar of cloud
stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people
rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man
speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp,
but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man,
didn’t depart from the Tent.

<key:bcv=Exodus 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:12">12 </verse></sup>Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me,
‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know
whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I
know you by name, and you have also found favor
in my sight.’ <key:bcv=Exodus 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:13">13 </verse></sup>Now therefore, if I have found favor
in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I
may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight;
and consider that this nation is your people.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “My presence will go with you, and I
will give you rest.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go
with me, don’t carry us up from here. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:16">16 </verse></sup>For how
would people know that I have found favor in your
sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us,
so that we are separated, I and your people, from all
the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also
that you have spoken; for you have found favor in
my sight, and I know you by name.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:18">18 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:19">19 </verse></sup>He said, “I will make all my goodness pass
before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before
you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious,
and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not
see me and live.” <key:bcv=Exodus 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh also said, “Behold, there
is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. <key:bcv=Exodus 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:22">22 </verse></sup>It
will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put
you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my
hand until I have passed by; <key:bcv=Exodus 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 33:23">23 </verse></sup>then I will take away
my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall
not be seen.”

#BCV:Exodus 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets
like the first. I will write on the tablets the words
that were on the first tablets, which you broke. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:2">2 </verse></sup>Be
ready by the morning, and come up in the morning
to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me
on the top of the mountain. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:3">3 </verse></sup>No one shall come
up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain.
Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that
mountain.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:4">4 </verse></sup>He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first;
then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went
up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him,
and took in his hand two stone tablets. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh
descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and proclaimed Yahweh’s name. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh passed
by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh,
a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness and truth, <key:bcv=Exodus 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:7">7 </verse></sup>keeping
loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means
clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, and on the children’s children, on
the third and on the fourth generation.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshiped. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:9">9 </verse></sup>He said, “If now I have found
favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go
among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people;
pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your
inheritance.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before
all your people I will do marvels, such as have not
been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and
all the people among whom you are shall see the
work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that
I do with you. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:11">11 </verse></sup>Observe that which I command
you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:12">12 </verse></sup>Be careful, lest you
make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
where you are going, lest it be for a snare among
you; <key:bcv=Exodus 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:13">13 </verse></sup>but you shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down
their Asherah poles; <key:bcv=Exodus 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:14">14 </verse></sup>for you shall worship no
other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God.

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:15">15 </verse></sup>“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their
gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you
and you eat of his sacrifice; <key:bcv=Exodus 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:16">16 </verse></sup>and you take of their
daughters to your sons, and their daughters play
the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons
play the prostitute after their gods.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:17">17 </verse></sup>“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:18">18 </verse></sup>“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
you, at the time appointed in the month
Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:19">19 </verse></sup>“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your
livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and
sheep. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey
with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall
break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of
your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:21">21 </verse></sup>“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh
day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest
you shall rest.

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:22">22 </verse></sup>“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the
first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest
at the year’s end. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:23">23 </verse></sup>Three times in the year all your
males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God
of Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:24">24 </verse></sup>For I will drive out nations before you
and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man
desire your land when you go up to appear before
Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:25">25 </verse></sup>“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice
with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of
the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
<key:bcv=Exodus 34:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:26">26 </verse></sup>“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of
your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s
milk.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words;
for in accordance with these words I have made a
covenant with you and with Israel.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:28">28 </verse></sup>He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty
nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He
wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the
ten commandments.

<key:bcv=Exodus 34:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:29">29 </verse></sup>When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with
the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand,
when he came down from the mountain, Moses
didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason
of his speaking with him. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:30">30 </verse></sup>When Aaron and all
the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin
of his face shone; and they were afraid to come
near him. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses called to them, and Aaron and
all the rulers of the congregation returned to him;
and Moses spoke to them. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:32">32 </verse></sup>Afterward all the
children of Israel came near, and he gave them all
the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with
him on Mount Sinai. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:33">33 </verse></sup>When Moses was done
speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:34">34 </verse></sup>But
when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with
him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he
came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that
which he was commanded. <key:bcv=Exodus 34:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 34:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of Israel
saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone;
so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went
in to speak with him.

#BCV:Exodus 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses assembled all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and said to them, “These are
the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you
should do them. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:2">2 </verse></sup>‘Six days shall work be done, but
on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you,
a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does
any work in it shall be put to death. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall
kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the
Sabbath day.’ ”

<key:bcv=Exodus 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which
Yahweh commanded, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:5">5 </verse></sup>‘Take from among
you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing
heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold,
silver, bronze, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:6">6 </verse></sup>blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen,
goats’ hair, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:7">7 </verse></sup>rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,
acacia wood, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:8">8 </verse></sup>oil for the light, spices for the anointing
oil and for the sweet incense, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:9">9 </verse></sup>onyx stones,
and stones to be set for the ephod and for the
breastplate.

<key:bcv=Exodus 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘Let every wise-hearted man among you
come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:11">11 </verse></sup>the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its
clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:12">12 </verse></sup>the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil
of the screen; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:13">13 </verse></sup>the table with its poles and all its
vessels, and the show bread; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:14">14 </verse></sup>the lamp stand also
for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the
oil for the light; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:15">15 </verse></sup>and the altar of incense with
its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the
screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:16">16 </verse></sup>the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of
bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its
base; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:17">17 </verse></sup>the hangings of the court, its pillars, their
sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:18">18 </verse></sup>the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court,
and their cords; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:19">19 </verse></sup>the finely worked garments for
ministering in the holy place—the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons
—to minister in the priest’s office.’ ”
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:20">20 </verse></sup>All the congregation of the children of Israel
departed from the presence of Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:21">21 </verse></sup>They came,
everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone
whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s
offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting,
and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:22">22 </verse></sup>They came, both men and women, as many as
were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings,
signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold;
even every man who offered an offering of gold
to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:23">23 </verse></sup>Everyone with whom was found
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’
skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:24">24 </verse></sup>Everyone who offered an offering of silver and
bronze brought Yahweh’s offering; and everyone
with whom was found acacia wood for any work of
the service, brought it. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:25">25 </verse></sup>All the women who were
wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought
that which they had spun: the blue, the purple,
the scarlet, and the fine linen. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:26">26 </verse></sup>All the women
whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the
goats’ hair. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:27">27 </verse></sup>The rulers brought the onyx stones
and the stones to be set for the ephod and for
the breastplate; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:28">28 </verse></sup>with the spice and the oil for
the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:29">29 </verse></sup>The children of Israel brought a free
will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman
whose heart made them willing to bring for all the
work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made
by Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 35:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold,
Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:31">31 </verse></sup>He has
filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of
workmanship; <key:bcv=Exodus 35:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:32">32 </verse></sup>and to make skillful works, to
work in gold, in silver, in bronze, <key:bcv=Exodus 35:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:33">33 </verse></sup>in cutting of
stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work
in all kinds of skillful workmanship. <key:bcv=Exodus 35:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:34">34 </verse></sup>He has
put in his heart that he may teach, both he and
Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
<key:bcv=Exodus 35:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 35:35">35 </verse></sup>He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work
all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the
skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue,
in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the
weaver, even of those who do any workmanship,
and of those who make skillful works.
#BCV:Exodus 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:1">1 </verse></sup>“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wisehearted
man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and
understanding to know how to do all the work for
the service of the sanctuary, according to all that
Yahweh has commanded.”

<key:bcv=Exodus 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:2">2 </verse></sup>Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every
wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put
wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him
up to come to the work to do it. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:3">3 </verse></sup>They received
from Moses all the offering which the children of
Israel had brought for the work of the service of the
sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing
free will offerings to him every morning. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:4">4 </verse></sup>All
the wise men, who performed all the work of the
sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:5">5 </verse></sup>They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have
brought much more than enough for the service of
the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses gave a commandment, and they caused
it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying,
“Let neither man nor woman make anything else for
the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were
restrained from bringing. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:7">7 </verse></sup>For the stuff they had
was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:8">8 </verse></sup>All the wise-hearted men among those who did
the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of
fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They
made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful
workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:9">9 </verse></sup>The length of each curtain was twentyeight
cubits,<footnote:1>36:9 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> and the width of each curtain four
cubits. All the curtains had one measure. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:10">10 </verse></sup>He
coupled five curtains to one another, and the other
five curtains he coupled to one another. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:11">11 </verse></sup>He made
loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the
edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge
of the curtain that was outermost in the second
coupling. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:12">12 </verse></sup>He made fifty loops in the one curtain,
and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain
that was in the second coupling. The loops were
opposite to one another. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:13">13 </verse></sup>He made fifty clasps of
gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with
the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:14">14 </verse></sup>He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering
over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:15">15 </verse></sup>The length of each curtain was thirty cubits,
and four cubits the width of each curtain. The
eleven curtains had one measure. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:16">16 </verse></sup>He coupled
five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:17">17 </verse></sup>He made fifty loops on the edge of
the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and
he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which
was outermost in the second coupling. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:18">18 </verse></sup>He made
fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together,
that it might be a unit. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:19">19 </verse></sup>He made a covering for
the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of
sea cow hides above.

<key:bcv=Exodus 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:20">20 </verse></sup>He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia
wood, standing up. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:21">21 </verse></sup>Ten cubits was the length
of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of
each board. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:22">22 </verse></sup>Each board had two tenons, joined
to one another. He made all the boards of the
tabernacle this way. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:23">23 </verse></sup>He made the boards for
the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side
southward. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:24">24 </verse></sup>He made forty sockets of silver under
the twenty boards: two sockets under one board
for its two tenons, and two sockets under another
board for its two tenons. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:25">25 </verse></sup>For the second side of
the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty
boards <key:bcv=Exodus 36:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:26">26 </verse></sup>and their forty sockets of silver: two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:27">27 </verse></sup>For the far part of the tabernacle
westward he made six boards. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:28">28 </verse></sup>He made two
boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far
part. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:29">29 </verse></sup>They were double beneath, and in the same
way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He
did this to both of them in the two corners. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:30">30 </verse></sup>There
were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen
sockets—under every board two sockets.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:31">31 </verse></sup>He made bars of acacia wood: five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, <key:bcv=Exodus 36:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:32">32 </verse></sup>and
five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
tabernacle for the hinder part westward. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:33">33 </verse></sup>He made
the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the
boards from the one end to the other. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:34">34 </verse></sup>He overlaid
the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as
places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
<key:bcv=Exodus 36:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:35">35 </verse></sup>He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and
fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the
work of a skillful workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:36">36 </verse></sup>He made four pillars
of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their
hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver
for them. <key:bcv=Exodus 36:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:37">37 </verse></sup>He made a screen for the door of the
tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of an embroiderer; <key:bcv=Exodus 36:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 36:38">38 </verse></sup>and the five pillars
of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and
their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of
bronze.

#BCV:Exodus 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:1">1 </verse></sup>Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length
was two and a half cubits,<footnote:1>37:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> and its width a cubit
and a half, and a cubit and a half its height. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:2">2 </verse></sup>He
overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and
made a molding of gold for it around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:3">3 </verse></sup>He cast
four rings of gold for it in its four feet—two rings
on its one side, and two rings on its other side. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:4">4 </verse></sup>He
made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with
gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:5">5 </verse></sup>He put the poles into the rings on the sides
of the ark, to bear the ark. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:6">6 </verse></sup>He made a mercy seat
of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits,
and a cubit and a half its width. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:7">7 </verse></sup>He made two
cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at
the two ends of the mercy seat: <key:bcv=Exodus 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:8">8 </verse></sup>one cherub at the
one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made
the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its
two ends. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:9">9 </verse></sup>The cherubim spread out their wings
above, covering the mercy seat with their wings,
with their faces toward one another. The faces of
the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
<key:bcv=Exodus 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:10">10 </verse></sup>He made the table of acacia wood. Its length
was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its
height was a cubit and a half. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:11">11 </verse></sup>He overlaid it with
pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:12">12 </verse></sup>He
made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made
a golden molding on its border around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:13">13 </verse></sup>He cast
four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four
corners that were on its four feet. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:14">14 </verse></sup>The rings were
close by the border, the places for the poles to carry
the table. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:15">15 </verse></sup>He made the poles of acacia wood, and
overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:16">16 </verse></sup>He
made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes,
its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to
pour out, of pure gold.

<key:bcv=Exodus 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:17">17 </verse></sup>He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made
the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its
cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with
it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:18">18 </verse></sup>There were six branches going out of its sides:
three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side,
and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other
side: <key:bcv=Exodus 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:19">19 </verse></sup>three cups made like almond blossoms in
one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made
like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and
a flower; so for the six branches going out of the
lamp stand. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:20">20 </verse></sup>In the lamp stand were four cups
made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
<key:bcv=Exodus 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:21">21 </verse></sup>and a bud under two branches of one piece with
it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with
it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with
it, for the six branches going out of it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:22">22 </verse></sup>Their buds
and their branches were of one piece with it. The
whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:23">23 </verse></sup>He
made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff
dishes, of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:24">24 </verse></sup>He made it of a talent<footnote:1>37:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces </footnote> of
pure gold, with all its vessels.

<key:bcv=Exodus 37:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:25">25 </verse></sup>He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It
was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a
cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of
one piece with it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:26">26 </verse></sup>He overlaid it with pure gold:
its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a
gold molding around it. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:27">27 </verse></sup>He made two golden rings
for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its
two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.
<key:bcv=Exodus 37:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:28">28 </verse></sup>He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid
them with gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 37:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 37:29">29 </verse></sup>He made the holy anointing oil
and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of
the perfumer.

#BCV:Exodus 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:1">1 </verse></sup>He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia
wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits,<footnote:1>38:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
its width was five cubits, and its height was three
cubits. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:2">2 </verse></sup>He made its horns on its four corners. Its
horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid
it with bronze. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:3">3 </verse></sup>He made all the vessels of the
altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks,
and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
<key:bcv=Exodus 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:4">4 </verse></sup>He made for the altar a grating of a network of
bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching
halfway up. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:5">5 </verse></sup>He cast four rings for the four corners
of bronze grating, to be places for the poles. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:6">6 </verse></sup>He
made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them
with bronze. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:7">7 </verse></sup>He put the poles into the rings on the
sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it
hollow with planks.

<key:bcv=Exodus 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:8">8 </verse></sup>He made the basin of bronze, and its base
of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering
women who ministered at the door of the Tent of
Meeting.

<key:bcv=Exodus 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:9">9 </verse></sup>He made the court: for the south side southward
the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen,
one hundred cubits; <key:bcv=Exodus 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:10">10 </verse></sup>their pillars were twenty, and
their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:11">11 </verse></sup>For the
north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of
the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:12">12 </verse></sup>For the west
side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten,
and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and
their fillets, of silver. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:13">13 </verse></sup>For the east side eastward
fifty cubits, <key:bcv=Exodus 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:14">14 </verse></sup>the hangings for the one side were
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three; <key:bcv=Exodus 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:15">15 </verse></sup>and so for the other side: on this hand and
that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:16">16 </verse></sup>All the hangings around the court were of
fine twined linen. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:17">17 </verse></sup>The sockets for the pillars were
of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets
were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with
silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.
<key:bcv=Exodus 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:18">18 </verse></sup>The screen for the gate of the court was the work
of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and
the height along the width was five cubits, like the
hangings of the court. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:19">19 </verse></sup>Their pillars were four,
and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of
silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their
fillets, of silver. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:20">20 </verse></sup>All the pins of the tabernacle, and
around the court, were of bronze.

<key:bcv=Exodus 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:21">21 </verse></sup>These are the amounts of materials used for the
tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony,
as they were counted, according to the commandment
of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by
the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
<key:bcv=Exodus 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:22">22 </verse></sup>Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Exodus 38:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:23">23 </verse></sup>With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach,
of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful
workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in
scarlet, and in fine linen.

<key:bcv=Exodus 38:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:24">24 </verse></sup>All the gold that was used for the work in all
the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the
offering, was twenty-nine talents<footnote:1>38:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces. </footnote> and seven hundred
thirty shekels, according to the shekel<footnote:1>38:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces. </footnote> of the
sanctuary. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:25">25 </verse></sup>The silver of those who were counted
of the congregation was one hundred talents<footnote:1>38:25 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> and
one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,<footnote:1>38:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote>
according to the shekel of the sanctuary: <key:bcv=Exodus 38:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:26">26 </verse></sup>a beka<footnote:1>38:26 a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces </footnote> a
head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel<footnote:1>38:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote>
of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to
those who were counted, from twenty years old
and upward, for six hundred three thousand five
hundred fifty men. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:27">27 </verse></sup>The one hundred talents<footnote:1>38:27 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds. </footnote> of
silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary
and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets
for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.
<key:bcv=Exodus 38:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:28">28 </verse></sup>From the one thousand seven hundred seventyfive
shekels<footnote:1>38:28 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds. </footnote> he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid
their capitals, and made fillets for them. <key:bcv=Exodus 38:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:29">29 </verse></sup>The
bronze of the offering was seventy talents<footnote:1>38:29 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> and two
thousand four hundred shekels.<footnote:1>38:29 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons. </footnote> <key:bcv=Exodus 38:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:30">30 </verse></sup>With this he
made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the
vessels of the altar, <key:bcv=Exodus 38:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 38:31">31 </verse></sup>the sockets around the court,
the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of
the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.

#BCV:Exodus 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Exodus 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:1">1 </verse></sup>Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely
worked garments for ministering in the holy place,
and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:2">2 </verse></sup>He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet,
and fine twined linen. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:3">3 </verse></sup>They beat the gold into
thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with
the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen,
the work of the skillful workman. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:4">4 </verse></sup>They made
shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined
together at the two ends. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:5">5 </verse></sup>The skillfully woven
band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was
of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:6">6 </verse></sup>They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings
of gold, engraved with the engravings of a
signet, according to the names of the children of
Israel. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:7">7 </verse></sup>He put them on the shoulder straps of the
ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of
Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:8">8 </verse></sup>He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful
workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of
blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:9">9 </verse></sup>It
was square. They made the breastplate double. Its
length was a span,<footnote:1>39:9 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.) </footnote> and its width a span, being
double. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:10">10 </verse></sup>They set in it four rows of stones. A row
of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row; <key:bcv=Exodus 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:11">11 </verse></sup>and
the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire,<footnote:1>39:11 or, lapis lazuli</footnote> and an
emerald; <key:bcv=Exodus 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:12">12 </verse></sup>and the third row, a jacinth, an agate,
and an amethyst; <key:bcv=Exodus 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:13">13 </verse></sup>and the fourth row, a chrysolite,
an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in
gold settings. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:14">14 </verse></sup>The stones were according to the
names of the children of Israel, twelve, according
to their names; like the engravings of a signet,
everyone according to his name, for the twelve
tribes. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:15">15 </verse></sup>They made on the breastplate chains like
cords, of braided work of pure gold. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:16">16 </verse></sup>They made
two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put
the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
<key:bcv=Exodus 39:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:17">17 </verse></sup>They put the two braided chains of gold in the two
rings at the ends of the breastplate. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:18">18 </verse></sup>The other two
ends of the two braided chains they put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the
ephod, in its front. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:19">19 </verse></sup>They made two rings of gold,
and put them on the two ends of the breastplate,
on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod
inward. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:20">20 </verse></sup>They made two more rings of gold, and
put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod
underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above
the skillfully woven band of the ephod. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:21">21 </verse></sup>They
bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on
the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the
breastplate might not come loose from the ephod,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:22">22 </verse></sup>He made the robe of the ephod of woven work,
all of blue. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:23">23 </verse></sup>The opening of the robe in the middle
of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with
a binding around its opening, that it should not
be torn. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:24">24 </verse></sup>They made on the skirts of the robe
pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined
linen. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:25">25 </verse></sup>They made bells of pure gold, and put the
bells between the pomegranates around the skirts
of the robe, between the pomegranates; <key:bcv=Exodus 39:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:26">26 </verse></sup>a bell and
a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around
the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:27">27 </verse></sup>They made the tunics of fine linen of woven
work for Aaron and for his sons, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:28">28 </verse></sup>the turban of
fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the
linen trousers of fine twined linen, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:29">29 </verse></sup>the sash of fine
twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of
the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Exodus 39:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:30">30 </verse></sup>They made the plate of the holy crown of pure
gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings
of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:31">31 </verse></sup>They tied
to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Exodus 39:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:32">32 </verse></sup>Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent
of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did
according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so
they did. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:33">33 </verse></sup>They brought the tabernacle to Moses:
the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards,
its bars, its pillars, its sockets, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:34">34 </verse></sup>the covering of
rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides,
the veil of the screen, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:35">35 </verse></sup>the ark of the covenant
with its poles, the mercy seat, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:36">36 </verse></sup>the table, all its
vessels, the show bread, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:37">37 </verse></sup>the pure lamp stand, its
lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its
vessels, the oil for the light, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:38">38 </verse></sup>the golden altar, the
anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the
door of the Tent, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:39><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:39">39 </verse></sup>the bronze altar, its grating of
bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and
its base, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:40><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:40">40 </verse></sup>the hangings of the court, its pillars,
its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its
cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service
of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Exodus 39:41><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:41">41 </verse></sup>the
finely worked garments for ministering in the holy
place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s
office. <key:bcv=Exodus 39:42><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:42">42 </verse></sup>According to all that Yahweh commanded
Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
<key:bcv=Exodus 39:43><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 39:43">43 </verse></sup>Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had
done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done
so; and Moses blessed them.

#BCV:Exodus 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Exodus 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:2">2 </verse></sup>“On the first
day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle
of the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall put the ark
of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark
with the veil. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall bring in the table, and set
in order the things that are on it. You shall bring
in the lamp stand, and light its lamps. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall
set the golden altar for incense before the ark of
the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the
tabernacle.

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:6">6 </verse></sup>“You shall set the altar of burnt offering before
the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
<key:bcv=Exodus 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting
and the altar, and shall put water therein. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:8">8 </verse></sup>You
shall set up the court around it, and hang up the
screen of the gate of the court.

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:9">9 </verse></sup>“You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the
tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy,
and all its furniture, and it will be holy. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall
anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels,
and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most
holy. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall anoint the basin and its base, and
sanctify it.

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:12">12 </verse></sup>“You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door
of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with
water. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall put on Aaron the holy garments;
and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he
may minister to me in the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:14">14 </verse></sup>You
shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:15">15 </verse></sup>You
shall anoint them, as you anointed their father,
that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting
priesthood throughout their generations.” <key:bcv=Exodus 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:16">16 </verse></sup>Moses
did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded
him, so he did.

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:17">17 </verse></sup>In the first month in the second year, on the
first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised
up. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:18><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:18">18 </verse></sup>Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its
sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars,
and raised up its pillars. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:19><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:19">19 </verse></sup>He spread the covering
over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle
above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:20><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:20">20 </verse></sup>He
took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the
poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on
the ark. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:21><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:21">21 </verse></sup>He brought the ark into the tabernacle,
and set up the veil of the screen, and screened
the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:22><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:22">22 </verse></sup>He put the table in the Tent of Meeting,
on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the
veil. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:23><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:23">23 </verse></sup>He set the bread in order on it before
Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:24><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:24">24 </verse></sup>He put
the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the
table, on the south side of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:25><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:25">25 </verse></sup>He lit
the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:26><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:26">26 </verse></sup>He put the golden altar in the Tent of
Meeting before the veil; <key:bcv=Exodus 40:27><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:27">27 </verse></sup>and he burned incense
of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Exodus 40:28><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:28">28 </verse></sup>He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
<key:bcv=Exodus 40:29><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:29">29 </verse></sup>He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the
tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it
the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:30><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:30">30 </verse></sup>He set the basin between
the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water
therein, with which to wash. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:31><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses, Aaron, and
his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
<key:bcv=Exodus 40:32><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:32">32 </verse></sup>When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and
when they came near to the altar, they washed, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:33><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:33">33 </verse></sup>He raised up the
court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set
up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses
finished the work.

<key:bcv=Exodus 40:34><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:34">34 </verse></sup>Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting,
and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:35><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:35">35 </verse></sup>Moses
wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting,
because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory
filled the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:36><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:36">36 </verse></sup>When the cloud was taken
up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel
went onward, throughout all their journeys; <key:bcv=Exodus 40:37><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:37">37 </verse></sup>but
if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel
until the day that it was taken up. <key:bcv=Exodus 40:38><sup><verse bcv="Exodus 40:38">38 </verse></sup>For the cloud
of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there
was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the
house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

#OUTLINE:1,Leviticus
<h2>The Third Book of Moses,
<br>
Commonly Called Leviticus</h2>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> called to Moses, and spoke to him from
the Tent of Meeting, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers
an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering
of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:3">3 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the
herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall
offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he
may be accepted before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall lay his
hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall
be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:5">5 </verse></sup>He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons,
the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the
blood around on the altar that is at the door of the
Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:6">6 </verse></sup>He shall skin the burnt offering
and cut it into pieces. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Aaron the priest
shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on
the fire; <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:8">8 </verse></sup>and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the
pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood
that is on the fire which is on the altar; <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:9">9 </verse></sup>but he shall
wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest
shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering is from the flock, from the
sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he
shall offer a male without defect. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:11">11 </verse></sup>He shall kill it on
the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s
sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on
the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:12">12 </verse></sup>He shall cut it into its pieces, with its
head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order
on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:13">13 </verse></sup>but the innards and the legs he shall wash with
water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it
on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made
by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering
of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves
or of young pigeons. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:15">15 </verse></sup>The priest shall bring
it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on
the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the
side of the altar; <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:16">16 </verse></sup>and he shall take away its crop
and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the
east part, in the place of the ashes. <key:bcv=Leviticus 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 1:17">17 </verse></sup>He shall tear it
by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest
shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the
fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire,
of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

#BCV:Leviticus 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal
offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine
flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense
on it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:2">2 </verse></sup>He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests.
He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its
oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall
burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by
fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:3">3 </verse></sup>That which
is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his
sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering
baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes
of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers
anointed with oil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:5">5 </verse></sup>If your offering is a meal
offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened
fine flour, mixed with oil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall cut it in
pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:7">7 </verse></sup>If
your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall
be made of fine flour with oil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall bring
the meal offering that is made of these things to
Yahweh. It shall be presented to the priest, and he
shall bring it to the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:9">9 </verse></sup>The priest shall take
from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn
it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant
aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:10">10 </verse></sup>That which is left of the meal
offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most
holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to
Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn
no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire
to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:12">12 </verse></sup>As an offering of first fruits you shall
offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as
a pleasant aroma on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Every offering of
your meal offering you shall season with salt. You
shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God<footnote:1>2:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your
offerings you shall offer salt.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to
Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of
your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with
fire and crushed. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall put oil on it and lay
frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 2:16">16 </verse></sup>The priest
shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain
and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It
is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

#BCV:Leviticus 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings,
if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female,
he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:2">2 </verse></sup>He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering,
and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s
sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on
the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:3">3 </verse></sup>He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The
fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is
on the innards, <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:4">4 </verse></sup>and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover
on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt
offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it
is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings
to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female,
he shall offer it without defect. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:7">7 </verse></sup>If he offers a
lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before
Yahweh; <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:8">8 </verse></sup>and he shall lay his hand on the head of
his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting.
Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the
altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:9">9 </verse></sup>He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its
fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to
the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails,
and all the fat that is on the entrails, <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:10">10 </verse></sup>and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the
loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys,
he shall take away. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The priest shall burn it on the
altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer
it before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:13">13 </verse></sup>He shall lay his hand on its
head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the
sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the
altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:14">14 </verse></sup>He shall offer from it as his offering, an
offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers
the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:15">15 </verse></sup>and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them,
which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver,
with the kidneys, he shall take away. <key:bcv=Leviticus 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:16">16 </verse></sup>The priest
shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the
offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the
fat is Yahweh’s.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 3:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout
your generations in all your dwellings, that you
shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

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

<key:bcv=Leviticus 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:27">27 </verse></sup>“ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly,
in doing any of the things which Yahweh has
commanded not to be done, and is guilty, <key:bcv=Leviticus 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:28">28 </verse></sup>if his sin
which he has sinned is made known to him, then he
shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without
defect, for his sin which he has sinned. <key:bcv=Leviticus 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:29">29 </verse></sup>He shall
lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and
kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:30">30 </verse></sup>The priest shall take some of its blood with his
finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt
offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out
at the base of the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:31">31 </verse></sup>All its fat he shall take
away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice
of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on
the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the
priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be
forgiven.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin
offering, he shall bring a female without defect.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:33">33 </verse></sup>He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin
offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place
where they kill the burnt offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:34">34 </verse></sup>The priest
shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with
his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of
burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall
pour out at the base of the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 4:35">35 </verse></sup>He shall remove
all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the
sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall burn
them on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made
by fire. The priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin that he has sinned, and he will
be forgiven.

#BCV:Leviticus 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public
adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he
has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he
shall bear his iniquity.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:2">2 </verse></sup>“ ‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing,
whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or
the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of
unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him,
and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:3">3 </verse></sup>“ ‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man,
whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean,
and it is hidden from him; when he knows of
it, then he shall be guilty.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do
evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might
utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him
—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one
of these. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:5">5 </verse></sup>It shall be, when he is guilty of one of
these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:6">6 </verse></sup>and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh
for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the
flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the
priest shall make atonement for him concerning his
sin.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring
his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned,
two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh;
one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:8">8 </verse></sup>He shall bring them to the priest, who
shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering.
He shall wring off its head from its neck, but shall
not sever it completely. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:9">9 </verse></sup>He shall sprinkle some
of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the
altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out
at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:10">10 </verse></sup>He shall
offer the second for a burnt offering, according to
the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement
for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and
he shall be forgiven.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two
young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering
for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an
ephah<footnote:1>5:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put
no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense
on it, for it is a sin offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:12">12 </verse></sup>He shall bring it to
the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it
as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar,
on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin
offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:13">13 </verse></sup>The priest shall make atonement for him
concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these
things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be
the priest’s, as the meal offering.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:15">15 </verse></sup>“If anyone
commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding
Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass
offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from
the flock, according to your estimation in silver by
shekels, according to the shekel<footnote:1>5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of the sanctuary,
for a trespass offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:16">16 </verse></sup>He shall make restitution
for that which he has done wrong regarding the
holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it
to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement
for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and
he will be forgiven.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:17">17 </verse></sup>“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which
Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though
he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear
his iniquity. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:18">18 </verse></sup>He shall bring a ram without defect
from of the flock, according to your estimation, for
a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall
make atonement for him concerning the thing in
which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be
forgiven. <key:bcv=Leviticus 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 5:19">19 </verse></sup>It is a trespass offering. He is certainly
guilty before Yahweh.”

#BCV:Leviticus 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:2">2 </verse></sup>“If anyone
sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and
deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit,
or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed
his neighbor, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:3">3 </verse></sup>or has found that which was lost, and
lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these
things that a man sins in his actions— <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:4">4 </verse></sup>then it shall
be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore
that which he took by robbery, or the thing which
he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which
was committed to him, or the lost thing which he
found, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:5">5 </verse></sup>or any thing about which he has sworn
falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a
fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to
whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:6">6 </verse></sup>He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh:
a ram without defect from the flock, according
to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the
priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The priest shall make atonement for him
before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning
whatever he does to become guilty.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:9">9 </verse></sup>“Command
Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the
burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the
hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and
the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:10">10 </verse></sup>The priest shall put on his linen garment, and
he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body;
and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire
has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and
he shall put them beside the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:11">11 </verse></sup>He shall take
off his garments, and put on other garments, and
carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:12">12 </verse></sup>The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it,
it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood
on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering
in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the
peace offerings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Fire shall be kept burning on the
altar continually; it shall not go out.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons
of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the
altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:15">15 </verse></sup>He shall take from there his handful of the
fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all
the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and
shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its
memorial portion, to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:16">16 </verse></sup>That which is left
of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten
without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in
the court of the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:17">17 </verse></sup>It shall not be
baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of
my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the
sin offering and the trespass offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Every male
among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their
portion forever throughout your generations, from
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever
touches them shall be holy.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:20">20 </verse></sup>“This is the
offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall
offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one
tenth of an ephah<footnote:1>6:20 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of fine flour for a meal offering
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of
it in the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:21">21 </verse></sup>It shall be made with oil in a
griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in.
You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces
for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:22">22 </verse></sup>The anointed
priest that will be in his place from among his sons
shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly
burned to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Every meal offering of a priest
shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:25">25 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the
sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is
killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh.
It is most holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:26">26 </verse></sup>The priest who offers it for sin
shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in
the court of the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Whatever shall
touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its
blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that
on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:28">28 </verse></sup>But the
earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken;
and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be
scoured, and rinsed in water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:29">29 </verse></sup>Every male among
the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 6:30">30 </verse></sup>No sin
offering, of which any of the blood is brought into
the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy
Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.

#BCV:Leviticus 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is
most holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:2">2 </verse></sup>In the place where they kill the burnt
offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its
blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:3">3 </verse></sup>He
shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that
covers the innards, <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:4">4 </verse></sup>and he shall take away the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the
loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:5">5 </verse></sup>and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an
offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass
offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Every male among the priests may eat of
it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering;
there is one law for them. The priest who makes
atonement with them shall have it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:8">8 </verse></sup>The priest
who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has
offered. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Every meal offering that is baked in the
oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the
griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Every
meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all
the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh: <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:12">12 </verse></sup>If
he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes
mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed
with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:13">13 </verse></sup>He shall offer
his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings
for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Of
it he shall offer one out of each offering for a
heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s
who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:15">15 </verse></sup>The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings
for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his
offering. He shall not leave any of it until the
morning.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow,
or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day
that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what
remains of it shall be eaten, <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:17">17 </verse></sup>but what remains of
the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be
burned with fire. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:18">18 </verse></sup>If any of the meat of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it
will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to
him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the
soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing
shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.
As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat
it; <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:20">20 </verse></sup>but the soul who eats of the meat of the
sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh,
having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be
cut off from his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:21">21 </verse></sup>When anyone touches
any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an
unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and
eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall
be cut off from his people.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:23">23 </verse></sup>“Speak to
the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat,
of bull, or sheep, or goat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:24">24 </verse></sup>The fat of that which
dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of
animals, may be used for any other service, but you
shall in no way eat of it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:25">25 </verse></sup>For whoever eats the fat
of the animal which men offer as an offering made
by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall
be cut off from his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall not eat any
blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of
your dwellings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:27">27 </verse></sup>Whoever it is who eats any blood,
that soul shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:29">29 </verse></sup>“Speak to
the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the
sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall
bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of
his peace offerings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:30">30 </verse></sup>With his own hands he shall
bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall
bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may
be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:31">31 </verse></sup>The
priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast
shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:32">32 </verse></sup>The right thigh you
shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of
the sacrifices of your peace offerings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:33">33 </verse></sup>He among
the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace
offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for
a portion. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:34">34 </verse></sup>For the waved breast and the heaved
thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out
of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have
given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as
their portion forever from the children of Israel.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:35">35 </verse></sup>This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and
the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when
he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the
priest’s office; <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:36">36 </verse></sup>which Yahweh commanded to be
given them of the children of Israel, in the day
that he anointed them. It is their portion forever
throughout their generations. <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:37">37 </verse></sup>This is the law
of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin
offering, the trespass offering, the consecration,
and the sacrifice of peace offerings <key:bcv=Leviticus 7:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 7:38">38 </verse></sup>which Yahweh
commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that
he commanded the children of Israel to offer their
offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
#BCV:Leviticus 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take Aaron
and his sons with him, and the garments, and the
anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and
the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:3">3 </verse></sup>and assemble all the congregation at the door of
the Tent of Meeting.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the
congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent
of Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Moses said to the congregation, “This
is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be
done.” <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and
washed them with water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:7">7 </verse></sup>He put the tunic on him,
tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe,
put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully
woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it
to him with it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:8">8 </verse></sup>He placed the breastplate on him.
He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:9">9 </verse></sup>He set the turban on his head. He set the golden
plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban,
as Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses took the
anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all
that was in it, and sanctified them. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:11">11 </verse></sup>He sprinkled
it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar
and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to
sanctify them. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:12">12 </verse></sup>He poured some of the anointing
oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify
him. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed
them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put
headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He brought the bull of the sin offering, and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of
the bull of the sin offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He killed it; and Moses
took the blood, and put it around on the horns of
the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and
poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and
sanctified it, to make atonement for it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:16">16 </verse></sup>He took
all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover
of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and
Moses burned it on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:17">17 </verse></sup>But the bull, and its
skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire
outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:18">18 </verse></sup>He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron
and his sons laid their hands on the head of the
ram. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:19">19 </verse></sup>He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood
around on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:20">20 </verse></sup>He cut the ram into its pieces;
and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and
the fat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:21">21 </verse></sup>He washed the innards and the legs with
water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the
altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It
was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:22">22 </verse></sup>He presented the other ram,
the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid
their hands on the head of the ram. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:23">23 </verse></sup>He killed it;
and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the
tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his
right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:24">24 </verse></sup>He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some
of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on
the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe
of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood
around on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:25">25 </verse></sup>He took the fat, the fat tail,
all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the
liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right
thigh; <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:26">26 </verse></sup>and out of the basket of unleavened bread
that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened
cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and
placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:27">27 </verse></sup>He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’
hands, and waved them for a wave offering before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:28">28 </verse></sup>Moses took them from their hands, and
burned them on the altar on the burnt offering.
They were a consecration offering for a pleasant
aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave
offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of
the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses took some of the anointing oil,
and some of the blood which was on the altar, and
sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on
his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and
sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his
sons’ garments with him.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil
the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and
there eat it and the bread that is in the basket
of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron
and his sons shall eat it.’ <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:32">32 </verse></sup>What remains of the
meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:33">33 </verse></sup>You shall not go out from the door of the Tent
of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your
consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate
you seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:34">34 </verse></sup>What has been done today, so
Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement
for you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:35">35 </verse></sup>You shall stay at the door of the Tent
of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep
Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I
am commanded.” <key:bcv=Leviticus 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 8:36">36 </verse></sup>Aaron and his sons did all the
things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
#BCV:Leviticus 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:1">1 </verse></sup>On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his
sons, and the elders of Israel; <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:2">2 </verse></sup>and he said to Aaron,
“Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and
a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and
offer them before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall speak to the
children of Israel, saying, ‘Take a male goat for a
sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old,
without defect, for a burnt offering; <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:4">4 </verse></sup>and a bull
and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before
Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for
today Yahweh appears to you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:5">5 </verse></sup>They brought what Moses commanded before
the Tent of Meeting. All the congregation came
near and stood before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses said, “This
is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you
should do; and Yahweh’s glory shall appear to you.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and
offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and
make atonement for yourself, and for the people;
and offer the offering of the people, and make
atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:8">8 </verse></sup>So Aaron came near to the altar, and killed
the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him;
and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put
it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the
blood at the base of the altar; <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:10">10 </verse></sup>but the fat, and
the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the
sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:11">11 </verse></sup>The meat and the skin he
burned with fire outside the camp. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:12">12 </verse></sup>He killed the
burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered the blood
to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:13">13 </verse></sup>They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece
by piece, and the head. He burned them upon the
altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:14">14 </verse></sup>He washed the innards and the legs, and
burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:15">15 </verse></sup>He presented the people’s offering, and took the
goat of the sin offering which was for the people,
and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:16">16 </verse></sup>He presented the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the ordinance. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:17">17 </verse></sup>He presented the
meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and
burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt
offering of the morning. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:18">18 </verse></sup>He also killed the bull
and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which
was for the people. Aaron’s sons delivered to him
the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:19">19 </verse></sup>and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat
tail, and that which covers the innards, and the
kidneys, and the cover of the liver; <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:20">20 </verse></sup>and they put
the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat
on the altar. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Aaron waved the breasts and the
right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as
Moses commanded. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Aaron lifted up his hands
toward the people, and blessed them; and he came
down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt
offering, and the peace offerings.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting,
and came out, and blessed the people; and
Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 9:24">24 </verse></sup>Fire
came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the
burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all
the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their
faces.

#BCV:Leviticus 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took
his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it,
and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he
had not commanded them. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Fire came out from
before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died
before Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh
spoke of, saying,
<br>
‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,
and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ”
Aaron held his peace. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses called Mishael and
Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and
said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from
before the sanctuary out of the camp.” <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:5">5 </verse></sup>So they
came near, and carried them in their tunics out of
the camp, as Moses had said.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to
Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads
go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you
don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all
the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh
has kindled. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall not go out from the door of
the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing
oil of Yahweh is on you.” They did according to the
word of Moses. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to Aaron, <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:9">9 </verse></sup>“You
and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink
whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you
will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout
your generations. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:10">10 </verse></sup>You are to make a distinction
between the holy and the common, and between
the unclean and the clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:11">11 </verse></sup>You are to teach the
children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has
spoken to them by Moses.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to
Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal
offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh
made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the
altar; for it is most holy; <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:13">13 </verse></sup>and you shall eat it in a
holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’
portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for
so I am commanded. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:14">14 </verse></sup>The waved breast and the
heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and
your sons, and your daughters with you: for they
are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion,
out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:15">15 </verse></sup>They shall bring the heaved
thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made
by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before
Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you,
as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the
sin offering, and, behold,<footnote:1>10:16 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> it was burned. He was
angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of
Aaron who were left, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:17">17 </verse></sup>“Why haven’t you
eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary,
since it is most holy, and he has given it to you
to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make
atonement for them before Yahweh? <key:bcv=Leviticus 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, its
blood was not brought into the inner part of the
sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the
sanctuary, as I commanded.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they
have offered their sin offering and their burnt
offering before Yahweh; and such things as these
have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering
today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s
sight?”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 10:20">20 </verse></sup>When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his
sight.

#BCV:Leviticus 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying
to them, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
‘These are the living things which you may
eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and
chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those
that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof:
the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t
have a parted hoof, is unclean to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:5">5 </verse></sup>The hyrax,<footnote:1>11:5 or rock badger, or cony</footnote>
because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted
hoof, is unclean to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:6">6 </verse></sup>The hare, because it chews
the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean
to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:7">7 </verse></sup>The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is
cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean
to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall not eat their meat. You shall not
touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘You may eat of all these that are in the waters:
whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the
seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:10">10 </verse></sup>All that
don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all
that move in the waters, and all the living creatures
that are in the waters, they are an abomination to
you, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:11">11 </verse></sup>and you shall detest them. You shall not eat
of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters is
an abomination to you.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall detest these among the birds; they
shall not be eaten because they are an abomination:
the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:14">14 </verse></sup>the red
kite, any kind of black kite, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:15">15 </verse></sup>any kind of raven,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:16">16 </verse></sup>the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind
of hawk, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:17">17 </verse></sup>the little owl, the cormorant, the great
owl, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:18">18 </verse></sup>the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:19">19 </verse></sup>the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the
bat.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an
abomination to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Yet you may eat these: of all
winged creeping things that go on all fours, which
have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any
kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind
of grasshopper. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:23">23 </verse></sup>But all winged creeping things
which have four feet are an abomination to you.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘By these you will become unclean: whoever
touches their carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Whoever carries any part of their
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘Every animal which has a split hoof that
isn’t completely divided, or doesn’t chew the cud, is
unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall
be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Whatever goes on its paws, among
all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean
to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be
unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:28">28 </verse></sup>He who carries their
carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the evening. They are unclean to you.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘These are they which are unclean to you
among the creeping things that creep on the earth:
the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:30">30 </verse></sup>the
gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the
skink, and the chameleon. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:31">31 </verse></sup>These are they which
are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever
touches them when they are dead shall be
unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:32">32 </verse></sup>Anything they fall
on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether
it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or
sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work
is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be
unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:33">33 </verse></sup>Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls
and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall
break it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:34">34 </verse></sup>All food which may be eaten which is
soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that
may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls
shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots,
it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean, and
shall be unclean to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:36">36 </verse></sup>Nevertheless a spring or a
cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but
that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:37">37 </verse></sup>If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed
which is to be sown, it is clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:38">38 </verse></sup>But if water is put
on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is
unclean to you.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:39">39 </verse></sup>“ ‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he
who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the
evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:40">40 </verse></sup>He who eats of its carcass shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also
who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and
be unclean until the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:41">41 </verse></sup>“ ‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth
is an abomination. It shall not be eaten. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:42">42 </verse></sup>Whatever
goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or
whatever has many feet, even all creeping things
that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat;
for they are an abomination. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:43">43 </verse></sup>You shall not make
yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that
creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean
with them, that you should be defiled by them.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:44">44 </verse></sup>For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves
therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not
defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing
that moves on the earth. <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:45><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:45">45 </verse></sup>For I am Yahweh who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 11:46><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:46">46 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the animal, and of the
bird, and of every living creature that moves in the
waters, and of every creature that creeps on the
earth, <key:bcv=Leviticus 11:47><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 11:47">47 </verse></sup>to make a distinction between the unclean
and the clean, and between the living thing that
may be eaten and the living thing that may not be
eaten.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives,
and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean
seven days; as in the days of her monthly period
she shall be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:3">3 </verse></sup>In the eighth day the flesh
of his foreskin shall be circumcised. <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:4">4 </verse></sup>She shall
continue in the blood of purification thirty-three
days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come
into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying
are completed. <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:5">5 </verse></sup>But if she bears a female child, then
she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and
she shall continue in the blood of purification sixtysix
days.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘When the days of her purification are completed
for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to
the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year
old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon
or a turtledove, for a sin offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall offer it
before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; then
she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood.
“ ‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a
male or a female. <key:bcv=Leviticus 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 12:8">8 </verse></sup>If she cannot afford a lamb, then
she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons:
the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin
offering. The priest shall make atonement for her,
and she shall be clean.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:2">2 </verse></sup>“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s
skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes
in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then
he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one
of his sons, the priests. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:3">3 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine
the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in
the plague has turned white, and the appearance of
the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the
plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him
and pronounce him unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:4">4 </verse></sup>If the bright spot is
white in the skin of his body, and its appearance
isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned
white, then the priest shall isolate the infected
person for seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:5">5 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine
him on the seventh day. Behold, if in his eyes the
plague is arrested and the plague hasn’t spread in
the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven
more days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:6">6 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine him again on
the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded
and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He
shall wash his clothes, and be clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:7">7 </verse></sup>But if the scab
spreads on the skin after he has shown himself to
the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to
the priest again. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:8">8 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine him; and
behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:9">9 </verse></sup>“When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he
shall be brought to the priest; <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:10">10 </verse></sup>and the priest shall
examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling
in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and
there is raw flesh in the swelling, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:11">11 </verse></sup>it is a chronic
leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him,
for he is already unclean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:12">12 </verse></sup>“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and
the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person
from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears
to the priest, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:13">13 </verse></sup>then the priest shall examine him.
Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he
shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has
all turned white: he is clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:14">14 </verse></sup>But whenever raw
flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:15">15 </verse></sup>The
priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce
him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to
white, then he shall come to the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:17">17 </verse></sup>The priest
shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned
white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of
the plague. He is clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:18">18 </verse></sup>“When the body has a boil on its skin, and it
has healed, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:19">19 </verse></sup>and in the place of the boil there is
a white swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white,
then it shall be shown to the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:20">20 </verse></sup>The priest
shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper
than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the
plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:21">21 </verse></sup>But if the priest examines it, and behold, there
are no white hairs in it, and it isn’t deeper than the
skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him
seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:22">22 </verse></sup>If it spreads in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:23">23 </verse></sup>But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t
spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:24">24 </verse></sup>“Or when the body has a burn from fire on
its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a
bright spot, reddish-white, or white, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:25">25 </verse></sup>then the
priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the
bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is
deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken
out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce
him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:26">26 </verse></sup>But
if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no
white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t deeper than
the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate
him seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:27">27 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine him on
the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then
the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the
plague of leprosy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:28">28 </verse></sup>If the bright spot stays in its
place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it
is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall
pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the
burn.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:29">29 </verse></sup>“When a man or woman has a plague on
the head or on the beard, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:30">30 </verse></sup>then the priest shall
examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is
deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and
thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean.
It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:31">31 </verse></sup>If the priest examines the plague of itching, and
behold, its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin,
and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall
isolate the person infected with itching seven days.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:32">32 </verse></sup>On the seventh day the priest shall examine the
plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and
there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of
the itch isn’t deeper than the skin, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:33">33 </verse></sup>then he shall
be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch. Then
the priest shall isolate the one who has the itch
seven more days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:34">34 </verse></sup>On the seventh day, the priest
shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t
spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper
than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:35">35 </verse></sup>But
if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:36">36 </verse></sup>then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if
the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not
look for the yellow hair; he is unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:37">37 </verse></sup>But if in his
eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in
it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest
shall pronounce him clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:38">38 </verse></sup>“When a man or a woman has bright spots in
the skin of the body, even white bright spots, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:39">39 </verse></sup>then
the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright
spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is
a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is
clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:40">40 </verse></sup>“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is
bald. He is clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:41">41 </verse></sup>If his hair has fallen off from
the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is
clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:42">42 </verse></sup>But if a reddish-white plague is in the bald
head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out
in his bald head or his bald forehead. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:43">43 </verse></sup>Then the
priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling
of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or
in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy
in the skin of the body, <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:44">44 </verse></sup>he is a leprous man. He
is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him
unclean. His plague is on his head.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:45><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:45">45 </verse></sup>“The leper in whom the plague is shall wear
torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang
loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry,
‘Unclean! Unclean!’ <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:46><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:46">46 </verse></sup>All the days in which the
plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean.
He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside
of the camp.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:47><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:47">47 </verse></sup>“The garment also that the plague of leprosy
is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen
garment; <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:48><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:48">48 </verse></sup>whether it is in warp or woof;<footnote:1>13:48 warp and woof are the vertical and horizontal threads in woven cloth </footnote> of linen
or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything
made of leather; <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:49><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:49">49 </verse></sup>if the plague is greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the
warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather;
it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the
priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:50><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:50">50 </verse></sup>The priest shall examine the plague, and
isolate the plague seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:51><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:51">51 </verse></sup>He shall examine
the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has
spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used
for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:52><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:52">52 </verse></sup>He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or
the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather,
in which the plague is, for it is a destructive mildew.
It shall be burned in the fire.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:53><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:53">53 </verse></sup>“If the priest examines it, and behold, the
plague hasn’t spread in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:54><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:54">54 </verse></sup>then
the priest shall command that they wash the thing
that the plague is in, and he shall isolate it seven
more days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:55><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:55">55 </verse></sup>Then the priest shall examine it, after
the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague
hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t
spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It
is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside
or outside. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:56><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:56">56 </verse></sup>If the priest looks, and behold, the
plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall
tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out
of the warp, or out of the woof; <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:57><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:57">57 </verse></sup>and if it appears
again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You
shall burn what the plague is in with fire. <key:bcv=Leviticus 13:58><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:58">58 </verse></sup>The
garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever
thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague
has departed from them, then it shall be washed the
second time, and it will be clean.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 13:59><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 13:59">59 </verse></sup>This is the law of the plague of mildew in a
garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the
woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean,
or to pronounce it unclean.

#BCV:Leviticus 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:2">2 </verse></sup>“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of
his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:3">3 </verse></sup>and
the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall
examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is
healed in the leper, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:4">4 </verse></sup>then the priest shall command
them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living
clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:5">5 </verse></sup>The
priest shall command them to kill one of the birds
in an earthen vessel over running water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:6">6 </verse></sup>As for
the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the
living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed
over the running water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall sprinkle on him
who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times,
and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird go into the open field.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:8">8 </verse></sup>“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes,
and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water;
and he shall be clean. After that he shall come
into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven
days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall
shave all his hair off his head and his beard and
his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He
shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body
in water. Then he shall be clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:10">10 </verse></sup>“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs
without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without
defect, three tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>14:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine flour for
a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log<footnote:1>14:10 a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces</footnote> of
oil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:11">11 </verse></sup>The priest who cleanses him shall set the
man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before
Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:12">12 </verse></sup>“The priest shall take one of the male lambs,
and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log
of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:13">13 </verse></sup>He shall kill the male lamb in the
place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt
offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin
offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering.
It is most holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:14">14 </verse></sup>The priest shall take some of the
blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall
put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and
on the big toe of his right foot. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:15">15 </verse></sup>The priest shall
take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm
of his own left hand. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:16">16 </verse></sup>The priest shall dip his right
finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall
sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:17">17 </verse></sup>The priest shall put some of the
rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the
right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his
right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:18">18 </verse></sup>The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he
shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed,
and the priest shall make atonement for him before
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:19">19 </verse></sup>“The priest shall offer the sin offering, and
make atonement for him who is to be cleansed
because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill
the burnt offering; <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:20">20 </verse></sup>then the priest shall offer the
burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar.
The priest shall make atonement for him, and he
shall be clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:21">21 </verse></sup>“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he
shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be
waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth
of an ephah<footnote:1>14:21 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal
offering, and a log<footnote:1>14:21 a log is a liquid measure of about 300 ml or 10 ounces</footnote> of oil; <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:22">22 </verse></sup>and two turtledoves, or
two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and
the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt
offering.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:23">23 </verse></sup>“On the eighth day he shall bring them for his
cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:24">24 </verse></sup>The priest shall take the
lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and
the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:25">25 </verse></sup>He shall kill the lamb of the trespass
offering. The priest shall take some of the blood
of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the
right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his
right foot. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:26">26 </verse></sup>The priest shall pour some of the oil
into the palm of his own left hand; <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:27">27 </verse></sup>and the priest
shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil
that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is
in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is
to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place
of the blood of the trespass offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:29">29 </verse></sup>The rest
of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put
on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make
atonement for him before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:30">30 </verse></sup>He shall offer
one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons,
which ever he is able to afford, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:31">31 </verse></sup>of the kind he is
able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering.
The priest shall make atonement for him who is to
be cleansed before Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:32">32 </verse></sup>This is the law for him in whom is the plague
of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for
his cleansing.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:34">34 </verse></sup>“When you have come into the land of Canaan,
which I give to you for a possession, and I put a
spreading mildew in a house in the land of your
possession, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:35">35 </verse></sup>then he who owns the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me
to be some sort of plague in the house.’ <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:36">36 </verse></sup>The priest
shall command that they empty the house, before
the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all
that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward
the priest shall go in to inspect the house. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:37">37 </verse></sup>He shall
examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in
the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish
or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the
wall, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:38">38 </verse></sup>then the priest shall go out of the house
to the door of the house, and shut up the house
seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:39">39 </verse></sup>The priest shall come again on the
seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread
in the walls of the house, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:40">40 </verse></sup>then the priest shall
command that they take out the stones in which
is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place
outside of the city. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:41">41 </verse></sup>He shall cause the inside of
the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour
out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the
city into an unclean place. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:42">42 </verse></sup>They shall take other
stones, and put them in the place of those stones;
and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the
house.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:43">43 </verse></sup>“If the plague comes again, and breaks out in
the house after he has taken out the stones, and
after he has scraped the house, and after it was
plastered, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:44">44 </verse></sup>then the priest shall come in and look;
and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it
is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:45><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:45">45 </verse></sup>He shall break down the house, its stones, and its
timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry
them out of the city into an unclean place.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:46><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:46">46 </verse></sup>“Moreover he who goes into the house while it
is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:47><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:47">47 </verse></sup>He
who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes;
and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:48><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:48">48 </verse></sup>“If the priest shall come in, and examine it,
and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house,
after the house was plastered, then the priest shall
pronounce the house clean, because the plague
is healed. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:49><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:49">49 </verse></sup>To cleanse the house he shall take
two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:50><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:50">50 </verse></sup>He
shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over
running water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:51><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:51">51 </verse></sup>He shall take the cedar wood,
the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and
dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the
running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:52><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:52">52 </verse></sup>He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, with the living
bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and
with the scarlet; <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:53><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:53">53 </verse></sup>but he shall let the living bird go
out of the city into the open field. So shall he make
atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 14:54><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:54">54 </verse></sup>This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and
for an itch, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:55><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:55">55 </verse></sup>and for the destructive mildew of a
garment, and for a house, <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:56><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:56">56 </verse></sup>and for a swelling, and
for a scab, and for a bright spot; <key:bcv=Leviticus 14:57><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 14:57">57 </verse></sup>to teach when it
is unclean, and when it is clean.
<br>
This is the law of leprosy.

#BCV:Leviticus 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them,
‘When any man has a discharge from his body,
because of his discharge he is unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:3">3 </verse></sup>This
shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether
his body runs with his discharge, or his body has
stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘Every bed on which he who has the discharge
lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on
shall be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Whoever touches his bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:6">6 </verse></sup>He who sits on anything
on which the man who has the discharge sat shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘He who touches the body of him who has the
discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself
in water, and be unclean until the evening.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who
is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge
rides on shall be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Whoever touches
anything that was under him shall be unclean until
the evening. He who carries those things shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘Whomever he who has the discharge
touches, without having rinsed his hands in water,
he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the
discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel
of wood shall be rinsed in water.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of
his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven
days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he
shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be
clean.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves,
or two young pigeons, and come before
Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give
them to the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:15">15 </verse></sup>The priest shall offer them,
the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering. The priest shall make atonement for him
before Yahweh for his discharge.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘If any man has an emission of semen, then
he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean
until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Every garment and every skin
which the semen is on shall be washed with water,
and be unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:18">18 </verse></sup>If a man lies
with a woman and there is an emission of semen,
they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge
in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity
seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean
until the evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity
shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on
shall be unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Whoever touches her bed shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Whoever touches
anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:23">23 </verse></sup>If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits
on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the
evening.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly
flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and
every bed he lies on shall be unclean.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many
days not in the time of her period, or if she has
a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the
days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as
in the days of her period. She is unclean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:26">26 </verse></sup>Every
bed she lies on all the days of her discharge shall
be to her as the bed of her period. Everything
she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of
her period. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:27">27 </verse></sup>Whoever touches these things shall
be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:28">28 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then
she shall count to herself seven days, and after that
she shall be clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:29">29 </verse></sup>On the eighth day she shall
take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and
bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:30">30 </verse></sup>The priest shall offer the one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the
priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh
for the uncleanness of her discharge.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:31">31 </verse></sup>“ ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel
from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their
uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is
among them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:32">32 </verse></sup>This is the law of him who has a discharge, and
of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is
unclean by it; <key:bcv=Leviticus 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 15:33">33 </verse></sup>and of her who has her period, and
of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him
who lies with her who is unclean.

#BCV:Leviticus 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the
two sons of Aaron, when they came near before
Yahweh, and died; <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:2">2 </verse></sup>and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell
Aaron your brother not to come at just any time
into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the
mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will
appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:3">3 </verse></sup>“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a
young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall put on the holy linen tunic. He
shall have the linen trousers on his body, and shall
put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with
the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He
shall bathe his body in water, and put them on. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:5">5 </verse></sup>He
shall take from the congregation of the children of
Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram
for a burnt offering.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:6">6 </verse></sup>“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make atonement for himself
and for his house. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall take the two goats,
and set them before Yahweh at the door of the
Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Aaron shall cast lots for the two
goats: one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for
the scapegoat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Aaron shall present the goat on
which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin
offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:10">10 </verse></sup>But the goat on which the lot fell for the
scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh,
to make atonement for him, to send him away as
the scapegoat into the wilderness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:11">11 </verse></sup>“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and shall make atonement for
himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of
the sin offering which is for himself. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:12">12 </verse></sup>He shall take
a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before
Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten
small, and bring it within the veil. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:13">13 </verse></sup>He shall put the
incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of
the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the
covenant, so that he will not die. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:14">14 </verse></sup>He shall take
some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with
his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before
the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood
with his finger seven times.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:15">15 </verse></sup>“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering
that is for the people, and bring his blood within the
veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood
of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and
before the mercy seat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:16">16 </verse></sup>He shall make atonement
for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, and because of their transgressions,
even all their sins; and so he shall do for the
Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle
of their uncleanness. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:17">17 </verse></sup>No one shall be in the Tent
of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in
the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made
atonement for himself and for his household, and
for all the assembly of Israel.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:18">18 </verse></sup>“He shall go out to the altar that is before
Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take
some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s
blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:19">19 </verse></sup>He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy
from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:20">20 </verse></sup>“When he has finished atoning for the Holy
Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall
present the live goat. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:21">21 </verse></sup>Aaron shall lay both his
hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over
him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and
all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he
shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall
send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a
man who is ready. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:22">22 </verse></sup>The goat shall carry all their
iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall
release the goat in the wilderness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:23">23 </verse></sup>“Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and
shall take off the linen garments which he put on
when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave
them there. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Then he shall bathe himself in water
in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out
and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering
of the people, and make atonement for himself and
for the people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:25">25 </verse></sup>The fat of the sin offering he shall
burn on the altar.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:26">26 </verse></sup>“He who lets the goat go as the scapegoat shall
wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:27">27 </verse></sup>The bull
for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering,
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in
the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp;
and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their
dung with fire. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:28">28 </verse></sup>He who burns them shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward
he shall come into the camp.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:29">29 </verse></sup>“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month,
you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of
work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives
as a foreigner among you; <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:30">30 </verse></sup>for on this day shall
atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You
shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:31">31 </verse></sup>It
is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall
afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:32">32 </verse></sup>The
priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated
to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen garments,
even the holy garments. <key:bcv=Leviticus 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:33">33 </verse></sup>Then he shall make
atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall
make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the
altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests
and for all the people of the assembly.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 16:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 16:34">34 </verse></sup>“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to
make atonement for the children of Israel once in
the year because of all their sins.”
<br>
It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.

#BCV:Leviticus 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of
Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which
Yahweh has commanded: <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Whatever man there
is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb,
or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the
camp, <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:4">4 </verse></sup>and hasn’t brought it to the door of the
Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh
before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed
to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall
be cut off from among his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:5">5 </verse></sup>This is to
the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field,
that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door
of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice
them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:6">6 </verse></sup>The priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh’s
altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn
the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:7">7 </verse></sup>They
shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat
idols, after which they play the prostitute. This
shall be a statute forever to them throughout their
generations.’

<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:8">8 </verse></sup>“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of
the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering
or sacrifice, <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:9">9 </verse></sup>and doesn’t bring it to the door of the
Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man
shall be cut off from his people.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers who live as foreigners among them, who
eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against
that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from
among his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:11">11 </verse></sup>For the life of the flesh is in the
blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make
atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that
makes atonement by reason of the life. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore
I have said to the children of Israel, “No person
among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger
who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘Whatever man there is of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners
among them, who takes in hunting any animal or
bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood,
and cover it with dust. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:14">14 </verse></sup>For as to the life of all
flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to
the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of
any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood.
Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘Every person that eats what dies of itself,
or that which is torn by animals, whether he is
native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening. Then he shall be clean. <key:bcv=Leviticus 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 17:16">16 </verse></sup>But if he doesn’t
wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his
iniquity.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the children
of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt,
where you lived. You shall not do as they do in
the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You
shall not follow their statutes. <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall do my
ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in
them. I am Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall therefore
keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man
does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘None of you shall approach any close relatives,
to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is
your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter
of your mother, whether born at home or born
abroad.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter,
even their nakedness; for theirs is your own nakedness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father,
since she is your sister.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of
your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near
kinswoman.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife.
She is your aunt.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife. You shall
not uncover her nakedness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a
woman and her daughter. You shall not take her
son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover
her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It
is wickedness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her
sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while
her sister is still alive.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover
her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her
uncleanness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s
wife, and defile yourself with her.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a
sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name
of your God. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.
That is detestable.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile
yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an
animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things;
for in all these the nations which I am casting out
before you were defiled. <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:25">25 </verse></sup>The land was defiled.
Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land
vomited out her inhabitants. <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:26">26 </verse></sup>You therefore shall
keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not
do any of these abominations; neither the nativeborn,
nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner
among you <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:27">27 </verse></sup>(for the men of the land that were
before you had done all these abominations, and the
land became defiled), <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:28">28 </verse></sup>that the land not vomit you
out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the
nation that was before you.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations,
even the souls that do them shall be cut off
from among their people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 18:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall
keep my requirements, that you do not practice any
of these abominable customs which were practiced
before you, and that you do not defile yourselves
with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell
them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God,
am holy.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:3">3 </verse></sup>“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and
his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am
Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for
yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings
to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be
accepted. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:6">6 </verse></sup>It shall be eaten the same day you offer
it, and on the next day. If anything remains until
the third day, it shall be burned with fire. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:7">7 </verse></sup>If it is
eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination.
It will not be accepted; <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:8">8 </verse></sup>but everyone who eats it
shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the
holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off
from his people.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither
shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall
you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You
shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner.
I am Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not steal.
<br>
“ ‘You shall not lie.
<br>
“ ‘You shall not deceive one another.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and
profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob
him.
<br>
“ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain
with you all night until the morning.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear
your God. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You
shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism
to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in
righteousness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among
your people.

“ ‘You shall not endanger the life<footnote:1>19:16 literally, “blood” </footnote> of your neighbor.
I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart.
You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear
sin because of him.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any
grudge against the children of your people; but you
shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall keep my statutes.
<br>
“ ‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of
animals.
<br>
“ ‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of
seed;
<br>
“ ‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of
material.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who
is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another
man, and not ransomed or given her freedom; they
shall be punished. They shall not be put to death,
because she was not free. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:21">21 </verse></sup>He shall bring his
trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:22">22 </verse></sup>The
priest shall make atonement for him with the ram
of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin
which he has committed; and the sin which he has
committed shall be forgiven him.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you come into the land, and have
planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall
count their fruit as forbidden.<footnote:1>19:23 literally, “uncircumcised” </footnote> For three years it
shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:24">24 </verse></sup>But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy,
for giving praise to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:25">25 </verse></sup>In the fifth year you
shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to
you. I am Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still
in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice
sorcery.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:27">27 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your
head or clip off the edge of your beard.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:28">28 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh
for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a
prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the
land become full of wickedness.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence
my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:31">31 </verse></sup>“ ‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to
the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by
them. I am Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and
honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your
God. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:33">33 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you
in your land, you shall not do him wrong. <key:bcv=Leviticus 19:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:34">34 </verse></sup>The
stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be
to you as the native-born among you, and you shall
love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in
the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:35">35 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,
in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:36">36 </verse></sup>You shall have just balances, just weights, a
just ephah,<footnote:1>19:36 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> and a just hin.<footnote:1>19:36 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote> I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 19:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 19:37">37 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my
ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:2">2 </verse></sup>“Moreover,
you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the
children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring<footnote:1>20:2 or, seed</footnote>
to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of
the land shall stone that person with stones. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:3">3 </verse></sup>I also
will set my face against that person, and will cut him
off from among his people, because he has given of
his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and
to profane my holy name. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:4">4 </verse></sup>If the people of the land
all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of
his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:5">5 </verse></sup>then I will set my face against that man and against
his family, and will cut him off, and all who play
the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with
Molech, from among their people.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘The person that turns to those who are mediums
and wizards, to play the prostitute after them,
I will even set my face against that person, and will
cut him off from among his people.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for
I am Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall keep my statutes,
and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his
mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed
his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon
himself.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another
man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his
neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress
shall surely be put to death.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has
uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them
shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be
upon themselves.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both
of them shall surely be put to death. They have
committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon
themselves.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination.
They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall
be upon themselves.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is
wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he
and they, that there may be no wickedness among
you.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely
be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies
with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal.
They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall
be upon them.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter,
or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness,
and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful
thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the
children of their people. He has uncovered his
sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man lies with a woman having her
monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he
has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered
the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall
be cut off from among their people.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your
mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he
has made his close relative naked. They shall bear
their iniquity. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:20">20 </verse></sup>If a man lies with his uncle’s wife,
he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall
bear their sin. They shall die childless.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity.
He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness.
They shall be childless.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and
all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where
I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall not walk in the customs of the nation
which I am casting out before you; for they did all
these things, and therefore I abhorred them. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:24">24 </verse></sup>But
I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and
I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with
milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has
separated you from the peoples.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall therefore make a distinction between
the clean animal and the unclean, and between
the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not
make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird,
or by anything with which the ground teems, which
I have separated from you as unclean for you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:26">26 </verse></sup>You
shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have
set you apart from the peoples, that you should be
mine.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 20:27">27 </verse></sup>“ ‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is
a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall
be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon
themselves.’ ”

#BCV:Leviticus 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests,
the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall
not defile himself for the dead among his people,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:2">2 </verse></sup>except for his relatives that are near to him: for his
mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter,
for his brother, <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:3">3 </verse></sup>and for his virgin sister who is near
to him, who has had no husband; for her he may
defile himself. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall not defile himself, being a
chief man among his people, to profane himself.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off
the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in
their flesh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:6">6 </verse></sup>They shall be holy to their God, and
not profane the name of their God, for they offer
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of
their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘They shall not marry a woman who is a
prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a
woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy
to his God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall sanctify him, for
he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to
you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes
herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her
father. She shall be burned with fire.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘He who is the high priest among his brothers,
upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and
who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall
not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his
clothes. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:11">11 </verse></sup>He must not go in to any dead body, or
defile himself for his father or for his mother. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:12">12 </verse></sup>He
shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing
oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:14">14 </verse></sup>He
shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a
woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He
shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:15">15 </verse></sup>He
shall not profane his offspring among his people, for
I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:17">17 </verse></sup>“Say to
Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their
generations who has a defect may approach to offer
the bread of his God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:18">18 </verse></sup>For whatever man he is that
has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or
a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:19">19 </verse></sup>or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured
hand, <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:20">20 </verse></sup>or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has
a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs,
or who has damaged testicles. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:21">21 </verse></sup>No man of the
offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall
come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to
offer the bread of his God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:22">22 </verse></sup>He shall eat the bread
of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:23">23 </verse></sup>He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near
to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may
not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who
sanctifies them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 21:24">24 </verse></sup>So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and
to all the children of Israel.

#BCV:Leviticus 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:2">2 </verse></sup>“Tell Aaron
and his sons to separate themselves from the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they make
holy to me, and that they not profane my holy
name. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:3">3 </verse></sup>“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring
throughout your generations approaches the holy
things which the children of Israel make holy to
Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul
shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper
or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things
until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is
unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal
emission, <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:5">5 </verse></sup>or whoever touches any creeping thing
by which he may be made unclean, or a man from
whom he may become unclean, whatever uncleanness
he has— <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:6">6 </verse></sup>the person that touches any such
shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not
eat of the holy things unless he bathes his body
in water. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:7">7 </verse></sup>When the sun is down, he shall be
clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things,
because it is his bread. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:8">8 </verse></sup>He shall not eat that which
dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself
by it. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘They shall therefore follow my commandment,
lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they
profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a
foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant,
shall not eat of the holy thing. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:11">11 </verse></sup>But if a priest
buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat
of it; and those who are born in his house shall eat
of his bread. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:12">12 </verse></sup>If a priest’s daughter is married to
an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering
of the holy things. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:13">13 </verse></sup>But if a priest’s daughter is
a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has
returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she
may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall
eat any of it.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man eats something holy unwittingly,
then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and
shall give the holy thing to the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:15">15 </verse></sup>The priests
shall not profane the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they offer to Yahweh, <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:16">16 </verse></sup>and so cause
them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when
they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who
sanctifies them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:18">18 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of
Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house
of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers
his offering, whether it is any of their vows or
any of their free will offerings, which they offer to
Yahweh for a burnt offering: <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:19">19 </verse></sup>that you may be
accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of
the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:20">20 </verse></sup>But you
shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not
be acceptable for you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Whoever offers a sacrifice
of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow,
or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock,
it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have
no defect. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall not offer what is blind, is
injured, is maimed, has a wart, is festering, or has
a running sore to Yahweh, nor make an offering by
fire of them on the altar to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Either a bull
or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his
parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but
for a vow it shall not be accepted. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:24">24 </verse></sup>You must not
offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised,
crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in
your land. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:25">25 </verse></sup>You must not offer any of these as
the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner,
because their corruption is in them. There is a
defect in them. They shall not be accepted for
you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:27">27 </verse></sup>“When a bull,
a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days
with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be
accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire
to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall
not kill it and its young both in one day.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:29">29 </verse></sup>“When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving
to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may
be accepted. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:30">30 </verse></sup>It shall be eaten on the same day;
you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:31">31 </verse></sup>“Therefore you shall keep my commandments,
and do them. I am Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 22:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall not profane
my holy name, but I will be made holy among the
children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 22:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 22:33">33 </verse></sup>who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God. I am Yahweh.”

#BCV:Leviticus 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts
of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my set feasts.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:3">3 </verse></sup>“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the
seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy
convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a
Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:4">4 </verse></sup>“ ‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy
convocations, which you shall proclaim in their
appointed season. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:5">5 </verse></sup>In the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s
Passover. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:6">6 </verse></sup>On the fifteenth day of the same month
is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:7">7 </verse></sup>In the first
day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do
no regular work. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:8">8 </verse></sup>But you shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh
day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular
work.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:10">10 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have
come into the land which I give to you, and shall
reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of
the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:11">11 </verse></sup>He
shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted
for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest
shall wave it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:12">12 </verse></sup>On the day when you wave the sheaf,
you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year
old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:13">13 </verse></sup>The meal
offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>23:13 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of
fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering
with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.<footnote:1>23:13 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:14">14 </verse></sup>You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh
grain, until this same day, until you have brought
the offering of your God. This is a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall count from the next day after
the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the
sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall
be completed. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:16">16 </verse></sup>The next day after the seventh
Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall
offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall
bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for
a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>23:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of
fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first
fruits to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall present with the bread
seven lambs without defect a year old, one young
bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering
to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink
offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet
aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall offer one male goat
for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old
for a sacrifice of peace offerings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:20">20 </verse></sup>The priest shall
wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a
wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs.
They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:21">21 </verse></sup>You
shall make proclamation on the same day that there
shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no
regular work. This is a statute forever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land,
you must not wholly reap into the corners of your
field. You must not gather the gleanings of your
harvest. You must leave them for the poor and for
the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:24">24 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on
the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn
rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a
holy convocation. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall do no regular work.
You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:27">27 </verse></sup>“However on
the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of
atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you.
You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an
offering made by fire to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:28">28 </verse></sup>You shall do
no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day
of atonement, to make atonement for you before
Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:29">29 </verse></sup>For whoever it is who shall not
deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from
his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Whoever does any kind of work in that
same day, I will destroy that person from among
his people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:31">31 </verse></sup>You shall do no kind of work: it is a
statute forever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:32">32 </verse></sup>It shall be a Sabbath of solemn
rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the
ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to
evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:34">34 </verse></sup>“Speak to
the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day
of this seventh month is the feast of booths<footnote:1>23:34 or, feast of tents, or Succoth </footnote> for
seven days to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:35">35 </verse></sup>On the first day shall be
a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:36">36 </verse></sup>Seven days you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy
convocation to you. You shall offer an offering
made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly;
you shall do no regular work.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:37">37 </verse></sup>“ ‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh
which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt
offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink
offerings, each on its own day— <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:38">38 </verse></sup>in addition to the
Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts,
and in addition to all your vows, and in addition
to all your free will offerings, which you give to
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:39">39 </verse></sup>“ ‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when you have gathered in the fruits of the land,
you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On
the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the
eighth day shall be a solemn rest. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:40">40 </verse></sup>You shall take
on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches
of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows
of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God seven days. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:41">41 </verse></sup>You shall keep it as a feast
to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute
forever throughout your generations. You shall
keep it in the seventh month. <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:42">42 </verse></sup>You shall dwell
in temporary shelters<footnote:1>23:42 or, booths </footnote> for seven days. All who
are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary
shelters,<footnote:1>23:42 or, booths </footnote> <key:bcv=Leviticus 23:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:43">43 </verse></sup>that your generations may know that
I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary
shelters<footnote:1>23:43 or, booths</footnote> when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 23:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 23:44">44 </verse></sup>So Moses declared to the children of Israel the
appointed feasts of Yahweh.

#BCV:Leviticus 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:2">2 </verse></sup>“Command
the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure
olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp
to burn continually. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Outside of the veil of the
Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep
it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh
continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout
your generations. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall keep in order the
lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh
continually.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:5">5 </verse></sup>“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes
of it: two tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>24:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> shall be in one cake.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on
the pure gold table before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall put
pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to
the bread for a memorial, even an offering made
by fire to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:8">8 </verse></sup>Every Sabbath day he shall
set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an
everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children
of Israel. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They
shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to
him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a
perpetual statute.”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:10">10 </verse></sup>The son of an Israelite woman, whose father
was an Egyptian, went out among the children of
Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a
man of Israel strove together in the camp. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:11">11 </verse></sup>The
son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name,
and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His
mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of
Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:12">12 </verse></sup>They put him in
custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to
them. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:14">14 </verse></sup>“Bring
him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who
heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all
the congregation stone him. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall speak
to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses
his God shall bear his sin. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:16">16 </verse></sup>He who blasphemes
Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All
the congregation shall certainly stone him. The
foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to
death when he blasphemes the Name.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely
be put to death. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:18">18 </verse></sup>He who strikes an animal
mortally shall make it good, life for life. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:19">19 </verse></sup>If anyone
injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he
has done: <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:20">20 </verse></sup>fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth
for tooth. It shall be done to him as he has injured
someone. <key:bcv=Leviticus 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:21">21 </verse></sup>He who kills an animal shall make it
good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as
well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 24:23">23 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they
brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and
stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did
as Yahweh commanded Moses.

#BCV:Leviticus 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses on Mount Sinai, <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you
come into the land which I give you, then the land
shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall sow your
field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six
years, and gather in its fruits; <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:4">4 </verse></sup>but in the seventh
year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the
land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your
field or prune your vineyard. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:5">5 </verse></sup>What grows of itself
in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not
gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be
a year of solemn rest for the land. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:6">6 </verse></sup>The Sabbath of
the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for
your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant,
and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with
you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:7">7 </verse></sup>For your livestock also, and for the animals
that are in your land, shall all its increase be for
food.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years,
seven times seven years; and there shall be to you
the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine
years. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Then you shall sound the loud trumpet
on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the
Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet
throughout all your land. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall make the
fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout
the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee
to you; and each of you shall return to his own
property, and each of you shall return to his family.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:11">11 </verse></sup>That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it
you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of
itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:12">12 </verse></sup>For it
is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of
its increase out of the field.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return
to his property.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or
buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one
another. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:15">15 </verse></sup>According to the number of years
after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor.
According to the number of years of the crops he
shall sell to you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:16">16 </verse></sup>According to the length of the
years you shall increase its price, and according to
the shortness of the years you shall diminish its
price; for he is selling the number of the crops to
you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall not wrong one another, but you
shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep
my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell
in the land in safety. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:19">19 </verse></sup>The land shall yield its
fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in
safety. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:20">20 </verse></sup>If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh
year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our
increase;” <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:21">21 </verse></sup>then I will command my blessing on
you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the
three years. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall sow the eighth year, and
eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth
year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old
store.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for
the land is mine; for you are strangers and live
as foreigners with me. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:24">24 </verse></sup>In all the land of your
possession you shall grant a redemption for the
land.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some
of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to
him shall come, and redeem that which his brother
has sold. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:26">26 </verse></sup>If a man has no one to redeem it, and he
becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to
redeem it, <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:27">27 </verse></sup>then let him reckon the years since its
sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom
he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:28">28 </verse></sup>But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then
what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him
who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the
Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to
his property.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled
city, then he may redeem it within a whole year
after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have
the right of redemption. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:30">30 </verse></sup>If it isn’t redeemed
within the space of a full year, then the house that is
in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to
him who bought it, throughout his generations. It
shall not be released in the Jubilee. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:31">31 </verse></sup>But the houses
of the villages which have no wall around them shall
be accounted for with the fields of the country: they
may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the
Jubilee.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites,
the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of
their possession at any time. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:33">33 </verse></sup>The Levites may
redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his
possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee;
for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their
possession among the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:34">34 </verse></sup>But the
field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be
sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:35">35 </verse></sup>“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his
hand can’t support himself among you, then you
shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien
and a temporary resident. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:36">36 </verse></sup>Take no interest from
him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother
may live among you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:37">37 </verse></sup>You shall not lend him your
money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:38">38 </verse></sup>I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,
and to be your God.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:39">39 </verse></sup>“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you,
and sells himself to you, you shall not make him
to serve as a slave. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:40">40 </verse></sup>As a hired servant, and as a
temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall
serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:41">41 </verse></sup>Then
he shall go out from you, he and his children with
him, and shall return to his own family, and to
the possession of his fathers. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:42">42 </verse></sup>For they are my
servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as slaves. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:43">43 </verse></sup>You shall not rule
over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:44">44 </verse></sup>“ ‘As for your male and your female slaves,
whom you may have from the nations that are
around you, from them you may buy male and
female slaves. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:45><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:45">45 </verse></sup>Moreover, of the children of the
aliens who live among you, of them you may buy,
and of their families who are with you, which they
have conceived in your land; and they will be your
property. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:46><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:46">46 </verse></sup>You may make them an inheritance for
your children after you, to hold for a possession.
Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over
your brothers the children of Israel you shall not
rule, one over another, with harshness.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:47><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:47">47 </verse></sup>“ ‘If an alien or temporary resident with you
becomes rich, and your brother beside him has
grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or
foreigner living among you, or to a member of
the stranger’s family, <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:48><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:48">48 </verse></sup>after he is sold he may be
redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:49><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:49">49 </verse></sup>or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him,
or any who is a close relative to him of his family
may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may
redeem himself. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:50><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:50">50 </verse></sup>He shall reckon with him who
bought him from the year that he sold himself to
him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall
be according to the number of years; he shall be
with him according to the time of a hired servant.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 25:51><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:51">51 </verse></sup>If there are yet many years, according to them he
shall give back the price of his redemption out of
the money that he was bought for. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:52><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:52">52 </verse></sup>If there remain
but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall
reckon with him; according to his years of service
he shall give back the price of his redemption. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:53><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:53">53 </verse></sup>As
a servant hired year by year shall he be with him.
He shall not rule with harshness over him in your
sight. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:54><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:54">54 </verse></sup>If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then
he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his
children with him. <key:bcv=Leviticus 25:55><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 25:55">55 </verse></sup>For to me the children of Israel
are servants; they are my servants whom I brought
out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

#BCV:Leviticus 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and
you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and
you shall not place any figured stone in your land,
to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence
for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:3">3 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my
commandments, and do them, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:4">4 </verse></sup>then I will give you
your rains in their season, and the land shall yield
its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:5">5 </verse></sup>Your threshing shall continue until
the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the
sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full,
and dwell in your land safely.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall
lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will
remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall
the sword go through your land. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall chase
your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the
sword. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a
hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your
enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful,
multiply you, and will establish my covenant with
you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you
shall move out the old because of the new. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:11">11 </verse></sup>I will
set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor
you. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:12">12 </verse></sup>I will walk among you, and will be your God,
and you will be my people. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:13">13 </verse></sup>I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you
should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of
your yoke, and made you walk upright.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do
all these commandments, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:15">15 </verse></sup>and if you shall reject
my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances,
so that you will not do all my commandments, but
break my covenant, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:16">16 </verse></sup>I also will do this to you: I
will appoint terror over you, even consumption and
fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the
soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for
your enemies will eat it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:17">17 </verse></sup>I will set my face against
you, and you will be struck before your enemies.
Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will
flee when no one pursues you.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen
to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for
your sins. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:19">19 </verse></sup>I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like
bronze. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Your strength will be spent in vain; for
your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the
trees of the land yield their fruit.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen
to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues
on you according to your sins. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:22">22 </verse></sup>I will send the
wild animals among you, which will rob you of your
children, destroy your livestock, and make you few
in number. Your roads will become desolate.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back
to me, but will walk contrary to me, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:24">24 </verse></sup>then I will
also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you,
even I, seven times for your sins. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:25">25 </verse></sup>I will bring a
sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of
the covenant. You will be gathered together within
your cities, and I will send the pestilence among
you. You will be delivered into the hand of the
enemy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:26">26 </verse></sup>When I break your staff of bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they
shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall
eat, and not be satisfied.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:27">27 </verse></sup>“ ‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but
walk contrary to me, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:28">28 </verse></sup>then I will walk contrary to
you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times
for your sins. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:29">29 </verse></sup>You will eat the flesh of your sons,
and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:30">30 </verse></sup>I
will destroy your high places, and cut down your
incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the
bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:31">31 </verse></sup>I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your
sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight
in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:32">32 </verse></sup>I will
bring the land into desolation, and your enemies
who dwell in it will be astonished at it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:33">33 </verse></sup>I will
scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out
the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation,
and your cities shall be a waste. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:34">34 </verse></sup>Then the land
will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and
you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land
will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:35><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:35">35 </verse></sup>As long as it lies
desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it
didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:36><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:36">36 </verse></sup>“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send
a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them
to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the
sword. They will fall when no one pursues. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:37><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:37">37 </verse></sup>They
will stumble over one another, as it were before
the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no
power to stand before your enemies. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:38><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:38">38 </verse></sup>You will
perish among the nations. The land of your enemies
will eat you up. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:39><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:39">39 </verse></sup>Those of you who are left will pine
away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and
also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine
away with them.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:40><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:40">40 </verse></sup>“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity
of their fathers, in their trespass which they
trespassed against me; and also that because they
walked contrary to me, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:41><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:41">41 </verse></sup>I also walked contrary
to them, and brought them into the land of their
enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled,
and they then accept the punishment of their
iniquity, <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:42><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:42">42 </verse></sup>then I will remember my covenant
with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my
covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the
land. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:43><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:43">43 </verse></sup>The land also will be left by them, and
will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without
them; and they will accept the punishment of their
iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and
their soul abhorred my statutes. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:44><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:44">44 </verse></sup>Yet for all that,
when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not
reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy
them utterly and to break my covenant with them;
for I am Yahweh their God. <key:bcv=Leviticus 26:45><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:45">45 </verse></sup>But I will for their sake
remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I
brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the
nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Leviticus 26:46><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 26:46">46 </verse></sup>These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws,
which Yahweh made between him and the children
of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

#BCV:Leviticus 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man
consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according
to your valuation, <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:3">3 </verse></sup>your valuation of a male from
twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty
shekels of silver, according to the shekel<footnote:1>27:3 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of the
sanctuary. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:4">4 </verse></sup>If she is a female, then your valuation
shall be thirty shekels. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:5">5 </verse></sup>If the person is from five
years old to twenty years old, then your valuation
shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female
ten shekels. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:6">6 </verse></sup>If the person is from a month old
to five years old, then your valuation shall be for
a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your
valuation shall be three shekels of silver. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:7">7 </verse></sup>If the
person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is
a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels,
and for a female ten shekels. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:8">8 </verse></sup>But if he is poorer
than your valuation, then he shall be set before
the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to
him. The priest shall assign a value according to his
ability to pay.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘If it is an animal of which men offer an
offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such
to Yahweh becomes holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:10">10 </verse></sup>He shall not alter it, nor
exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good.
If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then
both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be
holy. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:11">11 </verse></sup>If it is any unclean animal, of which they do
not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set
the animal before the priest; <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:12">12 </verse></sup>and the priest shall
evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest
evaluates it, so it shall be. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:13">13 </verse></sup>But if he will indeed
redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its
valuation.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to
Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether
it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it
shall stand. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:15">15 </verse></sup>If he who dedicates it will redeem his
house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money
of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the
field of his possession, then your valuation shall be
according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer<footnote:1>27:16 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels </footnote>
of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels<footnote:1>27:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> of silver.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:17">17 </verse></sup>If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee,
according to your valuation it shall stand. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:18">18 </verse></sup>But
if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the
priest shall reckon to him the money according to
the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an
abatement shall be made from your valuation. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:19">19 </verse></sup>If
he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall remain his. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:20">20 </verse></sup>If he will
not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to
another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:21">21 </verse></sup>but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall
be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be
owned by the priests.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has
bought, which is not of the field of his possession,
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:23">23 </verse></sup>then the priest shall reckon to him the worth
of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and
he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy
thing to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:24">24 </verse></sup>In the Year of Jubilee the
field shall return to him from whom it was bought,
even to him to whom the possession of the land
belongs. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:25">25 </verse></sup>All your valuations shall be according to
the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs<footnote:1>27:25 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains. </footnote> to the
shekel.<footnote:1>27:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘However the firstborn among animals, which
belongs to Yahweh as a firstborn, no man may
dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh’s.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:27">27 </verse></sup>If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back
according to your valuation, and shall add to it the
fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall
be sold according to your valuation.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:28><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:28">28 </verse></sup>“ ‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a
man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether
of man or animal, or of the field of his possession,
shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is
permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:29><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be
devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He
shall surely be put to death.

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:30><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed
of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It
is holy to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:31><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:31">31 </verse></sup>If a man redeems anything of
his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:32><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:32">32 </verse></sup>All the tithe
of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under
the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Leviticus 27:33><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:33">33 </verse></sup>He
shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither
shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then
both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be
holy. It shall not be redeemed.’ ”

<key:bcv=Leviticus 27:34><sup><verse bcv="Leviticus 27:34">34 </verse></sup>These are the commandments which Yahweh
commanded Moses for the children of Israel on
Mount Sinai.

#OUTLINE:1,Numbers
<h2>The Fourth Book of Moses,
<br>
Commonly Called Numbers</h2>

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> spoke to Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of
the second month, in the second year after they
had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take
a census of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
according to the number of the names, every male,
one by one, <key:bcv=Numbers 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:3">3 </verse></sup>from twenty years old and upward, all
who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and
Aaron shall count them by their divisions. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:4">4 </verse></sup>With
you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one
head of his fathers’ house. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:5">5 </verse></sup>These are the names of
the men who shall stand with you:
<br>
Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama
the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son
of Pedahzur.

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:16">16 </verse></sup>These are those who were called of the congregation,
the princes<footnote:1>1:16 or, chiefs, or, leaders</footnote> of the tribes of their fathers;
they were the heads of the thousands of
Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron took these men who
are mentioned by name. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:18">18 </verse></sup>They assembled all the
congregation together on the first day of the second
month; and they declared their ancestry by their
families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, one by one. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:19">19 </verse></sup>As Yahweh commanded
Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of
Sinai.

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:20">20 </verse></sup>The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, according to the number of the names,
one by one, every male from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:21">21 </verse></sup>those
who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty-six thousand five hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who
were counted of it, according to the number of the
names, one by one, every male from twenty years
old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:23">23 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Of the children of Gad, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:25">25 </verse></sup>those
who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:26">26 </verse></sup>Of the children of Judah, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:27">27 </verse></sup>those
who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah,
were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Of the children of Issachar, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:29">29 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Of the children of Zebulun, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:31">31 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:32">32 </verse></sup>Of the children of Joseph: of the children of
Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by
their fathers’ houses, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:33">33 </verse></sup>those who were
counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty
thousand five hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:34">34 </verse></sup>Of the children of Manasseh, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:35">35 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:36">36 </verse></sup>Of the children of Benjamin, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:37">37 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:38">38 </verse></sup>Of the children of Dan, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:39">39 </verse></sup>those
who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were
sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:40">40 </verse></sup>Of the children of Asher, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all who were able to go out to war: <key:bcv=Numbers 1:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:41">41 </verse></sup>those
who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher,
were forty-one thousand five hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:42">42 </verse></sup>Of the children of Naphtali, their generations,
by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old
and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:43">43 </verse></sup>those who were counted of them, of the tribe of
Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:44">44 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted, whom
Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who
were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’
house. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:45">45 </verse></sup>So all those who were counted of the children
of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty
years old and upward, all who were able to go out
to war in Israel — <key:bcv=Numbers 1:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:46">46 </verse></sup>all those who were counted
were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:47">47 </verse></sup>But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were
not counted among them. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:48">48 </verse></sup>For Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 1:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:49">49 </verse></sup>“Only the tribe of Levi you shall
not count, neither shall you take a census of them
among the children of Israel; <key:bcv=Numbers 1:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:50">50 </verse></sup>but appoint the
Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and
over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs
to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its
furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall
encamp around it. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:51">51 </verse></sup>When the tabernacle is to
move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the
tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up.
The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
<key:bcv=Numbers 1:52><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:52">52 </verse></sup>The children of Israel shall pitch their tents,
every man by his own camp, and every man by his
own standard, according to their divisions. <key:bcv=Numbers 1:53><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:53">53 </verse></sup>But
the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle
of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on
the congregation of the children of Israel. The
Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of
the Testimony.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 1:54><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 1:54">54 </verse></sup>Thus the children of Israel did. According to all
that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
#BCV:Numbers 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by
his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’
houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of
Meeting at a distance from it.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:3">3 </verse></sup>“Those who encamp on the east side toward
the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of
Judah, according to their divisions. The prince of
the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of
Amminadab. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:4">4 </verse></sup>His division, and those who were
counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six
hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:5">5 </verse></sup>“Those who encamp next to him shall be the
tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of
Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:6">6 </verse></sup>His
division, and those who were counted of it, were
fifty-four thousand four hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:7">7 </verse></sup>“The tribe of Zebulun: the prince of the children
of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:8">8 </verse></sup>His
division, and those who were counted of it, were
fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:9">9 </verse></sup>“All who were counted of the camp of Judah
were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred,
according to their divisions. They shall set out
first.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:10">10 </verse></sup>“On the south side shall be the standard of the
camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The
prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the
son of Shedeur. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:11">11 </verse></sup>His division, and those who were
counted of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:12">12 </verse></sup>“Those who encamp next to him shall be the
tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of
Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:13">13 </verse></sup>His division, and those who were counted of them,
were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:14">14 </verse></sup>“The tribe of Gad: the prince of the children
of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:15">15 </verse></sup>His
division, and those who were counted of them, were
forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:16">16 </verse></sup>“All who were counted of the camp of Reuben
were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred
fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out
second.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:17">17 </verse></sup>“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with
the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps.
As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in
his place, by their standards.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:18">18 </verse></sup>“On the west side shall be the standard of the
camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The
prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama
the son of Ammihud. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:19">19 </verse></sup>His division, and those
who were counted of them, were forty thousand five
hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:20">20 </verse></sup>“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh.
The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:21">21 </verse></sup>His division, and
those who were counted of them, were thirty-two
thousand two hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:22">22 </verse></sup>“The tribe of Benjamin: the prince of the
children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of
Gideoni. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:23">23 </verse></sup>His army, and those who were counted
of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:24">24 </verse></sup>“All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim
were one hundred eight thousand one hundred,
according to their divisions. They shall set out
third.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:25">25 </verse></sup>“On the north side shall be the standard of
the camp of Dan according to their divisions. The
prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:26">26 </verse></sup>His division, and those who
were counted of them, were sixty-two thousand
seven hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:27">27 </verse></sup>“Those who encamp next to him shall be the
tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher
shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran. <key:bcv=Numbers 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:28">28 </verse></sup>His division,
and those who were counted of them, were fortyone
thousand five hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:29">29 </verse></sup>“The tribe of Naphtali: the prince of the children
of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:30">30 </verse></sup>His division, and those who were counted of them,
were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:31">31 </verse></sup>“All who were counted of the camp of Dan
were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred.
They shall set out last by their standards.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:32">32 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted of the children
of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were
counted of the camps according to their armies
were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:33">33 </verse></sup>But the Levites were not counted among the
children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Numbers 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 2:34">34 </verse></sup>Thus the children of Israel did. According to all
that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped
by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by
their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

#BCV:Numbers 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of
Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with
Moses in Mount Sinai. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:2">2 </verse></sup>These are the names of
the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:3">3 </verse></sup>These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the
priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated
to minister in the priest’s office. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Nadab and Abihu
died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire
before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they
had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered
in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their
father.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:6">6 </verse></sup>“Bring the
tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the
priest, that they may minister to him. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:7">7 </verse></sup>They shall
keep his requirements, and the requirements of the
whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting,
to do the service of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:8">8 </verse></sup>They shall
keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and
the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the
service of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall give the Levites
to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to
him on the behalf of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:10">10 </verse></sup>You
shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall
keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes
near shall be put to death.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:12">12 </verse></sup>“Behold,<footnote:1>3:12 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
I have taken the Levites from among the children
of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the
womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites
shall be mine, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:13">13 </verse></sup>for all the firstborn are mine. On
the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in
Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I
am Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:15">15 </verse></sup>“Count the children of Levi by their
fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count
every male from a month old and upward.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s
word, as he was commanded.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:17">17 </verse></sup>These were the sons of Levi by their names:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:18">18 </verse></sup>These are the names of the sons of Gershon by
their families: Libni and Shimei.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram,
Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:20">20 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and
Mushi.
<br>
These are the families of the Levites according to
their fathers’ houses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and
the family of the Shimeites. These are the families
of the Gershonites.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Those who were counted of them, according to
the number of all the males from a month old and
upward, even those who were counted of them were
seven thousand five hundred.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:23">23 </verse></sup>The families of the Gershonites shall encamp
behind the tabernacle westward.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:24">24 </verse></sup>Eliasaph the son of Lael shall be the prince of
the fathers’ house of the Gershonites. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:25">25 </verse></sup>The duty of
the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be
the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for
the door of the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:26">26 </verse></sup>the hangings of
the court, the screen for the door of the court which
is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and its
cords for all of its service.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the
family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites,
and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the
families of the Kohathites. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:28">28 </verse></sup>According to the
number of all the males from a month old and
upward, there were eight thousand six hundred
keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:29">29 </verse></sup>The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp
on the south side of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:30">30 </verse></sup>The prince of
the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites
shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:31">31 </verse></sup>Their duty
shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the
altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they
minister, the screen, and all its service. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:32">32 </verse></sup>Eleazar
the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the
princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those
who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:33">33 </verse></sup>Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and
the family of the Mushites. These are the families
of Merari. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:34">34 </verse></sup>Those who were counted of them,
according to the number of all the males from
a month old and upward, were six thousand two
hundred.<footnote:1>3:34 + 22,000 is the sum rounded to 2 significant digits. The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300, but the traditional Hebrew text has the number rounded to 2 significant digits, not 3 significant digits.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:35">35 </verse></sup>The prince of the fathers’ house of the families
of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall
encamp on the north side of the tabernacle. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:36">36 </verse></sup>The
appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the
tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
all its instruments, all its service, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:37">37 </verse></sup>the pillars of the
court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their
cords.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:38">38 </verse></sup>Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward,
in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the
sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons,
keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the
duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who
comes near shall be put to death. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:39">39 </verse></sup>All who were
counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron
counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their
families, all the males from a month old and upward,
were twenty-two thousand.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:40">40 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn
males of the children of Israel from a month old
and upward, and take the number of their names.
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:41">41 </verse></sup>You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh
—instead of all the firstborn among the children of
Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all
the firstborn among the livestock of the children of
Israel.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:42">42 </verse></sup>Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all
the firstborn among the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:43">43 </verse></sup>All the
firstborn males according to the number of names
from a month old and upward, of those who were
counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two
hundred seventy-three.

<key:bcv=Numbers 3:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:44">44 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:45">45 </verse></sup>“Take the
Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children
of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites
instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be
mine. I am Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 3:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:46">46 </verse></sup>For the redemption of
the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of
the children of Israel who exceed the number of
the Levites, <key:bcv=Numbers 3:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:47">47 </verse></sup>you shall take five shekels apiece for
each one; according to the shekel<footnote:1>3:47 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> of the sanctuary
you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs<footnote:1>3:47 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains. </footnote>);
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:48">48 </verse></sup>and you shall give the money, with which their
remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 3:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:49">49 </verse></sup>Moses took the redemption money from those
who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed
by the Levites; <key:bcv=Numbers 3:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:50">50 </verse></sup>from the firstborn of the
children of Israel he took the money, one thousand
three hundred sixty-five shekels,<footnote:1>3:50 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1365 shekels is about 13.65 kilograms or about 30 pounds.</footnote> according to the
shekel of the sanctuary; <key:bcv=Numbers 3:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 3:51">51 </verse></sup>and Moses gave the
redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according
to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.

#BCV:Numbers 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among
the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:3">3 </verse></sup>from thirty years old and upward even
until fifty years old, all who enter into the service
to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the
Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:5">5 </verse></sup>When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in
with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of
the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:6">6 </verse></sup>put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth
over it, and put in its poles.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:7">7 </verse></sup>“On the table of show bread they shall spread a
blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the
bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the
continual bread shall be on it. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:8">8 </verse></sup>They shall spread
on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering
of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“They shall take a blue cloth and cover the
lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its
snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they
minister to it. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:10">10 </verse></sup>They shall put it and all its vessels
within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the
frame.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:11">11 </verse></sup>“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue
cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and
shall put in its poles.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:12">12 </verse></sup>“They shall take all the vessels of ministry
with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put
them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of
sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:13">13 </verse></sup>“They shall take away the ashes from the altar,
and spread a purple cloth on it. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:14">14 </verse></sup>They shall put on
it all its vessels with which they minister about it,
the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the
basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its
poles.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:15">15 </verse></sup>“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering
the sanctuary and all the furniture of the
sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that,
the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they
shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The
sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging
to the Tent of Meeting.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:16">16 </verse></sup>“The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the
continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the
requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is
in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:18">18 </verse></sup>“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the
Kohathites from among the Levites; <key:bcv=Numbers 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:19">19 </verse></sup>but do this
to them, that they may live, and not die, when they
approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons
shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and
to his burden; <key:bcv=Numbers 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:20">20 </verse></sup>but they shall not go in to see the
sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:22">22 </verse></sup>“Take a
census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’
houses, by their families; <key:bcv=Numbers 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:23">23 </verse></sup>you shall count them
from thirty years old and upward until fifty years
old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do
the work in the Tent of Meeting.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:24">24 </verse></sup>“This is the service of the families of the
Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:25">25 </verse></sup>they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle
and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, the covering
of sealskin that is on it, the screen for the door of
the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:26">26 </verse></sup>the hangings of the court,
the screen for the door of the gate of the court
which is by the tabernacle and around the altar,
their cords, and all the instruments of their service,
and whatever shall be done with them. They shall
serve in there. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:27">27 </verse></sup>At the commandment of Aaron
and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of
the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their
service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in
all their responsibilities. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:28">28 </verse></sup>This is the service of the
families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent
of Meeting. Their duty shall be under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:29">29 </verse></sup>“As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them
by their families, by their fathers’ houses; <key:bcv=Numbers 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:30">30 </verse></sup>you
shall count them from thirty years old and upward
even to fifty years old —everyone who enters on
the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:31">31 </verse></sup>This is the duty of their burden, according
to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the
tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:32">32 </verse></sup>the pillars of the court around it, their sockets,
their pins, their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service. You shall appoint the
instruments of the duty of their burden to them by
name. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:33">33 </verse></sup>This is the service of the families of the
sons of Merari, according to all their service in the
Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son
of Aaron the priest.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:34">34 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation
counted the sons of the Kohathites by
their families, and by their fathers’ houses, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:35">35 </verse></sup>from
thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old,
everyone who entered into the service for work in
the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Those who were counted
of them by their families were two thousand seven
hundred fifty. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:37">37 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted
of the families of the Kohathites, all who served
in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron
counted according to the commandment of Yahweh
by Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 4:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:38">38 </verse></sup>Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon,
by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:39">39 </verse></sup>from thirty years old and upward even to fifty
years old—everyone who entered into the service
for work in the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:40">40 </verse></sup>even those who
were counted of them, by their families, by their
fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred
thirty. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:41">41 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted of the
families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the
Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted
according to the commandment of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:42">42 </verse></sup>Those who were counted of the families of the
sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’
houses, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:43">43 </verse></sup>from thirty years old and upward even to
fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service
for work in the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:44">44 </verse></sup>even those
who were counted of them by their families, were
three thousand two hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:45">45 </verse></sup>These are those
who were counted of the families of the sons of
Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according
to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
<key:bcv=Numbers 4:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:46">46 </verse></sup>All those who were counted of the Levites
whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel
counted, by their families and by their fathers’
houses, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:47">47 </verse></sup>from thirty years old and upward even
to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to
do the work of service and the work of bearing
burdens in the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 4:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:48">48 </verse></sup>even those who
were counted of them, were eight thousand five
hundred eighty. <key:bcv=Numbers 4:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 4:49">49 </verse></sup>According to the commandment
of Yahweh they were counted by Moses, everyone
according to his service and according to his burden.
Thus they were counted by him, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

#BCV:Numbers 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:2">2 </verse></sup>“Command
the children of Israel that they put out of the camp
every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and
whoever is unclean by a corpse. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall put
both male and female outside of the camp so that
they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I
dwell.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:4">4 </verse></sup>The children of Israel did so, and put them
outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so
the children of Israel did.

<key:bcv=Numbers 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:6">6 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits
any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against
Yahweh, and that soul is guilty, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:7">7 </verse></sup>then he shall
confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make
restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth
part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he
has been guilty. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:8">8 </verse></sup>But if the man has no kinsman
to whom restitution may be made for the guilt,
the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh
shall be the priest’s, in addition to the ram of the
atonement, by which atonement shall be made for
him. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Every heave offering of all the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they present to the
priest, shall be his. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Every man’s holy things shall
be his; whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be
his.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:12">12 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife
goes astray and is unfaithful to him, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:13">13 </verse></sup>and a man
lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes
of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she
is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she
isn’t taken in the act; <key:bcv=Numbers 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:14">14 </verse></sup>and the spirit of jealousy
comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she
is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him,
and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;
<key:bcv=Numbers 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:15">15 </verse></sup>then the man shall bring his wife to the priest,
and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an
ephah<footnote:1>5:15 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it,
nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering
of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to memory. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:16">16 </verse></sup>The priest shall bring her
near, and set her before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:17">17 </verse></sup>The priest shall
take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest
shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of
the tabernacle and put it into the water. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:18">18 </verse></sup>The
priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let
the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the
meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the
meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in
his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
<key:bcv=Numbers 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:19">19 </verse></sup>The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall
tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if
you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under
your husband’s authority, be free from this water
of bitterness that brings a curse. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:20">20 </verse></sup>But if you have
gone astray, being under your husband’s authority,
and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with
you besides your husband—” <key:bcv=Numbers 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:21">21 </verse></sup>then the priest shall
cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing,
and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh
make you a curse and an oath among your people,
when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and
your body to swell; <key:bcv=Numbers 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:22">22 </verse></sup>and this water that brings a
curse will go into your bowels, and make your body
swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall
say, “Amen, Amen.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘The priest shall write these curses in a book,
and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
<key:bcv=Numbers 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:24">24 </verse></sup>He shall make the woman drink the water of
bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that
causes the curse shall enter into her and become
bitter. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:25">25 </verse></sup>The priest shall take the meal offering of
jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave
the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to
the altar. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:26">26 </verse></sup>The priest shall take a handful of the
meal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it
on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman
drink the water. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:27">27 </verse></sup>When he has made her drink
the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and
has committed a trespass against her husband, that
the water that causes the curse will enter into her
and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her
thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse
among her people. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:28">28 </verse></sup>If the woman isn’t defiled, but
is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive
offspring.<footnote:1>5:28 or, seed </footnote>

<key:bcv=Numbers 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being
under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled, <key:bcv=Numbers 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:30">30 </verse></sup>or
when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he
is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman
before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her
all this law. <key:bcv=Numbers 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 5:31">31 </verse></sup>The man shall be free from iniquity,
and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”

#BCV:Numbers 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to
the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either
man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow
of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, <key:bcv=Numbers 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:3">3 </verse></sup>he
shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.
He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of
grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:4">4 </verse></sup>All the days
of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made
of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor
shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled
in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall
be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head
grow long.

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to
Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall
not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they
die, because his separation to God<footnote:1>6:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> is on his head.
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:8">8 </verse></sup>All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and
he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall
shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the
seventh day he shall shave it. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:10">10 </verse></sup>On the eighth day
he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons
to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:11">11 </verse></sup>The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement
for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead,
and shall make his head holy that same day. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:12">12 </verse></sup>He
shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation,
and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass
offering; but the former days shall be void, because
his separation was defiled.

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days
of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to
the door of the Tent of Meeting, <key:bcv=Numbers 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:14">14 </verse></sup>and he shall offer
his offering to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old
without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a
year old without defect for a sin offering, one ram
without defect for peace offerings, <key:bcv=Numbers 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:15">15 </verse></sup>a basket of
unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with
oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with
their meal offering and their drink offerings. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:16">16 </verse></sup>The
priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall
offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:17">17 </verse></sup>He
shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings
to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread.
The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its
drink offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:18">18 </verse></sup>The Nazirite shall shave the head
of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting,
take the hair of the head of his separation, and
put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of
peace offerings. <key:bcv=Numbers 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:19">19 </verse></sup>The priest shall take the boiled
shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of
the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall
put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has
shaved the head of his separation; <key:bcv=Numbers 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:20">20 </verse></sup>and the priest
shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
They are holy for the priest, together with the
breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered.
After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and
of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition
to that which he is able to afford. According
to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the
law of his separation.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:23">23 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall
bless the children of Israel.’ You shall tell them,
<key:bcv=Numbers 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:24">24 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh make his face to shine on you,
and be gracious to you.

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh lift up his face toward you,
and give you peace.’

<key:bcv=Numbers 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 6:27">27 </verse></sup>“So they shall put my name on the children of
Israel; and I will bless them.”

#BCV:Numbers 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:1">1 </verse></sup>On the day that Moses had finished setting up
the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified
it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its
vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:2">2 </verse></sup>the
princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses,
gave offerings. These were the princes of the tribes.
These are they who were over those who were
counted; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:3">3 </verse></sup>and they brought their offering before
Yahweh, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a
wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one
an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle.
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:5">5 </verse></sup>“Accept these
from them, that they may be used in doing the
service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give
them to the Levites, to every man according to his
service.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave
them to the Levites. <key:bcv=Numbers 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:7">7 </verse></sup>He gave two wagons and
four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their
service. <key:bcv=Numbers 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:8">8 </verse></sup>He gave four wagons and eight oxen to
the sons of Merari, according to their service, under
the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:9">9 </verse></sup>But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because
the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they
carried it on their shoulders.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The princes gave offerings for the dedication of
the altar in the day that it was anointed. The princes
gave their offerings before the altar.
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “They shall offer their
offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication
of the altar.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:12">12 </verse></sup>He who offered his offering the first day was
Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of
Judah, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:13">13 </verse></sup>and his offering was:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,<footnote:1>7:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote>
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:14">14 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:15">15 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:16">16 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:17">17 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:18">18 </verse></sup>On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar,
prince of Issachar, gave his offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:19">19 </verse></sup>He offered
for his offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:20">20 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:21">21 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:22">22 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:23">23 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male
lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel
the son of Zuar.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:24">24 </verse></sup>On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince
of the children of Zebulun, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:25">25 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was a
hundred and thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:26">26 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:27">27 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:28">28 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:29">29 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab
the son of Helon.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:30">30 </verse></sup>On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
prince of the children of Reuben, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:31">31 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:32">32 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:33">33 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:34">34 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:35">35 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Elizur the son of Shedeur.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:36">36 </verse></sup>On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,
prince of the children of Simeon, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:37">37 </verse></sup>gave his
offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:38">38 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:39">39 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:40">40 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:41">41 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old: this was the offering of
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:42">42 </verse></sup>On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel,
prince of the children of Gad, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:43">43 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:44">44 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:45">45 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:46">46 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:47">47 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:48">48 </verse></sup>On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud,
prince of the children of Ephraim, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:49">49 </verse></sup>gave his
offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:50">50 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:51">51 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:52><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:52">52 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:53><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:53">53 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Elishama the son of Ammihud.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:54><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:54">54 </verse></sup>On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:55><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:55">55 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:56><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:56">56 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:57><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:57">57 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:58><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:58">58 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:59><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:59">59 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:60><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:60">60 </verse></sup>On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni,
prince of the children of Benjamin, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:61><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:61">61 </verse></sup>gave his
offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:62><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:62">62 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:63><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:63">63 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:64><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:64">64 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:65><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:65">65 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Abidan the son of Gideoni.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:66><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:66">66 </verse></sup>On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,
prince of the children of Dan, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:67><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:67">67 </verse></sup>gave his
offering:
<br>
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:68><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:68">68 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:69><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:69">69 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:70><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:70">70 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:71><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:71">71 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:72><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:72">72 </verse></sup>On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran,
prince of the children of Asher, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:73><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:73">73 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:74><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:74">74 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:75><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:75">75 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:76><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:76">76 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:77><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:77">77 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of
Pagiel the son of Ochran.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:78><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:78">78 </verse></sup>On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan,
prince of the children of Naphtali, <key:bcv=Numbers 7:79><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:79">79 </verse></sup>gave his offering:
one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels,
<br>
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine
flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:80><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:80">80 </verse></sup>one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:81><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:81">81 </verse></sup>one young bull,
<br>
one ram,
<br>
one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
<key:bcv=Numbers 7:82><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:82">82 </verse></sup>one male goat for a sin offering;

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:83><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:83">83 </verse></sup>and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two
head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five
male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira
the son of Enan.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:84><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:84">84 </verse></sup>This was the dedication offering of the altar,
on the day when it was anointed, by the princes
of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls,
twelve golden ladles; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:85><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:85">85 </verse></sup>each silver platter weighing
one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy;
all the silver of the vessels two thousand
four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of
the sanctuary; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:86><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:86">86 </verse></sup>the twelve golden ladles, full of
incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to
the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the
ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:87><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:87">87 </verse></sup>all
the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the
rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and
their meal offering; and twelve male goats for a
sin offering; <key:bcv=Numbers 7:88><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:88">88 </verse></sup>and all the cattle for the sacrifice of
peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty
male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This
was the dedication offering of the altar, after it was
anointed.

<key:bcv=Numbers 7:89><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 7:89">89 </verse></sup>When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to
speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to
him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark
of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim;
and he spoke to him.

#BCV:Numbers 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the
seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp
stand.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area
in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded
Moses. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:4">4 </verse></sup>This was the workmanship of the lamp
stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its
flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp
stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had
shown Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:6">6 </verse></sup>“Take the
Levites from among the children of Israel, and
cleanse them. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall do this to them to cleanse
them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let
them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let
them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
<key:bcv=Numbers 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Then let them take a young bull and its meal
offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another
young bull you shall take for a sin offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:9">9 </verse></sup>You
shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting.
You shall assemble the whole congregation of the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall present the Levites
before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their
hands on the Levites, <key:bcv=Numbers 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:11">11 </verse></sup>and Aaron shall offer the
Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the
behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs
to do the service of Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Numbers 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:12">12 </verse></sup>“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads
of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a
sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to
Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:13">13 </verse></sup>You
shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his
sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Thus you shall separate the Levites from among
the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
<key:bcv=Numbers 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:15">15 </verse></sup>“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the
service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse
them, and offer them as a wave offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:16">16 </verse></sup>For they
are wholly given to me from among the children
of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even
the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have
taken them to me. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:17">17 </verse></sup>For all the firstborn among the
children of Israel are mine, both man and animal.
On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:18">18 </verse></sup>I have taken
the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:19">19 </verse></sup>I have given the Levites as a gift
to Aaron and to his sons from among the children
of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel
in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for
the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague
among the children of Israel when the children of
Israel come near to the sanctuary.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel did so to the Levites.
According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel
did to them. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:21">21 </verse></sup>The Levites purified themselves
from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron
offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh
and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse
them. <key:bcv=Numbers 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:22">22 </verse></sup>After that, the Levites went in to do their
service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and
before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
<key:bcv=Numbers 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:24">24 </verse></sup>“This is what
is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years
old and upward they shall go in to wait on the
service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; <key:bcv=Numbers 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:25">25 </verse></sup>and
from the age of fifty years they shall retire from
doing the work, and shall serve no more, <key:bcv=Numbers 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 8:26">26 </verse></sup>but
shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting,
to perform the duty, and shall perform no service.
This is how you shall have the Levites do their
duties.”

#BCV:Numbers 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of
Sinai, in the first month of the second year after
they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:2">2 </verse></sup>“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its
appointed season. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:3">3 </verse></sup>On the fourteenth day of this
month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed
season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes
and according to all its ordinances.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses told the children of Israel that they
should keep the Passover. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:5">5 </verse></sup>They kept the Passover
in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According
to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so
the children of Israel did. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:6">6 </verse></sup>There were certain men
who were unclean because of the dead body of a
man, so that they could not keep the Passover on
that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on
that day. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Those men said to him, “We are unclean
because of the dead body of a man. Why are we
kept back, that we may not offer the offering of
Yahweh in its appointed season among the children
of Israel?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear
what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:10">10 </verse></sup>“Say to the
children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your
generations is unclean by reason of a dead body,
or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the
Passover to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:11">11 </verse></sup>In the second month, on the
fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they
shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:12">12 </verse></sup>They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor
break a bone of it. According to all the statute of
the Passover they shall keep it. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:13">13 </verse></sup>But the man who
is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the
Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a foreigner lives among you and desires
to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do
so according to the statute of the Passover, and
according to its ordinance. You shall have one
statute, both for the foreigner and for him who is
born in the land.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:15">15 </verse></sup>On the day that the tabernacle was raised
up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the
Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over
the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire,
until morning. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:16">16 </verse></sup>So it was continually. The cloud
covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled;
and in the place where the cloud remained,
there the children of Israel encamped. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:18">18 </verse></sup>At the
commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel
traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they
encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the
tabernacle they remained encamped. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:19">19 </verse></sup>When the
cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then
the children of Israel kept Yahweh’s command, and
didn’t travel. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Sometimes the cloud was a few days
on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment
of Yahweh they remained encamped, and
according to the commandment of Yahweh they
traveled. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Sometimes the cloud was from evening
until morning; and when the cloud was taken up
in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by
night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
<key:bcv=Numbers 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year
that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining
on it, the children of Israel remained encamped,
and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they
traveled. <key:bcv=Numbers 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 9:23">23 </verse></sup>At the commandment of Yahweh they
encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh
they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the
commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

#BCV:Numbers 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:2">2 </verse></sup>“Make two
trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten
work. You shall use them for the calling of the
congregation and for the journeying of the camps.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:3">3 </verse></sup>When they blow them, all the congregation shall
gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:4">4 </verse></sup>If they blow just one, then the princes,
the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather
themselves to you. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:5">5 </verse></sup>When you blow an alarm, the
camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:6">6 </verse></sup>When you blow an alarm the second time, the
camps that lie on the south side shall go forward.
They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:7">7 </verse></sup>But
when the assembly is to be gathered together, you
shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:8">8 </verse></sup>“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow
the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute
forever throughout your generations. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:9">9 </verse></sup>When you
go to war in your land against the adversary who
oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with
the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before
Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your
enemies.

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:10">10 </verse></sup>“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your
set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months,
you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
and they shall be to you for a memorial before your
God. I am Yahweh your God.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:11">11 </verse></sup>In the second year, in the second month, on the
twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up
from over the tabernacle of the covenant. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:12">12 </verse></sup>The
children of Israel went forward on their journeys
out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed
in the wilderness of Paran. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:13">13 </verse></sup>They first went
forward according to the commandment of Yahweh
by Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:14">14 </verse></sup>First, the standard of the camp of the children
of Judah went forward according to their armies.
Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Issachar. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Eliab the son of
Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children
of Zebulun. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:17">17 </verse></sup>The tabernacle was taken down; and
the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who
bore the tabernacle, went forward. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:18">18 </verse></sup>The standard
of the camp of Reuben went forward according to
their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over
his army. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was
over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the
tribe of the children of Gad.

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:21">21 </verse></sup>The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary.
The others set up the tabernacle before they
arrived.

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:22">22 </verse></sup>The standard of the camp of the children of
Ephraim set forward according to their armies.
Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army
of the tribe of the children of Manasseh. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Abidan
the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of
the children of Benjamin.

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:25">25 </verse></sup>The standard of the camp of the children of
Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set
forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son
of Ammishaddai was over his army. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Pagiel the
son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the
children of Asher. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:27">27 </verse></sup>Ahira the son of Enan was over
the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Thus were the travels of the children of Israel
according to their armies; and they went forward.
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the
Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying
to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to
you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for
Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:30">30 </verse></sup>He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart
to my own land, and to my relatives.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you
know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and
you can be our eyes. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:32">32 </verse></sup>It shall be, if you go with us
—yes, it shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does
to us, we will do the same to you.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:33">33 </verse></sup>They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh
three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant
went before them three days’ journey, to seek out
a resting place for them. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:34">34 </verse></sup>The cloud of Yahweh
was over them by day, when they set forward from
the camp. <key:bcv=Numbers 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:35">35 </verse></sup>When the ark went forward, Moses
said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be
scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
<key:bcv=Numbers 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 10:36">36 </verse></sup>When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the
ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”

#BCV:Numbers 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:1">1 </verse></sup>The people were complaining in the ears of
Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned;
and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed
some of the outskirts of the camp. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:2">2 </verse></sup>The
people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh,
and the fire abated. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:3">3 </verse></sup>The name of that place
was called Taberah,<footnote:1>11:3 Taberah means “burning” </footnote> because Yahweh’s fire burned
among them.

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:4">4 </verse></sup>The mixed multitude that was among them
lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also
wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to
eat? <key:bcv=Numbers 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:5">5 </verse></sup>We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt
for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and
the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; <key:bcv=Numbers 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:6">6 </verse></sup>but now
we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all
except this manna to look at.” <key:bcv=Numbers 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:7">7 </verse></sup>The manna was like
coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.<footnote:1>11:7 Bdellium is a resin extracted from certain African trees.</footnote> <key:bcv=Numbers 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:8">8 </verse></sup>The
people went around, gathered it, and ground it in
mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and
made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh
oil. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:9">9 </verse></sup>When the dew fell on the camp in the night,
the manna fell on it.

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses heard the people weeping throughout
their families, every man at the door of his tent;
and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was
displeased. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you
treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found
favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this
people on me? <key:bcv=Numbers 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Have I conceived all this people?
Have I brought them out, that you should tell me,
‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a
nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their
fathers?’ <key:bcv=Numbers 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Where could I get meat to give all these
people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us
meat, that we may eat.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:14">14 </verse></sup>I am not able to bear all
this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:15">15 </verse></sup>If
you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I
have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see
my wretchedness.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy
men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be
the elders of the people and officers over them; and
bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may
stand there with you. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:17">17 </verse></sup>I will come down and talk
with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on
you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the
burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear
it yourself alone.

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:18">18 </verse></sup>“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in
preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat;
for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying,
“Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with
us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat,
and you will eat. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:19">19 </verse></sup>You will not eat just one day,
or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty
days, <key:bcv=Numbers 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:20">20 </verse></sup>but a whole month, until it comes out at
your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because
you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and
have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come
out of Egypt?” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Moses said, “The people, among whom I am,
are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you
have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may
eat a whole month.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Shall flocks and herds be
slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them?
Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for
them, to be sufficient for them?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand
grown short? Now you will see whether my word
will happen to you or not.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s
words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders
of the people, and set them around the Tent.
<key:bcv=Numbers 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to
him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and
put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested
on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
<key:bcv=Numbers 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:26">26 </verse></sup>But two men remained in the camp. The name of
one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad;
and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those
who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent;
and they prophesied in the camp. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:27">27 </verse></sup>A young man
ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are
prophesying in the camp!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses,
one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses,
forbid them!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for
my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were
prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on
them!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses went into the camp, he and the elders
of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:31">31 </verse></sup>A wind from Yahweh went out and
brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the
camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s
journey on the other side, around the camp, and
about two cubits<footnote:1>11:31 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> above the surface of the earth.
<key:bcv=Numbers 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:32">32 </verse></sup>The people rose up all that day, and all of that
night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails.
He who gathered least gathered ten homers;<footnote:1>11:32 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels </footnote> and
they spread them all out for themselves around the
camp. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:33">33 </verse></sup>While the meat was still between their
teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned
against the people, and Yahweh struck the people
with a very great plague. <key:bcv=Numbers 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:34">34 </verse></sup>The name of that place
was called Kibroth Hattaavah,<footnote:1>11:34 Kibroth Hattaavah means “graves of lust”</footnote> because there they
buried the people who lusted.

<key:bcv=Numbers 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 11:35">35 </verse></sup>From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to
Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.

#BCV:Numbers 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because
of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for
he had married a Cushite woman. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:2">2 </verse></sup>They said, “Has
Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he
spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.
<key:bcv=Numbers 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Now the man Moses was very humble, more
than all the men who were on the surface of the
earth. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron,
and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of
Meeting!”

The three of them came out. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh came
down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the
Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both
came forward. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:6">6 </verse></sup>He said, “Now hear my words. If
there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make
myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with
him in a dream. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:7">7 </verse></sup>My servant Moses is not so. He
is faithful in all my house. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:8">8 </verse></sup>With him, I will speak
mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles;
and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were
you not afraid to speak against my servant, against
Moses?” <key:bcv=Numbers 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned against them;
and he departed.

<key:bcv=Numbers 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:10">10 </verse></sup>The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold,
Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron
looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
<key:bcv=Numbers 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:11">11 </verse></sup>Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t
count this sin against us, in which we have done
foolishly, and in which we have sinned. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Let her
not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is
half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s
womb.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God,
I beg you!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but
spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven
days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven
days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven
days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was
brought in again. <key:bcv=Numbers 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Afterward the people traveled
from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of
Paran.

#BCV:Numbers 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:2">2 </verse></sup>“Send men,
that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I
give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their
fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince
among them.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran
according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of
them were men who were heads of the children of
Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:4">4 </verse></sup>These were their names:
<br>
Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh,
Gaddi the son of Susi.

<key:bcv=Numbers 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:16">16 </verse></sup>These are the names of the men who Moses sent
to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of
Nun Joshua. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Moses sent them to spy out the land
of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the
South, and go up into the hill country. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:18">18 </verse></sup>See the
land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein,
whether they are strong or weak, whether they are
few or many; <key:bcv=Numbers 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:19">19 </verse></sup>and what the land is that they dwell
in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they
are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in
strongholds; <key:bcv=Numbers 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:20">20 </verse></sup>and what the land is, whether it is
fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or
not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of
the land.” Now the time was the time of the firstripe
grapes.

<key:bcv=Numbers 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:21">21 </verse></sup>So they went up, and spied out the land from
the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of
Hamath. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:22">22 </verse></sup>They went up by the South, and came
to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was
built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) <key:bcv=Numbers 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:23">23 </verse></sup>They
came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from
there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and
they bore it on a staff between two. They also
brought some of the pomegranates and figs. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:24">24 </verse></sup>That
place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the
cluster which the children of Israel cut down from
there. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:25">25 </verse></sup>They returned from spying out the land
at the end of forty days. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:26">26 </verse></sup>They went and came
to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of
the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran,
to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to
all the congregation. They showed them the fruit
of the land. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:27">27 </verse></sup>They told him, and said, “We came
to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with
milk and honey, and this is its fruit. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:28">28 </verse></sup>However, the
people who dwell in the land are strong, and the
cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw
the children of Anak there. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:29">29 </verse></sup>Amalek dwells in the
land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the
Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite
dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said,
“Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well
able to overcome it!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:31">31 </verse></sup>But the men who went up with him said, “We
aren’t able to go up against the people; for they
are stronger than we.” <key:bcv=Numbers 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:32">32 </verse></sup>They brought up an evil
report of the land which they had spied out to
the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through
which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that
eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we
saw in it are men of great stature. <key:bcv=Numbers 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 13:33">33 </verse></sup>There we
saw the Nephilim,<footnote:1>13:33 or, giants </footnote> the sons of Anak, who come
from the Nephilim.<footnote:1>13:33 or, giants</footnote> We were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
#BCV:Numbers 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:1">1 </verse></sup>All the congregation lifted up their voice, and
cried; and the people wept that night. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:2">2 </verse></sup>All the children
of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We
wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that
we had died in this wilderness! <key:bcv=Numbers 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Why does Yahweh
bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our
wives and our little ones will be captured or killed!
Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:4">4 </verse></sup>They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader,
and let’s return into Egypt.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before
all the assembly of the congregation of the children
of Israel.

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the
land, tore their clothes. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:7">7 </verse></sup>They spoke to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The
land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an
exceedingly good land. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:8">8 </verse></sup>If Yahweh delights in us,
then he will bring us into this land, and give it to
us: a land which flows with milk and honey. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Only
don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people
of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense
is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us.
Don’t fear them.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:10">10 </verse></sup>But all the congregation threatened to stone
them with stones.
<br>
Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting
to all the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses,
“How long will this people despise me? How long
will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I
have worked among them? <key:bcv=Numbers 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:12">12 </verse></sup>I will strike them with
the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make
of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians
will hear it; for you brought up this people in your
might from among them. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:14">14 </verse></sup>They will tell it to the
inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you
Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh
are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over
them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud
by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Now if
you killed this people as one man, then the nations
which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:16">16 </verse></sup>‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people
into the land which he swore to them, therefore he
has slain them in the wilderness.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Now please
let the power of the Lord<footnote:1>14:17 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> be great, according as
you have spoken, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:18">18 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh is slow to
anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving
iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means
clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, on the third and on the fourth
generation.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:19">19 </verse></sup>Please pardon the iniquity of this
people according to the greatness of your loving
kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people,
from Egypt even until now.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to
your word; <key:bcv=Numbers 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:21">21 </verse></sup>but in very deed —as I live, and as
all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory
— <key:bcv=Numbers 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:22">22 </verse></sup>because all those men who have seen my
glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and
in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten
times, and have not listened to my voice; <key:bcv=Numbers 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:23">23 </verse></sup>surely
they shall not see the land which I swore to their
fathers, neither shall any of those who despised
me see it. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:24">24 </verse></sup>But my servant Caleb, because he
had another spirit with him, and has followed me
fully, him I will bring into the land into which he
went. His offspring shall possess it. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:25">25 </verse></sup>Since the
Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley,
tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the
way to the Red Sea.” <key:bcv=Numbers 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:27">27 </verse></sup>“How long shall I bear
with this evil congregation that complain against
me? I have heard the complaints of the children
of Israel, which they complain against me. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Tell
them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have
spoken in my ears, so I will do to you. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Your
dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all
who were counted of you, according to your whole
number, from twenty years old and upward, who
have complained against me, <key:bcv=Numbers 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:30">30 </verse></sup>surely you shall not
come into the land concerning which I swore that
I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the
son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:31">31 </verse></sup>But
I will bring in your little ones that you said should
be captured or killed, and they shall know the land
which you have rejected. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:32">32 </verse></sup>But as for you, your dead
bodies shall fall in this wilderness. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:33">33 </verse></sup>Your children
shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years,
and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead
bodies are consumed in the wilderness. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:34">34 </verse></sup>After the
number of the days in which you spied out the land,
even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear
your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know
my alienation.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:35">35 </verse></sup>I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will
surely do this to all this evil congregation who are
gathered together against me. In this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:36">36 </verse></sup>The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land,
who returned and made all the congregation to
murmur against him by bringing up an evil report
against the land, <key:bcv=Numbers 14:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:37">37 </verse></sup>even those men who brought up
an evil report of the land, died by the plague before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:38">38 </verse></sup>But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the
son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who
went to spy out the land.

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:39">39 </verse></sup>Moses told these words to all the children of
Israel, and the people mourned greatly. <key:bcv=Numbers 14:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:40">40 </verse></sup>They rose
up early in the morning and went up to the top of
the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will
go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for
we have sinned.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:41">41 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment
of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:42">42 </verse></sup>Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that
way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:43">43 </verse></sup>For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are
before you, and you will fall by the sword because
you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore
Yahweh will not be with you.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 14:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:44">44 </verse></sup>But they presumed to go up to the top of
the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
<key:bcv=Numbers 14:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 14:45">45 </verse></sup>Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites
who lived in that mountain, and struck them
and beat them down even to Hormah.

#BCV:Numbers 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have
come into the land of your habitations, which I give
to you, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:3">3 </verse></sup>and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh
—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a
vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts,
to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd,
or of the flock— <key:bcv=Numbers 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:4">4 </verse></sup>then he who offers his offering
shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth
of an ephah<footnote:1>15:4 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine flour mixed with one fourth of
a hin<footnote:1>15:4 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote> of oil. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall prepare wine for the drink
offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering
or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘For a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering
two tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>15:6 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of fine flour mixed
with the third part of a hin of oil; <key:bcv=Numbers 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:7">7 </verse></sup>and for the
drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin
of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:8">8 </verse></sup>When
you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a
sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings
to Yahweh, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:9">9 </verse></sup>then he shall offer with the bull a
meal offering of three tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>15:9 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine
flour mixed with half a hin of oil; <key:bcv=Numbers 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:10">10 </verse></sup>and you shall
offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Thus it shall be done for each bull, for
each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the
young goats. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:12">12 </verse></sup>According to the number that you
shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according
to their number.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘All who are native-born shall do these things
in this way, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:14">14 </verse></sup>If a stranger
lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be
among you throughout your generations, and will
offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma
to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:15">15 </verse></sup>For the
assembly, there shall be one statute for you and
for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute
forever throughout your generations. As you are, so
the foreigner shall be before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:16">16 </verse></sup>One law and
one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner with you.’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:18">18 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come
into the land where I bring you, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:19">19 </verse></sup>then it shall be
that when you eat of the bread of the land, you
shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the
first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a
wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing
floor, so you shall heave it. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Of the first of your
dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering
throughout your generations.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these
commandments which Yahweh has spoken to
Moses — <key:bcv=Numbers 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:23">23 </verse></sup>even all that Yahweh has commanded
you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment
and onward throughout your generations—
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:24">24 </verse></sup>then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly,
without the knowledge of the congregation, that
all the congregation shall offer one young bull for
a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh,
with its meal offering and its drink offering, according
to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin
offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:25">25 </verse></sup>The priest shall make atonement for all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and they
shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have
brought their offering, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for
their error. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:26">26 </verse></sup>All the congregation of the children of
Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who
lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to
all the people, it was done unwittingly.
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:27">27 </verse></sup>“ ‘If a person sins unwittingly, then he shall
offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:28">28 </verse></sup>The priest shall make atonement for the soul
who errs when he sins unwittingly before Yahweh.
He shall make atonement for him; and he shall be
forgiven. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:29">29 </verse></sup>You shall have one law for him who does
anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born
among the children of Israel, and for the stranger
who lives as a foreigner among them.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high
hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner,
blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off
from among his people. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Because he has despised
Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment,
that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall
be on him.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:32">32 </verse></sup>While the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man gathering sticks on the
Sabbath day. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:33">33 </verse></sup>Those who found him gathering
sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to
all the congregation. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:34">34 </verse></sup>They put him in custody,
because it had not been declared what should be
done to him.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely
be put to death. All the congregation shall stone
him with stones outside of the camp.” <key:bcv=Numbers 15:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:36">36 </verse></sup>All the
congregation brought him outside of the camp,
and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 15:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:37">37 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 15:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:38">38 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them that they should
make themselves fringes<footnote:1>15:38 or, tassels (Hebrew<hebrew>צִיצִ֛ת<english>)  </footnote> on the borders of their
garments throughout their generations, and that
they put on the fringe<footnote:1>15:38 or, tassel </footnote> of each border a cord of blue.
<key:bcv=Numbers 15:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:39">39 </verse></sup>It shall be to you for a fringe,<footnote:1>15:39 or, tassel</footnote> that you may see
it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and
do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart
and your own eyes, after which you used to play the
prostitute; <key:bcv=Numbers 15:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:40">40 </verse></sup>so that you may remember and do all
my commandments, and be holy to your God. <key:bcv=Numbers 15:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 15:41">41 </verse></sup>I am
Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.”

#BCV:Numbers 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons
of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,
took some men. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:2">2 </verse></sup>They rose up before Moses, with
some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty
princes of the congregation, called to the assembly,
men of renown. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:3">3 </verse></sup>They assembled themselves
together against Moses and against Aaron, and said
to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all
the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and
Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves
up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:4">4 </verse></sup>When Moses heard it, he fell on his face. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:5">5 </verse></sup>He
said to Korah and to all his company, “In the
morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who
is holy, and will cause him to come near to him.
Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to
come near to him. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Do this: have Korah and all his
company take censers, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:7">7 </verse></sup>put fire in them, and put
incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall
be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be
holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of
Levi! <key:bcv=Numbers 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Is it a small thing to you that the God of
Israel has separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service
of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the
congregation to minister to them; <key:bcv=Numbers 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:10">10 </verse></sup>and that he
has brought you near, and all your brothers the
sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood
also? <key:bcv=Numbers 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore you and all your company have
gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron
that you complain against him?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons
of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up! <key:bcv=Numbers 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Is it
a small thing that you have brought us up out of
a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a
prince over us? <key:bcv=Numbers 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Moreover you haven’t brought us
into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given
us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put
out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh,
“Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one
donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company
go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron,
tomorrow. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Each man take his censer and put
incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh
his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and
Aaron, each with his censer.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:18">18 </verse></sup>They each took his censer, and put fire in it,
and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the
Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Korah
assembled all the congregation opposite them to
the door of the Tent of Meeting.
<br>
Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:21">21 </verse></sup>“Separate yourselves from among this congregation,
that I may consume them in a moment!”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:22">22 </verse></sup>They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God
of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will
you be angry with all the congregation?”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:24">24 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the
tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:25">25 </verse></sup>Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram;
and the elders of Israel followed him. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:26">26 </verse></sup>He spoke
to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from
the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing
of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:27">27 </verse></sup>So they went away from the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and
Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their
tents with their wives, their sons, and their little
ones.

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:28">28 </verse></sup>Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh
has sent me to do all these works; for they
are not from my own mind. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:29">29 </verse></sup>If these men die
the common death of all men, or if they experience
what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent
me. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:30">30 </verse></sup>But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the
ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with
all that belong to them, and they go down alive into
Sheol,<footnote:1>16:30 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> then you shall understand that these men
have despised Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:31">31 </verse></sup>As he finished speaking all these words, the
ground that was under them split apart. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:32">32 </verse></sup>The
earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up
with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all
their goods. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:33">33 </verse></sup>So they, and all that belonged
to them went down alive into Sheol.<footnote:1>16:33 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> The earth
closed on them, and they perished from among the
assembly. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:34">34 </verse></sup>All Israel that were around them fled at
their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us
up!” <key:bcv=Numbers 16:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:35">35 </verse></sup>Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured
the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:36">36 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:37">37 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take
up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the
fire away from the camp; for they are holy, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:38">38 </verse></sup>even
the censers of those who sinned against their own
lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering
of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh.
Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the
children of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:39">39 </verse></sup>Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers
which those who were burned had offered; and they
beat them out for a covering of the altar, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:40">40 </verse></sup>to be a
memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no
stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would
come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he
not be as Korah and as his company; as Yahweh
spoke to him by Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:41">41 </verse></sup>But on the next day all the congregation of
the children of Israel complained against Moses and
against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s
people!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:42">42 </verse></sup>When the congregation was assembled against
Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the
Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and
Yahweh’s glory appeared. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:43">43 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron came
to the front of the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:44">44 </verse></sup>Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 16:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:45">45 </verse></sup>“Get away from among
this congregation, that I may consume them in a
moment!” They fell on their faces.

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:46">46 </verse></sup>Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire
from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly
to the congregation, and make atonement for them;
for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague
has begun.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 16:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:47">47 </verse></sup>Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle
of the assembly. The plague had already begun
among the people. He put on the incense, and made
atonement for the people. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:48">48 </verse></sup>He stood between the
dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
<key:bcv=Numbers 16:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:49">49 </verse></sup>Now those who died by the plague were fourteen
thousand seven hundred, in addition to those who
died about the matter of Korah. <key:bcv=Numbers 16:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 16:50">50 </verse></sup>Aaron returned
to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the
plague was stopped.

#BCV:Numbers 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to the
children of Israel, and take rods from them, one for
each fathers’ house, of all their princes according to
their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s
name on his rod. <key:bcv=Numbers 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall write Aaron’s name
on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head
of their fathers’ houses. <key:bcv=Numbers 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall lay them up in
the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I
meet with you. <key:bcv=Numbers 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:5">5 </verse></sup>It shall happen that the rod of the
man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you, cease from me.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all
their princes gave him rods, for each prince one,
according to their fathers’ houses, a total of twelve
rods. Aaron’s rod was among their rods. <key:bcv=Numbers 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses
laid up the rods before Yahweh in the Tent of the
Testimony.

<key:bcv=Numbers 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:8">8 </verse></sup>On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the
Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of
Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and
bore ripe almonds. <key:bcv=Numbers 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses brought out all the rods
from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel.
They looked, and each man took his rod.
<key:bcv=Numbers 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of
Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token
against the children of rebellion; that you may make
an end of their complaining against me, that they
not die.” <key:bcv=Numbers 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded
him, so he did.

<key:bcv=Numbers 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:12">12 </verse></sup>The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying,
“Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are
all undone! <key:bcv=Numbers 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Everyone who keeps approaching
Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

#BCV:Numbers 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and
your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity
of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you
shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Bring
your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of
your father, near with you, that they may be joined
to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons
with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:3">3 </verse></sup>They shall keep your commands and the duty of
the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to
the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that
they not die, neither they nor you. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:4">4 </verse></sup>They shall be
joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent
of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger
shall not come near to you.

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:5">5 </verse></sup>“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary
and the duty of the altar, that there be no more
wrath on the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, I myself
have taken your brothers the Levites from among
the children of Israel. They are a gift to you,
dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent
of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:7">7 </verse></sup>You and your sons with you shall keep
your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for
that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the
service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who
comes near shall be put to death.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have
given you the command of my wave offerings, even
all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have
given them to you by reason of the anointing, and
to your sons, as a portion forever. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:9">9 </verse></sup>This shall
be yours of the most holy things from the fire:
every offering of theirs, even every meal offering
of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every
trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render
to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every
male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:11">11 </verse></sup>“This is yours, too: the wave offering of their
gift, even all the wave offerings of the children
of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your
sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion
forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall
eat of it.

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:12">12 </verse></sup>“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the
best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits
of them which they give to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:13">13 </verse></sup>The first-ripe
fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to
Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in
your house shall eat of it.

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:14">14 </verse></sup>“Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh
which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and
animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall
surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall
redeem the firstborn of unclean animals. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:16">16 </verse></sup>You
shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them
from a month old, according to your estimation, for
five shekels of money, according to the shekel<footnote:1>18:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> of
the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.<footnote:1>18:16 A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:17">17 </verse></sup>“But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a
cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn
of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their
blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for
an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Their meat shall be yours, as the wave
offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be
yours. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:19">19 </verse></sup>All the wave offerings of the holy things
which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have
given you and your sons and your daughters with
you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt
forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring
with you.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no
inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any
portion among them. I am your portion and your
inheritance among the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:21">21 </verse></sup>“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all
the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for
their service which they serve, even the service of
the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Henceforth the children of
Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest
they bear sin, and die. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:23">23 </verse></sup>But the Levites shall do
the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall
bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations. Among the children
of Israel, they shall have no inheritance. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:24">24 </verse></sup>For the
tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a
wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites
for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them,
‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:26">26 </verse></sup>“Moreover
you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When
you take of the children of Israel the tithe which
I have given you from them for your inheritance,
then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for
Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Your wave offering
shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain
of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the
wine press. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Thus you also shall offer a wave
offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you
receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall
give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
<key:bcv=Numbers 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:29">29 </verse></sup>Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave
offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the
holy part of it.’

<key:bcv=Numbers 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you
heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to
the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor,
and as the increase of the wine press. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:31">31 </verse></sup>You may
eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is
your reward in return for your service in the Tent
of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 18:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall bear no sin by reason of it,
when you have heaved from it its best. You shall
not profane the holy things of the children of Israel,
that you not die.’ ”

#BCV:Numbers 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:2">2 </verse></sup>“This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has
commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you
a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect,
and which was never yoked. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall give her
to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her outside
of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood
with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the
front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:5">5 </verse></sup>One shall
burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat,
and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:6">6 </verse></sup>The
priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet,
and cast it into the middle of the burning of the
heifer. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and
he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he
shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be
unclean until the evening. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He who burns her shall
wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in
water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:9">9 </verse></sup>“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of
the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a
clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation
of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing
impurity. It is a sin offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:10">10 </verse></sup>He who gathers
the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be
unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children
of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner
among them, for a statute forever.

<key:bcv=Numbers 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:11">11 </verse></sup>“He who touches the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:12">12 </verse></sup>He shall purify
himself with water on the third day, and on the
seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t
purify himself the third day, then the seventh day
he shall not be clean. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Whoever touches a dead
person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t
purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the
water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he
shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:14">14 </verse></sup>“This is the law when a man dies in a tent:
everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone
who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Every open vessel, which has no covering bound
on it, is unclean.

<key:bcv=Numbers 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:16">16 </verse></sup>“Whoever in the open field touches one who is
slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a
man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:17">17 </verse></sup>“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of
the burning of the sin offering; and running water
shall be poured on them in a vessel. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:18">18 </verse></sup>A clean
person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and
sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the
persons who were there, and on him who touched
the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:19">19 </verse></sup>The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean
on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the
seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash
his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall
be clean at evening. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:20">20 </verse></sup>But the man who shall be
unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall
be cut off from among the assembly, because he
has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water
for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He
is unclean. <key:bcv=Numbers 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:21">21 </verse></sup>It shall be a perpetual statute to
them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall
wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for
impurity shall be unclean until evening.
<key:bcv=Numbers 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 19:22">22 </verse></sup>“Whatever the unclean person touches shall
be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be
unclean until evening.”

#BCV:Numbers 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:1">1 </verse></sup>The children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
came into the wilderness of Zin in the
first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam
died there, and was buried there. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:2">2 </verse></sup>There was
no water for the congregation; and they assembled
themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:3">3 </verse></sup>The people quarreled with Moses, and
spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when
our brothers died before Yahweh! <key:bcv=Numbers 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Why have you
brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness,
that we should die there, we and our animals? <key:bcv=Numbers 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Why
have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring
us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of
figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there
any water to drink.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron went from the presence of
the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared
to them. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:8">8 </verse></sup>“Take
the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and
Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before
their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring
water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the
congregation and their livestock drink.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he
commanded him. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron gathered the
assembly together before the rock, and he said to
them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water
out of this rock for you?” <key:bcv=Numbers 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses lifted up his hand,
and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water
came out abundantly. The congregation and their
livestock drank.

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you
didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the
children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this
assembly into the land which I have given them.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:13">13 </verse></sup>These are the waters of Meribah;<footnote:1>20:13 “Meribah” means “quarreling”. </footnote> because the
children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was
sanctified in them.

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king
of Edom, saying:
<br>
“Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail
that has happened to us; <key:bcv=Numbers 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:15">15 </verse></sup>how our fathers went
down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long
time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:16">16 </verse></sup>When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice,
sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold,
we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:17">17 </verse></sup>“Please let us pass through your land. We will
not pass through field or through vineyard, neither
will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go
along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to
the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed
your border.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through
me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:19">19 </verse></sup>The children of Israel said to him, “We will go
up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and
my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me,
without doing anything else, pass through on my
feet.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom
came out against him with many people, and with
a strong hand. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:21">21 </verse></sup>Thus Edom refused to give Israel
passage through his border, so Israel turned away
from him.

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:22">22 </verse></sup>They traveled from Kadesh, and the children of
Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount
Hor. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount
Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:24">24 </verse></sup>“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall
not enter into the land which I have given to the
children of Israel, because you rebelled against my
word at the waters of Meribah. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:25">25 </verse></sup>Take Aaron and
Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:26">26 </verse></sup>and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on
Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall
die there.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:27">27 </verse></sup>Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went
up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
<key:bcv=Numbers 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:28">28 </verse></sup>Moses stripped Aaron of his garments,
and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there
on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar
came down from the mountain. <key:bcv=Numbers 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 20:29">29 </verse></sup>When all the
congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept
for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

#BCV:Numbers 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:1">1 </verse></sup>The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in
the South, heard that Israel came by the way of
Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some
of them captive. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh,
and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people
into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their
cities.” <key:bcv=Numbers 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel,
and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly
destroyed them and their cities. The name of the
place was called Hormah.<footnote:1>21:3 “Hormah” means “destruction”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:4">4 </verse></sup>They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the
Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul
of the people was very discouraged because of the
journey. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:5">5 </verse></sup>The people spoke against God and against
Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is
no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people,
and they bit the people. Many people of
Israel died. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:7">7 </verse></sup>The people came to Moses, and said,
“We have sinned, because we have spoken against
Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he
take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for
the people.

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake,
and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone
who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” <key:bcv=Numbers 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses
made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a
serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the
serpent of bronze, he lived.

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:10">10 </verse></sup>The children of Israel traveled, and encamped
in Oboth. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:11">11 </verse></sup>They traveled from Oboth, and encamped
at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is
before Moab, toward the sunrise. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:12">12 </verse></sup>From there
they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:13">13 </verse></sup>From there they traveled, and encamped on the
other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness
that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for
the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and
the Amorites. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore it is said in The Book of the
Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the
Arnon, <key:bcv=Numbers 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:15">15 </verse></sup>the slope of the valleys that incline toward
the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:16">16 </verse></sup>From there they traveled to Beer; that is the
well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the
people together, and I will give them water.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Israel sang this song:
<br>
“Spring up, well! Sing to it,

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:18">18 </verse></sup>the well, which the princes dug,
<br>
which the nobles of the people dug,
<br>
with the scepter, and with their poles.”
From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:19">19 </verse></sup>and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel
to Bamoth; <key:bcv=Numbers 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:20">20 </verse></sup>and from Bamoth to the valley that
is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which
looks down on the desert. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Israel sent messengers
to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:22">22 </verse></sup>“Let me
pass through your land. We will not turn away into
field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of
the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we
have passed your border.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his
border, but Sihon gathered all his people together,
and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and
came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:24">24 </verse></sup>Israel
struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even
to the children of Ammon; for the border of the
children of Ammon was fortified. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Israel took
all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of
the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:26">26 </verse></sup>For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of
the Amorites, who had fought against the former
king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand,
even to the Arnon. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore those who speak in
proverbs say,
<br>
“Come to Heshbon.
<br>
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:28">28 </verse></sup>for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
<br>
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
<br>
The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:29">29 </verse></sup>Woe to you, Moab!
<br>
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
<br>
He has given his sons as fugitives,
<br>
and his daughters into captivity,
<br>
to Sihon king of the Amorites.

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:30">30 </verse></sup>We have shot at them.
<br>
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
<br>
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
<br>
Which reaches to Medeba.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
<key:bcv=Numbers 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:32">32 </verse></sup>Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages,
and drove out the Amorites who were there. <key:bcv=Numbers 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:33">33 </verse></sup>They
turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the
king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:34">34 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for
I have delivered him into your hand, with all his
people, and his land. You shall do to him as you
did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at
Heshbon.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 21:35">35 </verse></sup>So they struck him, with his sons and all his
people, until there were no survivors; and they
possessed his land.

#BCV:Numbers 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:1">1 </verse></sup>The children of Israel traveled, and encamped
in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:2">2 </verse></sup>Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had
done to the Amorites. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:3">3 </verse></sup>Moab was very afraid of
the people, because they were many. Moab was
distressed because of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Moab
said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude
will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up
the grass of the field.”
<br>
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that
time. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:5">5 </verse></sup>He sent messengers to Balaam the son of
Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land
of the children of his people, to call him, saying,
“Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt.
Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and
they are staying opposite me. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Please come now
therefore, and curse this people for me; for they
are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that
we may strike them, and that I may drive them out
of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is
blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:7">7 </verse></sup>The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian
departed with the rewards of divination in their
hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the
words of Balak.

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:8">8 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I
will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to
me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:9">9 </verse></sup>God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these
men with you?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab, has said to me, <key:bcv=Numbers 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:11">11 </verse></sup>‘Behold, the people
that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the
earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I
shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive
them out.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:12">12 </verse></sup>God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with
them. You shall not curse the people, for they are
blessed.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:13">13 </verse></sup>Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to
the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh
refuses to permit me to go with you.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:14">14 </verse></sup>The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to
Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable
than they. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:16">16 </verse></sup>They came to Balaam, and said
to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let
nothing hinder you from coming to me, <key:bcv=Numbers 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:17">17 </verse></sup>for I will
promote you to very great honor, and whatever you
say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse
this people for me.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:18">18 </verse></sup>Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If
Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,
I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to
do less or more. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:19">19 </verse></sup>Now therefore please stay here
tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh
will speak to me.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:20">20 </verse></sup>God came to Balaam at night, and said to him,
“If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with
them; but only the word which I speak to you, that
you shall do.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his
donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:22">22 </verse></sup>God’s
anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel
placed himself in the way as an adversary against
him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his
two servants were with him. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:23">23 </verse></sup>The donkey saw
Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword
drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of
the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck
the donkey, to turn her into the path. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:24">24 </verse></sup>Then
Yahweh’s angel stood in a narrow path between the
vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on
that side. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:25">25 </verse></sup>The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and
she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s
foot against the wall. He struck her again.
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a
narrow place, where there was no way to turn either
to the right hand or to the left. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:27">27 </verse></sup>The donkey saw
Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam.
Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey
with his staff.

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and
she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that
you have struck me these three times?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:29">29 </verse></sup>Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have
mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand,
for now I would have killed you.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:30">30 </verse></sup>The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your
donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long
until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to
you?”
<br>
He said, “No.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:31">31 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and
he saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with
his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his
head, and fell on his face. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:32">32 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to
him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three
times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary,
because your way is perverse before me. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:33">33 </verse></sup>The
donkey saw me, and turned away before me these
three times. Unless she had turned away from me,
surely now I would have killed you, and saved her
alive.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:34">34 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Yahweh’s angel, “I have sinned;
for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against
me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back
again.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the
men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall
speak to you.”
<br>
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:36">36 </verse></sup>When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went
out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on
the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost
part of the border. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:37">37 </verse></sup>Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I
earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t
you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote
you to honor?”

<key:bcv=Numbers 22:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:38">38 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to
you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything?
I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 22:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:39">39 </verse></sup>Balaam went with Balak, and they came to
Kiriath Huzoth. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:40">40 </verse></sup>Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep,
and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were
with him. <key:bcv=Numbers 22:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 22:41">41 </verse></sup>In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and
brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he
saw from there part of the people.

#BCV:Numbers 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for
me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for
me.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak
and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a
ram. <key:bcv=Numbers 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt
offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come
to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
He went to a bare height. <key:bcv=Numbers 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:4">4 </verse></sup>God met Balaam, and
he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars,
and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every
altar.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said,
“Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:6">6 </verse></sup>He returned to him, and behold, he was standing
by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of
Moab. <key:bcv=Numbers 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:7">7 </verse></sup>He took up his parable, and said,
“From Aram has Balak brought me,
<br>
the king of Moab from the mountains of the
East.
<br>
Come, curse Jacob for me.
<br>
Come, defy Israel.

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:8">8 </verse></sup>How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:9">9 </verse></sup>For from the top of the rocks I see him.
From the hills I see him.
<br>
Behold, it is a people that dwells alone,
and shall not be listed among the nations.
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Who can count the dust of Jacob,
<br>
or count the fourth part of Israel?
<br>
Let me die the death of the righteous!
Let my last end be like his!”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to
me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold,
you have blessed them altogether.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:12">12 </verse></sup>He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to
speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Balak said to him, “Please come with me to
another place, where you may see them. You shall
see just part of them, and shall not see them all.
Curse them from there for me.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:14">14 </verse></sup>He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top
of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a
bull and a ram on every altar. <key:bcv=Numbers 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to Balak,
“Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet
God over there.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his
mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:17">17 </verse></sup>He came to him, and behold, he was standing
by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with
him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:18">18 </verse></sup>He took up his parable, and said,
<br>
“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
<br>
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:19">19 </verse></sup>God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should repent.
Has he said, and he won’t do it?
<br>
Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Behold, I have received a command to bless.
He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:21">21 </verse></sup>He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
Yahweh his God is with him.
<br>
The shout of a king is among them.

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:22">22 </verse></sup>God brings them out of Egypt.
<br>
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:23">23 </verse></sup>Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
neither is there any divination with Israel.
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
‘What has God done!’

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
As a lion he lifts himself up.
<br>
He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,
and drinks the blood of the slain.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:25">25 </verse></sup>Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at
all, nor bless them at all.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:26">26 </verse></sup>But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you,
saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:27">27 </verse></sup>Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you
to another place; perhaps it will please God that you
may curse them for me from there.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks
down on the desert. <key:bcv=Numbers 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:29">29 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Balak, “Build
seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls
and seven rams for me here.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a
bull and a ram on every altar.

#BCV:Numbers 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:1">1 </verse></sup>When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to
bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times,
to use divination, but he set his face toward the
wilderness. <key:bcv=Numbers 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw
Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the
Spirit of God came on him. <key:bcv=Numbers 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:3">3 </verse></sup>He took up his parable,
and said,
<br>
“Balaam the son of Beor says,
<br>
the man whose eyes are open says;

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:4">4 </verse></sup>he says, who hears the words of God,
who sees the vision of the Almighty,
<br>
falling down, and having his eyes open:
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:5">5 </verse></sup>How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
<br>
and your dwellings, Israel!

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:6">6 </verse></sup>As valleys they are spread out,
<br>
as gardens by the riverside,
<br>
as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
<br>
as cedar trees beside the waters.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:7">7 </verse></sup>Water shall flow from his buckets.
<br>
His seed shall be in many waters.
<br>
His king shall be higher than Agag.
<br>
His kingdom shall be exalted.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:8">8 </verse></sup>God brings him out of Egypt.
<br>
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
He shall consume the nations his adversaries,
shall break their bones in pieces,
<br>
and pierce them with his arrows.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:9">9 </verse></sup>He couched, he lay down as a lion,
<br>
as a lioness;
<br>
who shall rouse him up?
<br>
Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
<br>
Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he
struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam,
“I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold,
you have altogether blessed them these three times.
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to
promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh
has kept you back from honor.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:12">12 </verse></sup>Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your
messengers whom you sent to me, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:13">13 </verse></sup>‘If Balak
would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good
or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh
says’? <key:bcv=Numbers 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:14">14 </verse></sup>Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will
inform you what this people shall do to your people
in the latter days.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:15">15 </verse></sup>He took up his parable, and said,
<br>
“Balaam the son of Beor says,
<br>
the man whose eyes are open says;

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:16">16 </verse></sup>he says, who hears the words of God,
knows the knowledge of the Most High,
and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
falling down, and having his eyes open:
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:17">17 </verse></sup>I see him, but not now.
<br>
I see him, but not near.
<br>
A star will come out of Jacob.
<br>
A scepter will rise out of Israel,
<br>
and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
and crush all the sons of Sheth.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Edom shall be a possession.
<br>
Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession,
while Israel does valiantly.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:19">19 </verse></sup>Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:20">20 </verse></sup>He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable,
and said,
<br>
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
but his latter end shall come to destruction.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:21">21 </verse></sup>He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable,
and said,
<br>
“Your dwelling place is strong.
<br>
Your nest is set in the rock.

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
until Asshur carries you away captive.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:23">23 </verse></sup>He took up his parable, and said,
<br>
“Alas, who shall live when God does this?
<key:bcv=Numbers 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:24">24 </verse></sup>But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
He also shall come to destruction.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 24:25">25 </verse></sup>Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his
place; and Balak also went his way.

#BCV:Numbers 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began
to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:2">2 </verse></sup>for they called the people to the sacrifices of their
gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s
anger burned against Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses,
“Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up
to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of
Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill
his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, one of the children of Israel came and
brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the
sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation
of the children of Israel, while they were
weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:7">7 </verse></sup>When
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the
congregation, and took a spear in his hand. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:8">8 </verse></sup>He
went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and
thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and
the woman through her body. So the plague was
stopped among the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Those who
died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:11">11 </verse></sup>“Phinehas,
the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has
turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in
that he was jealous with my jealousy among them,
so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my
jealousy. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my
covenant of peace. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:13">13 </verse></sup>It shall be to him, and to his
offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and
made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:14">14 </verse></sup>Now the name of the man of Israel that was
slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was
Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house
among the Simeonites. <key:bcv=Numbers 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:15">15 </verse></sup>The name of the Midianite
woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of
Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house
in Midian.

<key:bcv=Numbers 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:17">17 </verse></sup>“Harass the
Midianites, and strike them; <key:bcv=Numbers 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 25:18">18 </verse></sup>for they harassed you
with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in
the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding
Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their
sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the
matter of Peor.”

#BCV:Numbers 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:1">1 </verse></sup>After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take
a census of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their
fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war
in Israel.” <key:bcv=Numbers 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke
with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:4">4 </verse></sup>“Take a census, from twenty years
old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and
the children of Israel.”
<br>
These are those who came out of the land of
Egypt. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:5">5 </verse></sup>Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of
Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites;
of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:6">6 </verse></sup>of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the
Carmites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:7">7 </verse></sup>These are the families of the Reubenites;
and those who were counted of them were fortythree
thousand seven hundred thirty. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:8">8 </verse></sup>The son of
Pallu: Eliab. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan,
and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram
who were called by the congregation, who rebelled
against Moses and against Aaron in the company of
Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:10">10 </verse></sup>and
the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them
up together with Korah when that company died; at
the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men,
and they became a sign. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, the
sons of Korah didn’t die. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:12">12 </verse></sup>The sons of Simeon
after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the
Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites;
of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:13">13 </verse></sup>of Zerah,
the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of
the Shaulites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:14">14 </verse></sup>These are the families of the Simeonites,
twenty-two thousand two hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:15">15 </verse></sup>The
sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of
the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
<key:bcv=Numbers 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:16">16 </verse></sup>of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the
family of the Erites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:17">17 </verse></sup>of Arod, the family of the
Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:18">18 </verse></sup>These
are the families of the sons of Gad according to
those who were counted of them, forty thousand
and five hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Judah: Er and
Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
<key:bcv=Numbers 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:20">20 </verse></sup>The sons of Judah after their families were: of
Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the
family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the
Zerahites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the
family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of
the Hamulites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:22">22 </verse></sup>These are the families of Judah
according to those who were counted of them,
seventy-six thousand five hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of
Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of
the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:24">24 </verse></sup>of
Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the
family of the Shimronites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:25">25 </verse></sup>These are the families
of Issachar according to those who were counted of
them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:26">26 </verse></sup>The
sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the
Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
<key:bcv=Numbers 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:27">27 </verse></sup>These are the families of the Zebulunites according
to those who were counted of them, sixty thousand
five hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of Joseph after their
families: Manasseh and Ephraim. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:29">29 </verse></sup>The sons of
Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites;
and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead,
the family of the Gileadites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:30">30 </verse></sup>These are the sons
of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of
Helek, the family of the Helekites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:31">31 </verse></sup>and Asriel, the
family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family
of the Shechemites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:32">32 </verse></sup>and Shemida, the family of
the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:33">33 </verse></sup>Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no
sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters
of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Tirzah. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:34">34 </verse></sup>These are the families of
Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were
fifty-two thousand seven hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:35">35 </verse></sup>These are the
sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah,
the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the
family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:36">36 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Shuthelah: of
Eran, the family of the Eranites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:37">37 </verse></sup>These are the
families of the sons of Ephraim according to those
who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand
five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after
their families. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:38">38 </verse></sup>The sons of Benjamin after their
families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of
Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram,
the family of the Ahiramites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:39">39 </verse></sup>of Shephupham,
the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:40">40 </verse></sup>The sons of Bela were
Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; and
of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:41">41 </verse></sup>These
are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and
those who were counted of them were forty-five
thousand six hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:42">42 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Dan
after their families: of Shuham, the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after
their families. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:43">43 </verse></sup>All the families of the Shuhamites,
according to those who were counted of them, were
sixty-four thousand four hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:44">44 </verse></sup>The sons of
Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of
the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of
Beriah, the family of the Berites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:45">45 </verse></sup>Of the sons
of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites;
of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:46">46 </verse></sup>The
name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:47">47 </verse></sup>These
are the families of the sons of Asher according
to those who were counted of them, fifty-three
thousand four hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:48">48 </verse></sup>The sons of Naphtali
after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the
Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; <key:bcv=Numbers 26:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:49">49 </verse></sup>of
Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the
family of the Shillemites. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:50">50 </verse></sup>These are the families
of Naphtali according to their families; and those
who were counted of them were forty-five thousand
four hundred. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:51">51 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted
of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand
seven hundred thirty.

<key:bcv=Numbers 26:52><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:52">52 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 26:53><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:53">53 </verse></sup>“To these the
land shall be divided for an inheritance according to
the number of names. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:54><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:54">54 </verse></sup>To the more you shall give
the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall
give the less inheritance. To everyone according to
those who were counted of him shall his inheritance
be given. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:55><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:55">55 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, the land shall be
divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes
of their fathers they shall inherit. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:56><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:56">56 </verse></sup>According to
the lot shall their inheritance be divided between
the more and the fewer.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 26:57><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:57">57 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted of the
Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family
of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the
Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
<key:bcv=Numbers 26:58><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:58">58 </verse></sup>These are the families of Levi: the family of
the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the
family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites,
and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became
the father of Amram. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:59><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:59">59 </verse></sup>The name of Amram’s
wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was
born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron
and Moses, and Miriam their sister. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:60><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:60">60 </verse></sup>To Aaron
were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
<key:bcv=Numbers 26:61><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:61">61 </verse></sup>Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange
fire before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:62><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:62">62 </verse></sup>Those who were counted
of them were twenty-three thousand, every male
from a month old and upward; for they were not
counted among the children of Israel, because there
was no inheritance given them among the children
of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:63><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:63">63 </verse></sup>These are those who were counted
by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:64><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:64">64 </verse></sup>But among these there was not a man
of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the
priest, who counted the children of Israel in the
wilderness of Sinai. <key:bcv=Numbers 26:65><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 26:65">65 </verse></sup>For Yahweh had said of them,
“They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There
was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

#BCV:Numbers 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the
son of Joseph came near. These are the names
of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah,
and Tirzah. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:2">2 </verse></sup>They stood before Moses, before
Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the
congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting,
saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:3">3 </verse></sup>“Our father died in the wilderness. He
was not among the company of those who gathered
themselves together against Yahweh in the company
of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had
no sons. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Why should the name of our father be
taken away from among his family, because he had
no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers
of our father.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:5">5 </verse></sup>Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:7">7 </verse></sup>“The daughters
of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give
them a possession of an inheritance among their
father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of
their father to pass to them. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall speak to the
children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no
son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to
his daughter. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:9">9 </verse></sup>If he has no daughter, then you shall
give his inheritance to his brothers. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:10">10 </verse></sup>If he has no
brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his
father’s brothers. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:11">11 </verse></sup>If his father has no brothers,
then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman
who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess
it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the
children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain
of Abarim, and see the land which I have given
to the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:13">13 </verse></sup>When you have seen it,
you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron
your brother was gathered; <key:bcv=Numbers 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:14">14 </verse></sup>because in the strife
of the congregation, you rebelled against my word
in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the
waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of
Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
<key:bcv=Numbers 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:16">16 </verse></sup>“Let Yahweh,
the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over
the congregation, <key:bcv=Numbers 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:17">17 </verse></sup>who may go out before them,
and who may come in before them, and who may
lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the
congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which
have no shepherd.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son
of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your
hand on him. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:19">19 </verse></sup>Set him before Eleazar the priest,
and before all the congregation; and commission
him in their sight. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall give authority to
him, that all the congregation of the children of
Israel may obey. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:21">21 </verse></sup>He shall stand before Eleazar the
priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment
of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall
go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he
and all the children of Israel with him, even all the
congregation.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took
Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and
before all the congregation. <key:bcv=Numbers 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 27:23">23 </verse></sup>He laid his hands on
him and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by
Moses.

#BCV:Numbers 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:2">2 </verse></sup>“Command
the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you
present my offering, my food for my offerings made
by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due
season.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering
made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male
lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for
a continual burnt offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall offer the one
lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other
lamb at evening, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:5">5 </verse></sup>with one tenth of an ephah<footnote:1>28:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of
fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with the fourth
part of a hin<footnote:1>28:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote> of beaten oil. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:6">6 </verse></sup>It is a continual burnt
offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a
pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Numbers 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin<footnote:1>28:7 One hin is about 6.5 liters, so 1/4 hin is about 1.6 liters or 1.7 quarts. </footnote>
for each lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering
of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The
other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal
offering of the morning, and as its drink offering,
you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Numbers 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the Sabbath day, you shall offer two male
lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of
an ephah<footnote:1>28:9 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of fine flour for a meal offering mixed
with oil, and its drink offering: <key:bcv=Numbers 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:10">10 </verse></sup>this is the burnt
offering of every Sabbath, in addition to the continual
burnt offering and its drink offering.
<key:bcv=Numbers 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall
offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls,
one ram, seven male lambs a year old without
defect, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:12">12 </verse></sup>and three tenths of an ephah<footnote:1>28:12 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of fine flour
for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull;
and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering
mixed with oil, for the one ram; <key:bcv=Numbers 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:13">13 </verse></sup>and one tenth
part of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering
to every lamb, as a burnt offering of a pleasant
aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:14">14 </verse></sup>Their
drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull,
the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth
part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering
of every month throughout the months of the year.
<key:bcv=Numbers 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:15">15 </verse></sup>Also, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh
shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt
offering and its drink offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month, is Yahweh’s Passover. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:17">17 </verse></sup>On the fifteenth
day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread
shall be eaten for seven days. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:18">18 </verse></sup>In the first day
shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular
work, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:19">19 </verse></sup>but you shall offer an offering made by fire,
a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one
ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall
be without defect, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:20">20 </verse></sup>with their meal offering, fine
flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for
a bull, and two tenths for the ram. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall offer
one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; <key:bcv=Numbers 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:22">22 </verse></sup>and
one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement
for you. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall offer these in addition to
the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a
continual burnt offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:24">24 </verse></sup>In this way you shall
offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering
made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It
shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt
offering and its drink offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:25">25 </verse></sup>On the seventh
day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do
no regular work.

<key:bcv=Numbers 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you
offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast
of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You
shall do no regular work; <key:bcv=Numbers 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:27">27 </verse></sup>but you shall offer a
burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two
young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
<key:bcv=Numbers 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:28">28 </verse></sup>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with
oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the
one ram, <key:bcv=Numbers 28:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:29">29 </verse></sup>one tenth for every lamb of the seven
lambs; <key:bcv=Numbers 28:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:30">30 </verse></sup>and one male goat, to make atonement for
you. <key:bcv=Numbers 28:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 28:31">31 </verse></sup>Besides the continual burnt offering and its
meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink
offerings. See that they are without defect.
#BCV:Numbers 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of
the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you
shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of
trumpets to you. <key:bcv=Numbers 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall offer a burnt offering
for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one
ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:3">3 </verse></sup>and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil:
three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:4">4 </verse></sup>and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:5">5 </verse></sup>and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement
for you; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:6">6 </verse></sup>in addition to the burnt offering
of the new moon with its meal offering, and the
continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and
their drink offerings, according to their ordinance,
for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you
shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your
souls. You shall do no kind of work; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:8">8 </verse></sup>but you
shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant
aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs
a year old, all without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:9">9 </verse></sup>and their meal
offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for
the bull, two tenths for the one ram, <key:bcv=Numbers 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:10">10 </verse></sup>one tenth
for every lamb of the seven lambs; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:11">11 </verse></sup>one male goat
for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and
its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month
you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do
no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh
seven days. <key:bcv=Numbers 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall offer a burnt offering,
an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen
male lambs a year old, all without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:14">14 </verse></sup>and
their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three
tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two
tenths for each ram of the two rams, <key:bcv=Numbers 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:15">15 </verse></sup>and one
tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:16">16 </verse></sup>and
one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the
continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its
drink offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the second day you shall offer twelve
young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a
year old without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:18">18 </verse></sup>and their meal offering
and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the
rams, and for the lambs, according to their number,
after the ordinance; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:19">19 </verse></sup>and one male goat for a sin
offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering,
with its meal offering and their drink offerings.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:21">21 </verse></sup>and their meal offering and their drink offerings
for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance;
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:22">22 </verse></sup>and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to
the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering,
and its drink offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen
male lambs a year old without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:24">24 </verse></sup>their
meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls,
for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their
number, after the ordinance; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:25">25 </verse></sup>and one male goat
for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt
offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen
male lambs a year old without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:27">27 </verse></sup>and
their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to
their number, after the ordinance, <key:bcv=Numbers 29:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:28">28 </verse></sup>and one male
goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual
burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink
offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen
male lambs a year old without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:30">30 </verse></sup>and
their meal offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according
to their number, after the ordinance, <key:bcv=Numbers 29:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:31">31 </verse></sup>and one
male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the
continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the
drink offerings of it.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:33">33 </verse></sup>and their meal offering and their drink offerings
for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
according to their number, after the ordinance,
<key:bcv=Numbers 29:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:34">34 </verse></sup>and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to
the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and
its drink offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:35">35 </verse></sup>“ ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn
assembly. You shall do no regular work; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:36">36 </verse></sup>but you
shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire,
a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram,
seven male lambs a year old without defect; <key:bcv=Numbers 29:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:37">37 </verse></sup>their
meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull,
for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to
their number, after the ordinance, <key:bcv=Numbers 29:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:38">38 </verse></sup>and one male
goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual
burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink
offering.

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:39">39 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set
feasts —in addition to your vows and your free
will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal
offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace
offerings.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 29:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 29:40">40 </verse></sup>Moses told the children of Israel according to
all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

#BCV:Numbers 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the
children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which
Yahweh has commanded. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:2">2 </verse></sup>When a man vows a vow
to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with
a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do
according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
<key:bcv=Numbers 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:3">3 </verse></sup>“Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh
and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s
house, in her youth, <key:bcv=Numbers 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:4">4 </verse></sup>and her father hears her vow
and her pledge with which she has bound her soul,
and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows
shall stand, and every pledge with which she has
bound her soul shall stand. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:5">5 </verse></sup>But if her father forbids
her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or
of her pledges with which she has bound her soul,
shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her
father has forbidden her.

<key:bcv=Numbers 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:6">6 </verse></sup>“If she has a husband, while her vows are on
her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which
she has bound her soul, <key:bcv=Numbers 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:7">7 </verse></sup>and her husband hears
it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears
it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with
which she has bound her soul shall stand. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:8">8 </verse></sup>But if
her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it,
then he makes void her vow which is on her and the
rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound
her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

<key:bcv=Numbers 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:9">9 </verse></sup>“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is
divorced, everything with which she has bound her
soul shall stand against her.

<key:bcv=Numbers 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:10">10 </verse></sup>“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound
her soul by a bond with an oath, <key:bcv=Numbers 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:11">11 </verse></sup>and her husband
heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t
disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and
every pledge with which she bound her soul shall
stand. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:12">12 </verse></sup>But if her husband made them null and
void in the day that he heard them, then whatever
proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or
concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand.
Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will
forgive her. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:13">13 </verse></sup>Every vow, and every binding oath
to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it,
or her husband may make it void. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:14">14 </verse></sup>But if her
husband says nothing to her from day to day, then
he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which
are on her. He has established them, because he said
nothing to her in the day that he heard them. <key:bcv=Numbers 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:15">15 </verse></sup>But
if he makes them null and void after he has heard
them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 30:16">16 </verse></sup>These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded
Moses, between a man and his wife, between
a father and his daughter, being in her youth,
in her father’s house.

#BCV:Numbers 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:2">2 </verse></sup>“Avenge the
children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you
shall be gathered to your people.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men
from among you for war, that they may go against
Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall send one thousand out of every tribe,
throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” <key:bcv=Numbers 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:5">5 </verse></sup>So
there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel,
a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand
armed for war. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses sent them, one thousand
of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son
of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels
of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in
his hand. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:7">7 </verse></sup>They fought against Midian, as Yahweh
commanded Moses. They killed every male. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:8">8 </verse></sup>They
killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their
slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five
kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son
of Beor with the sword. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Israel
took the women of Midian captive with their little
ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and
all their goods, they took as plunder. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:10">10 </verse></sup>All their
cities in the places in which they lived, and all
their encampments, they burned with fire. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:11">11 </verse></sup>They
took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of
man and of animal. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:12">12 </verse></sup>They brought the captives
with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of
Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses
and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the
congregation, went out to meet them outside of the
camp. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:14">14 </verse></sup>Moses was angry with the officers of the
army, the captains of thousands and the captains
of hundreds, who came from the service of the
war. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the
women alive? <key:bcv=Numbers 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, these caused the children
of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit
trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor,
and so the plague was among the congregation of
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:17">17 </verse></sup>Now therefore kill every male among
the little ones, and kill every woman who has known
man by lying with him. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:18">18 </verse></sup>But all the girls, who have
not known man by lying with him, keep alive for
yourselves.

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:19">19 </verse></sup>“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days.
Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has
touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third
day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall purify every garment, and all that is
made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all
things made of wood.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:21">21 </verse></sup>Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who
went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law
which Yahweh has commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:22">22 </verse></sup>However
the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin,
and the lead, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:23">23 </verse></sup>everything that may withstand the
fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it
shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with
the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand
the fire you shall make to go through the water.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day,
and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come
into the camp.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:26">26 </verse></sup>“Count the
plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal,
you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the
fathers’ households of the congregation; <key:bcv=Numbers 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:27">27 </verse></sup>and
divide the plunder into two parts: between the men
skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the
congregation. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:28">28 </verse></sup>Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the
men of war who went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the
donkeys, and of the flocks. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:29">29 </verse></sup>Take it from their half,
and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave
offering. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:30">30 </verse></sup>Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall
take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons,
of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of
all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who
perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:31">31 </verse></sup>Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh
commanded Moses.

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:32">32 </verse></sup>Now the plunder, over and above the booty
which the men of war took, was six hundred
seventy-five thousand sheep, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:33">33 </verse></sup>seventy-two thousand
head of cattle, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:34">34 </verse></sup>sixty-one thousand donkeys,
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:35">35 </verse></sup>and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the
women who had not known man by lying with him.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:36">36 </verse></sup>The half, which was the portion of those who went
out to war, was in number three hundred thirtyseven
thousand five hundred sheep; <key:bcv=Numbers 31:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:37">37 </verse></sup>and Yahweh’s
tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventyfive.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:38">38 </verse></sup>The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which
Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:39">39 </verse></sup>The donkeys
were thirty thousand five hundred, of which
Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:40">40 </verse></sup>The persons
were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute
was thirty-two persons. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:41">41 </verse></sup>Moses gave the tribute,
which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the
priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:42">42 </verse></sup>Of the children
of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from
the men who fought <key:bcv=Numbers 31:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:43">43 </verse></sup>(now the congregation’s
half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:44">44 </verse></sup>thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:45">45 </verse></sup>thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, <key:bcv=Numbers 31:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:46">46 </verse></sup>and
sixteen thousand persons), <key:bcv=Numbers 31:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:47">47 </verse></sup>even of the children
of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every
fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to
the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s
tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
<key:bcv=Numbers 31:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:48">48 </verse></sup>The officers who were over the thousands
of the army, the captains of thousands, and the
captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:49">49 </verse></sup>They
said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum
of the men of war who are under our command,
and there lacks not one man of us. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:50">50 </verse></sup>We have
brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found:
gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings,
earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our
souls before Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 31:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:51">51 </verse></sup>Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold,
even all worked jewels. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:52><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:52">52 </verse></sup>All the gold of the
wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of
the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred
fifty shekels.<footnote:1>31:52 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.</footnote> <key:bcv=Numbers 31:53><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:53">53 </verse></sup>The men of war had taken booty,
every man for himself. <key:bcv=Numbers 31:54><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 31:54">54 </verse></sup>Moses and Eleazar the
priest took the gold of the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of
Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel
before Yahweh.

#BCV:Numbers 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock.
They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead.

Behold, the place was a place for livestock. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:2">2 </verse></sup>Then
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest,
and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
<key:bcv=Numbers 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:3">3 </verse></sup>“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh,
Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:4">4 </verse></sup>the land which Yahweh
struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for
livestock; and your servants have livestock.” <key:bcv=Numbers 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:5">5 </verse></sup>They
said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this
land be given to your servants for a possession.
Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war
while you sit here? <key:bcv=Numbers 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:7">7 </verse></sup>Why do you discourage the
heart of the children of Israel from going over into
the land which Yahweh has given them? <key:bcv=Numbers 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:8">8 </verse></sup>Your
fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea
to see the land. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:9">9 </verse></sup>For when they went up to the
valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged
the heart of the children of Israel, that they should
not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
<key:bcv=Numbers 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore,
saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:11">11 </verse></sup>‘Surely none of the men who came up out
of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall
see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
<key:bcv=Numbers 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:12">12 </verse></sup>except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite,
and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have
followed Yahweh completely.’ <key:bcv=Numbers 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger
burned against Israel, and he made them wander
back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until
all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s
sight was consumed.

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:14">14 </verse></sup>“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’
place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the
fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:15">15 </verse></sup>For if you
turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all
these people.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:16">16 </verse></sup>They came near to him, and said, “We will
build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities
for our little ones; <key:bcv=Numbers 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:17">17 </verse></sup>but we ourselves will be ready
armed to go before the children of Israel, until we
have brought them to their place. Our little ones
shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the
inhabitants of the land. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:18">18 </verse></sup>We will not return to our
houses until the children of Israel have all received
their inheritance. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:19">19 </verse></sup>For we will not inherit with
them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond,
because our inheritance has come to us on this side
of the Jordan eastward.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:20">20 </verse></sup>Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if
you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the
war, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:21">21 </verse></sup>and every one of your armed men will pass
over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven
out his enemies from before him, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:22">22 </verse></sup>and the land is
subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall
return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and
to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession
before Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:23">23 </verse></sup>“But if you will not do so, behold, you have
sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will
find you out. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:24">24 </verse></sup>Build cities for your little ones,
and folds for your sheep; and do that which has
proceeded out of your mouth.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:25">25 </verse></sup>The children of Gad and the children of Reuben
spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as
my lord commands. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:26">26 </verse></sup>Our little ones, our wives,
our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the
cities of Gilead; <key:bcv=Numbers 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:27">27 </verse></sup>but your servants will pass over,
every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to
battle, as my lord says.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:28">28 </verse></sup>So Moses commanded concerning them to
Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun,
and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the
tribes of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses said to
them, “If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every
man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the
land is subdued before you, then you shall give them
the land of Gilead for a possession; <key:bcv=Numbers 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:30">30 </verse></sup>but if they
will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
<key:bcv=Numbers 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:31">31 </verse></sup>The children of Gad and the children of Reuben
answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your
servants, so will we do. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:32">32 </verse></sup>We will pass over armed
before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance shall remain with us
beyond the Jordan.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 32:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:33">33 </verse></sup>Moses gave to them, even to the children of
Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the halftribe
of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom
of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities
and borders, even the cities of the surrounding
land. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:34">34 </verse></sup>The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth,
Aroer, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:35">35 </verse></sup>Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:36">36 </verse></sup>Beth
Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds
for sheep. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:37">37 </verse></sup>The children of Reuben built Heshbon,
Elealeh, Kiriathaim, <key:bcv=Numbers 32:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:38">38 </verse></sup>Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their
names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave
other names to the cities which they built. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:39">39 </verse></sup>The
children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who
were therein. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:40">40 </verse></sup>Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son
of Manasseh; and he lived therein. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:41">41 </verse></sup>Jair the son
of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called
them Havvoth Jair. <key:bcv=Numbers 32:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 32:42">42 </verse></sup>Nobah went and took Kenath
and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own
name.

#BCV:Numbers 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Numbers 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the journeys of the children of Israel,
when they went out of the land of Egypt by their
armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:2">2 </verse></sup>Moses
wrote the starting points of their journeys by the
commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys
according to their starting points. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:3">3 </verse></sup>They traveled
from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth
day of the first month; on the next day after the
Passover, the children of Israel went out with a high
hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, <key:bcv=Numbers 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:4">4 </verse></sup>while the
Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom
Yahweh had struck among them. Yahweh also
executed judgments on their gods. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:5">5 </verse></sup>The children
of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped
in Succoth. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:6">6 </verse></sup>They traveled from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the
wilderness. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:7">7 </verse></sup>They traveled from Etham, and turned
back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon,
and they encamped before Migdol. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:8">8 </verse></sup>They traveled
from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the
middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went
three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham,
and encamped in Marah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:9">9 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were
twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and
they encamped there. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:10">10 </verse></sup>They traveled from Elim,
and encamped by the Red Sea. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:11">11 </verse></sup>They traveled
from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness
of Sin. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:12">12 </verse></sup>They traveled from the wilderness of
Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:13">13 </verse></sup>They traveled
from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:14">14 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim,
where there was no water for the people to drink.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:15">15 </verse></sup>They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped
in the wilderness of Sinai. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:16">16 </verse></sup>They traveled from
the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth
Hattaavah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:17">17 </verse></sup>They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah,
and encamped in Hazeroth. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:18">18 </verse></sup>They traveled
from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:19">19 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon
Perez. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:20">20 </verse></sup>They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and
encamped in Libnah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:21">21 </verse></sup>They traveled from Libnah,
and encamped in Rissah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:22">22 </verse></sup>They traveled
from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:23">23 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount
Shepher. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:24">24 </verse></sup>They traveled from Mount Shepher,
and encamped in Haradah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:25">25 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:26">26 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:27">27 </verse></sup>They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in
Terah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:28">28 </verse></sup>They traveled from Terah, and encamped
in Mithkah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:29">29 </verse></sup>They traveled from Mithkah, and
encamped in Hashmonah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:30">30 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:31">31 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene
Jaakan. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:32">32 </verse></sup>They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and
encamped in Hor Haggidgad. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:33">33 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:34">34 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:35><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:35">35 </verse></sup>They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in
Ezion Geber. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:36><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:36">36 </verse></sup>They traveled from Ezion Geber,
and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:37><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:37">37 </verse></sup>They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in
Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:38><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:38">38 </verse></sup>Aaron
the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment
of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year
after the children of Israel had come out of the
land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day
of the month. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:39><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:39">39 </verse></sup>Aaron was one hundred twentythree
years old when he died in Mount Hor. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:40><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:40">40 </verse></sup>The
Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South in
the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:41><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:41">41 </verse></sup>They traveled from Mount Hor,
and encamped in Zalmonah. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:42><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:42">42 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:43><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:43">43 </verse></sup>They traveled
from Punon, and encamped in Oboth. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:44><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:44">44 </verse></sup>They
traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim,
in the border of Moab. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:45><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:45">45 </verse></sup>They traveled from Iyim,
and encamped in Dibon Gad. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:46><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:46">46 </verse></sup>They traveled from
Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:47><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:47">47 </verse></sup>They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped
in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:48><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:48">48 </verse></sup>They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and
encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:49><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:49">49 </verse></sup>They encamped by the Jordan, from
Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains
of Moab. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:50><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:50">50 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 33:51><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:51">51 </verse></sup>Speak to
the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, <key:bcv=Numbers 33:52><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:52">52 </verse></sup>then you
shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all
their molten images, and demolish all their high
places. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:53><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:53">53 </verse></sup>You shall take possession of the land,
and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you
to possess it. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:54><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:54">54 </verse></sup>You shall inherit the land by lot
according to your families; to the larger groups you
shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller
you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the
lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall
inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
<key:bcv=Numbers 33:55><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:55">55 </verse></sup>“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you, then those you let remain
of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in
your sides. They will harass you in the land in which
you dwell. <key:bcv=Numbers 33:56><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 33:56">56 </verse></sup>It shall happen that as I thought to do
to them, so I will do to you.”

#BCV:Numbers 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:2">2 </verse></sup>“Command
the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you
come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that
shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of
Canaan according to its borders), <key:bcv=Numbers 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:3">3 </verse></sup>then your south
quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along
by the side of Edom, and your south border shall
be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:4">4 </verse></sup>Your
border shall turn about southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass
southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from
there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:5">5 </verse></sup>The border shall turn about from Azmon to the
brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘For the western border, you shall have the
great sea and its border. This shall be your west
border.

<key:bcv=Numbers 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the
great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount
Hor. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:8">8 </verse></sup>From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the
entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by
Zedad. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and
it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north
border.

<key:bcv=Numbers 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall mark out your east border from
Hazar Enan to Shepham. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:11">11 </verse></sup>The border shall go
down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of
Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to
the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:12">12 </verse></sup>The
border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the
Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its
borders around it.’ ”

<key:bcv=Numbers 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:13">13 </verse></sup>Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying,
“This is the land which you shall inherit by
lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the
nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; <key:bcv=Numbers 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:14">14 </verse></sup>for the tribe of
the children of Reuben according to their fathers’
houses, the tribe of the children of Gad according
to their fathers’ houses, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have received their inheritance. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:15">15 </verse></sup>The
two tribes and the half-tribe have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward,
toward the sunrise.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:17">17 </verse></sup>“These are
the names of the men who shall divide the land to
you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
the son of Nun. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall take one prince of every
tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:19">19 </verse></sup>These
are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah,
Caleb the son of Jephunneh. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:21">21 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:22">22 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki
the son of Jogli. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:23">23 </verse></sup>Of the children of Joseph: of the
tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel
the son of Ephod. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:24">24 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of the children
of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
<key:bcv=Numbers 34:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:25">25 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:26">26 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of
the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son
of Azzan. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:27">27 </verse></sup>Of the tribe of the children of Asher
a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. <key:bcv=Numbers 34:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:28">28 </verse></sup>Of the
tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel
the son of Ammihud.” <key:bcv=Numbers 34:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 34:29">29 </verse></sup>These are they whom
Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to
the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

#BCV:Numbers 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:2">2 </verse></sup>“Command the
children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to
dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give
pasture lands for the cities around them to the
Levites. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:3">3 </verse></sup>They shall have the cities to dwell in.
Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and
for their possessions, and for all their animals.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:4">4 </verse></sup>“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall
give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the
city and outward one thousand cubits<footnote:1>35:4 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> around it.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall measure outside of the city for the east
side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two
thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand
cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits,
the city being in the middle. This shall be the
pasture lands of their cities.

<key:bcv=Numbers 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:6">6 </verse></sup>“The cities which you shall give to the Levites,
they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall
give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you
shall give forty-two cities. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:7">7 </verse></sup>All the cities which you
shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities
together with their pasture lands. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:8">8 </verse></sup>Concerning the
cities which you shall give of the possession of the
children of Israel, from the many you shall take
many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone
according to his inheritance which he inherits
shall give some of his cities to the Levites.” <key:bcv=Numbers 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:10">10 </verse></sup>“Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the
Jordan into the land of Canaan, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:11">11 </verse></sup>then you shall
appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge
for you, that the man slayer who kills any person
unwittingly may flee there. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:12">12 </verse></sup>The cities shall be for
your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer
not die until he stands before the congregation for
judgment. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:13">13 </verse></sup>The cities which you shall give shall
be for you six cities of refuge. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall give
three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give
three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be
cities of refuge. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:15">15 </verse></sup>These six cities shall be refuge for
the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the
foreigner living among them, that everyone who
kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if he struck him with an instrument
of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The
murderer shall surely be put to death. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:17><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:17">17 </verse></sup>If he
struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a
man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The
murderer shall surely be put to death. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:18><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:18">18 </verse></sup>Or if he
struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by
which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer.
The murderer shall surely be put to death. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:19><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:19">19 </verse></sup>The
avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to
death. When he meets him, he shall put him to
death. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:20><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:20">20 </verse></sup>If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled
something at him while lying in wait, so that he
died, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:21><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:21">21 </verse></sup>or in hostility struck him with his hand, so
that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put
to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood
shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:22><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility,
or hurled on him anything without lying in
wait, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:23><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:23">23 </verse></sup>or with any stone, by which a man may die,
not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died,
and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:24><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:24">24 </verse></sup>then the congregation shall judge between the
striker and the avenger of blood according to these
ordinances. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:25><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:25">25 </verse></sup>The congregation shall deliver the
man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood,
and the congregation shall restore him to his city
of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein
until the death of the high priest, who was anointed
with the holy oil.

<key:bcv=Numbers 35:26><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go
beyond the border of his city of refuge where he
flees, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:27><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:27">27 </verse></sup>and the avenger of blood finds him outside
of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger
of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty
of blood, <key:bcv=Numbers 35:28><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:28">28 </verse></sup>because he should have remained in his
city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But
after the death of the high priest, the man slayer
shall return into the land of his possession.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:29><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance
to you throughout your generations in all
your dwellings.

<key:bcv=Numbers 35:30><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall
be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but
one witness shall not testify alone against any
person so that he dies.

<key:bcv=Numbers 35:31><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:31">31 </verse></sup>“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the
life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall
surely be put to death.

<key:bcv=Numbers 35:32><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has
fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again
to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
<key:bcv=Numbers 35:33><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:33">33 </verse></sup>“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you
live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can
be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it,
but by the blood of him who shed it. <key:bcv=Numbers 35:34><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 35:34">34 </verse></sup>You shall not
defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for
I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”

#BCV:Numbers 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Numbers 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:1">1 </verse></sup>The heads of the fathers’ households of the
family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir,
the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons
of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and
before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households
of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:2">2 </verse></sup>They said, “Yahweh
commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance
by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:3">3 </verse></sup>If they
are married to any of the sons of the other tribes
of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will
be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers,
and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe
to which they shall belong. So it will be taken
away from the lot of our inheritance. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:4">4 </verse></sup>When
the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then
their inheritance will be added to the inheritance
of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their
inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance
of the tribe of our fathers.”

<key:bcv=Numbers 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:5">5 </verse></sup>Moses commanded the children of Israel according
to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons
of Joseph speak what is right. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:6">6 </verse></sup>This is the thing
which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters
of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to
whom they think best, only they shall marry into
the family of the tribe of their father. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:7">7 </verse></sup>So shall
no inheritance of the children of Israel move from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep
the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:8">8 </verse></sup>Every
daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe
of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the
family of the tribe of her father, that the children
of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his
fathers. <key:bcv=Numbers 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:9">9 </verse></sup>So shall no inheritance move from one
tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children
of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’ ”
<key:bcv=Numbers 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:10">10 </verse></sup>The daughters of Zelophehad did as Yahweh
commanded Moses: <key:bcv=Numbers 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:11">11 </verse></sup>for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married to their father’s brothers’ sons.
<key:bcv=Numbers 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:12">12 </verse></sup>They were married into the families of the sons
of Manasseh the son of Joseph. Their inheritance
remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
<key:bcv=Numbers 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Numbers 36:13">13 </verse></sup>These are the commandments and the ordinances
which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho.

#OUTLINE:1,Deuteronomy
<h2>The Fifth Book of Moses,
<br>
Commonly Called Deuteronomy</h2>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the words which Moses spoke to
all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in
the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel,
Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:2">2 </verse></sup>It is eleven days’
journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir
to Kadesh Barnea. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:3">3 </verse></sup>In the fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the first day of the month,
Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to
all that Yahweh<footnote:1>1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> had given him in commandment
to them, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:4">4 </verse></sup>after he had struck Sihon the king of the
Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Beyond
the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to
declare this law, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:6">6 </verse></sup>“Yahweh our God<footnote:1>1:6 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> spoke
to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough
at this mountain. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Turn, and take your journey, and
go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the
places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country,
in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the
land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the
great river, the river Euphrates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:8 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I have
set the land before you. Go in and possess the land
which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their
offspring<footnote:1>1:8 or, seed</footnote> after them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:9">9 </verse></sup>I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not
able to bear you myself alone. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God
has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the
stars of the sky for multitude. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:11">11 </verse></sup>May Yahweh, the
God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as
many as you are and bless you, as he has promised
you! <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:12">12 </verse></sup>How can I myself alone bear your problems,
your burdens, and your strife? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Take wise men
of understanding who are respected among your
tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:14">14 </verse></sup>You answered me, and said, “The thing which
you have spoken is good to do.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:15">15 </verse></sup>So I took the
heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and
made them heads over you, captains of thousands,
captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains
of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:16">16 </verse></sup>I
commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear
cases between your brothers and judge righteously
between a man and his brother, and the foreigner
who is living with him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall not show
partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and
the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face
of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that
is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I
will hear it.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:18">18 </verse></sup>I commanded you at that time all
the things which you should do. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:19">19 </verse></sup>We traveled
from Horeb and went through all that great and
terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to
the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God
commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:20">20 </verse></sup>I
said to you, “You have come to the hill country of
the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before
you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God
of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid,
neither be dismayed.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:22">22 </verse></sup>You came near to me, everyone of you, and said,
“Let’s send men before us, that they may search the
land for us, and bring back to us word of the way
by which we must go up, and the cities to which we
shall come.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:23">23 </verse></sup>The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your
men, one man for every tribe. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:24">24 </verse></sup>They turned and
went up into the hill country, and came to the valley
of Eshcol, and spied it out. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:25">25 </verse></sup>They took some of the
fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down
to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a
good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:26">26 </verse></sup>Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against
the commandment of Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:27">27 </verse></sup>You
murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh
hated us, he has brought us out of the land of
Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to
destroy us. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Where are we going up? Our brothers
have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are
greater and taller than we. The cities are great and
fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the
sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:29">29 </verse></sup>Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t
be afraid of them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God, who goes
before you, he will fight for you, according to all
that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:31">31 </verse></sup>and
in the wilderness where you have seen how that
Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his
son, in all the way that you went, until you came to
this place.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:32">32 </verse></sup>Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh
your God, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:33">33 </verse></sup>who went before you on the way, to
seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in
fire by night, to show you by what way you should
go, and in the cloud by day. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:34><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:34">34 </verse></sup>Yahweh heard the
voice of your words and was angry, and swore,
saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:35><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:35">35 </verse></sup>“Surely not one of these men of this evil
generation shall see the good land which I swore
to give to your fathers, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:36><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:36">36 </verse></sup>except Caleb the son of
Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land
that he has trodden on to him and to his children,
because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:37><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:37">37 </verse></sup>Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes,
saying, “You also shall not go in there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:38><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:38">38 </verse></sup>Joshua the
son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there.
Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:39><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:39">39 </verse></sup>Moreover your little ones, whom you said would
be captured or killed, your children, who today have
no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will
give it to them, and they shall possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:40><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:40">40 </verse></sup>But as for
you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness
by the way to the Red Sea.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:41><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:41">41 </verse></sup>Then you answered and said to me, “We have
sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight,
according to all that Yahweh our God commanded
us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war,
and presumed to go up into the hill country.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:42><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:42">42 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up
and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you
be struck before your enemies.’ ”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:43><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:43">43 </verse></sup>So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but
you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh,
and were presumptuous, and went up into the
hill country. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:44><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:44">44 </verse></sup>The Amorites, who lived in that
hill country, came out against you and chased you
as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to
Hormah. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:45><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:45">45 </verse></sup>You returned and wept before Yahweh,
but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his
ear to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 1:46><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 1:46">46 </verse></sup>So you stayed in Kadesh many days,
according to the days that you remained.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh
spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many
days.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to me, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:3">3 </verse></sup>“You have encircled
this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass
through the border of your brothers, the children
of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid
of you. Therefore be careful. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t contend with
them; for I will not give you any of their land, no,
not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread
on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a
possession. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall purchase food from them for
money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water
from them for money, that you may drink.’ ”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:7">7 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the
work of your hands. He has known your walking
through this great wilderness. These forty years,
Yahweh your God has been with you. You have
lacked nothing.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:8">8 </verse></sup>So we passed by from our brothers, the children
of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the
Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned
and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give you
any of his land for a possession, because I have given
Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:10">10 </verse></sup>(The Emim lived there before, a great and
numerous people, and tall as the Anakim. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:11">11 </verse></sup>These
also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim;
but the Moabites call them Emim. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:12">12 </verse></sup>The Horites
also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau
succeeded them. They destroyed them from before
them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the
land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:13">13 </verse></sup>“Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered.”
We went over the brook Zered.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:14">14 </verse></sup>The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea
until we had come over the brook Zered were thirtyeight
years, until all the generation of the men of
war were consumed from the middle of the camp,
as Yahweh swore to them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s
hand was against them, to destroy them from the
middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:16">16 </verse></sup>So, when all the men of war were consumed and
dead from among the people, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to
me, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:18">18 </verse></sup>“You are to pass over Ar, the border
of Moab, today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:19">19 </verse></sup>When you come near the border
of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor
contend with them; for I will not give you any of
the land of the children of Ammon for a possession,
because I have given it to the children of Lot for a
possession.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:20">20 </verse></sup>(That also is considered a land of Rephaim.
Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites
call them Zamzummim, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:21">21 </verse></sup>a great people, many, and
tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them
from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and
lived in their place, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:22">22 </verse></sup>as he did for the children
of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the
Horites from before them; and they succeeded
them, and lived in their place even to this day.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as
Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor,
destroyed them and lived in their place.)
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:24">24 </verse></sup>“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the
valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your
hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:25">25 </verse></sup>Today I will begin to put the dread of you
and the fear of you on the peoples who are under
the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and
shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:26">26 </verse></sup>I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of
peace, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:27">27 </verse></sup>“Let me pass through your land. I
will go along by the highway. I will turn neither
to the right hand nor to the left. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:28">28 </verse></sup>You shall sell
me food for money, that I may eat; and give me
water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass
through on my feet, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:29">29 </verse></sup>as the children of Esau who
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar,
did to me, until I pass over the Jordan into the land
which Yahweh our God gives us.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:30">30 </verse></sup>But Sihon king
of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh
your God hardened his spirit and made his heart
obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand,
as it is today.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:31">31 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to
deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin
to possess, that you may inherit his land.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:32">32 </verse></sup>Then
Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to
battle at Jahaz. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh our God delivered him
up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all
his people. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:34">34 </verse></sup>We took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with
the women and the little ones. We left no one
remaining. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:35">35 </verse></sup>Only the livestock we took for plunder
for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which
we had taken. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:36">36 </verse></sup>From Aroer, which is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high
for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 2:37">37 </verse></sup>Only to the land of the children of Ammon you
didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok,
and the cities of the hill country, and wherever
Yahweh our God forbade us.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan.
Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and
all his people, to battle at Edrei. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to
me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with
all his people and his land, into your hand. You shall
do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,
who lived at Heshbon.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:3">3 </verse></sup>So Yahweh our God also delivered into our hand
Og, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck
him until no one was left to him remaining. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:4">4 </verse></sup>We
took all his cities at that time. There was not a city
which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all
the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:5">5 </verse></sup>All these were cities fortified with high walls,
gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages
without walls. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:6">6 </verse></sup>We utterly destroyed them, as we
did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying
every inhabited city, with the women and the little
ones. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:7">7 </verse></sup>But all the livestock, and the plunder of the
cities, we took for plunder for ourselves. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:8">8 </verse></sup>We took
the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings
of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from
the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:9">9 </verse></sup>(The
Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call
it Senir.) <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:10">10 </verse></sup>We took all the cities of the plain, and all
Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:11">11 </verse></sup>(For only Og king of
Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim.
Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it
in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits<footnote:1>3:11 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote>
was its length, and four cubits its width, after the
cubit of a man.) <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:12">12 </verse></sup>This land we took in possession
at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley
of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead
with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the
Gadites; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:13">13 </verse></sup>and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the
kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh
—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The
same is called the land of Rephaim. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Jair the son of
Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border
of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called
them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth
Jair, to this day.) <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:15">15 </verse></sup>I gave Gilead to Machir. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:16">16 </verse></sup>To
the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead
even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the
valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok,
which is the border of the children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:17">17 </verse></sup>the
Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from
Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt
Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:18">18 </verse></sup>I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh
your God has given you this land to possess
it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed
before your brothers, the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:19">19 </verse></sup>But
your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock,
(I know that you have much livestock), shall live in
your cities which I have given you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:20">20 </verse></sup>until Yahweh
gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also
possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them
beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to
his own possession, which I have given you.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:21">21 </verse></sup>I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your
eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done
to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the
kingdoms where you go over. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall not fear
them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:23">23 </verse></sup>I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:24">24 </verse></sup>“Lord<footnote:1>3:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote>
Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your
greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is
there in heaven or in earth that can do works like
yours, and mighty acts like yours? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Please let me
go over and see the good land that is beyond the
Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:26">26 </verse></sup>But Yahweh was angry with me because of
you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me,
“That is enough! Speak no more to me of this
matter. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your
eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and
eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not
go over this Jordan. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:28">28 </verse></sup>But commission Joshua, and
encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go
over before this people, and he shall cause them to
inherit the land which you shall see.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 3:29">29 </verse></sup>So we stayed
in the valley near Beth Peor.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the
ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you
may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall
not add to the word which I command you, neither
shall you take away from it, that you may keep
the commandments of Yahweh your God which I
command you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Your eyes have seen what Yahweh
did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God
has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor
from among you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:4">4 </verse></sup>But you who were faithful to
Yahweh your God are all alive today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, I
have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as
Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should
do so in the middle of the land where you go in
to possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Keep therefore and do them; for
this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes
and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:7">7 </verse></sup>For what great nation is
there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh
our God is whenever we call on him? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:8">8 </verse></sup>What great
nation is there that has statutes and ordinances
so righteous as all this law which I set before you
today?

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently,
lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and
lest they depart from your heart all the days of your
life; but make them known to your children and
your children’s children— <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:10">10 </verse></sup>the day that you stood
before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh
said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn to
fear me all the days that they live on the earth,
and that they may teach their children.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:11">11 </verse></sup>You
came near and stood under the mountain. The
mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky,
with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh
spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you
heard the voice of words, but you saw no form;
you only heard a voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:13">13 </verse></sup>He declared to you his
covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even the ten commandments. He wrote them on
two stone tablets. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and ordinances,
that you might do them in the land where you go
over to possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Be very careful, for you saw
no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to
you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:16">16 </verse></sup>lest
you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved
image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male
or female, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:17">17 </verse></sup>the likeness of any animal that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in
the sky, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:18">18 </verse></sup>the likeness of anything that creeps on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the
water under the earth; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:19">19 </verse></sup>and lest you lift up your
eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the
moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky,
you are drawn away and worship them, and serve
them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all
the peoples under the whole sky. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:20">20 </verse></sup>But Yahweh has
taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace,
out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance,
as it is today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Furthermore Yahweh was angry
with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not
go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to
that good land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:22">22 </verse></sup>but I must die in this land. I
must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over
and possess that good land. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Be careful, lest you
forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he
made with you, and make yourselves a carved image
in the form of anything which Yahweh your God
has forbidden you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:24">24 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God is a
devouring fire, a jealous God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:25">25 </verse></sup>When you father
children and children’s children, and you have been
long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and
make a carved image in the form of anything, and
do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to
provoke him to anger, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:26">26 </verse></sup>I call heaven and earth to
witness against you today, that you will soon utterly
perish from off the land which you go over the
Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days
on it, but will utterly be destroyed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh will
scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left
few in number among the nations where Yahweh
will lead you away. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:28">28 </verse></sup>There you will serve gods,
the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:29">29 </verse></sup>But from
there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will
find him when you search after him with all your
heart and with all your soul. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:30">30 </verse></sup>When you are in
oppression, and all these things have come on you,
in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your
God and listen to his voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:31">31 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God
is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy
you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which
he swore to them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:32">32 </verse></sup>For ask now of the days that
are past, which were before you, since the day that
God created man on the earth, and from the one
end of the sky to the other, whether there has been
anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard
like it? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:33">33 </verse></sup>Did a people ever hear the voice of God
speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have
heard, and live? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:34">34 </verse></sup>Or has God tried to go and take a
nation for himself from among another nation, by
trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty
hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that Yahweh your God did for you
in Egypt before your eyes? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:35">35 </verse></sup>It was shown to you
so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There
is no one else besides him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Out of heaven he
made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct
you. On earth he made you to see his great fire;
and you heard his words out of the middle of the
fire. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:37">37 </verse></sup>Because he loved your fathers, therefore he
chose their offspring after them, and brought you
out with his presence, with his great power, out
of Egypt; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:38><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:38">38 </verse></sup>to drive out nations from before you
greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to
give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:39><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:39">39 </verse></sup>Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that
Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the
earth beneath. There is no one else. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:40><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:40">40 </verse></sup>You shall
keep his statutes and his commandments which I
command you today, that it may go well with you
and with your children after you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for all time.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:41><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:41">41 </verse></sup>Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the
Jordan toward the sunrise, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:42><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:42">42 </verse></sup>that the man slayer
might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally
and didn’t hate him in time past, and that
fleeing to one of these cities he might live: <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:43><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:43">43 </verse></sup>Bezer
in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:44><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:44">44 </verse></sup>This is the law which Moses set before the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:45><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:45">45 </verse></sup>These are the testimonies,
and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses
spoke to the children of Israel when they came
out of Egypt, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:46><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:46">46 </verse></sup>beyond the Jordan, in the valley
opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and
the children of Israel struck when they came out
of Egypt. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:47><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:47">47 </verse></sup>They took possession of his land and
the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:48><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:48">48 </verse></sup>from Aroer, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Zion (also called
Hermon), <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 4:49><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 4:49">49 </verse></sup>and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan
eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the
slopes of Pisgah.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses called to all Israel, and said to them,
“Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which
I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them,
and observe to do them.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh our God made
a covenant with us in Horeb. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh didn’t make
this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us,
who are all of us here alive today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke
with you face to face on the mountain out of the
middle of the fire, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:5">5 </verse></sup>(I stood between Yahweh and
you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for
you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up
onto the mountain) saying,

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:6">6 </verse></sup>“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:7">7 </verse></sup>“You shall have no other gods before me.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:8">8 </verse></sup>“You shall not make a carved image for yourself
—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is
in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall not bow yourself down to
them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children and on the third and on the fourth
generation of those who hate me <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:10">10 </verse></sup>and showing
loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:11">11 </verse></sup>“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your
God;<footnote:1>5:11 or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain;</footnote> for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who
misuses his name.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:12">12 </verse></sup>“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as
Yahweh your God commanded you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall
labor six days, and do all your work; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:14">14 </verse></sup>but the
seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in
which you shall not do any work — neither you,
nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male
servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor
your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your
stranger who is within your gates; that your male
servant and your female servant may rest as well
as you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall remember that you were a
servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God
brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by
an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God
commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:16">16 </verse></sup>“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh
your God commanded you, that your days may
be long and that it may go well with you in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:17">17 </verse></sup>“You shall not murder.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:18">18 </verse></sup>“You shall not commit adultery.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:19">19 </verse></sup>“You shall not steal.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:20">20 </verse></sup>“You shall not give false testimony against your
neighbor.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:21">21 </verse></sup>“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his
field, or his male servant, or his female servant,
his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor’s.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly
on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the
cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice.
He added no more. He wrote them on two stone
tablets, and gave them to me. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:23">23 </verse></sup>When you heard
the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while
the mountain was burning with fire, you came near
to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your
elders; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:24">24 </verse></sup>and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God
has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we
have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We
have seen today that God does speak with man, and
he lives. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Now therefore, why should we die? For
this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh
our God’s voice any more, then we shall die. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:26">26 </verse></sup>For
who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice
of the living God speaking out of the middle of the
fire, as we have, and lived? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:27">27 </verse></sup>Go near, and hear all
that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that
Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and
do it.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh heard the voice of your words when
you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have
heard the voice of the words of this people which
they have spoken to you. They have well said all
that they have spoken. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Oh that there were such
a heart in them that they would fear me and keep
all my commandments always, that it might be well
with them and with their children forever!
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:30">30 </verse></sup>“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’ <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:31">31 </verse></sup>But
as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you
all the commandments, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they
may do them in the land which I give them to
possess.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh
your God has commanded you. You shall not turn
away to the right hand or to the left. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 5:33">33 </verse></sup>You shall
walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has
commanded you, that you may live and that it may
be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days in the land which you shall possess.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded
to teach you, that you might do them in the
land that you go over to possess; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:2">2 </verse></sup>that you might
fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and
his commandments, which I command you —you,
your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your
life; and that your days may be prolonged. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Hear
therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be
well with you, and that you may increase mightily,
as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to
you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is
one. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall love Yahweh your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:6">6 </verse></sup>These words, which I command you today, shall be
on your heart; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:7">7 </verse></sup>and you shall teach them diligently
to your children, and shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down, and when you rise up. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:8">8 </verse></sup>You
shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they
shall be for frontlets between your eyes. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall
write them on the door posts of your house and on
your gates.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:10">10 </verse></sup>It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you
into the land which he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great
and goodly cities which you didn’t build, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:11">11 </verse></sup>and
houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill,
and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards
and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you
shall eat and be full; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:12">12 </verse></sup>then beware lest you forget
Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall fear
Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall
swear by his name. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall not go after other
gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around
you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:15">15 </verse></sup>for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous
God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled
against you, and he destroy you from off the face
of the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall not tempt Yahweh your
God, as you tempted him in Massah. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall
diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he
has commanded you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall do that which is
right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be
well with you and that you may go in and possess
the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:19">19 </verse></sup>to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as
Yahweh has spoken.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:20">20 </verse></sup>When your son asks you in time to come, saying,
“What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded
you mean?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:21">21 </verse></sup>then you shall tell your son, “We
were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought
us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:22">22 </verse></sup>and Yahweh
showed great and awesome signs and wonders on
Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our
eyes; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:23">23 </verse></sup>and he brought us out from there, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he
swore to our fathers. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh commanded us to
do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for
our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as
we are today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 6:25">25 </verse></sup>It shall be righteousness to us, if
we observe to do all these commandments before
Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
#BCV:Deuteronomy 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:1">1 </verse></sup>When Yahweh your God brings you into the
land where you go to possess it, and casts out many
nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier
than you; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:2">2 </verse></sup>and when Yahweh your God delivers
them up before you, and you strike them, then
you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy to them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:3">3 </verse></sup>You
shall not make marriages with them. You shall not
give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his
daughter for your son. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:4">4 </verse></sup>For that would turn away
your sons from following me, that they may serve
other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled
against you, and he would destroy you quickly. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:5">5 </verse></sup>But
you shall deal with them like this: you shall break
down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut
down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved
images with fire. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For you are a holy people to Yahweh
your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to
be a people for his own possession, above all peoples
who are on the face of the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh didn’t set
his love on you nor choose you, because you were
more in number than any people; for you were the
fewest of all peoples; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:8">8 </verse></sup>but because Yahweh loves
you, and because he desires to keep the oath which
he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you
out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king
of Egypt. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Know therefore that Yahweh your God
himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant
and loving kindness to a thousand generations with
those who love him and keep his commandments,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:10">10 </verse></sup>and repays those who hate him to their face, to
destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates
him. He will repay him to his face. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall
therefore keep the commandments, the statutes,
and the ordinances which I command you today,
to do them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:12">12 </verse></sup>It shall happen, because you listen
to these ordinances and keep and do them, that
Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant
and the loving kindness which he swore to your
fathers. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:13">13 </verse></sup>He will love you, bless you, and multiply
you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the
fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine
and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the
young of your flock, in the land which he swore to
your fathers to give you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:14">14 </verse></sup>You will be blessed above
all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren
among you, or among your livestock. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will take away from you all sickness; and he will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know,
on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh
your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not
pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that
would be a snare to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:17">17 </verse></sup>If you shall say in your
heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I
dispossess them?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:18">18 </verse></sup>you shall not be afraid of them.
You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did
to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:19">19 </verse></sup>the great trials which
your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty
hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh
your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your
God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet
among them, until those who are left, and hide
themselves, perish from before you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall not
be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among
you, a great and awesome God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh your
God will cast out those nations before you little by
little. You may not consume them at once, lest the
animals of the field increase on you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:23">23 </verse></sup>But Yahweh
your God will deliver them up before you, and will
confuse them with a great confusion, until they are
destroyed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:24">24 </verse></sup>He will deliver their kings into your
hand, and you shall make their name perish from
under the sky. No one will be able to stand before
you until you have destroyed them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:25">25 </verse></sup>You shall
burn the engraved images of their gods with fire.
You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on
them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared
in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 7:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall not bring an abomination into your
house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall
utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is
a devoted thing.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:1">1 </verse></sup>You shall observe to do all the commandments
which I command you today, that you may live, and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall remember
all the way which Yahweh your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might
humble you, to test you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep his commandments
or not. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:3">3 </verse></sup>He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry,
and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know,
neither did your fathers know, that he might teach
you that man does not live by bread only, but man
lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s
mouth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Your clothing didn’t grow old on you,
neither did your foot swell, these forty years. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:5">5 </verse></sup>You
shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines
his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:6">6 </verse></sup>You
shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God,
to walk in his ways, and to fear him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
your God brings you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of springs, and underground water
flowing into valleys and hills; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:8">8 </verse></sup>a land of wheat,
barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of
olive trees and honey; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:9">9 </verse></sup>a land in which you shall eat
bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything
in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose
hills you may dig copper. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall eat and be full,
and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good
land which he has given you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not
keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and
his statutes, which I command you today; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:12">12 </verse></sup>lest,
when you have eaten and are full, and have built
fine houses and lived in them; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:13">13 </verse></sup>and when your
herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and
your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is
multiplied; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:14">14 </verse></sup>then your heart might be lifted up,
and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:15">15 </verse></sup>who led you through the great and terrible
wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who
poured water for you out of the rock of flint; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:16">16 </verse></sup>who
fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your
fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and
that he might prove you, to do you good at your
latter end; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:17">17 </verse></sup>and lest you say in your heart, “My
power and the might of my hand has gotten me this
wealth.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:18">18 </verse></sup>But you shall remember Yahweh your
God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth,
that he may establish his covenant which he swore
to your fathers, as it is today.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:19">19 </verse></sup>It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your
God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and
worship them, I testify against you today that you
shall surely perish. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 8:20">20 </verse></sup>As the nations that Yahweh
makes to perish before you, so you shall perish,
because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s
voice.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan
today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and
mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up
to the sky, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:2">2 </verse></sup>a people great and tall, the sons of
the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you
have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of
Anak?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Know therefore today that Yahweh your
God is he who goes over before you as a devouring
fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them
down before you. So you shall drive them out and
make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to
you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your
God has thrust them out from before you, “For my
righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess
this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before
you because of the wickedness of these nations.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness
of your heart do you go in to possess their land;
but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh
your God does drive them out from before you,
and that he may establish the word which Yahweh
swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Know therefore that Yahweh your God
doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your
righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked
Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From
the day that you left the land of Egypt until you
came to this place, you have been rebellious against
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to
wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy
you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:9">9 </verse></sup>When I had gone up onto the mountain
to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of
the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I
stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
I neither ate bread nor drank water. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh
delivered to me the two stone tablets written with
God’s finger. On them were all the words which
Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the
middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:11">11 </verse></sup>It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty
nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets,
even the tablets of the covenant. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to
me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your
people whom you have brought out of Egypt have
corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned
away from the way which I commanded them. They
have made a molten image for themselves!”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I
have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiffnecked
people. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Leave me alone, that I may destroy
them, and blot out their name from under the sky;
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater
than they.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:15">15 </verse></sup>So I turned and came down from the mountain,
and the mountain was burning with fire. The two
tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:16">16 </verse></sup>I
looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh
your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf.
You had quickly turned away from the way which
Yahweh had commanded you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:17">17 </verse></sup>I took hold of
the two tablets, and threw them out of my two
hands, and broke them before your eyes. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:18">18 </verse></sup>I fell
down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water,
because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing
that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke
him to anger. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:19">19 </verse></sup>For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against
you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that
time also. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron
to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same
time. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:21">21 </verse></sup>I took your sin, the calf which you had made,
and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding
it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw
its dust into the brook that descended out of the
mountain. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:22">22 </verse></sup>At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth
Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:23">23 </verse></sup>When
Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go
up and possess the land which I have given you,”
you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh
your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his
voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:24">24 </verse></sup>You have been rebellious against Yahweh
from the day that I knew you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:25">25 </verse></sup>So I fell down before
Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell
down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy
you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:26">26 </verse></sup>I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh,
don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that
you have redeemed through your greatness, that
you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people,
nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:28">28 </verse></sup>lest the
land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh
was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised to them, and because he hated them, he
has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Yet they are your people and your inheritance,
which you brought out by your great power and by
your outstretched arm.”

#BCV:Deuteronomy 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone
tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the
mountain, and make an ark of wood. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:2">2 </verse></sup>I will write on
the tablets the words that were on the first tablets
which you broke, and you shall put them in the
ark.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:3">3 </verse></sup>So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut
two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the
mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:4">4 </verse></sup>He
wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing,
the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to
you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in
the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to
me. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:5">5 </verse></sup>I turned and came down from the mountain,
and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and
there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:6">6 </verse></sup>(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth
Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and
there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered
in the priest’s office in his place. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:7">7 </verse></sup>From there
they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:8">8 </verse></sup>At that time
Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark
of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to
minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with
his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according
as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:10">10 </verse></sup>I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time,
forty days and forty nights; and Yahweh listened
to me that time also. Yahweh would not destroy
you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Arise, take your journey
before the people; and they shall go in and possess
the land which I swore to their fathers to give to
them.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require
of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in
all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:13">13 </verse></sup>to
keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which
I command you today for your good? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold,
to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven
of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love
them, and he chose their offspring after them, even
you above all peoples, as it is today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiff-necked. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:17">17 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God, he is God of
gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty,
and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or
take bribes. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:18">18 </verse></sup>He executes justice for the fatherless
and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him
food and clothing. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore love the foreigner,
for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:20">20 </verse></sup>You
shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him.
You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his
name. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:21">21 </verse></sup>He is your praise, and he is your God, who
has done for you these great and awesome things
which your eyes have seen. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Your fathers went
down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now
Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the
sky for multitude.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and
keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances,
and his commandments, always. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Know this day—
for I don’t speak with your children who have not
known, and who have not seen the chastisement of
Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
his outstretched arm, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:3">3 </verse></sup>his signs, and his works,
which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh
the king of Egypt, and to all his land; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:4">4 </verse></sup>and what
he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and
to their chariots; how he made the water of the
Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you,
and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:5">5 </verse></sup>and what he did to you in the wilderness until you
came to this place; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:6">6 </verse></sup>and what he did to Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how
the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up,
with their households, their tents, and every living
thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:7">7 </verse></sup>but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work
which he did.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment
which I command you today, that you may
be strong, and go in and possess the land that you
go over to possess; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:9">9 </verse></sup>and that you may prolong
your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a
land flowing with milk and honey. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:10">10 </verse></sup>For the land,
where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of
Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your
seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of
herbs; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:11">11 </verse></sup>but the land that you go over to possess
is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water
from the rain of the sky, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:12">12 </verse></sup>a land which Yahweh
your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are
always on it, from the beginning of the year even
to the end of the year. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:13">13 </verse></sup>It shall happen, if you
shall listen diligently to my commandments which
I command you today, to love Yahweh your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:14">14 </verse></sup>that I will give the rain for your land
in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that
you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and
your oil. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:15">15 </verse></sup>I will give grass in your fields for your
livestock, and you shall eat and be full. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Be careful,
lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to
serve other gods and worship them; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:17">17 </verse></sup>and Yahweh’s
anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky
so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its
fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land
which Yahweh gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall lay
up these words of mine in your heart and in your
soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand,
and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall teach them to your children, talking of
them when you sit in your house, when you walk
by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise
up. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall write them on the door posts of
your house and on your gates; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:21">21 </verse></sup>that your days and
your children’s days may be multiplied in the land
which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them,
as the days of the heavens above the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:22">22 </verse></sup>For if
you shall diligently keep all these commandments
which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him
— <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:23">23 </verse></sup>then Yahweh will drive out all these nations
from before you, and you shall dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourselves. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Every place
on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river,
the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be
your border. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:25">25 </verse></sup>No man will be able to stand before
you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and
the dread of you on all the land that you tread on,
as he has spoken to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Behold, I set before you
today a blessing and a curse: <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:27">27 </verse></sup>the blessing, if you
listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God,
which I command you today; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:28">28 </verse></sup>and the curse, if you
do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your
God, but turn away out of the way which I command
you today, to go after other gods which you have
not known. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:29">29 </verse></sup>It shall happen, when Yahweh your
God brings you into the land that you go to possess,
that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim,
and the curse on Mount Ebal. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Aren’t they beyond
the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the
sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the
Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:31">31 </verse></sup>For
you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you
shall possess it and dwell in it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 11:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall observe
to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set
before you today.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the statutes and the ordinances which
you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, has given you to possess
all the days that you live on the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall
surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the
high mountains, and on the hills, and under every
green tree. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall break down their altars, dash
their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles
with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images
of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of
that place. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall not do so to Yahweh your
God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:5">5 </verse></sup>But to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall
come there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall bring your burnt offerings,
your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of
your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and
the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:7">7 </verse></sup>There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and
you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to,
you and your households, in which Yahweh your
God has blessed you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall not do all the
things that we do here today, every man whatever
is right in his own eyes; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:9">9 </verse></sup>for you haven’t yet come
to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh
your God gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:10">10 </verse></sup>But when you go over the
Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your
God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest
from all your enemies around you, so that you
dwell in safety, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:11">11 </verse></sup>then it shall happen that to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all
that I command you: your burnt offerings, your
sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your
hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall rejoice before Yahweh your
God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male
servants, your female servants, and the Levite who
is within your gates, because he has no portion nor
inheritance with you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Be careful that you don’t
offer your burnt offerings in every place that you
see; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:14">14 </verse></sup>but in the place which Yahweh chooses in
one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt
offerings, and there you shall do all that I command
you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your
gates, after all the desire of your soul, according
to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given
you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as
of the gazelle and the deer. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Only you shall not
eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth
like water. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:17">17 </verse></sup>You may not eat within your gates the
tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your
oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock,
nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free
will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:18">18 </verse></sup>but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you,
your son, your daughter, your male servant, your
female servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in
all that you put your hand to. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Be careful that you
don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your
land.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:20">20 </verse></sup>When Yahweh your God enlarges your border,
as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat
meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you
may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:21">21 </verse></sup>If
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to
put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill
of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has
given you, as I have commanded you; and you may
eat within your gates, after all the desire of your
soul. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:22">22 </verse></sup>Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten,
so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean
may eat of it alike. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Only be sure that you don’t
eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not
eat the life with the meat. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall not eat it.
You shall pour it out on the earth like water. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:25">25 </verse></sup>You
shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with
your children after you, when you do that which
is right in Yahweh’s eyes. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:26">26 </verse></sup>Only your holy things
which you have, and your vows, you shall take and
go to the place which Yahweh shall choose. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:27">27 </verse></sup>You
shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the
blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar. The blood of
your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your
God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:28">28 </verse></sup>Observe
and hear all these words which I command you, that
it may go well with you and with your children after
you forever, when you do that which is good and
right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:29">29 </verse></sup>When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations
from before you where you go in to dispossess them,
and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:30">30 </verse></sup>be careful that you are not ensnared to follow
them after they are destroyed from before you,
and that you not inquire after their gods, saying,
“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do
likewise.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:31">31 </verse></sup>You shall not do so to Yahweh your God;
for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates,
they have done to their gods; for they even burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire to their
gods. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 12:32">32 </verse></sup>Whatever thing I command you, that you
shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take
away from it.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:1">1 </verse></sup>If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises
among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:2">2 </verse></sup>and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which
he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods”
(which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:3">3 </verse></sup>you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or
to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is
testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:4">4 </verse></sup>You
shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep
his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall
serve him, and cling to him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:5">5 </verse></sup>That prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he
has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside
out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded
you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from
among you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:6">6 </verse></sup>If your brother, the son of your mother, or your
son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom,
or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you
secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—
which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:7">7 </verse></sup>of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth— <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:8">8 </verse></sup>you
shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither
shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare,
neither shall you conceal him; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:9">9 </verse></sup>but you shall surely
kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him
to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall stone him to death with stones, because
he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:11">11 </verse></sup>All Israel shall hear, and
fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this
among you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:12">12 </verse></sup>If you hear about one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:13">13 </verse></sup>certain wicked fellows have gone out from among
you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their
city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which
you have not known, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:14">14 </verse></sup>then you shall inquire, investigate,
and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and
the thing certain, that such abomination was done
among you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:15">15 </verse></sup>you shall surely strike the inhabitants
of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying
it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock,
with the edge of the sword. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:16">16 </verse></sup>You shall gather all
its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall
burn with fire the city, with all of its plunder, to
Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It
shall not be built again. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Nothing of the devoted
thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may
turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you
mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply
you, as he has sworn to your fathers, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 13:18">18 </verse></sup>when you
listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his
commandments which I command you today, to do
that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
#BCV:Deuteronomy 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:1">1 </verse></sup>You are the children of Yahweh your God. You
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness
between your eyes for the dead. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:2">2 </verse></sup>For you are a holy
people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen
you to be a people for his own possession, above all
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall not eat any abominable thing. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:4">4 </verse></sup>These
are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the
sheep, the goat, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:5">5 </verse></sup>the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck,
the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the
chamois. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Every animal that parts the hoof, and has
the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the
animals, you may eat. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Nevertheless these you shall
not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who
have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the
rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the
hoof, they are unclean to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:8">8 </verse></sup>The pig, because it
has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean
to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not
touch their carcasses. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:9">9 </verse></sup>These you may eat of all that
are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins
and scales. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall not eat whatever doesn’t
have fins and scales. It is unclean to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Of all
clean birds you may eat. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:12">12 </verse></sup>But these are they of
which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the
osprey, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:13">13 </verse></sup>the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any
kind, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:14">14 </verse></sup>every raven of any kind, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:15">15 </verse></sup>the ostrich, the
owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:16">16 </verse></sup>the little
owl, the great owl, the horned owl, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:17">17 </verse></sup>the pelican,
the vulture, the cormorant, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:18">18 </verse></sup>the stork, the heron
after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:19">19 </verse></sup>All winged
creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not
be eaten. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Of all clean birds you may eat.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself.
You may give it to the foreigner living among you
who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you
may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people
to Yahweh your God.
<br>
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s
milk.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall surely tithe all the increase of your
seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the
place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell,
the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of
your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your
flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God
always. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:24">24 </verse></sup>If the way is too long for you, so that
you are not able to carry it because the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there
is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses
you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:25">25 </verse></sup>then you shall turn it into money, bind up
the money in your hand, and shall go to the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:26">26 </verse></sup>You shall
trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for
cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall
eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice, you and your household. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:27">27 </verse></sup>You shall not
forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he
has no portion nor inheritance with you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:28">28 </verse></sup>At the
end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe
of your increase in the same year, and shall store
it within your gates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 14:29">29 </verse></sup>The Levite, because he has
no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the
foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the
widow who are within your gates shall come, and
shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may
bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
#BCV:Deuteronomy 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:1">1 </verse></sup>At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel
debts. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:2">2 </verse></sup>This is the way it shall be done: every
creditor shall release that which he has lent to his
neighbor. He shall not require payment from his
neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release
has been proclaimed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Of a foreigner you may require
it; but whatever of yours is with your brother,
your hand shall release. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:4">4 </verse></sup>However there will be
no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you
in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for
an inheritance to possess) <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:5">5 </verse></sup>if only you diligently
listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do
all this commandment which I command you today.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised
you. You will lend to many nations, but you will
not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but
they will not rule over you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:7">7 </verse></sup>If a poor man, one
of your brothers, is with you within any of your
gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives
you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your
hand from your poor brother; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:8">8 </verse></sup>but you shall surely
open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him
sufficient for his need, which he lacks. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:9">9 </verse></sup>Beware that
there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying,
“The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,”
and your eye be evil against your poor brother and
you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against
you, and it be sin to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall surely give,
and your heart shall not be grieved when you give
to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God
will bless you in all your work and in all that you put
your hand to. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:11">11 </verse></sup>For the poor will never cease out of
the land. Therefore I command you to surely open
your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to
your poor, in your land. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:12">12 </verse></sup>If your brother, a Hebrew
man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves
you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let
him go free from you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:13">13 </verse></sup>When you let him go free
from you, you shall not let him go empty. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:14">14 </verse></sup>You
shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of
your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As
Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to
him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall remember that you were a slave in
the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed
you. Therefore I command you this thing today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:16">16 </verse></sup>It
shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,”
because he loves you and your house, because he
is well with you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:17">17 </verse></sup>then you shall take an awl, and
thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be
your servant forever. Also to your female servant
you shall do likewise. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:18">18 </verse></sup>It shall not seem hard to you
when you let him go free from you, for he has been
double the value of a hired hand as he served you six
years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you
do. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that
are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh
your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn
of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by
year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you
and your household. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:21">21 </verse></sup>If it has any defect—is lame
or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not
sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall eat it
within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall
eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Only
you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on
the ground like water.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of
Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by
night. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh
your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place
which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to
dwell there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall eat no leavened bread with
it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven
days, even the bread of affliction (for you came
out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may
remember the day when you came out of the land
of Egypt all the days of your life. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:4">4 </verse></sup>No yeast shall
be seen with you in all your borders seven days;
neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice
the first day at evening, remain all night until the
morning. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:5">5 </verse></sup>You may not sacrifice the Passover
within any of your gates which Yahweh your God
gives you; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:6">6 </verse></sup>but at the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you
shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that you came out
of Egypt. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall roast and eat it in the place
which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning
you shall return to your tents. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Six days you shall
eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be
a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall
do no work.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall count for yourselves seven weeks.
From the time you begin to put the sickle to the
standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh
your God with a tribute of a free will offering of
your hand, which you shall give according to how
Yahweh your God blesses you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall rejoice
before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your
daughter, your male servant, your female servant,
the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner,
the fatherless, and the widow who are among you,
in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose
to cause his name to dwell there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall
remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall
observe and do these statutes.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall keep the feast of booths seven days,
after you have gathered in from your threshing
floor and from your wine press. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall rejoice
in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your
male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are
within your gates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall keep a feast to
Yahweh your God seven days in the place which
Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will
bless you in all your increase and in all the work
of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Three times in a year all of your males shall
appear before Yahweh your God in the place which
he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the
feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They
shall not appear before Yahweh empty. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Every
man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh
your God’s blessing which he has given you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:18">18 </verse></sup>You
shall make judges and officers in all your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you, according to
your tribes; and they shall judge the people with
righteous judgment. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall not pervert justice.
You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a
bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and
perverts the words of the righteous. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall
follow that which is altogether just, that you may
live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God
gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall not plant for yourselves an
Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your
God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 16:22">22 </verse></sup>Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone
which Yahweh your God hates.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:1">1 </verse></sup>You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an
ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil;
for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:2">2 </verse></sup>If there is found among you, within any of your
gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or
woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your
God’s sight in transgressing his covenant, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:3">3 </verse></sup>and has
gone and served other gods and worshiped them,
or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the
sky, which I have not commanded, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:4">4 </verse></sup>and you are
told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire
diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is done in Israel, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:5">5 </verse></sup>then you
shall bring out that man or that woman who has
done this evil thing to your gates, even that same
man or woman; and you shall stone them to death
with stones. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:6">6 </verse></sup>At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to
death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be
put to death. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:7">7 </verse></sup>The hands of the witnesses shall be
first on him to put him to death, and afterward the
hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil
from among you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:8">8 </verse></sup>If there arises a matter too hard for you in
judgment, between blood and blood, between plea
and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
matters of controversy within your gates, then you
shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh
your God chooses. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall come to the priests
who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in
those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give
you the verdict. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall do according to the
decisions of the verdict which they shall give you
from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall
observe to do according to all that they shall teach
you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:11">11 </verse></sup>According to the decisions of the law which
they shall teach you, and according to the judgment
which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not
turn away from the sentence which they announce
to you, to the right hand, nor to the left. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:12">12 </verse></sup>The man
who does presumptuously in not listening to the
priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh
your God, or to the judge, even that man shall
die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:13">13 </verse></sup>All
the people shall hear and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:14">14 </verse></sup>When you have come to the land which Yahweh
your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in
it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the
nations that are around me,” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:15">15 </verse></sup>you shall surely set
him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over
yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from
among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner
over you, who is not your brother. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Only he shall
not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply
horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall
not go back that way again.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:17">17 </verse></sup>He shall not multiply
wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He
shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:18">18 </verse></sup>It shall be, when he sits on the throne of
his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of
this law in a book, out of that which is before the
Levitical priests. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:19">19 </verse></sup>It shall be with him, and he shall
read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn
to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of
this law and these statutes, to do them; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 17:20">20 </verse></sup>that his
heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he
not turn away from the commandment to the right
hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong
his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the
middle of Israel.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:1">1 </verse></sup>The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi
—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel.
They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire
and his portion. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:2">2 </verse></sup>They shall have no inheritance
among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance,
as he has spoken to them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:3">3 </verse></sup>This shall be the
priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a
sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall
give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and
the inner parts. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall give him the first fruits
of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and
the first of the fleece of your sheep. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:5">5 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to
stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his
sons forever.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:6">6 </verse></sup>If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all
Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire
of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:7">7 </verse></sup>then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his
God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand
there before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:8">8 </verse></sup>They shall have like portions
to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale
of his family possessions.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:9">9 </verse></sup>When you have come into the land which Yahweh
your God gives you, you shall not learn to
imitate the abominations of those nations. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:10">10 </verse></sup>There
shall not be found with you anyone who makes
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes,
or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:11">11 </verse></sup>or a charmer,
or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or
a wizard, or a necromancer. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:12">12 </verse></sup>For whoever does
these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because
of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives
them out from before you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall be blameless
with Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:14">14 </verse></sup>For these nations that you
shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery
and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has
not allowed you so to do. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God will
raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your
brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:16">16 </verse></sup>This
is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your
God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let
me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither
let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that
which they have spoken. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:18">18 </verse></sup>I will raise them up
a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I
will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak
to them all that I shall command him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:19">19 </verse></sup>It shall
happen, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require
it of him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:20">20 </verse></sup>But the prophet who speaks a word
presumptuously in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the
name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:21">21 </verse></sup>You may say in your heart, “How shall we know
the word which Yahweh has not spoken?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 18:22">22 </verse></sup>When
a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing
doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which
Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it
presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
#BCV:Deuteronomy 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:1">1 </verse></sup>When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations
whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you
succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their
houses, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:2">2 </verse></sup>you shall set apart three cities for yourselves
in the middle of your land, which Yahweh
your God gives you to possess. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall prepare
the way, and divide the borders of your land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three
parts, that every man slayer may flee there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:4">4 </verse></sup>This
is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and
live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally,
and didn’t hate him in time past— <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:5">5 </verse></sup>as when a man
goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood
and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree,
and the head slips from the handle and hits his
neighbor so that he dies —he shall flee to one of
these cities and live. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Otherwise, the avenger of
blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger
is in his heart and overtake him, because the way
is long, and strike him mortally, even though he
was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate
him in time past. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore I command you to
set apart three cities for yourselves. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:8">8 </verse></sup>If Yahweh
your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to
your fathers, and gives you all the land which he
promised to give to your fathers; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:9">9 </verse></sup>and if you keep all
this commandment to do it, which I command you
today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever
in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for
yourselves, in addition to these three. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:10">10 </verse></sup>This is so
that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle
of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for
an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:11">11 </verse></sup>But
if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him,
rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he
dies, and he flees into one of these cities; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:12">12 </verse></sup>then the
elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that he may die. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Your eye shall not pity him, but
you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that
it may go well with you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark,
which they of old time have set, in your
inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that
Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:15">15 </verse></sup>One witness shall not rise up against a man for
any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three
witnesses, shall a matter be established. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:16">16 </verse></sup>If an
unrighteous witness rises up against any man to
testify against him of wrongdoing, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:17">17 </verse></sup>then both the
men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges
who shall be in those days; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:18">18 </verse></sup>and the judges shall
make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness
is a false witness, and has testified falsely against
his brother, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:19">19 </verse></sup>then you shall do to him as he had
thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove
the evil from among you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Those who remain shall
hear, and fear, and will never again commit any
such evil among you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Your eyes shall not pity: life
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:1">1 </verse></sup>When you go out to battle against your enemies,
and see horses, chariots, and a people more
numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them;
for Yahweh your God, who brought you up out of
the land of Egypt, is with you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:2">2 </verse></sup>It shall be, when
you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall
approach and speak to the people, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:3">3 </verse></sup>and shall tell
them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle
against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint!
Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of
them; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:4">4 </verse></sup>for Yahweh your God is he who goes with
you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save
you.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:5">5 </verse></sup>The officers shall speak to the people, saying,
“What man is there who has built a new house, and
has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his
house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:6">6 </verse></sup>What man is there who has planted
a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man use its fruit. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:7">7 </verse></sup>What man is there
who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has
not taken her? Let him go and return to his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:8">8 </verse></sup>The officers shall speak further to the people, and
they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and
faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house,
lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall
be, when the officers have finished speaking to the
people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at
the head of the people.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:10">10 </verse></sup>When you draw near to a city to fight against
it, then proclaim peace to it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:11">11 </verse></sup>It shall be, if it gives
you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall
be that all the people who are found therein shall
become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:12">12 </verse></sup>If it will make no peace with you, but will make
war against you, then you shall besiege it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:13">13 </verse></sup>When
Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you
shall strike every male of it with the edge of the
sword; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:14">14 </verse></sup>but the women, the little ones, the livestock,
and all that is in the city, even all its plunder,
you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use
the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your
God has given you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Thus you shall do to all the
cities which are very far off from you, which are not
of the cities of these nations. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:16">16 </verse></sup>But of the cities
of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that
breathes; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:17">17 </verse></sup>but you shall utterly destroy them: the
Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has
commanded you; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:18">18 </verse></sup>that they not teach you to follow
all their abominations, which they have done for
their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your
God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:19">19 </verse></sup>When you shall besiege a city a long time,
in making war against it to take it, you shall not
destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for
you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down,
for is the tree of the field man, that it should be
besieged by you? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Only the trees that you know are
not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them
down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that
makes war with you, until it falls.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:1">1 </verse></sup>If someone is found slain in the land which
Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the
field, and it isn’t known who has struck him, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:2">2 </verse></sup>then
your elders and your judges shall come out, and
they shall measure to the cities which are around
him who is slain. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:3">3 </verse></sup>It shall be that the elders of
the city which is nearest to the slain man shall
take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked
with and which has not drawn in the yoke. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:4">4 </verse></sup>The
elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed
nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there
in the valley. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:5">5 </verse></sup>The priests the sons of Levi shall
come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen
to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name;
and according to their word shall every controversy
and every assault be decided. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:6">6 </verse></sup>All the elders of
that city which is nearest to the slain man shall
wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was
broken in the valley. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:7">7 </verse></sup>They shall answer and say,
“Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have
our eyes seen it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Forgive, Yahweh, your people
Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow
innocent blood among your people Israel.” The
blood shall be forgiven them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:9">9 </verse></sup>So you shall put away
the innocent blood from among you, when you shall
do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:10">10 </verse></sup>When you go out to battle against your enemies,
and Yahweh your God delivers them into your
hands and you carry them away captive, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:11">11 </verse></sup>and see
among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are
attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:12">12 </verse></sup>then you shall bring her home to your house.
She shall shave her head and trim her nails. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:13">13 </verse></sup>She
shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall
remain in your house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month. After that you shall go in to
her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:14">14 </verse></sup>It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you
shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not
sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her
as a slave, because you have humbled her.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:15">15 </verse></sup>If a man has two wives, the one beloved and
the other hated, and they have borne him children,
both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn
son is hers who was hated, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:16">16 </verse></sup>then it shall be, in the
day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he
has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the
rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated,
who is the firstborn; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:17">17 </verse></sup>but he shall acknowledge
the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him
a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn
is his.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:18">18 </verse></sup>If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who
will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of
his mother, and though they chasten him, will not
listen to them, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:19">19 </verse></sup>then his father and his mother
shall take hold of him and bring him out to the
elders of his city and to the gate of his place. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:20">20 </verse></sup>They
shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is
stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice.
He is a glutton and a drunkard.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:21">21 </verse></sup>All the men of
his city shall stone him to death with stones. So
you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel
shall hear, and fear.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:22">22 </verse></sup>If a man has committed a sin worthy of death,
and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 21:23">23 </verse></sup>his body shall not remain all night on the tree,
but you shall surely bury him the same day; for
he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile
your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:1">1 </verse></sup>You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep
go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall
surely bring them again to your brother. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:2">2 </verse></sup>If your
brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it
shall be with you until your brother comes looking
for it, and you shall restore it to him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:3">3 </verse></sup>So you
shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his
garment. So you shall do with every lost thing
of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have
found. You may not hide yourself. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall not
see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by
the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall
surely help him to lift them up again.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:5">5 </verse></sup>A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither
shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever
does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your
God.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:6">6 </verse></sup>If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in
any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs,
and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs,
you shall not take the hen with the young. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:7">7 </verse></sup>You
shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may
take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and
that you may prolong your days.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:8">8 </verse></sup>When you build a new house, then you shall
make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t
bring blood on your house if anyone falls from
there.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds
of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which
you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:10">10 </verse></sup>You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey
together. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall not wear clothes of wool and
linen woven together.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall make yourselves fringes<footnote:1>22:12 or, tassels </footnote> on the four
corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:13">13 </verse></sup>If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her,
hates her, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:14">14 </verse></sup>accuses her of shameful things, gives
her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and
when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the
tokens of virginity;” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:15">15 </verse></sup>then the young lady’s father
and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the
young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in
the gate. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:16">16 </verse></sup>The young lady’s father shall tell the
elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife,
and he hates her. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, he has accused her
of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your
daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are
the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall
spread the cloth before the elders of the city. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:18">18 </verse></sup>The
elders of that city shall take the man and chastise
him. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:19">19 </verse></sup>They shall fine him one hundred shekels of
silver,<footnote:1>22:19 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds. </footnote> and give them to the father of the young
lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin
of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her
away all his days.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:20">20 </verse></sup>But if this thing is true, that the tokens of
virginity were not found in the young lady, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:21">21 </verse></sup>then
they shall bring out the young lady to the door of
her father’s house, and the men of her city shall
stone her to death with stones, because she has
done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her
father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from
among you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:22">22 </verse></sup>If a man is found lying with a woman married
to a husband, then they shall both die, the man
who lay with the woman and the woman. So you
shall remove the evil from Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:23">23 </verse></sup>If there is a
young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and
lies with her, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:24">24 </verse></sup>then you shall bring them both out
to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them
to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t
cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has
humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove
the evil from among you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:25">25 </verse></sup>But if the man finds the
lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and
the man forces her and lies with her, then only the
man who lay with her shall die; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:26">26 </verse></sup>but to the lady
you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin
worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his
neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:27">27 </verse></sup>for
he found her in the field, the pledged to be married
lady cried, and there was no one to save her. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:28">28 </verse></sup>If a
man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged
to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they
are found, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:29">29 </verse></sup>then the man who lay with her shall
give to the lady’s father fifty shekels<footnote:1>22:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of silver. She
shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He
may not put her away all his days. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 22:30">30 </verse></sup>A man shall
not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his
father’s skirt.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:1">1 </verse></sup>He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting
shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:2">2 </verse></sup>A person
born of a forbidden union shall not enter into
Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation
shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:3">3 </verse></sup>An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into
Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation
shall no one belonging to them enter into Yahweh’s
assembly forever, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:4">4 </verse></sup>because they didn’t meet
you with bread and with water on the way when
you came out of Egypt, and because they hired
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Nevertheless Yahweh
your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh
your God turned the curse into a blessing to you,
because Yahweh your God loved you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall not
seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days
forever. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he
is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian,
because you lived as a foreigner in his land. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:8">8 </verse></sup>The
children of the third generation who are born to
them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:9">9 </verse></sup>When you go out and camp against your enemies,
then you shall keep yourselves from every
evil thing. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:10">10 </verse></sup>If there is among you any man who
is not clean by reason of that which happens to
him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp.
He shall not come within the camp; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:11">11 </verse></sup>but it shall
be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in
water. When the sun is down, he shall come within
the camp. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall have a place also outside
of the camp where you go relieve yourself. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:13">13 </verse></sup>You
shall have a trowel among your weapons. It shall
be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it,
and shall turn back and cover your excrement; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:14">14 </verse></sup>for
Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp,
to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before
you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may
not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from
you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall not deliver to his master a servant
who has escaped from his master to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:16">16 </verse></sup>He
shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which
he shall choose within one of your gates, where it
pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:17">17 </verse></sup>There shall be no prostitute of the daughters
of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the
sons of Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall not bring the hire of a
prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute,<footnote:1>23:18 literally, dog</footnote> into
the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both
of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall not lend on interest to your brother:
interest of money, interest of food, interest of
anything that is lent on interest. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:20">20 </verse></sup>You may charge
a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your
brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless
you in all that you put your hand to, in the land
where you go in to possess it.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:21">21 </verse></sup>When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you
shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God
will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in
you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:22">22 </verse></sup>But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall
be no sin in you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:23">23 </verse></sup>You shall observe and do that
which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have
vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering,
which you have promised with your mouth, you
must do. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:24">24 </verse></sup>When you come into your neighbor’s
vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at
your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your
container. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 23:25">25 </verse></sup>When you come into your neighbor’s
standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with
your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your
neighbor’s standing grain.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:1">1 </verse></sup>When a man takes a wife and marries her, then
it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because
he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he
shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her
hand, and send her out of his house. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:2">2 </verse></sup>When she
has departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man’s wife. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:3">3 </verse></sup>If the latter husband hates
her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it
in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if
the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:4">4 </verse></sup>her former husband, who sent her away, may not
take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for
that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall
not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:5">5 </verse></sup>When a man takes a
new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither
shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free
at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he
has taken.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:6">6 </verse></sup>No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone
as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:7">7 </verse></sup>If a man is found stealing any of his brothers
of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as
a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you
shall remove the evil from among you.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:8">8 </verse></sup>Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you
observe diligently and do according to all that the
Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them,
so you shall observe to do. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:9">9 </verse></sup>Remember what
Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came out of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:10">10 </verse></sup>When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan,
you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you
lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:12">12 </verse></sup>If he
is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall surely restore to him the pledge when
the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment
and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you
before Yahweh your God.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall not oppress a hired servant who is
poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers
or one of the foreigners who are in your land within
your gates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:15">15 </verse></sup>In his day you shall give him his wages,
neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor
and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to
Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:16">16 </verse></sup>The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, neither shall the children be put to death
for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for
his own sin.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:17">17 </verse></sup>You shall not deprive the foreigner or the
fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in
pledge; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:18">18 </verse></sup>but you shall remember that you were a
slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you
there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:19">19 </verse></sup>When you reap your harvest in your field, and
have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not
go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for
the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your
God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:20">20 </verse></sup>When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go
over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner,
for the fatherless, and for the widow.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:21">21 </verse></sup>When you harvest your vineyard, you shall
not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the
foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 24:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall remember that you were a slave in the
land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this
thing.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:1">1 </verse></sup>If there is a controversy between men, and they
come to judgment and the judges judge them, then
they shall justify the righteous and condemn the
wicked. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:2">2 </verse></sup>It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy
to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie
down and to be beaten before his face, according
to his wickedness, by number. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:3">3 </verse></sup>He may sentence
him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give
more, lest if he should give more and beat him more
than that many stripes, then your brother will be
degraded in your sight.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out
the grain.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:5">5 </verse></sup>If brothers dwell together, and one of them
dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not
be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s
brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife,
and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:6">6 </verse></sup>It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall
succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that
his name not be blotted out of Israel.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:7">7 </verse></sup>If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s
wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the
gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother
refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He
will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to
me.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the elders of his city shall call him, and
speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want
to take her,” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:9">9 </verse></sup>then his brother’s wife shall come
to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his
sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She
shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man
who does not build up his brother’s house.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:10">10 </verse></sup>His
name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him
who had his sandal removed.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:11">11 </verse></sup>When men strive against each other, and the
wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of
the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her
hand, and grabs him by his private parts, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:12">12 </verse></sup>then you
shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall not have in your bag diverse weights,
one heavy and one light. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall not have in
your house diverse measures, one large and one
small. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:15">15 </verse></sup>You shall have a perfect and just weight.
You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your
days may be long in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:16">16 </verse></sup>For all who do such things, all who
do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh
your God.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:17">17 </verse></sup>Remember what Amalek did to you by the way
as you came out of Egypt, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:18">18 </verse></sup>how he met you by the
way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were
feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary;
and he didn’t fear God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 25:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore it shall be,
when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all
your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it,
that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from
under the sky. You shall not forget.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:1">1 </verse></sup>It shall be, when you have come in to the land
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance,
possess it, and dwell in it, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:2">2 </verse></sup>that you shall take
some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which
you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your
God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and
shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose to cause his name to dwell there. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall
come to the priest who shall be in those days, and
tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that
I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to
our fathers to give us.” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:4">4 </verse></sup>The priest shall take the
basket out of your hand, and set it down before
Yahweh your God’s altar. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall answer and
say before Yahweh your God, “My father<footnote:1>26:5 or, forefather</footnote> was a
Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt,
and lived there, few in number. There he became a
great, mighty, and populous nation. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:6">6 </verse></sup>The Egyptians
mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor
on us. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:7">7 </verse></sup>Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of
our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our
affliction, our toil, and our oppression. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with
an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs,
and with wonders; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:9">9 </verse></sup>and he has brought us into this
place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with
milk and honey. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:10">10 </verse></sup>Now, behold, I have brought the
first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh,
have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh
your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh
your God has given to you, and to your house, you,
and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:12">12 </verse></sup>When you have finished tithing all the tithe of
your increase in the third year, which is the year
of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to
the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put
away the holy things out of my house, and also have
given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your
commandment which you have commanded me. I
have not transgressed any of your commandments,
neither have I forgotten them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:14">14 </verse></sup>I have not eaten
of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of
it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead.
<br>
I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have
done according to all that you have commanded
me. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:15">15 </verse></sup>Look down from your holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the
ground which you have given us, as you swore to our
fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Today Yahweh your God commands you to do
these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore
keep and do them with all your heart and with
all your soul. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:17">17 </verse></sup>You have declared today that
Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in
his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and
his ordinances, and listen to his voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh
has declared today that you are a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that
you should keep all his commandments. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 26:19">19 </verse></sup>He will
make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a
holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
#BCV:Deuteronomy 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the
people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which
I command you today. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:2">2 </verse></sup>It shall be on the day
when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land
which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall
set yourself up great stones, and coat them with
plaster. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall write on them all the words of
this law, when you have passed over, that you may
go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the
God of your fathers, has promised you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:4">4 </verse></sup>It shall
be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that
you shall set up these stones, which I command you
today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with
plaster. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:5">5 </verse></sup>There you shall build an altar to Yahweh
your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any
iron tool on them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall build Yahweh your
God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt
offerings on it to Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall
sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You
shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall
write on the stones all the words of this law very
plainly.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel,
saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you
have become the people of Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:10">10 </verse></sup>You
shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and
do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command you today.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Moses commanded the people the same day,
saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:12">12 </verse></sup>“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim
to bless the people, when you have crossed over
the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph,
and Benjamin. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:13">13 </verse></sup>These shall stand on Mount Ebal
for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan,
and Naphtali. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:14">14 </verse></sup>With a loud voice, the Levites
shall say to all the men of Israel, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:15">15 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is the
man who makes an engraved or molten image, an
abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of
the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’
All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:16">16 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his
mother.’
<br>
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:17">17 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:18">18 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the
road.’
<br>
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:19">19 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the
foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’
<br>
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:20">20 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who lies with<footnote:1>27:20 i.e., has sexual relations with</footnote> his father’s wife,
because he dishonors his father’s bed.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:21">21 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:22">22 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his
father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:23">23 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:24">24 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:25">25 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an
innocent person.’
<br>
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 27:26">26 </verse></sup>‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of
this law by doing them.’
<br>
All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

#BCV:Deuteronomy 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:1">1 </verse></sup>It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently
to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all
his commandments which I command you today,
that Yahweh your God will set you high above all
the nations of the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:2">2 </verse></sup>All these blessings will
come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to
Yahweh your God’s voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall be blessed
in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the
fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the
increase of your livestock, and the young of your
flock. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Your basket and your kneading trough shall
be blessed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall be blessed when you come in,
and you shall be blessed when you go out. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will cause your enemies who rise up against you to
be struck before you. They will come out against
you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your
barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He
will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh will establish you for a holy
people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you
shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God,
and walk in his ways. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:10">10 </verse></sup>All the peoples of the earth
shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and
they will be afraid of you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh will grant you
abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in
the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh will open to you his
good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your
land in its season, and to bless all the work of your
hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will
not borrow. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh will make you the head, and
not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not
be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God which I command you today, to
observe and to do, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:14">14 </verse></sup>and shall not turn away from
any of the words which I command you today, to
the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:15">15 </verse></sup>But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen
to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I command
you today, that all these curses will come on you and
overtake you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:16">16 </verse></sup>You will be cursed in the city, and
you will be cursed in the field. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:17">17 </verse></sup>Your basket and
your kneading trough will be cursed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:18">18 </verse></sup>The fruit
of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase
of your livestock, and the young of your flock will
be cursed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:19">19 </verse></sup>You will be cursed when you come in,
and you will be cursed when you go out. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke
in all that you put your hand to do, until you are
destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of
the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken
me. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you,
until he has consumed you from off the land where
you go in to possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh will strike you
with consumption, with fever, with inflammation,
with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and
with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:23">23 </verse></sup>Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and
the earth that is under you will be iron. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It
will come down on you from the sky, until you are
destroyed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh will cause you to be struck
before your enemies. You will go out one way
against them, and will flee seven ways before them.
You will be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:26">26 </verse></sup>Your dead bodies will be
food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of
the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them
away. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh will strike you with the boils of
Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with
the itch, of which you can not be healed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will strike you with madness, with blindness, and
with astonishment of heart. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:29">29 </verse></sup>You will grope at
noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you
shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be
oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no
one to save you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:30">30 </verse></sup>You will betroth a wife, and
another man shall lie with her. You will build a
house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a
vineyard, and not use its fruit. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:31">31 </verse></sup>Your ox will be
slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of
it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from
before your face, and will not be restored to you.
Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you
will have no one to save you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:32">32 </verse></sup>Your sons and your
daughters will be given to another people. Your
eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day
long. There will be no power in your hand. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:33">33 </verse></sup>A
nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of
your ground and all of your work. You will only be
oppressed and crushed always, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:34><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:34">34 </verse></sup>so that the sights
that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:35><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the
legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed,
from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:36><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:36">36 </verse></sup>Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you
will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have
not known, you nor your fathers. There you will
serve other gods of wood and stone. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:37><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:37">37 </verse></sup>You will
become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword
among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you
away. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:38><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:38">38 </verse></sup>You will carry much seed out into the field,
and will gather little in, for the locust will consume
it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:39><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:39">39 </verse></sup>You will plant vineyards and dress them, but
you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest,
because worms will eat them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:40><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:40">40 </verse></sup>You will have olive
trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t
anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop
off. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:41><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:41">41 </verse></sup>You will father sons and daughters, but they
will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:42><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:42">42 </verse></sup>Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit
of your ground. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:43><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:43">43 </verse></sup>The foreigner who is among you
will mount up above you higher and higher, and you
will come down lower and lower. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:44><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:44">44 </verse></sup>He will lend to
you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head,
and you will be the tail.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:45><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:45">45 </verse></sup>All these curses will come on you, and will pursue
you and overtake you, until you are destroyed,
because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s
voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which he commanded you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:46><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:46">46 </verse></sup>They will be for a
sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring
forever. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:47><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:47">47 </verse></sup>Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your
God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by
reason of the abundance of all things; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:48><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:48">48 </verse></sup>therefore
you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends
against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and
in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on
your neck until he has destroyed you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:49><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:49">49 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will bring a nation against you from far away, from
the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation
whose language you will not understand, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:50><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:50">50 </verse></sup>a nation
of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the
elderly, nor show favor to the young. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:51><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:51">51 </verse></sup>They will
eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your
ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t
leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your
livestock, or the young of your flock, until they
have caused you to perish. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:52><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:52">52 </verse></sup>They will besiege
you in all your gates until your high and fortified
walls in which you trusted come down throughout
all your land. They will besiege you in all your
gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your
God has given you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:53><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:53">53 </verse></sup>You will eat the fruit of
your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your
daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you,
in the siege and in the distress with which your
enemies will distress you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:54><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:54">54 </verse></sup>The man who is tender
among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil
toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves,
and toward the remnant of his children whom he
has remaining, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:55><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:55">55 </verse></sup>so that he will not give to any
of them of the flesh of his children whom he will
eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the
siege and in the distress with which your enemy
will distress you in all your gates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:56><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:56">56 </verse></sup>The tender
and delicate woman among you, who would not
venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground
for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil
toward the husband that she loves, toward her son,
toward her daughter, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:57><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:57">57 </verse></sup>toward her young one who
comes out from between her feet, and toward her
children whom she bears; for she will eat them
secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the
distress with which your enemy will distress you
in your gates. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:58><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:58">58 </verse></sup>If you will not observe to do all
the words of this law that are written in this book,
that you may fear this glorious and fearful name,
YAHWEH your God, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:59><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:59">59 </verse></sup>then Yahweh will make your
plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful,
even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe
sicknesses, and of long duration. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:60><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:60">60 </verse></sup>He will bring on
you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were
afraid of; and they will cling to you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:61><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:61">61 </verse></sup>Also every
sickness and every plague which is not written in
the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on
you until you are destroyed. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:62><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:62">62 </verse></sup>You will be left few
in number, even though you were as the stars of
the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to
Yahweh your God’s voice. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:63><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:63">63 </verse></sup>It will happen that
as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and
to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you
to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You
will be plucked from the land that you are going
in to possess. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:64><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:64">64 </verse></sup>Yahweh will scatter you among
all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other
end of the earth. There you will serve other gods
which you have not known, you nor your fathers,
even wood and stone. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:65><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:65">65 </verse></sup>Among these nations you
will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the
sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a
trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:66><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:66">66 </verse></sup>Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will
be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance
of your life. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:67><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:67">67 </verse></sup>In the morning you will say, “I wish it
were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish
it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which
you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes
will see. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 28:68><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 28:68">68 </verse></sup>Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again
with ships, by the way of which I told to you that
you would never see it again. There you will offer
yourselves to your enemies for male and female
slaves, and nobody will buy you.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the words of the covenant which
Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children
of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:2">2 </verse></sup>Moses called to all Israel, and said to them:
Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the
land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,
and to all his land; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:3">3 </verse></sup>the great trials which your
eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:4">4 </verse></sup>But
Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to
see, and ears to hear, to this day. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:5">5 </verse></sup>I have led you
forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have
not grown old on you, and your sandals have not
grown old on your feet. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:6">6 </verse></sup>You have not eaten bread,
neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that
you may know that I am Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:7">7 </verse></sup>When
you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon
and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to
battle, and we struck them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:8">8 </verse></sup>We took their land, and
gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to
the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore keep the words of this covenant and
do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:10">10 </verse></sup>All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh
your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and
your officers, even all the men of Israel, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:11">11 </verse></sup>your little
ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the
middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your
wood to the one who draws your water, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:12">12 </verse></sup>that you
may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,
and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes
with you today, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:13">13 </verse></sup>that he may establish you today
as his people, and that he may be your God, as he
spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:14">14 </verse></sup>Neither do I make
this covenant and this oath with you only, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:15">15 </verse></sup>but
with those who stand here with us today before
Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not
here with us today <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:16">16 </verse></sup>(for you know how we lived
in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
middle of the nations through which you passed;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:17">17 </verse></sup>and you have seen their abominations and their
idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were
among them); <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:18">18 </verse></sup>lest there should be among you
man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns
away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the
gods of those nations; lest there should be among
you a root that produces bitter poison; <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:19">19 </verse></sup>and it
happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that
he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have
peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my
heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the
curse that is written in this book will fall on him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the
sky. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all
the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the
covenant written in this book of the law.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:22">22 </verse></sup>The generation to come —your children who
will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will
come from a far land —will say, when they see
the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with
which Yahweh has made it sick, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:23">23 </verse></sup>that all of its
land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown,
doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like
the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and
in his wrath. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:24">24 </verse></sup>Even all the nations will say, “Why
has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the
heat of this great anger mean?”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:25">25 </verse></sup>Then men will say, “Because they abandoned
the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
which he made with them when he brought them
out of the land of Egypt, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:26">26 </verse></sup>and went and served
other gods and worshiped them, gods that they
didn’t know and that he had not given to them.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this
land, to bring on it all the curses that are written
in this book. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh rooted them out of their
land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation,
and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 29:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 29:29">29 </verse></sup>The secret things belong to Yahweh our God;
but the things that are revealed belong to us and to
our children forever, that we may do all the words
of this law.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:1">1 </verse></sup>It shall happen, when all these things have come
on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before you, and you shall call them to mind among
all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven
you, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:2">2 </verse></sup>and return to Yahweh your God and obey his
voice according to all that I command you today,
you and your children, with all your heart and with
all your soul, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:3">3 </verse></sup>that then Yahweh your God will
release you from captivity, have compassion on you,
and will return and gather you from all the peoples
where Yahweh your God has scattered you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:4">4 </verse></sup>If your
outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens,
from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and
from there he will bring you back. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh your
God will bring you into the land which your fathers
possessed, and you will possess it. He will do
you good, and increase your numbers more than
your fathers. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God will circumcise
your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love
Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all
your soul, that you may live. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God
will put all these curses on your enemies and on
those who hate you, who persecuted you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:8">8 </verse></sup>You
shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all
his commandments which I command you today.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all
the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in
the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over
you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:10">10 </verse></sup>if
you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written
in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:11">11 </verse></sup>For this commandment which I command you
today is not too hard for you or too distant. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:12">12 </verse></sup>It
is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go
up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it
to us, that we may do it?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:13">13 </verse></sup>Neither is it beyond
the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the
sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that
we may do it?” <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:14">14 </verse></sup>But the word is very near to you,
in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do
it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, I have set before you today life and
prosperity, and death and evil. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:16">16 </verse></sup>For I command
you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his
ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes,
and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply,
and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land
where you go in to possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:17">17 </verse></sup>But if your heart
turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn
away and worship other gods, and serve them, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:18">18 </verse></sup>I
declare to you today that you will surely perish. You
will not prolong your days in the land where you
pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:19">19 </verse></sup>I call
heaven and earth to witness against you today that
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and
the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live,
you and your descendants, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 30:20">20 </verse></sup>to love Yahweh your
God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he
is your life, and the length of your days, that you
may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years
old today. I can no more go out and come in.
Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this
Jordan.’ <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh your God himself will go over
before you. He will destroy these nations from
before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua
will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and
to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land,
when he destroyed them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh will deliver
them up before you, and you shall do to them
according to all the commandment which I have
commanded you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:6">6 </verse></sup>Be strong and courageous. Don’t
be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God
himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you
nor forsake you.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the
sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for
you shall go with this people into the land which
Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and
you shall cause them to inherit it. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh himself
is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will
not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t
be discouraged.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the
priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:10">10 </verse></sup>Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of
every seven years, in the set time of the year of
release, in the feast of booths, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:11">11 </verse></sup>when all Israel
has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the
place which he will choose, you shall read this law
before all Israel in their hearing. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:12">12 </verse></sup>Assemble the
people, the men and the women and the little ones,
and the foreigners who are within your gates, that
they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and
observe to do all the words of this law, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:13">13 </verse></sup>and that
their children, who have not known, may hear and
learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live
in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess
it.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days
approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and
present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I
may commission him.”
<br>
Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves
in the Tent of Meeting.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of
cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s
door. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall
sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and
play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land
where they go to be among them, and will forsake
me and break my covenant which I have made with
them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:17">17 </verse></sup>Then my anger shall be kindled against
them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will
hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured,
and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so
that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils
come on us because our God is not among us?’ <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:18">18 </verse></sup>I
will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil
which they have done, in that they have turned to
other gods.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:19">19 </verse></sup>“Now therefore write this song for yourselves,
and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in
their mouths, that this song may be a witness for
me against the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:20">20 </verse></sup>For when I
have brought them into the land which I swore to
their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and
they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown
fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve
them, and despise me, and break my covenant. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:21">21 </verse></sup>It
will happen, when many evils and troubles have
come on them, that this song will testify before
them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out
of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their
ways and what they are doing today, before I have
brought them into the land which I promised them.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:22">22 </verse></sup>So Moses wrote this song the same day, and
taught it to the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:23">23 </verse></sup>He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and
said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring
the children of Israel into the land which I swore to
them. I will be with you.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:24">24 </verse></sup>When Moses had finished writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:25">25 </verse></sup>Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark
of Yahweh’s covenant, saying, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:26">26 </verse></sup>“Take this book of
the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh
your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a
witness against you. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:27">27 </verse></sup>For I know your rebellion and
your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you
today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
How much more after my death? <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:28">28 </verse></sup>Assemble to
me all the elders of your tribes and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call
heaven and earth to witness against them. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:29">29 </verse></sup>For I
know that after my death you will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn away from the way which I
have commanded you; and evil will happen to you
in the latter days, because you will do that which
is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 31:30">30 </verse></sup>Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly
of Israel the words of this song, until they were
finished.

#BCV:Deuteronomy 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:1">1 </verse></sup>Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:2">2 </verse></sup>My doctrine will drop as the rain.
<br>
My speech will condense as the dew,
<br>
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:3">3 </verse></sup>For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
<br>
Ascribe greatness to our God!

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:4">4 </verse></sup>The Rock: his work is perfect,
<br>
for all his ways are just.
<br>
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:5">5 </verse></sup>They have dealt corruptly with him.
They are not his children, because of their
defect.
<br>
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:6">6 </verse></sup>Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
<br>
foolish and unwise people?
<br>
Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:7">7 </verse></sup>Remember the days of old.
<br>
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:8">8 </verse></sup>When the Most High gave to the nations their
inheritance,
<br>
when he separated the children of men,
he set the bounds of the peoples
<br>
according to the number of the children of
Israel.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:9">9 </verse></sup>For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:10">10 </verse></sup>He found him in a desert land,
<br>
in the waste howling wilderness.
<br>
He surrounded him.
<br>
He cared for him.
<br>
He kept him as the apple of his eye.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:11">11 </verse></sup>As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
<br>
he spread abroad his wings,
<br>
he took them,
<br>
he bore them on his feathers.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh alone led him.
<br>
There was no foreign god with him.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:13">13 </verse></sup>He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
<br>
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:14">14 </verse></sup>butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
<br>
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
<br>
From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:15">15 </verse></sup>But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
<br>
You have grown thick.
<br>
You have become sleek.
<br>
Then he abandoned God who made him,
<br>
and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:16">16 </verse></sup>They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:17">17 </verse></sup>They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn’t know,
<br>
to new gods that came up recently,
<br>
which your fathers didn’t dread.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:18">18 </verse></sup>Of the Rock who became your father, you are
unmindful,
<br>
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his
daughters.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be;
<br>
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:21">21 </verse></sup>They have moved me to jealousy with that which
is not God.
<br>
They have provoked me to anger with their
vanities.
<br>
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not
a people.
<br>
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:22">22 </verse></sup>For a fire is kindled in my anger,
that burns to the lowest Sheol,<footnote:1>32:22 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
devours the earth with its increase,
<br>
and sets the foundations of the mountains on
fire.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:23">23 </verse></sup>“I will heap evils on them.
<br>
I will spend my arrows on them.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:24">24 </verse></sup>They shall be wasted with hunger,
<br>
and devoured with burning heat
<br>
and bitter destruction.
<br>
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:25">25 </verse></sup>Outside the sword will bereave,
<br>
and in the rooms,
<br>
terror on both young man and virgin,
<br>
the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:26">26 </verse></sup>I said that I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from
among men;

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:27">27 </verse></sup>were it not that I feared the provocation of the
enemy,
<br>
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted;
Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:28">28 </verse></sup>For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:29">29 </verse></sup>Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end!
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:30">30 </verse></sup>How could one chase a thousand,
<br>
and two put ten thousand to flight,
<br>
unless their Rock had sold them,
<br>
and Yahweh had delivered them up?

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:31">31 </verse></sup>For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves concede.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:32">32 </verse></sup>For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
<br>
Their grapes are poison grapes.
<br>
Their clusters are bitter.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:33><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:33">33 </verse></sup>Their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:34><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:34">34 </verse></sup>“Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:35><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:35">35 </verse></sup>Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
at the time when their foot slides,
<br>
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
Their doom rushes at them.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:36><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:36">36 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will judge his people,
<br>
and have compassion on his servants,
<br>
when he sees that their power is gone,
that there is no one remaining, shut up or left
at large.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:37><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:37">37 </verse></sup>He will say, “Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:38><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:38">38 </verse></sup>which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you!
<br>
Let them be your protection.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:39><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:39">39 </verse></sup>“See now that I myself am he.
<br>
There is no god with me.
<br>
I kill and I make alive.
<br>
I wound and I heal.
<br>
There is no one who can deliver out of my
hand.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:40><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:40">40 </verse></sup>For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
as I live forever,

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:41><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:41">41 </verse></sup>if I sharpen my glittering sword,
<br>
my hand grasps it in judgment;
<br>
I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
and will repay those who hate me.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:42><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:42">42 </verse></sup>I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of
the slain and the captives,
<br>
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:43><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:43">43 </verse></sup>Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and will make atonement for his land and for
his people.<footnote:1>32:43 For this verse, LXX reads: Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:44><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:44">44 </verse></sup>Moses came and spoke all the words of this song
in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of
Nun. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:45><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:45">45 </verse></sup>Moses finished reciting all these words to
all Israel. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:46><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:46">46 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Set your heart to all
the words which I testify to you today, which you
shall command your children to observe to do, all
the words of this law. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:47><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:47">47 </verse></sup>For it is no vain thing for
you, because it is your life, and through this thing
you shall prolong your days in the land, where you
go over the Jordan to possess it.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:48><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:48">48 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:49><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:49">49 </verse></sup>“Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount
Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across
from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which
I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:50><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:50">50 </verse></sup>Die on the mountain where you go up, and be
gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother
died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:51><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:51">51 </verse></sup>because you trespassed against me among
the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of
Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t
uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 32:52><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 32:52">52 </verse></sup>For you shall see the land from a distance; but
you shall not go there into the land which I give the
children of Israel.”

#BCV:Deuteronomy 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:1">1 </verse></sup>This is the blessing with which Moses the man of
God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:2">2 </verse></sup>He said,
<br>
“Yahweh came from Sinai,
<br>
and rose from Seir to them.
<br>
He shone from Mount Paran.
<br>
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.<footnote:1>33:2 another manuscript reads “He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.” </footnote>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, he loves the people.
<br>
All his saints are in your hand.
<br>
They sat down at your feet.
<br>
Each receives your words.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:4">4 </verse></sup>Moses commanded us a law,
<br>
an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:5">5 </verse></sup>He was king in Jeshurun,
<br>
when the heads of the people were gathered,
all the tribes of Israel together.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:6">6 </verse></sup>“Let Reuben live, and not die;
<br>
Nor let his men be few.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:7">7 </verse></sup>This is for Judah. He said,
<br>
“Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah.
<br>
Bring him in to his people.
<br>
With his hands he contended for himself.
You shall be a help against his adversaries.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:8">8 </verse></sup>About Levi he said,
<br>
“Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly
one,
<br>
whom you proved at Massah,
<br>
with whom you contended at the waters of
Meribah.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:9">9 </verse></sup>He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not
seen him.’
<br>
He didn’t acknowledge his brothers,
<br>
nor did he know his own children;
<br>
for they have observed your word,
<br>
and keep your covenant.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:10">10 </verse></sup>They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
and Israel your law.
<br>
They shall put incense before you,
<br>
and whole burnt offering on your altar.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh, bless his skills.
<br>
Accept the work of his hands.
<br>
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against
him,
<br>
of those who hate him, that they not rise
again.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:12">12 </verse></sup>About Benjamin he said,
<br>
“The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him.
He covers him all day long.
<br>
He dwells between his shoulders.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:13">13 </verse></sup>About Joseph he said,
<br>
“His land is blessed by Yahweh,
<br>
for the precious things of the heavens, for the
dew,
<br>
for the deep that couches beneath,

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:14">14 </verse></sup>for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
for the precious things that the moon can
yield,

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:15">15 </verse></sup>for the best things of the ancient mountains,
for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:16">16 </verse></sup>for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush.<footnote:1>33:16 i.e., the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.</footnote>
Let this come on the head of Joseph,
<br>
on the crown of the head of him who was
separated from his brothers.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:17">17 </verse></sup>Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd.
His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
With them he will push all the peoples to the
ends of the earth.
<br>
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:18">18 </verse></sup>About Zebulun he said,
<br>
“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:19">19 </verse></sup>They will call the peoples to the mountain.
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
for they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
the hidden treasures of the sand.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:20">20 </verse></sup>About Gad he said,
<br>
“He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
<br>
He dwells as a lioness,
<br>
and tears the arm and the crown of the head.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:21">21 </verse></sup>He provided the first part for himself,
for the lawgiver’s portion was reserved for
him.
<br>
He came with the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
His ordinances with Israel.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:22">22 </verse></sup>About Dan he said,
<br>
“Dan is a lion’s cub
<br>
that leaps out of Bashan.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:23">23 </verse></sup>About Naphtali he said,
<br>
“Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
<br>
full of Yahweh’s blessing,
<br>
Possess the west and the south.”

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:24">24 </verse></sup>About Asher he said,
<br>
“Asher is blessed with children.
<br>
Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
Let him dip his foot in oil.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:25><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:25">25 </verse></sup>Your bars will be iron and bronze.
As your days, so your strength will be.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:26><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:26">26 </verse></sup>“There is no one like God, Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens for your help,
in his excellency on the skies.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:27><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:27">27 </verse></sup>The eternal God is your dwelling place.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
<br>
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, ‘Destroy!’

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:28><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:28">28 </verse></sup>Israel dwells in safety,
<br>
the fountain of Jacob alone,
<br>
In a land of grain and new wine.
<br>
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 33:29><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 33:29">29 </verse></sup>You are happy, Israel!
<br>
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
the shield of your help,
the sword of your excellency?
<br>
Your enemies will submit themselves to you.
You will tread on their high places.”

#BCV:Deuteronomy 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Moses went up from the plains of Moab to
Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite
Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead
to Dan, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:2">2 </verse></sup>and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim
and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the
Western Sea, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:3">3 </verse></sup>and the south,<footnote:1>34:3 or, Negev</footnote> and the Plain of the
valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will
give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see
it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:5">5 </verse></sup>So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there
in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:6">6 </verse></sup>He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab
opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his
tomb is to this day. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:7">7 </verse></sup>Moses was one hundred twenty
years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor
his strength gone. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Israel wept for
Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the
days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were
ended. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit
of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The
children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh
commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:10">10 </verse></sup>Since then, there has not
arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh
knew face to face, <key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:11">11 </verse></sup>in all the signs and the wonders
which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
<key:bcv=Deuteronomy 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Deuteronomy 34:12">12 </verse></sup>and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome
deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

#OUTLINE:1,Joshua
<h2>The Book of Joshua</h2>

<key:bcv=Joshua 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now after the death of Moses the servant of
Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun,
Moses’ servant, saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Moses my servant is dead.
Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and
all these people, to the land which I am giving
to them, even to the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:3">3 </verse></sup>I have
given you every place that the sole of your foot will
tread on, as I told Moses. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:4">4 </verse></sup>From the wilderness
and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the
great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
your border. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:5">5 </verse></sup>No man will be able to stand before
you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so
I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
<key:bcv=Joshua 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:6">6 </verse></sup>“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause
this people to inherit the land which I swore to their
fathers to give them. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Only be strong and very
courageous. Be careful to observe to do according
to all the law which Moses my servant commanded
you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to
the left, that you may have good success wherever
you go. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:8">8 </verse></sup>This book of the law shall not depart
from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day
and night, that you may observe to do according
to all that is written in it; for then you shall make
your way prosperous, and then you shall have good
success. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and
courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for
Yahweh your God<footnote:1>1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> is with you wherever you go.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Joshua commanded the officers of the
people, saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:11">11 </verse></sup>“Pass through the middle of the
camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare
food; for within three days you are to pass over this
Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Yahweh
your God gives you to possess.’ ”

<key:bcv=Joshua 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,
<key:bcv=Joshua 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:13">13 </verse></sup>“Remember the word which Moses the servant of
Yahweh commanded you, saying, ‘Yahweh your God
gives you rest, and will give you this land. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Your
wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall
live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the
Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers
armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help
them <key:bcv=Joshua 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:15">15 </verse></sup>until Yahweh has given your brothers rest,
as he has given you, and they have also possessed
the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then
you shall return to the land of your possession and
possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave
you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”
<key:bcv=Joshua 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:16">16 </verse></sup>They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you
have commanded us we will do, and wherever you
send us we will go. <key:bcv=Joshua 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Just as we listened to Moses
in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may
Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
<key:bcv=Joshua 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Whoever rebels against your commandment, and
doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command
him shall himself be put to death. Only be
strong and courageous.”

#BCV:Joshua 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men
out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land,
including Jericho.” They went and came into the
house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and
slept there.

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The king of Jericho was told, “Behold,<footnote:1>2:2 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> men of
the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy
out the land.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out
the men who have come to you, who have entered
into your house; for they have come to spy out all
the land.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:4">4 </verse></sup>The woman took the two men and hid them.
Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t
know where they came from. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:5">5 </verse></sup>About the time of the
shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went
out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue
them quickly. You may catch up with them.” <key:bcv=Joshua 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But
she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden
them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in
order on the roof. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The men pursued them along
the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as
those who pursued them had gone out, they shut
the gate. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Before they had lain down, she came
up to them on the roof. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:9">9 </verse></sup>She said to the men, “I
know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that
the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the
inhabitants of the land melt away before you. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For
we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of
the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt;
and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites,
who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og,
whom you utterly destroyed. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:11">11 </verse></sup>As soon as we had
heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any
more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh
your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth
beneath. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please swear to me by
Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you
also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and
give me a true sign; <key:bcv=Joshua 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:13">13 </verse></sup>and that you will save alive my
father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and
all that they have, and will deliver our lives from
death.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:14">14 </verse></sup>The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you
don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall
be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal
kindly and truly with you.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Then she let them down by a cord through the
window; for her house was on the side of the wall,
and she lived on the wall. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:16">16 </verse></sup>She said to them, “Go
to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide
yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have
returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The men said to her, “We will be guiltless
of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.
<key:bcv=Joshua 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line
of scarlet thread in the window which you used to
let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your
father, your mother, your brothers, and all your
father’s household. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:19">19 </verse></sup>It shall be that whoever goes
out of the doors of your house into the street, his
blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless.
Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall
be on our head, if any hand is on him. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:20">20 </verse></sup>But if
you talk about this business of ours, then we shall
be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to
swear.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:21">21 </verse></sup>She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent
them away, and they departed. Then she tied the
scarlet line in the window.

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:22">22 </verse></sup>They went and came to the mountain, and
stayed there three days, until the pursuers had
returned. The pursuers sought them all along the
way, but didn’t find them. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the two men
returned, descended from the mountain, crossed
the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They
told him all that had happened to them. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:24">24 </verse></sup>They said
to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land
into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the
land melt away before us.”3 <key:bcv=Joshua 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Joshua got up early in the morning; and they
moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he
and all the children of Israel. They camped there
before they crossed over. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:2">2 </verse></sup>After three days, the
officers went through the middle of the camp; <key:bcv=Joshua 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:3">3 </verse></sup>and
they commanded the people, saying, “When you
see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and
the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your
place and follow it. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Yet there shall be a space
between you and it of about two thousand cubits<footnote:1>3:4 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters. </footnote>
by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may
know the way by which you must go; for you have
not passed this way before.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves;
for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up
the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the
people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and
went before the people.

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to
magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may
know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
<key:bcv=Joshua 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall command the priests who bear the ark of
the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink
of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in
the Jordan.’ ”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here,
and hear the words of Yahweh your God.” <key:bcv=Joshua 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Joshua
said, “By this you shall know that the living God is
among you, and that he will without fail drive the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the
Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from
before you. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, the ark of the covenant of the
Lord<footnote:1>3:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> of all the earth passes over before you into
the Jordan. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore take twelve men out of
the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:13">13 </verse></sup>It shall
be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who
bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest
in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the
Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down
from above shall stand in one heap.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:14">14 </verse></sup>When the people moved from their tents to
pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of
the covenant being before the people, <key:bcv=Joshua 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:15">15 </verse></sup>and when
those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan,
and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had
dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan
overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), <key:bcv=Joshua 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:16">16 </verse></sup>the
waters which came down from above stood, and
rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city
that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down
toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were
wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near
Jericho. <key:bcv=Joshua 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle
of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry
ground, until all the nation had passed completely
over the Jordan.

#BCV:Joshua 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:1">1 </verse></sup>When all the nation had completely crossed
over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
<key:bcv=Joshua 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take twelve men out of the people, a man out
of every tribe, <key:bcv=Joshua 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:3">3 </verse></sup>and command them, saying, ‘Take
from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place
where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones,
carry them over with you, and lay them down in the
place where you’ll camp tonight.’ ”

<key:bcv=Joshua 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he
had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out
of every tribe. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Joshua said to them, “Cross before
the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the
Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it
on your shoulder, according to the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel; <key:bcv=Joshua 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:6">6 </verse></sup>that this may be a
sign among you, that when your children ask in the
future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
<key:bcv=Joshua 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:7">7 </verse></sup>then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of
the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the
waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall
be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’ ”
<key:bcv=Joshua 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded,
and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the
Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the
number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They
carried them over with them to the place where
they camped, and laid them down there. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua
set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan,
in the place where the feet of the priests who bore
the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there
to this day. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:10">10 </verse></sup>For the priests who bore the ark
stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything
was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to
speak to the people, according to all that Moses
commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and
passed over. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:11">11 </verse></sup>When all the people had completely
crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over with the
priests in the presence of the people.
<key:bcv=Joshua 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:12">12 </verse></sup>The children of Reuben, and the children of
Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over
armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke
to them. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:13">13 </verse></sup>About forty thousand men, ready and
armed for war, passed over before Yahweh to battle,
to the plains of Jericho. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:14">14 </verse></sup>On that day, Yahweh
magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they
feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his
life.

<key:bcv=Joshua 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:16">16 </verse></sup>“Command
the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that
they come up out of the Jordan.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying,
“Come up out of the Jordan!” <key:bcv=Joshua 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:18">18 </verse></sup>When the
priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had
come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the
soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry
ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their
place, and went over all its banks, as before. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:19">19 </verse></sup>The
people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day
of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the
east border of Jericho.

<key:bcv=Joshua 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they
took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:21">21 </verse></sup>He spoke to the
children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask
their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these
stones mean?’ <key:bcv=Joshua 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Then you shall let your children
know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry
land. <key:bcv=Joshua 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:23">23 </verse></sup>For Yahweh your God dried up the waters
of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed
over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which
he dried up from before us, until we had crossed
over, <key:bcv=Joshua 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 4:24">24 </verse></sup>that all the peoples of the earth may know
that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may
fear Yahweh your God forever.’ ”

#BCV:Joshua 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:1">1 </verse></sup>When all the kings of the Amorites, who were
beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of
the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how
Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from
before the children of Israel until we had crossed
over, their heart melted, and there was no more
spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Joshua 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:2">2 </verse></sup>At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint
knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the
second time.” <key:bcv=Joshua 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Joshua made himself flint knives,
and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the
foreskins. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:4">4 </verse></sup>This is the reason Joshua circumcised
them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who
were males, even all the men of war, died in the
wilderness along the way, after they came out of
Egypt. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:5">5 </verse></sup>For all the people who came out were
circumcised; but all the people who were born in
the wilderness along the way as they came out of
Egypt had not been circumcised. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:6">6 </verse></sup>For the children
of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until
all the nation, even the men of war who came out
of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen
to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he
wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore
to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing
with milk and honey. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Their children, whom he
raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua,
for they were uncircumcised, because they had not
circumcised them on the way. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:8">8 </verse></sup>When they were
done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in
their places in the camp until they were healed.
<key:bcv=Joshua 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled
away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore
the name of that place was called Gilgal<footnote:1>5:9 “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”</footnote> to this
day. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:10">10 </verse></sup>The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal.
They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of
the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
<key:bcv=Joshua 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:11">11 </verse></sup>They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of
the produce of the land on the next day after the
Passover, in the same day. <key:bcv=Joshua 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:12">12 </verse></sup>The manna ceased on
the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of
the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna
any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of
Canaan that year.

<key:bcv=Joshua 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:13">13 </verse></sup>When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his
eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front
of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua
went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for
our enemies?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “No; but I have come now as commander
of Yahweh’s army.”
<br>
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped,
and asked him, “What does my lord say to
his servant?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 5:15">15 </verse></sup>The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua,
“Take off your sandals, for the place on which you
stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

#BCV:Joshua 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the
children of Israel. No one went out, and no one
came in. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have
given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the
mighty men of valor. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:3">3 </verse></sup>All of your men of war
shall march around the city, going around the city
once. You shall do this six days. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Seven priests
shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the
ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around
the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the
trumpets. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:5">5 </verse></sup>It shall be that when they make a long
blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the
sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with
a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat,
and the people shall go up, every man straight in
front of him.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said
to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let
seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns
before Yahweh’s ark.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:7">7 </verse></sup>They said to the people, “Advance! March
around the city, and let the armed men pass on
before Yahweh’s ark.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:8">8 </verse></sup>It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to
the people, the seven priests bearing the seven
trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced
and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant followed them. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:9">9 </verse></sup>The armed men went
before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the
ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they
went.

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You
shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither
shall any word proceed out of your mouth until
the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:11">11 </verse></sup>So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city,
circling it once. Then they came into the camp,
and stayed in the camp. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Joshua rose early in
the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
<key:bcv=Joshua 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:13">13 </verse></sup>The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets
of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on
continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed
men went in front of them. The rear guard came
after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they
went. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:14">14 </verse></sup>The second day they marched around the
city once, and returned into the camp. They did this
six days.

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:15">15 </verse></sup>On the seventh day, they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and marched around the city
in the same way seven times. On this day only
they marched around the city seven times. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:16">16 </verse></sup>At the
seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets,
Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has
given you the city! <key:bcv=Joshua 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:17">17 </verse></sup>The city shall be devoted, even
it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the
prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in
the house, because she hid the messengers that we
sent. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:18">18 </verse></sup>But as for you, only keep yourselves from
what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have
devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you
would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble
it. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:19">19 </verse></sup>But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze
and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into
Yahweh’s treasury.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:20">20 </verse></sup>So the people shouted and the priests blew the
trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and
the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up
into the city, every man straight in front of him,
and they took the city. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:21">21 </verse></sup>They utterly destroyed
all that was in the city, both man and woman, both
young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the
edge of the sword. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the two men
who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s
house, and bring the woman and all that she has out
from there, as you swore to her.” <key:bcv=Joshua 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:23">23 </verse></sup>The young men
who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with
her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that
she had. They also brought out all of her relatives,
and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
<key:bcv=Joshua 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:24">24 </verse></sup>They burned the city with fire, and all that was in
it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels
of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=Joshua 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:25">25 </verse></sup>But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s
household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive.
She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because
she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out
Jericho.

<key:bcv=Joshua 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Joshua commanded them with an oath at that
time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh
who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the
loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and
with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its
gates.” <key:bcv=Joshua 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 6:27">27 </verse></sup>So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame
was in all the land.

#BCV:Joshua 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:1">1 </verse></sup>But the children of Israel committed a trespass
in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi,
the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of
Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore
Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Joshua 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which
is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and
spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.”
The men went up and spied out Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:3">3 </verse></sup>They
returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let
all the people go up, but let about two or three
thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all
the people to toil there, for there are only a few
of them.” <key:bcv=Joshua 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:4">4 </verse></sup>So about three thousand men of the
people went up there, and they fled before the men
of Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:5">5 </verse></sup>The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of
them. They chased them from before the gate even
to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The
hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
<key:bcv=Joshua 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on
his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he
and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their
heads. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have
you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to
deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us
to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived
beyond the Jordan! <key:bcv=Joshua 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after
Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
<key:bcv=Joshua 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:9">9 </verse></sup>For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the
land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off
our name from the earth. What will you do for your
great name?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you
fallen on your face like that? <key:bcv=Joshua 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Israel has sinned.
Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant
which I commanded them. Yes, they have even
taken some of the devoted things, and have also
stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it
among their own stuff. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore the children
of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They
turn their backs before their enemies, because they
have become devoted for destruction. I will not be
with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted
things from among you. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Get up! Sanctify the people,
and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for
Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted
thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before
your enemies until you take away the devoted thing
from among you.” <key:bcv=Joshua 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:14">14 </verse></sup>In the morning therefore you
shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be
that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near
by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall
come near by households. The household which
Yahweh selects shall come near man by man. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:15">15 </verse></sup>It
shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing
shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has,
because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant,
and because he has done a disgraceful thing in
Israel.’ ”

<key:bcv=Joshua 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:16">16 </verse></sup>So Joshua rose up early in the morning and
brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of
Judah was selected. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:17">17 </verse></sup>He brought near the family of
Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites.
He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by
man, and Zabdi was selected. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:18">18 </verse></sup>He brought near
his household man by man, and Achan, the son of
Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe
of Judah, was selected. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Joshua said to Achan, “My
son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel,
and make confession to him. Tell me now what you
have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

<key:bcv=Joshua 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly
sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is
what I have done. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:21">21 </verse></sup>When I saw among the plunder
a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels<footnote:1>7:21 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote>
of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels,
then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they
are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent,
with the silver under it.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:22">22 </verse></sup>So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the
tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the
silver under it. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:23">23 </verse></sup>They took them from the middle
of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all
the children of Israel. They laid them down before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Joshua, and all Israel with him, took
Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the
wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle,
his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had;
and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
<key:bcv=Joshua 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh
will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with
stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned
them with stones. <key:bcv=Joshua 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 7:26">26 </verse></sup>They raised over him a great
heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh
turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore
the name of that place was called “The valley of
Achor” to this day.

#BCV:Joshua 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and
don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you,
and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your
hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his
land. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to
Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods
and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for
the city behind it.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:3">3 </verse></sup>So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to
Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty
men of valor, and sent them out by night. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:4">4 </verse></sup>He
commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in
ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go
very far from the city, but all of you be ready. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:5">5 </verse></sup>I and
all the people who are with me will approach the
city. It shall happen, when they come out against
us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:6">6 </verse></sup>They will come out after us until we have drawn
them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee
before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before
them, <key:bcv=Joshua 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:7">7 </verse></sup>and you shall rise up from the ambush, and
take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will
deliver it into your hand. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:8">8 </verse></sup>It shall be, when you
have seized the city, that you shall set the city on
fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word.
Behold, I have commanded you.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up
the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on
the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the
people that night. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Joshua rose up early in the
morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and
the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:11">11 </verse></sup>All
the people, even the men of war who were with
him, went up and came near, and came before the
city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now
there was a valley between him and Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:12">12 </verse></sup>He took
about five thousand men, and set them in ambush
between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:13">13 </verse></sup>So they set the people, even all the army who
was on the north of the city, and their ambush on
the west of the city; and Joshua went that night
into the middle of the valley. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:14">14 </verse></sup>When the king of
Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the
men of the city went out against Israel to battle,
he and all his people, at the time appointed, before
the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an
ambush against him behind the city. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Joshua and
all Israel made as if they were beaten before them,
and fled by the way of the wilderness. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:16">16 </verse></sup>All the
people who were in the city were called together to
pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were
drawn away from the city. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:17">17 </verse></sup>There was not a man
left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel.
They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin
that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into
your hand.”
<br>
Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his
hand toward the city. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:19">19 </verse></sup>The ambush arose quickly
out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had
stretched out his hand and entered into the city
and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:20">20 </verse></sup>When the men of Ai looked behind them, they
saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up
to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way
or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness
turned back on the pursuers. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:21">21 </verse></sup>When Joshua and
all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city,
and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they
turned back and killed the men of Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:22">22 </verse></sup>The others
came out of the city against them, so they were in
the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on
that side. They struck them, so that they let none of
them remain or escape. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:23">23 </verse></sup>They captured the king of
Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

<key:bcv=Joshua 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:24">24 </verse></sup>When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants
of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which
they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the
edge of the sword until they were consumed, all
Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of
the sword. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:25">25 </verse></sup>All that fell that day, both of men
and women, were twelve thousand, even all the
people of Ai. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:26">26 </verse></sup>For Joshua didn’t draw back his
hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until
he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:27">27 </verse></sup>Israel took for themselves only the livestock and
the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word
which he commanded Joshua. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:28">28 </verse></sup>So Joshua burned
Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to
this day. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:29">29 </verse></sup>He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until
the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and
they took his body down from the tree and threw it
at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a
great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
<key:bcv=Joshua 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God
of Israel, on Mount Ebal, <key:bcv=Joshua 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:31">31 </verse></sup>as Moses the servant of
Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is
written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar
of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any
iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh
and sacrificed peace offerings. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:32">32 </verse></sup>He wrote there on
the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in
the presence of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:33">33 </verse></sup>All Israel,
with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both
sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who
carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner
as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount
Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal,
as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded
at the first, that they should bless the people of
Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Afterward he read all the words of the law,
the blessing and the curse, according to all that is
written in the book of the law. <key:bcv=Joshua 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 8:35">35 </verse></sup>There was not a
word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua
didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the
women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were
among them.

#BCV:Joshua 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:1">1 </verse></sup>When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan,
in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the
shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite,
the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it <key:bcv=Joshua 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:2">2 </verse></sup>they gathered
themselves together to fight with Joshua and with
Israel, with one accord. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:3">3 </verse></sup>But when the inhabitants
of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho
and to Ai, <key:bcv=Joshua 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:4">4 </verse></sup>they also resorted to a ruse, and went
and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took
old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and
bound up wine skins, <key:bcv=Joshua 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:5">5 </verse></sup>and old and patched sandals
on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread
of their food supply was dry and moldy. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:6">6 </verse></sup>They
went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him
and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far
country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:7">7 </verse></sup>The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if
you live among us? How could we make a covenant
with you?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:8">8 </verse></sup>They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”
Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you
come from?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:9">9 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Your servants have come
from a very far country because of the name of
Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame,
all that he did in Egypt, <key:bcv=Joshua 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:10">10 </verse></sup>and all that he did to
the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the
Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of
Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Our elders and all
the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying,
‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go
to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants.
Now make a covenant with us.” ’ <key:bcv=Joshua 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:12">12 </verse></sup>This our bread
we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on
the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold,
it is dry, and has become moldy. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:13">13 </verse></sup>These wine
skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they
are torn. These our garments and our sandals have
become old because of the very long journey.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:14">14 </verse></sup>The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t
ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Joshua made
peace with them, and made a covenant with them,
to let them live. The princes of the congregation
swore to them. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:16">16 </verse></sup>At the end of three days after
they had made a covenant with them, they heard
that they were their neighbors, and that they lived
among them. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:17">17 </verse></sup>The children of Israel traveled and
came to their cities on the third day. Now their
cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath
Jearim. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:18">18 </verse></sup>The children of Israel didn’t strike them,
because the princes of the congregation had sworn
to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the
congregation murmured against the princes. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:19">19 </verse></sup>But
all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have
sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now
therefore we may not touch them. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:20">20 </verse></sup>We will do
this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on
us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:21">21 </verse></sup>The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So
they became wood cutters and drawers of water for
all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to
them.

<key:bcv=Joshua 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them,
saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are
very far from you,’ when you live among us? <key:bcv=Joshua 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Now
therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never
fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of
water for the house of my God.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:24">24 </verse></sup>They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your
servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God
commanded his servant Moses to give you all the
land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land
from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for
our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
<key:bcv=Joshua 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it
seems good and right to you to do.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:26">26 </verse></sup>He did so to them, and delivered them out of
the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t
kill them. <key:bcv=Joshua 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 9:27">27 </verse></sup>That day Joshua made them wood
cutters and drawers of water for the congregation
and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place
which he should choose.

#BCV:Joshua 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard
how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed
it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had
done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of
Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among
them, <key:bcv=Joshua 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:2">2 </verse></sup>they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a
great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it
was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to
Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth,
Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon,
saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:4">4 </verse></sup>“Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike
Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and
with the children of Israel.” <key:bcv=Joshua 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore the five
kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the
king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves
together and went up, they and all their armies, and
encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:6">6 </verse></sup>The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at
Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come
up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the
kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country
have gathered together against us.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:7">7 </verse></sup>So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and the whole
army with him, including all the mighty men of
valor. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for
I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man
of them will stand before you.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He
marched from Gilgal all night. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh confused
them before Israel. He killed them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way
of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to
Azekah and to Makkedah. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:11">11 </verse></sup>As they fled from
before Israel, while they were at the descent of
Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from
the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There
were more who died from the hailstones than those
whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when
Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children
of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun,
stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley
of Aijalon!”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:13">13 </verse></sup>The sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the nation had avenged themselves of their
enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar?
The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t
hurry to go down about a whole day. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:14">14 </verse></sup>There was
no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh
listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought
for Israel.

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to
the camp to Gilgal. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:16">16 </verse></sup>These five kings fled, and
hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Joshua
was told, saying, “The five kings have been found,
hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the
cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:19">19 </verse></sup>but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and
attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to
enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has
delivered them into your hand.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:20">20 </verse></sup>When Joshua and the children of Israel had
finished killing them with a very great slaughter
until they were consumed, and the remnant which
remained of them had entered into the fortified
cities, <key:bcv=Joshua 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:21">21 </verse></sup>all the people returned to the camp to
Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his
tongue against any of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Then
Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring
those five kings out of the cave to me.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:23">23 </verse></sup>They did so, and brought those five kings out
of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king
of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
and the king of Eglon. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:24">24 </verse></sup>When they brought those
kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of
Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who
went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the
necks of these kings.”
<br>
They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be
dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh
will do this to all your enemies against whom you
fight.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to
death, and hanged them on five trees. They were
hanging on the trees until the evening. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:27">27 </verse></sup>At the
time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded,
and they took them down off the trees, and
threw them into the cave in which they had hidden
themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of
the cave, which remain to this very day.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck
it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He
utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in
it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of
Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel
with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the
hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the
sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no
one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done
to the king of Jericho.

<key:bcv=Joshua 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with
him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and
fought against it. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Yahweh delivered Lachish into
the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and
struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the
souls who were in it, according to all that he had
done to Libnah. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:33">33 </verse></sup>Then Horam king of Gezer came
up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his
people, until he had left him no one remaining.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:34">34 </verse></sup>Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with
him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and
fought against it. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:35">35 </verse></sup>They took it on that day, and
struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly
destroyed all the souls who were in it that day,
according to all that he had done to Lachish.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:36">36 </verse></sup>Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with
him, to Hebron; and they fought against it. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:37">37 </verse></sup>They
took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword,
with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who
were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all
that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed
it, and all the souls who were in it.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:38">38 </verse></sup>Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to
Debir, and fought against it. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:39">39 </verse></sup>He took it, with
its king and all its cities. They struck them with
the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the
souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As
he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its
king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.
<key:bcv=Joshua 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:40">40 </verse></sup>So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the
South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings.
<br>
He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed
all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel,
commanded. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:41">41 </verse></sup>Joshua struck them from Kadesh
Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen,
even to Gibeon. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:42">42 </verse></sup>Joshua took all these kings and
their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of
Israel, fought for Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 10:43><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 10:43">43 </verse></sup>Joshua returned, and all
Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
#BCV:Joshua 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent
to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to
the king of Achshaph, <key:bcv=Joshua 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:2">2 </verse></sup>and to the kings who were
on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah
south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the
heights of Dor on the west, <key:bcv=Joshua 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:3">3 </verse></sup>to the Canaanite on the
east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the
Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the
Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:4">4 </verse></sup>They
went out, they and all their armies with them, many
people, even as the sand that is on the seashore
in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
<key:bcv=Joshua 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:5">5 </verse></sup>All these kings met together; and they came and
encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight
with Israel.

<key:bcv=Joshua 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because
of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver
them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring
their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:7">7 </verse></sup>So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors,
against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked
them. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh delivered them into the hand of
Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to
great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the
valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until
they left them no one remaining. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Joshua did to
them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their
horses and burned their chariots with fire. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Joshua
turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck
its king with the sword; for Hazor used to be the
head of all those kingdoms. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:11">11 </verse></sup>They struck all the
souls who were in it with the edge of the sword,
utterly destroying them. There was no one left who
breathed. He burned Hazor with fire. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Joshua
captured all the cities of those kings, with their
kings, and he struck them with the edge of the
sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the
servant of Yahweh commanded. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:13">13 </verse></sup>But as for the
cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned
none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned
that. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:14">14 </verse></sup>The children of Israel took all the plunder
of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for
themselves; but every man they struck with the
edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them.
They didn’t leave any who breathed.

<key:bcv=Joshua 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:15">15 </verse></sup>As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so
Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left
nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded
Moses. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:16">16 </verse></sup>So Joshua captured all that land, the hill
country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the
lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and
the lowland of the same, <key:bcv=Joshua 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:17">17 </verse></sup>from Mount Halak, that
goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of
Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their
kings, struck them, and put them to death. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Joshua
made war a long time with all those kings. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:19">19 </verse></sup>There
was not a city that made peace with the children of
Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon.
They took all in battle. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:20">20 </verse></sup>For it was of Yahweh to
harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle,
that he might utterly destroy them, that they might
have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Joshua came at that
time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country,
from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from
all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill
country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them
with their cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:22">22 </verse></sup>There were none of the Anakim
left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in
Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. <key:bcv=Joshua 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 11:23">23 </verse></sup>So
Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an
inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by
their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
#BCV:Joshua 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the kings of the land, whom the
children of Israel struck, and possessed their land
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the
valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
Arabah eastward: <key:bcv=Joshua 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Sihon king of the Amorites, who
lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on
the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle
of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river
Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Joshua 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:3">3 </verse></sup>and
the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and
to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward,
the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under
the slopes of Pisgah: <key:bcv=Joshua 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:4">4 </verse></sup>and the border of Og king of
Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived
at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, <key:bcv=Joshua 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:5">5 </verse></sup>and ruled in Mount
Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the
border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and
half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
<key:bcv=Joshua 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of
Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh
gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
<key:bcv=Joshua 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:7">7 </verse></sup>These are the kings of the land whom Joshua
and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan
westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon
even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua
gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according
to their divisions; <key:bcv=Joshua 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:8">8 </verse></sup>in the hill country, and in
the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes,
and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite,
the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite:

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:9">9 </verse></sup>the king of Jericho, one;
<br>
the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
<key:bcv=Joshua 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:10">10 </verse></sup>the king of Jerusalem, one;
<br>
the king of Hebron, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:11">11 </verse></sup>the king of Jarmuth, one;
<br>
the king of Lachish, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:12">12 </verse></sup>the king of Eglon, one;
<br>
the king of Gezer, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:13">13 </verse></sup>the king of Debir, one;
<br>
the king of Geder, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:14">14 </verse></sup>the king of Hormah, one;
<br>
the king of Arad, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:15">15 </verse></sup>the king of Libnah, one;
<br>
the king of Adullam, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:16">16 </verse></sup>the king of Makkedah, one;
<br>
the king of Bethel, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:17">17 </verse></sup>the king of Tappuah, one;
<br>
the king of Hepher, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:18">18 </verse></sup>the king of Aphek, one;
<br>
the king of Lassharon, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:19">19 </verse></sup>the king of Madon, one;
<br>
the king of Hazor, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:20">20 </verse></sup>the king of Shimron Meron, one;
<br>
the king of Achshaph, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:21">21 </verse></sup>the king of Taanach, one;
<br>
the king of Megiddo, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:22">22 </verse></sup>the king of Kedesh, one;
<br>
the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:23">23 </verse></sup>the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one;
the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

<key:bcv=Joshua 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 12:24">24 </verse></sup>the king of Tirzah, one:
<br>
all the kings thirty-one.

#BCV:Joshua 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in
years, and there remains yet very much land to be
possessed.

<key:bcv=Joshua 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:2">2 </verse></sup>“This is the land that still remains: all the
regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:3">3 </verse></sup>from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to
the border of Ekron northward, which is counted
as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the
Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, <key:bcv=Joshua 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:4">4 </verse></sup>on
the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to
the border of the Amorites; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:5">5 </verse></sup>and the land of the
Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from
Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of
Hamath; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:6">6 </verse></sup>all the inhabitants of the hill country
from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the
Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the
children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded you. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Now
therefore divide this land for an inheritance to
the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:8">8 </verse></sup>With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond
the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of
Yahweh gave them: <key:bcv=Joshua 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:9">9 </verse></sup>from Aroer, that is on the
edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that
is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of
Medeba to Dibon; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:10">10 </verse></sup>and all the cities of Sihon king
of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the
border of the children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:11">11 </verse></sup>and Gilead,
and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites,
and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:12">12 </verse></sup>all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned
in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the
remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these,
and drove them out. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Nevertheless the children
of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the
Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within
Israel to this day. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Only he gave no inheritance
to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the
God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as
he spoke to him. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Moses gave to the tribe of
the children of Reuben according to their families.
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain;
Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, <key:bcv=Joshua 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Jahaz, Kedemoth,
Mephaath, <key:bcv=Joshua 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth
Shahar in the mount of the valley, <key:bcv=Joshua 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Beth Peor, the
slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, <key:bcv=Joshua 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:21">21 </verse></sup>all the cities of
the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses
struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur,
Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the
land. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:22">22 </verse></sup>The children of Israel also killed Balaam the
son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among
the rest of their slain.

<key:bcv=Joshua 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:23">23 </verse></sup>The border of the children of Reuben was the
bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the
children of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and its villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children
of Gad, according to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Their border
was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the
land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is near
Rabbah; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:26">26 </verse></sup>and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh,
and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border
of Debir; <key:bcv=Joshua 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:27">27 </verse></sup>and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth
Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom
of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to
the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond
the Jordan eastward. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:28">28 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of
the children of Gad according to their families, the
cities and its villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of
Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children
of Manasseh according to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Their
border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of
Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:31">31 </verse></sup>Half Gilead,
Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of
Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the
son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children
of Machir according to their families.
<key:bcv=Joshua 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:32">32 </verse></sup>These are the inheritances which Moses distributed
in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at
Jericho, eastward. <key:bcv=Joshua 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 13:33">33 </verse></sup>But Moses gave no inheritance
to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is
their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

#BCV:Joshua 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the inheritances which the children
of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar
the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads
of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children
of Israel, distributed to them, <key:bcv=Joshua 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:2">2 </verse></sup>by the lot of their
inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for
the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:3">3 </verse></sup>For Moses
had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the
half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he
gave no inheritance among them. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:4">4 </verse></sup>For the children
of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim.
They gave no portion to the Levites in the land,
except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for
their livestock and for their property. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:5">5 </verse></sup>The children
of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they
divided the land.

<key:bcv=Joshua 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua
in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite
said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke
to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning
you in Kadesh Barnea. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:7">7 </verse></sup>I was forty years old
when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from
Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him
word again as it was in my heart. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, my
brothers who went up with me made the heart of
the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my
God. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the
land where you walked shall be an inheritance to
you and to your children forever, because you have
wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

<key:bcv=Joshua 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:10">10 </verse></sup>“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as
he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time
that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel
walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eightyfive
years old, today. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:11">11 </verse></sup>As yet I am as strong today as
I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength
was then, even so is my strength now for war, to
go out and to come in. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore give me
this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that
day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were
there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that
Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out,
as Yahweh said.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to
Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
<key:bcv=Joshua 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this
day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel
wholeheartedly. <key:bcv=Joshua 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Now the name of Hebron before
was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the
Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
#BCV:Joshua 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:1">1 </verse></sup>The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families was to the border of
Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward,
at the uttermost part of the south. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Their south
border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea,
from the bay that looks southward; <key:bcv=Joshua 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:3">3 </verse></sup>and it went out
southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed
along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh
Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to
Addar, and turned toward Karka; <key:bcv=Joshua 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:4">4 </verse></sup>and it passed
along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and
the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south
border. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:5">5 </verse></sup>The east border was the Salt Sea, even
to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north
quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of
the Jordan. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:6">6 </verse></sup>The border went up to Beth Hoglah,
and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and
the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son
of Reuben. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:7">7 </verse></sup>The border went up to Debir from the
valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward
Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is
on the south side of the river. The border passed
along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En
Rogel. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:8">8 </verse></sup>The border went up by the valley of the son
of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called
Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to
the top of the mountain that lies before the valley
of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part
of the valley of Rephaim northward. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:9">9 </verse></sup>The border
extended from the top of the mountain to the spring
of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the
cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to
Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim); <key:bcv=Joshua 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:10">10 </verse></sup>and the border
turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir,
and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also
called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to
Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; <key:bcv=Joshua 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:11">11 </verse></sup>and
the border went out to the side of Ekron northward;
and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed
along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and
the goings out of the border were at the sea. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:12">12 </verse></sup>The
west border was to the shore of the great sea. This
is the border of the children of Judah according to
their families.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:13">13 </verse></sup>He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion
among the children of Judah, according to the commandment
of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba,
named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron).
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:15">15 </verse></sup>He
went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the
name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Caleb
said, “He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it,
to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb,
took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as
wife. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:18">18 </verse></sup>When she came, she had him ask her father
for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said,
“What do you want?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:19">19 </verse></sup>She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have
set me in the land of the South, give me also springs
of water.”
<br>
So he gave her the upper springs and the lower
springs.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:20">20 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Judah according to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:21">21 </verse></sup>The
farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
toward the border of Edom in the South were
Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (also called Hazor),
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:26">26 </verse></sup>Amam, Shema, Moladah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:27">27 </verse></sup>Hazar Gaddah,
Heshmon, Beth Pelet, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Hazar Shual, Beersheba,
Biziothiah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Baalah, Iim, Ezem, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Eltolad,
Chesil, Hormah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:32">32 </verse></sup>Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities
are twenty-nine, with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:33">33 </verse></sup>In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:34">34 </verse></sup>Zanoah,
En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:35">35 </verse></sup>Jarmuth, Adullam,
Socoh, Azekah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:36><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:36">36 </verse></sup>Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah
(or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:37><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:37">37 </verse></sup>Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:38><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:38">38 </verse></sup>Dilean, Mizpah,
Joktheel, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:39><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:39">39 </verse></sup>Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:40><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:40">40 </verse></sup>Cabbon, LahJoshua
15:41 <key:bcv=Joshua 15:152><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:152">152 </verse></sup>Joshua 17:16

mam, Chitlish, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:41><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:41">41 </verse></sup>Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah,
and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:42><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:42">42 </verse></sup>Libnah, Ether, Ashan, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:43><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:43">43 </verse></sup>Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:44><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:44">44 </verse></sup>Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:45><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:45">45 </verse></sup>Ekron, with its towns and its villages; <key:bcv=Joshua 15:46><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:46">46 </verse></sup>from
Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of
Ashdod, with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:47><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:47">47 </verse></sup>Ashdod, its towns and
its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the
brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:48><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:48">48 </verse></sup>In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:49><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:49">49 </verse></sup>Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir), <key:bcv=Joshua 15:50><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:50">50 </verse></sup>Anab,
Eshtemoh, Anim, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:51><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:51">51 </verse></sup>Goshen, Holon, and Giloh;
eleven cities with their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:52><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:52">52 </verse></sup>Arab, Dumah, Eshan, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:53><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:53">53 </verse></sup>Janim, Beth Tappuah,
Aphekah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:54><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:54">54 </verse></sup>Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron),
and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:55><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:55">55 </verse></sup>Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:56><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:56">56 </verse></sup>Jezreel, Jokdeam,
Zanoah, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:57><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:57">57 </verse></sup>Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with
their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:58><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:58">58 </verse></sup>Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, <key:bcv=Joshua 15:59><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:59">59 </verse></sup>Maarath, Beth Anoth,
and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 15:60><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:60">60 </verse></sup>Kiriath
Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:61><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:61">61 </verse></sup>In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 15:62><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:62">62 </verse></sup>Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities
with their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 15:63><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 15:63">63 </verse></sup>As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive
them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of
Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

#BCV:Joshua 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:1">1 </verse></sup>The lot came out for the children of Joseph
from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho
on the east, even the wilderness, going up from
Jericho through the hill country to Bethel. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:2">2 </verse></sup>It went
out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the
border of the Archites to Ataroth; <key:bcv=Joshua 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:3">3 </verse></sup>and it went
down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to
the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer;
and ended at the sea.

<key:bcv=Joshua 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:4">4 </verse></sup>The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim,
took their inheritance. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:5">5 </verse></sup>This was the border of the
children of Ephraim according to their families. The
border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth
Addar, to Beth Horon the upper. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:6">6 </verse></sup>The border went
out westward at Michmethath on the north. The
border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh,
and passed along it on the east of Janoah. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:7">7 </verse></sup>It went
down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached
to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:8">8 </verse></sup>From
Tappuah the border went along westward to the
brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim
according to their families; <key:bcv=Joshua 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:9">9 </verse></sup>together with the cities
which were set apart for the children of Ephraim
in the middle of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 16:10">10 </verse></sup>They
didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer;
but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim
to this day, and have become servants to do forced
labor.

#BCV:Joshua 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:1">1 </verse></sup>This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh,
for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir
the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead,
because he was a man of war, therefore he had
Gilead and Bashan. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:2">2 </verse></sup>So this was for the rest of the
children of Manasseh according to their families:
for the children of Abiezer, for the children of
Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of
Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the
children of Shemida. These were the male children
of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:3">3 </verse></sup>But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher,
the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are
the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Tirzah. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:4">4 </verse></sup>They came to Eleazar the
priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the
princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give
us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore
according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave
them an inheritance among the brothers of their
father. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition
to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond
the Jordan; <key:bcv=Joshua 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:6">6 </verse></sup>because the daughters of Manasseh
had an inheritance among his sons. The land of
Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
<key:bcv=Joshua 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:7">7 </verse></sup>The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath,
which is before Shechem. The border
<br>
went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants
of En Tappuah. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:8">8 </verse></sup>The land of Tappuah belonged to
Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh
belonged to the children of Ephraim. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:9">9 </verse></sup>The border
went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the
brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among
the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh
was on the north side of the brook, and ended
at the sea. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Southward it was Ephraim’s, and
northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his
border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to
Issachar on the east. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Manasseh had three heights
in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns,
and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of
Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and
its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its
towns. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t
drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land.

<key:bcv=Joshua 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:13">13 </verse></sup>When the children of Israel had grown strong,
they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t
utterly drive them out. <key:bcv=Joshua 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:14">14 </verse></sup>The children of Joseph
spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me
just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we
are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed
us so far?”

<key:bcv=Joshua 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:15">15 </verse></sup>Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous
people, go up to the forest, and clear land for
yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of
the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is
too narrow for you.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of Joseph said, “The hill country
is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell
in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both
those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and
those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is,
to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a
numerous people, and have great power. You shall
not have one lot only; <key:bcv=Joshua 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 17:18">18 </verse></sup>but the hill country shall be
yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down,
and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall
drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots
of iron, and though they are strong.”

#BCV:Joshua 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:1">1 </verse></sup>The whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up
the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued
before them. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Seven tribes remained among the
children of Israel, which had not yet divided their
inheritance. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the children of Israel,
“How long will you neglect to go in to possess
the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
has given you? <key:bcv=Joshua 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Appoint for yourselves three
men from each tribe. I will send them, and they
shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it
according to their inheritance; then they shall come
to me. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:5">5 </verse></sup>They shall divide it into seven portions.
Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and
the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on
the north. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall survey the land into seven
parts, and bring the description here to me; and I
will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:7">7 </verse></sup>However, the Levites have no portion among you;
for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance.
Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which
Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:8">8 </verse></sup>The men arose and went. Joshua commanded
those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk
through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I
will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.”
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:9">9 </verse></sup>The men went and passed through the land, and
surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book.
They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:10">10 </verse></sup>Joshua
cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There
Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel
according to their divisions.

<key:bcv=Joshua 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
came up according to their families. The border of
their lot went out between the children of Judah
and the children of Joseph. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Their border on the
north quarter was from the Jordan. The border
went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and
went up through the hill country westward. It
ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:13">13 </verse></sup>The border
passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz
(also called Bethel), southward. The border went
down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies
on the south of Beth Horon the lower. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:14">14 </verse></sup>The border
extended, and turned around on the west quarter
southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth
Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also
called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah.
This was the west quarter. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:15">15 </verse></sup>The south quarter
was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The
border went out westward, and went out to the
spring of the waters of Nephtoah. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:16">16 </verse></sup>The border
went down to the farthest part of the mountain
that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It
went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of
the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:17">17 </verse></sup>It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh,
and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the
ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone
of Bohan the son of Reuben. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:18">18 </verse></sup>It passed along
to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and
went down to the Arabah. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:19">19 </verse></sup>The border passed
along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and
the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea,
at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south
border. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:20">20 </verse></sup>The Jordan was its border on the east
quarter. This was the inheritance of the children
of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according
to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Now the cities of the tribe of
the children of Benjamin according to their families
were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, <key:bcv=Joshua 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Beth
Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, <key:bcv=Joshua 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities
with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
<key:bcv=Joshua 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:26">26 </verse></sup>Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, <key:bcv=Joshua 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Rekem, Irpeel,
Taralah, <key:bcv=Joshua 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called
Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities
with their villages. This is the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their families.
#BCV:Joshua 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:1">1 </verse></sup>The second lot came out for Simeon, even for
the tribe of the children of Simeon according to
their families. Their inheritance was in the middle
of the inheritance of the children of Judah. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:2">2 </verse></sup>They
had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Eltolad, Bethul,
Hormah, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:5">5 </verse></sup>Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with
their villages; <key:bcv=Joshua 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four
cities with their villages; <key:bcv=Joshua 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:8">8 </verse></sup>and all the villages that
were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of
the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Simeon according to their families.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:9">9 </verse></sup>Out of the part of the children of Judah was the
inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion
of the children of Judah was too much for them.
Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in
the middle of their inheritance.

<key:bcv=Joshua 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:10">10 </verse></sup>The third lot came up for the children of
Zebulun according to their families. The border
of their inheritance was to Sarid. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Their border
went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to
Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before
Jokneam. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:12">12 </verse></sup>It turned from Sarid eastward toward
the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went
out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:13">13 </verse></sup>From
there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher,
to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which
stretches to Neah. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:14">14 </verse></sup>The border turned around it on
the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley
of Iphtah El; <key:bcv=Joshua 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah,
and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:16">16 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
according to their families, these cities with their
villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:17">17 </verse></sup>The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for
the children of Issachar according to their families.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Rabbith, Kishion,
Ebez, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and
Beth Pazzez. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:22">22 </verse></sup>The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah,
and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at
the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:23">23 </verse></sup>This
is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Issachar according to their families, the cities with
their villages.

<key:bcv=Joshua 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:24">24 </verse></sup>The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Asher according to their families.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:25">25 </verse></sup>Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:26">26 </verse></sup>Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel
westward, and to Shihorlibnath. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:27">27 </verse></sup>It turned toward
the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun,
and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth
Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left
hand, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:28">28 </verse></sup>and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah,
even to great Sidon. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:29">29 </verse></sup>The border turned to Ramah,
to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned
to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:30">30 </verse></sup>Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two
cities with their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:31">31 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Asher according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:32">32 </verse></sup>The sixth lot came out for the children of
Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according
to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:33">33 </verse></sup>Their border was from
Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb,
and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:34">34 </verse></sup>The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor,
and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to
Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the
west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:35><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:35">35 </verse></sup>The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath,
Rakkath, Chinnereth, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:36><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:36">36 </verse></sup>Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:37><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:37">37 </verse></sup>Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:38><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:38">38 </verse></sup>Iron, Migdal El, Horem,
Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with
their villages. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:39><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:39">39 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:40><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:40">40 </verse></sup>The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Dan according to their families. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:41><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:41">41 </verse></sup>The
border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol,
Irshemesh, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:42><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:42">42 </verse></sup>Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:43><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:43">43 </verse></sup>Elon,
Timnah, Ekron, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:44><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:44">44 </verse></sup>Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:45><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:45">45 </verse></sup>Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, <key:bcv=Joshua 19:46><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:46">46 </verse></sup>Me Jarkon,
and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:47><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:47">47 </verse></sup>The
border of the children of Dan went out beyond
them; for the children of Dan went up and fought
against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with
the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived
therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of
Dan their forefather. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:48><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:48">48 </verse></sup>This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:49><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:49">49 </verse></sup>So they finished distributing the land for inheritance
by its borders. The children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
<key:bcv=Joshua 19:50><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:50">50 </verse></sup>According to Yahweh’s commandment, they gave
him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in
the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city,
and lived there. <key:bcv=Joshua 19:51><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 19:51">51 </verse></sup>These are the inheritances, which
Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the
heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the
children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot
in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of
Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

#BCV:Joshua 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak to
the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of
refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, <key:bcv=Joshua 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:3">3 </verse></sup>that
the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or
unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you
for a refuge from the avenger of blood. <key:bcv=Joshua 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall flee
to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance
of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the
ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him
into the city with them, and give him a place, that
he may live among them. <key:bcv=Joshua 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:5">5 </verse></sup>If the avenger of blood
pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man
slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor
unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before. <key:bcv=Joshua 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:6">6 </verse></sup>He
shall dwell in that city until he stands before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the
high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man
slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to
his own house, to the city he fled from.’ ”
<key:bcv=Joshua 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:7">7 </verse></sup>They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill
country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country
of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron)
in the hill country of Judah. <key:bcv=Joshua 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:8">8 </verse></sup>Beyond the Jordan
at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the
wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,
Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan
in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. <key:bcv=Joshua 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 20:9">9 </verse></sup>These were
the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and
for the alien who lives among them, that whoever
kills any person unintentionally might flee there,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood,
until he stands trial before the congregation.

#BCV:Joshua 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites
came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the
son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of
the tribes of the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:2">2 </verse></sup>They spoke
to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying,
“Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us
cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our
livestock.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:3">3 </verse></sup>The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of
their inheritance, according to the commandment
of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:4">4 </verse></sup>The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites.
The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the
Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of
Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out
of the tribe of Benjamin. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:5">5 </verse></sup>The rest of the children
of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and
out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of
Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out
of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe
of Manasseh in Bashan. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:7">7 </verse></sup>The children of Merari
according to their families had twelve cities out of
the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out
of the tribe of Zebulun. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Israel gave
these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the
Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:9">9 </verse></sup>They
gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these
cities which are mentioned by name: <key:bcv=Joshua 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:10">10 </verse></sup>and they
were for the children of Aaron, of the families of
the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi;
for theirs was the first lot. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:11">11 </verse></sup>They gave them
Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also
called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with
its pasture lands around it. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:12">12 </verse></sup>But they gave the
fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for his possession. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:13">13 </verse></sup>To the children of
Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture
lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah
with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Jattir with its pasture lands,
Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:15">15 </verse></sup>Holon with its
pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Ain
with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands,
and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine
cities out of those two tribes. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:17">17 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe of
Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with
its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Anathoth with its pasture lands,
and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:19">19 </verse></sup>All
the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:20">20 </verse></sup>The families of the children of Kohath, the
Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had
the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:21">21 </verse></sup>They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands
in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for
the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:22">22 </verse></sup>Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon
with its pasture lands: four cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe
of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with
its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:24">24 </verse></sup>Aijalon with its pasture lands,
Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with
its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture
lands: two cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:26">26 </verse></sup>All the cities of the families
of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with
their pasture lands.

<key:bcv=Joshua 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:27">27 </verse></sup>They gave to the children of Gershon, of the
families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh
Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the
city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah
with its pasture lands: two cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:28">28 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe
of Issachar, Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath
with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:29">29 </verse></sup>Jarmuth with its pasture
lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:30">30 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture
lands, Abdon with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Helkath with
its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands:
four cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:32">32 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in
Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for
the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands,
and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:33">33 </verse></sup>All the cities of the Gershonites according to
their families were thirteen cities with their pasture
lands.

<key:bcv=Joshua 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:34">34 </verse></sup>To the families of the children of Merari, the
rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun,
Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its
pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:35">35 </verse></sup>Dimnah with its pasture lands, and
Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:36><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:36">36 </verse></sup>Out of
the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands,
Jahaz with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:37><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:37">37 </verse></sup>Kedemoth with its
pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands:
four cities. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:38><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:38">38 </verse></sup>Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in
Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge
for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture
lands, <key:bcv=Joshua 21:39><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:39">39 </verse></sup>Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with
its pasture lands: four cities in all. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:40><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:40">40 </verse></sup>All these were
the cities of the children of Merari according to
their families, even the rest of the families of the
Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
<key:bcv=Joshua 21:41><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:41">41 </verse></sup>All the cities of the Levites among the possessions
of the children of Israel were forty-eight
cities with their pasture lands. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:42><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:42">42 </verse></sup>Each of these cities
included their pasture lands around them. It was
this way with all these cities.

<key:bcv=Joshua 21:43><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:43">43 </verse></sup>So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which
he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed
it, and lived in it. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:44><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:44">44 </verse></sup>Yahweh gave them rest all
around, according to all that he swore to their
fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before
them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their
hand. <key:bcv=Joshua 21:45><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 21:45">45 </verse></sup>Nothing failed of any good thing which
Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came
to pass.

#BCV:Joshua 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh, <key:bcv=Joshua 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:2">2 </verse></sup>and said to them,
“You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh
commanded you, and have listened to my voice
in all that I commanded you. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:3">3 </verse></sup>You have not left
your brothers these many days to this day, but
have performed the duty of the commandment of
Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh your God has
given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them.
Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the
land of your possession, which Moses the servant
of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Only take
diligent heed to do the commandment and the law
which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded
you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his
ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to
him, and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:6">6 </verse></sup>So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away;
and they went to their tents. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:7">7 </verse></sup>Now to the one halftribe
of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in
Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among
their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover
when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he
blessed them, <key:bcv=Joshua 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:8">8 </verse></sup>and spoke to them, saying, “Return
with much wealth to your tents, with very much
livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with
iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the
plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Reuben and the children of
Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and
departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh,
which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of
Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they
owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh
by Moses. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:10">10 </verse></sup>When they came to the region near the
Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great
altar to look at. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:11">11 </verse></sup>The children of Israel heard this,
“Behold, the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an
altar along the border of the land of Canaan, in the
region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs
to the children of Israel.” <key:bcv=Joshua 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:12">12 </verse></sup>When the children
of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of
the children of Israel gathered themselves together
at Shiloh, to go up against them to war. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:13">13 </verse></sup>The
children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the
son of Eleazar the priest. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:14">14 </verse></sup>With him were ten
princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each
of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head
of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of
Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:15">15 </verse></sup>They came to the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke
with them, saying, <key:bcv=Joshua 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:16">16 </verse></sup>“The whole congregation of
Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have
committed against the God of Israel, to turn away
today from following Yahweh, in that you have built
yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?
<key:bcv=Joshua 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which
we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although
there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
<key:bcv=Joshua 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:18">18 </verse></sup>that you must turn away today from following
Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against
Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the
whole congregation of Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:19">19 </verse></sup>However, if the
land of your possession is unclean, then pass over
to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which
Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession
among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel
against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh
our God’s altar. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:20">20 </verse></sup>Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah
commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath
fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man
didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”
<key:bcv=Joshua 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Then the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered,
and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
<key:bcv=Joshua 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:22">22 </verse></sup>“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One,
God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it
was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh
(don’t save us today), <key:bcv=Joshua 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:23">23 </verse></sup>that we have built us an
altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to
offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer
sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself
require it.

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:24">24 </verse></sup>“If we have not out of concern done this, and
for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children
might speak to our children, saying, “What have
you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel? <key:bcv=Joshua 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:25">25 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between
us and you, you children of Reuben and children
of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.” ’ So
your children might make our children cease from
fearing Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:26">26 </verse></sup>“Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build
ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for
sacrifice; <key:bcv=Joshua 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:27">27 </verse></sup>but it will be a witness between us and
you, and between our generations after us, that we
may perform the service of Yahweh before him with
our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with
our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell
our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion
in Yahweh.’

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:28">28 </verse></sup>“Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell
us or our generations this in time to come, that
we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar,
which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor
for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and
you.” ’

<key:bcv=Joshua 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:29">29 </verse></sup>“Far be it from us that we should rebel against
Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh,
to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal
offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s
altar that is before his tabernacle!”
<key:bcv=Joshua 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:30">30 </verse></sup>When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of
the congregation, even the heads of the thousands
of Israel that were with him, heard the words that
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them
well. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:31">31 </verse></sup>Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said
to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad,
and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know
that Yahweh is among us, because you have not
committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you
have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s
hand.” <key:bcv=Joshua 22:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:32">32 </verse></sup>Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and
the princes, returned from the children of Reuben,
and from the children of Gad, out of the land of
Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of
Israel, and brought them word again. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:33">33 </verse></sup>The thing
pleased the children of Israel; and the children of
Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up
against them to war, to destroy the land in which
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
lived. <key:bcv=Joshua 22:34><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 22:34">34 </verse></sup>The children of Reuben and the children
of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that
Yahweh is God.”

#BCV:Joshua 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Joshua 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:1">1 </verse></sup>After many days, when Yahweh had given rest
to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua
was old and well advanced in years, <key:bcv=Joshua 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Joshua called
for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and
for their judges and for their officers, and said to
them, “I am old and well advanced in years. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:3">3 </verse></sup>You
have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to
all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh
your God who has fought for you. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, I have
allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an
inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all
the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea
toward the going down of the sun. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh your
God will thrust them out from before you, and drive
them from out of your sight. You shall possess their
land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.
<key:bcv=Joshua 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:6">6 </verse></sup>“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do
all that is written in the book of the law of Moses,
that you not turn away from it to the right hand
or to the left; <key:bcv=Joshua 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:7">7 </verse></sup>that you not come among these
nations, these that remain among you; neither
make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause
to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow
down yourselves to them; <key:bcv=Joshua 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:8">8 </verse></sup>but hold fast to Yahweh
your God, as you have done to this day.
<key:bcv=Joshua 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:9">9 </verse></sup>“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations
out from before you. But as for you, no man
has stood before you to this day. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:10">10 </verse></sup>One man of you
shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God
who fights for you, as he spoke to you. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Take good
heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh
your God.

<key:bcv=Joshua 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:12">12 </verse></sup>“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the
remnant of these nations, even these who remain
among you, and make marriages with them, and go
in to them, and they to you; <key:bcv=Joshua 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:13">13 </verse></sup>know for a certainty
that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these
nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a
snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and
thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this
good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
<key:bcv=Joshua 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:14">14 </verse></sup>“Behold, today I am going the way of all the
earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your
souls that not one thing has failed of all the good
things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning
you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has
failed of it. <key:bcv=Joshua 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:15">15 </verse></sup>It shall happen that as all the good
things have come on you of which Yahweh your God
spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the
evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this
good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
<key:bcv=Joshua 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 23:16">16 </verse></sup>when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your
God, which he commanded you, and go and serve
other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then
Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you
will perish quickly from off the good land which he
has given to you.”

#BCV:Joshua 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joshua 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to
Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their
heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and
they presented themselves before God. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Joshua said
to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says,
‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River,
even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father
of Nahor. They served other gods. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:3">3 </verse></sup>I took your
father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him
throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied
his offspring,<footnote:1>24:3 or, seed</footnote> and gave him Isaac. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:4">4 </verse></sup>I gave to Isaac
Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to
possess it. Jacob and his children went down into
Egypt.

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
according to that which I did among them: and
afterward I brought you out. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:6">6 </verse></sup>I brought your
fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The
Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and
with horsemen to the Red Sea. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:7">7 </verse></sup>When they cried
out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and
the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and
covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in
Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
<key:bcv=Joshua 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites,
that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you,
and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their
land, and I destroyed them from before you. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:9">9 </verse></sup>Then
Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and
fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the
son of Beor to curse you, <key:bcv=Joshua 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:10">10 </verse></sup>but I would not listen to
Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered
you out of his hand.

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘You went over the Jordan, and came to
Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the
Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I
delivered them into your hand. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:12">12 </verse></sup>I sent the hornet
before you, which drove them out from before you,
even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your
sword, nor with your bow. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:13">13 </verse></sup>I gave you a land
on which you had not labored, and cities which
you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of
vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
<key:bcv=Joshua 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:14">14 </verse></sup>“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in
sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which
your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt;
and serve Yahweh. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:15">15 </verse></sup>If it seems evil to you to
serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that
were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my
house, we will serve Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:16">16 </verse></sup>The people answered, “Far be it from us that we
should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; <key:bcv=Joshua 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:17">17 </verse></sup>for it
is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers
up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight,
and preserved us in all the way in which we went,
and among all the peoples through the middle of
whom we passed. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh drove out from before
us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in
the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for
he is our God.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:19">19 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve
Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God.
He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
<key:bcv=Joshua 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:20">20 </verse></sup>If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods,
then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you,
after he has done you good.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:21">21 </verse></sup>The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will
serve Yahweh.” <key:bcv=Joshua 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Joshua said to the people, “You
are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen
Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.”
<br>
They said, “We are witnesses.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:23">23 </verse></sup>“Now therefore put away the foreign gods
which are among you, and incline your heart to
Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:24">24 </verse></sup>The people said to Joshua, “We will serve
Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:25">25 </verse></sup>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that
day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance
in Shechem. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:26">26 </verse></sup>Joshua wrote these words in the book
of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set
it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary
of Yahweh. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:27">27 </verse></sup>Joshua said to all the people, “Behold,
this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has
heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It
shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you
deny your God.” <key:bcv=Joshua 24:28><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:28">28 </verse></sup>So Joshua sent the people away,
each to his own inheritance.

<key:bcv=Joshua 24:29><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:29">29 </verse></sup>After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten
years old. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:30><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:30">30 </verse></sup>They buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill
country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain
of Gaash. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:31><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:31">31 </verse></sup>Israel served Yahweh all the days of
Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived
Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that
he had worked for Israel. <key:bcv=Joshua 24:32><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:32">32 </verse></sup>They buried the bones of
Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out
of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which
Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father
of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.<footnote:1>24:32 Hebrew: kesitahs. A kesitah was a kind of silver coin.</footnote> They
became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
<key:bcv=Joshua 24:33><sup><verse bcv="Joshua 24:33">33 </verse></sup>Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in
the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in
the hill country of Ephraim.

#OUTLINE:1,Judges
<h2>The Book of Judges</h2>

<key:bcv=Judges 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:1">1 </verse></sup>After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel
asked of Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> saying, “Who should go up for us
first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
<key:bcv=Judges 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold,<footnote:1>1:2 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I have
delivered the land into his hand.”

<key:bcv=Judges 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up
with me into my lot, that we may fight against the
Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your
lot.” So Simeon went with him. <key:bcv=Judges 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Judah went up, and
Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites
into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in
Bezek. <key:bcv=Judges 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:5">5 </verse></sup>They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they
fought against him. They struck the Canaanites
and the Perizzites. <key:bcv=Judges 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:6">6 </verse></sup>But Adoni-Bezek fled. They
pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs
and his big toes. <key:bcv=Judges 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings,
having their thumbs and their big toes cut off,
scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God<footnote:1>1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem,
and he died there. <key:bcv=Judges 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Judah fought
against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of
the sword, and set the city on fire.

<key:bcv=Judges 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:9">9 </verse></sup>After that, the children of Judah went down
to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the
hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
<key:bcv=Judges 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in
Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was
Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and
Talmai.

<key:bcv=Judges 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:11">11 </verse></sup>From there he went against the inhabitants of
Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath
Sepher.) <key:bcv=Judges 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my
daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath
Sepher, and takes it.” <key:bcv=Judges 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Othniel the son of Kenaz,
Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him
Achsah his daughter as his wife.

<key:bcv=Judges 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:14">14 </verse></sup>When she came, she got him to ask her father
for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to
her, “What would you like?”

<key:bcv=Judges 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:15">15 </verse></sup>She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because
you have set me in the land of the South, give me
also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the
upper springs and the lower springs. <key:bcv=Judges 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:16">16 </verse></sup>The children
of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out
of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah
into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south
of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
<key:bcv=Judges 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they
struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and
utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was
called Hormah. <key:bcv=Judges 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Also Judah took Gaza with its
border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron
with its border. <key:bcv=Judges 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh was with Judah, and
drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for
he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
because they had chariots of iron. <key:bcv=Judges 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:20">20 </verse></sup>They gave
Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove
the three sons of Anak out of there. <key:bcv=Judges 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:21">21 </verse></sup>The children
of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who
inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with
the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
<key:bcv=Judges 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:22">22 </verse></sup>The house of Joseph also went up against
Bethel, and Yahweh was with them. <key:bcv=Judges 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:23">23 </verse></sup>The house
of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the
city before that was Luz.) <key:bcv=Judges 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:24">24 </verse></sup>The watchers saw a man
come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please
show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal
kindly with you.” <key:bcv=Judges 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:25">25 </verse></sup>He showed them the entrance
into the city, and they struck the city with the edge
of the sword; but they let the man and all his family
go. <key:bcv=Judges 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:26">26 </verse></sup>The man went into the land of the Hittites,
built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its
name to this day.

<key:bcv=Judges 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of
Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its
towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns,
nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor
the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land. <key:bcv=Judges 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:28">28 </verse></sup>When Israel
had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced
labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out. <key:bcv=Judges 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:29">29 </verse></sup>Ephraim
didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer,
but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
<key:bcv=Judges 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron,
nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites
lived among them, and became subject to forced
labor. <key:bcv=Judges 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:31">31 </verse></sup>Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of
Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor
of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
<key:bcv=Judges 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:32">32 </verse></sup>but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them
out. <key:bcv=Judges 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:33">33 </verse></sup>Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of
Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath;
but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants
of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth
Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to
forced labor. <key:bcv=Judges 1:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:34">34 </verse></sup>The Amorites forced the children
of Dan into the hill country, for they would not
allow them to come down to the valley; <key:bcv=Judges 1:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:35">35 </verse></sup>but the
Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon,
and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of
Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to
forced labor. <key:bcv=Judges 1:36><sup><verse bcv="Judges 1:36">36 </verse></sup>The border of the Amorites was
from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and
upward.

#BCV:Judges 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim.
He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have
brought you to the land which I swore to give your
fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant
with you. <key:bcv=Judges 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:2">2 </verse></sup>You shall make no covenant with the
inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their
altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why
have you done this? <key:bcv=Judges 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore I also said, ‘I will not
drive them out from before you; but they shall be in
your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Judges 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:4">4 </verse></sup>When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all
the children of Israel, the people lifted up their
voice and wept. <key:bcv=Judges 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:5">5 </verse></sup>They called the name of that
place Bochim,<footnote:1>2:5 “Bochim” means “weepers”. </footnote> and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Judges 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the
children of Israel each went to his inheritance to
possess the land. <key:bcv=Judges 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The people served Yahweh all the
days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who
outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work
of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Joshua
the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being
one hundred ten years old. <key:bcv=Judges 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:9">9 </verse></sup>They buried him in
the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in
the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the
mountain of Gaash. <key:bcv=Judges 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:10">10 </verse></sup>After all that generation were
gathered to their fathers, another generation arose
after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work
which he had done for Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and
served the Baals. <key:bcv=Judges 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:12">12 </verse></sup>They abandoned Yahweh, the
God of their fathers, who brought them out of the
land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods
of the peoples who were around them, and bowed
themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh
to anger. <key:bcv=Judges 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:13">13 </verse></sup>They abandoned Yahweh, and
served Baal and the Ashtaroth. <key:bcv=Judges 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger
burned against Israel, and he delivered them into
the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold
them into the hands of their enemies all around,
so that they could no longer stand before their
enemies. <key:bcv=Judges 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s
hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had
spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they
were very distressed. <key:bcv=Judges 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh raised up judges,
who saved them out of the hand of those who
plundered them. <key:bcv=Judges 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Yet they didn’t listen to their
judges; for they prostituted themselves to other
gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They
quickly turned away from the way in which their
fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments.
They didn’t do so. <key:bcv=Judges 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:18">18 </verse></sup>When Yahweh raised up judges
for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and
saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the
days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of
their groaning by reason of those who oppressed
them and troubled them. <key:bcv=Judges 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:19">19 </verse></sup>But when the judge was
dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly
than their fathers in following other gods to serve
them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease
what they were doing, or give up their stubborn
ways. <key:bcv=Judges 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel;
and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has
not listened to my voice, <key:bcv=Judges 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:21">21 </verse></sup>I also will no longer
drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when
he died from before them; <key:bcv=Judges 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:22">22 </verse></sup>that by them I may
test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to
walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.” <key:bcv=Judges 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 2:23">23 </verse></sup>So
Yahweh left those nations, without driving them
out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s
hand.

#BCV:Judges 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the nations which Yahweh left,
to test Israel by them, even as many as had not
known all the wars of Canaan; <key:bcv=Judges 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:2">2 </verse></sup>only that the
generations of the children of Israel might know, to
teach them war, at least those who knew nothing
of it before: <key:bcv=Judges 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:3">3 </verse></sup>the five lords of the Philistines,
all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites
who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal
Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. <key:bcv=Judges 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:4">4 </verse></sup>They were
left to test Israel by them, to know whether they
would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he
commanded their fathers by Moses. <key:bcv=Judges 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:5">5 </verse></sup>The children
of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites. <key:bcv=Judges 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:6">6 </verse></sup>They took their daughters to be their
wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons
and served their gods. <key:bcv=Judges 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:7">7 </verse></sup>The children of Israel
did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and
forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and
the Asheroth. <key:bcv=Judges 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned
against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of
Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the
children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight
years. <key:bcv=Judges 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:9">9 </verse></sup>When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh,
Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel,
who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz,
Caleb’s younger brother. <key:bcv=Judges 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit came
on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to
war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king
of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed
against Cushan Rishathaim. <key:bcv=Judges 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The land had rest
forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:12">12 </verse></sup>The children of Israel again did that which was
evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened
Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they
had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:13">13 </verse></sup>He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek
to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they
possessed the city of palm trees. <key:bcv=Judges 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:14">14 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:15">15 </verse></sup>But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh,
Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son
of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The
children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the
king of Moab. <key:bcv=Judges 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Ehud made himself a sword which
had two edges, a cubit<footnote:1>3:16 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> in length; and he wore it
under his clothing on his right thigh. <key:bcv=Judges 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:17">17 </verse></sup>He offered
the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a
very fat man. <key:bcv=Judges 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:18">18 </verse></sup>When Ehud had finished offering
the tribute, he sent away the people who carried
the tribute. <key:bcv=Judges 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:19">19 </verse></sup>But he himself turned back from the
stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a
secret message for you, O king.”
<br>
The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by
him left him.

<key:bcv=Judges 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by
himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said,
“I have a message from God to you.” He arose out
of his seat. <key:bcv=Judges 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Ehud put out his left hand, and took
the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into
his body. <key:bcv=Judges 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:22">22 </verse></sup>The handle also went in after the blade;
and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw
the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the
doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:24">24 </verse></sup>After he had gone, his servants came and saw
that the doors of the upper room were locked. They
said, “Surely he is covering his feet<footnote:1>3:24 or, “relieving himself”.</footnote> in the upper
room.” <key:bcv=Judges 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:25">25 </verse></sup>They waited until they were ashamed; and
behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room.
Therefore they took the key and opened them, and
behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:26">26 </verse></sup>Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond
the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah. <key:bcv=Judges 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:27">27 </verse></sup>When
he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country
of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down
with him from the hill country, and he led them.
<key:bcv=Judges 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:28">28 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh
has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your
hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the
Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any
man to pass over. <key:bcv=Judges 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:29">29 </verse></sup>They struck at that time about
ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and
every man of valor. No man escaped. <key:bcv=Judges 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:30">30 </verse></sup>So Moab was
subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the
land had rest eighty years.

<key:bcv=Judges 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 3:31">31 </verse></sup>After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who
struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox
goad. He also saved Israel.

#BCV:Judges 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:1">1 </verse></sup>The children of Israel again did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
<key:bcv=Judges 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king
of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of
whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth
of the Gentiles. <key:bcv=Judges 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:3">3 </verse></sup>The children of Israel cried to
Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron;
and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for
twenty years. <key:bcv=Judges 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Deborah, a prophetess, the
wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time. <key:bcv=Judges 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:5">5 </verse></sup>She
lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah
and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the
children of Israel came up to her for judgment. <key:bcv=Judges 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:6">6 </verse></sup>She
sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh,
the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way
to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand
men of the children of Naphtali and of the children
of Zebulun? <key:bcv=Judges 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:7">7 </verse></sup>I will draw to you, to the river Kishon,
Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots
and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your
hand.’ ”

<key:bcv=Judges 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I
will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
<key:bcv=Judges 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:9">9 </verse></sup>She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless,
the journey that you take won’t be for your
honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s
hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to
Kedesh.

<key:bcv=Judges 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together
to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and
Deborah went up with him. <key:bcv=Judges 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Now Heber the Kenite
had separated himself from the Kenites, even from
the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and
had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim,
which is by Kedesh. <key:bcv=Judges 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:12">12 </verse></sup>They told Sisera that Barak
the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.
<key:bcv=Judges 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even
nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people
who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles,
to the river Kishon.

<key:bcv=Judges 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in
which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand.
Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak
went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand
men after him. <key:bcv=Judges 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh confused Sisera, all his
chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the
sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot
and fled away on his feet. <key:bcv=Judges 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:16">16 </verse></sup>But Barak pursued the
chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles;
and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the
sword. There was not a man left.

<key:bcv=Judges 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:17">17 </verse></sup>However Sisera fled away on his feet to the
tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there
was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the
house of Heber the Kenite. <key:bcv=Judges 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Jael went out to meet
Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in
to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the
tent, and she covered him with a rug.
<key:bcv=Judges 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Please give me a little water to
drink; for I am thirsty.”
<br>
She opened a container of milk, and gave him a
drink, and covered him.

<key:bcv=Judges 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent,
and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says,
‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’ ”
<key:bcv=Judges 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and
took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to
him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it
pierced through into the ground, for he was in a
deep sleep; so he fainted and died. <key:bcv=Judges 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, as
Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him,
and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man
whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera
lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples. <key:bcv=Judges 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:23">23 </verse></sup>So
God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the
children of Israel on that day. <key:bcv=Judges 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 4:24">24 </verse></sup>The hand of the
children of Israel prevailed more and more against
Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed
Jabin king of Canaan.

#BCV:Judges 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam
sang on that day, saying,

<key:bcv=Judges 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:2">2 </verse></sup>“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel,
because the people offered themselves willingly,
be blessed, Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Judges 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:3">3 </verse></sup>“Hear, you kings!
<br>
Give ear, you princes!
<br>
I, even I, will sing to Yahweh.
<br>
I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,
when you marched out of the field of Edom,
the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
Yes, the clouds dropped water.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:5">5 </verse></sup>The mountains quaked at Yahweh’s presence,
even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God
of Israel.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:6">6 </verse></sup>“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied.
The travelers walked through byways.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The rulers ceased in Israel.
<br>
They ceased until I, Deborah, arose;
<br>
Until I arose a mother in Israel.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:8">8 </verse></sup>They chose new gods.
<br>
Then war was in the gates.
<br>
Was there a shield or spear seen among forty
thousand in Israel?

<key:bcv=Judges 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:9">9 </verse></sup>My heart is toward the governors of Israel,
who offered themselves willingly among the
people.
<br>
Bless Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Judges 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:10">10 </verse></sup>“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys,
you who sit on rich carpets,
<br>
and you who walk by the way.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Far from the noise of archers, in the places of
drawing water,
<br>
there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous
acts,
<br>
the righteous acts of his rule in Israel.
“Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:12">12 </verse></sup>‘Awake, awake, Deborah!
<br>
Awake, awake, utter a song!
<br>
Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you
son of Abinoam.’

<key:bcv=Judges 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:13">13 </verse></sup>“Then a remnant of the nobles and the people
came down.
<br>
Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Those whose root is in Amalek came out of
Ephraim,
<br>
after you, Benjamin, among your peoples.
Governors come down out of Machir.
<br>
Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out
of Zebulun.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:15">15 </verse></sup>The princes of Issachar were with Deborah.
As was Issachar, so was Barak.
<br>
They rushed into the valley at his feet.
By the watercourses of Reuben,
<br>
there were great resolves of heart.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Why did you sit among the sheepfolds?
To hear the whistling for the flocks?
At the watercourses of Reuben,
<br>
there were great searchings of heart.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Gilead lived beyond the Jordan.
<br>
Why did Dan remain in ships?
<br>
Asher sat still at the haven of the sea,
and lived by his creeks.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives
to the death;
<br>
Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:19">19 </verse></sup>“The kings came and fought,
<br>
then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by
the waters of Megiddo.
<br>
They took no plunder of silver.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:20">20 </verse></sup>From the sky the stars fought.
<br>
From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:21">21 </verse></sup>The river Kishon swept them away,
<br>
that ancient river, the river Kishon.
My soul, march on with strength.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the
prancing,
<br>
the prancing of their strong ones.

<key:bcv=Judges 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:23">23 </verse></sup>‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel.
‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants,
<br>
because they didn’t come to help Yahweh,
to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

<key:bcv=Judges 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:24">24 </verse></sup>“Jael shall be blessed above women,
the wife of Heber the Kenite;
<br>
blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:25">25 </verse></sup>He asked for water.
<br>
She gave him milk.
<br>
She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:26">26 </verse></sup>She put her hand to the tent peg,
<br>
and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer.
With the hammer she struck Sisera.
<br>
She struck through his head.
<br>
Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:27">27 </verse></sup>At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay.
At her feet he bowed, he fell.
<br>
Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
<key:bcv=Judges 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:28">28 </verse></sup>“Through the window she looked out, and cried:
Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice.
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’
<key:bcv=Judges 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Her wise ladies answered her,
<br>
Yes, she returned answer to herself,

<key:bcv=Judges 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:30">30 </verse></sup>‘Have they not found, have they not divided the
plunder?
<br>
A lady, two ladies to every man;
<br>
to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments,
a plunder of dyed garments embroidered,
of dyed garments embroidered on both sides,
on the necks of the plunder?’

<key:bcv=Judges 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 5:31">31 </verse></sup>“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh,
but let those who love him be as the sun when
it rises in its strength.”
<br>
Then the land had rest forty years.

#BCV:Judges 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:1">1 </verse></sup>The children of Israel did that which was evil
in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into
the hand of Midian seven years. <key:bcv=Judges 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:2">2 </verse></sup>The hand of
Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of
Midian the children of Israel made themselves the
dens which are in the mountains, the caves, and
the strongholds. <key:bcv=Judges 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:3">3 </verse></sup>So it was, when Israel had
sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the
children of the east came up against them. <key:bcv=Judges 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:4">4 </verse></sup>They
encamped against them, and destroyed the increase
of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no
sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:5">5 </verse></sup>For they came up with their livestock and their
tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both
they and their camels were without number; and
they came into the land to destroy it. <key:bcv=Judges 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Israel
was brought very low because of Midian; and the
children of Israel cried to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:7">7 </verse></sup>When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh
because of Midian, <key:bcv=Judges 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent a prophet to the
children of Israel; and he said to them, “Yahweh, the
God of Israel, says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt,
and brought you out of the house of bondage. <key:bcv=Judges 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:9">9 </verse></sup>I
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and
out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove
them out from before you, and gave you their land.
<key:bcv=Judges 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:10">10 </verse></sup>I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall
not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you
dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’ ”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak
which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the
Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat
in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
<key:bcv=Judges 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him,
“Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh
is with us, why then has all this happened to us?
Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers
told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from
Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and
delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this
your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian.
Haven’t I sent you?”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to him, “O Lord,<footnote:1>6:15 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> how shall I save Israel?
Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I
am the least in my father’s house.”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you,
and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to him, “If now I have found favor in
your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who
talk with me. <key:bcv=Judges 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Please don’t go away until I come
to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before
you.”
<br>
He said, “I will wait until you come back.”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and
unleavened cakes of an ephah<footnote:1>6:19 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of meal. He put the
meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and
brought it out to him under the oak, and presented
it.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:20">20 </verse></sup>The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat
and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this
rock, and pour out the broth.”

He did so. <key:bcv=Judges 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s angel stretched
out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and
touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and
fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat
and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel
departed out of his sight.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and
Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have
seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be
afraid. You shall not die.”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh,
and called it “Yahweh is Peace.”<footnote:1>6:24 or, Yahweh Shalom </footnote> To this day it is
still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:25">25 </verse></sup>That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take
your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years
old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your
father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.
<key:bcv=Judges 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the
top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take
the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the
wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and
did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared
his father’s household and the men of the city, he
could not do it by day, but he did it by night.
<key:bcv=Judges 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:28">28 </verse></sup>When the men of the city arose early in the
morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down,
and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and
the second bull was offered on the altar that was
built. <key:bcv=Judges 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:29">29 </verse></sup>They said to one another, “Who has done
this thing?”
<br>
When they inquired and asked, they said,
“Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
<key:bcv=Judges 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring
out your son, that he may die, because he has
broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has
cut down the Asherah that was by it.” <key:bcv=Judges 6:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:31">31 </verse></sup>Joash said
to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for
Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for
him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a
god, let him contend for himself, because someone
has broken down his altar!” <key:bcv=Judges 6:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:32">32 </verse></sup>Therefore on that
day he named him Jerub-Baal,<footnote:1>6:32 “Jerub-Baal” means “Let Baal contend”.</footnote> saying, “Let Baal
contend against him, because he has broken down
his altar.”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:33">33 </verse></sup>Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites
and the children of the east assembled themselves
together; and they passed over, and encamped in
the valley of Jezreel. <key:bcv=Judges 6:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:34">34 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s Spirit came
on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer
was gathered together to follow him. <key:bcv=Judges 6:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:35">35 </verse></sup>He sent
messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they also
were gathered together to follow him. He sent
messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali;
and they came up to meet them.

<key:bcv=Judges 6:36><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:36">36 </verse></sup>Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by
my hand, as you have spoken, <key:bcv=Judges 6:37><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:37">37 </verse></sup>behold, I will put a
fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew
on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground,
then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand,
as you have spoken.”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:38><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:38">38 </verse></sup>It was so; for he rose up early on the next day,
and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew
out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
<key:bcv=Judges 6:39><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:39">39 </verse></sup>Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be
kindled against me, and I will speak but this once.
Please let me make a trial just this once with the
fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on
all the ground let there be dew.”

<key:bcv=Judges 6:40><sup><verse bcv="Judges 6:40">40 </verse></sup>God did so that night; for it was dry on the
fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

#BCV:Judges 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people
who were with him, rose up early and encamped
beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on
the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in
the valley. <key:bcv=Judges 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people
who are with you are too many for me to give the
Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against
me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ <key:bcv=Judges 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Now
therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return
and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two
thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand
remained.

<key:bcv=Judges 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many
people. Bring them down to the water, and I will
test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom
I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you;
and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’
shall not go.” <key:bcv=Judges 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:5">5 </verse></sup>So he brought down the people to the
water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who
laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps,
you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who
bows down on his knees to drink.” <key:bcv=Judges 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:6">6 </verse></sup>The number
of those who lapped, putting their hand to their
mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest
of the people bowed down on their knees to drink
water. <key:bcv=Judges 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by
the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the
Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people
go, each to his own place.”

<key:bcv=Judges 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:8">8 </verse></sup>So the people took food in their hand, and their
trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of
Israel to their own tents, but retained the three
hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath
him in the valley. <key:bcv=Judges 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:9">9 </verse></sup>That same night, Yahweh said
to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have
delivered it into your hand. <key:bcv=Judges 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:10">10 </verse></sup>But if you are afraid
to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the
camp. <key:bcv=Judges 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:11">11 </verse></sup>You will hear what they say; and afterward
your hands will be strengthened to go down into the
camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant
to the outermost part of the armed men who were
in the camp.

<key:bcv=Judges 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:12">12 </verse></sup>The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the
children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts
for multitude; and their camels were without
number, as the sand which is on the seashore for
multitude.

<key:bcv=Judges 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:13">13 </verse></sup>When Gideon had come, behold, there was a
man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold,
I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley
bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the
tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside
down, so that the tent lay flat.”

<key:bcv=Judges 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:14">14 </verse></sup>His fellow answered, “This is nothing other
than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man
of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand,
with all the army.”

<key:bcv=Judges 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:15">15 </verse></sup>It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the
dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped.
Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said,
“Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian
into your hand!”

<key:bcv=Judges 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:16">16 </verse></sup>He divided the three hundred men into three
companies, and he put into the hands of all of them
trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within
the pitchers.

<key:bcv=Judges 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise.
Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the
camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
<key:bcv=Judges 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:18">18 </verse></sup>When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with
me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all
the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’ ”
<key:bcv=Judges 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:19">19 </verse></sup>So Gideon and the hundred men who were with
him came to the outermost part of the camp in the
beginning of the middle watch, when they had but
newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets
and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their
hands. <key:bcv=Judges 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:20">20 </verse></sup>The three companies blew the trumpets,
broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their
left hands and the trumpets in their right hands
with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword
of Yahweh and of Gideon!” <key:bcv=Judges 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:21">21 </verse></sup>They each stood in
his place around the camp, and all the army ran;
and they shouted, and put them to flight. <key:bcv=Judges 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:22">22 </verse></sup>They
blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set
every man’s sword against his fellow and against
all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth
Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel
Meholah, by Tabbath. <key:bcv=Judges 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:23">23 </verse></sup>The men of Israel were
gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and
out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. <key:bcv=Judges 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Gideon
sent messengers throughout all the hill country of
Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and
take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah,
even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were
gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth
Barah, even the Jordan. <key:bcv=Judges 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 7:25">25 </verse></sup>They took the two princes
of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s
rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as
they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads
of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
#BCV:Judges 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:1">1 </verse></sup>The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you
treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when
you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked
him sharply. <key:bcv=Judges 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What have I now
done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning
of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage
of Abiezer? <key:bcv=Judges 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:3">3 </verse></sup>God has delivered into your hand the
princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able
to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger
was abated toward him when he had said that.
<key:bcv=Judges 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he
and the three hundred men who were with him,
faint, yet pursuing. <key:bcv=Judges 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to the men of Succoth,
“Please give loaves of bread to the people who
follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after
Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
<key:bcv=Judges 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:6">6 </verse></sup>The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of
Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we
should give bread to your army?”

<key:bcv=Judges 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered
Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will
tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness
and with briers.”

<key:bcv=Judges 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:8">8 </verse></sup>He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them
in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered
him as the men of Succoth had answered. <key:bcv=Judges 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:9">9 </verse></sup>He spoke
also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come
again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
<key:bcv=Judges 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and
their armies with them, about fifteen thousand
men, all who were left of all the army of the children
of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty
thousand men who drew sword. <key:bcv=Judges 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Gideon went
up by the way of those who lived in tents on the
east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army;
for the army felt secure. <key:bcv=Judges 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Zebah and Zalmunna
fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings
of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all
the army. <key:bcv=Judges 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Gideon the son of Joash returned from
the battle from the ascent of Heres. <key:bcv=Judges 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He caught
a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired
of him; and he described for him the princes of
Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. <key:bcv=Judges 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He
came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah
and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me,
saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now
in your hand, that we should give bread to your men
who are weary?’ ” <key:bcv=Judges 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:16">16 </verse></sup>He took the elders of the city,
and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with
them he taught the men of Succoth. <key:bcv=Judges 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:17">17 </verse></sup>He broke
down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the
city.

<key:bcv=Judges 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What
kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?”
They answered, “They were like you. They all
resembled the children of a king.”

<key:bcv=Judges 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:19">19 </verse></sup>He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of
my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them
alive, I would not kill you.”

<key:bcv=Judges 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill
them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he
was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
<key:bcv=Judges 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “You rise and
fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength.”
Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and
took the crescents that were on their camels’ necks.
<key:bcv=Judges 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule
over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also;
for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
<key:bcv=Judges 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:23">23 </verse></sup>Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you,
neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall
rule over you.” <key:bcv=Judges 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Gideon said to them, “I do have a
request: that you would each give me the earrings
of his plunder.” (For they had golden earrings,
because they were Ishmaelites.)

<key:bcv=Judges 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:25">25 </verse></sup>They answered, “We will willingly give them.”
They spread a garment, and every man threw the
earrings of his plunder into it. <key:bcv=Judges 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:26">26 </verse></sup>The weight of
the golden earrings that he requested was one
thousand and seven hundred shekels<footnote:1>8:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 1700 shekels is about 17 kilograms or 37.4 pounds.</footnote> of gold, in
addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and
the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian,
and in addition to the chains that were about their
camels’ necks. <key:bcv=Judges 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:27">27 </verse></sup>Gideon made an ephod out of it,
and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played
the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to
Gideon and to his house. <key:bcv=Judges 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:28">28 </verse></sup>So Midian was subdued
before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their
heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the
days of Gideon.

<key:bcv=Judges 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:29">29 </verse></sup>Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his
own house. <key:bcv=Judges 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Gideon had seventy sons conceived
from his body, for he had many wives. <key:bcv=Judges 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:31">31 </verse></sup>His
concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son,
and he named him Abimelech. <key:bcv=Judges 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:32">32 </verse></sup>Gideon the son of
Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the
tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
<key:bcv=Judges 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:33">33 </verse></sup>As soon as Gideon was dead, the children
of Israel turned again and played the prostitute
following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
<key:bcv=Judges 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:34">34 </verse></sup>The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh
their God, who had delivered them out of the hand
of all their enemies on every side; <key:bcv=Judges 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 8:35">35 </verse></sup>neither did they
show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is,
Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had
shown to Israel.

#BCV:Judges 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to
Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with
them and with all the family of the house of his
mother’s father, saying, <key:bcv=Judges 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:2">2 </verse></sup>“Please speak in the ears
of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that
all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons,
rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember
also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
<key:bcv=Judges 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:3">3 </verse></sup>His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears
of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their
hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said,
“He is our brother.” <key:bcv=Judges 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:4">4 </verse></sup>They gave him seventy
pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with
which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows
who followed him. <key:bcv=Judges 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:5">5 </verse></sup>He went to his father’s house
at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of
Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but
Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for
he hid himself. <key:bcv=Judges 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:6">6 </verse></sup>All the men of Shechem assembled
themselves together with all the house of Millo, and
went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the
pillar that was in Shechem. <key:bcv=Judges 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:7">7 </verse></sup>When they told it to
Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount
Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said
to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that
God may listen to you. <key:bcv=Judges 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:8">8 </verse></sup>The trees set out to anoint
a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree,
‘Reign over us.’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:9">9 </verse></sup>“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop
producing my oil, with which they honor God and
man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the
trees?’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:10">10 </verse></sup>“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign
over us.’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:11">11 </verse></sup>“But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave
my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave
back and forth over the trees?’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:12">12 </verse></sup>“The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign
over us.’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:13">13 </verse></sup>“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new
wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave
back and forth over the trees?’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:14">14 </verse></sup>“Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come
and reign over us.’

<key:bcv=Judges 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:15">15 </verse></sup>“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you
anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge
in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the
bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
<key:bcv=Judges 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:16">16 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and
righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king,
and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his
house, and have done to him according to the
deserving of his hands <key:bcv=Judges 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:17">17 </verse></sup>(for my father fought for
you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the
hand of Midian; <key:bcv=Judges 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:18">18 </verse></sup>and you have risen up against
my father’s house today and have slain his sons,
seventy persons, on one stone, and have made
Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over
the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
<key:bcv=Judges 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:19">19 </verse></sup>if you then have dealt truly and righteously with
Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in
Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you; <key:bcv=Judges 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:20">20 </verse></sup>but if
not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour
the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let
fire come out from the men of Shechem and from
the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
<key:bcv=Judges 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer<footnote:1>9:21 “Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, i.e., a village named for its well.</footnote>
and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
<key:bcv=Judges 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
<key:bcv=Judges 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech
and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem
dealt treacherously with Abimelech, <key:bcv=Judges 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:24">24 </verse></sup>that the
violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal
might come, and that their blood might be laid on
Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on
the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands
to kill his brothers. <key:bcv=Judges 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:25">25 </verse></sup>The men of Shechem set an
ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and
they robbed all who came along that way by them;
and Abimelech was told about it.

<key:bcv=Judges 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:26">26 </verse></sup>Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers
and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem
put their trust in him. <key:bcv=Judges 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:27">27 </verse></sup>They went out into the
field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes,
celebrated, and went into the house of their god
and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech. <key:bcv=Judges 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:28">28 </verse></sup>Gaal
the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is
Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son
of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men
of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we
serve him? <key:bcv=Judges 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:29">29 </verse></sup>I wish that this people were under my
hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to
Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”
<key:bcv=Judges 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:30">30 </verse></sup>When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the
words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.
<key:bcv=Judges 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:31">31 </verse></sup>He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying,
“Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have
come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city
against you. <key:bcv=Judges 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Now therefore, go up by night, you
and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in
the field. <key:bcv=Judges 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:33">33 </verse></sup>It shall be that in the morning, as soon
as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the
city. Behold, when he and the people who are with
him come out against you, then may you do to them
as you shall find occasion.”

<key:bcv=Judges 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:34">34 </verse></sup>Abimelech rose up, and all the people who
were with him, by night, and they laid wait against
Shechem in four companies. <key:bcv=Judges 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:35">35 </verse></sup>Gaal the son of Ebed
went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of
the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who
were with him, from the ambush.

<key:bcv=Judges 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:36">36 </verse></sup>When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul,
“Behold, people are coming down from the tops of
the mountains.”
<br>
Zebul said to him, “You see the shadows of the
mountains as if they were men.”

<key:bcv=Judges 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:37">37 </verse></sup>Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people
are coming down by the middle of the land, and
one company comes by the way of the oak of
Meonenim.”

<key:bcv=Judges 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:38">38 </verse></sup>Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your
mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we
should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you
have despised? Please go out now and fight with
them.”

<key:bcv=Judges 9:39><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:39">39 </verse></sup>Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and
fought with Abimelech. <key:bcv=Judges 9:40><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:40">40 </verse></sup>Abimelech chased him,
and he fled before him, and many fell wounded,
even to the entrance of the gate. <key:bcv=Judges 9:41><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:41">41 </verse></sup>Abimelech
lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his
brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
<key:bcv=Judges 9:42><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:42">42 </verse></sup>On the next day, the people went out into the
field; and they told Abimelech. <key:bcv=Judges 9:43><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:43">43 </verse></sup>He took the
people and divided them into three companies, and
laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold,
the people came out of the city. So, he rose up
against them and struck them. <key:bcv=Judges 9:44><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:44">44 </verse></sup>Abimelech and the
companies that were with him rushed forward and
stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the
two companies rushed on all who were in the field
and struck them. <key:bcv=Judges 9:45><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:45">45 </verse></sup>Abimelech fought against the
city all that day; and he took the city and killed the
people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with
salt.

<key:bcv=Judges 9:46><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:46">46 </verse></sup>When all the men of the tower of Shechem
heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the
house of Elberith. <key:bcv=Judges 9:47><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:47">47 </verse></sup>Abimelech was told that all
the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered
together. <key:bcv=Judges 9:48><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:48">48 </verse></sup>Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon,
he and all the people who were with him; and
Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a
bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on
his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were
with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste,
and do as I have done!” <key:bcv=Judges 9:49><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:49">49 </verse></sup>All the people likewise
each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and
put them at the base of the stronghold, and set
the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the
people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a
thousand men and women. <key:bcv=Judges 9:50><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:50">50 </verse></sup>Then Abimelech went
to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took
it. <key:bcv=Judges 9:51><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:51">51 </verse></sup>But there was a strong tower within the city,
and all the men and women of the city fled there,
and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof
of the tower. <key:bcv=Judges 9:52><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:52">52 </verse></sup>Abimelech came to the tower and
fought against it, and came near to the door of the
tower to burn it with fire. <key:bcv=Judges 9:53><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:53">53 </verse></sup>A certain woman cast
an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke
his skull.

<key:bcv=Judges 9:54><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:54">54 </verse></sup>Then he called hastily to the young man, his
armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword
and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed
him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he
died.”

<key:bcv=Judges 9:55><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:55">55 </verse></sup>When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was
dead, they each departed to his place. <key:bcv=Judges 9:56><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:56">56 </verse></sup>Thus God
repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to
his father in killing his seventy brothers; <key:bcv=Judges 9:57><sup><verse bcv="Judges 9:57">57 </verse></sup>and God
repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem
on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of
Jerubbaal came on them.

#BCV:Judges 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:1">1 </verse></sup>After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son
of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He
lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. <key:bcv=Judges 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:2">2 </verse></sup>He
judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was
buried in Shamir.

<key:bcv=Judges 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:3">3 </verse></sup>After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged
Israel twenty-two years. <key:bcv=Judges 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:4">4 </verse></sup>He had thirty sons who
rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities,
which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are
in the land of Gilead. <key:bcv=Judges 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Jair died, and was buried in
Kamon.

<key:bcv=Judges 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of Israel again did that which was
evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the
Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the
gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon,
and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned
Yahweh, and didn’t serve him. <key:bcv=Judges 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger
burned against Israel, and he sold them into the
hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the
children of Ammon. <key:bcv=Judges 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:8">8 </verse></sup>They troubled and oppressed
the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years
they oppressed all the children of Israel that were
beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites,
which is in Gilead. <key:bcv=Judges 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Ammon
passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah,
and against Benjamin, and against the house of
Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed. <key:bcv=Judges 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The
children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have
sinned against you, even because we have forsaken
our God, and have served the Baals.”

<key:bcv=Judges 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t
I save you from the Egyptians, and from the
Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from
the Philistines? <key:bcv=Judges 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:12">12 </verse></sup>The Sidonians also, and the
Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and
you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
<key:bcv=Judges 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods.
Therefore I will save you no more. <key:bcv=Judges 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Go and cry to
the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you
in the time of your distress!”

<key:bcv=Judges 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:15">15 </verse></sup>The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have
sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only
deliver us, please, today.” <key:bcv=Judges 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:16">16 </verse></sup>They put away the
foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh;
and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
<key:bcv=Judges 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Then the children of Ammon were gathered
together and encamped in Gilead. The children
of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped
in Mizpah. <key:bcv=Judges 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 10:18">18 </verse></sup>The people, the princes of
Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who
will begin to fight against the children of Ammon?
He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

#BCV:Judges 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man
of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead
became the father of Jephthah. <key:bcv=Judges 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Gilead’s wife bore
him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove
Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit
in our father’s house, for you are the son of another
woman.” <key:bcv=Judges 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Jephthah fled from his brothers
and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with
Jephthah, and they went out with him.
<key:bcv=Judges 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:4">4 </verse></sup>After a while, the children of Ammon made war
against Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:5">5 </verse></sup>When the children of Ammon made
war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get
Jephthah out of the land of Tob. <key:bcv=Judges 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:6">6 </verse></sup>They said to
Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight
with the children of Ammon.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you
hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house?
Why have you come to me now when you are in
distress?”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:8">8 </verse></sup>The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore
we have turned again to you now, that you may
go with us and fight with the children of Ammon.
You will be our head over all the inhabitants of
Gilead.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you
bring me home again to fight with the children of
Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will
I be your head?”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:10">10 </verse></sup>The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh
will be witness between us. Surely we will do what
you say.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead,
and the people made him head and chief over them.
Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in
Mizpah.

<key:bcv=Judges 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the
children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to
do with me, that you have come to me to fight
against my land?”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:13">13 </verse></sup>The king of the children of Ammon answered
the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took
away my land when he came up out of Egypt,
from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the
Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again
peaceably.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Jephthah sent messengers again to the king
of the children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Judges 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:15">15 </verse></sup>and he said to him,
“Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of
Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Judges 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:16">16 </verse></sup>but
when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went
through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came
to Kadesh, <key:bcv=Judges 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:17">17 </verse></sup>then Israel sent messengers to the
king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through
your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In
the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he
refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh. <key:bcv=Judges 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Then they
went through the wilderness, and went around the
land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the
east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on
the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come
within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the
border of Moab. <key:bcv=Judges 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Israel sent messengers to Sihon
king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and
Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your
land to my place.’ <key:bcv=Judges 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:20">20 </verse></sup>But Sihon didn’t trust Israel
to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all
his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and
fought against Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of Israel,
delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of
Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed
all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that country. <key:bcv=Judges 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:22">22 </verse></sup>They possessed all the border of
the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok,
and from the wilderness even to the Jordan. <key:bcv=Judges 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:23">23 </verse></sup>So
now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed
the Amorites from before his people Israel, and
should you possess them? <key:bcv=Judges 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Won’t you possess that
which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So
whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from
before us, them will we possess. <key:bcv=Judges 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Now are you
anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king
of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he
ever fight against them? <key:bcv=Judges 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Israel lived in Heshbon
and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all
the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for
three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them
within that time? <key:bcv=Judges 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore I have not sinned
against you, but you do me wrong to war against me.
May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the
children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
<key:bcv=Judges 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:28">28 </verse></sup>However, the king of the children of Ammon
didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent
him. <key:bcv=Judges 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and
he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed
over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead
he passed over to the children of Ammon.
<key:bcv=Judges 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If
you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into
my hand, <key:bcv=Judges 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:31">31 </verse></sup>then it shall be, that whatever comes
out of the doors of my house to meet me when
I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it
shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt
offering.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:32">32 </verse></sup>So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon
to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered
them into his hand. <key:bcv=Judges 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:33">33 </verse></sup>He struck them from Aroer
until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and
to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So
the children of Ammon were subdued before the
children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Judges 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:34">34 </verse></sup>Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and
behold, his daughter came out to meet him with
tambourines and with dances. She was his only
child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
<key:bcv=Judges 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:35">35 </verse></sup>When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said,
“Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low,
and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have
opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
<key:bcv=Judges 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:36">36 </verse></sup>She said to him, “My father, you have opened
your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that
which has proceeded out of your mouth, because
Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies,
even on the children of Ammon.” <key:bcv=Judges 11:37><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:37">37 </verse></sup>Then she
said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me.
Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and
go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity,
I and my companions.”

<key:bcv=Judges 11:38><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:38">38 </verse></sup>He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months;
and she departed, she and her companions, and
mourned her virginity on the mountains. <key:bcv=Judges 11:39><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:39">39 </verse></sup>At the
end of two months, she returned to her father, who
did with her according to his vow which he had
vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in
Israel <key:bcv=Judges 11:40><sup><verse bcv="Judges 11:40">40 </verse></sup>that the daughters of Israel went yearly
to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite
four days in a year.

#BCV:Judges 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:1">1 </verse></sup>The men of Ephraim were gathered together,
and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah,
“Why did you pass over to fight against the children
of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will
burn your house around you with fire!”
<key:bcv=Judges 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at
great strife with the children of Ammon; and when
I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.
<key:bcv=Judges 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:3">3 </verse></sup>When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life
in my hand, and passed over against the children of
Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand.
Why then have you come up to me today, to fight
against me?”

<key:bcv=Judges 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Jephthah gathered together all the men
of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of
Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are
fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle
of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.” <key:bcv=Judges 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:5">5 </verse></sup>The
Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the
Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said,
“Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are
you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;” <key:bcv=Judges 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:6">6 </verse></sup>then they
said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said
“Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce
it correctly, then they seized him and killed him
at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two
thousand of Ephraim fell.

<key:bcv=Judges 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah
the Gileadite died, and was buried in the cities of
Gilead.

<key:bcv=Judges 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:8">8 </verse></sup>After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
<key:bcv=Judges 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:9">9 </verse></sup>He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters
outside his clan, and he brought in thirty daughters
from outside his clan for his sons. He judged
Israel seven years. <key:bcv=Judges 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Ibzan died, and was buried at
Bethlehem.

<key:bcv=Judges 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:11">11 </verse></sup>After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel;
and he judged Israel ten years. <key:bcv=Judges 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Elon the Zebulunite
died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of
Zebulun.

<key:bcv=Judges 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:13">13 </verse></sup>After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite
judged Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:14">14 </verse></sup>He had forty sons and
thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts.
He judged Israel eight years. <key:bcv=Judges 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Abdon the son
of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in
Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country
of the Amalekites.

#BCV:Judges 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:1">1 </verse></sup>The children of Israel again did that which was
evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them
into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
<key:bcv=Judges 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:2">2 </verse></sup>There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family
of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his
wife was barren, and childless. <key:bcv=Judges 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel
appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now,
you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive
and bear a son. <key:bcv=Judges 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Now therefore please beware and
drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any
unclean thing; <key:bcv=Judges 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:5">5 </verse></sup>for, behold, you shall conceive and
give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head,
for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the
womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand
of the Philistines.”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the woman came and told her husband,
saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was
like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I
didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he
tell me his name; <key:bcv=Judges 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:7">7 </verse></sup>but he said to me, ‘Behold, you
shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no
wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing,
for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the
womb to the day of his death.’ ”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh,
Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come
again to us, and teach us what we should do to the
child who shall be born.”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:9">9 </verse></sup>God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the
angel of God came again to the woman as she sat
in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with
her. <key:bcv=Judges 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:10">10 </verse></sup>The woman hurried and ran, and told her
husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who
came to me that day has appeared to me.”
<key:bcv=Judges 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came
to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who
spoke to my wife?”
<br>
He said, “I am.”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Manoah said, “Now let your words happen.
What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
<key:bcv=Judges 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I
said to the woman let her beware. <key:bcv=Judges 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:14">14 </verse></sup>She may not
eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let
her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean
thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
<key:bcv=Judges 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay
with us, that we may make a young goat ready for
you.”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you
detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare
a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For
Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
<key:bcv=Judges 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your
name, that when your words happen, we may honor
you?”

<key:bcv=Judges 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask
about my name, since it is incomprehensible<footnote:1>13:18 or, wonderful</footnote>?”
<key:bcv=Judges 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:19">19 </verse></sup>So Manoah took the young goat with the meal
offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then
the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his
wife watched. <key:bcv=Judges 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:20">20 </verse></sup>For when the flame went up toward
the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended
in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife
watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
<key:bcv=Judges 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:21">21 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or
to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he
was Yahweh’s angel. <key:bcv=Judges 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Manoah said to his wife, “We
shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
<key:bcv=Judges 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:23">23 </verse></sup>But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were
pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a
burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and
he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor
would he have told us such things as these at this
time.” <key:bcv=Judges 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:24">24 </verse></sup>The woman bore a son and named him
Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
<key:bcv=Judges 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh
Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

#BCV:Judges 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Samson went down to Timnah, and saw
a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the
Philistines. <key:bcv=Judges 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:2">2 </verse></sup>He came up, and told his father and his
mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of
the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get
her for me as my wife.”

<key:bcv=Judges 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Then his father and his mother said to him,
“Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters,
or among all my people, that you go to take a
wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”
Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she
pleases me well.”

<key:bcv=Judges 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:4">4 </verse></sup>But his father and his mother didn’t know that
it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against
the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines
ruled over Israel.

<key:bcv=Judges 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Samson went down to Timnah with his
father and his mother, and came to the vineyards
of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
<key:bcv=Judges 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he
tore him as he would have torn a young goat with
his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his
mother what he had done. <key:bcv=Judges 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:7">7 </verse></sup>He went down and
talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson
well. <key:bcv=Judges 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:8">8 </verse></sup>After a while he returned to take her, and he
went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold,
there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion,
and honey. <key:bcv=Judges 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:9">9 </verse></sup>He took it into his hands, and went on,
eating as he went. He came to his father and mother
and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell
them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s
body. <key:bcv=Judges 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:10">10 </verse></sup>His father went down to the woman; and
Samson made a feast there, for the young men used
to do so. <key:bcv=Judges 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:11">11 </verse></sup>When they saw him, they brought thirty
companions to be with him.

<key:bcv=Judges 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle
now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven
days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give
you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of
clothing; <key:bcv=Judges 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:13">13 </verse></sup>but if you can’t tell me the answer, then
you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty
changes of clothing.”
<br>
They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we
may hear it.”

<key:bcv=Judges 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:14">14 </verse></sup>He said to them,
<br>
“Out of the eater came out food.
<br>
Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
<key:bcv=Judges 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:15">15 </verse></sup>On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife,
“Entice your husband, that he may declare to us
the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house
with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t
that so?”

<key:bcv=Judges 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You
just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle
to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to
me.”
<br>
He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father
or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
<key:bcv=Judges 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:17">17 </verse></sup>She wept before him the seven days, while their
feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her,
because she pressed him severely; and she told the
riddle to the children of her people. <key:bcv=Judges 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:18">18 </verse></sup>The men
of the city said to him on the seventh day before
the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
<br>
He said to them,
<br>
“If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
<key:bcv=Judges 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he
went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of
them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes
of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His
anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
<key:bcv=Judges 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 14:20">20 </verse></sup>But Samson’s wife was given to his companion,
who had been his friend.

#BCV:Judges 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:1">1 </verse></sup>But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest,
Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said,
“I will go in to my wife’s room.”

But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in. <key:bcv=Judges 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Her
father said, “I most certainly thought that you
utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your
companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful
than she? Please, take her instead.”

<key:bcv=Judges 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless
in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
<key:bcv=Judges 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and
took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch
in the middle between every two tails. <key:bcv=Judges 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:5">5 </verse></sup>When he
had set the torches on fire, he let them go into
the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up
both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the
olive groves.

<key:bcv=Judges 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the
Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given
her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and
burned her and her father with fire.

<key:bcv=Judges 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Samson said to them, “If you behave like this,
surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I
will cease.” <key:bcv=Judges 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:8">8 </verse></sup>He struck them hip and thigh with a
great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the
cave in Etam’s rock. <key:bcv=Judges 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the Philistines went up,
encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
<key:bcv=Judges 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:10">10 </verse></sup>The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up
against us?”
<br>
They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to
do to him as he has done to us.”

<key:bcv=Judges 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Then three thousand men of Judah went down
to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson,
“Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over
us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done
to them.”

<key:bcv=Judges 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:12">12 </verse></sup>They said to him, “We have come down to bind
you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the
Philistines.”
<br>
Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will
not attack me yourselves.”

<key:bcv=Judges 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:13">13 </verse></sup>They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind
you securely and deliver you into their hands; but
surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with
two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
<key:bcv=Judges 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:14">14 </verse></sup>When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted
as they met him. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily
on him, and the ropes that were on his arms
became as flax that was burned with fire; and his
bands dropped from off his hands. <key:bcv=Judges 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:15">15 </verse></sup>He found a
fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took
it, and struck a thousand men with it. <key:bcv=Judges 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Samson
said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on
heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a
thousand men.” <key:bcv=Judges 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:17">17 </verse></sup>When he had finished speaking,
he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place
was called Ramath Lehi.<footnote:1>15:17 “Ramath” means “hill” and “Lehi” means “jawbone”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Judges 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:18">18 </verse></sup>He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and
said, “You have given this great deliverance by the
hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst,
and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
<key:bcv=Judges 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:19">19 </verse></sup>But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi,
and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his
spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its
name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this
day. <key:bcv=Judges 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 15:20">20 </verse></sup>He judged Israel twenty years in the days of
the Philistines.

#BCV:Judges 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute,
and went in to her. <key:bcv=Judges 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:2">2 </verse></sup>The Gazites were told,
“Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid
wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and
were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning
light; then we will kill him.” <key:bcv=Judges 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Samson lay until
midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of
the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts,
and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on
his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the
mountain that is before Hebron.

<key:bcv=Judges 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:4">4 </verse></sup>It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman
in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
<key:bcv=Judges 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:5">5 </verse></sup>The lords of the Philistines came up to her and
said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great
strength lies, and by what means we may prevail
against him, that we may bind him to afflict him;
and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of
silver.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where
your great strength lies, and what you might be
bound to afflict you.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven
green cords that were never dried, then shall I
become weak, and be as another man.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to
her seven green cords which had not been dried,
and she bound him with them. <key:bcv=Judges 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Now she had an
ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him,
“The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the
cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the
fire. So his strength was not known.

<key:bcv=Judges 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have
mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me
how you might be bound.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:11">11 </verse></sup>He said to her, “If they only bind me with new
ropes with which no work has been done, then shall
I become weak, and be as another man.”
<key:bcv=Judges 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:12">12 </verse></sup>So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with
them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you,
Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner
room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
<key:bcv=Judges 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have
mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you
might be bound.”
<br>
He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of
my head with the fabric on the loom.”
<key:bcv=Judges 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:14">14 </verse></sup>She fastened it with the pin, and said to him,
“The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened
out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the
beam and the fabric.

<key:bcv=Judges 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:15">15 </verse></sup>She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’
when your heart is not with me? You have mocked
me these three times, and have not told me where
your great strength lies.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:16">16 </verse></sup>When she pressed him daily with her words and
urged him, his soul was troubled to death. <key:bcv=Judges 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:17">17 </verse></sup>He told
her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever
come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God
from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my
strength will go from me and I will become weak,
and be like any other man.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:18">18 </verse></sup>When Delilah saw that he had told her all
his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the
Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he
has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the
Philistines came up to her and brought the money
in their hand. <key:bcv=Judges 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:19">19 </verse></sup>She made him sleep on her knees;
and she called for a man and shaved off the seven
locks of his head; and she began to afflict him,
and his strength went from him. <key:bcv=Judges 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:20">20 </verse></sup>She said, “The
Philistines are upon you, Samson!”
<br>
He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out
as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he
didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
<key:bcv=Judges 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:21">21 </verse></sup>The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his
eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound
him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill
in the prison. <key:bcv=Judges 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:22">22 </verse></sup>However, the hair of his head began
to grow again after he was shaved.

<key:bcv=Judges 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:23">23 </verse></sup>The lords of the Philistines gathered together
to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and
to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered
Samson our enemy into our hand.” <key:bcv=Judges 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:24">24 </verse></sup>When the
people saw him, they praised their god; for they
said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the
destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us,
into our hand.”

<key:bcv=Judges 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:25">25 </verse></sup>When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call
for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called
for Samson out of the prison; and he performed
before them. They set him between the pillars;
<key:bcv=Judges 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:26">26 </verse></sup>and Samson said to the boy who held him by the
hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the
house rests, that I may lean on them.” <key:bcv=Judges 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:27">27 </verse></sup>Now the
house was full of men and women; and all the lords
of the Philistines were there; and there were on the
roof about three thousand men and women, who
saw while Samson performed. <key:bcv=Judges 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:28">28 </verse></sup>Samson called to
Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me,
please, and strengthen me, please, only this once,
God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines
for my two eyes.” <key:bcv=Judges 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:29">29 </verse></sup>Samson took hold of the two
middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned
on them, the one with his right hand and the other
with his left. <key:bcv=Judges 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:30">30 </verse></sup>Samson said, “Let me die with the
Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might;
and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people
who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his
death were more than those who he killed in his life.
<key:bcv=Judges 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 16:31">31 </verse></sup>Then his brothers and all the house of his father
came down and took him, and brought him up and
buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial
site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty
years.

#BCV:Judges 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:1">1 </verse></sup>There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim,
whose name was Micah. <key:bcv=Judges 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to his mother,
“The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were
taken from you, about which you uttered a curse,
and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is
with me. I took it.”
<br>
His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”
<key:bcv=Judges 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:3">3 </verse></sup>He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver
to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly
dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand
for my son, to make a carved image and a molten
image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
<key:bcv=Judges 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:4">4 </verse></sup>When he restored the money to his mother, his
mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave
them to a silversmith, who made a carved image
and a molten image out of it. It was in the house
of Micah.

<key:bcv=Judges 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:5">5 </verse></sup>The man Micah had a house of gods, and he
made an ephod, and teraphim,<footnote:1>17:5 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> and consecrated
one of his sons, who became his priest. <key:bcv=Judges 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:6">6 </verse></sup>In those
days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that
which was right in his own eyes. <key:bcv=Judges 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:7">7 </verse></sup>There was a young
man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah,
who was a Levite; and he lived there. <key:bcv=Judges 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:8">8 </verse></sup>The man
departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah,
to live where he could find a place, and he came to
the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah,
as he traveled. <key:bcv=Judges 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Micah said to him, “Where did you
come from?”
<br>
He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah,
and I am looking for a place to live.”
<key:bcv=Judges 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me
a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces
of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.”
So the Levite went in. <key:bcv=Judges 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:11">11 </verse></sup>The Levite was content
to dwell with the man; and the young man was to
him as one of his sons. <key:bcv=Judges 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Micah consecrated the
Levite, and the young man became his priest, and
was in the house of Micah. <key:bcv=Judges 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Micah said, “Now
I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have
a Levite as my priest.”

#BCV:Judges 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Judges 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days there was no king in Israel. In
those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance
to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance
had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
<key:bcv=Judges 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:2">2 </verse></sup>The children of Dan sent five men of their family
from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah
and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search
it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!”
They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the
house of Micah, and lodged there. <key:bcv=Judges 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:3">3 </verse></sup>When they were
by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the
young man the Levite; so they went over there and
said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you
do in this place? What do you have here?”
<key:bcv=Judges 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt
with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his
priest.”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:5">5 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God,
that we may know whether our way which we go
shall be prosperous.”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:6">6 </verse></sup>The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way
in which you go is before Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Then the five men departed and came to Laish
and saw the people who were there, how they lived
in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and
secure; for there was no one in the land possessing
authority, that might put them to shame in anything,
and they were far from the Sidonians, and
had no dealings with anyone else. <key:bcv=Judges 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:8">8 </verse></sup>They came
to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their
brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
<key:bcv=Judges 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:9">9 </verse></sup>They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them;
for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very
good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go
and to enter in to possess the land. <key:bcv=Judges 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:10">10 </verse></sup>When you go,
you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the
land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a
place where there is no lack of anything that is in
the earth.”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The family of the Danites set out from Zorah
and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with
weapons of war. <key:bcv=Judges 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:12">12 </verse></sup>They went up and encamped
in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that
place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind
Kiriath Jearim. <key:bcv=Judges 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:13">13 </verse></sup>They passed from there to the
hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of
Micah.

<key:bcv=Judges 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Then the five men who went to spy out the
country of Laish answered and said to their brothers,
“Do you know that there is in these houses an
ephod, and teraphim,<footnote:1>18:14 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> and a carved image, and a
molten image? Now therefore consider what you
have to do.” <key:bcv=Judges 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:15">15 </verse></sup>They went over there and came to
the house of the young Levite man, even to the
house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
<key:bcv=Judges 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:16">16 </verse></sup>The six hundred men armed with their weapons
of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by
the entrance of the gate. <key:bcv=Judges 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:17">17 </verse></sup>The five men who went
to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and
took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim,
and the molten image; and the priest stood by the
entrance of the gate with the six hundred men
armed with weapons of war.

<key:bcv=Judges 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:18">18 </verse></sup>When these went into Micah’s house, and took
the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and
the molten image, the priest said to them, “What
are you doing?”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:19">19 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your
hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father
and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to
the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and
a family in Israel?”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:20">20 </verse></sup>The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the
ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and
went with the people. <key:bcv=Judges 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:21">21 </verse></sup>So they turned and departed,
and put the little ones, the livestock, and the
goods before them. <key:bcv=Judges 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:22">22 </verse></sup>When they were a good way
from the house of Micah, the men who were in the
houses near Micah’s house gathered together and
overtook the children of Dan. <key:bcv=Judges 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:23">23 </verse></sup>As they called to the
children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to
Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a
company?”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:24">24 </verse></sup>He said, “You have taken away my gods which
I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What
more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails
you?’ ”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:25">25 </verse></sup>The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your
voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on
you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your
household.”

<key:bcv=Judges 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:26">26 </verse></sup>The children of Dan went their way; and when
Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he
turned and went back to his house. <key:bcv=Judges 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:27">27 </verse></sup>They took
that which Micah had made, and the priest whom
he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and
unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the
sword; then they burned the city with fire. <key:bcv=Judges 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:28">28 </verse></sup>There
was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and
they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was
in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built
the city and lived in it. <key:bcv=Judges 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:29">29 </verse></sup>They called the name of
the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father,
who was born to Israel; however the name of the
city used to be Laish. <key:bcv=Judges 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:30">30 </verse></sup>The children of Dan set up
for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan,
the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons
were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day
of the captivity of the land. <key:bcv=Judges 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 18:31">31 </verse></sup>So they set up for
themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made,
and it remained all the time that God’s house was in
Shiloh.

#BCV:Judges 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days, when there was no king in Israel,
there was a certain Levite living on the farther
side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for
himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. <key:bcv=Judges 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:2">2 </verse></sup>His
concubine played the prostitute against him, and
went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem
Judah, and was there for four months. <key:bcv=Judges 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Her
husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to
her, to bring her again, having his servant with him
and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her
father’s house; and when the father of the young
lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. <key:bcv=Judges 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:4">4 </verse></sup>His fatherin-
law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and
he stayed with him three days. So they ate and
drank, and stayed there.

<key:bcv=Judges 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:5">5 </verse></sup>On the fourth day, they got up early in the
morning, and he rose up to depart. The young
lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen
your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward
you shall go your way.” <key:bcv=Judges 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:6">6 </verse></sup>So they sat down, ate,
and drank, both of them together. Then the young
lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to
stay all night, and let your heart be merry.” <key:bcv=Judges 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:7">7 </verse></sup>The
man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged
him, and he stayed there again. <key:bcv=Judges 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He arose early
in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the
young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your
heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both
ate.

<key:bcv=Judges 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:9">9 </verse></sup>When the man rose up to depart, he, and his
concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the
young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the
day draws toward evening, please stay all night.
Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart
may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early,
that you may go home.” <key:bcv=Judges 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:10">10 </verse></sup>But the man wouldn’t
stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus
(also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of
saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.
<key:bcv=Judges 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:11">11 </verse></sup>When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent;
and the servant said to his master, “Please come and
let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in
it.”

<key:bcv=Judges 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:12">12 </verse></sup>His master said to him, “We won’t enter into
the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of
Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.” <key:bcv=Judges 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:13">13 </verse></sup>He said
to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one
of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in
Ramah.” <key:bcv=Judges 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:14">14 </verse></sup>So they passed on and went their way;
and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which
belongs to Benjamin. <key:bcv=Judges 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:15">15 </verse></sup>They went over there, to go
in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in
the street of the city; for there was no one who took
them into his house to stay.

<key:bcv=Judges 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, an old man came from his work out of
the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill
country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the
men of the place were Benjamites. <key:bcv=Judges 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:17">17 </verse></sup>He lifted up
his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street
of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you
going? Where did you come from?”

<key:bcv=Judges 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem
Judah to the farther side of the hill country of
Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem
Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is
no one who has taken me into his house. <key:bcv=Judges 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet there
is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is
bread and wine also for me, and for your servant,
and for the young man who is with your servants.
There is no lack of anything.”

<key:bcv=Judges 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:20">20 </verse></sup>The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me
supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
<key:bcv=Judges 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:21">21 </verse></sup>So he brought him into his house, and gave the
donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and
ate and drank. <key:bcv=Judges 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:22">22 </verse></sup>As they were making their hearts
merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked
fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door;
and they spoke to the master of the house, the old
man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into
your house, that we can have sex with him!”
<key:bcv=Judges 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:23">23 </verse></sup>The man, the master of the house, went out to
them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please
don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into
my house, don’t do this folly. <key:bcv=Judges 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, here is
my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring
them out now. Humble them, and do with them
what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do
any such folly.”

<key:bcv=Judges 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:25">25 </verse></sup>But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the
man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to
them; and they had sex with her, and abused her
all night until the morning. When the day began to
dawn, they let her go. <key:bcv=Judges 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:26">26 </verse></sup>Then the woman came in
the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door
of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was
light. <key:bcv=Judges 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:27">27 </verse></sup>Her lord rose up in the morning and opened
the doors of the house, and went out to go his way;
and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen
down at the door of the house, with her hands on
the threshold.

<key:bcv=Judges 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:28">28 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!”
but no one answered. Then he took her up on the
donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.
<key:bcv=Judges 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:29">29 </verse></sup>When he had come into his house, he took a
knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her,
limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her
throughout all the borders of Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 19:30">30 </verse></sup>It was so, that
all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done
or seen from the day that the children of Israel came
up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it,
take counsel, and speak.”

#BCV:Judges 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Then all the children of Israel went out, and
the congregation was assembled as one man, from
Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to
Yahweh at Mizpah. <key:bcv=Judges 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:2">2 </verse></sup>The chiefs of all the people,
even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves
in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred
thousand footmen who drew sword. <key:bcv=Judges 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:3">3 </verse></sup>(Now the
children of Benjamin heard that the children of
Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel
said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
<key:bcv=Judges 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:4">4 </verse></sup>The Levite, the husband of the woman who
was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that
belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend
the night. <key:bcv=Judges 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:5">5 </verse></sup>The men of Gibeah rose against me,
and surrounded the house by night. They intended
to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she
is dead. <key:bcv=Judges 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:6">6 </verse></sup>I took my concubine and cut her in
pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of
the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed
lewdness and folly in Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, you children
of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and
counsel.”

<key:bcv=Judges 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:8">8 </verse></sup>All the people arose as one man, saying, “None
of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to
his house. <key:bcv=Judges 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:9">9 </verse></sup>But now this is the thing which we will
do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; <key:bcv=Judges 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:10">10 </verse></sup>and
we will take ten men of one hundred throughout
all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one
thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get
food for the people, that they may do, when they
come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the
folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
<key:bcv=Judges 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:11">11 </verse></sup>So all the men of Israel were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.

<key:bcv=Judges 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:12">12 </verse></sup>The tribes of Israel sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this
that has happened among you? <key:bcv=Judges 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Now therefore
deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in
Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put
away evil from Israel.”
<br>
But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of
their brothers, the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:14">14 </verse></sup>The children
of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of
the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:15">15 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin were
counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six
thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to
the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven
hundred chosen men. <key:bcv=Judges 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Among all these soldiers
there were seven hundred chosen men who were
left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone
at a hair and not miss. <key:bcv=Judges 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:17">17 </verse></sup>The men of Israel, besides
Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand
men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
<key:bcv=Judges 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:18">18 </verse></sup>The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel,
and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall
go up for us first to battle against the children of
Benjamin?”
<br>
Yahweh said, “Judah first.”

<key:bcv=Judges 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:19">19 </verse></sup>The children of Israel rose up in the morning
and encamped against Gibeah. <key:bcv=Judges 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:20">20 </verse></sup>The men of Israel
went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of
Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
<key:bcv=Judges 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:21">21 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and
on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the
Israelite men down to the ground. <key:bcv=Judges 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:22">22 </verse></sup>The people,
the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set
the battle again in array in the place where they set
themselves in array the first day. <key:bcv=Judges 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:23">23 </verse></sup>The children
of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until
evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall
I again draw near to battle against the children of
Benjamin my brother?”
<br>
Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”

<key:bcv=Judges 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:24">24 </verse></sup>The children of Israel came near against the
children of Benjamin the second day. <key:bcv=Judges 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:25">25 </verse></sup>Benjamin
went out against them out of Gibeah the second day,
and destroyed down to the ground of the children of
Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew
the sword.

<key:bcv=Judges 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:26">26 </verse></sup>Then all the children of Israel and all the
people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept,
and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day
until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Judges 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:27">27 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of
God was there in those days, <key:bcv=Judges 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:28">28 </verse></sup>and Phinehas, the
son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it
in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to
battle against the children of Benjamin my brother,
or shall I cease?”
<br>
Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver
him into your hand.”

<key:bcv=Judges 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:29">29 </verse></sup>Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. <key:bcv=Judges 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:30">30 </verse></sup>The
children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in
array against Gibeah, as at other times. <key:bcv=Judges 20:31><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:31">31 </verse></sup>The
children of Benjamin went out against the people,
and were drawn away from the city; and they began
to strike and kill of the people as at other times, in
the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and
the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men
of Israel.

<key:bcv=Judges 20:32><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:32">32 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck
down before us, as at the first.” But the children of
Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the
city to the highways.”

<key:bcv=Judges 20:33><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:33">33 </verse></sup>All the men of Israel rose up out of their place
and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the
ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even
out of Maareh Geba. <key:bcv=Judges 20:34><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:34">34 </verse></sup>Ten thousand chosen men
out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the
battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster
was close to them. <key:bcv=Judges 20:35><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh struck Benjamin
before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed
of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one
hundred men. All these drew the sword. <key:bcv=Judges 20:36><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:36">36 </verse></sup>So the
children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for
the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they
trusted the ambushers whom they had set against
Gibeah. <key:bcv=Judges 20:37><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:37">37 </verse></sup>The ambushers hurried, and rushed on
Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck
all the city with the edge of the sword. <key:bcv=Judges 20:38><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:38">38 </verse></sup>Now the
appointed sign between the men of Israel and the
ambushers was that they should make a great cloud
of smoke rise up out of the city. <key:bcv=Judges 20:39><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:39">39 </verse></sup>The men of Israel
turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike
and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons;
for they said, “Surely they are struck down before
us, as in the first battle.” <key:bcv=Judges 20:40><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:40">40 </verse></sup>But when the cloud
began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke,
the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold,
the whole city went up in smoke to the sky. <key:bcv=Judges 20:41><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:41">41 </verse></sup>The
men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were
dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on
them. <key:bcv=Judges 20:42><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:42">42 </verse></sup>Therefore they turned their backs before
the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness,
but the battle followed hard after them; and those
who came out of the cities destroyed them in the
middle of it. <key:bcv=Judges 20:43><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:43">43 </verse></sup>They surrounded the Benjamites,
chased them, and trod them down at their resting
place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
<key:bcv=Judges 20:44><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:44">44 </verse></sup>Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these
were men of valor. <key:bcv=Judges 20:45><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:45">45 </verse></sup>They turned and fled toward
the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned
five thousand men of them in the highways, and
followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two
thousand men of them. <key:bcv=Judges 20:46><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:46">46 </verse></sup>So that all who fell that
day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men
who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
<key:bcv=Judges 20:47><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:47">47 </verse></sup>But six hundred men turned and fled toward the
wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in
the rock of Rimmon four months. <key:bcv=Judges 20:48><sup><verse bcv="Judges 20:48">48 </verse></sup>The men of
Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and
struck them with the edge of the sword—including
the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found.
Moreover they set all the cities which they found on
fire.

#BCV:Judges 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Judges 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying,
“None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin
as a wife.” <key:bcv=Judges 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:2">2 </verse></sup>The people came to Bethel and sat there
until evening before God, and lifted up their voices,
and wept severely. <key:bcv=Judges 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:3">3 </verse></sup>They said, “Yahweh, the God of
Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there
should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”
<key:bcv=Judges 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:4">4 </verse></sup>On the next day, the people rose early and
built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings. <key:bcv=Judges 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:5">5 </verse></sup>The children of Israel said, “Who
is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t
come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they
had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t
come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall
surely be put to death.” <key:bcv=Judges 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of Israel
grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There
is one tribe cut off from Israel today. <key:bcv=Judges 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:7">7 </verse></sup>How shall
we provide wives for those who remain, since we
have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them
of our daughters to wives?” <key:bcv=Judges 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:8">8 </verse></sup>They said, “What
one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come
up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came
from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
<key:bcv=Judges 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:9">9 </verse></sup>For when the people were counted, behold, there
were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
<key:bcv=Judges 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:10">10 </verse></sup>The congregation sent twelve thousand of the
most valiant men there, and commanded them,
saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh
Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women
and the little ones. <key:bcv=Judges 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:11">11 </verse></sup>This is the thing that you
shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and
every woman who has lain with a man.” <key:bcv=Judges 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:12">12 </verse></sup>They
found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four
hundred young virgins who had not known man by
lying with him; and they brought them to the camp
to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
<key:bcv=Judges 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:13">13 </verse></sup>The whole congregation sent and spoke to the
children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon,
and proclaimed peace to them. <key:bcv=Judges 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Benjamin
returned at that time; and they gave them the
women whom they had saved alive of the women
of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for
them. <key:bcv=Judges 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:15">15 </verse></sup>The people grieved for Benjamin, because
Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
<key:bcv=Judges 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the elders of the congregation said, “How
shall we provide wives for those who remain, since
the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” <key:bcv=Judges 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:17">17 </verse></sup>They
said, “There must be an inheritance for those who
are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted
out from Israel. <key:bcv=Judges 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:18">18 </verse></sup>However, we may not give them
wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel
had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife
to Benjamin.’ ” <key:bcv=Judges 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:19">19 </verse></sup>They said, “Behold, there is a feast
of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is
on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the
highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and
on the south of Lebonah.” <key:bcv=Judges 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:20">20 </verse></sup>They commanded
the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in
wait in the vineyards, <key:bcv=Judges 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:21">21 </verse></sup>and see, and behold, if
the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the
dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each
man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and
go to the land of Benjamin. <key:bcv=Judges 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:22">22 </verse></sup>It shall be, when their
fathers or their brothers come to complain to us,
that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to
us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in
battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise
you would now be guilty.’ ”

<key:bcv=Judges 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:23">23 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives
for themselves according to their number, of those
who danced, whom they carried off. They went and
returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and
lived in them. <key:bcv=Judges 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:24">24 </verse></sup>The children of Israel departed
from there at that time, every man to his tribe and
to his family, and they each went out from there to
his own inheritance. <key:bcv=Judges 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Judges 21:25">25 </verse></sup>In those days there was no
king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in
his own eyes.

#OUTLINE:1,Ruth
<h2>The Book of Ruth</h2>

<key:bcv=Ruth 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the days when the judges judged, there was
a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem
Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his
wife and his two sons. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:2">2 </verse></sup>The name of the man was
Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The
names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion,
Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into
the country of Moab and lived there. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Elimelech,
Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her
two sons. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:4">4 </verse></sup>They took for themselves wives of
the women of Moab. The name of the one was
Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They
lived there about ten years. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Mahlon and Chilion
both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two
children and of her husband. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Then she arose
with her daughters-in-law, that she might return
from the country of Moab; for she had heard in
the country of Moab how Yahweh<footnote:1>1:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> had visited his
people in giving them bread. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:7">7 </verse></sup>She went out of the
place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law
with her. They went on the way to return to the
land of Judah. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Naomi said to her two daughters-inlaw,
“Go, return each of you to her mother’s house.
May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt
with the dead and with me. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:9">9 </verse></sup>May Yahweh grant you
that you may find rest, each of you in the house of
her husband.”
<br>
Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their
voices, and wept. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:10">10 </verse></sup>They said to her, “No, but we
will return with you to your people.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do
you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my
womb, that they may be your husbands? <key:bcv=Ruth 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Go back,
my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have
a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should
even have a husband tonight, and should also bear
sons, <key:bcv=Ruth 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:13">13 </verse></sup>would you then wait until they were grown?
Would you then refrain from having husbands? No,
my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your
sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:14">14 </verse></sup>They lifted up their voices and wept again; then
Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed
with her. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:15">15 </verse></sup>She said, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:15 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> your sister-in-law
has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow
your sister-in-law.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to
return from following you, for where you go, I will
go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will
be my people, and your God<footnote:1>1:16 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> my God. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Where
you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May
Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but
death parts you and me.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:18">18 </verse></sup>When Naomi saw that she was determined to
go with her, she stopped urging her.

<key:bcv=Ruth 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:19">19 </verse></sup>So they both went until they came to Bethlehem.
When they had come to Bethlehem, all the
city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this
Naomi?”

<key:bcv=Ruth 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:20">20 </verse></sup>She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.<footnote:1>1:20 “Naomi” means “pleasant”. </footnote> Call
me Mara,<footnote:1>1:20 “Mara” means “bitter”.</footnote> for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly
with me. <key:bcv=Ruth 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:21">21 </verse></sup>I went out full, and Yahweh has brought
me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi,
since Yahweh has testified against me, and the
Almighty has afflicted me?” <key:bcv=Ruth 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 1:22">22 </verse></sup>So Naomi returned,
and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with
her, who returned out of the country of Moab.
They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley
harvest.

#BCV:Ruth 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty
man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his
name was Boaz. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi,
“Let me now go to the field, and glean among the
ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.”
She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” <key:bcv=Ruth 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:3">3 </verse></sup>She went,
and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers;
and she happened to come to the portion of the
field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of
Elimelech.

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to
the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.”
They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over
the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The servant who was set over the reapers answered,
“It is the Moabite lady who came back with
Naomi out of the country of Moab. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:7">7 </verse></sup>She said, ‘Please
let me glean and gather after the reapers among
the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even
from the morning until now, except that she rested
a little in the house.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter.
Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from
here, but stay here close to my maidens. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Let your
eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after
them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to
touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels,
and drink from that which the young men have
drawn.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Then she fell on her face and bowed herself
to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found
favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge
of me, since I am a foreigner?”

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about
what you have done for your mother-in-law since
the death of your husband, and how you have left
your father, your mother, and the land of your
birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t
know before. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:12">12 </verse></sup>May Yahweh repay your work, and
a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God
of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take
refuge.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Then she said, “Let me find favor in your
sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and
because you have spoken kindly to your servant,
though I am not as one of your servants.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:14">14 </verse></sup>At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and
eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”
She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her
parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some
of it. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:15">15 </verse></sup>When she had risen up to glean, Boaz
commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean
even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and
leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:17">17 </verse></sup>So she gleaned in the field until evening; and
she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was
about an ephah<footnote:1>2:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of barley. <key:bcv=Ruth 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:18">18 </verse></sup>She took it up, and
went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw
what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave
to her that which she had left after she had enough.
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have
you gleaned today? Where have you worked?
Blessed be he who noticed you.”
<br>
She told her mother-in-law with whom she had
worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked
today is Boaz.” <key:bcv=Ruth 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Naomi said to her daughter-inlaw,
“May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not
abandoned his kindness to the living and to the
dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close
relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me,
‘You shall stay close to my young men until they
have finished all my harvest.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ruth 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It
is good, my daughter, that you go out with his
maidens, and that they not meet you in any other
field.” <key:bcv=Ruth 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 2:23">23 </verse></sup>So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz,
to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat
harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
#BCV:Ruth 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ruth 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My
daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may
be well with you? <key:bcv=Ruth 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman,
with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be
winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get
dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but
don’t make yourself known to the man until he has
finished eating and drinking. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:4">4 </verse></sup>It shall be, when he
lies down, that you shall note the place where he is
lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lie
down. Then he will tell you what to do.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:5">5 </verse></sup>She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:6">6 </verse></sup>She went down to the threshing floor, and did
everything that her mother-in-law told her. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:7">7 </verse></sup>When
Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry,
he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain.
She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:8">8 </verse></sup>At midnight, the man was startled and turned
himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:9">9 </verse></sup>He
said, “Who are you?”
<br>
She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore
spread the corner of your garment over your
servant; for you are a near kinsman.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my
daughter. You have shown more kindness in the
latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t
follow young men, whether poor or rich. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Now, my
daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you
say; for all the city of my people knows that you are
a worthy woman. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Now it is true that I am a near
kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than
I. <key:bcv=Ruth 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will
perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let
him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the
duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of
a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until
the morning.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:14">14 </verse></sup>She lay at his feet until the morning, then she
rose up before one could discern another. For he
said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to
the threshing floor.” <key:bcv=Ruth 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:15">15 </verse></sup>He said, “Bring the mantle
that is on you, and hold it.” She held it; and he
measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her;
then he went into the city.

<key:bcv=Ruth 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:16">16 </verse></sup>When she came to her mother-in-law, she said,
“How did it go, my daughter?”
<br>
She told her all that the man had done for her.
<key:bcv=Ruth 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:17">17 </verse></sup>She said, “He gave me these six measures of
barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your motherin-
law.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ruth 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you
know what will happen; for the man will not rest
until he has settled this today.”

#BCV:Ruth 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ruth 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down
there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz
spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here,
friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.
<key:bcv=Ruth 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and
said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:3">3 </verse></sup>He said
to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back
out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of
land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:4">4 </verse></sup>I thought
I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit
here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will
redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it,
then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one
to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”
He said, “I will redeem it.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field
from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from
Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up
the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
<key:bcv=Ruth 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:6">6 </verse></sup>The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for
myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take
my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t
redeem it.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Now this was the custom in former time in Israel
concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging,
to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal,
and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way
of formalizing transactions in Israel. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:8">8 </verse></sup>So the near
kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he
took off his sandal.

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Boaz said to the elders and to all the people,
“You are witnesses today, that I have bought all
that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and
Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Moreover,
Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of
the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the
dead may not be cut off from among his brothers
and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses
today.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:11">11 </verse></sup>All the people who were in the gate, and the
elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make
the woman who has come into your house like
Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house
of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and
be famous in Bethlehem. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Let your house be like
the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of
the offspring<footnote:1>4:12 or, seed</footnote> which Yahweh will give you by this
young woman.”

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:13">13 </verse></sup>So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife;
and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to
conceive, and she bore a son. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:14">14 </verse></sup>The women said to
Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you
today without a near kinsman. Let his name be
famous in Israel. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:15">15 </verse></sup>He shall be to you a restorer
of life and sustain you in your old age; for your
daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you
than seven sons, has given birth to him.” <key:bcv=Ruth 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Naomi
took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became
nurse to him. <key:bcv=Ruth 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The women, her neighbors, gave
him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They
named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the
father of David.

<key:bcv=Ruth 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Now this is the history of the generations of
Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, <key:bcv=Ruth 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:19">19 </verse></sup>and
Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became
the father of Amminadab, <key:bcv=Ruth 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:20">20 </verse></sup>and Amminadab became
the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became
the father of Salmon, <key:bcv=Ruth 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:21">21 </verse></sup>and Salmon became the
father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
<key:bcv=Ruth 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Ruth 4:22">22 </verse></sup>and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse
became the father of David.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Samuel
<h2>The First Book of Samuel</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim
Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his
name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son
of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an
Ephraimite. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:2">2 </verse></sup>He had two wives. The name of one
was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah.
Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:3">3 </verse></sup>This man went up out of his city from year
to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh<footnote:1>1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> of
Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:4">4 </verse></sup>When
the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions
to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and
her daughters; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:5">5 </verse></sup>but he gave a double portion to
Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut
up her womb. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Her rival provoked her severely, to
irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:7">7 </verse></sup>So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s
house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept,
and didn’t eat. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Elkanah her husband said to her,
“Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat?
Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you
than ten sons?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:9">9 </verse></sup>So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating
and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was
sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s
temple. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:10">10 </verse></sup>She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed
to Yahweh, weeping bitterly. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:11">11 </verse></sup>She vowed a vow,
and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look
at the affliction of your servant and remember me,
and not forget your servant, but will give to your
servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the
days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:12">12 </verse></sup>As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli
saw her mouth. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Now Hannah spoke in her heart.
Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard.
Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Eli said to
her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your
wine!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman
of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking
wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t consider your servant a
wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the
abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the
God<footnote:1>1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> of Israel grant your petition that you have
asked of him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:18">18 </verse></sup>She said, “Let your servant find favor in your
sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her
facial expression wasn’t sad any more.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:19">19 </verse></sup>They rose up in the morning early and worshiped
Yahweh, then returned and came to their
house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his
wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:20">20 </verse></sup>When the time had come, Hannah conceived,
and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,<footnote:1>1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for “heard by God.” </footnote> saying,
“Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:21">21 </verse></sup>The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up
to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:22">22 </verse></sup>But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her
husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will
bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and
stay there forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what
seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him;
only may Yahweh establish his word.”
<br>
So the woman waited and nursed her son until
she weaned him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:24">24 </verse></sup>When she had weaned him,
she took him up with her, with three bulls, and
one ephah<footnote:1>1:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> of meal, and a container of wine, and
brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child
was young. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:25">25 </verse></sup>They killed the bull, and brought
the child to Eli. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:26">26 </verse></sup>She said, “Oh, my lord, as your
soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by
you here, praying to Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:27">27 </verse></sup>I prayed for this
child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which
I asked of him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 1:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Therefore I have also given him to
Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.”
He worshiped Yahweh there.

#BCV:1 Samuel 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Hannah prayed, and said,
<br>
“My heart exults in Yahweh!
<br>
My horn is exalted in Yahweh.
<br>
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies,
because I rejoice in your salvation.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:2">2 </verse></sup>There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
<br>
for there is no one besides you,
<br>
nor is there any rock like our God.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:3">3 </verse></sup>“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly.
Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth,
for Yahweh is a God of knowledge.
<br>
By him actions are weighed.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:4">4 </verse></sup>“The bows of the mighty men are broken.
Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Those who were full have hired themselves out for
bread.
<br>
Those who were hungry are satisfied.
<br>
Yes, the barren has borne seven.
<br>
She who has many children languishes.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:6">6 </verse></sup>“Yahweh kills and makes alive.

He brings down to Sheol<footnote:1>2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> and brings up.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh makes poor and makes rich.
<br>
He brings low, he also lifts up.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:8">8 </verse></sup>He raises up the poor out of the dust.
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill
to make them sit with princes
<br>
and inherit the throne of glory.
<br>
For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s.
He has set the world on them.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:9">9 </verse></sup>He will keep the feet of his holy ones,
but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness;
for no man will prevail by strength.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to
pieces.
<br>
He will thunder against them in the sky.
“Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to his king,
<br>
and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child
served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They
didn’t know Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The custom of the priests
with the people was that when anyone offered a
sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat
was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:14">14 </verse></sup>and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or
cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork
brought up for himself. They did this to all the
Israelites who came there to Shiloh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Yes, before
they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and
said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast
for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat
from you, but raw.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:16">16 </verse></sup>If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned
first, and then take as much as your soul desires;”
then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me
now; and if not, I will take it by force.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The sin of
the young men was very great before Yahweh; for
the men despised Yahweh’s offering. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:18">18 </verse></sup>But Samuel
ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed
with a linen ephod. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Moreover his mother made
him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to
year when she came up with her husband to offer
the yearly sacrifice. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Eli blessed Elkanah and his
wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring<footnote:1>2:20 or, seed </footnote>
from this woman for the petition which was asked
of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and
bore three sons and two daughters. The child
Samuel grew before Yahweh.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that
his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept
with the women who served at the door of the Tent
of Meeting. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why do you do
such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from
all these people. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:24">24 </verse></sup>No, my sons; for it is not a
good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people
disobey. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:25">25 </verse></sup>If one man sins against another, God will
judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who
will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they
didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because
Yahweh intended to kill them.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:26">26 </verse></sup>The child Samuel grew on, and increased in
favor both with Yahweh and also with men.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:27">27 </verse></sup>A man of God came to Eli and said to him,
“Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of
your father when they were in Egypt in bondage
to Pharaoh’s house? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:28">28 </verse></sup>Didn’t I choose him out of
all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up
to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod
before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your
father all the offerings of the children of Israel made
by fire? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:29">29 </verse></sup>Why do you kick at my sacrifice and
at my offering, which I have commanded in my
habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make
yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of
Israel my people?’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh, the God
of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the
house of your father should walk before me forever.’
But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those
who honor me I will honor, and those who despise
me will be cursed. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>2:31 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> the days come that I
will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s
house, that there will not be an old man in your
house. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:32">32 </verse></sup>You will see the affliction of my habitation,
in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall
not be an old man in your house forever. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:33">33 </verse></sup>The
man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will
consume your eyes<footnote:1>2:33 or, blind your eyes with tears</footnote> and grieve your heart. All the
increase of your house will die in the flower of their
age. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:34">34 </verse></sup>This will be the sign to you that will come on
your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day
they will both die. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:35">35 </verse></sup>I will raise up a faithful priest
for myself who will do according to that which is
in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure
house. He will walk before my anointed forever. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 2:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 2:36">36 </verse></sup>It
will happen that everyone who is left in your house
will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver
and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into
one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of
bread.” ’ ”

#BCV:1 Samuel 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:1">1 </verse></sup>The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before
Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There
were not many visions, then. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:2">2 </verse></sup>At that time, when
Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had
begun to grow dim, so that he could not see), <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:3">3 </verse></sup>and
God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had
laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called
me.”
<br>
He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.”
He went and lay down. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh called yet again,
“Samuel!”
<br>
Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am;
for you called me.”
<br>
He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down
again.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh,
neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He
arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you
called me.”
<br>
Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall
be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh;
for your servant hears.’ ” So Samuel went and
lay down in his place. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh came, and stood,
and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant
hears.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a
thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone
who hears it will tingle. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:12">12 </verse></sup>In that day I will perform
against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his
house, from the beginning even to the end. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:13">13 </verse></sup>For
I have told him that I will judge his house forever
for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons
brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain
them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore I have sworn to the house
of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be
removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the
doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show
Eli the vision. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Eli called Samuel and said,
“Samuel, my son!”
<br>
He said, “Here I am.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken
to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to
you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of
all the things that he spoke to you.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing
from him.
<br>
He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems
good to him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let
none of his words fall to the ground. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:20">20 </verse></sup>All Israel
from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh
appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed
himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.

#BCV:1 Samuel 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:1">1 </verse></sup>The word of Samuel came to all Israel.
Now Israel went out against the Philistines to
battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the
Philistines encamped in Aphek. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:2">2 </verse></sup>The Philistines
put themselves in array against Israel. When they
joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines,
who killed about four thousand men of the army
in the field. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:3">3 </verse></sup>When the people had come into the
camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh
defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get
the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and
bring it to us, that it may come among us and save
us out of the hand of our enemies.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:4">4 </verse></sup>So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought
from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh
of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the
two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there
with the ark of the covenant of God. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:5">5 </verse></sup>When the
ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all
Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth
resounded. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:6">6 </verse></sup>When the Philistines heard the noise
of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of
this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?”
They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into
the camp. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:7">7 </verse></sup>The Philistines were afraid, for they
said, “God has come into the camp.” They said,
“Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing
before. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of
the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods
that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues
in the wilderness. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Be strong and behave like men,
O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the
Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen
yourselves like men, and fight!” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:10">10 </verse></sup>The Philistines
fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled
to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for
thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:11">11 </verse></sup>God’s ark
was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:12">12 </verse></sup>A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and
came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn
and with dirt on his head. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:13">13 </verse></sup>When he came, behold,
Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for
his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man
came into the city and told about it, all the city cried
out. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:14">14 </verse></sup>When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he
said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?”
The man hurried, and came and told Eli. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Now
Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so
that he could not see. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:16">16 </verse></sup>The man said to Eli, “I am
he who came out of the army, and I fled today out
of the army.”
<br>
He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:17">17 </verse></sup>He who brought the news answered, “Israel has
fled before the Philistines, and there has been also
a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons
also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark
has been captured.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:18">18 </verse></sup>When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell
from off his seat backward by the side of the gate;
and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old
man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:19">19 </verse></sup>His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with
child, near to giving birth. When she heard the
news that God’s ark was taken and that her fatherin-
law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:20">20 </verse></sup>About the time of her death the women who
stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you
have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer,
neither did she regard it. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:21">21 </verse></sup>She named the child
Ichabod,<footnote:1>4:21 “Ichabod” means “no glory”.</footnote> saying, “The glory has departed from
Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because
of her father-in-law and her husband. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 4:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 4:22">22 </verse></sup>She said,
“The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark
has been taken.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and
they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:2">2 </verse></sup>The
Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the
house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:3">3 </verse></sup>When the
people of Ashdod arose early on the next day,
behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground
before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him
in his place again. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:4">4 </verse></sup>When they arose early on
the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen
on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark;
and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his
hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s
torso was intact. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore neither the priests of
Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house step
on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:6">6 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of
Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them
with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:7">7 </verse></sup>When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they
said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with
us, for his hand is severe on us and on Dagon our
god.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:8">8 </verse></sup>They sent therefore and gathered together
all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall
we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”
They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel
be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of
the God of Israel there. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:9">9 </verse></sup>It was so, that after they
had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the
city with a very great confusion; and he struck the
men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors
broke out on them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:10">10 </verse></sup>So they sent God’s ark to
Ekron.
<br>
As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried
out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God
of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:11">11 </verse></sup>They
sent therefore and gathered together all the lords
of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of
the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own
place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there
was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The
hand of God was very heavy there. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 5:12">12 </verse></sup>The men who
didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.

#BCV:1 Samuel 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the
Philistines seven months. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:2">2 </verse></sup>The Philistines called
for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall
we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should
send it to its place.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:3">3 </verse></sup>They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of
Israel, don’t send it empty; but by all means return
a trespass offering to him. Then you will be healed,
and it will be known to you why his hand is not
removed from you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Then they said, “What should the trespass offering
be which we shall return to him?”
<br>
They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden
mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines;
for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall make images of your tumors
and images of your mice that mar the land; and
you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps
he will release his hand from you, from your gods,
and from your land. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Why then do you harden
your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened
their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully
among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they
departed?

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:7">7 </verse></sup>“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a
new cart and two milk cows on which there has
come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring
their calves home from them; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:8">8 </verse></sup>and take Yahweh’s
ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold,
which you return him for a trespass offering, in a
box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to
Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil;
but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand
that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:10">10 </verse></sup>The men did so, and took two milk cows and
tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at
home. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:11">11 </verse></sup>They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and
the box with the golden mice and the images of
their tumors. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:12">12 </verse></sup>The cows took the straight way
by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the
highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away
to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of
the Philistines went after them to the border of
Beth Shemesh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:13">13 </verse></sup>The people of Beth Shemesh were
reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they
lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced
to see it. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:14">14 </verse></sup>The cart came into the field of Joshua
of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was
a great stone. Then they split the wood of the
cart and offered up the cows for a burnt offering
to Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:15">15 </verse></sup>The Levites took down Yahweh’s ark
and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of
gold were, and put them on the great stone; and
the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings
and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:16">16 </verse></sup>When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it,
they returned to Ekron the same day. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:17">17 </verse></sup>These are
the golden tumors which the Philistines returned
for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one,
for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for
Ekron one; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:18">18 </verse></sup>and the golden mice, according to the
number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging
to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of
country villages, even to the great stone on which
they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains
to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:19">19 </verse></sup>He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because
they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty
thousand seventy of the men. Then the people
mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people
with a great slaughter. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:20">20 </verse></sup>The men of Beth Shemesh
said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy
God? To whom shall he go up from us?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 6:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 6:21">21 </verse></sup>They sent messengers to the inhabitants
of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have
brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring
it up to yourselves.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:1">1 </verse></sup>The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s
ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on
the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep
Yahweh’s ark. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:2">2 </verse></sup>From the day that the ark stayed
in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long —for it was
twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented
after Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Samuel spoke to all the house of
Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with
all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and
the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your
hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he
will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and
the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Samuel
said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray
to Yahweh for you.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:6">6 </verse></sup>They gathered together to
Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before
Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We
have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the
children of Israel in Mizpah.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:7">7 </verse></sup>When the Philistines heard that the children of
Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords
of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the
children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the
Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Israel said to Samuel,
“Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that
he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for
a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried
to Yahweh for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:10">10 </verse></sup>As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but
Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that
day on the Philistines and confused them; and they
were struck down before Israel. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:11">11 </verse></sup>The men of Israel
went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and
struck them until they came under Beth Kar.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Samuel took a stone and set it between
Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer,<footnote:1>7:12 “Ebenezer” means “stone of help”.</footnote>
saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:13">13 </verse></sup>So the
Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming
within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was
against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:14">14 </verse></sup>The cities which the Philistines had taken from
Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to
Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand
of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel
and the Amorites.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:16">16 </verse></sup>He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel,
Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those
places. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 7:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 7:17">17 </verse></sup>His return was to Ramah, for his house
was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built
an altar to Yahweh there.

#BCV:1 Samuel 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:1">1 </verse></sup>When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges
over Israel. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Now the name of his firstborn was
Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were
judges in Beersheba. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:3">3 </verse></sup>His sons didn’t walk in his
ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took
bribes, and perverted justice.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves
together and came to Samuel to Ramah. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:5">5 </verse></sup>They said
to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t
walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge
us like all the nations.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:6">6 </verse></sup>But the thing displeased
Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.”
Samuel prayed to Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to
Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all
that they tell you; for they have not rejected you,
but they have rejected me as the king over them.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:8">8 </verse></sup>According to all the works which they have done
since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt
even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and
served other gods, so they also do to you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Now
therefore, listen to their voice. However, you shall
protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the
way of the king who will reign over them.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people
who asked him for a king. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:11">11 </verse></sup>He said, “This will be
the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will
take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for
his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will
run before his chariots. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:12">12 </verse></sup>He will appoint them to
him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties;
and he will assign some to plow his ground and to
reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of
war and the instruments of his chariots. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:13">13 </verse></sup>He will
take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks,
and to be bakers. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He will take your fields, your
vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best,
and give them to his servants. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He will take one
tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give
it to his officers and to his servants. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:16">16 </verse></sup>He will take
your male servants, your female servants, your best
young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to
his own work. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:17">17 </verse></sup>He will take one tenth of your
flocks; and you will be his servants. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:18">18 </verse></sup>You will cry
out in that day because of your king whom you will
have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not
answer you in that day.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:19">19 </verse></sup>But the people refused to listen to the voice of
Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king
over us, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:20">20 </verse></sup>that we also may be like all the nations;
and that our king may judge us, and go out before
us, and fight our battles.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Samuel heard all the words of the people, and
he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 8:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh
said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make
them a king.”
<br>
Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to
your own city.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name
was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of
Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite,
a mighty man of valor. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:2">2 </verse></sup>He had a son whose name
was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was
not among the children of Israel a more handsome
person than he. From his shoulders and upward he
was taller than any of the people.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:3">3 </verse></sup>The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost.
Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants
with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:4">4 </verse></sup>He passed through the hill country of Ephraim,
and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they
didn’t find them. Then they passed through the
land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he
passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they
didn’t find them.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:5">5 </verse></sup>When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul
said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s
return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys
and be anxious for us.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:6">6 </verse></sup>The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a
man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held
in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s
go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to his servant, “But behold, if we
go, what should we bring the man? For the bread
is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to
bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:8">8 </verse></sup>The servant answered Saul again and said, “Behold,
I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel<footnote:1>9:8 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1/4 shekel would be a small coin of about 2.5 grams.</footnote>
of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us
our way.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:9">9 </verse></sup>(In earlier times in Israel, when a man
went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to
the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was
before called a seer.)

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come!
Let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of
God was. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:11">11 </verse></sup>As they went up the ascent to the city,
they found young maidens going out to draw water,
and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:12">12 </verse></sup>They answered them and said, “He is. Behold,
he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today
into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today
in the high place. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:13">13 </verse></sup>As soon as you have come
into the city, you will immediately find him before
he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people
will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the
sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat.
Now therefore go up; for at this time you will find
him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:14">14 </verse></sup>They went up to the city. As they came within
the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them to
go up to the high place.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day
before Saul came, saying, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:16">16 </verse></sup>“Tomorrow about this
time I will send you a man out of the land of
Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince
over my people Israel. He will save my people out of
the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon
my people, because their cry has come to me.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:17">17 </verse></sup>When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him,
“Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will
have authority over my people.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway,
and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer.
Go up before me to the high place, for you are to
eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go
and will tell you all that is in your heart. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:20">20 </verse></sup>As for
your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t
set your mind on them, for they have been found.
For whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you and all
your father’s house?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the
smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the
least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin?
Why then do you speak to me like this?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought
them into the guest room, and made them sit in the
best place among those who were invited, who were
about thirty persons. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Samuel said to the cook,
“Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said
to you, ‘Set it aside.’ ” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:24">24 </verse></sup>The cook took up the thigh,
and that which was on it, and set it before Saul.
Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved!
Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been
kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have
invited the people.’ ” So Saul ate with Samuel that
day.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:25">25 </verse></sup>When they had come down from the high place
into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:26">26 </verse></sup>They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel
called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that
I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both
went outside, he and Samuel, together. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 9:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 9:27">27 </verse></sup>As they
were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said
to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He
went ahead, then Samuel said, “But stand still first,
that I may cause you to hear God’s message.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on
his head, then kissed him and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh
anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:2">2 </verse></sup>When you have departed from me today, then you
will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of
Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you, ‘The donkeys
which you went to look for have been found; and
behold, your father has stopped caring about the
donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall
I do for my son?” ’

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:3">3 </verse></sup>“Then you will go on forward from there, and
you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will
meet you there going up to God to Bethel: one carrying
three young goats, and another carrying three
loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of
wine. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:4">4 </verse></sup>They will greet you and give you two loaves
of bread, which you shall receive from their hand.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:5">5 </verse></sup>“After that you will come to the hill of God,
where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will
happen, when you have come there to the city,
that you will meet a band of prophets coming down
from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a
pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be
prophesying. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come
mightily on you, then you will prophesy with them
and will be turned into another man. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Let it be,
when these signs have come to you, that you do
what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with
you.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:8">8 </verse></sup>“Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold,
I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings
and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait
seven days, until I come to you and show you what
you are to do.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:9">9 </verse></sup>It was so, that when he had
turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him
another heart; and all those signs happened that
day. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:10">10 </verse></sup>When they came there to the hill, behold,
a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God
came mightily on him, and he prophesied among
them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:11">11 </verse></sup>When all who knew him before saw that,
behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the
people said to one another, “What is this that has
come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the
prophets?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:12">12 </verse></sup>One from the same place answered, “Who is
their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is
Saul also among the prophets?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:13">13 </verse></sup>When he had
finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant,
“Where did you go?”
<br>
He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that
they were not found, we came to Samuel.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel
said to you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly
that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the
matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he
didn’t tell him.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Samuel called the people together to Yahweh
to Mizpah; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:18">18 </verse></sup>and he said to the children of Israel,
“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘I brought Israel up
out of Egypt and I delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the
kingdoms that oppressed you.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:19">19 </verse></sup>But you have today
rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all
your calamities and your distresses; and you have
said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore
present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes
and by your thousands.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:20">20 </verse></sup>So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near,
and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:21">21 </verse></sup>He brought
the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the
family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the
son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for
him, he could not be found. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore they asked
of Yahweh further, “Is there yet a man to come
here?”
<br>
Yahweh answered, “Behold, he has hidden himself
among the baggage.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:23">23 </verse></sup>They ran and got him there. When he stood
among the people, he was higher than any of the
people from his shoulders and upward. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Samuel
said to all the people, “Do you see him whom
Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him
among all the people?”
<br>
All the people shouted and said, “Long live the
king!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Samuel told the people the regulations
of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid
it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people
away, every man to his house. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Saul also went
to his house in Gibeah; and the army went with
him, whose hearts God had touched. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 10:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 10:27">27 </verse></sup>But certain
worthless fellows said, “How could this man save
us?” They despised him, and brought him no
tribute. But he held his peace.

#BCV:1 Samuel 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped
against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of
Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us,
and we will serve you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this
condition I will make it with you, that all your right
eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all
Israel.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:3">3 </verse></sup>The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us
seven days, that we may send messengers to all the
borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save
us, we will come out to you.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the messengers
came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in
the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up
their voice and wept.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the
field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they
weep?” They told him the words of the men of
Jabesh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:6">6 </verse></sup>God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he
heard those words, and his anger burned hot. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:7">7 </verse></sup>He
took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then
sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by
the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t
come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it
be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on
the people, and they came out as one man. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:8">8 </verse></sup>He
counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah
thirty thousand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:9">9 </verse></sup>They said to the messengers who
came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by
the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’ ” The
messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and
they were glad. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore the men of Jabesh said,
“Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall
do with us all that seems good to you.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:11">11 </verse></sup>On the
next day, Saul put the people in three companies;
and they came into the middle of the camp in the
morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until
the heat of the day. Those who remained were
scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:12">12 </verse></sup>The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said,
‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we
may put them to death!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today;
for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s
go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 11:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 11:15">15 </verse></sup>All
the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul
king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered
sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and
there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

#BCV:1 Samuel 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened
to your voice in all that you said to me, and have
made a king over you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Now, behold, the king walks
before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my
sons are with you. I have walked before you from my
youth to this day. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Here I am. Witness against me
before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox
have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom
have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of
whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind
my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:4">4 </verse></sup>They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor
oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from
anyone’s hand.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you,
and his anointed is witness today, that you have not
found anything in my hand.”

They said, “He is witness.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Samuel said to the
people, “It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and
Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the
land of Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore stand still, that I may
plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the
righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and
to your fathers.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:8">8 </verse></sup>“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your
fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses
and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt,
and made them to dwell in this place. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:9">9 </verse></sup>But they
forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into
the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor,
and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the
hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against
them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:10">10 </verse></sup>They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have
sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have
served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver
us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve
you.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah,
and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of
your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:12">12 </verse></sup>“When you saw that Nahash the king of the
children of Ammon came against you, you said
to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when
Yahweh your God was your king. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Now therefore
see the king whom you have chosen and whom
you have asked for. Behold, Yahweh has set a
king over you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:14">14 </verse></sup>If you will fear Yahweh, and
serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel
against the commandment of Yahweh, then both
you and also the king who reigns over you are
followers of Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:15">15 </verse></sup>But if you will
not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the
commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will
be against you, as it was against your fathers.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:16">16 </verse></sup>“Now therefore stand still and see this great
thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh,
that he may send thunder and rain; and you will
know and see that your wickedness is great, which
you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a
king.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:18">18 </verse></sup>So Samuel called to Yahweh, and Yahweh sent
thunder and rain that day. Then all the people
greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:19">19 </verse></sup>All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your
servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for
we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a
king.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You
have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away
from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all
your heart. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Don’t turn away to go after vain things
which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:22">22 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great
name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make
you a people for himself. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Moreover, as for me, far
be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in
ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the
good and the right way. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:24">24 </verse></sup>Only fear Yahweh, and
serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider
what great things he has done for you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 12:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 12:25">25 </verse></sup>But if you
keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and
your king.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Saul was thirty years old when he became king,
and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.<footnote:1>13:1 The traditional Hebrew text omits “thirty” and “forty-”. The blanks are filled in here from a few manuscripts of the Septuagint.</footnote>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Saul chose for himself three thousand men of
Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in
Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one
thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin.
He sent the rest of the people to their
own tents. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Jonathan struck the garrison of the
Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines
heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all
the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:4">4 </verse></sup>All
Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of
the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered
an abomination to the Philistines. The people
were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:5">5 </verse></sup>The
Philistines assembled themselves together to fight
with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, six thousand
horsemen, and people as the sand which is on
the seashore in multitude. They came up and
encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:6">6 </verse></sup>When the men of Israel saw that they were in
trouble (for the people were distressed), then the
people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks,
in tombs, and in pits. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Now some of the Hebrews
had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and
Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and
all the people followed him trembling. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:8">8 </verse></sup>He stayed
seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but
Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were
scattering from him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Bring the burnt
offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He
offered the burnt offering.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:10">10 </verse></sup>It came to pass that as soon as he had finished
offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came;
and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet
him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “What have you done?”
Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were
scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled
themselves together at Michmash, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:12">12 </verse></sup>therefore
I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to
Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’
I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt
offering.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly.
You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh
your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh
would have established your kingdom on Israel
forever. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:14">14 </verse></sup>But now your kingdom will not continue.
Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own
heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince
over his people, because you have not kept that
which Yahweh commanded you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah
of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were
present with him, about six hundred men. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Saul,
and Jonathan his son, and the people who were
present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin;
but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:17">17 </verse></sup>The
raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines
in three companies: one company turned to the
way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:18">18 </verse></sup>another company turned the way to Beth Horon;
and another company turned the way of the border
that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the
wilderness. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Now there was no blacksmith found
throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines
said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or
spears”; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:20">20 </verse></sup>but all the Israelites went down to the
Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare,
mattock, ax, and sickle. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:21">21 </verse></sup>The price was one payim<footnote:1>13:21 A payim (or pim) was 2/3 shekel of silver, or 0.26 ounces, or 7.6 grams</footnote>
each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks,
axes, and goads. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:22">22 </verse></sup>So it came to pass in the day of
battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the
hand of any of the people who were with Saul and
Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 13:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 13:23">23 </verse></sup>The garrison of the Philistines went out to the
pass of Michmash.

#BCV:1 Samuel 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son
of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor,
“Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that
is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under
the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the
people who were with him were about six hundred
men, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:3">3 </verse></sup>including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s
brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest
of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people
didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought
to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a
rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the
other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:5">5 </verse></sup>The one crag rose up
on the north in front of Michmash, and the other
on the south in front of Geba. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Jonathan said to
the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s
go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It
may be that Yahweh will work for us, for there is no
restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:7">7 </verse></sup>His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in
your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according
to your heart.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over
to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:9">9 </verse></sup>If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’
then we will stand still in our place and will not go
up to them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:10">10 </verse></sup>But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’
then we will go up, for Yahweh has delivered them
into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison
of the Philistines; and the Philistines said,
“Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes
where they had hidden themselves!” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:12">12 </verse></sup>The men
of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor
bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show
you something!”
<br>
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after
me, for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand
of Israel.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Jonathan climbed up on his hands
and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him,
and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer
killed them after him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:14">14 </verse></sup>That first slaughter, which
Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about
twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length
in an acre of land.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:15">15 </verse></sup>There was a trembling in the camp, in the
field, and among all the people; the garrison and
the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so
there was an exceedingly great trembling. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:16">16 </verse></sup>The
watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and
behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to the people who were with him,
“Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When
they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor
bearer were not there.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For
God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that
time. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:19">19 </verse></sup>While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult
that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and
increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw
your hand!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Saul and all the people who were with him
were gathered together, and came to the battle; and
behold, they were all striking each other with their
swords in very great confusion. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Now the Hebrews
who were with the Philistines before and who went
up with them into the camp from all around, even
they also turned to be with the Israelites who were
with Saul and Jonathan. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Likewise all the men
of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill
country of Ephraim, when they heard that the
Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after
them in the battle. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:23">23 </verse></sup>So Yahweh saved Israel that
day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:24">24 </verse></sup>The men of Israel were distressed that day; for
Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the
man who eats any food until it is evening, and I
am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people
tasted food.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:25">25 </verse></sup>All the people came into the forest; and there
was honey on the ground. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:26">26 </verse></sup>When the people had
come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but
no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people
feared the oath. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:27">27 </verse></sup>But Jonathan didn’t hear when
his father commanded the people with the oath.
Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was
in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and
put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your
father directly commanded the people with an oath,
saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So
the people were faint.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled
the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened
because I tasted a little of this honey. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:30">30 </verse></sup>How much
more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today
of the plunder of their enemies which they found?
For now there has been no great slaughter among
the Philistines.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:31">31 </verse></sup>They struck the Philistines that
day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were
very faint; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:32">32 </verse></sup>and the people pounced on the plunder,
and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed
them on the ground; and the people ate them with
the blood. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:33">33 </verse></sup>Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold,
the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they
eat meat with the blood.”
<br>
He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a
large stone to me today!” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:34">34 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Disperse
yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every
man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep,
and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against
Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.’ ” All the
people brought every man his ox with him that
night, and killed them there.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:35">35 </verse></sup>Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first
altar that he built to Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:36">36 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Let’s
go down after the Philistines by night, and take
plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s
not leave a man of them.”
<br>
They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”
Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to
God.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:37">37 </verse></sup>Saul asked counsel of God: “Shall I go down
after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into
the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that
day. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:38">38 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of
the people, and know and see in whom this sin has
been today. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:39">39 </verse></sup>For as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel,
though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.”
But there was not a man among all the people who
answered him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:40">40 </verse></sup>Then he said to all Israel, “You be
on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on
the other side.”
<br>
The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to
you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:41">41 </verse></sup>Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of
Israel, “Show the right.”
<br>
Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people
escaped.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:42">42 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan
my son.”
<br>
Jonathan was selected.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:43">43 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you
have done!”
<br>
Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste
a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my
hand; and behold, I must die.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:44">44 </verse></sup>Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you
shall surely die, Jonathan.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:45">45 </verse></sup>The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die,
who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far
from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of
his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with
God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, so he
didn’t die. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:46">46 </verse></sup>Then Saul went up from following the
Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own
place.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:47">47 </verse></sup>Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over
Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every
side: against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings
of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever
he turned himself, he defeated them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:48">48 </verse></sup>He did
valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of those who plundered
them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:49">49 </verse></sup>Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan,
Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two
daughters were these: the name of the firstborn
Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:50">50 </verse></sup>The
name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of
Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was
Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:51">51 </verse></sup>Kish was the
father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the
son of Abiel.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 14:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 14:52">52 </verse></sup>There was severe war against the Philistines all
the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man
or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

#BCV:1 Samuel 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint
you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now
therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek
did to Israel, how he set himself against him on
the way when he came up out of Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Now
go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that
they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man
and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep,
camel and donkey.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Saul summoned the people, and counted them
in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten
thousand men of Judah. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Saul came to the city of
Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Saul said
to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among
the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you
showed kindness to all the children of Israel when
they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed
from among the Amalekites.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you
go to Shur, which is before Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:8">8 </verse></sup>He took Agag the
king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed
all the people with the edge of the sword. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:9">9 </verse></sup>But
Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of
the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the
lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to
utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile
and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:11">11 </verse></sup>“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for
he has turned back from following me, and has not
performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry;
and he cried to Yahweh all night.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning;
and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel,
and behold, he set up a monument for himself,
turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:13">13 </verse></sup>Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him,
“You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the
commandment of Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of
the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle
which I hear mean?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Saul said, “They have brought them from the
Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the
sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your
God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell
you what Yahweh said to me last night.”
He said to him, “Say on.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “Though you were little in your
own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes
of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:18">18 </verse></sup>and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go,
and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and
fight against them until they are consumed.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:19">19 </verse></sup>Why
then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the
plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s
voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh
sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek,
and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:21">21 </verse></sup>But
the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the
best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh
your God in Gilgal.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in
burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s
voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:23">23 </verse></sup>For rebellion
is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
idolatry and teraphim.<footnote:1>15:23 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> Because you have rejected
Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being
king.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have
transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and
your words, because I feared the people and obeyed
their voice. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please pardon my
sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship
Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:26">26 </verse></sup>Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you;
for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh
has rejected you from being king over Israel.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:27">27 </verse></sup>As
Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the
skirt of his robe, and it tore. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Samuel said to him,
“Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you
today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who
is better than you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Also the Strength of Israel will
not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should
repent.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor
me now before the elders of my people and before
Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship
Yahweh your God.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:31">31 </verse></sup>So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped
Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:32">32 </verse></sup>Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag
the king of the Amalekites here to me!”
Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely
the bitterness of death is past.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:33">33 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “As your sword has made women
childless, so your mother will be childless among
women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before
Yahweh in Gilgal.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:34">34 </verse></sup>Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went
up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 15:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 15:35">35 </verse></sup>Samuel came
no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but
Samuel mourned for Saul. Yahweh grieved that he
had made Saul king over Israel.

#BCV:1 Samuel 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you
mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being
king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I
will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have
provided a king for myself among his sons.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:2">2 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he
will kill me.”
<br>
Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I
have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Call Jesse to the
sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You
shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came
to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet
him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:5">5 </verse></sup>He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to
Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me
to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons,
and called them to the sacrifice. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:6">6 </verse></sup>When they had
come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s
anointed is before him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:7">7 </verse></sup>But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his
face, or on the height of his stature, because I have
rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man
looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks
at the heart.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass
before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen
this one, either.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Jesse made Shammah to
pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one,
either.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesse made seven of his sons to pass
before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has
not chosen these.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all
your children here?”
<br>
He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold,
he is keeping the sheep.”
<br>
Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we
will not sit down until he comes here.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:12">12 </verse></sup>He sent, and brought him in. Now he was
ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance.
Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed
him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s
Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward.
So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and
an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Saul’s
servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from
God troubles you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Let our lord now command
your servants who are in front of you to seek out a
man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when
the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with
his hand, and you will be well.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Saul said to his servants, “Provide me now a
man who can play well, and bring him to me.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:18">18 </verse></sup>Then one of the young men answered and said,
“Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite
who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor,
a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome
person; and Yahweh is with him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and
said, “Send me David your son, who is with the
sheep.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container
of wine, and a young goat, and sent them
by David his son to Saul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:21">21 </verse></sup>David came to Saul
and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and
he became his armor bearer. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:22">22 </verse></sup>Saul sent to Jesse,
saying, “Please let David stand before me, for he has
found favor in my sight.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 16:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 16:23">23 </verse></sup>When the spirit from
God was on Saul, David took the harp and played
with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well,
and the evil spirit departed from him.
#BCV:1 Samuel 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines gathered together their
armies to battle; and they were gathered together
at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped
between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Saul
and the men of Israel were gathered together, and
encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle
in array against the Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:3">3 </verse></sup>The Philistines
stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel
stood on the mountain on the other side: and there
was a valley between them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:4">4 </verse></sup>A champion out of
the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath,
whose height was six cubits and a span<footnote:1>17:4 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.) Therefore, Goliath was about 9 feet and 9 inches or 2.97 meters tall. </footnote> went out.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:5">5 </verse></sup>He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore
a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
thousand shekels<footnote:1>17:5 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 5000 shekels is about 50 kilograms or 110 pounds. </footnote> of bronze. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:6">6 </verse></sup>He had bronze shin
armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his
shoulders. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:7">7 </verse></sup>The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s
beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred
shekels of iron.<footnote:1>17:7 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or about 13 pounds. </footnote> His shield bearer went before him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:8">8 </verse></sup>He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said
to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle
in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants
to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him
come down to me. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:9">9 </verse></sup>If he is able to fight with me
and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I
prevail against him and kill him, then you will be
our servants and serve us.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:10">10 </verse></sup>The Philistine said, “I
defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that
we may fight together!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:11">11 </verse></sup>When Saul and all Israel heard those words
of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly
afraid. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Now David was the son of that Ephrathite
of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he
had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in
the days of Saul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:13">13 </verse></sup>The three oldest sons of Jesse
had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names
of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab
the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the
third Shammah. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:14">14 </verse></sup>David was the youngest; and the
three oldest followed Saul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:15">15 </verse></sup>Now David went back
and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at
Bethlehem.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:16">16 </verse></sup>The Philistine came near morning and evening,
and presented himself forty days.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your
brothers an ephah<footnote:1>17:17 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> of this parched grain and these
ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to
your brothers; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:18">18 </verse></sup>and bring these ten cheeses to
the captain of their thousand; and see how your
brothers are doing, and bring back news.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Now
Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the
valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:20">20 </verse></sup>David rose up early in the morning and left
the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions
and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came
to the place of the wagons as the army which was
going out to the fight shouted for the battle. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:21">21 </verse></sup>Israel
and the Philistines put the battle in array, army
against army. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:22">22 </verse></sup>David left his baggage in the hand
of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army,
and came and greeted his brothers. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:23">23 </verse></sup>As he talked
with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of
Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of
the Philistines, and said the same words; and David
heard them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:24">24 </verse></sup>All the men of Israel, when they saw
the man, fled from him and were terrified. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:25">25 </verse></sup>The
men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has
come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The
king will give great riches to the man who kills him,
and will give him his daughter, and will make his
father’s house tax-free in Israel.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:26">26 </verse></sup>David spoke to the men who stood by him,
saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills
this Philistine and takes away the reproach from
Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine,
that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:27">27 </verse></sup>The people answered him in this way, saying,
“So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:28">28 </verse></sup>Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke
to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David,
and he said, “Why have you come down? With
whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?
I know your pride and the evil of your heart;
for you have come down that you might see the
battle.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:29">29 </verse></sup>David said, “What have I now done? Is there
not a cause?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:30">30 </verse></sup>He turned away from him toward
another, and spoke like that again; and the people
answered him again the same way. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:31">31 </verse></sup>When
the words were heard which David spoke, they
rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:32">32 </verse></sup>David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because
of him. Your servant will go and fight with this
Philistine.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:33">33 </verse></sup>Saul said to David, “You are not able to go
against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are
but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:34">34 </verse></sup>David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping
his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came
and took a lamb out of the flock, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:35">35 </verse></sup>I went out
after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his
mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him
by his beard, struck him, and killed him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:36">36 </verse></sup>Your
servant struck both the lion and the bear. This
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them,
since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:37">37 </verse></sup>David said, “Yahweh, who delivered me out of the
paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will
deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:38">38 </verse></sup>Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a
helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with
a coat of mail. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:39">39 </verse></sup>David strapped his sword on his
clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested
it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I
have not tested them.” Then David took them off.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:40">40 </verse></sup>He took his staff in his hand, and chose for
himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put
them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he
had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near
to the Philistine. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:41">41 </verse></sup>The Philistine walked and came
near to David; and the man who bore the shield
went before him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:42">42 </verse></sup>When the Philistine looked
around and saw David, he disdained him; for he was
but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:43">43 </verse></sup>The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that
you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed
David by his gods. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:44">44 </verse></sup>The Philistine said to David,
“Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds
of the sky and to the animals of the field.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:45">45 </verse></sup>Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to
me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin;
but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies,
the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have
defied. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:46">46 </verse></sup>Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my
hand. I will strike you and take your head from off
you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the
Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the
wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:47">47 </verse></sup>and that all this
assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with
sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he
will give you into our hand.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:48">48 </verse></sup>When the Philistine arose, and walked and
came near to meet David, David hurried and ran
toward the army to meet the Philistine. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:49">49 </verse></sup>David
put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it,
and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone
sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the
earth. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:50">50 </verse></sup>So David prevailed over the Philistine with
a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine
and killed him; but there was no sword in David’s
hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:51">51 </verse></sup>Then David ran, stood over the Philistine,
took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him,
and cut off his head with it.
<br>
When the Philistines saw that their champion
was dead, they fled. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:52">52 </verse></sup>The men of Israel and of Judah
arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines
as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded
of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
even to Gath and to Ekron. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:53">53 </verse></sup>The children of Israel
returned from chasing after the Philistines, and
they plundered their camp. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:54">54 </verse></sup>David took the head
of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but
he put his armor in his tent. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:55><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:55">55 </verse></sup>When Saul saw
David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner,
the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this
youth?”
<br>
Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:56><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:56">56 </verse></sup>The king said, “Inquire whose son the young
man is!”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:57><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:57">57 </verse></sup>As David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before
Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 17:58><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 17:58">58 </verse></sup>Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young
man?”
<br>
David answered, “I am the son of your servant
Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:1">1 </verse></sup>When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul
of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him as his own soul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Saul took
him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his
father’s house any more. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Jonathan and David
made a covenant, because he loved him as his own
soul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that
was on him and gave it to David with his clothing,
even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:5">5 </verse></sup>David went out wherever Saul sent him, and
behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the
men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people,
and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:6">6 </verse></sup>As they came, when David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out
of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to
meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and
with instruments of music. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:7">7 </verse></sup>The women sang to
one another as they played, and said,
“Saul has slain his thousands,
<br>
and David his ten thousands.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased
him. He said, “They have credited David with
ten thousands, and they have only credited me
with thousands. What can he have more but the
kingdom?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:9">9 </verse></sup>Saul watched David from that day and
forward. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:10">10 </verse></sup>On the next day, an evil spirit from God
came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the
middle of the house. David played with his hand,
as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his
hand; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:11">11 </verse></sup>and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I
will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his
presence twice. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Saul was afraid of David, because
Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore Saul removed him from his presence,
and made him his captain over a thousand; and he
went out and came in before the people.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:14">14 </verse></sup>David behaved himself wisely in all his ways;
and Yahweh was with him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:15">15 </verse></sup>When Saul saw that he
behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:16">16 </verse></sup>But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went
out and came in before them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Saul said to David,
“Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her
to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight
Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand
be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on
him.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:18">18 </verse></sup>David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my
life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be
son-in-law to the king?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:19">19 </verse></sup>But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter,
should have been given to David, she was given to
Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they
told Saul, and the thing pleased him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Saul said, I
will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him
and that the hand of the Philistines may be against
him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time,
“You shall today be my son-in-law.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David
secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in
you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore
be the king’s son-in-law.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of
David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing
to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man
and little known?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:24">24 </verse></sup>The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David
spoke like this.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires
no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ”
Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the
hand of the Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:26">26 </verse></sup>When his servants told
David these words, it pleased David well to be the
king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:27">27 </verse></sup>David
arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred
men of the Philistines. Then David brought
their foreskins, and they gave them in full number
to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law.
Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David;
and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:29">29 </verse></sup>Saul was
even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s
enemy continually.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 18:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 18:30">30 </verse></sup>Then the princes of the Philistines went out;
and as often as they went out, David behaved himself
more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that
his name was highly esteemed.

#BCV:1 Samuel 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his
servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan,
Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:2">2 </verse></sup>Jonathan
told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you.
Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the
morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:3">3 </verse></sup>I
will go out and stand beside my father in the field
where you are, and I will talk with my father about
you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father,
and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his
servant, against David; because he has not sinned
against you, and because his works have been very
good toward you; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:5">5 </verse></sup>for he put his life in his hand and
struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great
victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why
then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill
David without a cause?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul
swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to
death.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed
him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David
to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:8">8 </verse></sup>There was war again. David went out and fought
with the Philistines, and killed them with a great
slaughter; and they fled before him.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:9">9 </verse></sup>An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul as he sat
in his house with his spear in his hand; and David
was playing music with his hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Saul sought to
pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped
away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear
into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch
him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s
wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life
tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:12">12 </verse></sup>So Michal
let David down through the window. He went away,
fled, and escaped. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Michal took the teraphim<footnote:1>19:13 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> and
laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its
head and covered it with clothes. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:14">14 </verse></sup>When Saul sent
messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying,
“Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill
him.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:16">16 </verse></sup>When the messengers came in, behold, the
teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’
hair at its head.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:17">17 </verse></sup>Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived
me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has
escaped?”
<br>
Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go!
Why should I kill you?’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Now David fled and escaped, and came to
Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had
done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in
Naioth. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is
at Naioth in Ramah.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when
they saw the company of the prophets prophesying,
and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s
Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also
prophesied. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:21">21 </verse></sup>When Saul was told, he sent other
messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent
messengers again the third time, and they also
prophesied. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Then he also went to Ramah, and
came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked,
“Where are Samuel and David?”
<br>
One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:23">23 </verse></sup>He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then
God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and
prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 19:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 19:24">24 </verse></sup>He
also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied
before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and
all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also
among the prophets?”

#BCV:1 Samuel 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:1">1 </verse></sup>David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and
said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my
iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he
seeks my life?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die.
Behold, my father does nothing either great or
small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my
father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:3">3 </verse></sup>David swore moreover, and said, “Your father
knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and
he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be
grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul
lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your
soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:5">5 </verse></sup>David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is
the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with
the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in
the field to the third day at evening. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:6">6 </verse></sup>If your father
misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city;
for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:7">7 </verse></sup>If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace;
but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined
by him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore deal kindly with your servant,
for you have brought your servant into a covenant
of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me,
kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to
your father?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should
at all know that evil were determined by my father
to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me
if your father answers you roughly?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:11">11 </verse></sup>Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out
into the field.” They both went out into the field.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of
Israel, when I have sounded out my father about
this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if
there is good toward David, won’t I then send to
you and disclose it to you? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh do so to
Jonathan and more also, should it please my father
to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and
send you away, that you may go in peace. May
Yahweh be with you as he has been with my father.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall not only show me the loving kindness
of Yahweh while I still live, that I not die; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:15">15 </verse></sup>but
you shall also not cut off your kindness from my
house forever, no, not when Yahweh has cut off
every one of the enemies of David from the surface
of the earth.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:16">16 </verse></sup>So Jonathan made a covenant with
David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the
hand of David’s enemies.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:17">17 </verse></sup>Jonathan caused David to swear again, for
the love that he had to him; for he loved him as
he loved his own soul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Jonathan said to
him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be
missed, because your seat will be empty. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:19">19 </verse></sup>When
you have stayed three days, go down quickly and
come to the place where you hid yourself when this
started, and remain by the stone Ezel. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:20">20 </verse></sup>I will shoot
three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:21">21 </verse></sup>Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the
arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on
this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there
is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:22">22 </verse></sup>But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are
beyond you,’ then go your way, for Yahweh has sent
you away. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:23">23 </verse></sup>Concerning the matter which you and I
have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and
me forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:24">24 </verse></sup>So David hid himself in the field. When the new
moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat
food. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:25">25 </verse></sup>The king sat on his seat, as at other times,
even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up,
and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was
empty. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:26">26 </verse></sup>Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that
day, for he thought, “Something has happened to
him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:27">27 </verse></sup>On the next day after the new moon, the second
day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan
his son, “Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat,
either yesterday, or today?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:28">28 </verse></sup>Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly
asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:29">29 </verse></sup>He
said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice
in the city. My brother has commanded me to be
there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please
let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he
has not come to the king’s table.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:30">30 </verse></sup>Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan,
and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious
woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son
of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of
your mother’s nakedness? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:31">31 </verse></sup>For as long as the
son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be
established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now
send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:32">32 </verse></sup>Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to
him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he
done?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:33">33 </verse></sup>Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this
Jonathan knew that his father was determined to
put David to death. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:34">34 </verse></sup>So Jonathan arose from the
table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day
of the month; for he was grieved for David, because
his father had treated him shamefully.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:35">35 </verse></sup>In the morning, Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little
boy with him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:36">36 </verse></sup>He said to his boy, “Run, find
now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he
shot an arrow beyond him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:37">37 </verse></sup>When the boy had
come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had
shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t
the arrow beyond you?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:38">38 </verse></sup>Jonathan cried after the
boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy
gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:39">39 </verse></sup>But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan
and David knew the matter. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:40">40 </verse></sup>Jonathan gave his
weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them
to the city.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:41">41 </verse></sup>As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out
of the south, and fell on his face to the ground,
and bowed himself three times. They kissed one
another and wept with one another, and David
wept the most. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 20:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 20:42">42 </verse></sup>Jonathan said to David, “Go in
peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s
name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and
between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’ ”
He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the
city.

#BCV:1 Samuel 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the
priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling,
and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man
with you?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:2">2 </verse></sup>David said to Ahimelech the priest,
“The king has commanded me to do something, and
has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the
business about which I send you, and what I have
commanded you. I have sent the young men to a
certain place.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Now therefore what is under your
hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my
hand, or whatever is available.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:4">4 </verse></sup>The priest answered David, and said, “I have no
common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the
young men have kept themselves from women.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:5">5 </verse></sup>David answered the priest, and said to him,
“Truly, women have been kept from us as usual
these three days. When I came out, the vessels
of the young men were holy, though it was only
a common journey. How much more then today
shall their vessels be holy?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:6">6 </verse></sup>So the priest gave
him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the
show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to
be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was
taken away.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:7">7 </verse></sup>Now a certain man of the servants of Saul
was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and
his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the
herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:8">8 </verse></sup>David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under
your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my
sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s
business required haste.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:9">9 </verse></sup>The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath
the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,
is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you
would like to take that, take it, for there is no other
except that here.”
<br>
David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:10">10 </verse></sup>David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul,
and went to Achish the king of Gath. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:11">11 </verse></sup>The servants
of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of
the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him
in dances, saying,
<br>
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
<br>
and David his ten thousands?’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:12">12 </verse></sup>David laid up these words in his heart, and
was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:13">13 </verse></sup>He
changed his behavior before them and pretended to
be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors
of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see
the man is insane. Why then have you brought him
to me? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 21:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 21:15">15 </verse></sup>Do I lack madmen, that you have brought
this fellow to play the madman in my presence?
Should this fellow come into my house?”

#BCV:1 Samuel 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:1">1 </verse></sup>David therefore departed from there and escaped
to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and
all his father’s house heard it, they went down
there to him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:2">2 </verse></sup>Everyone who was in distress,
everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was
discontented gathered themselves to him; and he
became captain over them. There were with him
about four hundred men. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:3">3 </verse></sup>David went from there
to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab,
“Please let my father and my mother come out to
you, until I know what God will do for me.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:4">4 </verse></sup>He
brought them before the king of Moab; and they
lived with him all the time that David was in the
stronghold. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:5">5 </verse></sup>The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t
stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land
of Judah.”
<br>
Then David departed, and came into the forest of
Hereth.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Saul heard that David was discovered, with the
men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in
Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with
his spear in his hand, and all his servants were
standing around him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:7">7 </verse></sup>Saul said to his servants
who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites!
Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields
and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of
thousands and captains of hundreds? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Is that why
all of you have conspired against me, and there is
no one who discloses to me when my son makes a
treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you
who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son
has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait,
as it is today?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the
servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son
of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of
Ahitub. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:10">10 </verse></sup>He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave
him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the
Philistine.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest,
the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the
priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the
king. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:12">12 </verse></sup>Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.”
He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:13">13 </verse></sup>Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired
against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you
have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired
of God for him, that he should rise against
me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said,
“Who among all your servants is so faithful as David,
who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body
guard, and honored in your house? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Have I today
begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me!
Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant,
nor to all the house of my father; for your servant
knew nothing of all this, less or more.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:16">16 </verse></sup>The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech,
you and all your father’s house.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:17">17 </verse></sup>The king said
to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill
the priests of Yahweh, because their hand also is
with David, and because they knew that he fled and
didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king
wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:18">18 </verse></sup>The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the
priests!”
<br>
Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the
priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people
who wore a linen ephod. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:19">19 </verse></sup>He struck Nob, the city
of the priests, with the edge of the sword —both
men and women, children and nursing babies, and
cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the
sword. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:20">20 </verse></sup>One of the sons of Ahimelech the son
of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after
David. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Abiathar told David that Saul had slain
Yahweh’s priests.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:22">22 </verse></sup>David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day,
when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would
surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all
the persons of your father’s house. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 22:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Stay with me.
Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your
life. You will be safe with me.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:1">1 </verse></sup>David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are
fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing
floors.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying,
“Shall I go and strike these Philistines?”
Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines,
and save Keilah.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:3">3 </verse></sup>David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid
here in Judah. How much more then if we go to
Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh
answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to
Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your
hand.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:5">5 </verse></sup>David and his men went to Keilah and fought
with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock,
and killed them with a great slaughter. So
David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:6">6 </verse></sup>When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to
David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his
hand.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:7">7 </verse></sup>Saul was told that David had come to Keilah.
Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand,
for he is shut in by entering into a town that has
gates and bars.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:8">8 </verse></sup>Saul summoned all the people to
war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his
men. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:9">9 </verse></sup>David knew that Saul was devising mischief
against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring
the ephod here.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Then David said, “O Yahweh,
the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that
Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for
my sake. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Will the men of Keilah deliver me up
into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant
has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell
your servant.”
<br>
Yahweh said, “He will come down.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver
me and my men into the hand of Saul?”
Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Then David and his men, who were about six
hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went
wherever they could go. Saul was told that David
had escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going
there. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:14">14 </verse></sup>David stayed in the wilderness in the
strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the
wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but
God didn’t deliver him into his hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:15">15 </verse></sup>David saw
that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in
the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David
into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for the hand
of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be
king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul
my father knows that also.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:18">18 </verse></sup>They both made a
covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the
woods and Jonathan went to his house.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah,
saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the
strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah,
which is on the south of the desert? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Now therefore,
O king, come down. According to all the desire
of your soul to come down; and our part will be to
deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:21">21 </verse></sup>Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you
have had compassion on me. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:22">22 </verse></sup>Please go make
yet more sure, and know and see his place where
his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I
have been told that he is very cunning. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:23">23 </verse></sup>See
therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking
places where he hides himself; and come again to
me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall
happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him
out among all the thousands of Judah.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:24">24 </verse></sup>They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but
David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon,
in the Arabah on the south of the desert. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:25">25 </verse></sup>Saul and
his men went to seek him. When David was told, he
went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness
of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David
in the wilderness of Maon. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:26">26 </verse></sup>Saul went on this side
of the mountain, and David and his men on that
side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away
for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded
David and his men to take them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:27">27 </verse></sup>But a messenger
came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the
Philistines have made a raid on the land!” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:28">28 </verse></sup>So Saul
returned from pursuing David, and went against the
Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela
Hammahlekoth.<footnote:1>23:28 “Sela Hammahlekoth” means “rock of parting”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 23:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 23:29">29 </verse></sup>David went up from there and lived in the
strongholds of En Gedi.

#BCV:1 Samuel 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:1">1 </verse></sup>When Saul had returned from following the
Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the
wilderness of En Gedi.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Saul took three
thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to
seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild
goats. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:3">3 </verse></sup>He came to the sheep pens by the way,
where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve
himself. Now David and his men were staying in
the innermost parts of the cave. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:4">4 </verse></sup>David’s men said
to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to
you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your
hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good
to you.’ ” Then David arose and cut off the skirt
of Saul’s robe secretly. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Afterward, David’s heart
struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:6">6 </verse></sup>He
said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do
this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch
out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s
anointed.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:7">7 </verse></sup>So David checked his men with these
words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul.
Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:8">8 </verse></sup>David also arose afterward, and went out of the
cave and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!”
<br>
When Saul looked behind him, David bowed
with his face to the earth, and showed respect.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:9">9 </verse></sup>David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s
words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh
had delivered you today into my hand in the cave.
Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said,
‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for
he is Yahweh’s anointed.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover, my father,
behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand;
for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t
kill you, know and see that there is neither evil
nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned
against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:12">12 </verse></sup>May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may
Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be
on you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:13">13 </verse></sup>As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out
of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will
not be on you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:14">14 </verse></sup>Against whom has the king of Israel
come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A
flea? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:15">15 </verse></sup>May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give
sentence between me and you, and see, and plead
my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:16">16 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when David had finished speaking
these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your
voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice and
wept. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to David, “You are more righteous
than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have
done evil to you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:18">18 </verse></sup>You have declared today how
you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh
had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill
me. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:19">19 </verse></sup>For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him
go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward
you good for that which you have done to me today.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king,
and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in
your hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:21">21 </verse></sup>Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh
that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and
that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s
house.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 24:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 24:22">22 </verse></sup>David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David
and his men went up to the stronghold.
#BCV:1 Samuel 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves
together and mourned for him, and buried him at
his house at Ramah.
<br>
Then David arose and went down to the wilderness
of Paran. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:2">2 </verse></sup>There was a man in Maon whose
possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very
great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand
goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name
of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and
had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil
in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:4">4 </verse></sup>David
heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his
sheep. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:5">5 </verse></sup>David sent ten young men; and David said to
the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal,
and greet him in my name. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Tell him, ‘Long life to
you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace
be to all that you have! <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:7">7 </verse></sup>Now I have heard that you
have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with
us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing
from them all the time they were in Carmel. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Ask
your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore
let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we
come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to
your hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:9">9 </verse></sup>When David’s young men came, they spoke to
Nabal all those words in the name of David, and
waited.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:10">10 </verse></sup>Nabal answered David’s servants and said,
“Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are
many servants who break away from their masters
these days. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:11">11 </verse></sup>Shall I then take my bread, my water,
and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and
give it to men who I don’t know where they come
from?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:12">12 </verse></sup>So David’s young men turned on their way and
went back, and came and told him all these words.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:13">13 </verse></sup>David said to his men, “Every man put on his
sword!”
<br>
Every man put on his sword. David also put on
his sword. About four hundred men followed David,
and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:14">14 </verse></sup>But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s
wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of
the wilderness to greet our master; and he insulted
them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:15">15 </verse></sup>But the men were very good to us, and we
were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as
long as we went with them, when we were in the
fields. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:16">16 </verse></sup>They were a wall to us both by night and
by day, all the while we were with them keeping
the sheep. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:17">17 </verse></sup>Now therefore know and consider
what you will do; for evil is determined against our
master and against all his house, for he is such a
worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred
loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep
ready dressed, five seahs<footnote:1>25:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks </footnote> of parched grain, one
hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid them on donkeys. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:19">19 </verse></sup>She said to
her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am
coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband,
Nabal. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:20">20 </verse></sup>As she rode on her donkey, and came down
hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men
came down toward her, and she met them.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:21">21 </verse></sup>Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept
all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that
nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He
has returned me evil for good. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:22">22 </verse></sup>God do so to the
enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that
belongs to him by the morning light so much as one
who urinates on a wall.”<footnote:1>25:22 or, male. </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:23">23 </verse></sup>When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got
off her donkey, and fell before David on her face
and bowed herself to the ground. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:24">24 </verse></sup>She fell at his
feet and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame!
Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the
words of your servant. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:25">25 </verse></sup>Please don’t let my lord
pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as
his name is, so is he. Nabal<footnote:1>25:25 “Nabal” means “foolish”.</footnote> is his name, and folly
is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s
young men whom you sent. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:26">26 </verse></sup>Now therefore, my
lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since
Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness and
from avenging yourself with your own hand, now
therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil
to my lord be as Nabal. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:27">27 </verse></sup>Now this present which
your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given
to the young men who follow my lord. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:28">28 </verse></sup>Please
forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh
will certainly make my lord a sure house, because
my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be
found in you all your days. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:29">29 </verse></sup>Though men may rise
up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul
of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with
Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your
enemies as from a sling’s pocket. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:30">30 </verse></sup>It will come to
pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according
to all the good that he has spoken concerning you,
and has appointed you prince over Israel, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:31">31 </verse></sup>that this
shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my
lord, either that you have shed blood without cause,
or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh
has dealt well with my lord, then remember your
servant.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:32">32 </verse></sup>David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the
God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:33">33 </verse></sup>Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you,
who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and
from avenging myself with my own hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:34">34 </verse></sup>For
indeed, as Yahweh the God of Israel lives, who has
withheld me from harming you, unless you had
hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t
have been left to Nabal by the morning light so
much as one who urinates on a wall.”<footnote:1>25:34 or, one male.</footnote>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:35">35 </verse></sup>So David received from her hand that which she
had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in
peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your
voice and have granted your request.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:36">36 </verse></sup>Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a
feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s
heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk.
Therefore she told him nothing until the morning
light. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:37">37 </verse></sup>In the morning, when the wine had gone
out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his
heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:38">38 </verse></sup>About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that
he died. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:39">39 </verse></sup>When David heard that Nabal was dead,
he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the
cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and
has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has
returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.”
David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take
her to himself as wife. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:40">40 </verse></sup>When David’s servants had
come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying,
“David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:41">41 </verse></sup>She arose and bowed herself with her face
to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a
servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:42">42 </verse></sup>Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey
with her five maids who followed her; and she went
after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:43">43 </verse></sup>David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both
became his wives.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 25:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 25:44">44 </verse></sup>Now Saul had given Michal his daughter,
David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of
Gallim.

#BCV:1 Samuel 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:1">1 </verse></sup>The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying,
“Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah,
which is before the desert?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Saul arose and
went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek
David in the wilderness of Ziph. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Saul encamped in
the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by
the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he
saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:4">4 </verse></sup>David therefore sent out spies, and understood
that Saul had certainly come. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:5">5 </verse></sup>Then David arose
and came to the place where Saul had encamped;
and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner
the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay
within the place of the wagons, and the people were
encamped around him.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the
Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of
Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to
the camp?”

Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:7">7 </verse></sup>So
David and Abishai came to the people by night; and,
behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the
wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his
head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up
your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore
please let me strike him with the spear to the earth
at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second
time.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:9">9 </verse></sup>David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for
who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s
anointed, and be guiltless?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:10">10 </verse></sup>David said, “As
Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day
shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle
and perish. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh forbid that I should stretch
out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now
please take the spear that is at his head and the jar
of water, and let’s go.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:12">12 </verse></sup>So David took the spear and the jar of water
from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw
it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all
asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen
on them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:13">13 </verse></sup>Then David went over to the other side,
and stood on the top of the mountain far away, a
great space being between them; <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:14">14 </verse></sup>and David cried
to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying,
“Don’t you answer, Abner?”
<br>
Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to
the king?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:15">15 </verse></sup>David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who
is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept
watch over your lord the king? For one of the people
came in to destroy your lord the king. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:16">16 </verse></sup>This thing
isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you
are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch
over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where
the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at
his head.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Saul recognized David’s voice, and said, “Is this
your voice, my son David?”
<br>
David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant?
For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:19">19 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear
the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh
has stirred you up against me, let him accept an
offering. But if it is the children of men, they
are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven
me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s
inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Now
therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away
from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel
has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a
partridge in the mountains.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son
David; for I will no more do you harm, because my
life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have
played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:22">22 </verse></sup>David answered, “Behold the spear, O king!
Let one of the young men come over and get it.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness
and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered
you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out
my hand against Yahweh’s anointed. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, as
your life was respected today in my eyes, so let
my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him
deliver me out of all oppression.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 26:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 26:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my
son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely
prevail.”
<br>
So David went his way, and Saul returned to his
place.

#BCV:1 Samuel 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:1">1 </verse></sup>David said in his heart, “I will now perish one
day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better
for me than that I should escape into the land of
the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek
me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will
escape out of his hand.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:2">2 </verse></sup>David arose and passed
over, he and the six hundred men who were with
him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:3">3 </verse></sup>David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men,
every man with his household, even David with his
two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the
Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Saul was told that David
had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:5">5 </verse></sup>David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor
in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of
the cities in the country, that I may dwell there.
For why should your servant dwell in the royal city
with you?” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day:
therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this
day. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:7">7 </verse></sup>The number of the days that David lived in the
country of the Philistines was a full year and four
months.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:8">8 </verse></sup>David and his men went up and raided the
Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for
those were the inhabitants of the land who were
of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of
Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:9">9 </verse></sup>David struck the land, and saved no man or
woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle,
the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he
returned, and came to Achish.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:10">10 </verse></sup>Achish said, “Against whom have you made a
raid today?”
<br>
David said, “Against the South of Judah, against
the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the
South of the Kenites.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:11">11 </verse></sup>David saved neither man
nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying,
“Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did
this, and this has been his way all the time he has
lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 27:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 27:12">12 </verse></sup>Achish believed David, saying, “He has made
his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he
will be my servant forever.”

#BCV:1 Samuel 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days, the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.
Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will
go out with me in the army, you and your men.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:2">2 </verse></sup>David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know
what your servant can do.”
<br>
Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you
my bodyguard forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:3">3 </verse></sup>Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had
mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even
in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had
familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:4">4 </verse></sup>The Philistines gathered themselves together,
and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul
gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in
Gilboa. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:5">5 </verse></sup>When Saul saw the army of the Philistines,
he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:6">6 </verse></sup>When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t
answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a
woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to
her and inquire of her.”
<br>
His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a
woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:8">8 </verse></sup>Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing,
and went, he and two men with him, and they
came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please
consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me
up whomever I shall name to you.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:9">9 </verse></sup>The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what
Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have
familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Why
then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to
die?”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As
Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for
this thing.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up
to you?”
<br>
He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:12">12 </verse></sup>When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with
a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying,
“Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:13">13 </verse></sup>The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do
you see?”
<br>
The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up
out of the earth.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:14">14 </verse></sup>He said to her, “What does he look like?”
She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered
with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and
he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed
respect.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:15">15 </verse></sup>Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed
me, to bring me up?”
<br>
Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the
Philistines make war against me, and God has
departed from me, and answers me no more, by
prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you,
that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:16">16 </verse></sup>Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since
Yahweh has departed from you and has become
your adversary? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh has done to you as he
spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of
your hand and given it to your neighbor, even to
David. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:18">18 </verse></sup>Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice,
and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek,
therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:19">19 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with
you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow
you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will
deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the
Philistines.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Saul fell immediately his full length on
the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s
words. There was no strength in him, for he had
eaten no bread all day long or all night long.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:21">21 </verse></sup>The woman came to Saul and saw that he
was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your
servant has listened to your voice, and I have put
my life in my hand, and have listened to your words
which you spoke to me. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:22">22 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please
listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me
set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may
have strength when you go on your way.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:23">23 </verse></sup>But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But
his servants, together with the woman, constrained
him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from
the earth and sat on the bed. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:24">24 </verse></sup>The woman had a
fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed
it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked
unleavened bread of it. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 28:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 28:25">25 </verse></sup>She brought it before Saul
and before his servants, and they ate. Then they
rose up and went away that night.

#BCV:1 Samuel 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines gathered together all their
armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by
the spring which is in Jezreel. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:2">2 </verse></sup>The lords of the
Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands;
and David and his men passed on in the rear
with Achish.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:3">3 </verse></sup>Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What
about these Hebrews?”
<br>
Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t
this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who
has been with me these days, or rather these years?
I have found no fault in him since he fell away until
today.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:4">4 </verse></sup>But the princes of the Philistines were angry
with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to
him, “Make the man return, that he may go back
to his place where you have appointed him, and
let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the
battle he become an adversary to us. For with what
should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord?
Should it not be with the heads of these men? <key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:5">5 </verse></sup>Isn’t
this David, of whom people sang to one another in
dances, saying,
<br>
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
<br>
and David his ten thousands?’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Achish called David and said to him, “As
Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your
going out and your coming in with me in the army
is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in
you since the day of your coming to me to this day.
Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore
now return, and go in peace, that you not displease
the lords of the Philistines.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:8">8 </verse></sup>David said to Achish, “But what have I done?
What have you found in your servant so long as I
have been before you to this day, that I may not go
and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:9">9 </verse></sup>Achish answered David, “I know that you are
good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding,
the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall
not go up with us to the battle.’ <key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore now
rise up early in the morning with the servants of
your lord who have come with you; and as soon
as you are up early in the morning and have light,
depart.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 29:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 29:11">11 </verse></sup>So David rose up early, he and his men, to
depart in the morning, to return into the land of the
Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

#BCV:1 Samuel 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:1">1 </verse></sup>When David and his men had come to Ziklag
on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid
on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag
and burned it with fire, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:2">2 </verse></sup>and had taken captive
the women and all who were in it, both small and
great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and
went their way. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:3">3 </verse></sup>When David and his men came to
the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their
wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken
captive. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:4">4 </verse></sup>Then David and the people who were with
him lifted up their voice and wept until they had
no more power to weep. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:5">5 </verse></sup>David’s two wives were
taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail
the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:6">6 </verse></sup>David was greatly
distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because
the souls of all the people were grieved, every
man for his sons and for his daughters; but David
strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:7">7 </verse></sup>David
said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech,
“Please bring the ephod here to me.”

Abiathar brought the ephod to David. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:8">8 </verse></sup>David
inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this
troop, will I overtake them?”
<br>
He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely
overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:9">9 </verse></sup>So David went, he and the six hundred men
who were with him, and came to the brook Besor,
where those who were left behind stayed. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:10">10 </verse></sup>But
David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two
hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they
couldn’t go over the brook Besor. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:11">11 </verse></sup>They found
an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David,
and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him
water to drink. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:12">12 </verse></sup>They gave him a piece of a cake
of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had
eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten
no bread, and drank no water for three days and
three nights. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:13">13 </verse></sup>David asked him, “To whom do you
belong? Where are you from?”
<br>
He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to
an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three
days ago I got sick. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:14">14 </verse></sup>We made a raid on the South
of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to
Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned
Ziklag with fire.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:15">15 </verse></sup>David said to him, “Will you bring me down to
this troop?”
<br>
He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not
kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my
master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:16">16 </verse></sup>When he had brought him down, behold, they
were spread around over all the ground, eating,
drinking, and dancing, because of all the great
plunder that they had taken out of the land of the
Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:17">17 </verse></sup>David
struck them from the twilight even to the evening
of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from
there, except four hundred young men who rode
on camels and fled. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:18">18 </verse></sup>David recovered all that
the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his
two wives. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:19">19 </verse></sup>There was nothing lacking to them,
neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters,
neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken.
David brought them all back. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:20">20 </verse></sup>David took all the
flocks and the herds, which they drove before those
other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:21">21 </verse></sup>David came to the two hundred men, who were
so faint that they could not follow David, whom also
they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they
went out to meet David, and to meet the people
who were with him. When David came near to the
people, he greeted them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:22">22 </verse></sup>Then all the wicked men
and worthless fellows of those who went with David
answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us,
we will not give them anything of the plunder that
we have recovered, except to every man his wife
and his children, that he may lead them away and
depart.”

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:23">23 </verse></sup>Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers,
with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has
preserved us, and delivered the troop that came
against us into our hand. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:24">24 </verse></sup>Who will listen to you
in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to
the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the
baggage. They shall share alike.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:25">25 </verse></sup>It was so from
that day forward that he made it a statute and an
ordinance for Israel to this day.

<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:26">26 </verse></sup>When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the
plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends,
saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder
of Yahweh’s enemies.” <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:27">27 </verse></sup>He sent it to those who
were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of
the South, to those who were in Jattir, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:28">28 </verse></sup>to those
who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth,
to those who were in Eshtemoa, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:29">29 </verse></sup>to those who
were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the
Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the
Kenites, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:30">30 </verse></sup>to those who were in Hormah, to those
who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 30:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 30:31">31 </verse></sup>to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places
where David himself and his men used to stay.

#BCV:1 Samuel 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines fought against Israel;
and the men of Israel fled from before the
Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:2">2 </verse></sup>The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and
the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and
Malchishua, the sons of Saul. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:3">3 </verse></sup>The battle went hard
against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and
he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your
sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these
uncircumcised come and thrust me through and
abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he
was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell
on it. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:5">5 </verse></sup>When his armor bearer saw that Saul was
dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with
him. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:6">6 </verse></sup>So Saul died with his three sons, his armor
bearer, and all his men that same day together.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:7">7 </verse></sup>When the men of Israel who were on the other
side of the valley, and those who were beyond the
Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that
Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the
cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived
in them. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:8">8 </verse></sup>On the next day, when the Philistines
came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his
three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:9">9 </verse></sup>They cut off
his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the
land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news
to the house of their idols and to the people. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:10">10 </verse></sup>They
put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and
they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
<key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:11">11 </verse></sup>When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what
the Philistines had done to Saul, <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:12">12 </verse></sup>all the valiant
men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul
and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth
Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them
there. <key:bcv=1 Samuel 31:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Samuel 31:13">13 </verse></sup>They took their bones and buried them
under the tamarisk<footnote:1>31:13 or, salt cedar</footnote> tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven
days.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Samuel
<h2>The Second Book of Samuel</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:1">1 </verse></sup>After the death of Saul, when David had returned
from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and
David had stayed two days in Ziklag, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:2">2 </verse></sup>on the third
day, behold,<footnote:1>1:2 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> a man came out of the camp from Saul,
with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When
he came to David, he fell to the earth and showed
respect.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:3">3 </verse></sup>David said to him, “Where do you come from?”
He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp
of Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:4">4 </verse></sup>David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell
me.”
<br>
He answered, “The people have fled from the
battle, and many of the people also have fallen and
are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:5">5 </verse></sup>David said to the young man who told him, “How
do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are
dead?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:6">6 </verse></sup>The young man who told him said, “As I happened
by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was
leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and
the horsemen followed close behind him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:7">7 </verse></sup>When
he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me.
I answered, ‘Here I am.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:8">8 </verse></sup>He said to me, ‘Who are
you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:9">9 </verse></sup>He
said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me,
for anguish has taken hold of me because my life
lingers in me.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:10">10 </verse></sup>So I stood beside him and killed
him, because I was sure that he could not live after
he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his
head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have
brought them here to my lord.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Then David took hold on his clothes and tore
them; and all the men who were with him did
likewise. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:12">12 </verse></sup>They mourned, wept, and fasted until
evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for
the people of Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:12 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> and for the house of Israel,
because they had fallen by the sword.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:13">13 </verse></sup>David said to the young man who told him,
“Where are you from?”
<br>
He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an
Amalekite.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:14">14 </verse></sup>David said to him, “Why were you not afraid
to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s
anointed?” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:15">15 </verse></sup>David called one of the young men
and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck
him so that he died. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:16">16 </verse></sup>David said to him, “Your
blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified
against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s
anointed.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:17">17 </verse></sup>David lamented with this lamentation over Saul
and over Jonathan his son <key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:18">18 </verse></sup>(and he commanded
them to teach the children of Judah the song of the
bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:19">19 </verse></sup>“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t tell it in Gath.
<br>
Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:21">21 </verse></sup>You mountains of Gilboa,
<br>
let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields
of offerings;
<br>
for there the shield of the mighty was defiled
and cast away,
<br>
the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:22">22 </verse></sup>From the blood of the slain,
<br>
from the fat of the mighty,
<br>
Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back.
<br>
Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in
their lives.
<br>
In their death, they were not divided.
They were swifter than eagles.
<br>
They were stronger than lions.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:24">24 </verse></sup>You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you delicately in scarlet,
who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:25">25 </verse></sup>How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the
battle!
<br>
Jonathan was slain on your high places.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:26">26 </verse></sup>I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan.
You have been very pleasant to me.
<br>
Your love to me was wonderful,
<br>
surpassing the love of women.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 1:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 1:27">27 </verse></sup>How the mighty have fallen,
<br>
and the weapons of war have perished!”

#BCV:2 Samuel 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying,
“Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”
Yahweh said to him, “Go up.”
<br>
David said, “Where shall I go up?”
<br>
He said, “To Hebron.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:2">2 </verse></sup>So David went up there with his two wives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of
Nabal the Carmelite. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:3">3 </verse></sup>David brought up his men
who were with him, every man with his household.
They lived in the cities of Hebron. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:4">4 </verse></sup>The men of
Judah came, and there they anointed David king
over the house of Judah. They told David, “The
men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:5">5 </verse></sup>David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead,
and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that
you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to
Saul, and have buried him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Now may Yahweh show
loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward
you for this kindness, because you have done this
thing. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore let your hands be strong, and
be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the
house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s
army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and
brought him over to Mahanaim. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:9">9 </verse></sup>He made him
king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel,
over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when
he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two
years. But the house of Judah followed David. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The
time that David was king in Hebron over the house
of Judah was seven years and six months.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth
the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim
to Gibeon. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s
servants went out, and met them by the pool of
Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side
of the pool and the other on the other side of the
pool. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young
men arise and compete before us!”

Joab said, “Let them arise!” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Then they arose
and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and
for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s
servants. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:16">16 </verse></sup>They each caught his opponent by the
head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so
they fell down together. Therefore that place in
Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.<footnote:1>2:16 “Helkath Hazzurim” means “field of daggers”. </footnote> <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The battle
was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and
the men of Israel, before David’s servants. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:18">18 </verse></sup>The
three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and
Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right
hand or to the left from following Abner.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is
that you, Asahel?”
<br>
He answered, “It is.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right
hand or to your left, and grab one of the young
men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not
turn away from following him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Abner said again
to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why
should I strike you to the ground? How then could
I look Joab your brother in the face?” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:23">23 </verse></sup>However,
he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the
back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that
the spear came out behind him; and he fell down
there and died in the same place. As many as came
to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood
still.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:24">24 </verse></sup>But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The
sun went down when they had come to the hill of
Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the
wilderness of Gibeon. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:25">25 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin
gathered themselves together after Abner and became
one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the
sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will
be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it
be then, before you ask the people to return from
following their brothers?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:27">27 </verse></sup>Joab said, “As God<footnote:1>2:27 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> lives, if you had not spoken,
surely then in the morning the people would have
gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:28">28 </verse></sup>So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people
stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they
fought no more. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:29">29 </verse></sup>Abner and his men went all that
night through the Arabah; and they passed over the
Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to
Mahanaim.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:30">30 </verse></sup>Joab returned from following Abner; and when
he had gathered all the people together, nineteen
men of David’s and Asahel were missing. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:31">31 </verse></sup>But
David’s servants had struck Benjamin Abner’s men
so that three hundred sixty men died. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 2:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 2:32">32 </verse></sup>They took
up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father,
which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all
night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.

#BCV:2 Samuel 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there was long war between Saul’s house
and David’s house. David grew stronger and
stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn
was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:3">3 </verse></sup>and
his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal
the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of
Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:4">4 </verse></sup>and
the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the
fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:5">5 </verse></sup>and the sixth,
Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to
David in Hebron.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:6">6 </verse></sup>While there was war between Saul’s house and
David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Now Saul had a concubine, whose name
was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth
said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s
concubine?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s
words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to
Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s
house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have
not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet
you charge me today with a fault concerning this
woman! <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:9">9 </verse></sup>God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as
Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to
him: <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:10">10 </verse></sup>to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house,
and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over
Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:11">11 </verse></sup>He could not answer Abner another word,
because he was afraid of him.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,
saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make
your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be
with you to bring all Israel around to you.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:13">13 </verse></sup>David said, “Good. I will make a treaty with
you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will
not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s
daughter, when you come to see my face.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:14">14 </verse></sup>David
sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying,
“Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to
marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband,
Paltiel the son of Laish. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Her husband went
with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to
Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!”
and he returned.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Abner had communication with the elders of
Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David
to be king over you. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Now then do it! For Yahweh
has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my
servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the
hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all
their enemies.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and
Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in
Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and to the
whole house of Benjamin. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:20">20 </verse></sup>So Abner came to David
to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made
Abner and the men who were with him a feast.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will
gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may
make a covenant with you, and that you may reign
over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner
away; and he went in peace.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from
a raid and brought in a great plunder with them;
but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had
sent him away, and he had gone in peace. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:23">23 </verse></sup>When
Joab and all the army who was with him had come,
they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the
king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in
peace.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Joab came to the king and said, “What
have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why
is it that you have sent him away, and he is already
gone? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:25">25 </verse></sup>You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to
deceive you, and to know your going out and your
coming in, and to know all that you do.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:26">26 </verse></sup>When Joab had come out from David, he sent
messengers after Abner, and they brought him back
from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:27">27 </verse></sup>When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took
him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with
him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so
that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:28">28 </verse></sup>Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and
my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of
the blood of Abner the son of Ner. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:29">29 </verse></sup>Let it fall on
the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let
there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a
discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff,
or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:30">30 </verse></sup>So
Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because
he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the
battle.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:31">31 </verse></sup>David said to Joab and to all the people who
were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves
with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.”
King David followed the bier. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:32">32 </verse></sup>They buried Abner
in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept
at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:33">33 </verse></sup>The
king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner
die as a fool dies? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:34">34 </verse></sup>Your hands weren’t bound, and
your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls
before the children of iniquity, so you fell.”
All the people wept again over him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:35">35 </verse></sup>All the
people came to urge David to eat bread while it was
yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me,
and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until
the sun goes down.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:36">36 </verse></sup>All the people took notice of it, and it pleased
them, as whatever the king did pleased all the
people. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:37">37 </verse></sup>So all the people and all Israel understood
that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the
son of Ner. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:38">38 </verse></sup>The king said to his servants, “Don’t
you know that a prince and a great man has fallen
today in Israel? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 3:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 3:39">39 </verse></sup>I am weak today, though anointed
king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard
for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according
to his wickedness.”

#BCV:2 Samuel 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:1">1 </verse></sup>When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead
in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the
Israelites were troubled. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Saul’s son had two men
who were captains of raiding bands. The name of
one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab,
the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children
of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of
Benjamin; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:3">3 </verse></sup>and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and
have lived as foreigners there until today).
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was
lame in his feet. He was five years old when the
news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel;
and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried
to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was
Mephibosheth.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:5">5 </verse></sup>The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and
Baanah, went out and came at about the heat of the
day to the house of Ishbosheth as he took his rest
at noon. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:6">6 </verse></sup>They came there into the middle of the
house as though they would have fetched wheat,
and they struck him in the body; and Rechab and
Baanah his brother escaped. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Now when they came
into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom,
they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took
his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all
night. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:8">8 </verse></sup>They brought the head of Ishbosheth to
David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the
head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy,
who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord
the king today of Saul and of his offspring.<footnote:1>4:8 or, seed</footnote>”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:9">9 </verse></sup>David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother,
the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to
them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my
soul out of all adversity, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:10">10 </verse></sup>when someone told me,
‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good
news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which
was the reward I gave him for his news. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:11">11 </verse></sup>How much
more, when wicked men have slain a righteous
person in his own house on his bed, should I not now
require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth
of you?” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 4:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 4:12">12 </verse></sup>David commanded his young men, and
they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet,
and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But
they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in
Abner’s grave in Hebron.

#BCV:2 Samuel 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at
Hebron and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your
bone and your flesh. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:2">2 </verse></sup>In times past, when Saul was
king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in.
Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my
people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:3">3 </verse></sup>So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them
in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David
king over Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:4">4 </verse></sup>David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:5">5 </verse></sup>In Hebron he
reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and
in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all
Israel and Judah.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:6">6 </verse></sup>The king and his men went to Jerusalem against
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke
to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep
you out of here,” thinking, “David can’t come in
here.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Nevertheless David took the stronghold of
Zion. This is David’s city. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:8">8 </verse></sup>David said on that day,
“Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the
watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who
are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The
blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:9">9 </verse></sup>David lived in the stronghold, and called it
David’s city. David built around from Millo and
inward. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:10">10 </verse></sup>David grew greater and greater, for
Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Hiram
king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar
trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David
a house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:12">12 </verse></sup>David perceived that Yahweh had established
him king over Israel, and that he had exalted
his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:13">13 </verse></sup>David took more concubines and wives for
himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from
Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born
to David. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:14">14 </verse></sup>These are the names of those who
were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab,
Nathan, Solomon, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:17">17 </verse></sup>When the Philistines heard that they had
anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines
went up to seek David, but David heard about it
and went down to the stronghold. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the
Philistines had come and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:19">19 </verse></sup>David inquired of Yahweh,
saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will
you deliver them into my hand?”
<br>
Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly
deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:20">20 </verse></sup>David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck
them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken
my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.”
Therefore he called the name of that place Baal
Perazim.<footnote:1>5:20 “Baal Perazim” means “Lord who breaks out”. </footnote> <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:21">21 </verse></sup>They left their images there, and David
and his men took them away.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:22">22 </verse></sup>The Philistines came up yet again and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:23">23 </verse></sup>When David
inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up.
Circle around behind them, and attack them in front
of the mulberry trees. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:24">24 </verse></sup>When you hear the sound
of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then
stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out
before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 5:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 5:25">25 </verse></sup>David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and
struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to
Gezer.

#BCV:2 Samuel 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:1">1 </verse></sup>David again gathered together all the chosen
men of Israel, thirty thousand. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:2">2 </verse></sup>David arose and
went with all the people who were with him from
Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which
is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh
of Armies who sits above the cherubim. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:3">3 </verse></sup>They
set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of
Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah
and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new
cart. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:4">4 </verse></sup>They brought it out of Abinadab’s house
which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went
before the ark. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:5">5 </verse></sup>David and all the house of Israel
played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments
made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed
instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and
with cymbals.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:6">6 </verse></sup>When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon,
Uzzah reached for God’s ark and took hold of it,
for the cattle stumbled. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned
against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his
error; and he died there by God’s ark. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:8">8 </verse></sup>David was
displeased because Yahweh had broken out against
Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah<footnote:1>6:8 “Perez Uzzah” means “outbreak against Uzzah”.</footnote> to this
day. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:9">9 </verse></sup>David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and
he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:10">10 </verse></sup>So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be
with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside
into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s ark
remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three
months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his
house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:12">12 </verse></sup>King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed
the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to
him, because of God’s ark.”
<br>
So David went and brought up God’s ark from
the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:13">13 </verse></sup>When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone
six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:14">14 </verse></sup>David danced before Yahweh with all his might;
and David was clothed in a linen ephod. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:15">15 </verse></sup>So David
and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark
with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:16">16 </verse></sup>As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal
the daughter of Saul looked out through the window
and saw King David leaping and dancing before
Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:17">17 </verse></sup>They
brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place in
the middle of the tent that David had pitched for
it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:18">18 </verse></sup>When David had finished
offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of
Armies. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:19">19 </verse></sup>He gave to all the people, even among the
whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women,
to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins.
So all the people departed, each to his own house.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Then David returned to bless his household.
Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet
David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel
was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes
of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows
shamelessly uncovers himself!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:21">21 </verse></sup>David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh,
who chose me above your father, and above all
his house, to appoint me prince over the people
of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:22">22 </verse></sup>I will be yet more undignified
than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But
the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 6:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the
day of her death.

#BCV:2 Samuel 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:1">1 </verse></sup>When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh
had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:2">2 </verse></sup>the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now,
I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells
within curtains.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your
heart, for Yahweh is with you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:4">4 </verse></sup>That same night, Yahweh’s word came to
Nathan, saying, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:5">5 </verse></sup>“Go and tell my servant David,
‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for
me to dwell in? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For I have not lived in a house
since the day that I brought the children of Israel
up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved
around in a tent and in a tabernacle. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:7">7 </verse></sup>In all places
in which I have walked with all the children of
Israel, did I say a word to anyone from the tribes
of Israel whom I commanded to be shepherd of
my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built
me a house of cedar?’ ” ’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Now therefore tell my
servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took
you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep,
to be prince over my people, over Israel. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:9">9 </verse></sup>I have
been with you wherever you went, and have cut
off all your enemies from before you. I will make
you a great name, like the name of the great ones
who are in the earth. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:10">10 </verse></sup>I will appoint a place for
my people Israel, and will plant them, that they
may dwell in their own place and be moved no
more. The children of wickedness will not afflict
them any more, as at the first, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:11">11 </verse></sup>and as from the
day that I commanded judges to be over my people
Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies.
Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make
you a house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:12">12 </verse></sup>When your days are fulfilled and you
sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring
after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I
will establish his kingdom. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:13">13 </verse></sup>He will build a house
for my name, and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom forever. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:14">14 </verse></sup>I will be his father, and he will
be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten
him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the
children of men; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:15">15 </verse></sup>but my loving kindness will not
depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put
away before you. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Your house and your kingdom
will be made sure forever before you. Your throne
will be established forever.” ’ ” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Nathan spoke to
David all these words, and according to all this
vision.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:18">18 </verse></sup>Then David the king went in and sat before
Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord<footnote:1>7:18 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> Yahweh, and
what is my house, that you have brought me this
far? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:19">19 </verse></sup>This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord
Yahweh, but you have spoken also of your servant’s
house for a great while to come; and this among
men, Lord Yahweh! <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:20">20 </verse></sup>What more can David say
to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:21">21 </verse></sup>For your word’s sake, and according to your own
heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make
your servant know it. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore you are great,
Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither
is there any God besides you, according to all that
we have heard with our ears. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:23">23 </verse></sup>What one nation
in the earth is like your people, even like Israel,
whom God went to redeem to himself for a people,
and to make himself a name, and to do great things
for you, and awesome things for your land, before
your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out
of Egypt, from the nations and their gods? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:24">24 </verse></sup>You
established for yourself your people Israel to be
your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their
God.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:25">25 </verse></sup>“Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have
spoken concerning your servant, and concerning
his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have
spoken. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Let your name be magnified forever,
saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and
the house of your servant David will be established
before you.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:27">27 </verse></sup>For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I
will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has
found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:28">28 </verse></sup>“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your
words are truth, and you have promised this good
thing to your servant. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 7:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 7:29">29 </verse></sup>Now therefore, let it please
you to bless the house of your servant, that it may
continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh,
have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be
blessed forever with your blessing.”

#BCV:2 Samuel 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued
them; and David took the bridle of the mother
city out of the hand of the Philistines. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:2">2 </verse></sup>He defeated
Moab, and measured them with the line, making
them to lie down on the ground; and he measured
two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep
alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and
brought tribute.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:3">3 </verse></sup>David also struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob,
king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion
at the River. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:4">4 </verse></sup>David took from him one thousand
seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand
footmen. David hamstrung the chariot horses, but
reserved enough of them for one hundred chariots.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:5">5 </verse></sup>When the Syrians of Damascus came to help
Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two
thousand men of the Syrians. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Then David put garrisons
in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became
servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh
gave victory to David wherever he went. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:7">7 </verse></sup>David
took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:8">8 </verse></sup>From
Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King
David took a great quantity of bronze.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:9">9 </verse></sup>When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had
struck all the army of Hadadezer, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:10">10 </verse></sup>then Toi sent
Joram his son to King David to greet him and to bless
him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and
struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram
brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold,
and vessels of bronze. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:11">11 </verse></sup>King David also dedicated
these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he
dedicated of all the nations which he subdued —
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:12">12 </verse></sup>of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of
the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of
Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:13">13 </verse></sup>David earned a reputation when he returned
from striking down eighteen thousand men of the
Syrians in the Valley of Salt. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He put garrisons in
Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and
all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh
gave victory to David wherever he went.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:15">15 </verse></sup>David reigned over all Israel; and David executed
justice and righteousness for all his people.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was recorder, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Zadok
the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar
were priests, Seraiah was scribe, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 8:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

#BCV:2 Samuel 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:1">1 </verse></sup>David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s
house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s
sake?” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:2">2 </verse></sup>There was of Saul’s house a servant whose
name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and
the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”
He said, “I am your servant.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:3">3 </verse></sup>The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s
house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?”
Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son,
who is lame in his feet.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:4">4 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “Where is he?”
Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house
of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Then King David sent and brought him out of
the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo
Debar. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son
of Saul, came to David, fell on his face, and showed
respect. David said, “Mephibosheth?”
<br>
He answered, “Behold, your servant!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:7">7 </verse></sup>David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for I will
surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s
sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your
father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:8">8 </verse></sup>He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant,
that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and
said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his
house I have given to your master’s son. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Till the
land for him —you, your sons, and your servants.
Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may
have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s
son will always eat bread at my table.”
Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that
my lord the king commands his servant, so your
servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s
table like one of the king’s sons. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Mephibosheth
had a young son, whose name was Mica. All
who lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 9:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 9:13">13 </verse></sup>So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for
he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame
in both his feet.

#BCV:2 Samuel 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, the king of the children of Ammon
died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:2">2 </verse></sup>David
said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,
as his father showed kindness to me.” So David
sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his
father. David’s servants came into the land of the
children of Ammon.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:3">3 </verse></sup>But the princes of the children of Ammon said to
Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors
your father, in that he has sent comforters to you?
Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the
city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:4">4 </verse></sup>So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one
half of their beards, and cut off their garments in
the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them
away. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:5">5 </verse></sup>When they told David this, he sent to meet
them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king
said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown,
and then return.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:6">6 </verse></sup>When the children of Ammon saw that they had
become odious to David, the children of Ammon
sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the
Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and
the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the
men of Tob twelve thousand men. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:7">7 </verse></sup>When David
heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the
mighty men. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Ammon came out,
and put the battle in array at the entrance of the
gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the
men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the
field. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Now when Joab saw that the battle was set
against him before and behind, he chose of all the
choice men of Israel and put them in array against
the Syrians. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The rest of the people he committed
into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put
them in array against the children of Ammon. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He
said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you
shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are
too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people
and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do
what seems good to him.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:13">13 </verse></sup>So Joab and the people
who were with him came near to the battle against
the Syrians, and they fled before him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:14">14 </verse></sup>When the
children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled,
they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into
the city. Then Joab returned from the children of
Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:15">15 </verse></sup>When the Syrians saw that they were defeated
by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who
were beyond the River; and they came to Helam,
with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer
at their head. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:17">17 </verse></sup>David was told that; and he
gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan,
and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in
array against David and fought with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:18">18 </verse></sup>The
Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven
hundred charioteers of the Syrians and forty thousand
horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of
their army, so that he died there. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 10:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 10:19">19 </verse></sup>When all the
kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they
were defeated before Israel, they made peace with
Israel and served them. So the Syrians were afraid
to help the children of Ammon any more.

#BCV:2 Samuel 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:1">1 </verse></sup>At the return of the year, at the time when kings
go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him,
and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of
Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:2">2 </verse></sup>At evening, David arose from his bed
and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the
roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was
very beautiful to look at. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:3">3 </verse></sup>David sent and inquired
after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:4">4 </verse></sup>David sent messengers, and took her; and she
came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was
purified from her uncleanness); and she returned
to her house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:5">5 </verse></sup>The woman conceived; and she sent
and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:6">6 </verse></sup>David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
Joab sent Uriah to David. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:7">7 </verse></sup>When Uriah had come
to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the
people fared, and how the war prospered. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:8">8 </verse></sup>David
said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash
your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house,
and a gift from the king was sent after him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:9">9 </verse></sup>But
Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all
the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his
house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:10">10 </verse></sup>When they had told David, saying, “Uriah
didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah,
“Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you
go down to your house?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah,
are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the
servants of my lord are encamped in the open field.
Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink,
and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your
soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:12">12 </verse></sup>David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and
tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in
Jerusalem that day and the next day. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:13">13 </verse></sup>When David
had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he
made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on
his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go
down to his house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:14">14 </verse></sup>In the morning, David wrote
a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:15">15 </verse></sup>He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the
forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him,
that he may be struck and die.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:16">16 </verse></sup>When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned
Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men
were. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:17">17 </verse></sup>The men of the city went out and fought
with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s
servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Then
Joab sent and told David all the things concerning
the war; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:19">19 </verse></sup>and he commanded the messenger,
saying, “When you have finished telling all the
things concerning the war to the king, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:20">20 </verse></sup>it shall be
that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why
did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you
know that they would shoot from the wall? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Who
struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t
a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the
wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go
so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant
Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:22">22 </verse></sup>So the messenger went, and came and showed
David all that Joab had sent him for. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:23">23 </verse></sup>The messenger
said to David, “The men prevailed against
us, and came out to us into the field; and we were
on them even to the entrance of the gate. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:24">24 </verse></sup>The
shooters shot at your servants from off the wall;
and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your
servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab,
‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword
devours one as well as another. Make your battle
stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage
him.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:26">26 </verse></sup>When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband
was dead, she mourned for her husband.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 11:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 11:27">27 </verse></sup>When the mourning was past, David sent and took
her home to his house, and she became his wife and
bore him a son. But the thing that David had done
displeased Yahweh.

#BCV:2 Samuel 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him,
and said to him, “There were two men in one city:
the one rich, and the other poor. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:2">2 </verse></sup>The rich man had
very many flocks and herds, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:3">3 </verse></sup>but the poor man had
nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had
bought and raised. It grew up together with him
and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank
of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a
daughter to him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:4">4 </verse></sup>A traveler came to the rich man,
and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of
his own herd to prepare for the wayfaring man who
had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and
prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:5">5 </verse></sup>David’s anger burned hot against the man, and
he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who
has done this deserves to die! <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:6">6 </verse></sup>He must restore
the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and
because he had no pity!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This
is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed
you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the
hand of Saul. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:8">8 </verse></sup>I gave you your master’s house and
your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you
the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would
have been too little, I would have added to you
many more such things. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Why have you despised
Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight?
You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain
him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Now therefore the sword will never depart from
your house, because you have despised me and have
taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:11">11 </verse></sup>“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise
up evil against you out of your own house; and I will
take your wives before your eyes and give them to
your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the
sight of this sun. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:12">12 </verse></sup>For you did this secretly, but I
will do this thing before all Israel, and before the
sun.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:13">13 </verse></sup>David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against
Yahweh.”
<br>
Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away
your sin. You will not die. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:14">14 </verse></sup>However, because by
this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s
enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to
you will surely die.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Nathan departed to his
house.
<br>
Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore
to David, and he was very sick. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:16">16 </verse></sup>David therefore
begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went
in and lay all night on the ground. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:17">17 </verse></sup>The elders of
his house arose beside him, to raise him up from
the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread
with them. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:18">18 </verse></sup>On the seventh day, the child died.
David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the
child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the
child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he didn’t
listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself
if we tell him that the child is dead?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:19">19 </verse></sup>But when David saw that his servants were
whispering together, David perceived that the child
was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the
child dead?”
<br>
They said, “He is dead.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Then David arose from the earth, and washed
and anointed himself, and changed his clothing;
and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped.
Then he came to his own house; and when he
requested, they set bread before him and he ate.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Then his servants said to him, “What is this that
you have done? You fasted and wept for the child
while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you
rose up and ate bread.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:22">22 </verse></sup>He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted
and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh
will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:23">23 </verse></sup>But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring
him back again? I will go to him, but he will not
return to me.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:24">24 </verse></sup>David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went
in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he
called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:25">25 </verse></sup>and
he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he
named him Jedidiah,<footnote:1>12:25 “Jedidiah” means “loved by Yahweh”. </footnote> for Yahweh’s sake.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:26">26 </verse></sup>Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children
of Ammon, and took the royal city. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:27">27 </verse></sup>Joab sent messengers
to David, and said, “I have fought against
Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:28">28 </verse></sup>Now
therefore gather the rest of the people together,
and encamp against the city and take it; lest I take
the city, and it be called by my name.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:29">29 </verse></sup>David gathered all the people together and
went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:30">30 </verse></sup>He took the crown of their king from off his head;
and its weight was a talent<footnote:1>12:30 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote> of gold, and in it were
precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He
brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 12:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 12:31">31 </verse></sup>He brought out the people who were in it, and put
them to work under saws, under iron picks, under
axes of iron, and made them go to the brick kiln;
and he did so to all the cities of the children of
Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to
Jerusalem.

#BCV:2 Samuel 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, Absalom the son of David had a
beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon
the son of David loved her. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Amnon was so
troubled that he became sick because of his sister
Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed hard to
Amnon to do anything to her. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:3">3 </verse></sup>But Amnon had a
friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah,
David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so
sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?”
Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother
Absalom’s sister.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and
pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see
you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and
give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my
sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:6">6 </verse></sup>So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When
the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king,
“Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a
couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her
hand.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go
now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare
food for him.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:8">8 </verse></sup>So Tamar went to her brother
Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took
dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and
baked the cakes. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:9">9 </verse></sup>She took the pan and poured
them out before him, but he refused to eat. Amnon
said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went
out from him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the
food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.”
Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and
brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:11">11 </verse></sup>When she had brought them near to him to eat,
he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with
me, my sister!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:12">12 </verse></sup>She answered him, “No, my brother, do not
force me! For no such thing ought to be done in
Israel. Don’t you do this folly! <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:13">13 </verse></sup>As for me, where
would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be
as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please
speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from
you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:14">14 </verse></sup>However, he would not listen to her voice; but
being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with
her. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly
great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her
was greater than the love with which he had loved
her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:16">16 </verse></sup>She said to him, “Not so, because this great
wrong in sending me away is worse than the other
that you did to me!”

But he would not listen to her. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Then he called
his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now
put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after
her.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:18">18 </verse></sup>She had a garment of various colors on her, for
the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in
such robes. Then his servant brought her out and
bolted the door after her. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Tamar put ashes on her
head, and tore her garment of various colors that
was on her; and she laid her hand on her head and
went her way, crying aloud as she went. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Absalom
her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother
been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister.
He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.”
So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:21">21 </verse></sup>But when King David heard of all
these things, he was very angry. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Absalom spoke
to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated
Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:23">23 </verse></sup>After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers
in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim; and
Absalom invited all the king’s sons. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Absalom
came to the king and said, “See now, your servant
has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his
servants go with your servant.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:25">25 </verse></sup>The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not
all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed
him; however he would not go, but blessed him.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my
brother Amnon go with us.”
<br>
The king said to him, “Why should he go with
you?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:27">27 </verse></sup>But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon
and all the king’s sons go with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:28">28 </verse></sup>Absalom
commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when
Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell
you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid.
Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be
valiant!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:29">29 </verse></sup>The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as
Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons
arose, and every man got up on his mule and fled.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:30">30 </verse></sup>While they were on the way, the news came to
David, saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons,
and there is not one of them left!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:31">31 </verse></sup>Then the king arose, and tore his garments,
and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood
by with their clothes torn. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:32">32 </verse></sup>Jonadab the son of
Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my
lord suppose that they have killed all the young
men, the king’s sons, for Amnon only is dead;
for by the appointment of Absalom this has been
determined from the day that he forced his sister
Tamar. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:33">33 </verse></sup>Now therefore don’t let my lord the king
take the thing to his heart, to think that all the
king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:34">34 </verse></sup>But
Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch
lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many
people were coming by way of the hillside behind
him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:35">35 </verse></sup>Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s
sons are coming! It is as your servant said.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:36">36 </verse></sup>As
soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s
sons came, and lifted up their voices and wept. The
king also and all his servants wept bitterly.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:37">37 </verse></sup>But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son
of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for
his son every day. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:38">38 </verse></sup>So Absalom fled and went to
Geshur, and was there three years. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 13:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 13:39">39 </verse></sup>King David
longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted
concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

#BCV:2 Samuel 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that
the king’s heart was toward Absalom. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Joab sent
to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there,
and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and
put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint
yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has
mourned a long time for the dead. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Go in to the king
and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in
her mouth.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:4">4 </verse></sup>When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she
fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and
said, “Help, O king!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:5">5 </verse></sup>The king said to her, “What ails you?”
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my
husband is dead. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Your servant had two sons; and
they both fought together in the field, and there was
no one to part them, but the one struck the other
and killed him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, the whole family has risen
against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who
struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life
of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the
heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which
is left, and would leave to my husband neither name
nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:8">8 </verse></sup>The king said to the woman, “Go to your house,
and I will give a command concerning you.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:9">9 </verse></sup>The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord,
O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my
father’s house; and may the king and his throne be
guiltless.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:10">10 </verse></sup>The king said, “Whoever says anything to you,
bring him to me, and he will not bother you any
more.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Then she said, “Please let the king remember
Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy
not any more, lest they destroy my son.”
He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your
son shall fall to the earth.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the woman said, “Please let your servant
speak a word to my lord the king.”
<br>
He said, “Say on.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:13">13 </verse></sup>The woman said, “Why then have you devised
such a thing against the people of God? For in
speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty,
in that the king does not bring home again his
banished one. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:14">14 </verse></sup>For we must die, and are like water
spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up
again; neither does God take away life, but devises
means, that he who is banished not be an outcast
from him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Now therefore, seeing that I have come
to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because
the people have made me afraid. Your servant said,
‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the
king will perform the request of his servant.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:16">16 </verse></sup>For
the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the
hand of the man who would destroy me and my son
together out of the inheritance of God. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Then your
servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king
bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the
king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your
God, be with you.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Then the king answered the woman, “Please
don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.”
The woman said, “Let my lord the king now
speak.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in
all this?”
<br>
The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my
lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand
or to the left from anything that my lord the king
has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he
put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Your servant Joab has done this thing to change
the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to
the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things
that are in the earth.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:21">21 </verse></sup>The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have
granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the
young man Absalom back.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed
respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today
your servant knows that I have found favor in
your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has
performed the request of his servant.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:23">23 </verse></sup>So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought
Absalom to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:24">24 </verse></sup>The king said, “Let him
return to his own house, but let him not see my
face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and
didn’t see the king’s face. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:25">25 </verse></sup>Now in all Israel there
was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his
beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown
of his head there was no defect in him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:26">26 </verse></sup>When
he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every
year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on
him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of
his head at two hundred shekels,<footnote:1>14:26 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 200 shekels is about 2 kilograms or about 4.4 pounds.</footnote> after the king’s
weight. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Three sons were born to Absalom, and
one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a
woman with a beautiful face. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Absalom lived two
full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s
face. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to
the king, but he would not come to him. Then he
sent again a second time, but he would not come.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s
field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and
set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on
fire.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Then Joab arose and came to Absalom to his
house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set
my field on fire?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:32">32 </verse></sup>Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you,
saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king,
to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be
better for me to be there still. Now therefore, let me
see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let
him kill me.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 14:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 14:33">33 </verse></sup>So Joab came to the king and told him; and
when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king
and bowed himself on his face to the ground before
the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
#BCV:2 Samuel 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and
horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way
of the gate. When any man had a suit which should
come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called
to him, and said, “What city are you from?”
He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of
Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are
good and right; but there is no man deputized by
the king to hear you.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Absalom said moreover, “Oh
that I were made judge in the land, that every man
who has any suit or cause might come to me, and
I would do him justice!” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:5">5 </verse></sup>It was so, that when any
man came near to bow down to him, he stretched
out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who
came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole
the hearts of the men of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:7">7 </verse></sup>At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the
king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which
I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:8">8 </verse></sup>For your
servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in
Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me
again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:9">9 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
So he arose and went to Hebron. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:10">10 </verse></sup>But Absalom
sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying,
“As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then
you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Two hundred men went with Absalom out of
Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity;
and they didn’t know anything. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Absalom
sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor,
from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering
the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the
people increased continually with Absalom. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:13">13 </verse></sup>A
messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the
men of Israel are after Absalom.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:14">14 </verse></sup>David said to all his servants who were with him
at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us
will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he
overtake us quickly and bring down evil on us, and
strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:15">15 </verse></sup>The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold,
your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the
king chooses.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:16">16 </verse></sup>The king went out, and all his household after
him. The king left ten women, who were concubines,
to keep the house. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:17">17 </verse></sup>The king went out, and
all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth
Merhak. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:18">18 </verse></sup>All his servants passed on beside him;
and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and
all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after
him from Gath, passed on before the king.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do
you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king;
for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to
your own place. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Whereas you came but yesterday,
should I today make you go up and down with us,
since I go where I may? Return, and take back your
brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Ittai answered the king and said, “As Yahweh
lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what
place my lord the king is, whether for death or for
life, your servant will be there also.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:22">22 </verse></sup>David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the
Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little
ones who were with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:23">23 </verse></sup>All the country wept
with a loud voice, and all the people passed over.
The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron,
and all the people passed over toward the way of the
wilderness. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, Zadok also came, and all the
Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant
of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar
went up until all the people finished passing out of
the city. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:25">25 </verse></sup>The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark
back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes,
he will bring me again, and show me both it and
his habitation; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:26">26 </verse></sup>but if he says, ‘I have no delight in
you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems
good to him.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:27">27 </verse></sup>The king said also to Zadok the
priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in
peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your
son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Behold, I
will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word
comes from you to inform me.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Zadok therefore
and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again;
and they stayed there. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:30">30 </verse></sup>David went up by the
ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went
up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot.
All the people who were with him each covered his
head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is
among the conspirators with Absalom.”
David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of
Ahithophel into foolishness.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:32">32 </verse></sup>When David had come to the top, where God
was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to
meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:33">33 </verse></sup>David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then
you will be a burden to me; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:34">34 </verse></sup>but if you return to
the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O
king. As I have been your father’s servant in time
past, so I will now be your servant; then will you
defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:35">35 </verse></sup>Don’t
you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with
you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s
house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:36">36 </verse></sup>Behold, they have there with them their two sons,
Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son.
Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 15:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 15:37">37 </verse></sup>So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city;
and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

#BCV:2 Samuel 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:1">1 </verse></sup>When David was a little past the top, behold,
Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with
a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two
hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters
of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a
container of wine. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:2">2 </verse></sup>The king said to Ziba, “What
do you mean by these?”
<br>
Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household
to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for
the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who
are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:3">3 </verse></sup>The king said, “Where is your master’s son?”
Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in
Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will
restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that
belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”
<br>
Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your
sight, my lord, O king.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:5">5 </verse></sup>When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a
man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose
name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out
and cursed as he came. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:6">6 </verse></sup>He cast stones at David
and at all the servants of King David, and all the
people and all the mighty men were on his right
hand and on his left. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Shimei said when he cursed,
“Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked
fellow! <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh has returned on you all the blood
of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned!
Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of
Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your
own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king,
“Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?
Please let me go over and take off his head.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:10">10 </verse></sup>The
king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of
Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh
has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say,
‘Why have you done so?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:11">11 </verse></sup>David said to Abishai and to all his servants,
“Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks
my life. How much more this Benjamite, now?
Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has
invited him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:12">12 </verse></sup>It may be that Yahweh will look on
the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay
me good for the cursing of me today.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:13">13 </verse></sup>So David
and his men went by the way; and Shimei went
along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he
went, threw stones at him, and threw dust. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:14">14 </verse></sup>The
king and all the people who were with him arrived
weary; and he refreshed himself there.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel,
came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:16">16 </verse></sup>When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had
come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long
live the king! Long live the king!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness
to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your
friend?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:18">18 </verse></sup>Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever
Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel
have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in
the presence of his son? As I have served in your
father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your
counsel what we shall do.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:21">21 </verse></sup>Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s
concubines that he has left to keep the house.
Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by
your father. Then the hands of all who are with you
will be strong.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:22">22 </verse></sup>So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top
of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s
concubines in the sight of all Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 16:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 16:23">23 </verse></sup>The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in
those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner
sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was
like this both with David and with Absalom.
#BCV:2 Samuel 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me
now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise
and pursue after David tonight. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:2">2 </verse></sup>I will come on him
while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him
afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I
will strike the king only, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:3">3 </verse></sup>and I will bring back all
the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if
all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:4">4 </verse></sup>The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the
elders of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Absalom said, “Now call
Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what
he says.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:6">6 </verse></sup>When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom
spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like
this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that
Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and
his men, that they are mighty men, and they are
fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs
in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will
not lodge with the people. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, he is now
hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will
happen, when some of them have fallen at the first,
that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter
among the people who follow Absalom!’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Even
he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of
a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that
your father is a mighty man, and those who are
with him are valiant men. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:11">11 </verse></sup>But I counsel that all
Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even
to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for
multitude; and that you go to battle in your own
person. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:12">12 </verse></sup>So we will come on him in some place
where he will be found, and we will light on him as
the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave
so much as one of him and of all the men who are
with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Moreover, if he has gone into a city,
then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we
will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small
stone found there.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:14">14 </verse></sup>Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The
counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the
counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained
to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the
intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar
the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and
the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled
this way. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Now therefore send quickly, and tell
David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of
the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the
king be swallowed up, and all the people who are
with him.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En
Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report
to them, and they went and told King David; for
they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:18">18 </verse></sup>But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then
they both went away quickly and came to the house
of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court;
and they went down there. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:19">19 </verse></sup>The woman took
and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and
spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was
known. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:20">20 </verse></sup>Absalom’s servants came to the woman to
the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and
Jonathan?”
<br>
The woman said to them, “They have gone over
the brook of water.”
<br>
When they had sought and could not find them,
they returned to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:21">21 </verse></sup>After they had
departed, they came up out of the well and went and
told King David; and they said to David, “Arise and
pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel
counseled against you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:22">22 </verse></sup>Then David arose, and all the people who were
with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the
morning light there lacked not one of them who had
not gone over the Jordan.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:23">23 </verse></sup>When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went
home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged
himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of
his father.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:24">24 </verse></sup>Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom
passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel
with him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:25">25 </verse></sup>Absalom set Amasa over the army
instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man
whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to
Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah,
Joab’s mother. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:26">26 </verse></sup>Israel and Absalom encamped in
the land of Gilead.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:27">27 </verse></sup>When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi
the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children
of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of
Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:28">28 </verse></sup>brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat,
barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted
grain, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 17:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 17:29">29 </verse></sup>honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the
herd, for David and for the people who were with
him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry,
weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
#BCV:2 Samuel 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:1">1 </verse></sup>David counted the people who were with him,
and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds
over them. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:2">2 </verse></sup>David sent the people out, a
third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part
under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s
brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai
the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also
surely go out with you myself.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:3">3 </verse></sup>But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if
we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half
of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten
thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you
are ready to help us out of the city.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:4">4 </verse></sup>The king said to them, “I will do what seems best
to you.”
<br>
The king stood beside the gate, and all the people
went out by hundreds and by thousands. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:5">5 </verse></sup>The
king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
“Deal gently for my sake with the young man
Absalom.” All the people heard when the king
commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:6">6 </verse></sup>So the people went out into the field against
Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:7">7 </verse></sup>The people of Israel were struck there before
David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter
there that day of twenty thousand men. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:8">8 </verse></sup>For the
battle was there spread over the surface of all the
country, and the forest devoured more people that
day than the sword devoured.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:9">9 </verse></sup>Absalom happened to meet David’s servants.
Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went
under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head
caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between
the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him
went on. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:10">10 </verse></sup>A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and
said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you
saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the
ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver
and a sash.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:12">12 </verse></sup>The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive
a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still
wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s
son; for in our hearing the king commanded you
and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one
touch the young man Absalom.’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Otherwise, if I
had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no
matter hidden from the king), then you yourself
would have set yourself against me.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this
with you.” He took three darts in his hand and
thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was
still alive in the middle of the oak. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Ten young
men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck
Absalom, and killed him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:16">16 </verse></sup>Joab blew the trumpet,
and the people returned from pursuing after Israel;
for Joab held the people back. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:17">17 </verse></sup>They took Absalom
and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised
over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel
fled, each to his own tent.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and
reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s
valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name
in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name.
It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me
now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has
avenged him of his enemies.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer
of news today, but you must carry news another
day. But today you must carry no news, because the
king’s son is dead.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king
what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to
Joab, and ran.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again
to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run
after the Cushite.”
<br>
Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since
you will have no reward for the news?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:23">23 </verse></sup>“But come what may,” he said, “I will run.”
He said to him, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the
way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Now David was sitting between the two gates;
and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate
to the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and,
behold, a man running alone. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:25">25 </verse></sup>The watchman
shouted and told the king. The king said, “If he is
alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer
and closer.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:26">26 </verse></sup>The watchman saw another man running; and
the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said,
“Behold, a man running alone!”
<br>
The king said, “He also brings news.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:27">27 </verse></sup>The watchman said, “I think the running of the
first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of
Zadok.”
<br>
The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with
good news.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is
well.” He bowed himself before the king with his
face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your
God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up
their hand against my lord the king!”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:29">29 </verse></sup>The king said, “Is it well with the young man
Absalom?”
<br>
Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s
servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult,
but I don’t know what it was.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:30">30 </verse></sup>The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came
and stood still.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said,
“Good news for my lord the king, for Yahweh has
avenged you today of all those who rose up against
you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:32">32 </verse></sup>The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the
young man Absalom?”
<br>
The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my
lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do
you harm, be as that young man is.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 18:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 18:33">33 </verse></sup>The king was much moved, and went up to the
room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said,
“My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I
had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

#BCV:2 Samuel 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and
mourns for Absalom.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:2">2 </verse></sup>The victory that day was
turned into mourning among all the people, for the
people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for
his son.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:3">3 </verse></sup>The people sneaked into the city that day, as
people who are ashamed steal away when they flee
in battle. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:4">4 </verse></sup>The king covered his face, and the king
cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom,
my son, my son!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:5">5 </verse></sup>Joab came into the house to the king, and
said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your
servants who today have saved your life, and the
lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the
lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:6">6 </verse></sup>in that you love those who hate you and hate those
who love you. For you have declared today that
princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I
perceive that if Absalom had lived and we had all
died today, then it would have pleased you well.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort
your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t
go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That
would be worse to you than all the evil that has
happened to you from your youth until now.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the king arose and sat in the gate. The
people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in
the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now
Israel had fled every man to his tent. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:9">9 </verse></sup>All the people
were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of
our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the
Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from
Absalom. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is
dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak
a word of bringing the king back?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:11">11 </verse></sup>King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar
the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah,
saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back
to his house, since the speech of all Israel has come
to the king, to return him to his house? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:12">12 </verse></sup>You are
my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why
then are you the last to bring back the king?’ <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Say
to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do
so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the
army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:14">14 </verse></sup>He
bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one
man, so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return,
you and all your servants.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:15">15 </verse></sup>So the king returned, and came to the Jordan.
Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to
bring the king over the Jordan. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:16">16 </verse></sup>Shimei the son of
Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried
and came down with the men of Judah to meet King
David. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:17">17 </verse></sup>There were a thousand men of Benjamin
with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and
his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him;
and they went through the Jordan in the presence
of the king. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:18">18 </verse></sup>A ferry boat went to bring over the
king’s household, and to do what he thought good.
Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king
when he had come over the Jordan. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to the
king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or
remember that which your servant did perversely
the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem,
that the king should take it to his heart. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:20">20 </verse></sup>For your
servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold,
I have come today as the first of all the house of
Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:21">21 </verse></sup>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered,
“Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because
he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:22">22 </verse></sup>David said, “What have I to do with you, you
sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to
me today? Shall any man be put to death today in
Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel
today?” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:23">23 </verse></sup>The king said to Shimei, “You will not
die.” The king swore to him.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to
meet the king; and he had neither groomed his
feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes,
from the day the king departed until the day he
came home in peace. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:25">25 </verse></sup>When he had come to
Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him,
“Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:26">26 </verse></sup>He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant
deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle
a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go
with the king,’ because your servant is lame. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:27">27 </verse></sup>He
has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but
my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore
do what is good in your eyes. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:28">28 </verse></sup>For all my father’s
house were but dead men before my lord the king;
yet you set your servant among those who ate at
your own table. What right therefore have I yet that
I should appeal any more to the king?”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:29">29 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “Why do you speak any
more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide
the land.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:30">30 </verse></sup>Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him
take all, because my lord the king has come in peace
to his own house.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:31">31 </verse></sup>Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim;
and he went over the Jordan with the king to
conduct him over the Jordan. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:32">32 </verse></sup>Now Barzillai was
a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had
provided the king with sustenance while he stayed
at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:33">33 </verse></sup>The
king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will
sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:34">34 </verse></sup>Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the
days of the years of my life, that I should go up
with the king to Jerusalem? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:35">35 </verse></sup>I am eighty years
old, today. Can I discern between good and bad?
Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink?
Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing
women any more? Why then should your servant
be a burden to my lord the king? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:36">36 </verse></sup>Your servant will
just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should
the king repay me with such a reward? <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:37">37 </verse></sup>Please let
your servant turn back again, that I may die in my
own city, by the grave of my father and my mother.
But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him what shall
seem good to you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:38">38 </verse></sup>The king answered, “Chimham shall go over
with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem
good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will
do for you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:39">39 </verse></sup>All the people went over the Jordan, and the
king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai and
blessed him; and he returned to his own place. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:40><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:40">40 </verse></sup>So
the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went
over with him. All the people of Judah brought
the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:41><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:41">41 </verse></sup>Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and
said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men
of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and
his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men
with him?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:42><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:42">42 </verse></sup>All the men of Judah answered the men of
Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us.
Why then are you angry about this matter? Have
we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us
any gift?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 19:43><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 19:43">43 </verse></sup>The men of Israel answered the men of Judah,
and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we
have also more claim to David than you. Why then
did you despise us, that our advice should not be
first had in bringing back our king?” The words of
the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the
men of Israel.

#BCV:2 Samuel 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:1">1 </verse></sup>There happened to be there a wicked fellow,
whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite;
and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have
no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in
the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:2">2 </verse></sup>So all the men of Israel went up from following
David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but
the men of Judah joined with their king, from the
Jordan even to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:3">3 </verse></sup>David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the
king took the ten women his concubines, whom he
had left to keep the house, and put them in custody
and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go
in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their
death, living in widowhood.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men
of Judah together within three days, and be here
present.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:5">5 </verse></sup>So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together,
but he stayed longer than the set time which
had been appointed to him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:6">6 </verse></sup>David said to Abishai,
“Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm
than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and
pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities,
and escape out of our sight.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Joab’s men went out after him with the
Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men;
and they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the
son of Bichri. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:8">8 </verse></sup>When they were at the great stone
which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab
was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put
on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on
his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell
out. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my
brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his
right hand to kiss him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:10">10 </verse></sup>But Amasa took no heed
to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck
him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to
the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died.
Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son
of Bichri. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:11">11 </verse></sup>One of Joab’s young men stood by him,
and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for
David, let him follow Joab!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle
of the highway. When the man saw that all the
people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the
highway into the field, and cast a garment over him
when he saw that everyone who came by him stood
still. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:13">13 </verse></sup>When he was removed out of the highway, all
the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the
son of Bichri. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:14">14 </verse></sup>He went through all the tribes of
Israel to Abel, to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites.
They were gathered together, and went also after
him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:15">15 </verse></sup>They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth
Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city,
and it stood against the rampart; and all the people
who were with Joab battered the wall to throw it
down.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear,
hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may
speak with you.’ ” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:17">17 </verse></sup>He came near to her; and the
woman said, “Are you Joab?”
<br>
He answered, “I am.”
<br>
Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your
servant.”
<br>
He answered, “I’m listening.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old
times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel,’ and so
they settled a matter. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:19">19 </verse></sup>I am among those who are
peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy
a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow
up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that
I should swallow up or destroy. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:21">21 </verse></sup>The matter is not
so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba
the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand
against the king, even against David. Just deliver
him, and I will depart from the city.”
The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be
thrown to you over the wall.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Then the woman went to all the people in
her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the
son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew
the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the
city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to
Jerusalem to the king.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:23">23 </verse></sup>Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites
and over the Pelethites, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:24">24 </verse></sup>Adoram was over the
men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud was the recorder, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:25">25 </verse></sup>Sheva was scribe, Zadok
and Abiathar were priests, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 20:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 20:26">26 </verse></sup>and Ira the Jairite was
chief minister to David.

#BCV:2 Samuel 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:1">1 </verse></sup>There was a famine in the days of David for three
years, year after year; and David sought the face
of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for
his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to
death.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:2">2 </verse></sup>The king called the Gibeonites and said to them
(now the Gibeonites were not of the children of
Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and
the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul
sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of
Israel and Judah); <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:3">3 </verse></sup>and David said to the Gibeonites,
“What should I do for you? And with what should
I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s
inheritance?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:4">4 </verse></sup>The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of
silver or gold between us and Saul or his house;
neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.”
He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:5">5 </verse></sup>They said to the king, “The man who consumed
us and who plotted against us, that we should be
destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of
Israel, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:6">6 </verse></sup>let seven men of his sons be delivered to us,
and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of
Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.”
<br>
The king said, “I will give them.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:7">7 </verse></sup>But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of
Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s
oath that was between them, between David and
Jonathan the son of Saul. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:8">8 </verse></sup>But the king took the two
sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore
to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five
sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore
to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:9">9 </verse></sup>He
delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites;
and they hanged them on the mountain before
Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They
were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first
days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and
spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning
of harvest until water poured on them from the
sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to
rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by
night. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:11">11 </verse></sup>David was told what Rizpah the daughter of
Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:12">12 </verse></sup>So David
went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead,
who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan,
where the Philistines had hanged them in the day
that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:13">13 </verse></sup>and he
brought up from there the bones of Saul and the
bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the
bones of those who were hanged. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:14">14 </verse></sup>They buried the
bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of
Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and
they performed all that the king commanded. After
that, God answered prayer for the land.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:15">15 </verse></sup>The Philistines had war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and
fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:16">16 </verse></sup>and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the
giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred
shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with
a new sword, thought he would kill David. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:17">17 </verse></sup>But
Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck
the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David
swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle
any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of
Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:18">18 </verse></sup>After this, there was again war with the
Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite
killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:19">19 </verse></sup>There was again war with the Philistines at Gob,
and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite
killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff
of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:20">20 </verse></sup>There
was again war at Gath, where there was a man of
great stature, who had six fingers on every hand
and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number,
and he also was born to the giant. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:21">21 </verse></sup>When he defied
Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother,
killed him. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 21:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 21:22">22 </verse></sup>These four were born to the giant in
Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the
hand of his servants.

#BCV:2 Samuel 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:1">1 </verse></sup>David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in
the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand
of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:2">2 </verse></sup>and
he said:
<br>
“Yahweh is my rock,
<br>
my fortress,
<br>
and my deliverer, even mine;

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:3">3 </verse></sup>God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge.
<br>
My savior, you save me from violence.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:4">4 </verse></sup>I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:5">5 </verse></sup>For the waves of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:6">6 </verse></sup>The cords of Sheol<footnote:1>22:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> were around me.
The snares of death caught me.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:7">7 </verse></sup>In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
Yes, I called to my God.
<br>
He heard my voice out of his temple.
<br>
My cry came into his ears.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the earth shook and trembled.
<br>
The foundations of heaven quaked and were
shaken,
<br>
because he was angry.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
<br>
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:10">10 </verse></sup>He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:11">11 </verse></sup>He rode on a cherub, and flew.
<br>
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:12">12 </verse></sup>He made darkness a shelter around himself,
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the
skies.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:13">13 </verse></sup>At the brightness before him,
<br>
coals of fire were kindled.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh thundered from heaven.
<br>
The Most High uttered his voice.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:15">15 </verse></sup>He sent out arrows and scattered them,
lightning and confused them.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the channels of the sea appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare by
Yahweh’s rebuke,
<br>
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:17">17 </verse></sup>He sent from on high and he took me.
He drew me out of many waters.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:18">18 </verse></sup>He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me, for they were too
mighty for me.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:19">19 </verse></sup>They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:20">20 </verse></sup>He also brought me out into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
He rewarded me according to the cleanness of
my hands.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:22">22 </verse></sup>For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
<br>
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:23">23 </verse></sup>For all his ordinances were before me.
As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:24">24 </verse></sup>I was also perfect toward him.
<br>
I kept myself from my iniquity.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to
my righteousness,
<br>
According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:26">26 </verse></sup>With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man you will show yourself
perfect.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:27">27 </verse></sup>With the pure you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself
shrewd.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:28">28 </verse></sup>You will save the afflicted people,
but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may
bring them down.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:29">29 </verse></sup>For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
<br>
Yahweh will light up my darkness.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:30">30 </verse></sup>For by you, I run against a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:31">31 </verse></sup>As for God, his way is perfect.
<br>
Yahweh’s word is tested.
<br>
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in
him.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:32">32 </verse></sup>For who is God, besides Yahweh?
<br>
Who is a rock, besides our God?

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:33">33 </verse></sup>God is my strong fortress.
<br>
He makes my way perfect.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:34">34 </verse></sup>He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
and sets me on my high places.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:35">35 </verse></sup>He teaches my hands to war,
<br>
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:36">36 </verse></sup>You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your gentleness has made me great.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:37">37 </verse></sup>You have enlarged my steps under me.
My feet have not slipped.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:38">38 </verse></sup>I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:39">39 </verse></sup>I have consumed them,
<br>
and struck them through,
<br>
so that they can’t arise.
<br>
Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:40><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:40">40 </verse></sup>For you have armed me with strength for the
battle.
<br>
You have subdued under me those who rose up
against me.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:41><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:41">41 </verse></sup>You have also made my enemies turn their backs
to me,
<br>
that I might cut off those who hate me.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:42><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:42">42 </verse></sup>They looked, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:43><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:43">43 </verse></sup>Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and
spread them abroad.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:44><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:44">44 </verse></sup>You also have delivered me from the strivings of
my people.
<br>
You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:45><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:45">45 </verse></sup>The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:46><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:46">46 </verse></sup>The foreigners will fade away,
<br>
and will come trembling out of their close
places.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:47><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:47">47 </verse></sup>Yahweh lives!
<br>
Blessed be my rock!
<br>
Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:48><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:48">48 </verse></sup>even the God who executes vengeance for
me,
<br>
who brings down peoples under me,

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:49><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:49">49 </verse></sup>who brings me away from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against
me.
<br>
You deliver me from the violent man.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:50><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:50">50 </verse></sup>Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh,
among the nations,
<br>
and will sing praises to your name.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 22:51><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 22:51">51 </verse></sup>He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

#BCV:2 Samuel 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the last words of David.
David the son of Jesse says,
<br>
the man who was raised on high says,
<br>
the anointed of the God of Jacob,
<br>
the sweet psalmist of Israel:

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me.
<br>
His word was on my tongue.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:3">3 </verse></sup>The God of Israel said,
<br>
the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
<br>
‘One who rules over men righteously,
<br>
who rules in the fear of God,

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:4">4 </verse></sup>shall be as the light of the morning when the sun
rises,
<br>
a morning without clouds,
<br>
when the tender grass springs out of the earth,
through clear shining after rain.’

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Isn’t my house so with God?
<br>
Yet he has made with me an everlasting
covenant,
<br>
ordered in all things, and sure,
<br>
for it is all my salvation and all my desire.
Won’t he make it grow?

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:6">6 </verse></sup>But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust
away,
<br>
because they can’t be taken with the hand.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:7">7 </verse></sup>The man who touches them must be armed with
iron and the staff of a spear.
<br>
They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:8">8 </verse></sup>These are the names of the mighty men whom
David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite,
chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite,
who killed eight hundred at one time. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:9">9 </verse></sup>After him
was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men with David when
they defied the Philistines who were there gathered
together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone
away. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:10">10 </verse></sup>He arose and struck the Philistines until
his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the
sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that
day; and the people returned after him only to
take plunder. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:11">11 </verse></sup>After him was Shammah the son
of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered
together into a troop where there was a plot of
ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the
Philistines. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:12">12 </verse></sup>But he stood in the middle of the
plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and
Yahweh worked a great victory.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Three of the thirty chief men went down, and
came to David in the harvest time to the cave
of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was
encamped in the valley of Rephaim. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:14">14 </verse></sup>David was
then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:15">15 </verse></sup>David said
longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water
to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the
gate!”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:16">16 </verse></sup>The three mighty men broke through the army
of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well
of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and
brought it to David; but he would not drink of it,
but poured it out to Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “Be it far
from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this
the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?”
Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty
men did these things.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:18">18 </verse></sup>Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against
three hundred and killed them, and had a name
among the three. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:19">19 </verse></sup>Wasn’t he most honorable of
the three? Therefore he was made their captain.
However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed
the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down
and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time
of snow. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:21">21 </verse></sup>He killed a huge Egyptian, and the
Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down
to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the
Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:22">22 </verse></sup>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and
had a name among the three mighty men. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:23">23 </verse></sup>He was
more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain
to the three. David set him over his guard.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:24">24 </verse></sup>Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty:
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:25">25 </verse></sup>Shammah
the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:26">26 </verse></sup>Helez the Paltite,
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:27">27 </verse></sup>Abiezer the
Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Zalmon
the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:29">29 </verse></sup>Heleb
the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son
of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of
Gaash. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:31">31 </verse></sup>Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the
Barhumite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:32">32 </verse></sup>Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of
Jashen, Jonathan, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:33">33 </verse></sup>Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam
the son of Sharar the Ararite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:34">34 </verse></sup>Eliphelet the son of
Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son
of Ahithophel the Gilonite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:35">35 </verse></sup>Hezro the Carmelite,
Paarai the Arbite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:36">36 </verse></sup>Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah,
Bani the Gadite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:37">37 </verse></sup>Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai
the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of
Zeruiah, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:38">38 </verse></sup>Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, <key:bcv=2 Samuel 23:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 23:39">39 </verse></sup>and
Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

#BCV:2 Samuel 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and
he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count
Israel and Judah.” <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:2">2 </verse></sup>The king said to Joab the captain
of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and
forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even
to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know
the sum of the people.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your
God add to the people, however many they may be,
one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the
king see it. But why does my lord the king delight
in this thing?”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:4">4 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed
against Joab and against the captains of the army.
Joab and the captains of the army went out from
the presence of the king to count the people of
Israel. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:5">5 </verse></sup>They passed over the Jordan and encamped
in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the
middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer; <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:6">6 </verse></sup>then they
came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi;
and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:7">7 </verse></sup>and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all
the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and
they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:8">8 </verse></sup>So when they had gone back and forth through all
the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine
months and twenty days. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:9">9 </verse></sup>Joab gave up the sum of
the counting of the people to the king; and there
were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men
who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five
hundred thousand men.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:10">10 </verse></sup>David’s heart struck him after he had counted
the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned
greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh,
put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for
I have done very foolishly.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:11">11 </verse></sup>When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s
word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:12">12 </verse></sup>“Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you
three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it
to you.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:13">13 </verse></sup>So Gad came to David, and told him, saying,
“Shall seven years of famine come to you in your
land? Or will you flee three months before your foes
while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’
pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider
what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:14">14 </verse></sup>David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall
now into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are great.
Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:15">15 </verse></sup>So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the
morning even to the appointed time; and seventy
thousand men died of the people from Dan even
to Beersheba. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:16">16 </verse></sup>When the angel stretched out
his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh
relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who
destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw
your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing
floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:17">17 </verse></sup>David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel
who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have
sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep,
what have they done? Please let your hand be
against me, and against my father’s house.”
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go
up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor
of Araunah the Jebusite.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:19">19 </verse></sup>David went up according to the saying of
Gad, as Yahweh commanded. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Araunah looked
out, and saw the king and his servants coming on
toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:21">21 </verse></sup>Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to
his servant?”
<br>
David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build
an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped
from afflicting the people.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king
take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold,
the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing
sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:23">23 </verse></sup>All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.”
Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God
accept you.”

<key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:24">24 </verse></sup>The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most
certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer
burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me
nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and
the oxen for fifty shekels<footnote:1>24:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels is about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.</footnote> of silver. <key:bcv=2 Samuel 24:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Samuel 24:25">25 </verse></sup>David built an
altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for
the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Kings
<h2>The First Book of Kings</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now King David was old and advanced in years;
and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t
keep warm. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore his servants said to him,
“Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king.
Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and
let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may
keep warm.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:3">3 </verse></sup>So they sought for a beautiful young
lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found
Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the
king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:4">4 </verse></sup>The young lady was very beautiful; and she
cherished the king, and served him; but the king
didn’t know her intimately.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,
saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him
chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before
him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:6">6 </verse></sup>His father had not displeased him at any
time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he
was also a very handsome man; and he was born
after Absalom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:7">7 </verse></sup>He conferred with Joab the son
of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they
followed Adonijah and helped him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But Zadok
the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan
the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who
belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the
stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and
he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all
the men of Judah, the king’s servants; <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:10">10 </verse></sup>but he
didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and
the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother
of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah
the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord
doesn’t know it? <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore come, please
let me give you counsel, that you may save your
own life and your son Solomon’s life. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Go in
to King David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord
the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly
Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall
sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:14 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> while you are still talking there with the
king, I will also come in after you and confirm your
words.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The
king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was
serving the king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Bathsheba bowed and showed
respect to the king. The king said, “What would you
like?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:17">17 </verse></sup>She said to him, “My lord, you swore by
Yahweh<footnote:1>1:17 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> your God<footnote:1>1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> to your servant, ‘Assuredly
Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall
sit on my throne.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Now, behold, Adonijah reigns;
and you, my lord the king, don’t know it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:19">19 </verse></sup>He has
slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance,
and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the
priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he
hasn’t called Solomon your servant. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:20">20 </verse></sup>You, my lord
the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you
should tell them who will sit on the throne of my
lord the king after him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Otherwise it will happen,
when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I
and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, while she was still talking with the
king, Nathan the prophet came in. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:23">23 </verse></sup>They told the
king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!”
When he had come in before the king, he bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Nathan said, “My lord, King, have you said,
‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on
my throne?’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:25">25 </verse></sup>For he has gone down today, and
has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance,
and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of
the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are
eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long
live King Adonijah!’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:26">26 </verse></sup>But he hasn’t called me,
even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you
haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on
the throne of my lord the king after him?”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba in
to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood
before the king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:29">29 </verse></sup>The king vowed and said, “As
Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of
all adversity, <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:30">30 </verse></sup>most certainly as I swore to you
by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly
Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall
sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly
do this today.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:31">31 </verse></sup>Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the
earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let
my lord King David live forever!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:32">32 </verse></sup>King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest,
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.”
They came before the king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:33">33 </verse></sup>The king
said to them, “Take with you the servants of your
lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own
mule, and bring him down to Gihon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:34">34 </verse></sup>Let Zadok
the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there
king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long
live King Solomon!’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:35">35 </verse></sup>Then come up after him, and
he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be
king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince
over Israel and over Judah.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:36">36 </verse></sup>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king,
and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord
the king, say so. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:37">37 </verse></sup>As Yahweh has been with my lord
the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make
his throne greater than the throne of my lord King
David.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:38">38 </verse></sup>So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the
Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King
David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:39">39 </verse></sup>Zadok
the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and
anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all
the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:40">40 </verse></sup>All the people came up after him, and the people
piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so
that the earth shook with their sound. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:41">41 </verse></sup>Adonijah
and all the guests who were with him heard it as
they had finished eating. When Joab heard the
sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of
the city being in an uproar?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:42">42 </verse></sup>While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of
Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come
in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:43">43 </verse></sup>Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly
our lord King David has made Solomon king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:44">44 </verse></sup>The
king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan
the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have
caused him to ride on the king’s mule. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:45">45 </verse></sup>Zadok
the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed
him king in Gihon. They have come up from there
rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the
noise that you have heard. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:46">46 </verse></sup>Also, Solomon sits on
the throne of the kingdom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:47">47 </verse></sup>Moreover the king’s
servants came to bless our lord King David, saying,
‘May your God make the name of Solomon better
than your name, and make his throne greater than
your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the
bed. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:48">48 </verse></sup>Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh,
the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my
throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:49">49 </verse></sup>All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose
up, and each man went his way. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:50">50 </verse></sup>Adonijah was
afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went,
and hung onto the horns of the altar. <key:bcv=1 Kings 1:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:51">51 </verse></sup>Solomon
was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon; for,
behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar,
saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he
will not kill his servant with the sword.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:52">52 </verse></sup>Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy
man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if
wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 1:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 1:53">53 </verse></sup>So King Solomon sent, and they brought him
down from the altar. He came and bowed down to
King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your
house.”

#BCV:1 Kings 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the days of David came near that he should
die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“I am going the way of all the earth. You be
strong therefore, and show yourself a man; <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:3">3 </verse></sup>and
keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in
his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments,
his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to
that which is written in the law of Moses, that
you may prosper in all that you do and wherever
you turn yourself. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh may establish
his word which he spoke concerning me, saying,
‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk
before me in truth with all their heart and with all
their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man
on the throne of Israel.’

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:5">5 </verse></sup>“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of
Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two
captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son
of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he
killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put
the blood of war on his sash that was around his
waist and in his sandals that were on his feet. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Do
therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let
his gray head go down to Sheol<footnote:1>2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> in peace. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:7">7 </verse></sup>But show
kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
let them be among those who eat at your table; for
so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your
brother.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:8">8 </verse></sup>“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of
Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me
with a grievous curse in the day when I went to
Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the
Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I
will not put you to death with the sword.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Now
therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a
wise man; and you will know what you ought to do
to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to
Sheol<footnote:1>2:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> with blood.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:10">10 </verse></sup>David slept with his fathers, and was buried
in David’s city. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The days that David reigned
over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years
in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Solomon sat on David his father’s
throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to
Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do
you come peaceably?”

He said, “Peaceably. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:14">14 </verse></sup>He said moreover, I have
something to tell you.”
<br>
She said, “Say on.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:15">15 </verse></sup>He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine,
and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should
reign. However, the kingdom is turned around,
and has become my brother’s; for it was his from
Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t
deny me.”
<br>
She said to him, “Say on.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for
he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the
Shunammite as wife.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you
to the king.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to
speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet
her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his
throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s
mother; and she sat on his right hand. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Then she
said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny
me.”
<br>
The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I
will not deny you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:21">21 </verse></sup>She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be
given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:22">22 </verse></sup>King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do
you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask
for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother;
even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for
Joab the son of Zeruiah.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Then King Solomon
swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and
more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word
against his own life. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:24">24 </verse></sup>Now therefore as Yahweh
lives, who has established me and set me on my
father David’s throne, and who has made me a
house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put
to death today.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:25">25 </verse></sup>King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
and he fell on him, so that he died. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:26">26 </verse></sup>To Abiathar
the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your
own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will
not at this time put you to death, because you bore
the Lord<footnote:1>2:26 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh’s ark before David my father,
and because you were afflicted in all in which my
father was afflicted.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:27">27 </verse></sup>So Solomon thrust Abiathar
out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might
fulfill Yahweh’s word which he spoke concerning
the house of Eli in Shiloh.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:28">28 </verse></sup>This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed
Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab
fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of
the altar. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:29">29 </verse></sup>King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to
Yahweh’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then
Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying,
“Go, fall on him.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:30">30 </verse></sup>Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to
him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’ ”
<br>
He said, “No; but I will die here.”
<br>
Benaiah brought the king word again, saying,
“This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered
me.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:31">31 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall
on him, and bury him, that you may take away the
blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and
from my father’s house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:32">32 </verse></sup>Yahweh will return his
blood on his own head, because he fell on two men
more righteous and better than he, and killed them
with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it:
Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel,
and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of
Judah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:33">33 </verse></sup>So their blood will return on the head of
Joab and on the head of his offspring<footnote:1>2:33 or, seed</footnote> forever. But
for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his
throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:34">34 </verse></sup>Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and
fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in
his own house in the wilderness. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:35">35 </verse></sup>The king put
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the
army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place
of Abiathar.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:36">36 </verse></sup>The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to
him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live
there, and don’t go anywhere else. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:37">37 </verse></sup>For on the day
you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for
certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be
on your own head.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:38">38 </verse></sup>Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good.
As my lord the king has said, so will your servant
do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:39">39 </verse></sup>At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves
ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath.
They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are
in Gath.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:40">40 </verse></sup>Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to
Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went
and brought his slaves from Gath. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:41">41 </verse></sup>Solomon was
told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath,
and had come again.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:42">42 </verse></sup>The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to
him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh and warn you,
saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out
and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You
said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’
<key:bcv=1 Kings 2:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:43">43 </verse></sup>Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh
and the commandment that I have instructed you
with?” <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:44">44 </verse></sup>The king said moreover to Shimei, “You
know in your heart all the wickedness that you did
to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return
your wickedness on your own head. <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:45">45 </verse></sup>But King
Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be
established before Yahweh forever.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 2:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 2:46">46 </verse></sup>So the king
commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he
went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The
kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

#BCV:1 Kings 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh
king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and
brought her into David’s city until he had finished
building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the
wall around Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:2">2 </verse></sup>However, the people sacrificed
in the high places, because there was not yet
a house built for Yahweh’s name. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Solomon loved
Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father,
except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the
high places. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:4">4 </verse></sup>The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice
there, for that was the great high place. Solomon
offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:5">5 </verse></sup>In
Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream
by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give
you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant
David my father great loving kindness, because he
walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for
him this great loving kindness, that you have given
him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Now,
Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king
instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I
don’t know how to go out or come in. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Your servant
is among your people which you have chosen, a
great people, that can’t be numbered or counted
for multitude. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Give your servant therefore an
understanding heart to judge your people, that I
may discern between good and evil; for who is able
to judge this great people of yours?”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:10">10 </verse></sup>This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon
had asked this thing. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:11">11 </verse></sup>God said to him, “Because
you have asked this thing, and have not asked for
yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for
yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your
enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding
to discern justice, <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:12">12 </verse></sup>behold, I have done according
to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and
understanding heart, so that there has been no one
like you before you, and after you none will arise
like you. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:13">13 </verse></sup>I have also given you that which you
have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there
will not be any among the kings like you for all
your days. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:14">14 </verse></sup>If you will walk in my ways, to keep
my statutes and my commandments, as your father
David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream.
Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the
ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt
offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast
for all his servants.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Then two women who were prostitutes came
to the king, and stood before him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:17">17 </verse></sup>The one
woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell
in one house. I delivered a child with her in the
house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:18">18 </verse></sup>The third day after I delivered, this woman
delivered also. We were together. There was no
stranger with us in the house, just us two in the
house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:19">19 </verse></sup>This woman’s child died in the night,
because she lay on it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:20">20 </verse></sup>She arose at midnight,
and took my son from beside me while your servant
slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:21">21 </verse></sup>When I rose in the morning
to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when
I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was
not my son whom I bore.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:22">22 </verse></sup>The other woman said, “No! But the living one
is my son, and the dead one is your son.”
The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your
son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like
this before the king.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son
who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other
says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son
is the living one.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:24">24 </verse></sup>The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they
brought a sword before the king.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:25">25 </verse></sup>The king said, “Divide the living child in two,
and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:26">26 </verse></sup>Then the woman whose the living child was
spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her
son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living
child, and in no way kill him!”
<br>
But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor
yours. Divide him.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Then the king answered, “Give the first woman
the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She
is his mother.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 3:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 3:28">28 </verse></sup>All Israel heard of the judgment which the king
had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw
that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

#BCV:1 Kings 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:1">1 </verse></sup>King Solomon was king over all Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:2">2 </verse></sup>These
were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of
Zadok, the priest; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of
Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the
recorder; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Azariah
the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the
son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram
the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced
labor.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who
provided food for the king and his household. Each
man had to make provision for a month in the
year. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:8">8 </verse></sup>These are their names: Ben Hur, in the
hill country of Ephraim; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Ben Deker, in Makaz,
in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land
of Hepher belonged to him); <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Ben Abinadab, in
all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s
daughter, as wife); <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Baana the son of Ahilud, in
Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is
beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean
to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Ben
Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son
of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him;
and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty
great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged
to him); <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the
daughter of Solomon as wife); <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Baana the son of
Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat the
son of Paruah, in Issachar; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Shimei the son of Ela,
in Benjamin; <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Geber the son of Uri, in the land of
Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites
and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer
who was in the land.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand
which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking
and making merry. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Solomon ruled over
all the kingdoms from the River to the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They
brought tribute and served Solomon all the days
of his life. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Solomon’s provision for one day was
thirty cors<footnote:1>4:22 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels</footnote> of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:23">23 </verse></sup>ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out
of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition
to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:24">24 </verse></sup>For
he had dominion over all on this side the River,
from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on
this side the River; and he had peace on all sides
around him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Judah and Israel lived safely, every
man under his vine and under his fig tree, from
Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses
for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Those officers provided food for King Solomon,
and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, every
man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 4:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:28">28 </verse></sup>They also brought barley and straw for the horses
and swift steeds to the place where the officers
were, each man according to his duty. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:29">29 </verse></sup>God
gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding,
and breadth of mind like the sand that is on the
seashore. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:30">30 </verse></sup>Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom
of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of
Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:31">31 </verse></sup>For he was wiser than all men—wiser than
Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the
sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations
all around. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:32">32 </verse></sup>He spoke three thousand proverbs,
and his songs numbered one thousand five. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:33">33 </verse></sup>He
spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon
even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he
also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things,
and of fish. <key:bcv=1 Kings 4:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 4:34">34 </verse></sup>People of all nations came to hear the
wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth
who had heard of his wisdom.

#BCV:1 Kings 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon,
for he had heard that they had anointed him king in
the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved
David. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:3">3 </verse></sup>“You know
that David my father could not build a house for
the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars
which were around him on every side, until Yahweh
put his enemies under the soles of his feet. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:4">4 </verse></sup>But
now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every
side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, I intend to build a house for the name
of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my
father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your
throne in your place shall build the house for my
name.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Now therefore command that cedar trees
be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be
with your servants; and I will give you wages for
your servants according to all that you say. For you
know that there is nobody among us who knows
how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:7">7 </verse></sup>When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he
rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today,
who has given to David a wise son to rule over this
great people.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I
have heard the message which you have sent to me.
I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar,
and concerning cypress timber. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:9">9 </verse></sup>My servants will
bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will
make them into rafts to go by sea to the place
that you specify to me, and will cause them to be
broken up there, and you will receive them. You
will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my
household.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:10">10 </verse></sup>So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress
timber according to all his desire. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Solomon
gave Hiram twenty thousand cors<footnote:1>5:11 20,000 cors would be about 120,000 bushels or about 4.2 megaliters of wheat, which would weigh about 3,270 metric tons. </footnote> of wheat for
food to his household, and twenty cors<footnote:1>5:11 20 cors is about 1,100 gallons or about 4220 liters. </footnote> of pure oil.
Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh
gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There
was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the
two of them made a treaty together.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:13">13 </verse></sup>King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and
the levy was thirty thousand men. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:14">14 </verse></sup>He sent them
to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for
a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at
home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to
forced labor. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Solomon had seventy thousand who
bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone
cutters in the mountains, <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:16">16 </verse></sup>besides Solomon’s chief
officers who were over the work: three thousand
three hundred who ruled over the people who
labored in the work. <key:bcv=1 Kings 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:17">17 </verse></sup>The king commanded, and
they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay
the foundation of the house with worked stone.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the
Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and
the stones to build the house.

#BCV:1 Kings 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:1">1 </verse></sup>In the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt,
in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel,
in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he
began to build Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:2">2 </verse></sup>The house which
King Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty
cubits,<footnote:1>6:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> and its width twenty, and its height thirty
cubits. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:3">3 </verse></sup>The porch in front of the temple of the
house had a length of twenty cubits, which was
along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its
width in front of the house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:4">4 </verse></sup>He made windows of
fixed lattice work for the house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Against the wall
of the house, he built floors all around, against the
walls of the house all around, both of the temple
and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms
all around. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:6">6 </verse></sup>The lowest floor was five cubits wide,
and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third
was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made
offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the
beams should not be inserted into the walls of the
house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The house, when it was under construction,
was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no
hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the
house while it was under construction. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:8">8 </verse></sup>The door
for the middle side rooms was in the right side of
the house. They went up by winding stairs into
the middle floor, and out of the middle into the
third. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:9">9 </verse></sup>So he built the house and finished it; and
he covered the house with beams and planks of
cedar. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:10">10 </verse></sup>He built the floors all along the house, each
five cubits high; and they rested on the house with
timbers of cedar.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:12">12 </verse></sup>“Concerning this house which you are building,
if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my
ordinances, and keep all my commandments to
walk in them, then I will establish my word with
you, which I spoke to David your father. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:13">13 </verse></sup>I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
forsake my people Israel.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:14">14 </verse></sup>So Solomon built the house and finished it.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:15">15 </verse></sup>He built the walls of the house within with boards
of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls
of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with
wood. He covered the floor of the house with
cypress boards. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:16">16 </verse></sup>He built twenty cubits of the
back part of the house with boards of cedar from
the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for
an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:17">17 </verse></sup>In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits
long. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:18">18 </verse></sup>There was cedar on the house within, carved
with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No
stone was visible. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:19">19 </verse></sup>He prepared an inner sanctuary
in the middle of the house within, to set the ark
of Yahweh’s covenant there. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Within the inner
sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty
cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height. He
overlaid it with pure gold. He covered the altar with
cedar. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:21">21 </verse></sup>So Solomon overlaid the house within with
pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the
inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:22">22 </verse></sup>He
overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the
house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar
that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:23">23 </verse></sup>In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim<footnote:1>6:23 “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being. </footnote>
of olive wood, each ten cubits high. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:24">24 </verse></sup>Five cubits
was the length of one wing of the cherub, and
five cubits was the length of the other wing of the
cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the
other was ten cubits. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:25">25 </verse></sup>The other cherub was ten
cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and
one form. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:26">26 </verse></sup>One cherub was ten cubits high, and so
was the other cherub. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:27">27 </verse></sup>He set the cherubim within
the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were
stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched
the one wall and the wing of the other cherub
touched the other wall; and their wings touched one
another in the middle of the house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:28">28 </verse></sup>He overlaid
the cherubim with gold.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:29">29 </verse></sup>He carved all the walls of the house around with
carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open
flowers, inside and outside. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:30">30 </verse></sup>He overlaid the floor
of the house with gold, inside and outside. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:31">31 </verse></sup>For the
entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of
olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth
part of the wall. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:32">32 </verse></sup>So he made two doors of olive
wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim,
palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them
with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and
on the palm trees. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:33">33 </verse></sup>He also made the entrance of
the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth
part of the wall, <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:34">34 </verse></sup>and two doors of cypress wood.
The two leaves of the one door were folding, and
the two leaves of the other door were folding. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:35">35 </verse></sup>He
carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and
he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved
work. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:36">36 </verse></sup>He built the inner court with three courses
of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 6:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:37">37 </verse></sup>The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in
the fourth year, in the month Ziv. <key:bcv=1 Kings 6:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 6:38">38 </verse></sup>In the eleventh
year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month,
the house was finished throughout all its parts and
according to all its specifications. So he spent seven
years building it.

#BCV:1 Kings 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Solomon was building his own house thirteen
years, and he finished all his house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:2">2 </verse></sup>For he built
the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length
was one hundred cubits,<footnote:1>7:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> its width fifty cubits,
and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar
pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:3">3 </verse></sup>It was
covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams
that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:4">4 </verse></sup>There
were beams in three rows, and window was facing
window in three ranks. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:5">5 </verse></sup>All the doors and posts
were made square with beams; and window was
facing window in three ranks. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:6">6 </verse></sup>He made the hall
of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width
thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars
and a threshold before them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:7">7 </verse></sup>He made the porch
of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch
of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from
floor to floor. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:8">8 </verse></sup>His house where he was to dwell,
the other court within the porch, was of the same
construction. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s
daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like
this porch. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:9">9 </verse></sup>All these were of costly stones, even of
stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws,
inside and outside, even from the foundation to the
coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The foundation was of costly stones, even great
stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight
cubits. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Above were costly stones, even cut stone,
according to measure, and cedar wood. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:12">12 </verse></sup>The great
court around had three courses of cut stone with
a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of
Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:13">13 </verse></sup>King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of
Tyre. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:14">14 </verse></sup>He was the son of a widow of the tribe
of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a
worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom
and understanding and skill to work all works in
bronze. He came to King Solomon and performed
all his work. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:15">15 </verse></sup>For he fashioned the two pillars of
bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of
twelve cubits encircled either of them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:16">16 </verse></sup>He made
two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops
of the pillars. The height of the one capital was
five cubits, and the height of the other capital was
five cubits. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:17">17 </verse></sup>There were nets of checker work and
wreaths of chain work for the capitals which were
on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital,
and seven for the other capital. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:18">18 </verse></sup>So he made the
pillars; and there were two rows of pomegranates
around the one network, to cover the capitals that
were on the top of the pillars; and he did so for
the other capital. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The capitals that were on the
top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work,
four cubits. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:20">20 </verse></sup>There were capitals above also on the
two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the
network. There were two hundred pomegranates
in rows around the other capital. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:21">21 </verse></sup>He set up the
pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the
right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set
up the left pillar and called its name Boaz. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:22">22 </verse></sup>On the
tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the
pillars was finished.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:23">23 </verse></sup>He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim
to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits;
and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Under
its brim around there were buds which encircled it
for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were
in two rows, cast when it was cast. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:25">25 </verse></sup>It stood on
twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking
toward the south, and three looking toward the
east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their
hindquarters were inward. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:26">26 </verse></sup>It was a hand width
thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup,
like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:27">27 </verse></sup>He made the ten bases of bronze. The length
of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width,
and three cubits its height. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:28">28 </verse></sup>The work of the bases
was like this: they had panels; and there were panels
between the ledges; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:29">29 </verse></sup>and on the panels that were
between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim;
and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and
beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging
work. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:30">30 </verse></sup>Every base had four bronze wheels and
axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports. The
supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths
at the side of each. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:31">31 </verse></sup>Its opening within the capital
and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like
the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also
on its opening were engravings, and their panels
were square, not round. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:32">32 </verse></sup>The four wheels were
underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels
were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit
and half a cubit. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:33">33 </verse></sup>The work of the wheels was like
the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims,
their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:34">34 </verse></sup>There were four supports at the four corners of
each base. Its supports were of the base itself. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:35">35 </verse></sup>In
the top of the base there was a round band half a
cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports
and its panels were the same. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:36">36 </verse></sup>On the plates of its
supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim,
lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths
all around. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:37">37 </verse></sup>He made the ten bases in this way:
all of them had one casting, one measure, and one
form. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:38">38 </verse></sup>He made ten basins of bronze. One basin
contained forty baths.<footnote:1>7:38 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters, so 40 baths was about 224 gallons or 840 liters.</footnote> Every basin measured four
cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:39">39 </verse></sup>He set the bases, five on the right side of the house
and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea
on the right side of the house eastward and toward
the south.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:40">40 </verse></sup>Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the
basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he
worked for King Solomon in Yahweh’s house: <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:41">41 </verse></sup>the
two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were
on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover
the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top
of the pillars; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:42">42 </verse></sup>the four hundred pomegranates
for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates
for each network, to cover the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the pillars; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:43">43 </verse></sup>the ten bases; the
ten basins on the bases; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:44">44 </verse></sup>the one sea; the twelve
oxen under the sea; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:45">45 </verse></sup>the pots; the shovels; and the
basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for
King Solomon in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished
bronze. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:46">46 </verse></sup>The king cast them in the plain of the
Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zarethan. <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:47">47 </verse></sup>Solomon left all the vessels unweighed,
because there were so many of them. The weight of
the bronze could not be determined.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:48">48 </verse></sup>Solomon made all the vessels that were in
Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that
the show bread was on, of gold; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:49">49 </verse></sup>and the lamp
stands, five on the right side and five on the left,
in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and
the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; <key:bcv=1 Kings 7:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:50">50 </verse></sup>the
cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the
fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the
doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and
for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 7:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 7:51">51 </verse></sup>Thus all the work that King Solomon did in
Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in
the things which David his father had dedicated—
the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them
in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.

#BCV:1 Kings 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel
with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of
the fathers’ households of the children of Israel,
to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is
Zion. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:2">2 </verse></sup>All the men of Israel assembled themselves
to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim,
which is the seventh month. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:3">3 </verse></sup>All the elders of Israel
came, and the priests picked up the ark. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:4">4 </verse></sup>They
brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and
all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The
priests and the Levites brought these up. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:5">5 </verse></sup>King
Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who
were assembled to him, were with him before the
ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be
counted or numbered for multitude. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:6">6 </verse></sup>The priests
brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place,
into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most
holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For
the cherubim spread their wings out over the place
of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its
poles above. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:8">8 </verse></sup>The poles were so long that the ends
of the poles were seen from the holy place before
the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside.
They are there to this day. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:9">9 </verse></sup>There was nothing in
the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses
put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant
with the children of Israel, when they came out of
the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:10">10 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when the
priests had come out of the holy place, that the
cloud filled Yahweh’s house, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:11">11 </verse></sup>so that the priests
could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud;
for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:13">13 </verse></sup>I have surely
built you a house of habitation, a place for you to
dwell in forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:14">14 </verse></sup>The king turned his face around and blessed
all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of
Israel stood. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God
of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your
father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:16">16 </verse></sup>‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out
of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel
to build a house, that my name might be there; but
I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:17">17 </verse></sup>“Now it was in the heart of David my father
to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God
of Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:18">18 </verse></sup>But Yahweh said to David my father,
‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for
my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but
your son who shall come out of your body, he
shall build the house for my name.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh has
established his word that he spoke; for I have risen
up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the
throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built
the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:21">21 </verse></sup>There I have set a place for the ark, in which is
Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers
when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the
presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out
his hands toward heaven; <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:23">23 </verse></sup>and he said, “Yahweh,
the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven
above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant
and loving kindness with your servants who walk
before you with all their heart; <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:24">24 </verse></sup>who has kept
with your servant David my father that which you
promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and
have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Now
therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with
your servant David my father that which you have
promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you
a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if
only your children take heed to their way, to walk
before me as you have walked before me.’
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:26">26 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your
word be verified, which you spoke to your servant
David my father. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:27">27 </verse></sup>But will God in very deed
dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven
of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this
house that I have built! <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:28">28 </verse></sup>Yet have respect for
the prayer of your servant and for his supplication,
Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the
prayer which your servant prays before you today;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:29">29 </verse></sup>that your eyes may be open toward this house
night and day, even toward the place of which you
have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the
prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Listen to the supplication of your servant, and
of your people Israel, when they pray toward this
place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and
when you hear, forgive.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:31">31 </verse></sup>“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath
is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes
and swears before your altar in this house, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:32">32 </verse></sup>then
hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his
own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him
according to his righteousness.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:33">33 </verse></sup>“When your people Israel are struck down
before the enemy because they have sinned against
you, if they turn again to you and confess your
name, and pray and make supplication to you in this
house, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:34">34 </verse></sup>then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of
your people Israel, and bring them again to the land
which you gave to their fathers.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:35">35 </verse></sup>“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain
because they have sinned against you, if they pray
toward this place and confess your name, and turn
from their sin when you afflict them, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:36">36 </verse></sup>then hear in
heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of
your people Israel, when you teach them the good
way in which they should walk; and send rain on
your land which you have given to your people for
an inheritance.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:37">37 </verse></sup>“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence,
if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar;
if their enemy besieges them in the land of their
cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:38">38 </verse></sup>whatever prayer and supplication is made by any
man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each
know the plague of his own heart, and spread out
his hands toward this house, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:39">39 </verse></sup>then hear in heaven,
your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give
to every man according to all his ways, whose heart
you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts
of all the children of men); <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:40">40 </verse></sup>that they may fear you
all the days that they live in the land which you gave
to our fathers.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:41">41 </verse></sup>“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is
not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a
far country for your name’s sake <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:42">42 </verse></sup>(for they shall
hear of your great name and of your mighty hand
and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and
prays toward this house, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:43">43 </verse></sup>hear in heaven, your
dwelling place, and do according to all that the
foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of
the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do
your people Israel, and that they may know that this
house which I have built is called by your name.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:44">44 </verse></sup>“If your people go out to battle against their
enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and
they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you
have chosen, and toward the house which I have
built for your name, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:45">45 </verse></sup>then hear in heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:46">46 </verse></sup>If they sin against you (for there is no
man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them
and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captive to the land of the enemy, far
off or near; <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:47">47 </verse></sup>yet if they repent in the land where
they are carried captive, and turn again, and make
supplication to you in the land of those who carried
them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have
done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:48">48 </verse></sup>if they
return to you with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of their enemies who carried them
captive, and pray to you toward their land which
you gave to their fathers, the city which you have
chosen and the house which I have built for your
name, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:49">49 </verse></sup>then hear their prayer and their supplication
in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain
their cause; <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:50">50 </verse></sup>and forgive your people who have
sinned against you, and all their transgressions in
which they have transgressed against you; and give
them compassion before those who carried them
captive, that they may have compassion on them
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:51">51 </verse></sup>(for they are your people and your inheritance,
which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle
of the iron furnace); <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:52">52 </verse></sup>that your eyes may be
open to the supplication of your servant and to the
supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them
whenever they cry to you. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:53">53 </verse></sup>For you separated
them from among all the peoples of the earth to
be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your
servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt,
Lord Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:54">54 </verse></sup>It was so, that when Solomon had finished
praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh,
he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling
on his knees with his hands spread out toward
heaven. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:55><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:55">55 </verse></sup>He stood and blessed all the assembly
of Israel with a loud voice, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:56><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:56">56 </verse></sup>“Blessed be
Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel,
according to all that he promised. There has not
failed one word of all his good promise, which he
promised by Moses his servant. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:57><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:57">57 </verse></sup>May Yahweh our
God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him
not leave us or forsake us, <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:58><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:58">58 </verse></sup>that he may incline our
hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances,
which he commanded our fathers. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:59><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:59">59 </verse></sup>Let these my
words, with which I have made supplication before
Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night,
that he may maintain the cause of his servant and
the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:60><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:60">60 </verse></sup>that all the peoples of the earth may know that
Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:61><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:61">61 </verse></sup>“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh
our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his
commandments, as it is today.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:62><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:62">62 </verse></sup>The king, and all Israel with him, offered
sacrifice before Yahweh. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:63><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:63">63 </verse></sup>Solomon offered for
the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to
Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle and
one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king
and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:64><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:64">64 </verse></sup>The same day the king made the middle of
the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for
there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering,
and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little
to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and
the fat of the peace offerings.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 8:65><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:65">65 </verse></sup>So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all
Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance
of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our
God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen
days. <key:bcv=1 Kings 8:66><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 8:66">66 </verse></sup>On the eighth day he sent the people away;
and they blessed the king, and went to their tents
joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness
that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to
Israel his people.

#BCV:1 Kings 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:1">1 </verse></sup>When Solomon had finished the building of
Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s
desire which he was pleased to do, <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared
to Solomon the second time, as he had
appeared to him at Gibeon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “I
have heard your prayer and your supplication that
you have made before me. I have made this house
holy, which you have built, to put my name there
forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:4">4 </verse></sup>As for you, if you will walk before me
as David your father walked, in integrity of heart
and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my
ordinances, <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:5">5 </verse></sup>then I will establish the throne of your
kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David
your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a
man on the throne of Israel.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:6">6 </verse></sup>But if you turn away
from following me, you or your children, and not
keep my commandments and my statutes which I
have set before you, but go and serve other gods
and worship them, <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:7">7 </verse></sup>then I will cut off Israel out of
the land which I have given them; and I will cast
this house, which I have made holy for my name,
out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and
a byword among all peoples. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Though this house
is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be
astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has
Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:9">9 </verse></sup>and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned
Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out
of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods,
and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore
Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:10">10 </verse></sup>At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon
had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the
king’s house <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:11">11 </verse></sup>(now Hiram the king of Tyre had
furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress
trees, and with gold, according to all his desire),
King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land
of Galilee. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities
which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t
please him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:13">13 </verse></sup>He said, “What cities are these which
you have given me, my brother?” He called them
the land of Cabul<footnote:1>9:13 “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”. </footnote> to this day. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Hiram sent to the
king one hundred twenty talents<footnote:1>9:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons</footnote> of gold.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:15">15 </verse></sup>This is the reason of the forced labor which
King Solomon conscripted: to build Yahweh’s
house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor,
Megiddo, and Gezer. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Pharaoh king of Egypt
had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed
the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it
for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the
lower, <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:19">19 </verse></sup>all
the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for
his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that
which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in
Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of
his dominion. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:20">20 </verse></sup>As for all the people who were
left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of
the children of Israel— <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:21">21 </verse></sup>their children who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of
Israel were not able utterly to destroy —of them
Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:22">22 </verse></sup>But of the children of Israel Solomon made no
bondservants; but they were the men of war, his
servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of
his chariots and of his horsemen. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:23">23 </verse></sup>These were
the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over
Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who
labored in the work.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:24">24 </verse></sup>But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s
city to her house which Solomon had built for her.
Then he built Millo.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh
three times per year, burning incense with them on
the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the
house.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 9:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:26">26 </verse></sup>King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion
Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the
Red Sea, in the land of Edom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Hiram sent in
the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 9:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 9:28">28 </verse></sup>They
came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four
hundred and twenty talents,<footnote:1>9:28 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons </footnote> and brought it to King
Solomon.

#BCV:1 Kings 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:1">1 </verse></sup>When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame
of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came
to test him with hard questions. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:2">2 </verse></sup>She came to
Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels
that bore spices, very much gold, and precious
stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she
talked with him about all that was in her heart.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t
anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell
her. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:4">4 </verse></sup>When the queen of Sheba had seen all the
wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:5">5 </verse></sup>the food of his table, the sitting of his servants,
the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his
cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up
to Yahweh’s house, there was no more spirit in
her. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:6">6 </verse></sup>She said to the king, “It was a true report
that I heard in my own land of your acts and of
your wisdom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:7">7 </verse></sup>However, I didn’t believe the words
until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not
even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity
exceed the fame which I heard. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Happy are your
men, happy are these your servants who stand
continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you,
to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh
loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to
do justice and righteousness.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:10">10 </verse></sup>She gave the king
one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great
quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again
was there such an abundance of spices as these
which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:11">11 </verse></sup>The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from
Ophir also brought in from Ophir great quantities
of almug trees<footnote:1>10:11 possibly an Indian sandalwood, with nice grain and a pleasant scent, and good for woodworking </footnote> and precious stones. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:12">12 </verse></sup>The king
made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house
and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed
instruments for the singers; no such almug trees
came or were seen to this day.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:13">13 </verse></sup>King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all
her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that
which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So
she turned and went to her own land, she and her
servants.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred sixty-six talents<footnote:1>10:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons </footnote> of gold,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:15">15 </verse></sup>in addition to that which the traders brought,
and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the
kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of
the country. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:16">16 </verse></sup>King Solomon made two hundred
bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels<footnote:1>10:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or 13.2 pounds or 192 Troy ounces. </footnote> of
gold went to one buckler. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:17">17 </verse></sup>He made three hundred
shields of beaten gold; three minas<footnote:1>10:17 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds. </footnote> of gold went to
one shield; and the king put them in the House of
the Forest of Lebanon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Moreover the king made a
great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest
gold. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:19">19 </verse></sup>There were six steps to the throne, and the
top of the throne was round behind; and there were
armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and
two lions standing beside the armrests. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Twelve
lions stood there on the one side and on the other
on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any
kingdom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:21">21 </verse></sup>All King Solomon’s drinking vessels
were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the
Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of
silver, because it was considered of little value in the
days of Solomon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:22">22 </verse></sup>For the king had a fleet of ships
of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every
three years the fleet of Tarshish came bringing gold,
silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:23">23 </verse></sup>So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the
earth in riches and in wisdom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:24">24 </verse></sup>All the earth
sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom
which God had put in his heart. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Year after year,
every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver,
vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and
mules.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen.
He had one thousand four hundred chariots
and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them in
the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 10:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:27">27 </verse></sup>The king made silver as common as stones in
Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore
trees that are in the lowland. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:28">28 </verse></sup>The horses which
Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s
merchants received them in droves, each drove at
a price. <key:bcv=1 Kings 10:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 10:29">29 </verse></sup>A chariot was imported from Egypt for
six hundred shekels<footnote:1>10:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of silver, and a horse for one
hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to
all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.

#BCV:1 Kings 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now King Solomon loved many foreign women,
together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women
of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians,
and Hittites, <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:2">2 </verse></sup>of the nations concerning which
Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall
not go among them, neither shall they come among
you, for surely they will turn away your heart
after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:3">3 </verse></sup>He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
three hundred concubines. His wives turned his
heart away. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:4">4 </verse></sup>When Solomon was old, his wives
turned away his heart after other gods; and his
heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the
heart of David his father was. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:5">5 </verse></sup>For Solomon went
after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and
after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight,
and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father
did. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh
the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is
before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination
of the children of Ammon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:8">8 </verse></sup>So he did for all his
foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed
to their gods. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh was angry with Solomon,
because his heart was turned away from Yahweh,
the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:10">10 </verse></sup>and had commanded him concerning this thing,
that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t
keep that which Yahweh commanded. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore
Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by
you, and you have not kept my covenant and my
statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely
tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your
servant. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days,
for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of
your son’s hand. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:13">13 </verse></sup>However, I will not tear away all
the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for
David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake
which I have chosen.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon:
Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s
offspring in Edom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:15">15 </verse></sup>For when David was in Edom,
and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to
bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:16">16 </verse></sup>(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months,
until he had cut off every male in Edom), <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:17">17 </verse></sup>Hadad
fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants
with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a
little child. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:18">18 </verse></sup>They arose out of Midian and came
to Paran; and they took men with them out of
Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed
him food, and gave him land. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Hadad found great
favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him
as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
Tahpenes the queen. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:20">20 </verse></sup>The sister of Tahpenes bore
him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in
Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s
house among the sons of Pharaoh. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:21">21 </verse></sup>When Hadad
heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad
said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my
own country.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you
lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your
own country?”
<br>
He answered, “Nothing, however only let me
depart.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:23">23 </verse></sup>God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the
son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord, Hadadezer
king of Zobah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:24">24 </verse></sup>He gathered men to himself, and
became captain over a troop, when David killed
them of Zobah. They went to Damascus and lived
there, and reigned in Damascus. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:25">25 </verse></sup>He was an adversary
to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition
to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and
reigned over Syria.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of
Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s
name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand
against the king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:27">27 </verse></sup>This was the reason why he
lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s
city. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:28">28 </verse></sup>The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of
valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was
industrious, and he put him in charge of all the
labor of the house of Joseph. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:29">29 </verse></sup>At that time, when
Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah
the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah
had clad himself with a new garment; and the two
of them were alone in the field. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Ahijah took the
new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve
pieces. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:31">31 </verse></sup>He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for
Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear
the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will
give ten tribes to you <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:32">32 </verse></sup>(but he shall have one tribe,
for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake,
the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel), <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:33">33 </verse></sup>because they have forsaken me, and have
worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians,
Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of
the children of Ammon. They have not walked in
my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and
to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his
father did.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:34">34 </verse></sup>“ ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom
out of his hand, but I will make him prince all
the days of his life for David my servant’s sake
whom I chose, who kept my commandments and
my statutes, <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:35">35 </verse></sup>but I will take the kingdom out of
his son’s hand and will give it to you, even ten
tribes. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:36">36 </verse></sup>I will give one tribe to his son, that David
my servant may have a lamp always before me in
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself
to put my name there. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:37">37 </verse></sup>I will take you, and you
shall reign according to all that your soul desires,
and shall be king over Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:38">38 </verse></sup>It shall be, if you will
listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my
ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep
my statutes and my commandments, as David my
servant did, that I will be with you, and will build
you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give
Israel to you. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:39">39 </verse></sup>I will afflict the offspring of David
for this, but not forever.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:40">40 </verse></sup>Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam,
but Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak
king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of
Solomon.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 11:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:41">41 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all
that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in
the book of the acts of Solomon? <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:42">42 </verse></sup>The time that
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
forty years. <key:bcv=1 Kings 11:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 11:43">43 </verse></sup>Solomon slept with his fathers, and
was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam
his son reigned in his place.

#BCV:1 Kings 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had
come to Shechem to make him king. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:2">2 </verse></sup>When
Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was
yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence
of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt; <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:3">3 </verse></sup>and
they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the
assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam,
saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:4">4 </verse></sup>“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now
therefore make the hard service of your father, and
his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we
will serve you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Depart for three days, then
come back to me.”
<br>
So the people departed.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:6">6 </verse></sup>King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men
who had stood before Solomon his father while he
yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to
answer these people?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:7">7 </verse></sup>They replied, “If you will be a servant to this
people today, and will serve them, and answer them
with good words, then they will be your servants
forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:8">8 </verse></sup>But he abandoned the counsel of the old men
which they had given him, and took counsel with
the young men who had grown up with him, who
stood before him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What counsel
do you give, that we may answer these people who
have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your
father put on us lighter?’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:10">10 </verse></sup>The young men who had grown up with him
said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you,
saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make
it lighter to us’— tell them, ‘My little finger is
thicker than my father’s waist. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:11">11 </verse></sup>Now my father
burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to
your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but
I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:12">12 </verse></sup>So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam
the third day, as the king asked, saying,
“Come to me again the third day.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:13">13 </verse></sup>The king
answered the people roughly, and abandoned the
counsel of the old men which they had given him,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:14">14 </verse></sup>and spoke to them according to the counsel of
the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke
heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father
chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:15">15 </verse></sup>So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was
a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might
establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah
the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:16">16 </verse></sup>When
all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the
people answered the king, saying, “What portion
have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in
the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to
your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their
tents.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:17">17 </verse></sup>But as for the children of Israel who lived in
the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over
the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned
him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried
to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:19">19 </verse></sup>So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this
day.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:20">20 </verse></sup>When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned,
they sent and called him to the congregation,
and made him king over all Israel. There was
no one who followed David’s house, except for the
tribe of Judah only.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:21">21 </verse></sup>When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he
assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of
Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen
men who were warriors, to fight against the house
of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam
the son of Solomon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:22">22 </verse></sup>But the word of God came
to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:23">23 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest
of the people, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:24">24 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh says, “You shall not
go up or fight against your brothers, the children
of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this
thing is from me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s
word, and returned and went their way, according
to Yahweh’s word.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country
of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out
from there and built Penuel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:26">26 </verse></sup>Jeroboam said in
his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s
house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:27">27 </verse></sup>If this people goes up to offer sacrifices
in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of
this people will turn again to their lord, even to
Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and
return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:28">28 </verse></sup>So the king
took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he
said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to
Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which
brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:29">29 </verse></sup>He
set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 12:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:30">30 </verse></sup>This thing became a sin, for the people went even
as far as Dan to worship before the one there. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:31">31 </verse></sup>He
made houses of high places, and made priests from
among all the people, who were not of the sons of
Levi. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:32">32 </verse></sup>Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth
month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the
feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar.
He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he
had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
high places that he had made. <key:bcv=1 Kings 12:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 12:33">33 </verse></sup>He went up to the
altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth
day in the eighth month, even in the month which
he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a
feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the
altar to burn incense.

#BCV:1 Kings 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s
word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing
by the altar to burn incense. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:2">2 </verse></sup>He cried against the
altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar!
Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s
house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the
priests of the high places who burn incense on you,
and they will burn men’s bones on you.’ ” <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:3">3 </verse></sup>He gave
a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which
Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split
apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured
out.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:4">4 </verse></sup>When the king heard the saying of the man
of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel,
Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying,
“Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against
him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back
again to himself. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:5">5 </verse></sup>The altar was also split apart,
and the ashes poured out from the altar, according
to the sign which the man of God had given by
Yahweh’s word. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:6">6 </verse></sup>The king answered the man of
God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your
God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored
me again.”
<br>
The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the
king’s hand was restored to him again, and became
as it was before.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:7">7 </verse></sup>The king said to the man of God, “Come home
with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a
reward.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:8">8 </verse></sup>The man of God said to the king, “Even if you
gave me half of your house, I would not go in with
you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water
in this place; <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:9">9 </verse></sup>for so was it commanded me by
Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread,
drink no water, and don’t return by the way that
you came.’ ” <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:10">10 </verse></sup>So he went another way, and didn’t
return by the way that he came to Bethel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of
his sons came and told him all the works that the
man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also
told their father the words which he had spoken to
the king.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Their father said to them, “Which way did he
go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of
God went, who came from Judah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to his
sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled
the donkey for him; and he rode on it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:14">14 </verse></sup>He went
after the man of God, and found him sitting under
an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who
came from Judah?”
<br>
He said, “I am.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Then he said to him, “Come home with me and
eat bread.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “I may not return with you, nor go
in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water
with you in this place. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:17">17 </verse></sup>For it was said to me by
Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink
water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way
that you came.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are;
and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying,
‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he
may eat bread and drink water.’ ” He lied to him.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:19">19 </verse></sup>So he went back with him, ate bread in his
house, and drank water. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:20">20 </verse></sup>As they sat at the table,
Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought
him back; <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:21">21 </verse></sup>and he cried out to the man of God who
came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because
you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s word, and
have not kept the commandment which Yahweh
your God commanded you, <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:22">22 </verse></sup>but came back, and
have eaten bread and drank water in the place of
which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no
water,” your body will not come to the tomb of your
fathers.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:23">23 </verse></sup>After he had eaten bread and after he drank, he
saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had
brought back. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:24">24 </verse></sup>When he had gone, a lion met him
by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on
the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also
stood by the body. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Behold, men passed by and saw
the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing
by the body; and they came and told it in the city
where the old prophet lived. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:26">26 </verse></sup>When the prophet
who brought him back from the way heard of it, he
said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to
Yahweh’s word. Therefore Yahweh has delivered
him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain
him, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke
to him.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:27">27 </verse></sup>He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the
donkey for me,” and they saddled it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:28">28 </verse></sup>He went and
found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey
and the lion standing by the body. The lion had
not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:29">29 </verse></sup>The
prophet took up the body of the man of God, and
laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came
to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury
him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:30">30 </verse></sup>He laid his body in his own grave; and they
mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:31">31 </verse></sup>After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons,
saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in
which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones
beside his bones. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:32">32 </verse></sup>For the saying which he cried
by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and
against all the houses of the high places which are
in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 13:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:33">33 </verse></sup>After this thing, Jeroboam didn’t turn from his
evil way, but again made priests of the high places
from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he
consecrated him, that there might be priests of the
high places. <key:bcv=1 Kings 13:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 13:34">34 </verse></sup>This thing became sin to the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from off
the surface of the earth.

#BCV:1 Kings 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became
sick. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and
disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized
as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah
the prophet is there, who said that I would be king
over this people. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Take with you ten loaves of bread,
some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He
will tell you what will become of the child.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to
Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah
could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his
age. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s
wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son,
for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will
be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be
another woman.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:6">6 </verse></sup>So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet
as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in,
Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another?
For I am sent to you with heavy news.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says:
“Because I exalted you from among the people, and
made you prince over my people Israel, <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:8">8 </verse></sup>and tore
the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it
you; and yet you have not been as my servant David,
who kept my commandments, and who followed
me with all his heart, to do that only which was
right in my eyes, <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:9">9 </verse></sup>but have done evil above all
who were before you, and have gone and made
for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke
me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:10">10 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone
who urinates on a wall,<footnote:1>14:10 or, male </footnote> he who is shut up and he
who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep
away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away
dung until it is all gone. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:11">11 </verse></sup>The dogs will eat he who
belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the
birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field, for
Yahweh has spoken it.” ’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Arise therefore, and go
to your house. When your feet enter into the city,
the child will die. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:13">13 </verse></sup>All Israel will mourn for him
and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come
to the grave, because in him there is found some
good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the
house of Jeroboam. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh will raise
up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the
house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even
now. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:15">15 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is
shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out
of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and
will scatter them beyond the River,<footnote:1>14:15 That is, the Euphrates.</footnote> because they
have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh
to anger. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:16">16 </verse></sup>He will give Israel up because of the sins
of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which
he has made Israel to sin.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came
to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house,
the child died. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:18">18 </verse></sup>All Israel buried him and mourned
for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he
spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought
and how he reigned, behold, they are written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:20">20 </verse></sup>The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty
two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab
his son reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.
His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight,
and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins
which they committed, above all that their fathers
had done. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:23">23 </verse></sup>For they also built for themselves high
places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every
high hill and under every green tree. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:24">24 </verse></sup>There were
also sodomites in the land. They did according to
all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh
drove out before the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:25">25 </verse></sup>In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:26">26 </verse></sup>and
he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and
the treasures of the king’s house. He even took
away all of it, including all the gold shields which
Solomon had made. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:27">27 </verse></sup>King Rehoboam made shields
of bronze in their place, and committed them to the
hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the
door of the king’s house. <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:28">28 </verse></sup>It was so, that as often as
the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore
them, and brought them back into the guard room.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and
all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=1 Kings 14:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:30">30 </verse></sup>There was
war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 14:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name
was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:1 Kings 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:2">2 </verse></sup>He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:3">3 </verse></sup>He
walked in all the sins of his father, which he had
done before him; and his heart was not perfect with
Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave
him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him
and to establish Jerusalem; <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:5">5 </verse></sup>because David did that
which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn
away from anything that he commanded him all the
days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah
the Hittite. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Now there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days of his life. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:7">7 </verse></sup>The rest
of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t
they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:8">8 </verse></sup>Abijam slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned
in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:9">9 </verse></sup>In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel,
Asa began to reign over Judah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:10">10 </verse></sup>He reigned fortyone
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Asa did that
which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his
father did. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:12">12 </verse></sup>He put away the sodomites out of the
land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had
made. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:13">13 </verse></sup>He also removed Maacah his mother from
being queen, because she had made an abominable
image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image
and burned it at the brook Kidron. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:14">14 </verse></sup>But the high
places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart
of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:15">15 </verse></sup>He
brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his
father had dedicated, and the things that he himself
had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:16">16 </verse></sup>There was war between Asa and Baasha king of
Israel all their days. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Baasha king of Israel went
up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might
not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king
of Judah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Asa took all the silver and the gold
that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and
the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it
into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent
them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son
of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus,
saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:19">19 </verse></sup>“Let there be a treaty between me and
you, like that between my father and your father.
Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and
gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the
captains of his armies against the cities of Israel,
and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah,
and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:21">21 </verse></sup>When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building
Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Then King Asa made
a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted.
They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its
timber, with which Baasha had built; and King Asa
used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his
might, and all that he did, and the cities which
he built, aren’t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of
his old age he was diseased in his feet. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Asa slept
with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son
reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over
Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and
he reigned over Israel two years. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:26">26 </verse></sup>He did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in
the way of his father, and in his sin with which he
made Israel to sin. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:27">27 </verse></sup>Baasha the son of Ahijah, of
the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and
Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged
to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were
besieging Gibbethon. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Even in the third year of
Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him and reigned in
his place. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:29">29 </verse></sup>As soon as he was king, he struck all
the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam
any who breathed, until he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke
by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:30">30 </verse></sup>for the sins of
Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made
Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which
he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he
did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:32">32 </verse></sup>There was war between Asa
and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 15:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:33">33 </verse></sup>In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha
the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in
Tirzah for twenty-four years. <key:bcv=1 Kings 15:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 15:34">34 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel
to sin.

#BCV:1 Kings 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:2">2 </verse></sup>“Because I exalted you out
of the dust and made you prince over my people
Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam
and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke
me to anger with their sins, <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:3">3 </verse></sup>behold, I will utterly
sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make
your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:4">4 </verse></sup>The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who
die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the
birds of the sky will eat.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he
did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Baasha slept
with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah
his son reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet
Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against
his house, both because of all the evil that he did
in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with
the work of his hands, in being like the house of
Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:8">8 </verse></sup>In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah,
Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in
Tirzah for two years. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:9">9 </verse></sup>His servant Zimri, captain
of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he
was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house
of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:10">10 </verse></sup>and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him
in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and
reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:11">11 </verse></sup>When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on
his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He
didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a
wall<footnote:1>16:11 or, male</footnote> among his relatives or his friends. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Thus
Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according
to Yahweh’s word which he spoke against Baasha
by Jehu the prophet, <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:13">13 </verse></sup>for all the sins of Baasha,
and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned
and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their
vanities. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all
that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:15">15 </verse></sup>In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of
Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the
people were encamped against Gibbethon, which
belonged to the Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:16">16 </verse></sup>The people who were
encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had
also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri,
the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in
the camp. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all
Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:18">18 </verse></sup>When
Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the
fortified part of the king’s house and burned the
king’s house over him with fire, and died, <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:19">19 </verse></sup>for his
sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in
Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam,
and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason
that he committed, aren’t they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:21">21 </verse></sup>Then the people of Israel were divided into two
parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of
Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:22">22 </verse></sup>But the people who followed Omri prevailed
against the people who followed Tibni the son of
Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:23">23 </verse></sup>In the
thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began
to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six
years in Tirzah. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:24">24 </verse></sup>He bought the hill Samaria of
Shemer for two talents<footnote:1>16:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.</footnote> of silver; and he built on the
hill, and called the name of the city which he built,
Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of
the hill. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:25">25 </verse></sup>Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before
him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:26">26 </verse></sup>For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made
Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to
anger with their vanities. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:27">27 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts
of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:28">28 </verse></sup>So Omri slept with his
fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his
son reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:29">29 </verse></sup>In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah,
Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel.
Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria
twenty-two years. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:30">30 </verse></sup>Ahab the son of Omri did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were
before him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:31">31 </verse></sup>As if it had been a light thing for him
to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he
took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king
of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and
worshiped him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:32">32 </verse></sup>He raised up an altar for Baal in
the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 16:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:33">33 </verse></sup>Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet
to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than
all the kings of Israel who were before him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 16:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 16:34">34 </verse></sup>In
his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid
its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn,
and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son
Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke
by Joshua the son of Nun.

#BCV:1 Kings 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of
Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel,
lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew
nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:3">3 </verse></sup>“Go
away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by
the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:4">4 </verse></sup>You
shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the
ravens to feed you there.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:5">5 </verse></sup>So he went and did
according to Yahweh’s word, for he went and lived
by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:6">6 </verse></sup>The
ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning,
and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank
from the brook. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:7">7 </verse></sup>After a while, the brook dried up,
because there was no rain in the land.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:9">9 </verse></sup>“Arise,
go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay
there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to
sustain you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:10">10 </verse></sup>So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when
he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow
was there gathering sticks. He called to her and
said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may
drink.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:11">11 </verse></sup>As she was going to get it, he called to her and
said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your
hand.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:12">12 </verse></sup>She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t
have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in
a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering
two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and
my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as
you have said; but make me a little cake from it first,
and bring it out to me, and afterward make some
for you and for your son. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:14">14 </verse></sup>For Yahweh, the God of
Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and
the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh
sends rain on the earth.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:15">15 </verse></sup>She went and did according to the saying of
Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many
days. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:16">16 </verse></sup>The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar
of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which
he spoke by Elijah.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:17">17 </verse></sup>After these things, the son of the woman, the
mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness
was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:18">18 </verse></sup>She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you,
you man of God? You have come to me to bring my
sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him
out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room
where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:20">20 </verse></sup>He
cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have
you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am
staying, by killing her son?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:21">21 </verse></sup>He stretched himself on the child three times,
and cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God,
please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and
the soul of the child came into him again, and he
revived. <key:bcv=1 Kings 17:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:23">23 </verse></sup>Elijah took the child and brought him
down out of the room into the house, and delivered
him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your
son lives.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 17:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 17:24">24 </verse></sup>The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you
are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your
mouth is truth.”

#BCV:1 Kings 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:1">1 </verse></sup>After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah,
in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to
Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine
was severe in Samaria. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Ahab called Obadiah,
who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared
Yahweh greatly; <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:4">4 </verse></sup>for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s
prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and
hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread
and water.) <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:5">5 </verse></sup>Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through
the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the
brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the
horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the
animals.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:6">6 </verse></sup>So they divided the land between them to pass
throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself,
and Obadiah went another way by himself. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:7">7 </verse></sup>As
Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He
recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it
you, my lord Elijah?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:8">8 </verse></sup>He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord,
‘Behold, Elijah is here!’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:9">9 </verse></sup>He said, “How have I sinned, that you would
deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill
me? <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:10">10 </verse></sup>As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation
or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you.
When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of
the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is
here.” ’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:12">12 </verse></sup>It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that
Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where;
and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find
you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared
Yahweh from my youth. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Wasn’t it told my lord
what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets,
how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets
with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and
water? <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold,
Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before
whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him
today.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:16">16 </verse></sup>So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told
him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:17">17 </verse></sup>When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is
that you, you troubler of Israel?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:18">18 </verse></sup>He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but
you and your father’s house, in that you have
forsaken Yahweh’s commandments and you have
followed the Baals. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Now therefore send, and
gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four
hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four
hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at
Jezebel’s table.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:20">20 </verse></sup>So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and
gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How
long will you waver between the two sides? If
Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow
him.”
<br>
The people didn’t say a word.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only,
am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets
are four hundred fifty men. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Let them therefore
give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for
themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the
wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the
other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire
under it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:24">24 </verse></sup>You call on the name of your god, and I
will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers
by fire, let him be God.”
<br>
All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one
bull for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are
many; and call on the name of your god, but put no
fire under it.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:26">26 </verse></sup>They took the bull which was given them, and
they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from
morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!”
But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They
leaped about the altar which was made.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:27">27 </verse></sup>At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry
aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought,
or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or
perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:28">28 </verse></sup>They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their
way with knives and lances until the blood gushed
out on them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:29">29 </verse></sup>When midday was past, they
prophesied until the time of the evening offering;
but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid
attention.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:30">30 </verse></sup>Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to
me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired
Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:31">31 </verse></sup>Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number
of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom
Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your
name.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:32">32 </verse></sup>With the stones he built an altar in
Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar
large enough to contain two seahs<footnote:1>18:32 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks</footnote> of seed. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:33">33 </verse></sup>He
put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces
and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with
water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the
wood.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:34">34 </verse></sup>He said, “Do it a second time;” and they
did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;”
and they did it the third time. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:35">35 </verse></sup>The water ran
around the altar; and he also filled the trench with
water.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:36">36 </verse></sup>At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the
prophet came near and said, “Yahweh, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known
today that you are God in Israel and that I am your
servant, and that I have done all these things at your
word. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:37">37 </verse></sup>Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people
may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you
have turned their heart back again.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:38">38 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s fire fell and consumed the
burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust;
and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:39">39 </verse></sup>When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces.
They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:40">40 </verse></sup>Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal!
Don’t let one of them escape!”
<br>
They seized them; and Elijah brought them down
to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:41">41 </verse></sup>Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for
there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:42">42 </verse></sup>So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah
went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself
down on the earth, and put his face between his
knees. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:43">43 </verse></sup>He said to his servant, “Go up now and look
toward the sea.”
<br>
He went up and looked, then said, “There is
nothing.”
<br>
He said, “Go again” seven times.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:44">44 </verse></sup>On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small
cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”
He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go
down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 18:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:45">45 </verse></sup>In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds
and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode,
and went to Jezreel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 18:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 18:46">46 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah;
and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before
Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

#BCV:1 Kings 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and
how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying,
“So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I
don’t make your life as the life of one of them by
tomorrow about this time!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:3">3 </verse></sup>When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life,
and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and
left his servant there. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:4">4 </verse></sup>But he himself went a day’s
journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself
that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O
Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than
my fathers.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:5">5 </verse></sup>He lay down and slept under a juniper tree;
and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him,
“Arise and eat!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:6">6 </verse></sup>He looked, and behold, there was at his head a
cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate
and drank, and lay down again. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel
came again the second time, and touched him, and
said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great
for you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the
strength of that food forty days and forty nights
to Horeb, God’s Mountain. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:9">9 </verse></sup>He came to a cave
there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s
word came to him, and he said to him, “What are
you doing here, Elijah?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh,
the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have
forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars,
and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I
only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:11">11 </verse></sup>He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain
before Yahweh.”
<br>
Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong
wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the
rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the
wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but
Yahweh was not in the earthquake. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:12">12 </verse></sup>After the
earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in
the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:13">13 </verse></sup>When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his
mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the
cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What
are you doing here, Elijah?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh,
the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have
forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars,
and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I
only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way
to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive,
anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:16">16 </verse></sup>Anoint Jehu
the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint
Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be
prophet in your place. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:17">17 </verse></sup>He who escapes from the
sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes
from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. <key:bcv=1 Kings 19:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Yet I
reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of
which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth
which has not kissed him.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:19">19 </verse></sup>So he departed from there and found Elisha
the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve
yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth.
Elijah went over to him and put his mantle on him.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said,
“Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and
then I will follow you.”
<br>
He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I
done to you?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 19:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 19:21">21 </verse></sup>He returned from following him, and took the
yoke of oxen, killed them, and boiled their meat
with the oxen’s equipment, and gave to the people;
and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah,
and served him.

#BCV:1 Kings 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his
army together; and there were thirty-two kings
with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and
besieged Samaria, and fought against it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:2">2 </verse></sup>He sent
messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and
said to him, “Ben Hadad says, <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:3">3 </verse></sup>‘Your silver and your
gold are mine. Your wives also and your children,
even the best, are mine.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:4">4 </verse></sup>The king of Israel answered, “It is according to
your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that
I have.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:5">5 </verse></sup>The messengers came again and said, “Ben
Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall
deliver me your silver, your gold, your wives, and
your children; <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:6">6 </verse></sup>but I will send my servants to you
tomorrow about this time, and they will search your
house and the houses of your servants. Whatever is
pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand,
and take it away.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the
land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks
mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my
children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I
didn’t deny him.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:8">8 </verse></sup>All the elders and all the people said to him,
“Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben
Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for
to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I
cannot do.’ ”
<br>
The messengers departed and brought him back
the message. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Ben Hadad sent to him, and said,
“The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust
of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the
people who follow me.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:11">11 </verse></sup>The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t
let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes
it off.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:12">12 </verse></sup>When Ben Hadad heard this message as he
was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he
said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” So they
prepared to attack the city.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of
Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all
this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into
your hand today. Then you will know that I am
Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Ahab said, “By whom?”
<br>
He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the
princes of the provinces.’ ”
<br>
Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?”
He answered, “You.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Then he mustered the young men of the
princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred
and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all
the people, even all the children of Israel, being
seven thousand. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:16">16 </verse></sup>They went out at noon. But Ben
Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions,
he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped
him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:17">17 </verse></sup>The young men of the princes of the
provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out,
and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out
from Samaria.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “If they have come out for peace, take
them alive; or if they have come out for war, take
them alive.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:19">19 </verse></sup>So these went out of the city, the young men of
the princes of the provinces, and the army which
followed them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:20">20 </verse></sup>They each killed his man. The
Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad
the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:21">21 </verse></sup>The king of Israel went out and struck the horses
and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great
slaughter. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:22">22 </verse></sup>The prophet came near to the king of
Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and
plan what you must do, for at the return of the year,
the king of Syria will come up against you.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:23">23 </verse></sup>The servants of the king of Syria said to him,
“Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were
stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the
plain, and surely we will be stronger than they. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:24">24 </verse></sup>Do
this thing: take the kings away, every man out of
his place, and put captains in their place. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:25">25 </verse></sup>Muster
an army like the army that you have lost, horse for
horse and chariot for chariot. We will fight against
them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger
than they are.”

He listened to their voice and did so. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:26">26 </verse></sup>At
the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the
Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:27">27 </verse></sup>The children of Israel were mustered and given
provisions, and went against them. The children of
Israel encamped before them like two little flocks
of young goats, but the Syrians filled the country.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:28">28 </verse></sup>A man of God came near and spoke to the king of
Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians
have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not
a god of the valleys,” therefore I will deliver all this
great multitude into your hand, and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:29">29 </verse></sup>They encamped opposite each other for seven
days. Then on the seventh day the battle was
joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred
thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:30">30 </verse></sup>But
the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall
fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left.
Ben Hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner
room. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:31">31 </verse></sup>His servants said to him, “See now, we
have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are
merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our
bodies and ropes on our heads, and go out to the
king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:32">32 </verse></sup>So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes
on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and
said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me
live.’ ”
<br>
He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:33">33 </verse></sup>Now the men observed diligently and hurried
to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben
Hadad.”
<br>
Then he said, “Go, bring him.”
<br>
Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused
him to come up into the chariot. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:34">34 </verse></sup>Ben Hadad
said to him, “The cities which my father took from
your father I will restore. You shall make streets
for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in
Samaria.”
<br>
“I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this
covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let
him go.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:35">35 </verse></sup>A certain man of the sons of the prophets said
to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!”
The man refused to strike him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:36">36 </verse></sup>Then he said to
him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice,
behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion
will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him,
a lion found him and killed him.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:37">37 </verse></sup>Then he found another man, and said, “Please
strike me.”

The man struck him and wounded him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:38">38 </verse></sup>So the
prophet departed and waited for the king by the
way, and disguised himself with his headband over
his eyes. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:39">39 </verse></sup>As the king passed by, he cried to the
king, and he said, “Your servant went out into the
middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over
and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man!
If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be
for his life, or else you shall pay a talent<footnote:1>20:39 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds</footnote> of silver.’
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:40">40 </verse></sup>As your servant was busy here and there, he was
gone.”
<br>
The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your
judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:41">41 </verse></sup>He hurried, and took the headband away from
his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he
was one of the prophets. <key:bcv=1 Kings 20:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:42">42 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Yahweh
says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the
man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore
your life will take the place of his life, and your
people take the place of his people.’ ”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 20:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 20:43">43 </verse></sup>The king of Israel went to his house sullen and
angry, and came to Samaria.

#BCV:1 Kings 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a
vineyard which was in Jezreel, next to the palace
of Ahab king of Samaria. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Ahab spoke to Naboth,
saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it
for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house;
and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it.
<br>
Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth
in money.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me,
that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to
you!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Ahab came into his house sullen and angry
because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite
had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give
you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself
down on his bed, and turned away his face, and
would eat no bread. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:5">5 </verse></sup>But Jezebel his wife came to
him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that
you eat no bread?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the
Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard
for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you
another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not
give you my vineyard.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:7">7 </verse></sup>Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern
the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let
your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:8">8 </verse></sup>So she wrote letters in
Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent
the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were
in his city, who lived with Naboth. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:9">9 </verse></sup>She wrote in
the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth
on high among the people. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Set two men, wicked
fellows, before him, and let them testify against
him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then
carry him out, and stone him to death.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:11">11 </verse></sup>The men of his city, even the elders and the
nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed
them in the letters which she had written
and sent to them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:12">12 </verse></sup>They proclaimed a fast, and
set Naboth on high among the people. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:13">13 </verse></sup>The two
men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before
him. The wicked fellows testified against him,
even against Naboth, in the presence of the people,
saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then
they carried him out of the city and stoned him
to death with stones. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Then they sent to Jezebel,
saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:15">15 </verse></sup>When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been
stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise,
take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money;
for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:16">16 </verse></sup>When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab
rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:18">18 </verse></sup>“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of
Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the
vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to
take possession of it. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall speak to him,
saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also
taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying,
‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the
blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even
yours.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:20">20 </verse></sup>Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my
enemy?”
<br>
He answered, “I have found you, because you
have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s
sight. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Behold, I will bring evil on you, and
will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from
Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,<footnote:1>21:21 or, male</footnote> and
him who is shut up and him who is left at large in
Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:22">22 </verse></sup>I will make your house like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of
Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with
which you have provoked me to anger, and have
made Israel to sin.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel,
saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of
Jezreel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:24">24 </verse></sup>The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in
the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies
in the field.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:25">25 </verse></sup>But there was no one like Ahab, who sold
himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight,
whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:26">26 </verse></sup>He did very
abominably in following idols, according to all that
the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the
children of Israel.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:27">27 </verse></sup>When Ahab heard those words, he tore his
clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in
sackcloth, and went about despondently.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 21:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:28">28 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, <key:bcv=1 Kings 21:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 21:29">29 </verse></sup>“See how Ahab humbles himself before
me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will
not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil
on his house in his son’s day.”

#BCV:1 Kings 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:1">1 </verse></sup>They continued three years without war between
Syria and Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:2">2 </verse></sup>In the third year, Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah came down to the king
of Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:3">3 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to his servants,
“You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do
nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the
king of Syria?” <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you
go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you
are, my people as your people, my horses as your
horses.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel,
“Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
together, about four hundred men, and said to
them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle,
or should I refrain?”
<br>
They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into
the hand of the king.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:7">7 </verse></sup>But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a
prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:8">8 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There
is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh,
Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does
not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”
Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said,
“Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed
in their robes, in an open place at the entrance
of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were
prophesying before them. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said,
“Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians,
until they are consumed.’ ” <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:12">12 </verse></sup>All the prophets
prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and
prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of
the king.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:13">13 </verse></sup>The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke
to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good
to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be
like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh
says to me, that I will speak.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:15">15 </verse></sup>When he had come to the king, the king said
to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to
battle, or shall we forbear?”
<br>
He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh
will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:16">16 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “How many times do I
have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but
the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains,
as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said,
‘These have no master. Let them each return to his
house in peace.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:18">18 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I
tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning
me, but evil?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:19">19 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word.
I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army
of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on
his left. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that
he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said
one thing, and another said another.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:21">21 </verse></sup>A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and
said, ‘I will entice him.’

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’
<br>
He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in
the mouth of all his prophets.’
<br>
He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail.
Go out and do so.’ <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Now therefore, behold, Yahweh
has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your
prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning
you.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came
near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said,
“Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to
speak to you?”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:25">25 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day
when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:26">26 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry
him back to Amon the governor of the city and to
Joash the king’s son. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:27">27 </verse></sup>Say, ‘The king says, “Put
this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of
affliction and with water of affliction, until I come
in peace.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace,
Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all
you people!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:29">29 </verse></sup>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:30">30 </verse></sup>The king of
Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself
and go into the battle, but you put on your robes.”
The king of Israel disguised himself and went into
the battle.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:31">31 </verse></sup>Now the king of Syria had commanded the
thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t
fight with small nor great, except only with the king
of Israel.”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:32">32 </verse></sup>When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat,
they said, “Surely that is the king of
Israel!” and they came over to fight against him.
Jehoshaphat cried out. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:33">33 </verse></sup>When the captains of the
chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they
turned back from pursuing him. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:34">34 </verse></sup>A certain man
drew his bow at random, and struck the king of
Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore
he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around,
and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely
wounded.” <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:35">35 </verse></sup>The battle increased that day. The
king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians,
and died at evening. The blood ran out of the
wound into the bottom of the chariot. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:36">36 </verse></sup>A cry went
throughout the army about the going down of the
sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man
to his country!”

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:37">37 </verse></sup>So the king died, and was brought to Samaria;
and they buried the king in Samaria. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:38">38 </verse></sup>They washed
the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed
themselves, according to Yahweh’s word which he
spoke.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:39">39 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he
did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the
cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:40">40 </verse></sup>So Ahab
slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned
in his place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:41">41 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over
Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:42">42 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the
daughter of Shilhi. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:43">43 </verse></sup>He walked in all the way of Asa
his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that
which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However, the
high places were not taken away. The people still
sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:44">44 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:45">45 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his
might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t
they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:46">46 </verse></sup>The remnant of the sodomites,
that remained in the days of his father Asa, he
put away out of the land. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:47">47 </verse></sup>There was no king in
Edom. A deputy ruled. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:48">48 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat made ships
of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t
go, for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:49">49 </verse></sup>Then
Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let
my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But
Jehoshaphat would not. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:50">50 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat slept with
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his
father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his
place.

<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:51">51 </verse></sup>Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over
Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah, and he reigned two years
over Israel. <key:bcv=1 Kings 22:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:52">52 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, and walked in the way of his father, and
in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
<key:bcv=1 Kings 22:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Kings 22:53">53 </verse></sup>He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways
that his father had done so.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Kings
<h2>The Second Book of Kings</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his
upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he
sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of
Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover
of this sickness.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:3">3 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> angel said to Elijah the Tishbite,
“Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king
of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no
God<footnote:1>1:3 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> in Israel that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub,
the god of Ekron? <key:bcv=2 Kings 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Now therefore Yahweh says,
“You will not come down from the bed where you
have gone up, but you will surely die.” ’ ” Then Elijah
departed.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:5">5 </verse></sup>The messengers returned to him, and he said to
them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:6">6 </verse></sup>They said to him, “A man came up to meet us,
and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you,
and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is
no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal
Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not
come down from the bed where you have gone up,
but you will surely die.’ ” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What kind of man was he who
came up to meet you and told you these words?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:8">8 </verse></sup>They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and
wearing a leather belt around his waist.”
He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty
to him. He went up to him; and behold,<footnote:1>1:9 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> he was
sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man
of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am
a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky
and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came
down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Again he sent to him another captain of fifty
with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the
king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God,
then let fire come down from the sky and consume
you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down
from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with
his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and
came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged
him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my
life and the life of these fifty of your servants be
precious in your sight. <key:bcv=2 Kings 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, fire came down
from the sky and consumed the last two captains
of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be
precious in your sight.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with
him. Don’t be afraid of him.”
<br>
Then he arose and went down with him to the
king. <key:bcv=2 Kings 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:16">16 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you
have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the
god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel
to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come
down from the bed where you have gone up, but you
will surely die.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:17">17 </verse></sup>So he died according to Yahweh’s word which
Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his
place in the second year of Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 1:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?

#BCV:2 Kings 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:1">1 </verse></sup>When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a
whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for
Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.”
Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul
lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to
Bethel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:3">3 </verse></sup>The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel
came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know
that Yahweh will take away your master from over
you today?”
<br>
He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for
Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.”
<br>
He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives,
I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho
came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know
that Yahweh will take away your master from over
you today?”
<br>
He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh
has sent me to the Jordan.”
<br>
He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I
will not leave you.” Then they both went on. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Fifty
men of the sons of the prophets went and stood
opposite them at a distance; and they both stood
by the Jordan. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Elijah took his mantle, and rolled
it up, and struck the waters; and they were divided
here and there, so that they both went over on dry
ground. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:9">9 </verse></sup>When they had gone over, Elijah said to
Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am
taken from you.”
<br>
Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your
spirit be on me.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you
see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for
you; but if not, it will not be so.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:11">11 </verse></sup>As they continued on and talked, behold, a
chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father,
the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his
own clothes and tore them in two pieces. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:13">13 </verse></sup>He also
took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went
back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:14">14 </verse></sup>He
took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck
the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of
Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they
were divided apart, and Elisha went over.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:15">15 </verse></sup>When the sons of the prophets who were at
Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit
of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him,
and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:16">16 </verse></sup>They said to him, “See now, there are with your
servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and
seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has
taken him up, and put him on some mountain or
into some valley.”
<br>
He said, “Don’t send them.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:17">17 </verse></sup>When they urged him until he was ashamed, he
said, “Send them.”
<br>
Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched
for three days, but didn’t find him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:18">18 </verse></sup>They came
back to him while he stayed at Jericho; and he said
to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:19">19 </verse></sup>The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold,
please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my
lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is
barren.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in
it.” Then they brought it to him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:21">21 </verse></sup>He went out
to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it,
and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters.
There shall not be from there any more death or
barren wasteland.’ ” <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:22">22 </verse></sup>So the waters were healed to
this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 2:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:23">23 </verse></sup>He went up from there to Bethel. As he was
going up by the way, some youths came out of the
city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you
baldy! Go up, you baldy!” <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:24">24 </verse></sup>He looked behind him
and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name.
Then two female bears came out of the woods and
mauled forty-two of those youths. <key:bcv=2 Kings 2:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 2:25">25 </verse></sup>He went from
there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned
to Samaria.

#BCV:2 Kings 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign
over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but
not like his father and like his mother, for he put
away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He
didn’t depart from them.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder;
and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred
thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred
thousand rams. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:5">5 </verse></sup>But when Ahab was dead, the
king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:6">6 </verse></sup>King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time,
and mustered all Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He went and sent to
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of
Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me
against Moab to battle?”
<br>
He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people
as your people, my horses as your horses.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Then
he said, “Which way shall we go up?”
<br>
Jehoram answered, “The way of the wilderness of
Edom.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:9">9 </verse></sup>So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah
and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven
days along a circuitous route. There was no water
for the army or for the animals that followed them.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:10">10 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has
called these three kings together to deliver them
into the hand of Moab.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:11">11 </verse></sup>But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of
Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by
him?”
<br>
One of the king of Israel’s servants answered,
“Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the
hands of Elijah, is here.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.”
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king
of Edom went down to him.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to
do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and
to the prophets of your mother.”
<br>
The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh
has called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Moab.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before
whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect
the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I
would not look toward you, nor see you. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:15">15 </verse></sup>But now
bring me a musician.” When the musician played,
Yahweh’s hand came on him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “Yahweh
says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’ <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:17">17 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will
you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water,
and you will drink, both you and your livestock
and your other animals. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:18">18 </verse></sup>This is an easy thing in
Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites
into your hand. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall strike every fortified
city and every choice city, and shall fell every good
tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every
good piece of land with stones.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:20">20 </verse></sup>In the morning, about the time of offering the
sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom,
and the country was filled with water.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings
had come up to fight against them, they gathered
themselves together, all who were able to put on
armor, young and old, and stood on the border.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:22">22 </verse></sup>They rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water
opposite them as red as blood. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:23">23 </verse></sup>They said, “This
is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they
have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the
plunder!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 3:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:24">24 </verse></sup>When they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that
they fled before them; and they went forward into
the land attacking the Moabites. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:25">25 </verse></sup>They beat down
the cities; and on every good piece of land each man
cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the
springs of water and cut down all the good trees,
until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones;
however the men armed with slings went around
it and attacked it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:26">26 </verse></sup>When the king of Moab saw
that the battle was too severe for him, he took
with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to
break through to the king of Edom; but they could
not. <key:bcv=2 Kings 3:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Then he took his oldest son who would have
reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt
offering on the wall. There was great wrath against
Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to
their own land.

#BCV:2 Kings 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons
of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your
servant my husband is dead. You know that your
servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come
to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you?
Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house,
except a pot of oil.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers
from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few
containers. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Go in and shut the door on you and
on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers;
and set aside those which are full.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:5">5 </verse></sup>So she went from him, and shut the door on herself
and on her sons. They brought the containers
to her, and she poured oil. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:6">6 </verse></sup>When the containers
were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another
container.”
<br>
He said to her, “There isn’t another container.”
Then the oil stopped flowing.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Then she came and told the man of God. He said,
“Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your
sons live on the rest.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:8">8 </verse></sup>One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there
was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him
to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed
by, he turned in there to eat bread. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:9">9 </verse></sup>She said to
her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy
man of God who passes by us continually. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Please,
let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a
table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When
he comes to us, he can stay there.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:11">11 </verse></sup>One day he came there, and he went to the
room and lay there. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:12">12 </verse></sup>He said to Gehazi his servant,
“Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her,
she stood before him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Say now
to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this
care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to
be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the
army?’ ”
<br>
She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “What then is to be done for her?”
Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son,
and her husband is old.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:15">15 </verse></sup>He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she
stood in the door. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “At this season next
year, you will embrace a son.”
<br>
She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie
to your servant.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The woman conceived, and bore a son at that
season when the time came around, as Elisha had
said to her. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:18">18 </verse></sup>When the child was grown, one day
he went out to his father to the reapers. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:19">19 </verse></sup>He said
to his father, “My head! My head!”
<br>
He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:20">20 </verse></sup>When he had taken him and brought him to his
mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then
died. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:21">21 </verse></sup>She went up and laid him on the man of
God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:22">22 </verse></sup>She called to her husband and said, “Please send
me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that
I may run to the man of God and come again.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:23">23 </verse></sup>He said, “Why would you want go to him today?
It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”
<br>
She said, “It’s all right.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:24">24 </verse></sup>Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her
servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down
for me, unless I ask you to.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:25">25 </verse></sup>So she went, and came to the man of God to
Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar
off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is
the Shunammite. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Please run now to meet her,
and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your
husband? Is it well with your child?’ ”
She answered, “It is well.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:27">27 </verse></sup>When she came to the man of God to the hill,
she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to
thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave
her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and
Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:28">28 </verse></sup>Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?
Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:29">29 </verse></sup>Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into
your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your
way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if
anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then
lay my staff on the child’s face.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:30">30 </verse></sup>The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and
as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”
So he arose, and followed her.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:31">31 </verse></sup>Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff
on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no
hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and
told him, “The child has not awakened.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:32">32 </verse></sup>When Elisha had come into the house, behold,
the child was dead, and lying on his bed. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:33">33 </verse></sup>He
went in therefore, and shut the door on them both,
and prayed to Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:34">34 </verse></sup>He went up and lay on
the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his
eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He
stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew
warm. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:35">35 </verse></sup>Then he returned, and walked in the house
once back and forth, then went up and stretched
himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven
times, and the child opened his eyes. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:36">36 </verse></sup>He called
Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he
called her.
<br>
When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up
your son.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:37">37 </verse></sup>Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground; then she picked up her son,
and went out.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:38">38 </verse></sup>Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine
in the land; and the sons of the prophets were
sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get
the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the
prophets.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:39">39 </verse></sup>One went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild
gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the
pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 4:40><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:40">40 </verse></sup>So
they poured out for the men to eat. As they were
eating some of the stew, they cried out and said,
“Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they
could not eat it.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:41><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:41">41 </verse></sup>But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into
the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that
they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in
the pot.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:42><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:42">42 </verse></sup>A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought
the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty
loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack.
Elisha said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:43><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:43">43 </verse></sup>His servant said, “What, should I set this before
a hundred men?”
<br>
But he said, “Give it to the people, that they may
eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have
some left over.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 4:44><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 4:44">44 </verse></sup>So he set it before them and they ate and had
some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.

#BCV:2 Kings 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable,
because by him Yahweh had given victory to
Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was
a leper. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:2">2 </verse></sup>The Syrians had gone out in bands, and
had brought away captive out of the land of Israel
a little girl, and she waited on Naaman’s wife. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:3">3 </verse></sup>She
said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with
the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal
him of his leprosy.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Someone went in and told his lord, saying, “The
girl who is from the land of Israel said this.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:5">5 </verse></sup>The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send
a letter to the king of Israel.”

He departed, and took with him ten talents<footnote:1>5:5 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> of
silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes
of clothing. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:6">6 </verse></sup>He brought the letter to the king of
Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to
you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you,
that you may heal him of his leprosy.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:7">7 </verse></sup>When the king of Israel had read the letter, he
tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to
make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man
of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he
seeks a quarrel against me.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:8">8 </verse></sup>It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that
the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to
the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes?
Let him come now to me, and he shall know that
there is a prophet in Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:9">9 </verse></sup>So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariots, and stood at the door of the house of
Elisha. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying,
“Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your
flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be
clean.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:11">11 </verse></sup>But Naaman was angry, and went away and
said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out
to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh
his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal
the leper.’ <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers
of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?
Couldn’t I wash in them and be clean?” So he turned
and went away in a rage.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:13">13 </verse></sup>His servants came near and spoke to him, and
said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do
some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How
much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and
be clean?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Then went he down and dipped himself seven
times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the
man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh
of a little child, and he was clean. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:15">15 </verse></sup>He returned to
the man of God, he and all his company, and came,
and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know
that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel.
Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:16">16 </verse></sup>But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I
stand, I will receive none.”

He urged him to take it; but he refused. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Naaman
said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ load of earth
be given to your servant; for your servant will from
now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice
to other gods, but to Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:18">18 </verse></sup>In this thing may
Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes
into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he
leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house
of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of
Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your servant in this
thing.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Go in peace.”

So he departed from him a little way. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:20">20 </verse></sup>But
Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
“Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the
Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he
brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and
take something from him.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:21">21 </verse></sup>So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman
saw one running after him, he came down from
the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:22">22 </verse></sup>He said, “All is well. My master has sent me,
saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the
sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill
country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent<footnote:1>5:22 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> of
silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:23">23 </verse></sup>Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.”
He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two
bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them
on two of his servants; and they carried them before
him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:24">24 </verse></sup>When he came to the hill, he took them from
their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he
let the men go, and they departed. <key:bcv=2 Kings 5:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:25">25 </verse></sup>But he went
in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him,
“Where did you come from, Gehazi?”
<br>
He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:26">26 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you
when the man turned from his chariot to meet you?
Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments,
and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep
and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
<key:bcv=2 Kings 5:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 5:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you
and to your offspring<footnote:1>5:27 or, seed</footnote> forever.”
<br>
He went out from his presence a leper, as white
as snow.

#BCV:2 Kings 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:1">1 </verse></sup>The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See
now, the place where we live and meet with you is
too small for us. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Please let us go to the Jordan, and
each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us
a place there, where we may live.”
<br>
He answered, “Go!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:3">3 </verse></sup>One said, “Please be pleased to go with your
servants.”

He answered, “I will go.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:4">4 </verse></sup>So he went with them.
When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:5">5 </verse></sup>But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell
into the water. Then he cried out and said, “Alas, my
master! For it was borrowed.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:6">6 </verse></sup>The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He
showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw
it in there, and made the iron float. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:7">7 </verse></sup>He said, “Take
it.” So he put out his hand and took it.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel;
and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My
camp will be in such and such a place.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:9">9 </verse></sup>The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying,
“Beware that you not pass this place, for the Syrians
are coming down there.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:10">10 </verse></sup>The king of Israel sent
to the place which the man of God told him and
warned him of; and he saved himself there, not
once or twice. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:11">11 </verse></sup>The king of Syria’s heart was very
troubled about this. He called his servants, and said
to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the
king of Israel?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:12">12 </verse></sup>One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king;
but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king
of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:13">13 </verse></sup>He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may
send and get him.”
<br>
He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great
army there. They came by night and surrounded
the city. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:15">15 </verse></sup>When the servant of the man of God
had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with
horses and chariots was around the city. His servant
said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:16">16 </verse></sup>He answered, “Don’t be afraid, for those who
are with us are more than those who are with them.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:17">17 </verse></sup>Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his
eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young
man’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:18">18 </verse></sup>When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to
Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with
blindness.”
<br>
He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s
word.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Elisha said to them, “This is not the way,
neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring
you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to
Samaria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:20">20 </verse></sup>When they had come into Samaria,
Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that
they may see.”
<br>
Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and
behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:21">21 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw
them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike
them?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:22">22 </verse></sup>He answered, “You shall not strike them.
Would you strike those whom you have taken captive
with your sword and with your bow? Set bread
and water before them, that they may eat and drink,
then go to their master.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:23">23 </verse></sup>He prepared a great feast for them. After they
ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to
their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding
the land of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:24">24 </verse></sup>After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered
all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:25">25 </verse></sup>There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold,
they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for
eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab<footnote:1>6:25 A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint </footnote>
of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:26">26 </verse></sup>As the king
of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried
to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:27">27 </verse></sup>He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where
could I get help for you? From the threshing floor,
or from the wine press?” <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:28">28 </verse></sup>Then the king asked her,
“What is your problem?”
<br>
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give
your son, that we may eat him today, and we will
eat my son tomorrow.’ <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:29">29 </verse></sup>So we boiled my son and
ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up
your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden
her son.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:30">30 </verse></sup>When the king heard the words of the woman,
he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the
wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had
sackcloth underneath on his body. <key:bcv=2 Kings 6:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:31">31 </verse></sup>Then he said,
“God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha
the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:32">32 </verse></sup>But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the
elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent
a man from before him; but before the messenger
came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how
this son of a murderer has sent to take away my
head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the
door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the
sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 6:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 6:33">33 </verse></sup>While he was still talking with them, behold,
the messenger came down to him. Then he said,
“Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait
for Yahweh any longer?”

#BCV:2 Kings 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says,
‘Tomorrow about this time a seah<footnote:1>7:1 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks </footnote> of fine flour will
be sold for a shekel,<footnote:1>7:1 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.</footnote> and two seahs of barley for a
shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned
answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if
Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing
be?”
<br>
He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes,
but will not eat of it.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Now there were four leprous men at the entrance
of the gate. They said to one another, “Why
do we sit here until we die? <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:4">4 </verse></sup>If we say, ‘We will enter
into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we
will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now
therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of
the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if
they kill us, we will only die.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:5">5 </verse></sup>They rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of
the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost
part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was
there. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For the Lord<footnote:1>7:6 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> had made the army of the
Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound
of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they
said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has
hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the
kings of the Egyptians to attack us.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore they
arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents,
their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as
it was, and fled for their life. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:8">8 </verse></sup>When these lepers
came to the outermost part of the camp, they went
into one tent, and ate and drank, then carried away
silver, gold, and clothing and went and hid it. Then
they came back, and entered into another tent and
carried things from there also, and went and hid
them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Then they said to one another, “We aren’t
doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we
keep silent. If we wait until the morning light,
punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come,
let’s go and tell the king’s household.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:10">10 </verse></sup>So they came and called to the city gatekeepers;
and they told them, “We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not
even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the
donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Then the gatekeepers called out and told it to
the king’s household within.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:12">12 </verse></sup>The king arose in the night, and said to his
servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians
have done to us. They know that we are hungry.
Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide
themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come
out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into
the city.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:13">13 </verse></sup>One of his servants answered, “Please let some
people take five of the horses that remain, which
are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the
multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold,
they are like all the multitude of Israel who are
consumed. Let’s send and see.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore they took two chariots with horses;
and the king sent them out to the Syrian army,
saying, “Go and see.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 7:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:15">15 </verse></sup>They went after them to the Jordan; and behold,
all the path was full of garments and equipment
which the Syrians had cast away in their haste.
The messengers returned and told the king. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:16">16 </verse></sup>The
people went out and plundered the camp of the
Syrians. So a seah<footnote:1>7:16 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks </footnote> of fine flour was sold for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel,<footnote:1>7:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much. </footnote> according
to Yahweh’s word. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:17">17 </verse></sup>The king had appointed the
captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge
of the gate; and the people trampled over him in
the gate, and he died as the man of God had said,
who spoke when the king came down to him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:18">18 </verse></sup>It
happened as the man of God had spoken to the king,
saying, “Two seahs<footnote:1>7:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks </footnote> of barley for a shekel,<footnote:1>7:18 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.</footnote> and a
seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow
about this time in the gate of Samaria;” <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:19">19 </verse></sup>and that
captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now,
behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might
such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will
see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 7:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 7:20">20 </verse></sup>It
happened like that to him, for the people trampled
over him in the gate, and he died.

#BCV:2 Kings 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son
he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you
and your household, and stay for a while wherever
you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will
also come on the land for seven years.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:2">2 </verse></sup>The woman arose, and did according to the man
of God’s word. She went with her household, and
lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:3">3 </verse></sup>At the end of seven years, the woman returned
from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out
to beg the king for her house and for her land. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Now
the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great
things that Elisha has done.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:5">5 </verse></sup>As he was telling the
king how he had restored to life him who was dead,
behold, the woman whose son he had restored to
life begged the king for her house and for her land.
Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and
this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:6">6 </verse></sup>When the king asked the woman, she told him.
So the king appointed to her a certain officer,
saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits
of the field since the day that she left the land, even
until now.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the
king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God
has come here.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:8">8 </verse></sup>The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your
hand, and go meet the man of God, and inquire of
Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this
sickness?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:9">9 </verse></sup>So Hazael went to meet him and took a present
with him, even of every good thing of Damascus,
forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before
him and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has
sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this
sickness?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely
recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he
will surely die.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:11">11 </verse></sup>He settled his gaze steadfastly on
him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God
wept.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?”
He answered, “Because I know the evil that you
will do to the children of Israel. You will set their
strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young
men with the sword, and will dash their little ones
in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is
but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”
Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you
will be king over Syria.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his
master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to
you?”
<br>
He answered, “He told me that you would surely
recover.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:15">15 </verse></sup>On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped
it in water, and spread it on the king’s face, so that
he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:16">16 </verse></sup>In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah
then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah
began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:17">17 </verse></sup>He was thirty-two years old
when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:18">18 </verse></sup>He walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, as did Ahab’s house, for he married Ahab’s
daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:19">19 </verse></sup>However, Yahweh would not destroy Judah,
for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to
give to him a lamp for his children always.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:20">20 </verse></sup>In his days Edom revolted from under the hand
of Judah, and made a king over themselves. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Then
Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots
with him; and he rose up by night and struck the
Edomites who surrounded him with the captains
of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:22">22 </verse></sup>So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah
to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:23">23 </verse></sup>The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Joram slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and
Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:25">25 </verse></sup>In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:26">26 </verse></sup>Ahaziah was twenty-two
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:27">27 </verse></sup>He
walked in the way of Ahab’s house and did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s
house, for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 8:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:28">28 </verse></sup>He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war
against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and
the Syrians wounded Joram. <key:bcv=2 Kings 8:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 8:29">29 </verse></sup>King Joram returned
to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the
Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

#BCV:2 Kings 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the
prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your
waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to
Ramoth Gilead. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:2">2 </verse></sup>When you come there, find Jehu
the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in
and make him rise up from among his brothers, and
take him to an inner room. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Then take the vial of
oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says,
“I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open
the door, flee, and don’t wait.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:4">4 </verse></sup>So the young man, the young prophet, went
to Ramoth Gilead. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:5">5 </verse></sup>When he came, behold, the
captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I
have a message for you, captain.”
<br>
Jehu said, “To which one of us?”

He said, “To you, O captain.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:6">6 </verse></sup>He arose, and
went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his
head, and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of Israel,
says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of
Yahweh, even over Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:7">7 </verse></sup>You must strike your
master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood
of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all
the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:8">8 </verse></sup>For
the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off
from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,<footnote:1>9:8 or, male</footnote>
both him who is shut up and him who is left at large
in Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:9">9 </verse></sup>I will make Ahab’s house like the house
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of
Baasha the son of Ahijah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:10">10 </verse></sup>The dogs will eat Jezebel
on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be
no one to bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and
fled.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:11">11 </verse></sup>When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord
and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this
madman come to you?”
<br>
He said to them, “You know the man and how he
talks.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:12">12 </verse></sup>They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.”
He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have
anointed you king over Israel.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Then they hurried, and each man took his
cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs,
and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:14">14 </verse></sup>So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of
Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was
defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because
of Hazael king of Syria; <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:15">15 </verse></sup>but King Joram had
returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him when he fought
with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your
thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the
city to go to tell it in Jezreel.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:16">16 </verse></sup>So Jehu rode in
a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there.
<br>
Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Now the watchman was standing on the tower
in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he
came, and said, “I see a company.”
<br>
Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:18">18 </verse></sup>So one went on horseback to meet him, and
said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’ ”
Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace?
Fall in behind me!”
<br>
The watchman said, “The messenger came to
them, but he isn’t coming back.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Then he sent out a second on horseback,
who came to them and said, “The king says, ‘Is it
peace?’ ”
<br>
Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with
peace? Fall in behind me!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:20">20 </verse></sup>The watchman said, “He came to them, and
isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of
Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Joram said, “Get ready!”
<br>
They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of
Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in
his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and
found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:22">22 </verse></sup>When
Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”
He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution
of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft
abound?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Joram turned his hands and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:24">24 </verse></sup>Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and
struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went
out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him
up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth
the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and
I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid
this burden on him: <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:26">26 </verse></sup>‘Surely I have seen yesterday
the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says
Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’
says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto
the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:27">27 </verse></sup>But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he
fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed
after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!”
They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by
Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:28">28 </verse></sup>His
servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s
city. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:29">29 </verse></sup>In the eleventh year of Joram the son of
Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:30">30 </verse></sup>When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard
of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her
head, and looked out at the window. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:31">31 </verse></sup>As Jehu
entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in
peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:32">32 </verse></sup>He lifted up his face to the window, and said,
“Who is on my side? Who?”
<br>
Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:33">33 </verse></sup>He said, “Throw her down!”
<br>
So they threw her down; and some of her blood
was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then
he trampled her under foot. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:34">34 </verse></sup>When he had come
in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to
this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s
daughter.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:35">35 </verse></sup>They went to bury her, but they found no more
of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her
hands. <key:bcv=2 Kings 9:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:36">36 </verse></sup>Therefore they came back, and told him.
He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke
by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs
will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
<key:bcv=2 Kings 9:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 9:37">37 </verse></sup>and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the
surface of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they
won’t say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”

#BCV:2 Kings 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu
wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers
of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought
up Ahab’s sons, saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:2">2 </verse></sup>“Now as soon as this letter
comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you,
and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city
also, and armor, <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:3">3 </verse></sup>select the best and fittest of your
master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and
fight for your master’s house.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:4">4 </verse></sup>But they were exceedingly afraid, and said,
“Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him!
How then shall we stand?” <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:5">5 </verse></sup>He who was over the
household, and he who was over the city, the elders
also, and those who raised the children, sent to
Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all
that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You
do that which is good in your eyes.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he wrote a letter the second time to them,
saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen
to my voice, take the heads of the men who are
your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by
tomorrow this time.”
<br>
Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were
with the great men of the city, who brought them
up. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:7">7 </verse></sup>When the letter came to them, they took the
king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people,
and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him
to Jezreel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:8">8 </verse></sup>A messenger came and told him, “They
have brought the heads of the king’s sons.”
He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance
of the gate until the morning.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:9">9 </verse></sup>In the morning,
he went out and stood, and said to all the people,
“You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my
master and killed him, but who killed all these?
<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of
Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning
Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he
spoke by his servant Elijah.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:11">11 </verse></sup>So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s
house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar
friends, and his priests, until he left him no one
remaining.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:12">12 </verse></sup>He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As
he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on
the way, <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah
king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?”
They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah.
We are going down to greet the children of the king
and the children of the queen.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, “Take them alive!”
<br>
They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of
the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t
leave any of them.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:15">15 </verse></sup>When he had departed from there, he met
Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him.
He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart
right, as my heart is with your heart?”
Jehonadab answered, “It is.”
<br>
“If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his
hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for
Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:17">17 </verse></sup>When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained
to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed
them, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke
to Elijah.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Jehu gathered all the people together, and said
to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will
serve him much. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Now therefore call to me all the
prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of
his priests. Let no one be absent, for I have a great
sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not
live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy
the worshipers of Baal.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for
Baal!”

So they proclaimed it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Jehu sent through all
Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that
there was not a man left that didn’t come. They
came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal
was filled from one end to another. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:22">22 </verse></sup>He said to him
who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the
worshipers of Baal!”

So he brought robes out to them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Jehu went
with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house
of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal,
“Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh
are here with you, but only the worshipers of
Baal.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:24">24 </verse></sup>So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself
eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men
whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets
him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:25">25 </verse></sup>As soon as he had finished offering the burnt
offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,
“Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they
struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard
and the captains threw the bodies out, and went
to the inner shrine of the house of Baal. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:26">26 </verse></sup>They
brought out the pillars that were in the house of
Baal and burned them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:27">27 </verse></sup>They broke down the
pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and
made it a latrine, to this day. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Thus Jehu destroyed
Baal out of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:29">29 </verse></sup>However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made
Israel to sin—the golden calves that were in Bethel
and that were in Dan. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Jehu,
“Because you have done well in executing that
which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s
house according to all that was in my heart, your
descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the
fourth generation.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:31">31 </verse></sup>But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of
Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He
didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which
he made Israel to sin.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 10:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:32">32 </verse></sup>In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts
of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders
of Israel <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:33">33 </verse></sup>from the Jordan eastward, all the land
of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the
Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the
Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:34">34 </verse></sup>Now the rest of
the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:35">35 </verse></sup>Jehu slept with his fathers;
and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son
reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Kings 10:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 10:36">36 </verse></sup>The time that Jehu reigned
over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

#BCV:2 Kings 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw
that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all
the royal offspring. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:2">2 </verse></sup>But Jehosheba, the daughter of
King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of
Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s
sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and
put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from
Athaliah, so that he was not slain. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:3">3 </verse></sup>He was with her
hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah
reigned over the land.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:4">4 </verse></sup>In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched
the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of
the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s
house; and he made a covenant with them, and
made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and
showed them the king’s son. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:5">5 </verse></sup>He commanded them,
saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you,
who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of
the watch of the king’s house; <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:6">6 </verse></sup>a third of you shall
be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate
behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of
the house, and be a barrier. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:7">7 </verse></sup>The two companies
of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall
keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:8">8 </verse></sup>You shall surround the king, every man with his
weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the
ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he
goes out, and when he comes in.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:9">9 </verse></sup>The captains over hundreds did according to all
that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each
took his men, those who were to come in on the
Sabbath with those who were to go out on the Sabbath,
and came to Jehoiada the priest. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:10">10 </verse></sup>The priest
delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears
and shields that had been King David’s, which were
in Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:11">11 </verse></sup>The guard stood, every man
with his weapons in his hand, from the right side
of the house to the left side of the house, along by
the altar and the house, around the king. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Then
he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown
on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made
him king and anointed him; and they clapped their
hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:13">13 </verse></sup>When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
and of the people, she came to the people into
Yahweh’s house; <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:14">14 </verse></sup>and she looked, and behold, the
king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with
the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all
the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets.
Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason!
Treason!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains
of hundreds who were set over the army, and said
to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill
anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the
priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s
house.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:16">16 </verse></sup>So they seized her; and she went by the
way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she
was slain there.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:17">17 </verse></sup>Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh
and the king and the people, that they should be
Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the
people. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:18">18 </verse></sup>All the people of the land went to the
house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his
altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and
killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:19">19 </verse></sup>He took the captains over hundreds, and the
Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the
land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s
house, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of
the kings. <key:bcv=2 Kings 11:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:20">20 </verse></sup>So all the people of the land rejoiced,
and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with
the sword at the king’s house.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 11:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Jehoash was seven years old when he began to
reign.

#BCV:2 Kings 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of
Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His
mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Jehoash
did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his
days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:3">3 </verse></sup>However, the high places were not taken away.
The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the
high places.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the
holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in
current money, the money of the people for whom
each man is evaluated,<footnote:1>12:4 Exodus 30:12</footnote> and all the money that it
comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s
house, <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:5">5 </verse></sup>let the priests take it to them, each man
from his donor; and they shall repair the damage
to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:6">6 </verse></sup>But it was so, that in the twenty-third year
of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the
damage to the house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Then King Jehoash called for
Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and
said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage
to the house? Now therefore take no more money
from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the
damage to the house.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:8">8 </verse></sup>The priests consented that they should take no
more money from the people, and not repair the
damage to the house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:9">9 </verse></sup>But Jehoiada the priest
took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set
it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes
into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the
threshold put all the money that was brought into
Yahweh’s house into it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:10">10 </verse></sup>When they saw that there
was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and
the high priest came up, and they put it in bags
and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:11">11 </verse></sup>They gave the money that was weighed
out into the hands of those who did the work,
who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they
paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who
worked on Yahweh’s house, <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:12">12 </verse></sup>and to the masons
and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut
stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and
for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:13">13 </verse></sup>But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups
of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold or vessels of silver, of the money that was
brought into Yahweh’s house; <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:14">14 </verse></sup>for they gave that
to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s
house with it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Moreover they didn’t demand an
accounting from the men into whose hand they
delivered the money to give to those who did the
work; for they dealt faithfully. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:16">16 </verse></sup>The money for
the trespass offerings and the money for the sin
offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It
was the priests’.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought
against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to
go up to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Jehoash king of Judah took all
the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and
Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated,
and his own holy things, and all the gold that was
found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the
king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and
he went away from Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 12:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:20">20 </verse></sup>His servants arose and
made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house
of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. <key:bcv=2 Kings 12:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 12:21">21 </verse></sup>For
Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son
of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died;
and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city;
and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Kings 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:1">1 </verse></sup>In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu
began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen
years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t
depart from it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned against
Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of
Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad
the son of Hazael, continually. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Jehoahaz begged
Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw
the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria
oppressed them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:5">5 </verse></sup>(Yahweh gave Israel a savior,
so that they went out from under the hand of the
Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their
tents as before. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Nevertheless they didn’t depart
from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which
he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the
Asherah also remained in Samaria.) <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:7">7 </verse></sup>For he didn’t
leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than
fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand
footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them and
made them like the dust in threshing. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Now the
rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
his might, aren’t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Jehoahaz slept
with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria;
and Joash his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:10">10 </verse></sup>In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of
Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign
over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:11">11 </verse></sup>He did
that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t
depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he
walked in them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Joash,
and all that he did, and his might with which he
fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam
sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with
the kings of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Now Elisha became sick with the illness of
which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came
down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My
father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its
horsemen!”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and
he took bow and arrows for himself. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:16">16 </verse></sup>He said to the
king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he
put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s
hands. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:17">17 </verse></sup>He said, “Open the window eastward;” and
he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he
shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the
arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the
Syrians in Aphek until you have consumed them.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them.
He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground;”
and he struck three times, and stopped. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:19">19 </verse></sup>The man
of God was angry with him, and said, “You should
have struck five or six times. Then you would have
struck Syria until you had consumed it, but now you
will strike Syria just three times.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Elisha died, and they buried him.
<br>
Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land
at the coming in of the year. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:21">21 </verse></sup>As they were burying
a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they
threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the
man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood
up on his feet.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:23">23 </verse></sup>But Yahweh was gracious to
them, and had compassion on them, and favored
them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them and he
didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 13:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Kings 13:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz
took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of
Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand
of Jehoahaz his father by war. Joash struck him
three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.

#BCV:2 Kings 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:1">1 </verse></sup>In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king
of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:2">2 </verse></sup>He was twenty-five years old
when he began to reign; and he reigned twentynine
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:3">3 </verse></sup>He did that which was
right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father.
He did according to all that Joash his father had
done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:4">4 </verse></sup>However the high places were not taken
away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense
in the high places. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:5">5 </verse></sup>As soon as the kingdom was
established in his hand, he killed his servants who
had slain the king his father, <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:6">6 </verse></sup>but the children of the
murderers he didn’t put to death, according to that
which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as
Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, nor the children be
put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die
for his own sin.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:7">7 </verse></sup>He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of
Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel,
to this day. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Amaziah sent messengers
to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of
Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the
face.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king
of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon
sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give
your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then a wild
animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled
down the thistle. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:10">10 </verse></sup>You have indeed struck Edom,
and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of
it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to
your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with
you?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:11">11 </verse></sup>But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king
of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah
looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh,
which belongs to Judah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Judah was defeated by
Israel; and each man fled to his tent. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Jehoash
king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh and
came to Jerusalem, then broke down the wall of
Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner
gate, four hundred cubits.<footnote:1>14:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:14">14 </verse></sup>He took all the gold
and silver and all the vessels that were found in
Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s
house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he
did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah
king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel? <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Jehoash slept
with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
place.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king
of Israel, fifteen years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts
of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:19">19 </verse></sup>They made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled
to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and
killed him there. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:20">20 </verse></sup>They brought him on horses,
and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in
David’s city.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:21">21 </verse></sup>All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of
his father Amaziah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:22">22 </verse></sup>He built Elath and restored it
to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:23">23 </verse></sup>In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of
Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king
of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one
years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:24">24 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:25">25 </verse></sup>He restored the border of Israel from the entrance
of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to
Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke
by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet,
who was from Gath Hepher. <key:bcv=2 Kings 14:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:26">26 </verse></sup>For Yahweh saw the
affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for all,
slave and free; and there was no helper for Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the
name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved
them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all
that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how
he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had
belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
<key:bcv=2 Kings 14:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the
kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his
place.

#BCV:2 Kings 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:1">1 </verse></sup>In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king
of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah
began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:2">2 </verse></sup>He was sixteen years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:3">3 </verse></sup>He did that which was right in Yahweh’s
eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah
had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:4">4 </verse></sup>However, the high places were not taken
away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense
in the high places. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh struck the king, so that
he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a
separate house. Jotham, the king’s son, was over the
household, judging the people of the land. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Now
the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Azariah slept with his fathers;
and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city;
and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:8">8 </verse></sup>In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over
Israel in Samaria six months. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:9">9 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as his fathers had done.
He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,
and struck him before the people and killed him,
and reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the
acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:12">12 </verse></sup>This
was Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying,
“Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the
throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:13">13 </verse></sup>Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the
thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he
reigned for a month in Samaria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Menahem the
son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria,
struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed
him, and reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Now the rest of
the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he
made, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who
were in it and its border areas, from Tirzah. He
attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to
him, and he ripped up all their women who were
with child.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:17">17 </verse></sup>In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of
Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over
Israel for ten years in Samaria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:18">18 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his
days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:19">19 </verse></sup>Pul the king of
Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave
Pul one thousand talents<footnote:1>15:19 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons </footnote> of silver, that his hand
might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his
hand. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Menahem exacted the money from Israel,
even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each
man fifty shekels<footnote:1>15:20 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.</footnote> of silver, to give to the king of
Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and
didn’t stay there in the land. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the
acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel? <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Menahem slept with his fathers, and
Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:23">23 </verse></sup>In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah,
Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over
Israel in Samaria for two years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:24">24 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which
he made Israel to sin. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Pekah the son of Remaliah,
his captain, conspired against him and attacked him
in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with
Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the
Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:26">26 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that
he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:27">27 </verse></sup>In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of
Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign
over Israel in Samaria for twenty years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:28">28 </verse></sup>He did
that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t
depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:29">29 </verse></sup>In the days of
Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria
came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah,
Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him,
and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of
Jotham the son of Uzziah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the
acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 15:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:32">32 </verse></sup>In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of
Judah began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:33">33 </verse></sup>He was twenty-five years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha
the daughter of Zadok. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:34">34 </verse></sup>He did that which was
right in Yahweh’s eyes. He did according to all
that his father Uzziah had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:35">35 </verse></sup>However the
high places were not taken away. The people still
sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:36">36 </verse></sup>Now
the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:37">37 </verse></sup>In those days, Yahweh began
to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son
of Remaliah against Judah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 15:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 15:38">38 </verse></sup>Jotham slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father
David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
#BCV:2 Kings 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:1">1 </verse></sup>In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah
began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:2">2 </verse></sup>Ahaz was twenty years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in
Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:3">3 </verse></sup>But
he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even
made his son to pass through the fire, according
to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh
cast out from before the children of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:4">4 </verse></sup>He
sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on
the hills, and under every green tree.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of
Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to
wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not
overcome him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:6">6 </verse></sup>At that time Rezin king of Syria
recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from
Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there
to this day. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:7">7 </verse></sup>So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath
Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant
and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand
of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king
of Israel, who rise up against me.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Ahaz took the
silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house,
and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent
it for a present to the king of Assyria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:9">9 </verse></sup>The king
of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria
went up against Damascus and took it, and carried
its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:10">10 </verse></sup>King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath
Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at
Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a
drawing of the altar and plans to build it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Urijah
the priest built an altar. According to all that King
Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest
made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:12">12 </verse></sup>When the king had come from Damascus, the king
saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar,
and offered on it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:13">13 </verse></sup>He burned his burnt offering
and his meal offering, poured his drink offering,
and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on
the altar. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:14">14 </verse></sup>The bronze altar, which was before
Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house,
from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and
put it on the north side of his altar. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:15">15 </verse></sup>King Ahaz
commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening
meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal
offering, with the burnt offering of all the people
of the land, their meal offering, and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the
burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice;
but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King
Ahaz commanded.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:17">17 </verse></sup>King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and
removed the basin from off them, and took down
the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it,
and put it on a pavement of stone. <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:18">18 </verse></sup>He removed
the covered way for the Sabbath that they had
built in the house, and the king’s outer entrance
to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 16:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 16:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Ahaz slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and
Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
#BCV:2 Kings 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:1">1 </verse></sup>In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah,
Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria
over Israel for nine years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, yet not as the kings of
Israel who were before him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Shalmaneser king of
Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became
his servant, and brought him tribute. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:4">4 </verse></sup>The king of
Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he
had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered
no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done
year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized
him, and bound him in prison. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the king of
Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to
Samaria, and besieged it three years. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:6">6 </verse></sup>In the ninth
year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and
carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in
Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:7">7 </verse></sup>It was so because the children of Israel had
sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought
them up out of the land of Egypt from under the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other
gods, <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:8">8 </verse></sup>and walked in the statutes of the nations
whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of
Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Israel secretly did things that
were not right against Yahweh their God; and they
built high places for themselves in all their cities,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified
city; <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:10">10 </verse></sup>and they set up for themselves pillars and
Asherah poles on every high hill and under every
green tree; <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:11">11 </verse></sup>and there they burned incense in
all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh
carried away before them did; and they did wicked
things to provoke Yahweh to anger; <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:12">12 </verse></sup>and they
served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them,
“You shall not do this thing.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet Yahweh testified
to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every
seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep
my commandments and my statutes, according to
all the law which I commanded your fathers, and
which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:14">14 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened
their neck like the neck of their fathers who
didn’t believe in Yahweh their God. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:15">15 </verse></sup>They rejected
his statutes and his covenant that he made with
their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
to them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and followed the nations that were around
them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded
them that they should not do like them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:16">16 </verse></sup>They
abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their
God, and made molten images for themselves, even
two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all
the army of the sky, and served Baal. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:17">17 </verse></sup>They caused
their sons and their daughters to pass through the
fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, to provoke him to anger. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh
was very angry with Israel, and removed them out
of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of
Judah only.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of
Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of
Israel which they made. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh rejected all the
offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered
them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast
them out of his sight. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:21">21 </verse></sup>For he tore Israel from
David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son
of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from
following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:22">22 </verse></sup>The children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from
them <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:23">23 </verse></sup>until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight,
as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel
was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to
this day.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:24">24 </verse></sup>The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon,
from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath
and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of
Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they
possessed Samaria and lived in its cities. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:25">25 </verse></sup>So
it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there,
that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh
sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying,
“The nations which you have carried away and
placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law
of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions
among them; and behold, they kill them, because
they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:27">27 </verse></sup>Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying,
“Carry there one of the priests whom you brought
from there; and let him<footnote:1>17:27 Hebrew: them</footnote> go and dwell there, and let
him teach them the law of the god of the land.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:28">28 </verse></sup>So one of the priests whom they had carried
away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and
taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:29">29 </verse></sup>However every nation made gods of their own,
and put them in the houses of the high places
which the Samaritans had made, every nation in
their cities in which they lived. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:30">30 </verse></sup>The men of
Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made
Ashima, <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:31">31 </verse></sup>and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak;
and the Sepharvites burned their children in the
fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods
of Sepharvaim. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:32">32 </verse></sup>So they feared Yahweh, and
also made from among themselves priests of the
high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them
in the houses of the high places. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:33">33 </verse></sup>They feared
Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the
ways of the nations from among whom they had
been carried away. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:34">34 </verse></sup>To this day they do what
they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and
they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances,
or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named
Israel; <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:35">35 </verse></sup>with whom Yahweh had made a covenant
and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear
other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them; <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:36">36 </verse></sup>but you shall fear
Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of
Egypt with great power and with an outstretched
arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and
you shall sacrifice to him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:37">37 </verse></sup>The statutes and the
ordinances, and the law and the commandment
which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do
forever more. You shall not fear other gods. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:38">38 </verse></sup>You
shall not forget the covenant that I have made with
you. You shall not fear other gods. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:39">39 </verse></sup>But you shall
fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out
of the hand of all your enemies.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 17:40><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:40">40 </verse></sup>However they didn’t listen, but they did what
they did before. <key:bcv=2 Kings 17:41><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 17:41">41 </verse></sup>So these nations feared Yahweh,
and also served their engraved images. Their
children did likewise, and so did their children’s
children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

#BCV:2 Kings 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of
Judah began to reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:2">2 </verse></sup>He was twenty-five years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned twentynine
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi
the daughter of Zechariah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:3">3 </verse></sup>He did that which was
right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David
his father had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:4">4 </verse></sup>He removed the high places,
broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also
broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had
made, because in those days the children of Israel
burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:5">5 </verse></sup>He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that
after him was no one like him among all the kings
of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:6">6 </verse></sup>For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from
following him, but kept his commandments, which
Yahweh commanded Moses. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh was with
him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled
against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:8">8 </verse></sup>He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:9">9 </verse></sup>In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was
the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria and besieged it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:10">10 </verse></sup>At the end of three
years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah,
which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The king of Assyria carried
Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and
on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of
the Medes, <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:12">12 </verse></sup>because they didn’t obey Yahweh their
God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all
that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and
would not hear it or do it.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
fortified cities of Judah and took them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Hezekiah
king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish,
saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me.
That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of
Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three
hundred talents of silver and thirty talents<footnote:1>18:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote> of gold.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in
Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:16">16 </verse></sup>At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold
from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the
pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid,
and gave it to the king of Assyria.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:17">17 </verse></sup>The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a
great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to
Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and
stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in
the highway of the fuller’s field. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:18">18 </verse></sup>When they had
called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who
was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe,
and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out
to them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to
Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says,
“What confidence is this in which you trust? <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:20">20 </verse></sup>You
say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel
and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust,
that you have rebelled against me? <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Now, behold,
you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in
Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand
and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all
who trust on him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:22">22 </verse></sup>But if you tell me, ‘We trust
in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship
before this altar in Jerusalem?’ <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Now therefore,
please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousand horses if you are
able on your part to set riders on them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:24">24 </verse></sup>How then
can you turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master’s servants, and put your trust
on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Have I
now come up without Yahweh against this place to
destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this
land, and destroy it.’ ” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah,
and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your
servants in the Syrian language, for we understand
it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the
hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:27">27 </verse></sup>But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master
sent me to your master and to you, to speak these
words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the
wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own
urine with you?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying,
“Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:29">29 </verse></sup>The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for
he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:30">30 </verse></sup>Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh,
saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this
city shall not be given into the hand of the king
of Assyria.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:31">31 </verse></sup>Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the
king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me,
and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from
his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree,
and everyone drink water from his own cistern;
<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:32">32 </verse></sup>until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of
bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of
honey, that you may live and not die. Don’t listen to
Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh
will deliver us.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:33">33 </verse></sup>Has any of the gods of the nations
ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king
of Assyria? <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:34">34 </verse></sup>Where are the gods of Hamath and of
Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand? <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:35">35 </verse></sup>Who are they among all the gods of the
countries, that have delivered their country out of
my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out
of my hand?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 18:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:36">36 </verse></sup>But the people stayed quiet, and answered
him not a word; for the king’s commandment was,
“Don’t answer him.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 18:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 18:37">37 </verse></sup>Then Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with
Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and
told him Rabshakeh’s words.

#BCV:2 Kings 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:1">1 </verse></sup>When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his
clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:2">2 </verse></sup>He sent Eliakim, who was
over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the
elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:3">3 </verse></sup>They said
to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble,
of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have
come to the point of birth, and there is no strength
to deliver them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:4">4 </verse></sup>It may be Yahweh your God will
hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
remnant that is left.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:5">5 </verse></sup>So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this:
‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you
have heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, I will put a
spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return
to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:8">8 </verse></sup>So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard
that he had departed from Lachish. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:9">9 </verse></sup>When he heard
it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has
come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers
again to Hezekiah, saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:10">10 </verse></sup>“Tell Hezekiah king of
Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust
deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, you
have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be
delivered? <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:12">12 </verse></sup>Have the gods of the nations delivered
them, which my fathers have destroyed —Gozan,
Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were
in Telassar? <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Where is the king of Hamath, the king
of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of
Hena, and Ivvah?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah
went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before
Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and
said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned
above the cherubim, you are the God, even you
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have
made heaven and earth. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:16">16 </verse></sup>Incline your ear, Yahweh,
and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear
the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy
the living God. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:17">17 </verse></sup>Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria
have laid waste the nations and their lands, <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:18">18 </verse></sup>and
have cast their gods into the fire; for they were
no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and
stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Now
therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out
of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
and I have heard you. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:21">21 </verse></sup>This is the word that
Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin
daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed
you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her
head at you. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Whom have you defied and blasphemed?
Against whom have you exalted your
<br>
voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the
Holy One of Israel! <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:23">23 </verse></sup>By your messengers, you have
defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude
of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the
mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and
I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress
trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place,
the forest of his fruitful field. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:24">24 </verse></sup>I have dug and
drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers
of Egypt with the sole of my feet.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:25">25 </verse></sup>Haven’t you
heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of
ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that
it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into
ruinous heaps. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore their inhabitants had
little power. They were dismayed and confounded.
They were like the grass of the field and like the
green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like
grain blasted before it has grown up. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:27">27 </verse></sup>But I know
your sitting down, your going out, your coming in,
and your raging against me. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:28">28 </verse></sup>Because of your
raging against me, and because your arrogance has
come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook
in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will
turn you back by the way by which you came.’
<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:29">29 </verse></sup>“This will be the sign to you: This year, you
will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second
year that which springs from that; and in the third
year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their
fruit. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:30">30 </verse></sup>The remnant that has escaped of the house
of Judah will again take root downward, and bear
fruit upward. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:31">31 </verse></sup>For out of Jerusalem a remnant
will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall
escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:32">32 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of
Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an
arrow there. He will not come before it with shield,
nor cast up a mound against it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:33">33 </verse></sup>He will return the
same way that he came, and he will not come to this
city,’ says Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:34">34 </verse></sup>‘For I will defend this city to
save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s
sake.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 19:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:35">35 </verse></sup>That night, Yahweh’s angel went out and struck
one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp
of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the
morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:36">36 </verse></sup>So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home,
and lived at Nineveh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 19:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 19:37">37 </verse></sup>As he was worshiping
in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech
and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they
escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Kings 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying.
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him,
and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in
order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed
to Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 20:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:3">3 </verse></sup>“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg
you, how I have walked before you in truth and with
a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in
your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part
of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:5">5 </verse></sup>“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my
people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says,
“I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears.
Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will
go up to Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 20:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:6">6 </verse></sup>I will add to your days
fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of
the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this
city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s
sake.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.”
<br>
They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:8">8 </verse></sup>Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign
that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to
Yahweh’s house the third day?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from
Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has
spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or
go back ten steps?”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the
shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the
shadow return backward ten steps.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:11">11 </verse></sup>Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he
brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which
it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:12">12 </verse></sup>At that time Berodach Baladan the son of
Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present
to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had
been sick. <key:bcv=2 Kings 20:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Hezekiah listened to them, and showed
them all the storehouse of his precious things—the
silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and
the house of his armor, and all that was found in his
treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Isaiah the prophet came to King
Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men
say? From where did they come to you?”
Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country,
even from Babylon.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:15">15 </verse></sup>He said, “What have they seen in your house?”
Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is
in my house. There is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shown them.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:17">17 </verse></sup>‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your
house, and that which your fathers have laid up in
store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing
will be left,’ says Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 20:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:18">18 </verse></sup>‘They will take away
some of your sons who will issue from you, whom
you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:19">19 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word
which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover,
“Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit,
and brought water into the city, aren’t they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
<key:bcv=2 Kings 20:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 20:21">21 </verse></sup>Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his
son reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Kings 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:2">2 </verse></sup>He
did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after
the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast
out before the children of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:3">3 </verse></sup>For he built
again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal,
and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did,
and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served
them. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:4">4 </verse></sup>He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which
Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:5">5 </verse></sup>He built altars for all the army of the sky in
the two courts of Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:6">6 </verse></sup>He made his
son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery,
used enchantments, and dealt with those who had
familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil
in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:7">7 </verse></sup>He set
the engraved image of Asherah that he had made
in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to
Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
I will put my name forever; <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:8">8 </verse></sup>I will not cause the
feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land
which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe
to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses
commanded them.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:9">9 </verse></sup>But they didn’t listen, and
Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil
more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed
before the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets,
saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:11">11 </verse></sup>“Because Manasseh king of Judah has
done these abominations, and has done wickedly
above all that the Amorites did, who were before
him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:12">12 </verse></sup>therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold,
I will bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that
whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:13">13 </verse></sup>I
will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the plumb line of Ahab’s house; and I will
wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it
and turning it upside down. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:14">14 </verse></sup>I will cast off the
remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into
the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey
and a plunder to all their enemies, <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:15">15 </verse></sup>because they
have done that which is evil in my sight, and have
provoked me to anger since the day their fathers
came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very
much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end
to another; in addition to his sin with which he
made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in
Yahweh’s sight.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:17">17 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all
that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden
of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:19">19 </verse></sup>Amon was twenty-two years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His
mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of
Haruz of Jotbah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:20">20 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in
Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:21">21 </verse></sup>He
walked in all the ways that his father walked in,
and served the idols that his father served, and
worshiped them; <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:22">22 </verse></sup>and he abandoned Yahweh, the
God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of
Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:23">23 </verse></sup>The servants of Amon conspired against
him, and put the king to death in his own house.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:24">24 </verse></sup>But the people of the land killed all those who
had conspired against King Amon; and the people
of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 21:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 21:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 21:26">26 </verse></sup>He was buried in his tomb in
the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his
place.

#BCV:2 Kings 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Josiah was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of
Adaiah of Bozkath. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was right in
Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the ways of David
his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or
to the left.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:3">3 </verse></sup>In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king
sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam,
the scribe, to Yahweh’s house, saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:4">4 </verse></sup>“Go
up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count
the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house,
which the keepers of the threshold have gathered
of the people. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Let them deliver it into the hand
of the workers who have the oversight of Yahweh’s
house; and let them give it to the workers who are in
Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house,
<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:6">6 </verse></sup>to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the
masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to
repair the house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:7">7 </verse></sup>However, no accounting shall
be asked of them for the money delivered into their
hand, for they deal faithfully.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the
scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s
house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan,
and he read it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Shaphan the scribe came to the
king, and brought the king word again, and said,
“Your servants have emptied out the money that
was found in the house, and have delivered it into
the hands of the workmen who have the oversight
of Yahweh’s house.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Shaphan the scribe told the
king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a
book to me.” Then Shaphan read it before the king.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:11">11 </verse></sup>When the king had heard the words of the
book of the law, he tore his clothes. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:12">12 </verse></sup>The king
commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:13">13 </verse></sup>“Go
inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and
for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that
is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not listened to
the words of this book, to do according to all that
which is written concerning us.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:14">14 </verse></sup>So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor,
Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah,
the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now
she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and
they talked with her. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:15">15 </verse></sup>She said to them, “Yahweh
the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you
to me, <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:16">16 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil
on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the
words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 22:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Because they have forsaken me and have burned
incense to other gods, that they might provoke me
to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore
my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and
it will not be quenched.’ ” <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:18">18 </verse></sup>But to the king of
Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, tell
him, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning
the words which you have heard, <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:19">19 </verse></sup>because your
heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before
Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this
place and against its inhabitants, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your
clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,’
says Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 22:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 22:20">20 </verse></sup>‘Therefore behold, I will gather
you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to
your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the
evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they
brought this message back to the king.
#BCV:2 Kings 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:1">1 </verse></sup>The king sent, and they gathered to him all the
elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:2">2 </verse></sup>The king went
up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him—with
the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both
small and great; and he read in their hearing all
the words of the book of the covenant which was
found in Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:3">3 </verse></sup>The king stood by the
pillar and made a covenant before Yahweh to walk
after Yahweh and to keep his commandments, his
testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and
all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant
that were written in this book; and all the people
agreed to the covenant.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:4">4 </verse></sup>The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
and the priests of the second order, and the keepers
of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all
the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah,
and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them
outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron,
and carried their ashes to Bethel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:5">5 </verse></sup>He got rid of
the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem;
those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to
the moon, to the planets, and to all the army of the
sky. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:6">6 </verse></sup>He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s
house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron,
and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to
dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common
people. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:7">7 </verse></sup>He broke down the houses of the male
shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house,
where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:8">8 </verse></sup>He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
and defiled the high places where the priests had
burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he
broke down the high places of the gates that were
at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor
of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the
gate of the city. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Nevertheless the priests of the
high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in
Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among
their brothers. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:10">10 </verse></sup>He defiled Topheth, which is in
the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man
might make his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire to Molech. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:11">11 </verse></sup>He took away the horses
that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun,
at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of
Nathan Melech the officer who was in the court;
and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:12">12 </verse></sup>The king broke down the altars that were on the
roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings
of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh
had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house,
and beat them down from there, and cast their
dust into the brook Kidron. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:13">13 </verse></sup>The king defiled the
high places that were before Jerusalem, which were
on the right hand of the mountain of corruption,
which Solomon the king of Israel had built for
Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for
Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom
the abomination of the children of Ammon. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:14">14 </verse></sup>He
broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah
poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and the
high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the
high place he broke down; and he burned the high
place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:16">16 </verse></sup>As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that
were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took
the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on
the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word
which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed
these things. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Then he said, “What monument is
that which I see?”
<br>
The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the
man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed
these things that you have done against the altar of
Bethel.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his
bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones
of the prophet who came out of Samaria. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:19">19 </verse></sup>All the
houses also of the high places that were in the cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did
to them according to all the acts that he had done in
Bethel. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:20">20 </verse></sup>He killed all the priests of the high places
that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s
bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:21">21 </verse></sup>The king commanded all the people, saying,
“Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is
written in this book of the covenant.” <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:22">22 </verse></sup>Surely there
was not kept such a Passover from the days of the
judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:23">23 </verse></sup>but in
the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was
kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:24">24 </verse></sup>Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar
spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim,<footnote:1>23:24 teraphim were household idols. </footnote> and
the idols, and all the abominations that were seen
in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might
confirm the words of the law which were written in
the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:25">25 </verse></sup>There was no king like him before him,
who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with
all his soul, and with all his might, according to
all the law of Moses; and there was none like him
who arose after him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:26">26 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding, Yahweh
didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath,
with which his anger burned against Judah, because
of all the provocation with which Manasseh had
provoked him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “I will also remove
Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel; and
I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even
Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name
shall be there.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he
did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah? <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:29">29 </verse></sup>In his days Pharaoh Necoh
king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to
the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went against
him, but Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo
when he saw him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:30">30 </verse></sup>His servants carried him
dead in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The
people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s
place.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:31">31 </verse></sup>Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:32">32 </verse></sup>He did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that
his fathers had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:33">33 </verse></sup>Pharaoh Necoh put him
in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he
might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent<footnote:1>23:33 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote>
of gold. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:34">34 </verse></sup>Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son
of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and
changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz
away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 23:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:35">35 </verse></sup>Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;
but he taxed the land to give the money according
to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the
silver and the gold of the people of the land, from
everyone according to his assessment, to give it to
Pharaoh Necoh. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:36">36 </verse></sup>Jehoiakim was twenty-five years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah
the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 23:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 23:37">37 </verse></sup>He did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all
that his fathers had done.

#BCV:2 Kings 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:1">1 </verse></sup>In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three
years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans,
bands of the Syrians, bands of the Moabites, and
bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them
against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s
word which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came
on Judah, to remove them out of his sight for the
sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:4">4 </verse></sup>and
also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh
would not pardon. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:6">6 </verse></sup>So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin
his son reigned in his place.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:7">7 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land
any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from
the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that
belonged to the king of Egypt.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:8">8 </verse></sup>Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three
months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the
daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:9">9 </verse></sup>He did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to
all that his father had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:10">10 </verse></sup>At that time
the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the
city while his servants were besieging it, <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:12">12 </verse></sup>and
Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon—he, his mother, his servants, his princes,
and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured
him in the eighth year of his reign. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:13">13 </verse></sup>He carried out
from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house and
the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces
all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:14">14 </verse></sup>He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No
one remained except the poorest people of the land.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:15">15 </verse></sup>He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the
king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and
the chief men of the land. He carried them into
captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:16">16 </verse></sup>All the men
of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen
and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and
fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought
captive to Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:17">17 </verse></sup>The king of Babylon made
Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his
place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 24:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:19">19 </verse></sup>He did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done. <key:bcv=2 Kings 24:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 24:20">20 </verse></sup>For through the anger
of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah,
until he had cast them out from his presence.
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
#BCV:2 Kings 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:1">1 </verse></sup>In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and
they built forts against it around it. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:2">2 </verse></sup>So the city was
besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:3">3 </verse></sup>On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine
was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for
the people of the land. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Then a breach was made in
the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the
way of the gate between the two walls, which was by
the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against
the city around it); and the king went by the way of
the Arabah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:5">5 </verse></sup>But the Chaldean army pursued the
king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and
all his army was scattered from him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Then they
captured the king and carried him up to the king
of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on
him. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:7">7 </verse></sup>They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes,
then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters,
and carried him to Babylon.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of
the month, which was the nineteenth year of King
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, came to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:9">9 </verse></sup>He burned Yahweh’s
house, the king’s house, and all the houses of
Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:10">10 </verse></sup>All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the
captain of the guard, broke down the walls around
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:11">11 </verse></sup>Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive the rest of the people who
were left in the city and those who had deserted to
the king of Babylon—all the rest of the multitude.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:12">12 </verse></sup>But the captain of the guard left some of the
poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:13">13 </verse></sup>The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze
that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the
bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried
the bronze pieces to Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:14">14 </verse></sup>They took away the
pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all
the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:15">15 </verse></sup>The captain of the guard took away the fire pans,
the basins, that which was of gold, for gold, and that
which was of silver, for silver. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:16">16 </verse></sup>The two pillars, the
one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made
for Yahweh’s house, the bronze of all these vessels
was not weighed. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:17">17 </verse></sup>The height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits,<footnote:1>25:17 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> and a capital of bronze was on
it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with
network and pomegranates on the capital around it,
all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network
was like these.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:18">18 </verse></sup>The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the threshold; <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:19">19 </verse></sup>and out of the city he
took an officer who was set over the men of war;
and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who
were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain
of the army, who mustered the people of the land,
and sixty men of the people of the land who were
found in the city. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:20">20 </verse></sup>Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard took them, and brought them to the king of
Babylon to Riblah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:21">21 </verse></sup>The king of Babylon attacked
them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of
his land.

<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:22">22 </verse></sup>As for the people who were left in the land
of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:23">23 </verse></sup>Now
when all the captains of the forces, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan
the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth
the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the
Maacathite, they and their men. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:24">24 </verse></sup>Gedaliah swore
to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t
be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans.
Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and
it will be well with you.”

<key:bcv=2 Kings 25:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:25">25 </verse></sup>But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal
offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck
Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the
Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:26">26 </verse></sup>All the
people, both small and great, and the captains of the
forces arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid
of the Chaldeans. <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:27">27 </verse></sup>In the thirty-seventh year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the
month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year
that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of
Judah out of prison, <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:28">28 </verse></sup>and he spoke kindly to him
and set his throne above the throne of the kings
who were with him in Babylon, <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:29">29 </verse></sup>and changed his
prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him
continually all the days of his life; <key:bcv=2 Kings 25:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Kings 25:30">30 </verse></sup>and for his
allowance, there was a continual allowance given
him from the king, every day a portion, all the days
of his life.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Chronicles
<h2>The First Book of Chronicles</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Adam, Seth, Enosh, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Noah, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:5">5 </verse></sup>The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai,
Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:6">6 </verse></sup>The sons of
Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The
sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:8">8 </verse></sup>The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and
Canaan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta,
Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and
Dedan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Cush became the father of Nimrod. He
began to be a mighty one in the earth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Mizraim
became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim,
Naphtuhim, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the
Philistines came from), and Caphtorim. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Canaan
became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:14">14 </verse></sup>the
Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:15">15 </verse></sup>the Hivite,
the Arkite, the Sinite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:16">16 </verse></sup>the Arvadite, the Zemarite,
and the Hamathite.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:17">17 </verse></sup>The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad,
Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and
Shelah became the father of Eber. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:19">19 </verse></sup>To Eber were
born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,
for in his days the earth was divided; and his
brother’s name was Joktan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Joktan became the
father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons
of Joktan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:25">25 </verse></sup>Eber,
Peleg, Reu, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:26">26 </verse></sup>Serug, Nahor, Terah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Abram (also
called Abraham).

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:29">29 </verse></sup>These are their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:31">31 </verse></sup>Jetur,
Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of
Ishmael.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:32">32 </verse></sup>The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she
bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and
Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:33">33 </verse></sup>The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida,
and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:34">34 </verse></sup>Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons
of Isaac: Esau and Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:35">35 </verse></sup>The sons of Esau:
Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:36">36 </verse></sup>The
sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz,
Timna, and Amalek. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:37">37 </verse></sup>The sons of Reuel: Nahath,
Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:38">38 </verse></sup>The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:39">39 </verse></sup>The sons of Lotan: Hori
and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:40">40 </verse></sup>The
sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and
Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:41">41 </verse></sup>The
son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran,
Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:42">42 </verse></sup>The sons of Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz
and Aran.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:43">43 </verse></sup>Now these are the kings who reigned in the
land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children
of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of
his city was Dinhabah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:44">44 </verse></sup>Bela died, and Jobab the
son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:45">45 </verse></sup>Jobab
died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites
reigned in his place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:46">46 </verse></sup>Husham died, and Hadad
the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of
Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city
was Avith. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:47">47 </verse></sup>Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:48">48 </verse></sup>Samlah died, and Shaul of
Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:49">49 </verse></sup>Shaul
died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:50">50 </verse></sup>Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned
in his place; and the name of his city was Pai. His
wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred,
the daughter of Mezahab. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:51">51 </verse></sup>Then Hadad died. The
chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief
Jetheth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:52">52 </verse></sup>chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:53">53 </verse></sup>chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 1:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 1:54">54 </verse></sup>chief
Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of
Edom.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:1">1 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Dan, Joseph, Benjamin,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:3">3 </verse></sup>The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which
three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the
Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in
Yahweh’s<footnote:1>2:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> sight; and he killed him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Tamar his
daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the
sons of Judah were five.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The sons
of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—
five of them in all. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The son of Carmi: Achar, the
troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the
devoted thing. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The son of Ethan: Azariah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons also of Hezron, who were born to
him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Ram became
the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became
the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of
Judah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:11">11 </verse></sup>and Nahshon became the father of Salma,
and Salma became the father of Boaz, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:12">12 </verse></sup>and Boaz
became the father of Obed, and Obed became the
father of Jesse; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:13">13 </verse></sup>and Jesse became the father of
his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea
the third, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:16">16 </verse></sup>and
their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of
Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Abigail
bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the
Ishmaelite.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of
children by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth; and
these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who
bore him Hur. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Hur became the father of Uri, and
Uri became the father of Bezalel.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of
Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife
when he was sixty years old; and she bore him
Segub. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Segub became the father of Jair, who had
twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Geshur
and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with
Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these
were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:24">24 </verse></sup>After
Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s
wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:25">25 </verse></sup>The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron
were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and
Ahijah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:26">26 </verse></sup>Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name
was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:27">27 </verse></sup>The
sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz,
Jamin, and Eker. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of Onam were Shammai
and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:29">29 </verse></sup>The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail;
and she bore him Ahban and Molid. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:30">30 </verse></sup>The sons of
Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without
children. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:31">31 </verse></sup>The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of
Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:32">32 </verse></sup>The
sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and
Jonathan; and Jether died without children. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:33">33 </verse></sup>The
sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the
sons of Jerahmeel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:34">34 </verse></sup>Now Sheshan had no sons, but
only daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian,
whose name was Jarha. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:35">35 </verse></sup>Sheshan gave his
daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore
him Attai. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:36">36 </verse></sup>Attai became the father of Nathan, and
Nathan became the father of Zabad, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:37">37 </verse></sup>and Zabad
became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became
the father of Obed, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:38">38 </verse></sup>and Obed became the father
of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:39">39 </verse></sup>and Azariah became the father of Helez, and
Helez became the father of Eleasah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:40">40 </verse></sup>and Eleasah
became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became
the father of Shallum, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:41">41 </verse></sup>and Shallum became the
father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father
of Elishama.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:42">42 </verse></sup>The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel
were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of
Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:43">43 </verse></sup>The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah,
Rekem, and Shema. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:44">44 </verse></sup>Shema became the father of
Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became
the father of Shammai. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:45">45 </verse></sup>The son of Shammai
was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:46">46 </verse></sup>Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza,
and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:47">47 </verse></sup>The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet,
Ephah, and Shaaph. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:48">48 </verse></sup>Maacah, Caleb’s concubine,
bore Sheber and Tirhanah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:49">49 </verse></sup>She bore also Shaaph
the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of
Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter
of Caleb was Achsah.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:50">50 </verse></sup>These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur,
the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of
Kiriath Jearim, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:51">51 </verse></sup>Salma the father of Bethlehem,
and Hareph the father of Beth Gader. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:52">52 </verse></sup>Shobal the
father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of
the Menuhoth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:53">53 </verse></sup>The families of Kiriath Jearim:
the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the
Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the
Eshtaolites. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:54">54 </verse></sup>The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the
Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the
Manahathites, the Zorites. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 2:55><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 2:55">55 </verse></sup>The families of scribes
who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites,
and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came
from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
#BCV:1 Chronicles 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these were the sons of David, who were
born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of
Abigail the Carmelitess; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:2">2 </verse></sup>the third, Absalom the son
of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:3">3 </verse></sup>the fifth,
Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah
his wife: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:4">4 </verse></sup>six were born to him in Hebron; and
he reigned there seven years and six months. He
reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:5">5 </verse></sup>and these
were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab,
Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bathshua the daughter
of Ammiel; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:6">6 </verse></sup>and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Elishama, Eliada, and
Eliphelet, nine. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:9">9 </verse></sup>All these were the sons of David, in
addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar
was their sister.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son,
Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Joram his son,
Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Amaziah his son,
Azariah his son, Jotham his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Ahaz his son,
Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Amon his
son, and Josiah his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:15">15 </verse></sup>The sons of Josiah: the
firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third
Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of
Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:17">17 </verse></sup>The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his
son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah,
Hoshama, and Nedabiah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Pedaiah:
Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel:
Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their
sister; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:20">20 </verse></sup>and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah,
and Jushab Hesed, five. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Hananiah:
Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the
sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of
Shecaniah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:22">22 </verse></sup>The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The
sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah,
and Shaphat, six. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of Neariah: Elioenai,
Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 3:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 3:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Elioenai:
Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah,
and Anani, seven.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:1">1 </verse></sup>The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur,
and Shobal. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Reaiah the son of Shobal became the
father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of
Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the
Zorathites. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:3">3 </verse></sup>These were the sons of the father of
Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their
sister was Hazzelelponi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Penuel was the father of
Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are
the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the
father of Bethlehem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Ashhur the father of Tekoa
had two wives, Helah and Naarah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Naarah bore
him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari.
These were the sons of Naarah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Helah
were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Hakkoz became
the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of
Aharhel the son of Harum.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His
mother named him Jabez,<footnote:1>4:9 “Jabez” sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “pain”. </footnote> saying, “Because I bore
him with sorrow.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Jabez called on the God<footnote:1>4:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> of Israel, saying, “Oh
that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my
border! May your hand be with me, and may you
keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”
God granted him that which he requested.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the
father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah,
and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are
the men of Recah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:13">13 </verse></sup>The sons of Kenaz: Othniel
and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.<footnote:1>4:13 Greek and Vulgate add “and Meonothai”</footnote>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and
Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge
Harashim, for they were craftsmen. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:15">15 </verse></sup>The sons of
Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam.
The son of Elah: Kenaz. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of Jehallelel:
Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The sons of
Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and Mered’s
wife bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father
of Eshtemoa. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:18">18 </verse></sup>His wife the Jewess bore Jered
the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and
Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons
of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered
took. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of
Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and
Eshtemoa the Maacathite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:20">20 </verse></sup>The sons of Shimon:
Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of
Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Shelah
the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the
father of Mareshah, and the families of the house
of those who worked fine linen, of the house of
Ashbea; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:22">22 </verse></sup>and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and
Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and
Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:23">23 </verse></sup>These
were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and
Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib,
Zerah, Shaul; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Shallum his son, Mibsam his son,
and Mishma his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:26">26 </verse></sup>The sons of Mishma:
Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but
his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their
family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:28">28 </verse></sup>They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:29">29 </verse></sup>at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:30">30 </verse></sup>at Bethuel, at
Hormah, at Ziklag, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:31">31 </verse></sup>at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar
Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were
their cities until David’s reign. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:32">32 </verse></sup>Their villages were
Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:33">33 </verse></sup>and all their villages that were around the same
cities, as far as Baal. These were their settlements,
and they kept their genealogy. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:34">34 </verse></sup>Meshobab, Jamlech,
Joshah the son of Amaziah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:35">35 </verse></sup>Joel, Jehu the
son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel,
Jesimiel, Benaiah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:37">37 </verse></sup>and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the
son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri,
the son of Shemaiah— <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:38">38 </verse></sup>these mentioned by name
were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses
increased greatly.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:39">39 </verse></sup>They went to the entrance of Gedor, even
to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for
their flocks. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:40">40 </verse></sup>They found rich, good pasture, and
the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful, for
those who lived there before were descended from
Ham. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:41">41 </verse></sup>These written by name came in the days
of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents
and the Meunim who were found there; and they
destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their
place, because there was pasture there for their
flocks. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:42">42 </verse></sup>Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon,
five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having
for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and
Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 4:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 4:43">43 </verse></sup>They struck the remnant
of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there
to this day.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:1">1 </verse></sup>The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for
he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his
father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons
of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is
not to be listed according to the birthright. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:2">2 </verse></sup>For
Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him
came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)
— <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:3">3 </verse></sup>the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel:
Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:4">4 </verse></sup>The sons of
Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his
son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:6">6 </verse></sup>and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of
Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the
Reubenites. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:7">7 </verse></sup>His brothers by their families, when
the genealogy of their generations was listed: the
chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:8">8 </verse></sup>and Bela the son of
Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in
Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:9">9 </verse></sup>and he lived
eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness
from the river Euphrates, because their livestock
were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:10">10 </verse></sup>In the days of Saul, they made war with the
Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in
their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:11">11 </verse></sup>The sons of Gad lived beside them in the land
of Bashan to Salecah: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Joel the chief, Shapham
the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Their
brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam,
Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:14">14 </verse></sup>These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri,
the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of
Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the
son of Buz; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni,
chief of their fathers’ houses. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:16">16 </verse></sup>They lived in Gilead
in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture
lands of Sharon as far as their borders. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:17">17 </verse></sup>All these
were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham
king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of
Israel.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:18">18 </verse></sup>The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the halftribe
of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to
bear buckler and sword, able to shoot with bow,
and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven
hundred sixty that were able to go out to war.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:19">19 </verse></sup>They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and
Naphish, and Nodab. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:20">20 </verse></sup>They were helped against
them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their
hand, and all who were with them; for they cried
to God in the battle, and he answered them because
they put their trust in him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:21">21 </verse></sup>They took away their
livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of
sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys
two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:22">22 </verse></sup>For many fell slain, because the war was of God.
They lived in their place until the captivity.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:23">23 </verse></sup>The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived
in the land. They increased from Bashan to Baal
Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:24">24 </verse></sup>These were
the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel,
Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel —mighty
men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’
houses. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:25">25 </verse></sup>They trespassed against the God of their
fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of
the peoples of the land whom God destroyed before
them. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:26">26 </verse></sup>So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of
Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser
king of Assyria, and he carried away the Reubenites,
the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and
brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the
river of Gozan, to this day.6

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:1">1 </verse></sup>The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:2">2 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:3">3 </verse></sup>The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses,
and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Eleazar became the father of
Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became
the father of Uzzi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Uzzi became the father of
Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah
became the father of Ahitub. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Ahitub became
the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of
Ahimaaz. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah.
Azariah became the father of Johanan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Johanan
became the father of Azariah, who executed the
priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Azariah became the father of Amariah.
Amariah became the father of Ahitub. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Ahitub
became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the
father of Shallum. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Shallum became the father
of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah
became the father of Jehozadak. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Jehozadak
went into captivity when Yahweh carried Judah and
Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:17">17 </verse></sup>These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni
and Shimei. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:18">18 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath were Amram,
Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the
Levites according to their fathers’ households. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Of
Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah
his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his
son, and Jeatherai his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:22">22 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath:
Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:23">23 </verse></sup>Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and
Shaul his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:25">25 </verse></sup>The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and
Ahimoth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:26">26 </verse></sup>As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah:
Zophai his son, Nahath his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:27">27 </verse></sup>Eliab his son,
Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of
Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:29">29 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei
his son, Uzzah his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:30">30 </verse></sup>Shimea his son, Haggiah
his son, Asaiah his son.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:31">31 </verse></sup>These are they whom David set over the service
of song in Yahweh’s house after the ark came to
rest there. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:32">32 </verse></sup>They ministered with song before the
tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting until Solomon had
built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed
the duties of their office according to their order.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:33">33 </verse></sup>These are those who served, and their sons. Of
the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the
son of Joel, the son of Samuel, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:34">34 </verse></sup>the son of Elkanah,
the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:35">35 </verse></sup>the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of
Mahath, the son of Amasai, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:36">36 </verse></sup>the son of Elkanah, the
son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:37">37 </verse></sup>the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:38">38 </verse></sup>the son of Izhar, the
son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:39">39 </verse></sup>His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand,
even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:40">40 </verse></sup>the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son
of Malchijah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:41">41 </verse></sup>the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah,
the son of Adaiah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:42">42 </verse></sup>the son of Ethan, the son of
Zimmah, the son of Shimei, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:43">43 </verse></sup>the son of Jahath,
the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:44">44 </verse></sup>On the left
hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the
son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:45">45 </verse></sup>the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son
of Hilkiah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:46">46 </verse></sup>the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the
son of Shemer, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:47">47 </verse></sup>the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi,
the son of Merari, the son of Levi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:48">48 </verse></sup>Their brothers
the Levites were appointed for all the service of
the tabernacle of God’s house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:49">49 </verse></sup>But Aaron and
his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and
on the altar of incense, for all the work of the
most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel,
according to all that Moses the servant of God had
commanded.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:50">50 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son,
Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:51">51 </verse></sup>Bukki his
son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:52">52 </verse></sup>Meraioth his
son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:53">53 </verse></sup>Zadok his
son, and Ahimaaz his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:54">54 </verse></sup>Now these are their
dwelling places according to their encampments in
their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families
of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot), <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:55><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:55">55 </verse></sup>to
them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and
its pasture lands around it; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:56><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:56">56 </verse></sup>but the fields of
the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the
son of Jephunneh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:57><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:57">57 </verse></sup>To the sons of Aaron they
gave the cities of refuge, Hebron, Libnah also with
its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture
lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:58><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:58">58 </verse></sup>Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its
pasture lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:59><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:59">59 </verse></sup>Ashan with its pasture lands, and
Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:60><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:60">60 </verse></sup>and out of
the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands,
Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with
its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their
families were thirteen cities.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:61><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:61">61 </verse></sup>To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by
lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the halftribe,
the half of Manasseh, ten cities. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:62><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:62">62 </verse></sup>To the sons
of Gershom, according to their families, out of the
tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and
out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe
of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:63><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:63">63 </verse></sup>To the
sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their
families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the
tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve
cities. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:64><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:64">64 </verse></sup>The children of Israel gave to the Levites
the cities with their pasture lands. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:65><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:65">65 </verse></sup>They gave by
lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out
of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the
tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which
are mentioned by name.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:66><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:66">66 </verse></sup>Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had
cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:67><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:67">67 </verse></sup>They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem
in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands
and Gezer with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:68><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:68">68 </verse></sup>Jokmeam with
its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:69><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:69">69 </verse></sup>Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with
its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:70><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:70">70 </verse></sup>and out of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam
with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of
the sons of Kohath.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:71><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:71">71 </verse></sup>To the sons of Gershom were given, out of
the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in
Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with
its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:72><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:72">72 </verse></sup>and out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its
pasture lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:73><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:73">73 </verse></sup>Ramoth with its pasture lands,
and Anem with its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:74><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:74">74 </verse></sup>and out of the
tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon
with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:75><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:75">75 </verse></sup>Hukok with its pasture
lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:76><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:76">76 </verse></sup>and out
of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its
pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and
Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:77><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:77">77 </verse></sup>To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari,
were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono
with its pasture lands, and Tabor with its pasture
lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:78><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:78">78 </verse></sup>and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the
east side of the Jordan, were given them out of
the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with
its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:79><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:79">79 </verse></sup>Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath
with its pasture lands; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:80><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:80">80 </verse></sup>and out of the tribe of Gad,
Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim
with its pasture lands, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 5:81><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 5:81">81 </verse></sup>Heshbon with its pasture
lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and
Shimron, four. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:2">2 </verse></sup>The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah,
Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their
fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their
generations. Their number in the days of David
was twenty-two thousand six hundred. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:3">3 </verse></sup>The son
of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael,
Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief
men. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:4">4 </verse></sup>With them, by their generations, after
their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for
war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives
and sons. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Their brothers among all the families
of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by
genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:6">6 </verse></sup>The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael,
three. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel,
Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses,
mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy
twenty-two thousand thirty-four. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:8">8 </verse></sup>The
sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai,
Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All
these were the sons of Becher. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:9">9 </verse></sup>They were listed
by genealogy, after their generations, heads of
their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty
thousand two hundred. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The son of Jediael: Bilhan.
The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud,
Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:11">11 </verse></sup>All
these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads
of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor,
seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to
go out in the army for war. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:12">12 </verse></sup>So were Shuppim,
Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of
Aher.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:13">13 </verse></sup>The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer,
Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:14">14 </verse></sup>The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine
the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the
father of Gilead. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Machir took a wife of Huppim
and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The
name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad
had daughters. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Maacah the wife of Machir
bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name
of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam
and Rakem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:17">17 </verse></sup>The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These
were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:18">18 </verse></sup>His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod,
Abiezer, and Mahlah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Shemida were
Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:20">20 </verse></sup>The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his
son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his
son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and
Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the
land killed, because they came down to take away
their livestock. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Ephraim their father mourned
many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:23">23 </verse></sup>He went in to his wife, and she conceived and
bore a son, and he named him Beriah,<footnote:1>7:23 “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.</footnote> because
there was trouble with his house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:24">24 </verse></sup>His daughter
was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and
the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Rephah was his
son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his
son, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:27">27 </verse></sup>Nun his son, and Joshua his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:28">28 </verse></sup>Their
possessions and settlements were Bethel and its
towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer
with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah
and its towns; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:29">29 </verse></sup>and by the borders of the children
of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and
its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its
towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived
in these.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:30">30 </verse></sup>The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and
Beriah. Serah was their sister. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:31">31 </verse></sup>The sons of
Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father
of Birzaith. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:32">32 </verse></sup>Heber became the father of Japhlet,
Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:33">33 </verse></sup>The sons
of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These
are the children of Japhlet. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:34">34 </verse></sup>The sons of Shemer:
Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:35">35 </verse></sup>The sons of
Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and
Amal. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:36">36 </verse></sup>The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher,
Shual, Beri, Imrah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:37">37 </verse></sup>Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah,
Ithran, and Beera. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:38">38 </verse></sup>The sons of Jether: Jephunneh,
Pispa, and Ara. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:39">39 </verse></sup>The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel,
and Rizia. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 7:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 7:40">40 </verse></sup>All these were the children of Asher,
heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men
of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them
listed by genealogy for service in war was twentysix
thousand men.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn,
Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Nohah
the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Bela had sons:
Addar, Gera, Abihud, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:6">6 </verse></sup>These are the
sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’
households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were
carried captive to Manahath: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Naaman, Ahijah, and
Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the
father of Uzza and Ahihud.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Shaharaim became the father of children in the
field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim
and Baara were his wives. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:9">9 </verse></sup>By Hodesh his wife, he
became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons,
heads of fathers’ households. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:11">11 </verse></sup>By Hushim, he
became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:12">12 </verse></sup>The sons
of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono
and Lod, with its towns; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:13">13 </verse></sup>and Beriah and Shema,
who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants
of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of
Gath; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:14">14 </verse></sup>and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Zebadiah,
Arad, Eder, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons
of Beriah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Jakim,
Zichri, Zabdi, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Adaiah,
Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Ishpan,
Eber, Eliel, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:23">23 </verse></sup>Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Hananiah,
Elam, Anthothijah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons
of Shashak, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:26">26 </verse></sup>Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:27">27 </verse></sup>Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:28">28 </verse></sup>These were heads of fathers’ households throughout
their generations, chief men. These lived in
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:29">29 </verse></sup>The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was
Maacah, lived in Gibeon <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:30">30 </verse></sup>with his firstborn son Abdon,
Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:31">31 </verse></sup>Gedor, Ahio, Zecher,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:32">32 </verse></sup>and Mikloth, who became the father of Shimeah.
They also lived with their families in Jerusalem,
near their relatives. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:33">33 </verse></sup>Ner became the father of
Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became
the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and
Eshbaal. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:34">34 </verse></sup>The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal.
Merib-baal became the father of Micah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:35">35 </verse></sup>The sons
of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:36">36 </verse></sup>Ahaz
became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became
the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri
became the father of Moza. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:37">37 </verse></sup>Moza became the
father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son,
and Azel his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:38">38 </verse></sup>Azel had six sons, whose names
are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah,
Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:39">39 </verse></sup>The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn,
Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 8:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 8:40">40 </verse></sup>The
sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and
had many sons, and grandsons, one hundred fifty.
All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:1">1 </verse></sup>So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and
behold,<footnote:1>9:1 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon
for their disobedience. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Now the first inhabitants
who lived in their possessions in their cities were
Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple
servants. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:3">3 </verse></sup>In Jerusalem, there lived of the children
of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the
children of Ephraim and Manasseh: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Uthai the son
of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the
son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six
hundred ninety. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu
the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son
of Hassenuah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:8">8 </verse></sup>and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham,
and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri; and
Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel,
the son of Ibnijah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:9">9 </verse></sup>and their brothers, according
to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All
these men were heads of fathers’ households by
their fathers’ houses.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:11">11 </verse></sup>and
Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam,
the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son
of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:12">12 </verse></sup>and Adaiah
the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son
of Malchijah; and Maasai the son of Adiel, the
son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Meshillemith, the son of Immer; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:13">13 </verse></sup>and their brothers,
heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand
seven hundred sixty; they were very able men for
the work of the service of God’s house.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub,
the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the
sons of Merari; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:15">15 </verse></sup>and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and
Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the
son of Asaph, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:16">16 </verse></sup>and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah,
the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah
the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the
villages of the Netophathites.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:17">17 </verse></sup>The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon,
Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:18">18 </verse></sup>who previously served in the king’s gate eastward.
They were the gatekeepers for the camp of
the children of Levi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Shallum was the son of
Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and
his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites,
were over the work of the service, keepers of the
thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over
Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Phinehas
the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past,
and Yahweh was with him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Zechariah the son
of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the
Tent of Meeting. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:22">22 </verse></sup>All these who were chosen to
be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred
twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their
villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained
in their office of trust. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:23">23 </verse></sup>So they and their children
had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house,
even the house of the tent, as guards. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:24">24 </verse></sup>On the four
sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west,
north, and south. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Their brothers, in their villages,
were to come in every seven days from time to time
to be with them, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:26">26 </verse></sup>for the four chief gatekeepers,
who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and
were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s
house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:27">27 </verse></sup>They stayed around God’s house, because
that was their duty; and it was their duty to open it
morning by morning.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:28">28 </verse></sup>Certain of them were in charge of the vessels
of service, for these were brought in by count, and
these were taken out by count. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Some of them
also were appointed over the furniture, and over all
the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the
wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:30">30 </verse></sup>Some of the sons of the priests prepared the
mixing of the spices. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:31">31 </verse></sup>Mattithiah, one of the
Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite,
had the office of trust over the things that
were baked in pans. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Some of their brothers, of the
sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to
prepare it every Sabbath.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:33">33 </verse></sup>These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households
of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and
were free from other service, for they were employed
in their work day and night. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:34">34 </verse></sup>These
were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites,
throughout their generations, chief men. They
lived at Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:35">35 </verse></sup>Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name
was Maacah, lived in Gibeon. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:36">36 </verse></sup>His firstborn
son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:37">37 </verse></sup>Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:38">38 </verse></sup>Mikloth
became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with
their relatives in Jerusalem, near their relatives.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:39">39 </verse></sup>Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the
father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan,
Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:40">40 </verse></sup>The son of
Jonathan was Merib-baal. Merib-baal became the
father of Micah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:41">41 </verse></sup>The sons of Micah: Pithon,
Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:42">42 </verse></sup>Ahaz became the
father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth,
Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of
Moza. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:43">43 </verse></sup>Moza became the father of Binea, Rephaiah
his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 9:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 9:44">44 </verse></sup>Azel
had six sons, whose names are Azrikam, Bocheru,
Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were
the sons of Azel.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and
the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines,
and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:2">2 </verse></sup>The
Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his
sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab,
and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:3">3 </verse></sup>The battle went
hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him;
and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your
sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these
uncircumcised come and abuse me.”
<br>
But his armor bearer would not, for he was
terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on
it. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:5">5 </verse></sup>When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead,
he likewise fell on his sword and died. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:6">6 </verse></sup>So Saul died
with his three sons; and all his house died together.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:7">7 </verse></sup>When all the men of Israel who were in the valley
saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the
Philistines came and lived in them.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:8">8 </verse></sup>On the next day, when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen
on Mount Gilboa. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:9">9 </verse></sup>They stripped him and took his
head and his armor, then sent into the land of the
Philistines all around to carry the news to their idols
and to the people. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:10">10 </verse></sup>They put his armor in the
house of their gods, and fastened his head in the
house of Dagon. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:11">11 </verse></sup>When all Jabesh Gilead heard
all that the Philistines had done to Saul, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:12">12 </verse></sup>all the
valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul
and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to
Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in
Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:13">13 </verse></sup>So Saul died for his trespass which he committed
against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word,
which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked
counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 10:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 10:14">14 </verse></sup>and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed
him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son
of Jesse.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to
Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your
flesh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:2">2 </verse></sup>In times past, even when Saul was king, it
was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh
your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of
my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my
people Israel.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:3">3 </verse></sup>So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in
Hebron before Yahweh. They anointed David king
over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:4">4 </verse></sup>David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also
called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
the land, were there. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:5">5 </verse></sup>The inhabitants of Jebus said
to David, “You will not come in here!” Nevertheless
David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is
David’s city. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:6">6 </verse></sup>David had said, “Whoever strikes the
Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the
son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:7">7 </verse></sup>David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called
it David’s city. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:8">8 </verse></sup>He built the city all around, from
Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the
city. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:9">9 </verse></sup>David grew greater and greater, for Yahweh
of Armies was with him.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Now these are the chief of the mighty men
whom David had, who showed themselves strong
with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel,
to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word
concerning Israel.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:11">11 </verse></sup>This is the number of the mighty men whom
David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite,
the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against
three hundred and killed them at one time. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:12">12 </verse></sup>After
him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who
was one of the three mighty men. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:13">13 </verse></sup>He was with
David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
gathered together to battle, where there was a plot
of ground full of barley; and the people fled from
before the Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:14">14 </verse></sup>They stood in the middle
of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines;
and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Three of the thirty chief men went down to
the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the
army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley
of Rephaim. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:16">16 </verse></sup>David was then in the stronghold,
and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem
at that time. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:17">17 </verse></sup>David longed, and said, “Oh, that
someone would give me water to drink from the
well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:18">18 </verse></sup>The three broke through the army of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem
that was by the gate, took it, and brought it
to David; but David would not drink any of it, but
poured it out to Yahweh, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:19">19 </verse></sup>and said, “My God forbid
me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of
these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?”
For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he
would not drink it. The three mighty men did these
things.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:20">20 </verse></sup>Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the
three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred
and killed them, and had a name among the
three. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Of the three, he was more honorable than
the two, and was made their captain; however he
wasn’t included in the three.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed
the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down
and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy
day. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:23">23 </verse></sup>He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature,
five cubits<footnote:1>11:23 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Therefore this Egyptian was bout 7 feet and 6 inches or 2.28 meters tall.</footnote> high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear
like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with
a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand,
and killed him with his own spear. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada did these things and had a name
among the three mighty men. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Behold, he was
more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain
to the three; and David set him over his guard.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:26">26 </verse></sup>The mighty men of the armies also include
Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo
of Bethlehem, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the
Pelonite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer
the Anathothite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
Ahohite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son
of Baanah the Netophathite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:31">31 </verse></sup>Ithai the son of Ribai
of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the
Pirathonite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:32">32 </verse></sup>Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel
the Arbathite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:33">33 </verse></sup>Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba
the Shaalbonite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:34">34 </verse></sup>the sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Ahiam
the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of
Ur, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:36">36 </verse></sup>Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:37">37 </verse></sup>Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:38">38 </verse></sup>Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of
Hagri, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:39">39 </verse></sup>Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite
(the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah), <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:40">40 </verse></sup>Ira
the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:41">41 </verse></sup>Uriah the Hittite,
Zabad the son of Ahlai, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:42">42 </verse></sup>Adina the son of Shiza
the Reubenite (a chief of the Reubenites), and thirty
with him, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:43">43 </verse></sup>Hanan the son of Maacah, Joshaphat the
Mithnite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:44">44 </verse></sup>Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel
the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:45">45 </verse></sup>Jediael the son
of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:46">46 </verse></sup>Eliel
the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons
of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 11:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 11:47">47 </verse></sup>Eliel, Obed,
and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag
while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish.
They were among the mighty men, his helpers in
war. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:2">2 </verse></sup>They were armed with bows, and could use
both the right hand and the left in slinging stones
and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were
of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:3">3 </verse></sup>The
chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah
the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth;
Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Ishmaiah
the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and
a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan;
Jozabad the Gederathite; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah;
Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Elkanah, Isshiah,
Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:7">7 </verse></sup>and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of
Gedor.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold
in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men
trained for war, who could handle shield and spear;
whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they
were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the
third, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:11">11 </verse></sup>Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Johanan the
eighth, Elzabad the ninth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Jeremiah the tenth, and
Machbannai the eleventh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:14">14 </verse></sup>These of the sons of
Gad were captains of the army. He who was least
was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one
thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:15">15 </verse></sup>These are those who went over the
Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed
all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived
in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the
west.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah
came to the stronghold to David. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:17">17 </verse></sup>David went out
to meet them, and answered them, “If you have
come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will
be united with you; but if you have come to betray
me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in
my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and
rebuke it.” <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who
was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours,
David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace,
peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for
your God helps you.” Then David received them and
made them captains of the band.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Some of Manasseh also joined David when he
came with the Philistines against Saul to battle,
but they didn’t help them, for the lords of the
Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying,
“He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of
our heads.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:20">20 </verse></sup>As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh
joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad,
Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands
who were of Manasseh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:21">21 </verse></sup>They helped David
against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty
men of valor and were captains in the army. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:22">22 </verse></sup>For
from day to day men came to David to help him,
until there was a great army, like God’s army.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:23">23 </verse></sup>These are the numbers of the heads of those
who were armed for war, who came to David to
Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according
to Yahweh’s word. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:24">24 </verse></sup>The children of Judah
who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight
hundred, armed for war. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Of the children of
Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven
thousand one hundred. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:26">26 </verse></sup>Of the children of Levi:
four thousand six hundred. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:27">27 </verse></sup>Jehoiada was the
leader of the household of Aaron; and with him
were three thousand seven hundred, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:28">28 </verse></sup>and Zadok,
a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s
house twenty-two captains. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:29">29 </verse></sup>Of the children of
Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until
then, the greatest part of them had kept their
allegiance to Saul’s house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:30">30 </verse></sup>Of the children of
Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty
men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:31">31 </verse></sup>Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand,
who were mentioned by name, to come and make
David king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:32">32 </verse></sup>Of the children of Issachar, men who
had understanding of the times, to know what Israel
ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and
all their brothers were at their command. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:33">33 </verse></sup>Of
Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army,
who could set the battle in array with all kinds
of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could
command and were not of double heart. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:34">34 </verse></sup>Of Naphtali:
one thousand captains, and with them with
shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:35">35 </verse></sup>Of the
Danites who could set the battle in array: twentyeight
thousand six hundred. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:36">36 </verse></sup>Of Asher, such as
were able to go out in the army, who could set the
battle in array: forty thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:37">37 </verse></sup>On the other
side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites,
and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds
of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred
twenty thousand.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:38">38 </verse></sup>All these were men of war who could order
the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to
Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and all
the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make
David king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:39">39 </verse></sup>They were there with David three
days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had
supplied provisions for them. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 12:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 12:40">40 </verse></sup>Moreover those
who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun,
and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels,
on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of
figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep
in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:1">1 </verse></sup>David consulted with the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, even with every leader. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:2">2 </verse></sup>David
said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to
you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word
everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the
land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are
in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may
gather themselves to us. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Also, let’s bring the ark of
our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the
days of Saul.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:4">4 </verse></sup>All the assembly said that they would do so, for
the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:5">5 </verse></sup>So
David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor
River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to
bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:6">6 </verse></sup>David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is,
to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring
up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above
the cherubim, that is called by the Name. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:7">7 </verse></sup>They
carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of
Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:8">8 </verse></sup>David and all Israel played before God with all their
might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed
instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and
with trumpets.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:9">9 </verse></sup>When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor,
Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen
stumbled. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza,
and he struck him because he put his hand on the
ark; and he died there before God. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:11">11 </verse></sup>David was
displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against
Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:12">12 </verse></sup>David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can
I bring God’s ark home to me?” <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:13">13 </verse></sup>So David didn’t
move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried
it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 13:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 13:14">14 </verse></sup>God’s
ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his
house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-
Edom’s house and all that he had.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David
with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build
him a house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:2">2 </verse></sup>David perceived that Yahweh had
established him king over Israel, for his kingdom
was highly exalted, for his people Israel’s sake.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:3">3 </verse></sup>David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David
became the father of more sons and daughters.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:4">4 </verse></sup>These are the names of the children whom he had
in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:8">8 </verse></sup>When the Philistines heard that David was
anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went
up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went
out against them. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Now the Philistines had come
and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:10">10 </verse></sup>David
inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the
Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver
them into your hand.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:11">11 </verse></sup>So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David
defeated them there. David said, God has broken
my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out.
Therefore they called the name of that place Baal
Perazim.<footnote:1>14:11 “Baal Perazim” means “The Lord who breaks out”.</footnote> <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:12">12 </verse></sup>They left their gods there; and David
gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:13">13 </verse></sup>The Philistines made another raid in the valley.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:14">14 </verse></sup>David inquired again of God; and God said to him,
“You shall not go up after them. Turn away from
them, and come on them opposite the mulberry
trees. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:15">15 </verse></sup>When you hear the sound of marching in
the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle;
for God has gone out before you to strike the army
of the Philistines.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:16">16 </verse></sup>David did as God commanded him; and they
attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon
even to Gezer. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 14:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 14:17">17 </verse></sup>The fame of David went out into
all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all
nations.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:1">1 </verse></sup>David made himself houses in David’s city; and
he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent
for it. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Then David said, “No one ought to carry
God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen
them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him
forever.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:3">3 </verse></sup>David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring
up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared
for it. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:4">4 </verse></sup>David gathered together the sons of Aaron
and the Levites: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:5">5 </verse></sup>of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the
chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:6">6 </verse></sup>of the
sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers
two hundred twenty; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:7">7 </verse></sup>of the sons of Gershom, Joel
the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:8">8 </verse></sup>of
the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his
brothers two hundred; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:9">9 </verse></sup>of the sons of Hebron, Eliel
the chief, and his brothers eighty; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:10">10 </verse></sup>of the sons of
Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one
hundred twelve.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:11">11 </verse></sup>David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests,
and for the Levites: for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah,
Eliel, and Amminadab, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:12">12 </verse></sup>and said to them,
“You are the heads of the fathers’ households of
the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your
brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the
God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for
it. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:13">13 </verse></sup>For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh
our God broke out in anger against us, because we
didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:14">14 </verse></sup>So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves
to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of
Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:15">15 </verse></sup>The children of the Levites bore God’s
ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses
commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:16">16 </verse></sup>David spoke to the chief of the Levites to
appoint their brothers as singers with instruments
of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals,
sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:17">17 </verse></sup>So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel;
and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah;
and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the
son of Kushaiah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:18">18 </verse></sup>and with them their brothers
of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth,
Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah,
Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and
Jeiel, the doorkeepers. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:19">19 </verse></sup>So the singers, Heman,
Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to
sound aloud; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:20">20 </verse></sup>and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth,
Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
stringed instruments set to Alamoth; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:21">21 </verse></sup>and Mattithiah,
Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel,
and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed
lyre, to lead. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was
over the singing. He taught the singers, because
he was skillful. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Berechiah and Elkanah were
doorkeepers for the ark. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Shebaniah, Joshaphat,
Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer,
the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and
Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the
ark.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:25">25 </verse></sup>So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains
over thousands went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with
joy. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:26">26 </verse></sup>When God helped the Levites who bore the
ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven
bulls and seven rams. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:27">27 </verse></sup>David was clothed with
a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who
bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir
master with the singers; and David had an ephod
of linen on him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Thus all Israel brought the
ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with
sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals,
sounding aloud with stringed instruments and
harps. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 15:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 15:29">29 </verse></sup>As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came
to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked
out at the window, and saw king David dancing and
playing; and she despised him in her heart.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:1">1 </verse></sup>They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the
middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and
they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
before God. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:2">2 </verse></sup>When David had finished offering the
burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed
the people in Yahweh’s name. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:3">3 </verse></sup>He gave to everyone
of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf
of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:4">4 </verse></sup>He appointed some of the Levites to minister before
Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank,
and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Asaph
the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel,
Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah,
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments
and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding
aloud; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:6">6 </verse></sup>with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests
with trumpets continually, before the ark of the
covenant of God.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Then on that day David first ordained giving
of thanks to Yahweh by the hand of Asaph and his
brothers.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
<br>
Call on his name.
<br>
Make what he has done known among the
peoples.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Sing to him.
<br>
Sing praises to him.
<br>
Tell of all his marvelous works.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Glory in his holy name.
<br>
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Seek Yahweh and his strength.
<br>
Seek his face forever more.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:13">13 </verse></sup>you offspring<footnote:1>16:13 or, seed</footnote> of Israel his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:14">14 </verse></sup>He is Yahweh our God.
<br>
His judgments are in all the earth.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Remember his covenant forever,
<br>
the word which he commanded to a thousand
generations,

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:16">16 </verse></sup>the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:17">17 </verse></sup>He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:18">18 </verse></sup>saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance,”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:19">19 </verse></sup>when you were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:20">20 </verse></sup>They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:21">21 </verse></sup>He allowed no man to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:22">22 </verse></sup>“Don’t touch my anointed ones!
<br>
Do my prophets no harm!”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:23">23 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
<br>
Display his salvation from day to day.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Declare his glory among the nations,
and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:25">25 </verse></sup>For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
He also is to be feared above all gods.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:26">26 </verse></sup>For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but Yahweh made the heavens.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:27">27 </verse></sup>Honor and majesty are before him.
<br>
Strength and gladness are in his place.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:28">28 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of the peoples,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:29">29 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come before him.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:30">30 </verse></sup>Tremble before him, all the earth.
The world also is established that it can’t be
moved.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:31">31 </verse></sup>Let the heavens be glad,
<br>
and let the earth rejoice!
<br>
Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh
reigns!”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:32">32 </verse></sup>Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
Let the field exult, and all that is in it!
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:33">33 </verse></sup>Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before
Yahweh,
<br>
for he comes to judge the earth.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:34">34 </verse></sup>Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:35">35 </verse></sup>Say, “Save us, God of our salvation!
Gather us together and deliver us from the
nations,
<br>
to give thanks to your holy name,
<br>
to triumph in your praise.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:36">36 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:37">37 </verse></sup>So he left Asaph and his brothers there before
the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before
the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:38">38 </verse></sup>and Obed-Edom with their sixty-eight relatives;
Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to
be doorkeepers; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:39">39 </verse></sup>and Zadok the priest and his
brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in
the high place that was at Gibeon, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:40">40 </verse></sup>to offer burnt
offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering
continually morning and evening, even according
to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he
commanded to Israel; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:41">41 </verse></sup>and with them Heman and
Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were
mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh,
because his loving kindness endures forever; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:42">42 </verse></sup>and
with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and
cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and
with instruments for the songs of God, and the
sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 16:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 16:43">43 </verse></sup>All the
people departed, each man to his house; and David
returned to bless his house.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:1">1 </verse></sup>When David was living in his house, David said
to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar
house, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your
heart; for God is with you.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:3">3 </verse></sup>That same night, the word of God came to
Nathan, saying, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:4">4 </verse></sup>“Go and tell David my servant,
‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to
dwell in; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:5">5 </verse></sup>for I have not lived in a house since
the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but
have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to
another. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:6">6 </verse></sup>In all places in which I have walked with
all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges
of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my
people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house
of cedar?’ ” ’

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:7">7 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David,
‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep
pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over
my people Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:8">8 </verse></sup>I have been with you wherever
you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies
from before you. I will make you a name like the
name of the great ones who are in the earth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:9">9 </verse></sup>I will
appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be
moved no more. The children of wickedness will not
waste them any more, as at the first, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:10">10 </verse></sup>and from the
day that I commanded judges to be over my people
Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I
tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:11">11 </verse></sup>It
will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you
must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up
your offspring after you, who will be of your sons;
and I will establish his kingdom. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:12">12 </verse></sup>He will build me
a house, and I will establish his throne forever. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:13">13 </verse></sup>I
will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not
take my loving kindness away from him, as I took
it from him who was before you; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:14">14 </verse></sup>but I will settle
him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His
throne will be established forever.” ’ ” <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:15">15 </verse></sup>According
to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so Nathan spoke to David.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Then David the king went in and sat before
Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and
what is my house, that you have brought me this
far? <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:17">17 </verse></sup>This was a small thing in your eyes, O God, but
you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great
while to come, and have respected me according to
the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:18">18 </verse></sup>What can David say yet more to you concerning
the honor which is done to your servant? For you
know your servant. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh, for your servant’s
sake, and according to your own heart, you have
done all this greatness, to make known all these
great things. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh, there is no one like you,
neither is there any God besides you, according to
all that we have heard with our ears. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:21">21 </verse></sup>What one
nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom
God went to redeem to himself for a people, to
make you a name by great and awesome things, in
driving out nations from before your people whom
you redeemed out of Egypt? <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:22">22 </verse></sup>For you made your
people Israel your own people forever; and you,
Yahweh, became their God. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:23">23 </verse></sup>Now, Yahweh, let
the word that you have spoken concerning your
servant, and concerning his house, be established
forever, and do as you have spoken. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:24">24 </verse></sup>Let your
name be established and magnified forever, saying,
‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a
God to Israel. The house of David your servant is
established before you.’ <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:25">25 </verse></sup>For you, my God, have
revealed to your servant that you will build him a
house. Therefore your servant has found courage
to pray before you. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:26">26 </verse></sup>Now, Yahweh, you are God,
and have promised this good thing to your servant.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 17:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 17:27">27 </verse></sup>Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your
servant, that it may continue forever before you;
for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed
forever.”

#BCV:1 Chronicles 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, David defeated the Philistines and
subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of
the hand of the Philistines. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:2">2 </verse></sup>He defeated Moab; and
the Moabites became servants to David and brought
tribute.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:3">3 </verse></sup>David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, toward
Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by
the river Euphrates. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:4">4 </verse></sup>David took from him one
thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and
twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all
the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for
one hundred chariots. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:5">5 </verse></sup>When the Syrians of Damascus
came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David
struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:6">6 </verse></sup>Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and
the Syrians became servants to David and brought
tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he
went. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:7">7 </verse></sup>David took the shields of gold that were
on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them
to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:8">8 </verse></sup>From Tibhath and from Cun, cities
of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with
which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars,
and the vessels of bronze.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:9">9 </verse></sup>When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had
struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:10">10 </verse></sup>he
sent Hadoram his son to King David to greet him
and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars
with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels
of gold and silver and bronze. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:11">11 </verse></sup>King David also
dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the
gold that he carried away from all the nations: from
Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon,
from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck
eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley
of Salt. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:13">13 </verse></sup>He put garrisons in Edom; and all the
Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave
victory to David wherever he went.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:14">14 </verse></sup>David reigned over all Israel; and he executed
justice and righteousness for all his people. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Joab
the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was recorder; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:16">16 </verse></sup>Zadok the son
of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar were
priests; Shavsha was scribe; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 18:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 18:17">17 </verse></sup>and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials
serving the king.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:2">2 </verse></sup>David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son
of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to
me.”
<br>
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning
his father. David’s servants came into the
land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort
him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:3">3 </verse></sup>But the princes of the children of Ammon
said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors
your father, in that he has sent comforters to you?
Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?” <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:4">4 </verse></sup>So Hanun
took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their
garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent
them away. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:5">5 </verse></sup>Then some people went and told David
how the men were treated. He sent to meet them;
for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said,
“Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and
then return.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:6">6 </verse></sup>When the children of Ammon saw that they
had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and
the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents<footnote:1>19:6 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons </footnote>
of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out
of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of
Zobah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:7">7 </verse></sup>So they hired for themselves thirty-two
thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his
people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together
from their cities, and came to battle. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:8">8 </verse></sup>When David
heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the
mighty men. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Ammon came out,
and put the battle in array at the gate of the city;
and the kings who had come were by themselves in
the field.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Now when Joab saw that the battle was set
against him before and behind, he chose some of
all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array
against the Syrians. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:11">11 </verse></sup>The rest of the people he
committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and
they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:12">12 </verse></sup>He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for
me, then you are to help me; but if the children of
Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people
and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that
which seems good to him.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:14">14 </verse></sup>So Joab and the people who were with him
came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle;
and they fled before him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:15">15 </verse></sup>When the children of
Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise
fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the
city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:16">16 </verse></sup>When the Syrians saw that they were defeated
by Israel, they sent messengers and called out
the Syrians who were beyond the River,<footnote:1>19:16 or, the Euphrates River </footnote> with
Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer
leading them. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:17">17 </verse></sup>David was told that, so he gathered
all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came
to them, and set the battle in array against them.
So when David had put the battle in array against
the Syrians, they fought with him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:18">18 </verse></sup>The Syrians
fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian
men seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand
footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain
of the army. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 19:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 19:19">19 </verse></sup>When the servants of Hadadezer saw
that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace
with David and served him. The Syrians would not
help the children of Ammon any more.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:1">1 </verse></sup>At the time of the return of the year, at the
time when kings go out, Joab led out the army
and wasted the country of the children of Ammon,
and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed
at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew
it. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:2">2 </verse></sup>David took the crown of their king from off
his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,<footnote:1>20:2 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote>
and there were precious stones in it. It was set on
David’s head, and he brought very much plunder
out of the city. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:3">3 </verse></sup>He brought out the people who
were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron
picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities
of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the
people returned to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:4">4 </verse></sup>After this, war arose at Gezer with the
Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed
Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were
subdued.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Again there was war with the Philistines; and
Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like
a weaver’s beam. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:6">6 </verse></sup>There was again war at Gath,
where there was a man of great stature, who had
twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and
six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:7">7 </verse></sup>When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea,
David’s brother, killed him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 20:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 20:8">8 </verse></sup>These were born to the
giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and
by the hand of his servants.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David
to take a census of Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:2">2 </verse></sup>David said to Joab and
to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from
Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I
may know how many there are.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a
hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord
the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why
does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a
cause of guilt to Israel?”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against
Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout
all Israel, then came to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:5">5 </verse></sup>Joab gave the
sum of the census of the people to David. All those
of Israel were one million one hundred thousand
men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four
hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:6">6 </verse></sup>But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among
them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:7">7 </verse></sup>God was displeased with this thing; therefore
he struck Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:8">8 </verse></sup>David said to God, “I have sinned
greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put
away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I
have done very foolishly.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:10">10 </verse></sup>“Go
and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer
you three things. Choose one of them, that I may
do it to you.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:11">11 </verse></sup>So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh
says, ‘Take your choice: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:12">12 </verse></sup>either three years of
famine; or three months to be consumed before
your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes
you; or else three days of the sword of Yahweh,
even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel
destroying throughout all the borders of Israel.
Now therefore consider what answer I shall return
to him who sent me.’ ”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:13">13 </verse></sup>David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall,
I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very
great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:14">14 </verse></sup>So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and
seventy thousand men of Israel fell. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:15">15 </verse></sup>God sent
an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was
about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of
the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It
is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s
angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan
the Jebusite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:16">16 </verse></sup>David lifted up his eyes, and saw
Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky,
having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over
Jerusalem.
<br>
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
fell on their faces. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:17">17 </verse></sup>David said to God, “Isn’t it I
who commanded the people to be counted? It is
even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but
these sheep, what have they done? Please let your
hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me and against
my father’s house; but not against your people, that
they should be plagued.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell
David that David should go up and raise an altar
to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:19">19 </verse></sup>David went up at the saying of Gad,
which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:20">20 </verse></sup>Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his
four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now
Ornan was threshing wheat. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:21">21 </verse></sup>As David came to
Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out
of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David
with his face to the ground.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:22">22 </verse></sup>Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place
of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar
to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the
full price, that the plague may be stopped from
afflicting the people.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and
let my lord the king do that which is good in his
eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and
the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat
for the meal offering. I give it all.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:24">24 </verse></sup>King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most
certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take
that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt
offering that costs me nothing.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:25">25 </verse></sup>So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels<footnote:1>21:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces. </footnote>
of gold by weight for the place. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:26">26 </verse></sup>David built an
altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he
answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of
burnt offering.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:27">27 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he
put his sword back into its sheath.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:28">28 </verse></sup>At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had
answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:29">29 </verse></sup>For Yahweh’s
tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness,
and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in
the high place at Gibeon. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 21:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 21:30">30 </verse></sup>But David couldn’t go
before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because
of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh
God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:2">2 </verse></sup>David gave orders to gather together the foreigners
who were in the land of Israel; and he set
masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:3">3 </verse></sup>David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for
the doors of the gates and for the couplings, and
bronze in abundance without weight, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:4">4 </verse></sup>and cedar
trees without number, for the Sidonians and the
people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance
to David. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:5">5 </verse></sup>David said, “Solomon my son is young
and tender, and the house that is to be built for
Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame
and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore
make preparation for it.” So David prepared
abundantly before his death. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he called for
Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a
house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:7">7 </verse></sup>David said
to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart
to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:8">8 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have
shed blood abundantly and have made great wars.
You shall not build a house to my name, because
you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be
a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his
enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon,
and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his
days. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:10">10 </verse></sup>He shall build a house for my name; and
he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I
will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel
forever.’ <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you
and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh
your God, as he has spoken concerning you. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:12">12 </verse></sup>May
Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and
put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the
law of Yahweh your God. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:13">13 </verse></sup>Then you will prosper,
if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances
which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be
strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid and don’t
be dismayed. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Now, behold, in my affliction I
have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred
thousand talents<footnote:1>22:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 100,000 talents is about 3 metric tons </footnote> of gold, one million talents<footnote:1>22:14 about 30,000 metric tons</footnote> of
silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it
is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and
stone; and you may add to them. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:15">15 </verse></sup>There are
also workmen with you in abundance—cutters and
workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men
who are skillful in every kind of work; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:16">16 </verse></sup>of the
gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is
no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh
be with you.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:17">17 </verse></sup>David also commanded all the princes of Israel
to help Solomon his son, saying, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:18">18 </verse></sup>“Isn’t Yahweh
your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on
every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants
of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued
before Yahweh and before his people. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 22:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 22:19">19 </verse></sup>Now set
your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your
God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of
Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant
and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to
be built for Yahweh’s name.”

#BCV:1 Chronicles 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Now David was old and full of days; and he made
Solomon his son king over Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:2">2 </verse></sup>He gathered
together all the princes of Israel, with the priests
and the Levites. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:3">3 </verse></sup>The Levites were counted from
thirty years old and upward; and their number by
their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:4">4 </verse></sup>David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand
were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six
thousand were officers and judges, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:5">5 </verse></sup>four thousand
were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh
with the instruments which I made for giving
praise.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:6">6 </verse></sup>David divided them into divisions according to
the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:8">8 </verse></sup>The
sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel,
three. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:9">9 </verse></sup>The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel,
and Haran, three. These were the heads of the
fathers’ households of Ladan. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:10">10 </verse></sup>The sons of Shimei:
Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the
sons of Shimei. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Jahath was the chief, and Zizah
the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many
sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one
reckoning.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:12">12 </verse></sup>The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron,
and Uzziel, four. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:13">13 </verse></sup>The sons of Amram: Aaron
and Moses; and Aaron was separated that he should
sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons
forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister
to him, and to bless in his name forever. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:14">14 </verse></sup>But as for
Moses the man of God, his sons were named among
the tribe of Levi. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:15">15 </verse></sup>The sons of Moses: Gershom
and Eliezer. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the
chief. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:17">17 </verse></sup>The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief;
and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of
Rehabiah were very many. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:18">18 </verse></sup>The son of Izhar:
Shelomith the chief. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:19">19 </verse></sup>The sons of Hebron: Jeriah
the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,
and Jekameam the fourth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:20">20 </verse></sup>The sons of Uzziel:
Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons
of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:22">22 </verse></sup>Eleazar died, and had
no sons, but daughters only; and their relatives, the
sons of Kish, took them as wives. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of
Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:24">24 </verse></sup>These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’
houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of
those who were counted individually, in the number
of names by their polls, who did the work for the
service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old
and upward. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:25">25 </verse></sup>For David said, “Yahweh, the God of
Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in
Jerusalem forever. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:26">26 </verse></sup>Also the Levites will no longer
need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its
service.” <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:27">27 </verse></sup>For by the last words of David the sons
of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and
upward. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:28">28 </verse></sup>For their duty was to wait on the sons
of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house—in the
courts, in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy
things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:29">29 </verse></sup>for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for
a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or
of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which
is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity
and size; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:30">30 </verse></sup>and to stand every morning to thank
and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:31">31 </verse></sup>and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh on the
Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts,
in number according to the ordinance concerning
them, continually before Yahweh; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 23:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 23:32">32 </verse></sup>and that they
should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the
duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons
of Aaron their brothers for the service of Yahweh’s
house.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:1">1 </verse></sup>These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron.
The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:2">2 </verse></sup>But Nadab and Abihu died before their
father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and
Ithamar served as priests. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:3">3 </verse></sup>David, with Zadok of
the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of
Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering
in their service. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:4">4 </verse></sup>There were more chief men found
of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar;
and they were divided like this: of the sons of
Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses;
and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their
fathers’ houses, eight. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Thus they were divided
impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes
of the sanctuary and princes of God, both of the sons
of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:6">6 </verse></sup>Shemaiah
the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the
Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king,
the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of
Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households
of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house
being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:7">7 </verse></sup>Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second
to Jedaiah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:8">8 </verse></sup>the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:9">9 </verse></sup>the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:10">10 </verse></sup>the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:11">11 </verse></sup>the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:12">12 </verse></sup>the
eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:13">13 </verse></sup>the
thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:14">14 </verse></sup>the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to
Immer, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:15">15 </verse></sup>the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth
to Happizzez, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:16">16 </verse></sup>the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the
twentieth to Jehezkel, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:17">17 </verse></sup>the twenty-first to Jachin,
the twenty-second to Gamul, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:18">18 </verse></sup>the twenty-third to
Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:19">19 </verse></sup>This
was their ordering in their service, to come into
Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given
to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God
of Israel, had commanded him.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of
Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:21">21 </verse></sup>Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah
the chief. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the
sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of Hebron:
Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and
Jekameam the fourth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:24">24 </verse></sup>The sons of Uzziel: Micah;
of the sons of Micah, Shamir. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:25">25 </verse></sup>The brother of
Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:26">26 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The
son of Jaaziah: Beno. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:27">27 </verse></sup>The sons of Merari by
Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:28">28 </verse></sup>Of Mahli:
Eleazar, who had no sons. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:29">29 </verse></sup>Of Kish, the son of
Kish: Jerahmeel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:30">30 </verse></sup>The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder,
and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites
after their fathers’ houses. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 24:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 24:31">31 </verse></sup>These likewise cast
lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the
presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and
the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests
and of the Levites, the fathers’ households of the
chief even as those of his younger brother.
#BCV:1 Chronicles 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover, David and the captains of the army
set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph,
of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy
with harps, with stringed instruments, and with
cymbals. The number of those who did the work
according to their service was: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:2">2 </verse></sup>of the sons of Asaph:
Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The
sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who
prophesied at the order of the king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Of Jeduthun,
the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah,
Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the
hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in
giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah,
Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani,
Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah,
Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:5">5 </verse></sup>All these were
the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words
of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman
fourteen sons and three daughters. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:6">6 </verse></sup>All these were
under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s
house, with cymbals, stringed instruments,
and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph,
Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the
king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:7">7 </verse></sup>The number of them, with their brothers
who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all
who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:8">8 </verse></sup>They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as
well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph;
the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons
were twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:10">10 </verse></sup>the third to Zaccur, his sons and
his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:11">11 </verse></sup>the fourth to Izri, his sons
and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:12">12 </verse></sup>the fifth to Nethaniah,
his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:13">13 </verse></sup>the sixth to
Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:14">14 </verse></sup>the
seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:15">15 </verse></sup>the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:16">16 </verse></sup>the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons
and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:17">17 </verse></sup>the tenth to Shimei,
his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:18">18 </verse></sup>the eleventh
to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:19">19 </verse></sup>the
twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:20">20 </verse></sup>for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and
his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:21">21 </verse></sup>for the fourteenth, Mattithiah,
his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:22">22 </verse></sup>for the
fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers,
twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:23">23 </verse></sup>for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons
and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:24">24 </verse></sup>for the seventeenth to
Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:25">25 </verse></sup>for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his
brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:26">26 </verse></sup>for the nineteenth to Mallothi,
his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:27">27 </verse></sup>for the
twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:28">28 </verse></sup>for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons
and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:29">29 </verse></sup>for the twenty-second to
Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:30">30 </verse></sup>for the
twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers,
twelve; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 25:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 25:31">31 </verse></sup>for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-
Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
#BCV:1 Chronicles 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:1">1 </verse></sup>For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the
Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons
of Asaph. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the
firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third,
Jathniel the fourth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the
sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:4">4 </verse></sup>Obed-Edom
had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the
second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel
the fifth, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:5">5 </verse></sup>Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,
and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who
ruled over the house of their father; for they were
mighty men of valor. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:7">7 </verse></sup>The sons of Shemaiah: Othni,
Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose relatives were
valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:8">8 </verse></sup>All these
were of the sons of Obed-Edom with their sons and
their brothers, able men in strength for the service:
sixty-two of Obed-Edom. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Meshelemiah had sons
and brothers, eighteen valiant men. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:10">10 </verse></sup>Also Hosah,
of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief
(for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father
made him chief), <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the
third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and
brothers of Hosah were thirteen.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:12">12 </verse></sup>Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers,
even of the chief men, having offices like their
brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:13">13 </verse></sup>They
cast lots, the small as well as the great, according
to their fathers’ houses, for every gate. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:14">14 </verse></sup>The lot
eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his
son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot
came out northward. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:15">15 </verse></sup>To Obed-Edom southward;
and to his sons the storehouse. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:16">16 </verse></sup>To Shuppim
and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth,
at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite
watchman. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Eastward were six Levites, northward
four a day, southward four a day, and for the
storehouse two and two. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:18">18 </verse></sup>For Parbar westward,
four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:19">19 </verse></sup>These
were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons
of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures
of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated
things. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:21">21 </verse></sup>The sons of Ladan, the sons of
the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of
the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the
Gershonite: Jehieli. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:22">22 </verse></sup>The sons of Jehieli: Zetham,
and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:23">23 </verse></sup>Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the
Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:24">24 </verse></sup>Shebuel the son
of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the
treasuries. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:25">25 </verse></sup>His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his
son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and
Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:26">26 </verse></sup>This Shelomoth
and his brothers were over all the treasuries
of the dedicated things, which David the king, and
the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains
over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of
the army, had dedicated. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:27">27 </verse></sup>They dedicated some
of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:28">28 </verse></sup>All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son
of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son
of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated
anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth and
of his brothers.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:29">29 </verse></sup>Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were
appointed to the outward business over Israel, for
officers and judges. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:30">30 </verse></sup>Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah
and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men
of valor, had the oversight of Israel beyond the
Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh and
for the service of the king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:31">31 </verse></sup>Of the Hebronites,
Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according
to their generations by fathers’ households. They
were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of
David, and mighty men of valor were found among
them at Jazer of Gilead. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 26:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 26:32">32 </verse></sup>His relatives, men of valor,
were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’
households, whom King David made overseers over
the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of
the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God
and for the affairs of the king.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the children of Israel after their number,
the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who
served the king in any matter of the divisions which
came in and went out month by month throughout
all the months of the year—of every division were
twenty-four thousand.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:2">2 </verse></sup>Over the first division for the first month was
Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. In his division were
twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:3">3 </verse></sup>He was of the children of
Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for
the first month. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Over the division of the second
month was Dodai the Ahohite and his division, and
Mikloth the ruler; and in his division were twentyfour
thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:5">5 </verse></sup>The third captain of the army for
the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada
the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four
thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:6">6 </verse></sup>This is that Benaiah who was the mighty
man of the thirty and over the thirty. Of his division
was Ammizabad his son. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:7">7 </verse></sup>The fourth captain for
the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab,
and Zebadiah his son after him. In his division
were twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:8">8 </verse></sup>The fifth captain for
the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite. In his
division were twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:9">9 </verse></sup>The sixth
captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh
the Tekoite. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:10">10 </verse></sup>The seventh captain for the seventh month
was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim.
In his division were twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:11">11 </verse></sup>The
eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai
the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division
were twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:12">12 </verse></sup>The ninth captain
for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite,
of the Benjamites. In his division were twentyfour
thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:13">13 </verse></sup>The tenth captain for the tenth
month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites.
In his division were twenty-four thousand.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:14">14 </verse></sup>The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was
Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim.
In his division were twenty-four thousand. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:15">15 </verse></sup>The
twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai
the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were
twenty-four thousand.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:16">16 </verse></sup>Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the
Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler;
of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:17">17 </verse></sup>of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron,
Zadok; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:18">18 </verse></sup>of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of
David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:19">19 </verse></sup>of
Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali,
Jeremoth the son of Azriel; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:20">20 </verse></sup>of the children of
Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the halftribe
of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:21">21 </verse></sup>of the
half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of
Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:22">22 </verse></sup>of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the
captains of the tribes of Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:23">23 </verse></sup>But David didn’t
take the number of them from twenty years old and
under, because Yahweh had said he would increase
Israel like the stars of the sky. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:24">24 </verse></sup>Joab the son of
Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish;
and wrath came on Israel for this. The number
wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King
David.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:25">25 </verse></sup>Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the
son of Adiel. Over the treasures in the fields, in
the cities, in the villages, and in the towers was
Jonathan the son of Uzziah; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:26">26 </verse></sup>Over those who
did the work of the field for tillage of the ground
was Ezri the son of Chelub. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:27">27 </verse></sup>Over the vineyards
was Shimei the Ramathite. Over the increase of
the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the
Shiphmite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:28">28 </verse></sup>Over the olive trees and the sycamore
trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan
the Gederite. Over the cellars of oil was Joash.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:29">29 </verse></sup>Over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai
the Sharonite. Over the herds that were in the
valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:30">30 </verse></sup>Over the
camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. Over the donkeys
was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was
Jaziz the Hagrite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:31">31 </verse></sup>All these were the rulers of the
property which was King David’s.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:32">32 </verse></sup>Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor,
a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son
of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:33">33 </verse></sup>Ahithophel
was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was
the king’s friend. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 27:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 27:34">34 </verse></sup>After Ahithophel was Jehoiada
the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the
captain of the king’s army.

#BCV:1 Chronicles 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:1">1 </verse></sup>David assembled all the princes of Israel, the
princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies
who served the king by division, the captains of
thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers
over all the substance and possessions of the king
and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty
men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Then David the king stood up on his feet and said,
“Hear me, my brothers and my people! As for me, it
was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark
of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our
God; and I had prepared for the building. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:3">3 </verse></sup>But God
said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name,
because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:4">4 </verse></sup>However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out
of all the house of my father to be king over Israel
forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and
in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and
among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me
to make me king over all Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Of all my sons (for
Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen
Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s
kingdom over Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to me, ‘Solomon, your
son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have
chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:7">7 </verse></sup>I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues
to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it
is today.’

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:8">8 </verse></sup>Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s
assembly, and in the audience of our God,
observe and seek out all the commandments of
Yahweh your God, that you may possess this good
land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children
after you forever.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:9">9 </verse></sup>You, Solomon my son, know the God of your
father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with
a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and
understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If
you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you
forsake him, he will cast you off forever. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Take
heed now, for Yahweh has chosen you to build a
house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans
for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its
treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms,
for the place of the mercy seat; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:12">12 </verse></sup>and the plans
of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of
Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for
the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries
of the dedicated things; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:13">13 </verse></sup>also for the divisions of
the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the
service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels
of service in Yahweh’s house— <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:14">14 </verse></sup>of gold by weight
for the gold for all vessels of every kind of service,
for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels
of every kind of service; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:15">15 </verse></sup>by weight also for the
lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by
weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and
for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every
lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use
of every lamp stand; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:16">16 </verse></sup>and the gold by weight for
the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver
for the tables of silver; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:17">17 </verse></sup>and the forks, the basins,
and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls
by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls
by weight for every bowl; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:18">18 </verse></sup>and for the altar of
incense, refined gold by weight; and gold for the
plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread
out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:19">19 </verse></sup>“All
this”, David said, “I have been made to understand
in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works
of this pattern.”

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:20">20 </verse></sup>David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and
courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be
dismayed, for Yahweh God, even my God, is with
you. He will not fail you nor forsake you, until all the
work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 28:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 28:21">21 </verse></sup>Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and
the Levites for all the service of God’s house. Every
willing man who has skill for any kind of service
shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the
captains and all the people will be entirely at your
command.”

#BCV:1 Chronicles 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:1">1 </verse></sup>David the king said to all the assembly,
“Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is
yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the
palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:2">2 </verse></sup>Now
I have prepared with all my might for the house of
my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver
for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of
bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the
things of wood, also onyx stones, stones to be set,
stones for inlaid work of various colors, all kinds of
precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:3">3 </verse></sup>In addition, because I have set my affection on the
house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own
of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God,
over and above all that I have prepared for the holy
house: <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:4">4 </verse></sup>even three thousand talents of gold,<footnote:1>29:4 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 3000 talents is about 90 metric tons </footnote> of
the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents<footnote:1>29:4 about 210 metric tons </footnote> of
refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the
houses; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:5">5 </verse></sup>of gold for the things of gold, and of silver
for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to
be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers
willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the princes of the fathers’ households,
and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the
rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:7">7 </verse></sup>and
they gave for the service of God’s house of gold
five thousand talents<footnote:1>29:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 5000 talents is about 150 metric tons </footnote> and ten thousand darics,<footnote:1>29:7 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.</footnote>
of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen
thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand
talents. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:8">8 </verse></sup>People with whom precious stones were
found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house,
under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:9">9 </verse></sup>Then
the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly,
because with a perfect heart they offered willingly
to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with
great joy.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the
assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh,
the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:11">11 </verse></sup>Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the
glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is
in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is
the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head
above all. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:12">12 </verse></sup>Both riches and honor come from you,
and you rule over all! In your hand is power and
might! It is in your hand to make great, and to
give strength to all! <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:13">13 </verse></sup>Now therefore, our God, we
thank you and praise your glorious name. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:14">14 </verse></sup>But
who am I, and what is my people, that we should
be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things
come from you, and we have given you of your own.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:15">15 </verse></sup>For we are strangers before you and foreigners,
as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are
as a shadow, and there is no remaining. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh
our God, all this store that we have prepared to
build you a house for your holy name comes from
your hand, and is all your own. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:17">17 </verse></sup>I know also, my
God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in
uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my
heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now
I have seen with joy your people, who are present
here, offer willingly to you. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep
this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of
your people, and prepare their heart for you; <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:19">19 </verse></sup>and
give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep
your commandments, your testimonies, and your
statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the
palace, for which I have made provision.”
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless
Yahweh your God!”
<br>
All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their
fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated
themselves before Yahweh and the king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:21">21 </verse></sup>They
sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh and offered burnt
offerings to Yahweh on the next day after that day,
even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and
one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and
sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:22">22 </verse></sup>and ate
and drank before Yahweh on that day with great
gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king
the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh
to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:23">23 </verse></sup>Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as
king instead of David his father, and prospered; and
all Israel obeyed him. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:24">24 </verse></sup>All the princes, the mighty
men, and also all of the sons of King David submitted
themselves to Solomon the king. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh magnified
Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel,
and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been
on any king before him in Israel.

<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:26">26 </verse></sup>Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all
Israel. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:27">27 </verse></sup>The time that he reigned over Israel was
forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and
he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:28">28 </verse></sup>He
died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and
honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:29">29 </verse></sup>Now the acts of David the king, first and last,
behold, they are written in the history of Samuel
the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet,
and in the history of Gad the seer, <key:bcv=1 Chronicles 29:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Chronicles 29:30">30 </verse></sup>with all his
reign and his might, and the events that involved
him, Israel, and all the kingdoms of the lands.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Chronicles
<h2>The Second Book of Chronicles</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Solomon the son of David was firmly established
in his kingdom, and Yahweh<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> his God<footnote:1>1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> was with
him, and made him exceedingly great.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains
of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and
to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’
households. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Solomon, and all the
assembly with him, went to the high place that
was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there,
which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the
wilderness. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:4">4 </verse></sup>But David had brought God’s ark up
from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had
prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there
before Yahweh’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the
assembly were seeking counsel there. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Solomon
went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh,
which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one
thousand burnt offerings on it.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:7">7 </verse></sup>That night, God appeared to Solomon and said
to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Solomon said to God, “You have shown great
loving kindness to David my father, and have made
me king in his place. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Now, Yahweh God, let your
promise to David my father be established; for you
have made me king over a people like the dust of
the earth in multitude. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Now give me wisdom and
knowledge, that I may go out and come in before
this people; for who can judge this great people of
yours?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:11">11 </verse></sup>God said to Solomon, “Because this was in
your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth,
honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet
have you asked for long life; but have asked for
wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may
judge my people, over whom I have made you king,
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:12">12 </verse></sup>therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to
you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such
as none of the kings have had who have been before
you, and none after you will have.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:13">13 </verse></sup>So Solomon came from the high place that
was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to
Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He
had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve
thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:15">15 </verse></sup>The king
made silver and gold to be as common as stones in
Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common
as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:16">16 </verse></sup>The horses which Solomon had were brought
out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants
purchased them from Kue. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 1:17">17 </verse></sup>They imported from
Egypt then exported a chariot for six hundred
pieces of silver and a horse for one hundred fifty.<footnote:1>1:17 The pieces of silver were probably shekels, so 600 pieces would be about 13.2 pounds or 6 kilograms of silver, and 150 would be about 3.3 pounds or 1.5 kilograms of silver. </footnote>
They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the
Syrian<footnote:1>1:17 or, Aramean </footnote> kings.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s
name, and a house for his kingdom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Solomon
counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens,
eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in
the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to
oversee them.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying,
“As you dealt with David my father, and sent him
cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so
deal with me. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>2:4 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I am about to build a house
for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to
him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices,
for the continual show bread, and for the burnt
offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on
the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our
God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:5">5 </verse></sup>“The house which I am building will be great,
for our God is greater than all gods. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But who is
able to build him a house, since heaven and the
heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I
then, that I should build him a house, except just
to burn incense before him?

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:7">7 </verse></sup>“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work
in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple,
crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave
engravings, to be with the skillful men who are
with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
father provided.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:8">8 </verse></sup>“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and
algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your
servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold,
my servants will be with your servants, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:9">9 </verse></sup>even
to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house
which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, I will give to your servants, the
cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors<footnote:1>2:10 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels, so 20,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 545 metric tons </footnote> of
beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths<footnote:1>2:10 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 20,000 baths of barley would weigh about 262 metric tons. </footnote> of barley,
twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand
baths of oil.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing,
which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh
loves his people, he has made you king over them.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God
of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has
given to David the king a wise son, endowed with
discretion and understanding, who would build a
house for Yahweh and a house for his kingdom.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with
understanding, Huram-abi,<footnote:1>2:13 or, Huram, my father</footnote> <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:14">14 </verse></sup>the son of a woman
of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man
of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in
bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in
blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave
any kind of engraving and to devise any device, that
there may be a place appointed to him with your
skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord
David your father.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:15">15 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil,
and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him
send to his servants; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:16">16 </verse></sup>and we will cut wood out of
Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to
you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it
up to Jerusalem.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Solomon counted all the foreigners who were
in the land of Israel, after the census with which
David his father had counted them; and they found
one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 2:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 2:18">18 </verse></sup>He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens,
eighty thousand who were stone cutters in
the mountains, and three thousand six hundred
overseers to assign the people their work.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house
at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared
to David his father, which he prepared in the
place that David had appointed, on the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:2">2 </verse></sup>He began to build in
the second day of the second month, in the fourth
year of his reign. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Now these are the foundations
which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house:
the length by cubits<footnote:1>3:3 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> after the first measure was
sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:4">4 </verse></sup>The
porch that was in front, its length, across the width
of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height
one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with
pure gold. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He made the larger room with a ceiling
of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold,
and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:6">6 </verse></sup>He decorated the house with precious stones for
beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He
also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds,
its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved
cherubim on the walls.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:8">8 </verse></sup>He made the most holy place. Its length,
according to the width of the house, was twenty
cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid
it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.<footnote:1>3:8 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 600 talents is about 18 metric tons </footnote>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:9">9 </verse></sup>The weight of the nails was fifty shekels<footnote:1>3:9 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces. </footnote> of gold.
He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:10">10 </verse></sup>In the most holy place he made two cherubim
by carving, and they overlaid them with gold. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The
wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the
wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall
of the house; and the other wing was five cubits,
reaching to the wing of the other cherub. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:12">12 </verse></sup>The
wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house; and the other wing was
five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:13">13 </verse></sup>The wings of these cherubim spread themselves
out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and
their faces were toward the house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:14">14 </verse></sup>He made the
veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and
ornamented it with cherubim.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Also he made before the house two pillars
thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on
the top of each of them was five cubits. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:16">16 </verse></sup>He made
chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on
the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred
pomegranates, and put them on the chains. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 3:17">17 </verse></sup>He
set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right
hand and the other on the left; and called the name
of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of
that on the left Boaz.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits<footnote:1>4:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote>
long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Also
he made the molten sea<footnote:1>4:2 or, pool, or, reservoir </footnote> of ten cubits from brim
to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty
cubits in circumference. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Under it was the likeness
of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling
the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it
was cast. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:4">4 </verse></sup>It stood on twelve oxen, three looking
toward the north, three looking toward the west,
three looking toward the south, and three looking
toward the east; and the sea was set on them above,
and all their hindquarters were inward. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:5">5 </verse></sup>It was a
handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim
of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held
three thousand baths.<footnote:1>4:5 A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 liters, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kiloliters.</footnote> <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:6">6 </verse></sup>He also made ten basins,
and put five on the right hand and five on the left,
to wash in them. The things that belonged to the
burnt offering were washed in them, but the sea was
for the priests to wash in.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:7">7 </verse></sup>He made the ten lamp stands of gold according
to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them
in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the
left. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:8">8 </verse></sup>He made also ten tables, and placed them in
the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
He made one hundred basins of gold. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Furthermore
he made the court of the priests, the great court,
and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors
with bronze. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:10">10 </verse></sup>He set the sea on the right side of
the house eastward, toward the south.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the
basins.
<br>
So Huram finished doing the work that he did
for King Solomon in God’s house: <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:12">12 </verse></sup>the two pillars,
the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top
of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:13">13 </verse></sup>and the four hundred pomegranates for
the two networks—two rows of pomegranates for
each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals
that were on the pillars. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:14">14 </verse></sup>He also made the bases,
and he made the basins on the bases— <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:15">15 </verse></sup>one sea,
and the twelve oxen under it. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Huram-abi<footnote:1>4:16 “abi” means “his father” </footnote> also
made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its
vessels for King Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of
bright bronze. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The king cast them in the plain of
the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zeredah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Thus Solomon made all these vessels in
great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze
could not be determined.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s
house: the golden altar, the tables with the show
bread on them, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:20">20 </verse></sup>and the lamp stands with their
lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the
inner sanctuary, of pure gold; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:21">21 </verse></sup>and the flowers, the
lamps, and the tongs of gold that was purest gold;
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 4:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 4:22">22 </verse></sup>and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the
fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house,
its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors
of the main hall of the temple were of gold.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s
house was finished. Solomon brought in the things
that David his father had dedicated, even the silver,
the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the
treasuries of God’s house.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel
and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the
fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant
out of David’s city, which is Zion. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:3">3 </verse></sup>So all the men of
Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast,
which was in the seventh month. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:4">4 </verse></sup>All the elders
of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:5">5 </verse></sup>They
brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the
holy vessels that were in the Tent. The Levitical
priests brought these up. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:6">6 </verse></sup>King Solomon and all
the congregation of Israel who were assembled to
him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle
that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s
covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of
the house, to the most holy place, even under the
wings of the cherubim. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:8">8 </verse></sup>For the cherubim spread
out their wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:9">9 </verse></sup>The
poles were so long that the ends of the poles were
seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary,
but they were not seen outside; and it is there to
this day. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:10">10 </verse></sup>There was nothing in the ark except the
two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when
Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of Egypt.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:11">11 </verse></sup>When the priests had come out of the holy
place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified
themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:12">12 </verse></sup>also the Levites who were the singers, all of them,
even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and
their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals
and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the
east end of the altar, and with them one hundred
twenty priests sounding with trumpets); <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:13">13 </verse></sup>when
the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make
one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh;
and when they lifted up their voice with the
trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music,
and praised Yahweh, saying,
<br>
“For he is good,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever!”
then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s
house, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 5:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 5:14">14 </verse></sup>so that the priests could not stand to
minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory
filled God’s house.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:2">2 </verse></sup>But I have built
you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in
forever.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:3">3 </verse></sup>The king turned his face, and blessed all the
assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel
stood.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:4">4 </verse></sup>He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and
has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:5">5 </verse></sup>‘Since the
day that I brought my people out of the land of
Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel
to build a house in, that my name might be there,
and I chose no man to be prince over my people
Israel; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:6">6 </verse></sup>but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my
name might be there; and I have chosen David to
be over my people Israel.’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Now it was in the heart
of David my father to build a house for the name
of Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:8">8 </verse></sup>But Yahweh said to
David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to
build a house for my name, you did well that it was
in your heart; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:9">9 </verse></sup>nevertheless you shall not build the
house, but your son who will come out of your body,
he shall build the house for my name.’
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:10">10 </verse></sup>“Yahweh has performed his word that he
spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my
father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh
promised, and have built the house for the name of
Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:11">11 </verse></sup>There I have set the
ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made
with the children of Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:12">12 </verse></sup>He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence
of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his
hands <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:13">13 </verse></sup>(for Solomon had made a bronze platform,
five cubits<footnote:1>6:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> long, five cubits wide, and three cubits
high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and
he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before
all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
toward heaven). <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Then he said, “Yahweh, the God
of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on
earth—you who keep covenant and loving kindness
with your servants who walk before you with all
their heart; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:15">15 </verse></sup>who have kept with your servant
David my father that which you promised him. Yes,
you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it
with your hand, as it is today.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:16">16 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel,
keep with your servant David my father that which
you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail
you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel,
if only your children take heed to their way, to walk
in my law as you have walked before me.’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:17">17 </verse></sup>Now
therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word
be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:18">18 </verse></sup>“But will God indeed dwell with men on the
earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens
can’t contain you; how much less this house which
I have built! <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet have respect for the prayer of
your servant and to his supplication, Yahweh my
God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which
your servant prays before you; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:20">20 </verse></sup>that your eyes
may be open toward this house day and night, even
toward the place where you have said that you
would put your name, to listen to the prayer which
your servant will pray toward this place. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Listen
to the petitions of your servant and of your people
Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear
from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and
when you hear, forgive.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:22">22 </verse></sup>“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath
is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes
and swears before your altar in this house, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:23">23 </verse></sup>then
hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants,
bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way
on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to
give him according to his righteousness.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:24">24 </verse></sup>“If your people Israel are struck down before
the enemy because they have sinned against you,
and they turn again and confess your name, and
pray and make supplication before you in this
house, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:25">25 </verse></sup>then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin
of your people Israel, and bring them again to the
land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:26">26 </verse></sup>“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain
because they have sinned against you, if they pray
toward this place and confess your name, and turn
from their sin when you afflict them, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:27">27 </verse></sup>then hear in
heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your
people Israel, when you teach them the good way
in which they should walk, and send rain on your
land, which you have given to your people for an
inheritance.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:28">28 </verse></sup>“If there is famine in the land, if there is
pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or
caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the
land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever
sickness there is— <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:29">29 </verse></sup>whatever prayer and supplication
is made by any man, or by all your people Israel,
who will each know his own plague and his own
sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this
house, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:30">30 </verse></sup>then hear from heaven your dwelling place
and forgive, and render to every man according to
all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even
you only, know the hearts of the children of men),
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:31">31 </verse></sup>that they may fear you, to walk in your ways as
long as they live in the land which you gave to our
fathers.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:32">32 </verse></sup>“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is
not of your people Israel, when he comes from a
far country for your great name’s sake and your
mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they
come and pray toward this house, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:33">33 </verse></sup>then hear
from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and
do according to all that the foreigner calls to you
for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your
name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and
that they may know that this house which I have
built is called by your name.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:34">34 </verse></sup>“If your people go out to battle against their
enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they
pray to you toward this city which you have chosen,
and the house which I have built for your name;
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:35">35 </verse></sup>then hear from heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:36">36 </verse></sup>“If they sin against you (for there is no man
who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them
and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captive to a land far off or near; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:37">37 </verse></sup>yet
if they come to their senses in the land where
they are carried captive, and turn again, and make
supplication to you in the land of their captivity,
saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely,
and have dealt wickedly;’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:38><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:38">38 </verse></sup>if they return to you
with all their heart and with all their soul in the
land of their captivity, where they have been taken
captive, and pray toward their land which you gave
to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen,
and toward the house which I have built for your
name; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:39><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:39">39 </verse></sup>then hear from heaven, even from your
dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and
maintain their cause, and forgive your people who
have sinned against you.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:40><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:40">40 </verse></sup>“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open,
and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is
made in this place.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:41><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:41">41 </verse></sup>“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your
resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with
salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 6:42><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 6:42">42 </verse></sup>“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your
anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to
David your servant.”

#BCV:2 Chronicles 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire
came down from heaven and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory
filled the house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:2">2 </verse></sup>The priests could not enter into
Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:3">3 </verse></sup>All the children of Israel looked on,
when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was
on the house. They bowed themselves with their
faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped,
and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying,
<br>
“For he is good,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever!”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:5">5 </verse></sup>King Solomon offered a
sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and
a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and
all the people dedicated God’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:6">6 </verse></sup>The priests
stood, according to their positions; the Levites
also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which
David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh,
when David praised by their ministry, saying “For
his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests
sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court
that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he
offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace
offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon
had made was not able to receive the burnt offering,
the meal offering, and the fat.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:8">8 </verse></sup>So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven
days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly,
from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:9">9 </verse></sup>On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly;
for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days,
and the feast seven days. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:10">10 </verse></sup>On the twenty-third day
of the seventh month, he sent the people away to
their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness
that Yahweh had shown to David, to Solomon, and
to Israel his people.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the
king’s house; and he successfully completed all that
came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s
house and in his own house.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night,
and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have
chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:13">13 </verse></sup>“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain,
or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if
I send pestilence among my people, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:14">14 </verse></sup>if my people
who are called by my name will humble themselves,
pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their
sin, and will heal their land. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Now my eyes will be
open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made
in this place. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:16">16 </verse></sup>For now I have chosen and made this
house holy, that my name may be there forever; and
my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:17">17 </verse></sup>“As for you, if you will walk before me as David
your father walked, and do according to all that I
have commanded you, and will keep my statutes
and my ordinances, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:18">18 </verse></sup>then I will establish the
throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted
with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail
you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:19">19 </verse></sup>But if you turn away and forsake my statutes
and my commandments which I have set before
you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:20">20 </verse></sup>then I will pluck them up by the roots out of
my land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have made holy for my name, I will cast
out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a
byword among all peoples. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:21">21 </verse></sup>This house, which is so
high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished
and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land
and to this house?’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 7:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 7:22">22 </verse></sup>They shall answer, ‘Because
they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and
took other gods, worshiped them, and served them.
Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’ ”

#BCV:2 Chronicles 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:1">1 </verse></sup>At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon
had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to
Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell
there.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed
against it. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:4">4 </verse></sup>He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and
all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth
Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates,
and bars; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:6">6 </verse></sup>and Baalath, and all the storage cities
that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots,
the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon
desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:7">7 </verse></sup>As for all the people who were left of the Hittites,
the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, who were not of Israel— <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:8">8 </verse></sup>of their children
who were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel didn’t consume—of them Solomon
conscripted forced labor to this day. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:9">9 </verse></sup>But of
the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants
for his work, but they were men of war, chief of
his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his
horsemen. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:10">10 </verse></sup>These were the chief officers of King
Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over
the people.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of
David’s city to the house that he had built for her;
for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house
of David king of Israel, because the places where
Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh
on Yahweh’s altar which he had built before
the porch, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:13">13 </verse></sup>even as the duty of every day required,
offering according to the commandment of Moses
on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the
set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of
unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and
during the feast of booths.<footnote:1>8:13 or, feast of tents (Sukkot) </footnote>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He appointed, according to the ordinance of
David his father, the divisions of the priests to their
service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise
and to minister before the priests, as the duty of
every day required, the doorkeepers also by their
divisions at every gate, for David the man of God
had so commanded. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:15">15 </verse></sup>They didn’t depart from the
commandment of the king to the priests and Levites
concerning any matter or concerning the treasures.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Now all the work of Solomon was accomplished
from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house
until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to
Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 8:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Huram
sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of
the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came
with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought
from there four hundred fifty talents<footnote:1>8:18 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 450 talents is about 13.5 metric tons</footnote> of gold, and
brought them to King Solomon.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:1">1 </verse></sup>When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame
of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard
questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan,
including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance,
and precious stones. When she had come
to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was
in her heart. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Solomon answered all her questions.
There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which
he didn’t tell her. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:3">3 </verse></sup>When the queen of Sheba had
seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he
had built, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:4">4 </verse></sup>the food of his table, the seating of
his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their
clothing, his cup bearers and their clothing, and
his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house,
there was no more spirit in her.<footnote:1>9:4 or, she was breathless. </footnote>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:5">5 </verse></sup>She said to the king, “It was a true report that
I heard in my own land of your acts and of your
wisdom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:6">6 </verse></sup>However I didn’t believe their words until
I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half
of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me.
You exceed the fame that I heard! <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Happy are
your men, and happy are these your servants, who
stand continually before you and hear your wisdom.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you
and set you on his throne to be king for Yahweh
your God, because your God loved Israel, to establish
them forever. Therefore he made you king over
them, to do justice and righteousness.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:9">9 </verse></sup>She gave the king one hundred and twenty
talents<footnote:1>9:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons </footnote> of gold, spices in great abundance, and
precious stones. There was never before such spice
as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:10">10 </verse></sup>The servants of Huram and the servants
of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also
brought algum trees<footnote:1>9:10 possibly Indian sandalwood, which has nice grain and a pleasant scent and is good for woodworking </footnote> and precious stones. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:11">11 </verse></sup>The
king used algum tree wood to make terraces for
Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps
and stringed instruments for the singers. There
were none like these seen before in the land of
Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:12">12 </verse></sup>King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba
all her desire, whatever she asked, more than that
which she had brought to the king. So she turned
and went to her own land, she and her servants.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon
in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents<footnote:1>9:13 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons </footnote> of
gold, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:14">14 </verse></sup>in addition to that which the traders and
merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the
governors of the country brought gold and silver
to Solomon. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:15">15 </verse></sup>King Solomon made two hundred
large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels<footnote:1>9:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces. </footnote>
of beaten gold went to one large shield. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:16">16 </verse></sup>He
made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three
hundred shekels<footnote:1>9:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.</footnote> of gold went to one shield. The
king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and overlaid it with pure gold. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:18">18 </verse></sup>There were
six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
which were fastened to the throne, and armrests
on either side by the place of the seat, and two
lions standing beside the armrests. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Twelve lions
stood there on the one side and on the other on
the six steps. There was nothing like it made in
any other kingdom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:20">20 </verse></sup>All King Solomon’s drinking
vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House
of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver
was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:21">21 </verse></sup>For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with
Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships
of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes,
and peacocks.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:22">22 </verse></sup>So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the
earth in riches and wisdom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:23">23 </verse></sup>All the kings of the
earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his
wisdom, which God had put in his heart. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:24">24 </verse></sup>They
each brought tribute: vessels of silver, vessels of
gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules
every year. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Solomon had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen
that he stationed in the chariot cities and with the
king at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:26">26 </verse></sup>He ruled over all the kings from
the River even to the land of the Philistines, and
to the border of Egypt. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:27">27 </verse></sup>The king made silver as
common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars
to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in
the lowland. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:28">28 </verse></sup>They brought horses for Solomon
out of Egypt and out of all lands.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and
last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan
the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the
Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning
Jeroboam the son of Nebat? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:30">30 </verse></sup>Solomon
reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 9:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 9:31">31 </verse></sup>Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried
in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had
come to Shechem to make him king. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:2">2 </verse></sup>When
Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in
Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King
Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:3">3 </verse></sup>They
sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel
came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:4">4 </verse></sup>“Your
father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make
the grievous service of your father and his heavy
yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve
you.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Come again to me after three
days.”
<br>
So the people departed.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:6">6 </verse></sup>King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men,
who had stood before Solomon his father while he
yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me
about how to answer these people?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:7">7 </verse></sup>They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to
these people, please them, and speak good words to
them, then they will be your servants forever.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:8">8 </verse></sup>But he abandoned the counsel of the old men
which they had given him, and took counsel with
the young men who had grown up with him, who
stood before him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What counsel
do you give, that we may give an answer to these
people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the
yoke that your father put on us lighter?’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The young men who had grown up with him
spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people
who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our
yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you
shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my
father’s waist. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Now whereas my father burdened
you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My
father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:12">12 </verse></sup>So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam
the third day, as the king asked, saying,
“Come to me again the third day.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:13">13 </verse></sup>The king
answered them roughly; and King Rehoboam abandoned
the counsel of the old men, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:14">14 </verse></sup>and spoke to
them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
“My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to
it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:15">15 </verse></sup>So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was
brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish
his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to
Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:16">16 </verse></sup>When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to
them, the people answered the king, saying, “What
portion do we have in David? We don’t have an
inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your
tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So
all Israel departed to their tents.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:17">17 </verse></sup>But as for the children of Israel who lived in
the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was
over the men subject to forced labor; and the
children of Israel stoned him to death with stones.
King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his
chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 10:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 10:19">19 </verse></sup>So Israel rebelled
against David’s house to this day.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:1">1 </verse></sup>When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he
assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one
hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were
warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom
again to Rehoboam. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:2">2 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s word came
to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:3">3 </verse></sup>“Speak to
Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:4">4 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh
says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers! Every man return to his house; for this
thing is of me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s
words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities
for defense in Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:6">6 </verse></sup>He built Bethlehem, Etam,
Tekoa, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Gath, Mareshah,
Ziph, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Zorah, Aijalon,
and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and
in Benjamin. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:11">11 </verse></sup>He fortified the strongholds and
put captains in them with stores of food, oil and
wine. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:12">12 </verse></sup>He put shields and spears in every city,
and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and
Benjamin belonged to him.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:13">13 </verse></sup>The priests and the Levites who were in all
Israel stood with him out of all their territory.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:14">14 </verse></sup>For the Levites left their pasture lands and their
possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for
Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they
should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:15">15 </verse></sup>He himself appointed priests for the high places,
for the male goat and calf idols which he had made.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:16">16 </verse></sup>After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those
who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of
Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh,
the God of their fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:17">17 </verse></sup>So they strengthened
the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son
of Solomon strong for three years, for they walked
three years in the way of David and Solomon.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath
the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and
of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:19">19 </verse></sup>She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:20">20 </verse></sup>After her, he took Maacah the granddaughter
of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza,
and Shelomith. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Rehoboam loved Maacah the
granddaughter of Absalom above all his wives and
his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty
concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight
sons and sixty daughters. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Rehoboam appointed
Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince
among his brothers, for he intended to make him
king. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 11:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 11:23">23 </verse></sup>He dealt wisely, and dispersed some of
his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and
Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food
in abundance; and he sought many wives for them.
#BCV:2 Chronicles 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:1">1 </verse></sup>When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established
and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s
law, and all Israel with him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:2">2 </verse></sup>In the fifth year
of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came
up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed
against Yahweh, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:3">3 </verse></sup>with twelve hundred chariots and
sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without
number who came with him out of Egypt: the
Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:4">4 </verse></sup>He took
the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and
came to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Now Shemaiah the prophet
came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah,
who were gathered together to Jerusalem because
of Shishak, and said to them, “Yahweh says, ‘You
have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in
the hand of Shishak.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:7">7 </verse></sup>When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves,
Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying,
“They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy
them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and
my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the
hand of Shishak. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Nevertheless they will be his
servants, that they may know my service, and the
service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:9">9 </verse></sup>So Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem and took away the treasures of Yahweh’s
house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took
it all away. He also took away the shields of gold
which Solomon had made. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:10">10 </verse></sup>King Rehoboam made
shields of bronze in their place, and committed
them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who
kept the door of the king’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:11">11 </verse></sup>As often as
the king entered into Yahweh’s house, the guard
came and bore them, then brought them back into
the guard room. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:12">12 </verse></sup>When he humbled himself,
Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to
destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good
things found in Judah.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:13">13 </verse></sup>So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in
Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh
had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put
his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:14">14 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil, because
he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last,
aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the
prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies?
There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 12:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Rehoboam slept with his fathers,
and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:1">1 </verse></sup>In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah
began to reign over Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:2">2 </verse></sup>He reigned three
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah
the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war
between Abijah and Jeroboam. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Abijah joined battle
with an army of valiant men of war, even four
hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set
the battle in array against him with eight hundred
thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of
valor. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which
is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me,
Jeroboam and all Israel: <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Ought you not to know
that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom
over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his
sons by a covenant of salt? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Yet Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David,
rose up, and rebelled against his lord. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Worthless
men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the
son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tender hearted, and could not withstand them.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:8">8 </verse></sup>“Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of
Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You
are a great multitude, and the golden calves which
Jeroboam made you for gods are with you. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Haven’t
you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons
of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for
yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of
other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself
with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of
those who are no gods.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:10">10 </verse></sup>“But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have
not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh,
the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:11">11 </verse></sup>They burn to Yahweh every morning and every
evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They
also set the show bread in order on the pure table,
and care for the gold lamp stand with its lamps,
to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction
of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests
with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm
against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against
Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not
prosper.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:13">13 </verse></sup>But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about
behind them; so they were before Judah, and the
ambush was behind them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:14">14 </verse></sup>When Judah looked
back, behold, the battle was before and behind
them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests
sounded with the trumpets. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the men of
Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted,
God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah
and Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of Israel fled before
Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Abijah and his people killed them with a great
slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men
of Israel fell down slain. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Thus the children of
Israel were brought under at that time, and the
children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on
Yahweh, the God of their fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Abijah pursued
Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its
villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with
its villages.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the
days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:21">21 </verse></sup>But Abijah grew mighty and took for himself
fourteen wives, and became the father of twentytwo
sons and sixteen daughters. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 13:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 13:22">22 </verse></sup>The rest of the
acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written
in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
#BCV:2 Chronicles 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:1">1 </verse></sup>So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his
place. In his days, the land was quiet ten years.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh
his God’s eyes, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:3">3 </verse></sup>for he took away the foreign altars
and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut
down the Asherah poles, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:4">4 </verse></sup>and commanded Judah to
seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey
his law and command. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Also he took away out of
all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun
images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:6">6 </verse></sup>He
built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet,
and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh
had given him rest. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:7">7 </verse></sup>For he said to Judah, “Let’s
build these cities and make walls around them, with
towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us,
because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have
sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.”
So they built and prospered.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Asa had an army of three hundred thousand
out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two
hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore
shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men
of valor.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with
an army of a million troops and three hundred
chariots, and he came to Mareshah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Asa
went out to meet him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Asa
cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there
is no one besides you to help, between the mighty
and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our
God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we
come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our
God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:12">12 </verse></sup>So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa
and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Asa
and the people who were with him pursued them
to Gerar. So many of the Ethiopians fell that they
could not recover themselves, for they were destroyed
before Yahweh and before his army. Judah’s
army carried away very much booty. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:14">14 </verse></sup>They struck
all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yahweh
came on them. They plundered all the cities, for
there was much plunder in them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 14:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 14:15">15 </verse></sup>They also
struck the tents of those who had livestock, and
carried away sheep and camels in abundance, then
returned to Jerusalem.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:1">1 </verse></sup>The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of
Oded. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:2">2 </verse></sup>He went out to meet Asa, and said to him,
“Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh
is with you while you are with him; and if you seek
him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him,
he will forsake you. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Now for a long time Israel
was without the true God, without a teaching priest,
and without law. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:4">4 </verse></sup>But when in their distress they
turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought
him, he was found by them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:5">5 </verse></sup>In those times there
was no peace to him who went out, nor to him
who came in; but great troubles were on all the
inhabitants of the lands. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:6">6 </verse></sup>They were broken in
pieces, nation against nation, and city against city;
for God troubled them with all adversity. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:7">7 </verse></sup>But you
be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your
work will be rewarded.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:8">8 </verse></sup>When Asa heard these words and the prophecy
of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away
the abominations out of all the land of Judah and
Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken
from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed
Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:9">9 </verse></sup>He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those
who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh,
and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in
abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was
with him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:10">10 </verse></sup>So they gathered themselves together
at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth
year of Asa’s reign. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:11">11 </verse></sup>They sacrificed to Yahweh in
that day, of the plunder which they had brought,
seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand
sheep. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:12">12 </verse></sup>They entered into the covenant to seek
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart
and with all their soul; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:13">13 </verse></sup>and that whoever would
not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put
to death, whether small or great, whether man or
woman. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:14">14 </verse></sup>They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice,
with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:15">15 </verse></sup>All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn
with all their heart and sought him with their whole
desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh
gave them rest all around.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he
removed from being queen mother, because she had
made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa
cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned
it at the brook Kidron. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:17">17 </verse></sup>But the high places were
not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart
of Asa was perfect all his days. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:18">18 </verse></sup>He brought the
things that his father had dedicated and that he
himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into
God’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 15:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 15:19">19 </verse></sup>There was no more war to the thirtyfifth
year of Asa’s reign.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:1">1 </verse></sup>In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha
king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out
or come in to Asa king of Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Asa brought
out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s
house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben
Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:3">3 </verse></sup>“Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there
was between my father and your father. Behold, I
have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty
with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from
me.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the
captains of his armies against the cities of Israel;
and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the
storage cities of Naphtali. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:5">5 </verse></sup>When Baasha heard of it,
he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried
away the stones and timber of Ramah, with which
Baasha had built; and he built Geba and Mizpah with
them.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:7">7 </verse></sup>At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king
of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied
on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh
your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has
escaped out of your hand. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Weren’t the Ethiopians
and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly
many horsemen? Yet, because you relied
on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:9">9 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the
whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of
them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have
done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have
wars.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him
in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because
of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at
the same time.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:12">12 </verse></sup>In the thirty-ninth year of his reign,
Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly
great; yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh,
but just the physicians. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Asa slept with his fathers,
and died in the forty-first year of his reign. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 16:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 16:14">14 </verse></sup>They
buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out
for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed
which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds
of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they
made a very great fire for him.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and
strengthened himself against Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:2">2 </verse></sup>He placed
forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set
garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of
Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh
was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the
Baals, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:4">4 </verse></sup>but sought the God of his father, and walked
in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his
hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and
he had riches and honor in abundance. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:6">6 </verse></sup>His heart
was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore,
he took away the high places and the Asherah poles
out of Judah.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Also in the third year of his reign he sent
his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah,
Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of
Judah; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:8">8 </verse></sup>and with them Levites, even Shemaiah,
Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan,
Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the
Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the
priests. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:9">9 </verse></sup>They taught in Judah, having the book
of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about
throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among
the people.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:10">10 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms
of the lands that were around Judah, so that they
made no war against Jehoshaphat. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Some of the
Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver
for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks:
seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven
thousand seven hundred male goats. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat
grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and
store cities in Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:13">13 </verse></sup>He had many works in the
cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of
valor, in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:14">14 </verse></sup>This was the numbering of
them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah,
the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain,
and with him three hundred thousand mighty men
of valor; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:15">15 </verse></sup>and next to him Jehohanan the captain,
and with him two hundred eighty thousand; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:16">16 </verse></sup>and
next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two
hundred thousand mighty men of valor. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:17">17 </verse></sup>From
Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with
him two hundred thousand armed with bow and
shield; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:18">18 </verse></sup>and next to him Jehozabad, and with him
one hundred eighty thousand ready and prepared
for war. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 17:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 17:19">19 </verse></sup>These were those who waited on the
king, in addition to those whom the king put in the
fortified cities throughout all Judah.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance;
and he allied himself with Ahab. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:2">2 </verse></sup>After some
years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab
killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and
for the people who were with him, and moved him
to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Ahab king of
Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you
go with me to Ramoth Gilead?”
<br>
He answered him, “I am as you are, and my people
as your people. We will be with you in the war.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please
inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
together, four hundred men, and said to them,
“Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I
forbear?”
<br>
They said, “Go up, for God will deliver it into the
hand of the king.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:6">6 </verse></sup>But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a
prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of
him?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:7">7 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is
yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh;
but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning
me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son
of Imla.”
<br>
Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said,
“Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:9">9 </verse></sup>Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their
robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the
entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets
were prophesying before them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:10">10 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the
son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and
said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you shall push the
Syrians, until they are consumed.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:11">11 </verse></sup>All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go
up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will
deliver it into the hand of the king.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:12">12 </verse></sup>The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke
to him, saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets
declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your
word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and
speak good.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what
my God says.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:14">14 </verse></sup>When he had come to the king, the king said
to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to
battle, or shall I forbear?”
<br>
He said, “Go up, and prosper. They shall be
delivered into your hand.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:15">15 </verse></sup>The king said to him, “How many times shall
I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the
truth in Yahweh’s name?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:16">16 </verse></sup>He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains,
as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said,
‘These have no master. Let them each return to his
house in peace.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:17">17 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I
tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning
me, but evil?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word:
I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army
of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel,
that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One
spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that
way. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:20">20 </verse></sup>A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and
said, ‘I will entice him.’
<br>
“Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:21">21 </verse></sup>“He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in
the mouth of all his prophets.’
<br>
“He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail
also. Go and do so.’

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:22">22 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying
spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and
Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came
near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said,
“Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to
speak to you?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day,
when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:25">25 </verse></sup>The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry
him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to
Joash the king’s son; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:26">26 </verse></sup>and say, ‘The king says, “Put
this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of
affliction and with water of affliction, until I return
in peace.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace,
Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you
people, all of you!”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:28">28 </verse></sup>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:29">29 </verse></sup>The king of
Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself,
and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.”
So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they
went into the battle. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:30">30 </verse></sup>Now the king of Syria had
commanded the captains of his chariots, saying,
“Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with
the king of Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:31">31 </verse></sup>When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat,
they said, “It is the king of Israel!”
Therefore they turned around to fight against him.
But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him;
and God moved them to depart from him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:32">32 </verse></sup>When
the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the
king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:33">33 </verse></sup>A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck
the king of Israel between the joints of the armor.
Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn
around and carry me out of the battle, for I am
severely wounded.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 18:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 18:34">34 </verse></sup>The battle increased that day.
However, the king of Israel propped himself up in
his chariot against the Syrians until the evening;
and at about sunset, he died.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his
house in peace to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:2">2 </verse></sup>Jehu the son of
Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to
King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and
love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath
is on you from before Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Nevertheless there
are good things found in you, in that you have put
away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your
heart to seek God.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went
out again among the people from Beersheba to the
hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to
Yahweh, the God of their fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:5">5 </verse></sup>He set judges in
the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah,
city by city, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:6">6 </verse></sup>and said to the judges, “Consider what
you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh;
and he is with you in the judgment. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore
let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do
it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor
respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:8">8 </verse></sup>Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed
certain Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’
households of Israel to give judgment for Yahweh
and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:9">9 </verse></sup>He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this
in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect
heart. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Whenever any controversy comes to
you from your brothers who dwell in their cities,
between blood and blood, between law and commandment,
statutes and ordinances, you must warn
them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so
wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this,
and you will not be guilty. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 19:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, Amariah the
chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and
Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house
of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites
shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and
may Yahweh be with the good.”

#BCV:2 Chronicles 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, the children of Moab, the children
of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites,
came against Jehoshaphat to battle. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Then some
came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude
is coming against you from beyond the sea
from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar”
(that is, En Gedi). <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:3">3 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and
set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Judah gathered themselves
together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out
of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and
Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:6">6 </verse></sup>and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers,
aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all
the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are
in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of
this land before your people Israel, and give it to the
offspring<footnote:1>20:7 or, seed</footnote> of Abraham your friend forever? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:8">8 </verse></sup>They
lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for
your name, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:9">9 </verse></sup>‘If evil comes on us—the sword,
judgment, pestilence, or famine —we will stand
before this house, and before you (for your name is
in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and
you will hear and save.’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Now, behold, the children
of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you
would not let Israel invade when they came out of
the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them,
and didn’t destroy them; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:11">11 </verse></sup>behold, how they reward
us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which
you have given us to inherit. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Our God, will you not
judge them? For we have no might against this great
company that comes against us. We don’t know
what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:13">13 </verse></sup>All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little
ones, their wives, and their children.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son
of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel,
the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of
Asaph, in the middle of the assembly; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:15">15 </verse></sup>and he said,
“Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and you, King Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you,
‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of
this great multitude; for the battle is not yours,
but God’s. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Tomorrow, go down against them.
Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz.
You will find them at the end of the valley, before
the wilderness of Jeruel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:17">17 </verse></sup>You will not need to
fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and
see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and
Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out
against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to
the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping
Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:19">19 </verse></sup>The Levites, of the children of the
Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites,
stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with
an exceedingly loud voice.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:20">20 </verse></sup>They rose early in the morning and went out
into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat
stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and
you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh
your God, so you will be established! Believe his
prophets, so you will prosper.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:21">21 </verse></sup>When he had taken counsel with the people,
he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh
and give praise in holy array as they go out before
the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh, for
his loving kindness endures forever.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:22">22 </verse></sup>When they
began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers
against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount
Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were
struck. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:23">23 </verse></sup>For the children of Ammon and Moab
stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to
utterly kill and destroy them. When they had
finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to
destroy each other.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:24">24 </verse></sup>When Judah came to the place overlooking
the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and
behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth,
and there were none who escaped. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:25">25 </verse></sup>When Jehoshaphat
and his people came to take their plunder,
they found among them in abundance both
riches and dead bodies with precious jewels, which
they stripped off for themselves, more than they
could carry away. They took plunder for three days,
it was so much. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:26">26 </verse></sup>On the fourth day, they assembled
themselves in Beracah<footnote:1>20:26 “Beracah” means “blessing”.</footnote> Valley, for there they
blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place
was called “Beracah Valley” to this day. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:27">27 </verse></sup>Then
they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem,
with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to
Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them
to rejoice over their enemies. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:28">28 </verse></sup>They came to
Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and
trumpets to Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:29">29 </verse></sup>The fear of God
was on all the kingdoms of the countries when they
heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of
Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:30">30 </verse></sup>So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for
his God gave him rest all around.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:31">31 </verse></sup>So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was
thirty-five years old when he began to reign.
He reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His
mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:32">32 </verse></sup>He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t
turn away from it, doing that which was right in
Yahweh’s eyes. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:33">33 </verse></sup>However the high places were not
taken away, and the people had still not set their
hearts on the God of their fathers.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:34">34 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first
and last, behold, they are written in the history of
Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the
book of the kings of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:35">35 </verse></sup>After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined
himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same
did very wickedly. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:36">36 </verse></sup>He joined himself with him
to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made
the ships in Ezion Geber. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 20:37><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 20:37">37 </verse></sup>Then Eliezer the
son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against
Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined
yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your
works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were
not able to go to Tarshish.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Jehoram
his son reigned in his place. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:2">2 </verse></sup>He had brothers,
the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah,
Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were
the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Their
father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and
of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but
he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the
firstborn. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Now when Jehoram had risen up over
the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened
himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword,
and also some of the princes of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:5">5 </verse></sup>Jehoram was
thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:6">6 </verse></sup>He walked in
the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house,
for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did
that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:7">7 </verse></sup>However
Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because
of the covenant that he had made with David, and
as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his
children always.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:8">8 </verse></sup>In his days Edom revolted from under the hand
of Judah, and made a king over themselves. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Then
Jehoram went there with his captains and all his
chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck
the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the
captains of the chariots. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:10">10 </verse></sup>So Edom has been in
revolt from under the hand of Judah to this day.
Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under
his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God
of his fathers.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover he made high places in the mountains
of Judah, and made the inhabitants of
Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:12">12 </verse></sup>A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet,
saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father,
says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways
of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of
Asa king of Judah, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:13">13 </verse></sup>but have walked in the way
of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute
like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your
brothers of your father’s house, who were better
than yourself, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:14">14 </verse></sup>behold, Yahweh will strike your
people with a great plague, including your children,
your wives, and all your possessions; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:15">15 </verse></sup>and you will
have great sickness with a disease of your bowels,
until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness,
day by day.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of
the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside
the Ethiopians; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:17">17 </verse></sup>and they came up against Judah,
broke into it, and carried away all the possessions
that were found in the king’s house, including his
sons and his wives, so that there was no son left to
him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:18">18 </verse></sup>After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels
with an incurable disease. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:19">19 </verse></sup>In process of time, at
the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason
of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His
people made no burning for him, like the burning of
his fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 21:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 21:20">20 </verse></sup>He was thirty-two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight
years. He departed with no one’s regret. They
buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of
the kings.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:1">1 </verse></sup>The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his
youngest son king in his place, because the band of
men who came with the Arabians to the camp had
slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah reigned. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:2">2 </verse></sup>Ahaziah was forty-two
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:3">3 </verse></sup>He also walked
in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother
was his counselor in acting wickedly. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:4">4 </verse></sup>He did that
which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s
house, for they were his counselors after the death
of his father, to his destruction. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:5">5 </verse></sup>He also followed
their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of
Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of
Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded
Joram. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:6">6 </verse></sup>He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when
he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the
son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was
sick.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:7">7 </verse></sup>Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God,
in that he went to Joram; for when he had come,
he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son
of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off
Ahab’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:8">8 </verse></sup>When Jehu was executing judgment
on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah
and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah serving
Ahaziah, and killed them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:9">9 </verse></sup>He sought Ahaziah, and
they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria),
and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and
they buried him, for they said, “He is the son
of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his
heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold
the kingdom.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw
that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all
the royal offspring of the house of Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:11">11 </verse></sup>But
Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the
son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from
among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him
and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the
priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him
from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 22:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 22:12">12 </verse></sup>He was
with them hidden in God’s house six years while
Athaliah reigned over the land.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:1">1 </verse></sup>In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself,
and took the captains of hundreds —Azariah
the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan,
Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri —into a
covenant with him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:2">2 </verse></sup>They went around in Judah
and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah,
and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel,
and they came to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:3">3 </verse></sup>All the assembly
made a covenant with the king in God’s house.
Jehoiada<footnote:1>23:3 Hebrew He</footnote> said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must
reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons
of David. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:4">4 </verse></sup>This is the thing that you must do: a
third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of
the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers
of the thresholds. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:5">5 </verse></sup>A third part shall be at the king’s
house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation.
All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:6">6 </verse></sup>But let no one come into Yahweh’s house
except the priests and those who minister of the
Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but
all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:7">7 </verse></sup>The Levites shall surround the king, every man
with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into
the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when
he comes in and when he goes out.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:8">8 </verse></sup>So the Levites and all Judah did according to
all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each
took his men, those who were to come in on the
Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the
Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the
shift. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains
of hundreds the spears, bucklers, and shields that
had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:10">10 </verse></sup>He set all the people, every man with his weapon
in his hand, from the right side of the house to the
left side of the house, near the altar and the house,
around the king. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Then they brought out the king’s
son, put the crown on him, gave him the covenant,
and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed
him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:12">12 </verse></sup>When Athaliah heard the noise of the people
running and praising the king, she came to the
people into Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Then she looked,
and behold, the king stood by his pillar at the
entrance, with the captains and the trumpeters by
the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and
blew trumpets. The singers also played musical
instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then
Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:14">14 </verse></sup>Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains
of hundreds who were set over the army, and
said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks;
and whoever follows her, let him be slain with
the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in
Yahweh’s house.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:15">15 </verse></sup>So they made way for her. She
went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s
house; and they killed her there.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Jehoiada made a covenant between himself,
all the people, and the king, that they should be
Yahweh’s people. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:17">17 </verse></sup>All the people went to the
house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his
images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:18">18 </verse></sup>Jehoiada appointed the officers
of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical
priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s
house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it
is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and
with singing, as David had ordered. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:19">19 </verse></sup>He set the
gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that
no one who was unclean in anything should enter
in. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:20">20 </verse></sup>He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles,
the governors of the people, and all the people of
the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s
house. They came through the upper gate to the
king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the
kingdom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 23:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 23:21">21 </verse></sup>So all the people of the land rejoiced,
and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with
the sword.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Joash was seven years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His
mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:2">2 </verse></sup>Joash
did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the
days of Jehoiada the priest. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Jehoiada took for him
two wives, and he became the father of sons and
daughters.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:4">4 </verse></sup>After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:5">5 </verse></sup>He gathered together the priests and the
Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of
Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your
God from all Israel from year to year. See that you
expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t
do it right away. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:6">6 </verse></sup>The king called for Jehoiada the
chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of
the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant
of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of
Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the
Testimony?” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:7">7 </verse></sup>For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked
woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also
gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to
the Baals.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:8">8 </verse></sup>So the king commanded, and they made a chest,
and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:9">9 </verse></sup>They made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses
the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:10">10 </verse></sup>All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and
brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had
filled it. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Whenever the chest was brought to
the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and
when they saw that there was much money, the
king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and
emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its
place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered
money in abundance. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:12">12 </verse></sup>The king and Jehoiada gave
it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s
house. They hired masons and carpenters to
restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked
iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:13">13 </verse></sup>So the
workmen worked, and the work of repairing went
forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as
it was designed, and strengthened it. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:14">14 </verse></sup>When they
had finished, they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Jehoiada, from which were
made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with
which to minister and to offer, including spoons
and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt
offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days
of Jehoiada.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:15">15 </verse></sup>But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and
he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when
he died. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:16">16 </verse></sup>They buried him in David’s city among
the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and
toward God and his house.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of
Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the
king listened to them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:18">18 </verse></sup>They abandoned the house
of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the
Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah
and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet he sent
prophets to them to bring them again to Yahweh,
and they testified against them; but they would not
listen.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:20">20 </verse></sup>The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son
of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the
people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you
disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t
prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he
has also forsaken you.’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:21">21 </verse></sup>They conspired against him, and stoned him
with stones at the commandment of the king in the
court of Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Thus Joash the king
didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his
father had done to him, but killed his son. When he
died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:23">23 </verse></sup>At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians
came up against him. They came to Judah and
Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the
people from among the people, and sent all their
plunder to the king of Damascus. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:24">24 </verse></sup>For the army of
the Syrians came with a small company of men; and
Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand,
because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their
fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:25">25 </verse></sup>When they had departed from him (for they
left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired
against him for the blood of the sons of
Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and
he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they
didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:26">26 </verse></sup>These
are those who conspired against him: Zabad the
son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the
son of Shimrith the Moabitess. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 24:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 24:27">27 </verse></sup>Now concerning
his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him,
and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are
written in the commentary of the book of the kings.
Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan,
of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was right in
Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Now
when the kingdom was established to him, he killed
his servants who had killed his father the king.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:4">4 </verse></sup>But he didn’t put their children to death, but did
according to that which is written in the law in
the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying,
“The fathers shall not die for the children, neither
shall the children die for the fathers; but every man
shall die for his own sin.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and
ordered them according to their fathers’ houses,
under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted
them from twenty years old and upward, and found
that there were three hundred thousand chosen
men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear
and shield. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:6">6 </verse></sup>He also hired one hundred thousand
mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred
talents<footnote:1>25:6 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> of silver. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:7">7 </verse></sup>A man of God came to him,
saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with
you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the
children of Ephraim. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:8">8 </verse></sup>But if you will go, take action,
and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you
before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to
overthrow.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall
we do for the hundred talents<footnote:1>25:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> which I have given
to the army of Israel?”
<br>
The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give
you much more than this.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Amaziah separated them, the army that
had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again.
Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against
Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:11">11 </verse></sup>Amaziah took courage, and led his people out
and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand
of the children of Seir. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:12">12 </verse></sup>The children of Judah
carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them
to the top of the rock, and threw them down from
the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in
pieces. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:13">13 </verse></sup>But the men of the army whom Amaziah
sent back, that they should not go with him to
battle, fell on the cities of Judah from Samaria even
to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand,
and took much plunder.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:14">14 </verse></sup>Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter
of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the
children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and
bowed down himself before them and burned incense
to them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned
against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet who
said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods
of the people, which have not delivered their own
people out of your hand?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:16">16 </verse></sup>As he talked with him, the king said to him,
“Have we made you one of the king’s counselors?
Stop! Why should you be struck down?”
Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that
God has determined to destroy you, because you
have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his
advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look
one another in the face.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:18">18 </verse></sup>Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent
to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your
daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal
that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down
the thistle. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:19">19 </verse></sup>You say to yourself that you have
struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast.
Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with
trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah
with you?’ ”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:20">20 </verse></sup>But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God,
that he might deliver them into the hand of their
enemies, because they had sought after the gods of
Edom. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:21">21 </verse></sup>So Joash king of Israel went up, and he
and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in
the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:22">22 </verse></sup>Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to
his tent.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:23">23 </verse></sup>Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at
Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem, and
broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.<footnote:1>25:23 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 400 cubits is about 200 yards or 184 meters.</footnote>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:24">24 </verse></sup>He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom,
and the treasures of the king’s house, and the
hostages, and returned to Samaria.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:25">25 </verse></sup>Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived
for fifteen years after the death of Joash, son of
Jehoahaz, king of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:26">26 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the
acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:27">27 </verse></sup>Now from the time that Amaziah turned away
from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy
against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but
they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 25:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 25:28">28 </verse></sup>They brought him on horses and buried him with
his fathers in the City of Judah.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:1">1 </verse></sup>All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was
sixteen years old, and made him king in the place
of his father Amaziah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:2">2 </verse></sup>He built Eloth and restored
it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:4">4 </verse></sup>He
did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according
to all that his father Amaziah had done. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:5">5 </verse></sup>He set
himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who
had understanding in the vision of God; and as long
as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:6">6 </verse></sup>He went out and fought against the Philistines,
and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh,
and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the
country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:7">7 </verse></sup>God
helped him against the Philistines, and against the
Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:8">8 </verse></sup>The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name
spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he
grew exceedingly strong. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Moreover Uzziah built
towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley
gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified
them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:10">10 </verse></sup>He built towers in the wilderness, and dug
out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both
in the lowlands and in the plains. He had farmers
and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the
fruitful fields, for he loved farming. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover
Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out
to war by bands, according to the number of their
reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah
the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the
king’s captains. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:12">12 </verse></sup>The whole number of the heads
of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of
valor, was two thousand six hundred. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:13">13 </verse></sup>Under their
hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand
five hundred, who made war with mighty power,
to help the king against the enemy. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:14">14 </verse></sup>Uzziah
prepared for them, even for all the army, shields,
spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for
slinging. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:15">15 </verse></sup>In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented
by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the
battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great
stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was
marvelously helped until he was strong.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:16">16 </verse></sup>But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up,
so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against
Yahweh his God, for he went into Yahweh’s temple
to burn incense on the altar of incense. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Azariah
the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:18">18 </verse></sup>They
resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t
for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for
the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated
to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you
have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from
Yahweh God.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:19">19 </verse></sup>Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his
hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with
the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead
before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the
altar of incense. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Azariah the chief priest and
all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was
leprous in his forehead; and they thrust him out
quickly from there. Indeed, he himself also hurried
to go out, because Yahweh had struck him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:21">21 </verse></sup>Uzziah
the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived
in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off
from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the
king’s house, judging the people of the land.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:22">22 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 26:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 26:23">23 </verse></sup>So
Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him
with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged
to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his
son reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Jotham was twenty-five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the
daughter of Zadok. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was right
in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father
Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into
Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:3">3 </verse></sup>He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he
built much on the wall of Ophel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Moreover he built
cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests
he built fortresses and towers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:5">5 </verse></sup>He also fought with
the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed
against them. The children of Ammon gave him
the same year one hundred talents<footnote:1>27:5 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds </footnote> of silver, ten
thousand cors<footnote:1>27:5 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels. 10,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 1,640 metric tons. </footnote> of wheat, and ten thousand cors
of barley.<footnote:1>27:5 10,000 cors of barley would weigh about 1,310 metric tons.</footnote> The children of Ammon also gave that
much to him in the second year, and in the third.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:6">6 </verse></sup>So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered
his ways before Yahweh his God. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:7">7 </verse></sup>Now the rest of
the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:8">8 </verse></sup>He was twenty-five years old
when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 27:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Jotham slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in David’s city; and Ahaz his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes,
like David his father, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:2">2 </verse></sup>but he walked in the ways
of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images
for the Baals. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:3">3 </verse></sup>Moreover he burned incense in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children
in the fire, according to the abominations of the
nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children
of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:4">4 </verse></sup>He sacrificed and burned incense in the
high places, and on the hills, and under every green
tree.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into
the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him,
and carried away from him a great multitude of
captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was
also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,
who struck him with a great slaughter. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:6">6 </verse></sup>For Pekah
the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred
twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant
men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God
of their fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim,
killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of
the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Israel carried away captive of their
brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and
daughters, and also took away much plunder from
them, and brought the plunder to Samaria. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:9">9 </verse></sup>But
a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was
Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came
to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah,
he has delivered them into your hand, and you
have slain them in a rage which has reached up to
heaven. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Now you intend to degrade the children
of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for
yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses
of your own against Yahweh your God? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Now
hear me therefore, and send back the captives that
you have taken captive from your brothers, for the
fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:12">12 </verse></sup>Then some of
the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the
son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth,
Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of
Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the
war, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:13">13 </verse></sup>and said to them, “You must not bring in the
captives here, for you intend that which will bring
on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins
and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is
fierce wrath against Israel.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:14">14 </verse></sup>So the armed men left the captives and the
plunder before the princes and all the assembly.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:15">15 </verse></sup>The men who have been mentioned by name rose
up and took the captives, and with the plunder
clothed all who were naked among them, dressed
them, gave them sandals, gave them something to
eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the
feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to
Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers.
Then they returned to Samaria.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:16">16 </verse></sup>At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of
Assyria to help him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:17">17 </verse></sup>For again the Edomites had
come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:18">18 </verse></sup>The Philistines also had invaded the cities of
the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had
taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with
its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo
and its villages; and they lived there. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:19">19 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel,
because he acted without restraint in Judah and
trespassed severely against Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Tilgathpilneser
king of Assyria came to him and gave him
trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:21">21 </verse></sup>For Ahaz took
away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of
the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it
to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:22">22 </verse></sup>In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet
more against Yahweh, this same King Ahaz. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:23">23 </verse></sup>For
he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had
defeated him. He said, “Because the gods of the
kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them,
that they may help me.” But they were the ruin
of him and of all Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:24">24 </verse></sup>Ahaz gathered together
the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s
house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s
house; and he made himself altars in every corner
of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:25">25 </verse></sup>In every city of Judah he made high
places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked
Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:26">26 </verse></sup>Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first
and last, behold, they are written in the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 28:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 28:27">27 </verse></sup>Ahaz slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in
Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the
tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Hezekiah began to reign when he was twentyfive
years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the
daughter of Zechariah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was right
in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his
father had done. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:3">3 </verse></sup>In the first year of his reign, in
the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s
house and repaired them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:4">4 </verse></sup>He brought in the
priests and the Levites and gathered them together
into the wide place on the east, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:5">5 </verse></sup>and said to them,
“Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves,
and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy
place. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:6">6 </verse></sup>For our fathers were unfaithful, and have
done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight,
and have forsaken him, and have turned away their
faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned
their backs. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:7">7 </verse></sup>Also they have shut up the doors of the
porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned
incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place
to the God of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was
on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them
to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment
and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:9">9 </verse></sup>For
behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and
our sons and our daughters and our wives are in
captivity for this. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:10">10 </verse></sup>Now it is in my heart to make a
covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his
fierce anger may turn away from us. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:11">11 </verse></sup>My sons,
don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you
to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you
should be his ministers and burn incense.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the Levites arose: Mahath, the son of
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons
of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish
the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel;
and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah,
and Eden the son of Joah; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:13">13 </verse></sup>and of the sons of
Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of
Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:14">14 </verse></sup>and of the sons
of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of
Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:15">15 </verse></sup>They gathered
their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in,
according to the commandment of the king by
Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:16">16 </verse></sup>The
priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house
to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness
that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court
of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to
carry it out to the brook Kidron. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:17">17 </verse></sup>Now they began
on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on
the eighth day of the month they came to Yahweh’s
porch. They sanctified Yahweh’s house in eight
days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month
they finished. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:18">18 </verse></sup>Then they went in to Hezekiah
the king within the palace and said, “We have
cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of
burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of
show bread with all its vessels. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:19">19 </verse></sup>Moreover, we
have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which
King Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was
unfaithful. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered
the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:21">21 </verse></sup>They brought seven bulls, seven rams,
seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering
for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah.
He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to
offer them on Yahweh’s altar. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:22">22 </verse></sup>So they killed
the bulls, and the priests received the blood and
sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams and
sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the
lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:23">23 </verse></sup>They
brought near the male goats for the sin offering
before the king and the assembly; and they laid
their hands on them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:24">24 </verse></sup>Then the priests killed
them, and they made a sin offering with their blood
on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the
king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin
offering should be made for all Israel.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:25">25 </verse></sup>He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals,
with stringed instruments, and with harps,
according to the commandment of David, of Gad
the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the
commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:26">26 </verse></sup>The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and
the priests with the trumpets. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:27">27 </verse></sup>Hezekiah commanded
them to offer the burnt offering on the
altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s
song also began, along with the trumpets and instruments
of David king of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:28">28 </verse></sup>All the assembly
worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters
sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering
was finished.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:29">29 </verse></sup>When they had finished offering, the king and
all who were present with him bowed themselves
and worshiped. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:30">30 </verse></sup>Moreover Hezekiah the king and
the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises
to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph
the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they
bowed their heads and worshiped.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:31">31 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated
yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and
<br>
bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s
house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and
thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing
heart brought burnt offerings. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:32">32 </verse></sup>The number of
the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was
seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred
lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:33">33 </verse></sup>The consecrated things were six hundred
head of cattle and three thousand sheep. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:34><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:34">34 </verse></sup>But the
priests were too few, so that they could not skin
all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers
the Levites helped them until the work was ended,
and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for
the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify
themselves than the priests. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:35><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:35">35 </verse></sup>Also the burnt offerings
were in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings and with the drink offerings for every
burnt offering. So the service of Yahweh’s house
was set in order. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 29:36><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 29:36">36 </verse></sup>Hezekiah and all the people
rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for
the people; for the thing was done suddenly.
#BCV:2 Chronicles 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:1">1 </verse></sup>Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote
letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they
should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to
keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:2">2 </verse></sup>For
the king had taken counsel with his princes and all
the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in
the second month. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:3">3 </verse></sup>For they could not keep it at
that time, because the priests had not sanctified
themselves in sufficient number, and the people
had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:4">4 </verse></sup>The thing was right in the eyes of the king and
of all the assembly. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:5">5 </verse></sup>So they established a decree
to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to
keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at
Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers
in the way it is written.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:6">6 </verse></sup>So the couriers went with the letters from the
king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah,
according to the commandment of the king, saying,
“You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may
return to the remnant of you that have escaped out
of the hand of the kings of Assyria. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t be like
your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed
against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that
he gave them up to desolation, as you see. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:8">8 </verse></sup>Now
don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield
yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary,
which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh
your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from
you. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:9">9 </verse></sup>For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers
and your children will find compassion with those
who led them captive, and will come again into
this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and
merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if
you return to him.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:10">10 </verse></sup>So the couriers passed from city to city through
the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to
Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked
them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:11">11 </verse></sup>Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh,
and Zebulun humbled themselves and came
to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:12">12 </verse></sup>Also the hand of God came on Judah
to give them one heart, to do the commandment of
the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:13">13 </verse></sup>Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep
the feast of unleavened bread in the second month,
a very great assembly. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:14">14 </verse></sup>They arose and took away
the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took
away all the altars for incense and threw them into
the brook Kidron. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:15">15 </verse></sup>Then they killed the Passover
on the fourteenth day of the second month. The
priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified
themselves, and brought burnt offerings into
Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:16">16 </verse></sup>They stood in their place after
their order, according to the law of Moses the man
of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which
they received of the hand of the Levites. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:17">17 </verse></sup>For
there were many in the assembly who had not
sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in
charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who
was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:18">18 </verse></sup>For
a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim,
Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the
way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them,
saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:19">19 </verse></sup>who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God
of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to
the purification of the sanctuary.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the
people. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:21">21 </verse></sup>The children of Israel who were present
at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread
seven days with great gladness. The Levites and
the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing
with loud instruments to Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:22">22 </verse></sup>Hezekiah
spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good
understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they
ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering
sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession
to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:23">23 </verse></sup>The whole assembly took counsel to keep another
seven days, and they kept another seven days
with gladness. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:24">24 </verse></sup>For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to
the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and
seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the
assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep;
and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:25">25 </verse></sup>All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and
the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of
Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land
of Israel and who lived in Judah, rejoiced. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:26">26 </verse></sup>So there
was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was
nothing like this in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 30:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 30:27">27 </verse></sup>Then the Levitical
priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice
was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy
habitation, even to heaven.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when all this was finished, all Israel who
were present went out to the cities of Judah and
broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah
poles, and broke down the high places and the altars
out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and
Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then
all the children of Israel returned, every man to his
possession, into their own cities.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:2">2 </verse></sup>Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests
and the Levites after their divisions, every man
according to his service, both the priests and the
Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings,
to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates
of Yahweh’s camp. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:3">3 </verse></sup>He also appointed the king’s
portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings:
for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and
the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new
moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in
Yahweh’s law. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Moreover he commanded the
people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion
of the priests and the Levites, that they might
give themselves to Yahweh’s law. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:5">5 </verse></sup>As soon as the
commandment went out, the children of Israel gave
in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine,
oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and
they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the
cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and
sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were
consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in
heaps.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:7">7 </verse></sup>In the third month, they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the
seventh month. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:8">8 </verse></sup>When Hezekiah and the princes
came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and
his people Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah questioned the
priests and the Levites about the heaps. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:10">10 </verse></sup>Azariah
the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered
him and said, “Since people began to bring the
offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and
had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh
has blessed his people; and that which is left is this
great store.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare
rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:12">12 </verse></sup>They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and
the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite
was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was
second. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:13">13 </verse></sup>Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth,
Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah
were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and
Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah
the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:14">14 </verse></sup>Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper
at the east gate, was over the free will offerings of
God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most
holy things. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Under him were Eden, Miniamin,
Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the
cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to
give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as
well as to the small; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:16">16 </verse></sup>in addition to those who
were listed by genealogy of males, from three years
old and upward, even everyone who entered into
Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required,
for their service in their offices according to their
divisions; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:17">17 </verse></sup>and those who were listed by genealogy
of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the
Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their
offices by their divisions; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:18">18 </verse></sup>and those who were
listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their
wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all
the congregation; for in their office of trust they
sanctified themselves in holiness. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:19">19 </verse></sup>Also for the
sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of
the pasture lands of their cities, in every city, there
were men who were mentioned by name to give
portions to all the males among the priests and to
all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:20">20 </verse></sup>Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he
did that which was good, right, and faithful before
Yahweh his God. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 31:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 31:21">21 </verse></sup>In every work that he began in
the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the
commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all
his heart and prospered.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib
king of Assyria came, entered into Judah,
encamped against the fortified cities, and intended
to win them for himself. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:2">2 </verse></sup>When Hezekiah saw that
Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning
to fight against Jerusalem, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:3">3 </verse></sup>he took counsel with
his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters
of the springs which were outside of the city, and
they helped him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:4">4 </verse></sup>Then many people gathered
together and they stopped all the springs and the
brook that flowed through the middle of the land,
saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and
find abundant water?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:5">5 </verse></sup>He took courage, built up all the wall that
was broken down, and raised it up to the towers,
with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo
in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in
abundance. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:6">6 </verse></sup>He set captains of war over the people,
gathered them together to him in the wide place
at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to
them, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:7">7 </verse></sup>“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be
afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there
is a greater one with us than with him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:8">8 </verse></sup>An arm of
flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to
help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested
themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:9">9 </verse></sup>After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent
his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking
Lachish, and all his forces were with him), to
Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were
at Jerusalem, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Sennacherib king of Assyria
says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under
siege in Jerusalem? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:11">11 </verse></sup>Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade
you to give you over to die by famine and by thirst,
saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the
hand of the king of Assyria?’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:12">12 </verse></sup>Hasn’t the same
Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars,
and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You
shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn
incense on it?’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t you know what I and
my fathers have done to all the peoples of the
lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands
in any way able to deliver their land out of my
hand? <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:14">14 </verse></sup>Who was there among all the gods of those
nations which my fathers utterly destroyed that
could deliver his people out of my hand, that your
God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:15">15 </verse></sup>Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor
persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no
god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his
people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my
fathers. How much less will your God deliver you
out of my hand?”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:16">16 </verse></sup>His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh
God and against his servant Hezekiah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:17">17 </verse></sup>He also
wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel,
and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of
the nations of the lands, which have not delivered
their people out of my hand, so shall the God of
Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:18">18 </verse></sup>They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’
language to the people of Jerusalem who were on
the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that
they might take the city. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:19">19 </verse></sup>They spoke of the God of
Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth,
which are the work of men’s hands.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:20">20 </verse></sup>Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to
heaven.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the
mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in
the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned
with shame of face to his own land. When he had
come into the house of his god, those who came out
of his own body<footnote:1>32:21 i.e., his own sons</footnote> killed him there with the sword.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:22">22 </verse></sup>Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king
of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and
guided them on every side. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:23">23 </verse></sup>Many brought gifts
to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to
Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in
the sight of all nations from then on.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:24">24 </verse></sup>In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and
he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and
gave him a sign. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:25">25 </verse></sup>But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate
appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his
heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on
him, Judah, and Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:26">26 </verse></sup>However, Hezekiah
humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s
wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:27">27 </verse></sup>Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and
honor. He provided himself with treasuries for
silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for
shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:28">28 </verse></sup>also
storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and
oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in
folds. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:29">29 </verse></sup>Moreover he provided for himself cities,
and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance;
for God had given him abundant possessions. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:30">30 </verse></sup>This
same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the
waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down
on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered
in all his works.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:31">31 </verse></sup>However, concerning the ambassadors of the
princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of
the wonder that was done in the land, God left him
to test him, that he might know all that was in his
heart.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:32">32 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his
good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision
of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book
of the kings of Judah and Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 32:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 32:33">33 </verse></sup>Hezekiah slept
with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent
to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death.
Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, after the abominations of the nations whom
Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:3">3 </verse></sup>For
he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had broken down; and he raised up altars
for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all
the army of the sky, and served them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:4">4 </verse></sup>He built
altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said,
“My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:5">5 </verse></sup>He built
altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts
of Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:6">6 </verse></sup>He also made his children
to pass through the fire in the valley of the son
of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and
witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar
spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in
Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:7">7 </verse></sup>He set
the engraved image of the idol, which he had made,
in God’s house, of which God said to David and to
Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
I will put my name forever. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:8">8 </verse></sup>I will not any more
remove the foot of Israel from off the land which
I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will
observe to do all that I have commanded them,
even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances
given by Moses.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:9">9 </verse></sup>Manasseh seduced Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more
evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed
before the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people,
but they didn’t listen. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh brought
on them the captains of the army of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him
with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:12">12 </verse></sup>When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his
God, and humbled himself greatly before the God
of his fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:13">13 </verse></sup>He prayed to him; and he was
entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and
brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:14">14 </verse></sup>Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s
city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even
to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel
with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and
he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of
Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:15">15 </verse></sup>He took away the foreign gods and the
idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that
he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house
and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:16">16 </verse></sup>He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices
of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and
commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of
Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:17">17 </verse></sup>Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in
the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his
prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who
spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of
the kings of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:19">19 </verse></sup>His prayer also, and how God
listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass,
and the places in which he built high places
and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved
images before he humbled himself: behold, they are
written in the history of Hozai.<footnote:1>33:19 or, the seers</footnote> <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:20">20 </verse></sup>So Manasseh
slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:21">21 </verse></sup>Amon was twenty-two years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:22">22 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as
did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to
all the engraved images which Manasseh his father
had made, and served them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:23">23 </verse></sup>He didn’t humble
himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed
more and more. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:24">24 </verse></sup>His servants conspired against
him, and put him to death in his own house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 33:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 33:25">25 </verse></sup>But
the people of the land killed all those who had
conspired against King Amon; and the people of the
land made Josiah his son king in his place.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Josiah was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and
walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t
turn away to the right hand or to the left. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:3">3 </verse></sup>For in
the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,
he began to seek after the God of David his father;
and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and
Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles,
the engraved images, and the molten images. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:4">4 </verse></sup>They
broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence;
and he cut down the incense altars that were on
high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the
engraved images, and the molten images in pieces,
made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves
of those who had sacrificed to them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:5">5 </verse></sup>He burned
the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged
Judah and Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:6">6 </verse></sup>He did this in the cities of
Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali,
around in their ruins. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:7">7 </verse></sup>He broke down the altars,
beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images
into powder, and cut down all the incense altars
throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:8">8 </verse></sup>Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when
he had purged the land and the house, he sent
Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor
of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder
to repair the house of Yahweh his God. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:9">9 </verse></sup>They
came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the
money that was brought into God’s house, which
the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered
from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all
the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin,
and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:10">10 </verse></sup>They delivered
it into the hands of the workmen who had
the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and the workmen
who labored in Yahweh’s house gave it to mend and
repair the house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:11">11 </verse></sup>They gave it to the carpenters
and to the builders to buy cut stone and timber
for couplings, and to make beams for the houses
which the kings of Judah had destroyed. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:12">12 </verse></sup>The
men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were
Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of
Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons
of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others
of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical
instruments. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:13">13 </verse></sup>Also they were over the bearers of
burdens, and directed all who did the work in every
kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes,
officials, and gatekeepers.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:14">14 </verse></sup>When they brought out the money that was
brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest
found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:15">15 </verse></sup>Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have
found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:16">16 </verse></sup>Shaphan carried the book to the king, and
moreover brought back word to the king, saying,
“All that was committed to your servants, they are
doing. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:17">17 </verse></sup>They have emptied out the money that
was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it
into the hand of the overseers and into the hand of
the workmen.” <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:18">18 </verse></sup>Shaphan the scribe told the king,
saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.”
Shaphan read from it to the king.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:19">19 </verse></sup>When the king had heard the words of the
law, he tore his clothes. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:20">20 </verse></sup>The king commanded
Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son
of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s
servant, saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:21">21 </verse></sup>“Go inquire of Yahweh for me,
and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah,
concerning the words of the book that is found; for
great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us,
because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word,
to do according to all that is written in this book.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:22">22 </verse></sup>So Hilkiah and those whom the king had commanded
went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife
of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah,
keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem
in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that
effect.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:23">23 </verse></sup>She said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel
says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:24">24 </verse></sup>“Yahweh
says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place and
on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are
written in the book which they have read before the
king of Judah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:25">25 </verse></sup>Because they have forsaken me,
and have burned incense to other gods, that they
might provoke me to anger with all the works of
their hands, therefore my wrath is poured out on
this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ” ’ <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:26">26 </verse></sup>But
to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of
Yahweh, you shall tell him this, ‘Yahweh, the God
of Israel says: “About the words which you have
heard, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:27">27 </verse></sup>because your heart was tender, and you
humbled yourself before God when you heard his
words against this place and against its inhabitants,
and have humbled yourself before me, and have
torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have
heard you,” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:28">28 </verse></sup>“Behold, I will gather
you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your
grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that
I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ”
They brought back this message to the king.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:29">29 </verse></sup>Then the king sent and gathered together all
the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:30">30 </verse></sup>The king went
up to Yahweh’s house with all the men of Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests, the
Levites, and all the people, both great and small—
and he read in their hearing all the words of the
book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:31">31 </verse></sup>The king stood in his place and made a
covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and
to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his
statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to
perform the words of the covenant that were written
in this book. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:32">32 </verse></sup>He caused all who were found in
Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants
of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God,
the God of their fathers. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 34:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 34:33">33 </verse></sup>Josiah took away all the
abominations out of all the countries that belonged
to the children of Israel, and made all who were
found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their
God. All his days they didn’t depart from following
Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of
the first month. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:2">2 </verse></sup>He set the priests in their offices
and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to the Levites who taught all Israel,
who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in
the house which Solomon the son of David king
of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on
your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and
his people Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:4">4 </verse></sup>Prepare yourselves after your
fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the
writing of David king of Israel, and according to the
writing of Solomon his son. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:5">5 </verse></sup>Stand in the holy place
according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses
of your brothers the children of the people, and
let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house
of the Levites. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:6">6 </verse></sup>Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify
yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do
according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:7">7 </verse></sup>Josiah gave to the children of the people, of
the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for
the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to
the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand
bulls. These were of the king’s substance. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:8">8 </verse></sup>His
princes gave a free will offering to the people, to
the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah,
and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the
priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six
hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of
cattle. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:9">9 </verse></sup>Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel,
his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the
chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the
Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and
five hundred head of cattle.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:10">10 </verse></sup>So the service was prepared, and the priests
stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions,
according to the king’s commandment.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:11">11 </verse></sup>They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests
sprinkled the blood which they received from their
hands, and the Levites skinned them. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:12">12 </verse></sup>They
removed the burnt offerings, that they might give
them according to the divisions of the fathers’
houses of the children of the people, to offer to
Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They
did the same with the cattle. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:13">13 </verse></sup>They roasted the
Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They
boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and
in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children
of the people. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:14">14 </verse></sup>Afterward they prepared for
themselves and for the priests, because the priests
the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt
offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the
Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests
the sons of Aaron. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:15">15 </verse></sup>The singers, the sons of Asaph,
were in their place, according to the commandment
of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s
seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They
didn’t need to depart from their service, because
their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:16">16 </verse></sup>So all the service of Yahweh was prepared
the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer
burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the
commandment of King Josiah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:17">17 </verse></sup>The children of
Israel who were present kept the Passover at that
time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:18">18 </verse></sup>There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from
the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the
kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—
with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel
who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:19">19 </verse></sup>This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of
the reign of Josiah.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:20">20 </verse></sup>After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against
Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out
against him. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:21">21 </verse></sup>But he sent ambassadors to him,
saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of
Judah? I come not against you today, but against the
house with which I have war. God has commanded
me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with
me, that he not destroy you.”

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:22">22 </verse></sup>Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face
from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight
with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco
from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the
valley of Megiddo. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:23">23 </verse></sup>The archers shot at King
Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me
away, because I am seriously wounded!”
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:24">24 </verse></sup>So his servants took him out of the chariot,
and put him in the second chariot that he had,
and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and
was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah
and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:25">25 </verse></sup>Jeremiah
lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and
singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations
to this day; and they made them an ordinance
in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:26">26 </verse></sup>Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his
good deeds, according to that which is written in
Yahweh’s law, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 35:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 35:27">27 </verse></sup>and his acts, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah.

#BCV:2 Chronicles 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:1">1 </verse></sup>Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the
son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s
place in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:2">2 </verse></sup>Joahaz was twenty-three years
old when he began to reign; and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:3">3 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt removed
him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land
one hundred talents of silver and a talent<footnote:1>36:3 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote> of gold.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:4">4 </verse></sup>The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name
to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and
carried him to Egypt.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:5">5 </verse></sup>Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his
God’s sight. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry
him to Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:7">7 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar also carried
some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon,
and put them in his temple at Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:8">8 </verse></sup>Now the
rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations
which he did, and that which was found in him,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his place.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:9">9 </verse></sup>Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned three months and ten
days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in
Yahweh’s sight. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:10">10 </verse></sup>At the return of the year, King
Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon,
with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and
made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:11">11 </verse></sup>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:12">12 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in Yahweh
his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before
Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s
mouth. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:13">13 </verse></sup>He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar,
who had made him swear by God; but he
stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against
turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:14">14 </verse></sup>Moreover all
the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed
very greatly after all the abominations of the nations;
and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he
had made holy in Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them
by his messengers, rising up early and sending,
because he had compassion on his people and on
his dwelling place; <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:16">16 </verse></sup>but they mocked the messengers
of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his
prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his
people, until there was no remedy.

<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore he brought on them the king of the
Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the
sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no
compassion on young man or virgin, old man or
infirm. He gave them all into his hand. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:18">18 </verse></sup>All the
vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the
treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of
the king and of his princes, all these he brought to
Babylon. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:19">19 </verse></sup>They burned God’s house, broke down
the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with
fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels. <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:20">20 </verse></sup>He
carried those who had escaped from the sword away
to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his
sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:21">21 </verse></sup>to
fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the
land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay
desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
<key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:22">22 </verse></sup>Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might
be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of
Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying, <key:bcv=2 Chronicles 36:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Chronicles 36:23">23 </verse></sup>“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh,
the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the
earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him
a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever
there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God
be with him, and let him go up.’ ”

#OUTLINE:1,Ezra
<h2>The Book of Ezra</h2>

<key:bcv=Ezra 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word by Jeremiah’s mouth might
be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of
Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in
writing, saying,

<key:bcv=Ezra 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God<footnote:1>1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of
the earth; and he has commanded me to build
him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
<key:bcv=Ezra 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Whoever there is among you of all his people,
may his God be with him, and let him go up
to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the
house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God),
which is in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezra 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Whoever is left, in any
place where he lives, let the men of his place help
him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with
animals, in addition to the free will offering for
God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezra 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah
and Benjamin, the priests and the Levites, all whose
spirit God had stirred to go up, rose up to build
Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezra 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:6">6 </verse></sup>All those
who were around them strengthened their hands
with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with
animals, and with precious things, in addition to
all that was willingly offered. <key:bcv=Ezra 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Also Cyrus the king
brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which
Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and
had put in the house of his gods; <key:bcv=Ezra 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:8">8 </verse></sup>even those,
Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out
to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. <key:bcv=Ezra 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:9">9 </verse></sup>This is the
number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand
platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, <key:bcv=Ezra 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:10">10 </verse></sup>thirty
bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a
second kind, and one thousand other vessels. <key:bcv=Ezra 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 1:11">11 </verse></sup>All
the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand
four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up
when the captives were brought up from Babylon
to Jerusalem.

#BCV:Ezra 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezra 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the children of the province
who went up out of the captivity of those who
had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and
who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone
to his city; <key:bcv=Ezra 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:2">2 </verse></sup>who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua,
Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
<br>
The number of the men of the people of Israel:
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:3">3 </verse></sup>The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred
seventy-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:4">4 </verse></sup>The children of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The children of Arah, seven
hundred seventy-five. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The children of Pahathmoab,
of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand
eight hundred twelve. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The children of Elam,
one thousand two hundred fifty-four. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The children
of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:9">9 </verse></sup>The children
of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The children
of Bani, six hundred forty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The children of
Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:12">12 </verse></sup>The children
of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixtysix.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:14">14 </verse></sup>The children of Bigvai, two thousand fiftysix.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:15">15 </verse></sup>The children of Adin, four hundred fiftyfour.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninetyeight.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The children of Bezai, three hundred
twenty-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:18">18 </verse></sup>The children of Jorah, one hundred
twelve. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:19">19 </verse></sup>The children of Hashum, two hundred
twenty-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:20">20 </verse></sup>The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:21">21 </verse></sup>The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twentythree.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:22">22 </verse></sup>The men of Netophah, fifty-six. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:23">23 </verse></sup>The
men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:24">24 </verse></sup>The
children of Azmaveth, forty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:25">25 </verse></sup>The children
of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
hundred forty-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:26">26 </verse></sup>The children of Ramah
and Geba, six hundred twenty-one. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:27">27 </verse></sup>The men of
Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:28">28 </verse></sup>The men of
Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:29">29 </verse></sup>The
children of Nebo, fifty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:30">30 </verse></sup>The children of
Magbish, one hundred fifty-six. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:31">31 </verse></sup>The children of
the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fiftyfour.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:32">32 </verse></sup>The children of Harim, three hundred
twenty. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:33">33 </verse></sup>The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty-five. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:34">34 </verse></sup>The children of
Jericho, three hundred forty-five. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of
Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:36">36 </verse></sup>The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the
house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:37">37 </verse></sup>The
children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:38">38 </verse></sup>The
children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred
forty-seven. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:39">39 </verse></sup>The children of Harim, one thousand
seventeen.

<key:bcv=Ezra 2:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:40">40 </verse></sup>The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel,
of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:41">41 </verse></sup>The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred
twenty-eight. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:42">42 </verse></sup>The children of the gatekeepers:
the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one
hundred thirty-nine.

<key:bcv=Ezra 2:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:43">43 </verse></sup>The temple servants: the children of Ziha,
the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:44">44 </verse></sup>the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the
children of Padon, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:45><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:45">45 </verse></sup>the children of Lebanah, the
children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:46><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:46">46 </verse></sup>the
children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children
of Hanan, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:47><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:47">47 </verse></sup>the children of Giddel, the children
of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:48><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:48">48 </verse></sup>the children
of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
Gazzam, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:49><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:49">49 </verse></sup>the children of Uzza, the children of
Paseah, the children of Besai, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:50><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:50">50 </verse></sup>the children of
Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephisim, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:51><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:51">51 </verse></sup>the children of Bakbuk, the children
of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:52><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:52">52 </verse></sup>the children
of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of
Harsha, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:53><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:53">53 </verse></sup>the children of Barkos, the children of
Sisera, the children of Temah, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:54><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:54">54 </verse></sup>the children of
Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

<key:bcv=Ezra 2:55><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:55">55 </verse></sup>The children of Solomon’s servants: the children
of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the
children of Peruda, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:56><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:56">56 </verse></sup>the children of Jaalah, the
children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:57><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:57">57 </verse></sup>the
children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of
Ami. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:58><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:58">58 </verse></sup>All the temple servants, and the children
of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninetytwo.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:59><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:59">59 </verse></sup>These were those who went up from Tel Melah,
Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they
could not show their fathers’ houses and their offspring,<footnote:1>2:59 or, seed </footnote>
whether they were of Israel: <key:bcv=Ezra 2:60><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:60">60 </verse></sup>the children
of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:61><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:61">61 </verse></sup>Of the children of
the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children
of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took
a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite,
and was called after their name. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:62><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:62">62 </verse></sup>These sought
their place among those who were registered by
genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they
were deemed disqualified and removed from the
priesthood. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:63><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:63">63 </verse></sup>The governor told them that they
should not eat of the most holy things until a priest
stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:64><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:64">64 </verse></sup>The whole assembly together was forty-two
thousand three hundred sixty, <key:bcv=Ezra 2:65><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:65">65 </verse></sup>in addition to
their male servants and their female servants, of
whom there were seven thousand three hundred
thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing
men and singing women. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:66><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:66">66 </verse></sup>Their horses were seven
hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred fortyfive;
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:67><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:67">67 </verse></sup>their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their
donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
<key:bcv=Ezra 2:68><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:68">68 </verse></sup>Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when
they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem,
offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its
place. <key:bcv=Ezra 2:69><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:69">69 </verse></sup>They gave according to their ability into
the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics
of gold,<footnote:1>2:69 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each. </footnote> five thousand minas<footnote:1>2:69 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 5,000 minas is about 3 metric tons.</footnote> of silver, and one
hundred priests’ garments.

<key:bcv=Ezra 2:70><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 2:70">70 </verse></sup>So the priests and the Levites, with some of the
people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple
servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their
cities.

#BCV:Ezra 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:1">1 </verse></sup>When the seventh month had come, and the
children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered
themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with
his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of
the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as
it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:3">3 </verse></sup>In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the
surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base;
and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh,
even burnt offerings morning and evening. <key:bcv=Ezra 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:4">4 </verse></sup>They
kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered
the daily burnt offerings by number, according to
the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:5">5 </verse></sup>and afterward the continual burnt offering, the
offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts
of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone
who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:6">6 </verse></sup>From the first day of the seventh month, they
began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the
foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:7">7 </verse></sup>They also gave money to the masons and to the
carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to
the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees
from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the
grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Now in the second year of their coming to
God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month,
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of
Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests
and the Levites, and all those who had come out
of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and
appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and
upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=Ezra 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Jeshua stood with his sons
and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons
of Judah, together to have the oversight of the
workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with
their sons and their brothers the Levites.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:10">10 </verse></sup>When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s
temple, they set the priests in their vestments
with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph
with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the
directions of David king of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezra 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:11">11 </verse></sup>They sang to
one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh,
“For he is good, for his loving kindness endures
forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with
a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because
the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
<key:bcv=Ezra 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:12">12 </verse></sup>But many of the priests and Levites and heads
of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen
the first house, when the foundation of this house
was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice.
Many also shouted aloud for joy, <key:bcv=Ezra 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 3:13">13 </verse></sup>so that the
people could not discern the noise of the shout of
joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for
the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise
was heard far away.

#BCV:Ezra 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin
heard that the children of the captivity were
building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel,
<key:bcv=Ezra 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:2">2 </verse></sup>they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of
fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build
with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we
have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar
Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
<key:bcv=Ezra 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:3">3 </verse></sup>But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads
of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “You
have nothing to do with us in building a house to
our God; but we ourselves together will build to
Yahweh, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king
of Persia has commanded us.”

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the people of the land weakened the
hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in
building. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:5">5 </verse></sup>They hired counselors against them to
frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king
of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of
Persia. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:6">6 </verse></sup>In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning
of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the
inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:7">7 </verse></sup>In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath,
Tabeel, and the rest of his companions wrote
to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of
the letter was written in Syrian and delivered in
the Syrian language. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Rehum the chancellor and
Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem
to Artaxerxes the king as follows. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Rehum the
chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their
companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites,
the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the
Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the
Elamites, <key:bcv=Ezra 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:10">10 </verse></sup>and the rest of the nations whom the
great and noble Osnappar brought over and settled
in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country
beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.
<key:bcv=Ezra 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:11">11 </verse></sup>This is the copy of the letter that they sent:
To King Artaxerxes, from your servants, the people
beyond the River.

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Be it known to the king that the Jews who
came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem.
They are building the rebellious and bad city,
and have finished the walls and repaired the
foundations. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Be it known now to the king that
if this city is built and the walls finished, they will
not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it
will be hurtful to the kings. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Now because we eat
the salt of the palace and it is not appropriate for
us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have
sent and informed the king, <key:bcv=Ezra 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:15">15 </verse></sup>that search may be
made in the book of the records of your fathers.
You will see in the book of the records, and know
that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to
kings and provinces, and that they have started
rebellions within it in the past. That is why this
city was destroyed. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:16">16 </verse></sup>We inform the king that if
this city is built and the walls finished, then you
will have no possession beyond the River.
<key:bcv=Ezra 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the
chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the
rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and
in the rest of the country beyond the River:
Peace.

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:18">18 </verse></sup>The letter which you sent to us has been
plainly read before me. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:19">19 </verse></sup>I decreed, and search
has been made, and it was found that this city
has made insurrection against kings in the past,
and that rebellion and revolts have been made
in it. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:20">20 </verse></sup>There have also been mighty kings over
Jerusalem who have ruled over all the country
beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll
was paid to them. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Make a decree now to cause
these men to cease, and that this city not be built
until a decree is made by me. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Be careful that
you not be slack doing so. Why should damage
grow to the hurt of the kings?

<key:bcv=Ezra 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter
was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and
their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem
to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of
arms. <key:bcv=Ezra 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 4:24">24 </verse></sup>Then work stopped on God’s house which
is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of
the reign of Darius king of Persia.

#BCV:Ezra 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezra 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews
who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied
to them in the name of the God of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Then
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son
of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house
which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the
prophets of God, helping them.

<key:bcv=Ezra 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:3">3 </verse></sup>At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond
the River, came to them, with Shetharbozenai and
their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you
a decree to build this house and to finish this wall?”
<key:bcv=Ezra 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:4">4 </verse></sup>They also asked for the names of the men were who
were making this building. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:5">5 </verse></sup>But the eye of their
God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t
make them cease until the matter should come to
Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter
concerning it.

<key:bcv=Ezra 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:6">6 </verse></sup>The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor
beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his
companions the Apharsachites who were beyond
the River, sent to Darius the king follows. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:7">7 </verse></sup>They
sent a letter to him, in which was written:
To Darius the king, all peace.

<key:bcv=Ezra 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Be it known to the king that we went into
the province of Judah, to the house of the great
God, which is being built with great stones and
timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with
diligence and prospers in their hands. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Then we
asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who
gave you a decree to build this house, and to
finish this wall?” <key:bcv=Ezra 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:10">10 </verse></sup>We asked them their names
also, to inform you that we might write the names
of the men who were at their head. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Thus they
returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants
of the God of heaven and earth and are building
the house that was built these many years ago,
which a great king of Israel built and finished.
<key:bcv=Ezra 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:12">12 </verse></sup>But after our fathers had provoked the God of
heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean,
who destroyed this house and carried the people
away into Babylon. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:13">13 </verse></sup>But in the first year of Cyrus
king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to
build this house of God. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:14">14 </verse></sup>The gold and silver
vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar
took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and
brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus
the king also took out of the temple of Babylon,
and they were delivered to one whose name was
Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. <key:bcv=Ezra 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:15">15 </verse></sup>He
said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them
in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s
house be built in its place.’ <key:bcv=Ezra 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the same
Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of
God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that
time even until now it has been being built, and
yet it is not completed.

<key:bcv=Ezra 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Now therefore, if it seems good to the king,
let a search be made in the king’s treasure house,
which is there at Babylon, whether it is so that a
decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this
house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send
his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
#BCV:Ezra 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezra 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Darius the king made a decree, and the
house of the archives, where the treasures were laid
up in Babylon, was searched. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:2">2 </verse></sup>A scroll was found at
Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of
Media, and in it this was written for a record:
<key:bcv=Ezra 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:3">3 </verse></sup>In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the
king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at
Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where
they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be
strongly laid, with its height sixty cubits<footnote:1>6:3 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> and
its width sixty cubits; <key:bcv=Ezra 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:4">4 </verse></sup>with three courses of
great stones and a course of new timber. Let the
expenses be given out of the king’s house. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Also
let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house,
which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple
which is at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be
restored and brought again to the temple which
is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall
put them in God’s house.

<key:bcv=Ezra 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond
the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions
the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River,
you must stay far from there. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Leave the work
of this house of God alone; let the governor of
the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this
house of God in its place. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Moreover I make
a decree regarding what you shall do for these
elders of the Jews for the building of this house of
God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute
beyond the River, expenses must be given with all
diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
<key:bcv=Ezra 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:9">9 </verse></sup>That which they have need of, including young
bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the
God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil,
according to the word of the priests who are at
Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without
fail, <key:bcv=Ezra 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:10">10 </verse></sup>that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant
aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life
of the king and of his sons. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:11">11 </verse></sup>I have also made
a decree that whoever alters this message, let a
beam be pulled out from his house, and let him
be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house
be made a dunghill for this. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:12">12 </verse></sup>May the God who
has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all
kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to
alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at
Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be
done with all diligence.

<key:bcv=Ezra 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River,
Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly
with all diligence, because Darius the king had
sent a decree.

<key:bcv=Ezra 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:14">14 </verse></sup>The elders of the Jews built and prospered,
through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished
it, according to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:15">15 </verse></sup>This house was
finished on the third day of the month Adar, which
was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
<key:bcv=Ezra 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites,
and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the
dedication of this house of God with joy. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:17">17 </verse></sup>They
offered at the dedication of this house of God one
hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred
lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve
male goats, according to the number of the tribes of
Israel. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:18">18 </verse></sup>They set the priests in their divisions and
the Levites in their courses, for the service of God
which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of
Moses.

<key:bcv=Ezra 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:19">19 </verse></sup>The children of the captivity kept the Passover
on the fourteenth day of the first month. <key:bcv=Ezra 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Because
the priests and the Levites had purified themselves
together, all of them were pure. They killed
the Passover for all the children of the captivity,
for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
<key:bcv=Ezra 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:21">21 </verse></sup>The children of Israel who had returned out of
the captivity, and all who had separated themselves
to them from the filthiness of the nations of the
land to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate, <key:bcv=Ezra 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 6:22">22 </verse></sup>and
kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had
turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to
strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God
of Israel’s house.

#BCV:Ezra 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes
king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son
of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, <key:bcv=Ezra 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:2">2 </verse></sup>the son of Shallum,
the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, <key:bcv=Ezra 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:3">3 </verse></sup>the son of
Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:4">4 </verse></sup>the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of
Bukki, <key:bcv=Ezra 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:5">5 </verse></sup>the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the
son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:6">6 </verse></sup>this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled
scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God
of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all
his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand
on him. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Some of the children of Israel, including
some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the
gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to
Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the
king. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:8">8 </verse></sup>He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month,
which was in the seventh year of the king. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:9">9 </verse></sup>For on
the first day of the first month he began to go up
from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month
he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of
his God on him. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:10">10 </verse></sup>For Ezra had set his heart to seek
Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and
ordinances in Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezra 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes
gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the
scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments,
and of his statutes to Israel:

<key:bcv=Ezra 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Artaxerxes, king of kings,
<br>
To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the
perfect God of heaven.

Now <key:bcv=Ezra 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:13">13 </verse></sup>I make a decree that all those of the
people of Israel and their priests and the Levites
in my realm, who intend of their own free will
to go to Jerusalem, go with you. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Because you
are sent by the king and his seven counselors to
inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according
to the law of your God which is in your hand,
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:15">15 </verse></sup>and to carry the silver and gold, which the king
and his counselors have freely offered to the God
of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem, <key:bcv=Ezra 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:16">16 </verse></sup>and
all the silver and gold that you will find in all the
province of Babylon, with the free will offering of
the people and of the priests, offering willingly
for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall with all diligence buy with
this money bulls, rams, and lambs with their meal
offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer
them on the altar of the house of your God which
is in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:18">18 </verse></sup>Whatever seems good to you
and to your brothers to do with the rest of the
silver and the gold, do that according to the will
of your God. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The vessels that are given to you
for the service of the house of your God, deliver
before the God of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Whatever more
will be needed for the house of your God, which
you may have occasion to give, give it out of the
king’s treasure house.

<key:bcv=Ezra 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:21">21 </verse></sup>I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree
to all the treasurers who are beyond the River,
that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the
law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it
shall be done with all diligence, <key:bcv=Ezra 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:22">22 </verse></sup>up to one
hundred talents<footnote:1>7:22 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces </footnote> of silver, and to one hundred
cors<footnote:1>7:22 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels. </footnote> of wheat, and to one hundred baths<footnote:1>7:22 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.</footnote> of
wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt
without prescribing how much. <key:bcv=Ezra 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Whatever is
commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done
exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for
why should there be wrath against the realm of
the king and his sons?

<key:bcv=Ezra 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Also we inform you that it shall not be
lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of
the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple
servants, or laborers of this house of God.
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:25">25 </verse></sup>You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your
God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates
and judges who may judge all the people who
are beyond the River, who all know the laws of
your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Whoever will not do the law of your God and
the law of the king, let judgment be executed on
him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or
to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
imprisonment.

<key:bcv=Ezra 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:27">27 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who
has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart,
to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
<key:bcv=Ezra 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 7:28">28 </verse></sup>and has extended loving kindness to me before
the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s
mighty princes. I was strengthened according to
Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered
together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

#BCV:Ezra 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households,
and this is the genealogy of those who went
up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes
the king:

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom.
<br>
Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel.
<br>
Of the sons of David, Hattush.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh,
Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy
of the males one hundred fifty.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son
of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and
with him three hundred males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan;
and with him fifty males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah;
and with him seventy males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of
Michael; and with him eighty males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel;
and with him two hundred eighteen males.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah;
and with him one hundred sixty males.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai;
and with him twenty-eight males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of
Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten
males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last,
their names are: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah;
and with them sixty males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and
with them seventy males.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:15">15 </verse></sup>I gathered them together to the river that
runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days.
Then I looked around at the people and the priests,
and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Then I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah,
for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for
Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for
Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:17">17 </verse></sup>I
sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia;
and I told them what they should tell Iddo and his
brothers the temple servants at the place Casiphia,
that they should bring to us ministers for the house
of our God. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:18">18 </verse></sup>According to the good hand of our
God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of
the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel,
namely Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers,
eighteen; <key:bcv=Ezra 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:19">19 </verse></sup>and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah
of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons,
twenty; <key:bcv=Ezra 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:20">20 </verse></sup>and of the temple servants, whom David
and the princes had given for the service of the
Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All
of them were mentioned by name.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river
Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our
God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for
our little ones, and for all our possessions. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:22">22 </verse></sup>For I
was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers
and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the
way, because we had spoken to the king, saying,
“The hand of our God is on all those who seek him,
for good; but his power and his wrath is against all
those who forsake him.” <key:bcv=Ezra 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:23">23 </verse></sup>So we fasted and begged
our God for this, and he granted our request.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the
priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their
brothers with them, <key:bcv=Ezra 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:25">25 </verse></sup>and weighed to them the
silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering
for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors,
his princes, and all Israel there present, had
offered. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:26">26 </verse></sup>I weighed into their hand six hundred
fifty talents of silver,<footnote:1>8:26 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces </footnote> one hundred talents of silver
vessels, one hundred talents of gold, <key:bcv=Ezra 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:27">27 </verse></sup>twenty bowls
of gold weighing one thousand darics,<footnote:1>8:27 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.</footnote> and two
vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:28">28 </verse></sup>I
said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the
vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free
will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:29">29 </verse></sup>Watch and keep them until you weigh them
before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and
the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at
Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:30">30 </verse></sup>So the priests and the Levites received the
weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to
bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:31">31 </verse></sup>Then we departed from the river Ahava on the
twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem.
The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered
us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits
by the way. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:32">32 </verse></sup>We came to Jerusalem, and stayed
there three days. <key:bcv=Ezra 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:33">33 </verse></sup>On the fourth day the silver and
the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house
of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of
Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son
of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of
Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Everything was counted and weighed; and all the
weight was written at that time.

<key:bcv=Ezra 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of the captivity, who had come
out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of
Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams,
seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a
sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezra 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 8:36">36 </verse></sup>They delivered the king’s commissions to the
king’s local governors and to the governors beyond
the River. So they supported the people and God’s
house.

#BCV:Ezra 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezra 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when these things were done, the princes
came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel,
the priests, and the Levites have not separated
themselves from the peoples of the lands, following
their abominations, even those of the Canaanites,
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the
Amorites. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:2">2 </verse></sup>For they have taken of their daughters
for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy
offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples
of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers
has been chief in this trespass.”

<key:bcv=Ezra 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:3">3 </verse></sup>When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and
my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and
of my beard, and sat down confounded. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Then
everyone who trembled at the words of the God of
Israel were assembled to me because of the trespass
of the exiles; and I sat confounded until the evening
offering.

<key:bcv=Ezra 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:5">5 </verse></sup>At the evening offering I rose up from my
humiliation, even with my garment and my robe
torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my
hands to Yahweh my God; <key:bcv=Ezra 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:6">6 </verse></sup>and I said, “My God, I am
ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God,
for our iniquities have increased over our head, and
our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Since
the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly
guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our
kings, and our priests have been delivered into the
hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to
captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it
is this day. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Now for a little moment grace has been
shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant
to escape, and to give us a stake in his holy place,
that our God may lighten our eyes, and revive us a
little in our bondage. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:9">9 </verse></sup>For we are bondservants; yet
our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has
extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the
kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of
our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall
in Judah and in Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Ezra 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:10">10 </verse></sup>“Now, our God, what shall we say after
this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
<key:bcv=Ezra 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:11">11 </verse></sup>which you have commanded by your servants
the prophets, saying, ‘The land to which you go
to possess is an unclean land through the uncleanness
of the peoples of the lands, through their
abominations, which have filled it from one end to
another with their filthiness. <key:bcv=Ezra 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Now therefore don’t
give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their
daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their
prosperity forever, that you may be strong and eat
the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance
to your children forever.’

<key:bcv=Ezra 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:13">13 </verse></sup>“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds
and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have
punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and
have given us such a remnant, <key:bcv=Ezra 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:14">14 </verse></sup>shall we again
break your commandments, and join ourselves with
the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t
you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so
that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
<key:bcv=Ezra 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for
we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today.
Behold,<footnote:1>9:15 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> we are before you in our guiltiness; for no
one can stand before you because of this.”

#BCV:Ezra 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now while Ezra prayed and made confession,
weeping and casting himself down before God’s
house, there was gathered together to him out of
Israel a very great assembly of men and women
and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of
Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against
our God, and have married foreign women of the
peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel
concerning this thing. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Now therefore let’s make
a covenant with our God to put away all the wives
and those who are born of them, according to the
counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the
commandment of our God. Let it be done according
to the law. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Arise, for the matter belongs to you and
we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the
priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that
they would do according to this word. So they
swore. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house,
and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of
Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread
or drank water, for he mourned because of the
trespass of the exiles. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:7">7 </verse></sup>They made a proclamation
throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children
of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together to Jerusalem; <key:bcv=Ezra 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:8">8 </verse></sup>and that whoever didn’t
come within three days, according to the counsel
of the princes and the elders, all his possessions
should be forfeited, and he himself separated from
the assembly of the captivity.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered
themselves together to Jerusalem within the
three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth
day of the month; and all the people sat in
the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling
because of this matter, and because of the great
rain.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You
have trespassed, and have married foreign women,
increasing the guilt of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Now therefore
make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers
and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the
peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Then all the assembly answered with a loud
voice, “We must do as you have said concerning
us. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:13">13 </verse></sup>But the people are many, and it is a time of
much rain, and we are not able to stand outside.
This is not a work of one day or two, for we have
greatly transgressed in this matter. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Now let our
princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let
all those who are in our cities who have married
foreign women come at appointed times, and with
them the elders of every city and its judges, until
the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until
this matter is resolved.”

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah
the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam
and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the
priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households,
after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their
names, were set apart; and they sat down in the
first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:17">17 </verse></sup>They finished with all the men who had married
foreign women by the first day of the first month.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Among the sons of the priests there were found
who had married foreign women:
<br>
of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and
his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and
Gedaliah. <key:bcv=Ezra 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:19">19 </verse></sup>They gave their hand that they
would put away their wives; and being guilty,
they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah,
Jehiel, and Uzziah.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah,
Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also
called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Of the singers: Eliashib.
<br>
Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah,
Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and
Benaiah.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah,
Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:27">27 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah,
Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah,
Zabbai, and Athlai.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch,
Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal,
Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui,
and Manasseh.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah,
Shemaiah, Shimeon, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Benjamin, Malluch,
and Shemariah.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:33">33 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah,
Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and
Shimei.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:34">34 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:35">35 </verse></sup>Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:36">36 </verse></sup>Vaniah,
Meremoth, Eliashib, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:37">37 </verse></sup>Mattaniah, Mattenai,
Jaasu, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:38">38 </verse></sup>Bani, Binnui, Shimei, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:39">39 </verse></sup>Shelemiah,
Nathan, Adaiah, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:40">40 </verse></sup>Machnadebai, Shashai,
Sharai, <key:bcv=Ezra 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:41">41 </verse></sup>Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
<key:bcv=Ezra 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:42">42 </verse></sup>Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:43">43 </verse></sup>Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad,
Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.

<key:bcv=Ezra 10:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezra 10:44">44 </verse></sup>All these had taken foreign wives. Some of
them had wives by whom they had children.

#OUTLINE:1,Nehemiah
<h2>The Book of Nehemiah</h2>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year,
as I was in Susa the palace, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Hanani, one of my
brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah;
and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped,
who were left of the captivity, and concerning
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>They said to me, “The remnant who
are left of the captivity there in the province are in
great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem
is also broken down, and its gates are burned with
fire.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>When I heard these words, I sat down and wept,
and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed
before the God<footnote:1>1:4 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> of heaven, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>and said, “I beg you,
Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:5 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> the God of heaven, the great and awesome
God who keeps covenant and loving kindness with
those who love him and keep his commandments,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>let your ear now be attentive and your eyes open,
that you may listen to the prayer of your servant
which I pray before you at this time, day and night,
for the children of Israel your servants, while I
confess the sins of the children of Israel which we
have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s
house have sinned. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>We have dealt very corruptly
against you, and have not kept the commandments,
nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you
commanded your servant Moses.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>“Remember, I beg you, the word that you
commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you
trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>but
if you return to me, and keep my commandments
and do them, though your outcasts were in the
uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them
from there, and will bring them to the place that I
have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>“Now these are your servants and your people,
whom you have redeemed by your great power and
by your strong hand. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Lord,<footnote:1>1:11 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> I beg you, let your ear
be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and
to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear
your name; and please prosper your servant today,
and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
Now I was cup bearer to the king.

#BCV:Nehemiah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I
picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I
had not been sad before in his presence. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The king
said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not
sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”
Then I was very much afraid. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>I said to the king,
“Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be
sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs,
lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with
fire?”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the king said to me, “What is your request?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>I said to the
king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has
found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send
me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I
may build it.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The king said to me (the queen was also sitting
by him), “How long will your journey be? When will
you return?”
<br>
So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time
for him. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases
the king, let letters be given me to the governors
beyond the River, that they may let me pass through
until I come to Judah; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>and a letter to Asaph the
keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel
by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the
house that I will occupy.”
<br>
The king granted my requests, because of the
good hand of my God on me. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Then I came to
the governors beyond the River, and gave them the
king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the
army and horsemen with me. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>When Sanballat the
Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard
of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man
had come to seek the welfare of the children of
Israel.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three
days. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>I arose in the night, I and a few men with me.
I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart
to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with
me except the animal that I rode on. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>I went out
by night by the valley gate toward the jackal’s well,
then to the dung gate; and I inspected the walls of
Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates
were consumed with fire. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Then I went on to the
spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was
no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Then I went up in the night by the brook and
inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered
by the valley gate, and so returned. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:16">16 </verse></sup>The rulers
didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not
as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to
the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did
the work.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation
that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its
gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the
wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:18">18 </verse></sup>I
told them about the hand of my God which was good
on me, and also about the king’s words that he had
spoken to me.
<br>
They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they
strengthened their hands for the good work.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:19">19 </verse></sup>But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the
Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard
it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said,
“What is this thing that you are doing? Will you
rebel against the king?”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Then I answered them, and said to them, “The
God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his
servants, will arise and build; but you have no
portion, nor right, nor memorial in Jerusalem.”

#BCV:Nehemiah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his
brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate.
They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They
sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the
tower of Hananel. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Next to him the men of Jericho
built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They
laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and
its bars. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Next to them, Meremoth the son of
Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to
them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of
Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the
son of Baana made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Next to them, the
Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put
their necks to the Lord’s work.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son
of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its
beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon
the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah,
repaired the residence of the governor beyond the
River. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah,
goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah,
one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified
Jerusalem even to the wide wall. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Next to them,
Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district
of Jerusalem, made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Next to them, Jedaiah
the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his
house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah
made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Malchijah the son of Harim and
Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab repaired another
portion and the tower of the furnaces. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Next to
him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half
the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters made
repairs.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired
the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors,
its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits<footnote:1>3:13 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> of
the wall to the dung gate.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the
district of Beth Haccherem, repaired the dung gate.
He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the
district of Mizpah, repaired the spring gate. He
built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts,
and its bars; and he repaired the wall of the pool of
Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that
go down from David’s city. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:16">16 </verse></sup>After him, Nehemiah
the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of
Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the
tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and
to the house of the mighty men. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:17">17 </verse></sup>After him, the
Levites—Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next
to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of
Keilah, made repairs for his district. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:18">18 </verse></sup>After him,
their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler
of half the district of Keilah made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Next
to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah,
repaired another portion across from the ascent
to the armory at the turning of the wall. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:20">20 </verse></sup>After
him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired
another portion, from the turning of the wall to
the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:21">21 </verse></sup>After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of
Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of
the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house
of Eliashib. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:22">22 </verse></sup>After him, the priests, the men of the
surrounding area made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:23">23 </verse></sup>After them, Benjamin
and Hasshub made repairs across from their
house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the
son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:24">24 </verse></sup>After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired
another portion, from the house of Azariah to the
turning of the wall, and to the corner. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Palal the
son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the
wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper
house of the king, which is by the court of the guard.
After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:26">26 </verse></sup>(Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the
place opposite the water gate toward the east, and
the tower that stands out.) <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:27">27 </verse></sup>After him the Tekoites
repaired another portion, opposite the great tower
that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:28">28 </verse></sup>Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs,
everyone across from his own house. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:29">29 </verse></sup>After
them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across
from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the
son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate,
made repairs. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:30">30 </verse></sup>After him, Hananiah the son of
Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired
another portion. After him, Meshullam the
son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:31">31 </verse></sup>After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the
house of the temple servants, and of the merchants,
made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad and
to the ascent of the corner. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 3:32">32 </verse></sup>Between the ascent of
the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and
the merchants made repairs.

#BCV:Nehemiah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>But when Sanballat heard that we were building
the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and
mocked the Jews. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>He spoke before his brothers
and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these
feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves?
Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will
they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish,
since they are burned?”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he
said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it,
he would break down their stone wall.”
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back
their reproach on their own head. Give them up
for a plunder in a land of captivity. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t cover
their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from
before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined
together to half its height, for the people had a mind
to work.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the
Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing
of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and
that the breaches began to be filled, they were very
angry; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:8">8 </verse></sup>and they all conspired together to come
and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion
among us. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:9">9 </verse></sup>But we made our prayer to our God, and
set a watch against them day and night because of
them.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of
burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that
we are not able to build the wall.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Our adversaries
said, “They will not know or see, until we come in
among them and kill them, and cause the work to
cease.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:12">12 </verse></sup>When the Jews who lived by them came, they
said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you
turn, they will attack us.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of
the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set
the people by family groups with their swords, their
spears, and their bows. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:14">14 </verse></sup>I looked, and rose up, and
said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of
the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the
Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your
brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives,
and your houses.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:15">15 </verse></sup>When our enemies heard that it was known to
us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing,
all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:16">16 </verse></sup>From that time forth, half of my servants did the
work, and half of them held the spears, the shields,
the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers
were behind all the house of Judah. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Those who
built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded
themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the
work, and with the other held his weapon. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Among
the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side,
and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by
me. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:19">19 </verse></sup>I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to
the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely
spread out, and we are separated on the wall, far
from one another. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Wherever you hear the sound
of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight
for us.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:21">21 </verse></sup>So we did the work. Half of the people held
the spears from the rising of the morning until the
stars appeared. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Likewise at the same time I said
to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge
within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a
guard to us, and may labor in the day.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 4:23">23 </verse></sup>So neither
I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men
of the guard who followed me took off our clothes.
Everyone took his weapon to the water.

#BCV:Nehemiah 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Then there arose a great cry of the people and
of their wives against their brothers the Jews. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:2">2 </verse></sup>For
there were some who said, “We, our sons and our
daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we
may eat and live.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:3">3 </verse></sup>There were also some who
said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards,
and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the
famine.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:4">4 </verse></sup>There were also some who said, “We have
borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our
fields and our vineyards as collateral. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Yet now our
flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as
their children. Behold,<footnote:1>5:5 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> we bring our sons and our
daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of
our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is
also not in our power to help it, because other men
have our fields and our vineyards.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:6">6 </verse></sup>I was very angry when I heard their cry and
these words. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Then I consulted with myself, and
contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said
to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.”
I held a great assembly against them. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:8">8 </verse></sup>I said to
them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our
brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations;
and would you even sell your brothers, and should
they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace,
and found not a word to say. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Also I said, “The
thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk
in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the
nations, our enemies? <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:10">10 </verse></sup>I likewise, my brothers and
my servants, lend them money and grain. Please
let us stop this usury. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Please restore to them,
even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive
groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of
the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the
oil, that you are charging them.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they said, “We will restore them, and will
require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you
say.”
<br>
Then I called the priests, and took an oath of
them, that they would do according to this promise.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God
shake out every man from his house, and from his
labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may
he be shaken out and emptied like this.”
All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
The people did according to this promise.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Moreover from the time that I was appointed
to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the
twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of
Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my
brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:15">15 </verse></sup>But the former governors who were before me
were supported by the people, and took bread and
wine from them, plus forty shekels<footnote:1>5:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of silver; yes,
even their servants ruled over the people, but I
didn’t do so, because of the fear of God. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Yes, I
also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t
buy any land. All my servants were gathered there
to the work. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Moreover there were at my table,
of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men,
in addition to those who came to us from among
the nations that were around us. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Now that which
was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice
sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once
in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all
this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because
the bondage was heavy on this people. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Remember
me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this
people.

#BCV:Nehemiah 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah,
Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies
that I had built the wall, and that there was no
breach left in it (though even to that time I had
not set up the doors in the gates), <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Sanballat and
Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet
together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But
they intended to harm me.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:3">3 </verse></sup>I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a
great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should
the work cease while I leave it and come down to
you?”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:4">4 </verse></sup>They sent to me four times like this; and I
answered them the same way. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Sanballat
sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time
with an open letter in his hand, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:6">6 </verse></sup>in which was
written, “It is reported among the nations, and
Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to
rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall.
You would be their king, according to these words.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:7">7 </verse></sup>You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of
you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’
Now it will be reported to the king according to
these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take
counsel together.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such
things done as you say, but you imagine them out of
your own heart.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:9">9 </verse></sup>For they all would have made us
afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from
the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen
my hands.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:10">10 </verse></sup>I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of
Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his
home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s
house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors
of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in
the night they will come to kill you.”
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:11">11 </verse></sup>I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there
that, being such as I, would go into the temple to
save his life? I will not go in.” <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:12">12 </verse></sup>I discerned, and
behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced
this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat
had hired him. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:13">13 </verse></sup>He was hired so that I would
be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might
have material for an evil report, that they might
reproach me. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:14">14 </verse></sup>“Remember, my God, Tobiah and
Sanballat according to these their works, and also
the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets
that would have put me in fear.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:15">15 </verse></sup>So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day
of Elul, in fifty-two days. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:16">16 </verse></sup>When all our enemies
heard of it, all the nations that were around us
were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for
they perceived that this work was done by our God.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:17">17 </verse></sup>Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent
many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came
to them. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:18">18 </verse></sup>For there were many in Judah sworn to
him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the
son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the
daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and
reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to
put me in fear.

#BCV:Nehemiah 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when the wall was built and I had set
up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers
and the Levites were appointed, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:2">2 </verse></sup>I put my brother
Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress,
in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man
and feared God above many. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:3">3 </verse></sup>I said to them, “Don’t
let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is
hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the
doors, and you bar them; and appoint watches of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch,
with everyone near his house.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Now the city was wide and large; but the people
were few therein, and the houses were not built.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:5">5 </verse></sup>My God put into my heart to gather together
the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they
might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of
the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and
I found this written in it:

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:6">6 </verse></sup>These are the children of the province who
went up out of the captivity of those who had been
carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon had carried away, and who returned to
Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:7">7 </verse></sup>who
came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah,
Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth,
Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.
<br>
The number of the men of the people of Israel:
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:8">8 </verse></sup>The children of Parosh: two thousand one
hundred seventy-two.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Shephatiah: three hundred
seventy-two.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:11">11 </verse></sup>The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of
Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred
eighteen.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:12">12 </verse></sup>The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred
fifty-four.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:13">13 </verse></sup>The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:14">14 </verse></sup>The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:15">15 </verse></sup>The children of Binnui: six hundred fortyeight.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:16">16 </verse></sup>The children of Bebai: six hundred twentyeight.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:17">17 </verse></sup>The children of Azgad: two thousand three
hundred twenty-two.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:18">18 </verse></sup>The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixtyseven.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixtyseven.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:20">20 </verse></sup>The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:21">21 </verse></sup>The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:22">22 </verse></sup>The children of Hashum: three hundred
twenty-eight.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:23">23 </verse></sup>The children of Bezai: three hundred twentyfour.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:24">24 </verse></sup>The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:25">25 </verse></sup>The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:26">26 </verse></sup>The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one
hundred eighty-eight.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:27">27 </verse></sup>The men of Anathoth: one hundred twentyeight.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:28">28 </verse></sup>The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:29">29 </verse></sup>The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and
Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:30">30 </verse></sup>The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred
twenty-one.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:31">31 </verse></sup>The men of Michmas: one hundred twentytwo.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:32">32 </verse></sup>The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twentythree.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:33">33 </verse></sup>The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:34">34 </verse></sup>The children of the other Elam: one thousand
two hundred fifty-four.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:35">35 </verse></sup>The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:36">36 </verse></sup>The children of Jericho: three hundred fortyfive.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:37">37 </verse></sup>The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven
hundred twenty-one.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:38><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:38">38 </verse></sup>The children of Senaah: three thousand nine
hundred thirty.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:39><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:39">39 </verse></sup>The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the
house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:40><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:40">40 </verse></sup>The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:41><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:41">41 </verse></sup>The children of Pashhur: one thousand two
hundred forty-seven.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:42><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:42">42 </verse></sup>The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:43><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:43">43 </verse></sup>The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel,
of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:44><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:44">44 </verse></sup>The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred
forty-eight.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:45><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:45">45 </verse></sup>The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the
children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the
children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:46><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:46">46 </verse></sup>The temple servants: the children of Ziha,
the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:47><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:47">47 </verse></sup>the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the
children of Padon, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:48><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:48">48 </verse></sup>the children of Lebana, the
children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:49><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:49">49 </verse></sup>the
children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children
of Gahar, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:50><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:50">50 </verse></sup>the children of Reaiah, the children
of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:51><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:51">51 </verse></sup>the children
of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of
Paseah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:52><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:52">52 </verse></sup>the children of Besai, the children of Meunim,
the children of Nephushesim, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:53><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:53">53 </verse></sup>the children
of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children
of Harhur, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:54><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:54">54 </verse></sup>the children of Bazlith, the children
of Mehida, the children of Harsha, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:55><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:55">55 </verse></sup>the children
of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of
Temah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:56><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:56">56 </verse></sup>the children of Neziah, and the children
of Hatipha.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:57><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:57">57 </verse></sup>The children of Solomon’s servants: the children
of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children
of Perida, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:58><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:58">58 </verse></sup>the children of Jaala, the children
of Darkon, the children of Giddel, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:59><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:59">59 </verse></sup>the children
of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children
of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of
Amon. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:60><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:60">60 </verse></sup>All the temple servants and the children
of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninetytwo.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:61><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:61">61 </verse></sup>These were those who went up from Tel Melah,
Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they
could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their
offspring,<footnote:1>7:61 or, seed </footnote> whether they were of Israel:
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:62><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:62">62 </verse></sup>The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah,
the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:63><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:63">63 </verse></sup>Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the
children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai,
who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai
the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:64><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:64">64 </verse></sup>These searched for their genealogical records,
but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were
deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:65><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:65">65 </verse></sup>The governor told them not to eat of the
most holy things until a priest stood up to minister
with Urim and Thummim.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:66><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:66">66 </verse></sup>The whole assembly together was forty-two
thousand three hundred sixty, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:67><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:67">67 </verse></sup>in addition to their
male servants and their female servants, of whom
there were seven thousand three hundred thirtyseven.
They had two hundred forty-five singing
men and singing women. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:68><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:68">68 </verse></sup>Their horses were seven
hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred fortyfive;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:69><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:69">69 </verse></sup>their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their
donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:70><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:70">70 </verse></sup>Some from among the heads of fathers’ households
gave to the work. The governor gave to the
treasury one thousand darics of gold,<footnote:1>7:70 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each. </footnote> fifty basins,
and five hundred thirty priests’ garments. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:71><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:71">71 </verse></sup>Some
of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the
treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold,
and two thousand two hundred minas<footnote:1>7:71 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.</footnote> of silver.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:72><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:72">72 </verse></sup>That which the rest of the people gave was twenty
thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of
silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 7:73><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 7:73">73 </verse></sup>So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the
singers, some of the people, the temple servants,
and all Israel lived in their cities.
When the seventh month had come, the children
of Israel were in their cities.

#BCV:Nehemiah 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:1">1 </verse></sup>All the people gathered themselves together as
one man into the wide place that was in front of
the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to
bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh
had commanded to Israel. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Ezra the priest brought
the law before the assembly, both men and women,
and all who could hear with understanding, on the
first day of the seventh month. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:3">3 </verse></sup>He read from it
before the wide place that was in front of the water
gate from early morning until midday, in the presence
of the men and the women, and of those who
could understand. The ears of all the people were
attentive to the book of the law. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Ezra the scribe
stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made
for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah,
Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his
right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael,
Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and
Meshullam. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Ezra opened the book in the sight of
all the people (for he was above all the people), and
when he opened it, all the people stood up. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Then
Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God.
<br>
All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with
the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their
heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces
to the ground. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah,
Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita,
Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
Levites, caused the people to understand the law;
and the people stayed in their place. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:8">8 </verse></sup>They read in
the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave
the sense, so that they understood the reading.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the
priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the
people said to all the people, “Today is holy to
Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all
the people wept when they heard the words of the
law. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the
fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for
whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our
Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your
strength.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:11">11 </verse></sup>So the Levites calmed all the people, saying,
“Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be
grieved.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:12">12 </verse></sup>All the people went their way to eat, to drink,
to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had
understood the words that were declared to them.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:13">13 </verse></sup>On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households
of all the people, the priests, and the Levites
were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study
the words of the law. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:14">14 </verse></sup>They found written in
the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses
that the children of Israel should dwell in booths
in the feast of the seventh month; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:15">15 </verse></sup>and that they
should publish and proclaim in all their cities and
in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and
get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle
branches, palm branches, and branches of thick
trees, to make temporary shelters,<footnote:1>8:15 or, booths </footnote> as it is written.”
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:16">16 </verse></sup>So the people went out and brought them, and
made themselves temporary shelters,<footnote:1>8:16 or, booths </footnote> everyone on
the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts
of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate,
and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:17">17 </verse></sup>All the
assembly of those who had come back out of the
captivity made temporary shelters<footnote:1>8:17 or, booths</footnote> and lived in the
temporary shelters, for since the days of Joshua the
son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not
done so. There was very great gladness. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Also day
by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in
the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven
days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly,
according to the ordinance.

#BCV:Nehemiah 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the
children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with
sackcloth, and dirt on them. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:2">2 </verse></sup>The offspring of Israel
separated themselves from all foreigners and stood
and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their
fathers. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:3">3 </verse></sup>They stood up in their place, and read in
the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth
part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed
and worshiped Yahweh their God. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Jeshua,
Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani,
and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs,
and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani,
Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and
Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your
God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be
your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing
and praise! <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:6">6 </verse></sup>You are Yahweh, even you alone.
You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with
all their army, the earth and all things that are on
it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve
them all. The army of heaven worships you. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:7">7 </verse></sup>You
are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought
him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of
Abraham, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:8">8 </verse></sup>found his heart faithful before you, and
made a covenant with him to give the land of the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite,
the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his
offspring, and have performed your words, for you
are righteous.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:9">9 </verse></sup>“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
and heard their cry by the Red Sea, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:10">10 </verse></sup>and showed
signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his
servants, and against all the people of his land, for
you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and
made a name for yourself, as it is today. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:11">11 </verse></sup>You
divided the sea before them, so that they went
through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and
you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone
into the mighty waters. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Moreover, in a pillar of
cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by
night, to give them light in the way in which they
should go.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:13">13 </verse></sup>“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and
spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right
ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:14">14 </verse></sup>and made known to them your holy
<br>
Sabbath, and commanded them commandments,
statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:15">15 </verse></sup>and
gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and
brought water out of the rock for them for their
thirst, and commanded them that they should go
in to possess the land which you had sworn to give
them.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:16">16 </verse></sup>“But they and our fathers behaved proudly,
hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:17">17 </verse></sup>and refused to obey. They weren’t
<br>
mindful of your wonders that you did among them,
but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion
appointed a captain to return to their bondage.
But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving
kindness, and didn’t forsake them. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Yes, when
they had made themselves a molded calf, and said,
‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’
and had committed awful blasphemies, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:19">19 </verse></sup>yet you in
your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the
wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from
over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither
did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light,
and the way in which they should go. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:20">20 </verse></sup>You gave
also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t
withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave
them water for their thirst.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:21">21 </verse></sup>“Yes, forty years you sustained them in
the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their
clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples,
which you allotted according to their portions. So
they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of
the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of
Bashan. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:23">23 </verse></sup>You also multiplied their children as the
stars of the sky, and brought them into the land
concerning which you said to their fathers that they
should go in to possess it.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:24">24 </verse></sup>“So the children went in and possessed the
land; and you subdued before them the inhabitants
of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into
their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the
land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:25">25 </verse></sup>They took fortified cities and a rich land, and
possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns
dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in
abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and
delighted themselves in your great goodness.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:26">26 </verse></sup>“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled
against you, cast your law behind their back,
killed your prophets that testified against them
to turn them again to you, and they committed
awful blasphemies. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore you delivered them
into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed
them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried
to you, you heard from heaven; and according to
your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who
saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:28">28 </verse></sup>But after they had rest, they did evil again before
you; therefore you left them in the hands of their
enemies, so that they had the dominion over them;
yet when they returned and cried to you, you heard
from heaven; and many times you delivered them
according to your mercies, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:29">29 </verse></sup>and testified against
them, that you might bring them again to your
law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to
your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances
(which if a man does, he shall live in them),
turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would
not hear. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:30">30 </verse></sup>Yet many years you put up with them,
and testified against them by your Spirit through
your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore
you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the
lands.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:31">31 </verse></sup>“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you
didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them;
for you are a gracious and merciful God.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,
and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and
loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little
before you that has come on us, on our kings, on
our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our
fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the
kings of Assyria to this day. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:33">33 </verse></sup>However you are just
in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly,
but we have done wickedly. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:34">34 </verse></sup>Also our kings, our
princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept
your law, nor listened to your commandments and
your testimonies with which you testified against
them. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:35">35 </verse></sup>For they have not served you in their
kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave
them, and in the large and rich land which you gave
before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked
works.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:36">36 </verse></sup>“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the
land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and
its good, behold, we are servants in it. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:37">37 </verse></sup>It yields
much increase to the kings whom you have set over
us because of our sins. Also they have power over
our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 9:38">38 </verse></sup>Yet for all this, we
make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes,
our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
#BCV:Nehemiah 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the
governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Pashhur, Amariah,
Malchijah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Harim,
Meremoth, Obadiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Maaziah, Bilgai,
and Shemaiah. These were the priests. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:9">9 </verse></sup>The
Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:10">10 </verse></sup>and their brothers,
Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Mica,
Rehob, Hashabiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:14">14 </verse></sup>The chiefs
of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu,
Bani, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Adonijah, Bigvai,
Adin, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Hodiah, Hashum,
Bezai, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Magpiash,
Meshullam, Hezir, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Hoshea, Hananiah,
Hasshub, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Rehum,
Hashabnah, Maaseiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:27">27 </verse></sup>Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:28">28 </verse></sup>The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites,
the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants,
and all those who had separated themselves from
the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their
wives, their sons, and their daughters —everyone
who had knowledge and understanding— <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:29">29 </verse></sup>joined
with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into
a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law,
which was given by Moses the servant of God, and
to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh
our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:30">30 </verse></sup>and
that we would not give our daughters to the peoples
of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:31">31 </verse></sup>and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any
grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not
buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and
that we would forego the seventh year crops and the
exaction of every debt.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to
charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a
shekel<footnote:1>10:32 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> for the service of the house of our God: <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:33">33 </verse></sup>for
the show bread, for the continual meal offering,
for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths,
for the new moons, for the set feasts, for the holy
things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for
Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:34">34 </verse></sup>We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast
lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house
of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at
times appointed year by year, to burn on Yahweh
our God’s altar, as it is written in the law; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:35">35 </verse></sup>and
to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first
fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year,
to Yahweh’s house; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:36">36 </verse></sup>also the firstborn of our sons
and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and
the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring
to the house of our God, to the priests who minister
in the house of our God; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:37">37 </verse></sup>and that we should bring
the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the
fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and
the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house
of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the
Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all
our farming villages. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:38">38 </verse></sup>The priest, the descendent
of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites
take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of
the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into
the treasure house. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 10:39">39 </verse></sup>For the children of Israel and
the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of
the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the
rooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and
the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and
the singers. We will not forsake the house of our
God.

#BCV:Nehemiah 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:1">1 </verse></sup>The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem.
The rest of the people also cast lots to bring one
of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine
parts in the other cities. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:2">2 </verse></sup>The people blessed all the
men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Now these are the chiefs of the province who
lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah, everyone
lived in his possession in their cities—Israel,
the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and
the children of Solomon’s servants. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Some of the
children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin
lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah
the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son
of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of
Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:5">5 </verse></sup>and Maaseiah
the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of
Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the
son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:6">6 </verse></sup>All
the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four
hundred sixty-eight valiant men.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:7">7 </verse></sup>These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the
son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel,
the son of Jeshaiah. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:8">8 </verse></sup>After him Gabbai and Sallai,
nine hundred twenty-eight. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Joel the son of Zichri
was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah
was second over the city.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam,
the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son
of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:12">12 </verse></sup>and their
brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred
twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham,
the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of
Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:13">13 </verse></sup>and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households,
two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of
Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth,
the son of Immer, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:14">14 </verse></sup>and their brothers, mighty
men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their
overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub,
the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Bunni; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:16">16 </verse></sup>and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs
of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward
business of God’s house; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:17">17 </verse></sup>and Mattaniah the son
of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who
was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer,
and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and
Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son
of Jeduthun. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:18">18 </verse></sup>All the Levites in the holy city were
two hundred eighty-four.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and
their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were
one hundred seventy-two. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:20">20 </verse></sup>The residue of Israel,
of the priests, and the Levites were in all the cities
of Judah, everyone in his inheritance. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:21">21 </verse></sup>But the
temple servants lived in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa
were over the temple servants.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:22">22 </verse></sup>The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem
was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the
son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of
Asaph, the singers, was over the business of God’s
house. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:23">23 </verse></sup>For there was a commandment from the
king concerning them, and a settled provision for
the singers, as every day required. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Pethahiah
the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the
son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters
concerning the people.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:25">25 </verse></sup>As for the villages with their fields, some of
the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its
towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its
villages, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:26">26 </verse></sup>in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:27">27 </verse></sup>in
Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:28">28 </verse></sup>in Ziklag,
in Meconah and in its towns, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:29">29 </verse></sup>in En Rimmon, in
Zorah, in Jarmuth, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Zanoah, Adullam, and their
villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its
towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the
valley of Hinnom. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:31">31 </verse></sup>The children of Benjamin
also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and
Aija, and at Bethel and its towns, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:32">32 </verse></sup>at Anathoth,
Nob, Ananiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:33">33 </verse></sup>Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:34">34 </verse></sup>Hadid,
Zeboim, Neballat, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Lod, and Ono, the valley of
craftsmen. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 11:36">36 </verse></sup>Of the Levites, certain divisions in
Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.
#BCV:Nehemiah 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the priests and the Levites who
went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and
Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Amariah, Malluch,
Hattush, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Iddo,
Ginnethoi, Abijah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah,
and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and
of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Moreover the Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was
over the thanksgiving songs, he and his brothers.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were
close to them according to their offices. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Jeshua
became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became
the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the
father of Joiada, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:11">11 </verse></sup>and Joiada became the father
of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of
Jaddua.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:12">12 </verse></sup>In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’
households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah,
Hananiah; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:13">13 </verse></sup>of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:14">14 </verse></sup>of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah,
Joseph; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:15">15 </verse></sup>of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:16">16 </verse></sup>of
Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:17">17 </verse></sup>of
Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:18">18 </verse></sup>of
Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:19">19 </verse></sup>of
Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:20">20 </verse></sup>of Sallai, Kallai;
of Amok, Eber; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:21">21 </verse></sup>of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah,
Nethanel.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:22">22 </verse></sup>As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada,
Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads
of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign
of Darius the Persian. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:23">23 </verse></sup>The sons of Levi, heads of
fathers’ households, were written in the book of the
chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son
of Eliashib. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:24">24 </verse></sup>The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah,
Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their
brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks
according to the commandment of David the man
of God, section next to section. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Mattaniah, Bakbukiah,
Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub
were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses
of the gates. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:26">26 </verse></sup>These were in the days of
Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and
in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra
the priest and scribe.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:27">27 </verse></sup>At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they
sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring
them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness,
both with giving thanks and with singing, with
cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:28">28 </verse></sup>The sons of the singers gathered themselves
together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem
and from the villages of the Netophathites; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:29">29 </verse></sup>also
from Beth Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and
Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves
villages around Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:30">30 </verse></sup>The priests and the
Levites purified themselves; and they purified the
people, the gates, and the wall.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:31">31 </verse></sup>Then I brought the princes of Judah up on
the wall, and appointed two great companies who
gave thanks and went in procession. One went on
the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:32">32 </verse></sup>and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the
princes of Judah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:33><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:33">33 </verse></sup>and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:34><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:34">34 </verse></sup>Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:35><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:35">35 </verse></sup>and
some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah
the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son
of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur,
the son of Asaph; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:36><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:36">36 </verse></sup>and his brothers, Shemaiah,
Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and
Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the
man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:37><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:37">37 </verse></sup>By the spring gate, and straight before them, they
went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of
the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate
eastward.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:38><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:38">38 </verse></sup>The other company of those who gave thanks
went to meet them, and I after them, with the
half of the people on the wall above the tower of
the furnaces, even to the wide wall, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:39><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:39">39 </verse></sup>and above
the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by
the fish gate, the tower of Hananel, and the tower
of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate; and they
stood still in the gate of the guard. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:40><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:40">40 </verse></sup>So the two
companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house
stood, and I and the half of the rulers with me;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:41><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:41">41 </verse></sup>and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin,
Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with
trumpets; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:42><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:42">42 </verse></sup>and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi,
Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers
sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:43><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:43">43 </verse></sup>They
offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced, for
God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the
women and the children also rejoiced, so that the
joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:44><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:44">44 </verse></sup>On that day, men were appointed over the
rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings,
for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather
into them according to the fields of the cities the
portions appointed by the law for the priests and
Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for
the Levites who served. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:45><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:45">45 </verse></sup>They performed the duty
of their God and the duty of the purification, and
so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according
to the commandment of David and of Solomon his
son. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:46><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:46">46 </verse></sup>For in the days of David and Asaph of old
there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise
and thanksgiving to God. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 12:47><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 12:47">47 </verse></sup>All Israel in the days
of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave
the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as
every day required; and they set apart that which
was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that
which was for the sons of Aaron.

#BCV:Nehemiah 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:1">1 </verse></sup>On that day they read in the book of Moses in
the hearing of the people; and it was found written
in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not
enter into the assembly of God forever, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:2">2 </verse></sup>because
they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread
and with water, but hired Balaam against them to
curse them; however, our God turned the curse into
a blessing. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:3">3 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when they had heard
the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude
from Israel.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was
appointed over the rooms of the house of our God,
being allied to Tobiah, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:5">5 </verse></sup>had prepared for him a great
room, where before they laid the meal offerings,
the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the
grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given
by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and
the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the
priests. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:6">6 </verse></sup>But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem;
for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of
Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I
asked leave of the king, <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:7">7 </verse></sup>and I came to Jerusalem,
and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for
Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of
God’s house. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:8">8 </verse></sup>It grieved me severely. Therefore I
threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms.
I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with
the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:10">10 </verse></sup>I perceived that the portions of the Levites
had not been given them, so that the Levites and
the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his
field. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Then I contended with the rulers, and said,
“Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them
together, and set them in their place. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Then all
Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine,
and the oil to the treasuries. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:13">13 </verse></sup>I made treasurers
over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok
the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next
to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of
Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their
business was to distribute to their brothers.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Remember me, my God, concerning this, and
don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for
the house of my God, and for its observances.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:15">15 </verse></sup>In those days I saw some men treading wine
presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in
sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes,
figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought
into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified
against them in the day in which they sold food.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in
fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath
to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Then
I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to
them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and
profane the Sabbath day? <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Didn’t your fathers do
this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us and
on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by
profaning the Sabbath.”

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:19">19 </verse></sup>It came to pass that when the gates of
Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I
commanded that the doors should be shut, and
commanded that they should not be opened until
after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over
the gates, so that no burden should be brought in
on the Sabbath day. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:20">20 </verse></sup>So the merchants and sellers
of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem
once or twice. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:21">21 </verse></sup>Then I testified against them,
and said to them, “Why do you stay around the
wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.”
From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:22">22 </verse></sup>I commanded the Levites that they should purify
themselves, and that they should come and keep the
gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me
for this also, my God, and spare me according to the
greatness of your loving kindness.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:23">23 </verse></sup>In those days I also saw the Jews who had
married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:24">24 </verse></sup>and their children spoke half in the speech of
Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language,
but according to the language of each people. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:25">25 </verse></sup>I
contended with them, cursed them, struck certain
of them, plucked off their hair, and made them
swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to
their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons,
or for yourselves. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Didn’t Solomon king of Israel
sin by these things? Yet among many nations there
was no king like him, and he was loved by his God,
and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless
foreign women caused even him to sin. <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:27">27 </verse></sup>Shall we
then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass
against our God in marrying foreign women?”
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:28">28 </verse></sup>One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib
the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat
the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:29">29 </verse></sup>Remember them, my God, because they have
defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the
priesthood and of the Levites.

<key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners and
appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites,
everyone in his work; <key:bcv=Nehemiah 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Nehemiah 13:31">31 </verse></sup>and for the wood offering,
at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember
me, my God, for good.

#OUTLINE:1,Esther
<h2>The Book of Esther</h2>

<key:bcv=Esther 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus
who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one
hundred twenty-seven provinces), <key:bcv=Esther 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:2">2 </verse></sup>in those days,
when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his
kingdom, which was in Susa the palace, <key:bcv=Esther 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:3">3 </verse></sup>in the
third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his
princes and his servants; the army of Persia and
Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces
being before him. <key:bcv=Esther 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:4">4 </verse></sup>He displayed the riches of his
glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent
majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
<key:bcv=Esther 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:5">5 </verse></sup>When these days were fulfilled, the king made a
seven day feast for all the people who were present
in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court
of the garden of the king’s palace. <key:bcv=Esther 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:6">6 </verse></sup>There were
hangings of white and blue material, fastened with
cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and
marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver,
on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black
marble. <key:bcv=Esther 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:7">7 </verse></sup>They gave them drinks in golden vessels
of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance,
according to the bounty of the king. <key:bcv=Esther 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:8">8 </verse></sup>In accordance
with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for
so the king had instructed all the officials of his
house, that they should do according to every man’s
pleasure.

<key:bcv=Esther 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the
women in the royal house which belonged to King
Ahasuerus.

<key:bcv=Esther 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:10">10 </verse></sup>On the seventh day, when the heart of the king
was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman,
Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and
Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence
of Ahasuerus the king, <key:bcv=Esther 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:11">11 </verse></sup>to bring Vashti the
queen before the king wearing the royal crown, to
show the people and the princes her beauty; for she
was beautiful. <key:bcv=Esther 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:12">12 </verse></sup>But the queen Vashti refused to
come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs.
Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger
burned in him.

<key:bcv=Esther 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Then the king said to the wise men, who knew
the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult
those who knew law and judgment; <key:bcv=Esther 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:14">14 </verse></sup>and next to
him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish,
Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes
of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat
first in the kingdom), <key:bcv=Esther 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:15">15 </verse></sup>“What shall we do to Queen
Vashti according to law, because she has not done
the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”
<key:bcv=Esther 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Memucan answered before the king and the
princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to
just the king, but also to all the princes, and to
all the people who are in all the provinces of the
King Ahasuerus. <key:bcv=Esther 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For this deed of the queen will
become known to all women, causing them to show
contempt for their husbands when it is reported,
‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to
be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’
<key:bcv=Esther 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who
have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s
princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.
<key:bcv=Esther 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:19">19 </verse></sup>“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment
go from him, and let it be written among the laws
of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be
altered, that Vashti may never again come before
King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal
estate to another who is better than she. <key:bcv=Esther 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:20">20 </verse></sup>When
the king’s decree which he shall make is published
throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the
wives will give their husbands honor, both great
and small.”

<key:bcv=Esther 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:21">21 </verse></sup>This advice pleased the king and the princes,
and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
<key:bcv=Esther 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Esther 1:22">22 </verse></sup>for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces,
into every province according to its writing, and
to every people in their language, that every man
should rule his own house, speaking in the language
of his own people.

#BCV:Esther 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Esther 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, when the wrath of King
Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and
what she had done, and what was decreed against
her. <key:bcv=Esther 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Then the king’s servants who served him said,
“Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces
of his kingdom, that they may gather together all
the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa,
to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the
king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics
be given them; <key:bcv=Esther 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:4">4 </verse></sup>and let the maiden who pleases the
king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased
the king, and he did so.

<key:bcv=Esther 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:5">5 </verse></sup>There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa
whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son
of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, <key:bcv=Esther 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:6">6 </verse></sup>who had
been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives
who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of
Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
had carried away. <key:bcv=Esther 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:7">7 </verse></sup>He brought up Hadassah, that
is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither
father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful;
and when her father and mother were dead,
Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:8">8 </verse></sup>So, when the king’s commandment and his decree
was heard, and when many maidens were gathered
together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody
of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to
the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. <key:bcv=Esther 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:9">9 </verse></sup>The
maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness
from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her
portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who
were to be given her out of the king’s house. He
moved her and her maidens to the best place in
the women’s house. <key:bcv=Esther 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Esther had not made known
her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had
instructed her that she should not make it known.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Mordecai walked every day in front of the court
of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was
doing, and what would become of her.

<key:bcv=Esther 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Each young woman’s turn came to go in to
King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve
months (for so were the days of their purification
accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh,
and six months with sweet fragrances and with
preparations for beautifying women). <key:bcv=Esther 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The young
woman then came to the king like this: whatever
she desired was given her to go with her out of
the women’s house to the king’s house. <key:bcv=Esther 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:14">14 </verse></sup>In the
evening she went, and on the next day she returned
into the second women’s house, to the custody of
Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines.
She came in to the king no more, unless the
king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of
Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her
for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she
required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch,
the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained
favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:16">16 </verse></sup>So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his
royal house in the tenth month, which is the month
Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. <key:bcv=Esther 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The
king loved Esther more than all the women, and she
obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than
all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her
head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Then the king made a great feast for all his
princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and
he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave
gifts according to the king’s bounty.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:19">19 </verse></sup>When the virgins were gathered together the
second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
<key:bcv=Esther 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor
her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for
Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was
brought up by him. <key:bcv=Esther 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:21">21 </verse></sup>In those days, while Mordecai
was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs,
Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers,
were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King
Ahasuerus. <key:bcv=Esther 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:22">22 </verse></sup>This thing became known to Mordecai,
who informed Esther the queen; and Esther
informed the king in Mordecai’s name. <key:bcv=Esther 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Esther 2:23">23 </verse></sup>When
this matter was investigated, and it was found to be
so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was
written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s
presence.

#BCV:Esther 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things King Ahasuerus promoted
Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and
advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes
who were with him. <key:bcv=Esther 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:2">2 </verse></sup>All the king’s servants
who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid
homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded
concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or
pay him homage. <key:bcv=Esther 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Then the king’s servants who
were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do
you disobey the king’s commandment?” <key:bcv=Esther 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Now it
came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and
he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to
see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he
had told them that he was a Jew. <key:bcv=Esther 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:5">5 </verse></sup>When Haman
saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down nor pay him
homage, Haman was full of wrath. <key:bcv=Esther 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:6">6 </verse></sup>But he scorned
the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for
they had made known to him Mordecai’s people.
Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who
were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus,
even Mordecai’s people.

<key:bcv=Esther 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:7">7 </verse></sup>In the first month, which is the month Nisan,
in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast
Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day,
and from month to month, and chose the twelfth
month, which is the month Adar. <key:bcv=Esther 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Haman said to
King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered
abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all
the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are
different from other people’s. They don’t keep the
king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit
to allow them to remain. <key:bcv=Esther 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:9">9 </verse></sup>If it pleases the king, let it
be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten
thousand talents<footnote:1>3:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces</footnote> of silver into the hands of those
who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it
into the king’s treasuries.”

<key:bcv=Esther 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:10">10 </verse></sup>The king took his ring from his hand, and gave
it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite,
the Jews’ enemy. <key:bcv=Esther 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The king said to Haman, “The
silver is given to you, the people also, to do with
them as it seems good to you.”

<key:bcv=Esther 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the king’s scribes were called in on the
first month, on the thirteenth day of the month;
and all that Haman commanded was written to the
king’s local governors, and to the governors who
were over every province, and to the princes of
every people, to every province according to its
writing, and to every people in their language. It
was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it
was sealed with the king’s ring. <key:bcv=Esther 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Letters were sent
by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy,
to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young
and old, little children and women, in one day, even
on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which
is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
<key:bcv=Esther 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:14">14 </verse></sup>A copy of the letter, that the decree should be
given out in every province, was published to all
the peoples, that they should be ready against that
day. <key:bcv=Esther 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 3:15">15 </verse></sup>The couriers went out in haste by the king’s
commandment, and the decree was given out in the
citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to
drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
#BCV:Esther 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Esther 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when Mordecai found out all that was done,
Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with
ashes, and went out into the middle of the city,
and wailed loudly and bitterly. <key:bcv=Esther 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:2">2 </verse></sup>He came even
before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside
the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. <key:bcv=Esther 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:3">3 </verse></sup>In every
province, wherever the king’s commandment and
his decree came, there was great mourning among
the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and
many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

<key:bcv=Esther 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told
her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved.
She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth,
but he didn’t receive it. <key:bcv=Esther 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Esther called
for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he
had appointed to attend her, and commanded him
to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and
why it was. <key:bcv=Esther 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:6">6 </verse></sup>So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to
the city square which was before the king’s gate.
<key:bcv=Esther 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Mordecai told him of all that had happened to
him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman
had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the
destruction of the Jews. <key:bcv=Esther 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:8">8 </verse></sup>He also gave him the copy
of the writing of the decree that was given out in
Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to
declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king
to make supplication to him, and to make request
before him for her people.

<key:bcv=Esther 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Hathach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai. <key:bcv=Esther 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and
gave him a message to Mordecai: <key:bcv=Esther 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:11">11 </verse></sup>“All the king’s
servants and the people of the king’s provinces
know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes
to the king into the inner court without being
called, there is one law for him, that he be put to
death, except those to whom the king might hold
out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not
been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
<key:bcv=Esther 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:12">12 </verse></sup>They told Esther’s words to Mordecai. <key:bcv=Esther 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Then
Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther:
“Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in
the king’s house any more than all the Jews. <key:bcv=Esther 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:14">14 </verse></sup>For if
you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance
will come to the Jews from another place, but you
and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if
you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as
this?”

<key:bcv=Esther 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
<key:bcv=Esther 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:16">16 </verse></sup>“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present
in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink
three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also
fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king,
which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
<key:bcv=Esther 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Esther 4:17">17 </verse></sup>So Mordecai went his way, and did according to
all that Esther had commanded him.

#BCV:Esther 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Esther 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal
clothing and stood in the inner court of the king’s
house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on
his royal throne in the royal house, next to the
entrance of the house. <key:bcv=Esther 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:2">2 </verse></sup>When the king saw Esther
the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor
in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the
golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came
near and touched the top of the scepter.
<key:bcv=Esther 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Then the king asked her, “What would you like,
queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be
given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
<key:bcv=Esther 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the
king and Haman come today to the banquet that I
have prepared for him.”

<key:bcv=Esther 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so
that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king
and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had
prepared.

<key:bcv=Esther 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:6">6 </verse></sup>The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine,
“What is your petition? It shall be granted you.
What is your request? Even to the half of the
kingdom it shall be performed.”

<key:bcv=Esther 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Esther answered and said, “My petition
and my request is this. <key:bcv=Esther 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:8">8 </verse></sup>If I have found favor in
the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to
grant my petition and to perform my request, let
the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will
prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king
has said.”

<key:bcv=Esther 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad
of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the
king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for
him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
<key:bcv=Esther 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went
home. There, he sent and called for his friends and
Zeresh his wife. <key:bcv=Esther 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Haman recounted to them the
glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all
the things in which the king had promoted him, and
how he had advanced him above the princes and
servants of the king.

<key:bcv=Esther 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no
man come in with the king to the banquet that she
had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also
invited by her together with the king. <key:bcv=Esther 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet all this
avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew
sitting at the king’s gate.”

<key:bcv=Esther 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said
to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits<footnote:1>5:14 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> high,
and in the morning speak to the king about hanging
Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to
the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the
gallows made.

#BCV:Esther 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:1">1 </verse></sup>On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He
commanded the book of records of the chronicles to
be brought, and they were read to the king. <key:bcv=Esther 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:2">2 </verse></sup>It was
found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana
and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were
doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the
King Ahasuerus. <key:bcv=Esther 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:3">3 </verse></sup>The king said, “What honor and
dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”
Then the king’s servants who attended him said,
“Nothing has been done for him.”

<key:bcv=Esther 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:4">4 </verse></sup>The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now
Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s
house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai
on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
<key:bcv=Esther 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:5">5 </verse></sup>The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,<footnote:1>6:5 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote>
Haman stands in the court.”

The king said, “Let him come in.” <key:bcv=Esther 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:6">6 </verse></sup>So Haman
came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done
to the man whom the king delights to honor?”
Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the
king delight to honor more than myself?” <key:bcv=Esther 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Haman
said to the king, “For the man whom the king
delights to honor, <key:bcv=Esther 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:8">8 </verse></sup>let royal clothing be brought
which the king uses to wear, and the horse that
the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal
crown is set. <key:bcv=Esther 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Let the clothing and the horse be
delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble
princes, that they may array the man whom the
king delights to honor with them, and have him ride
on horseback through the city square, and proclaim
before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom
the king delights to honor!’ ”

<key:bcv=Esther 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take
the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do
this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate.
Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”
<key:bcv=Esther 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Haman took the clothing and the horse,
and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through
the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus
it shall be done to the man whom the king delights
to honor!”

<key:bcv=Esther 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but
Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having
his head covered. <key:bcv=Esther 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Haman recounted to Zeresh
his wife and all his friends everything that had
happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh
his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you
have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not
prevail against him, but you will surely fall before
him.” <key:bcv=Esther 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 6:14">14 </verse></sup>While they were yet talking with him, the
king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman
to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

#BCV:Esther 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:1">1 </verse></sup>So the king and Haman came to banquet with
Esther the queen. <key:bcv=Esther 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:2">2 </verse></sup>The king said again to Esther
on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What
is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted
you. What is your request? Even to the half of the
kingdom it shall be performed.”

<key:bcv=Esther 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have
found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases
the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and
my people at my request. <key:bcv=Esther 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:4">4 </verse></sup>For we are sold, I and my
people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I
would have held my peace, although the adversary
could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
<key:bcv=Esther 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen,
“Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in
his heart to do so?”

<key:bcv=Esther 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even
this wicked Haman!”
<br>
Then Haman was afraid before the king and the
queen. <key:bcv=Esther 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:7">7 </verse></sup>The king arose in his wrath from the
banquet of wine and went into the palace garden.
Haman stood up to make request for his life to
Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil
determined against him by the king. <key:bcv=Esther 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the king
returned out of the palace garden into the place
of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on
the couch where Esther was. Then the king said,
“Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the
house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth,
they covered Haman’s face.

<key:bcv=Esther 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were
with the king, said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits<footnote:1>7:9 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
high, which Haman has made for Mordecai,
who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s
house.”
<br>
The king said, “Hang him on it!”

<key:bcv=Esther 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 7:10">10 </verse></sup>So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he
had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath
was pacified.

#BCV:Esther 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:1">1 </verse></sup>On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house
of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen.
Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told
what he was to her. <key:bcv=Esther 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:2">2 </verse></sup>The king took off his ring,
which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to
Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of
Haman.

<key:bcv=Esther 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell
down at his feet and begged him with tears to put
away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his
plan that he had planned against the Jews. <key:bcv=Esther 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Then
the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So
Esther arose, and stood before the king. <key:bcv=Esther 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:5">5 </verse></sup>She said,
“If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his
sight, and the thing seems right to the king, and I am
pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha
the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews
who are in all the king’s provinces. <key:bcv=Esther 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:6">6 </verse></sup>For how can
I endure to see the evil that would come to my
people? How can I endure to see the destruction of
my relatives?”

<key:bcv=Esther 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen
and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther
the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on
the gallows because he laid his hand on the Jews.
<key:bcv=Esther 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Write also to the Jews as it pleases you, in the
king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for
the writing which is written in the king’s name, and
sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by
any man.”

<key:bcv=Esther 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Then the king’s scribes were called at that time,
in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the
twenty-third day of the month; and it was written
according to all that Mordecai commanded to the
Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors
and princes of the provinces which are from India
to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces,
to every province according to its writing, and to
every people in their language, and to the Jews
in their writing, and in their language. <key:bcv=Esther 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:10">10 </verse></sup>He
wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed
it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier
on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred
from swift steeds. <key:bcv=Esther 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:11">11 </verse></sup>In those letters, the king
granted the Jews who were in every city to gather
themselves together and to defend their lives —
to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the
power of the people and province that would assault
them, their little ones and women, and to plunder
their possessions, <key:bcv=Esther 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:12">12 </verse></sup>on one day in all the provinces
of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the
twelfth month, which is the month Adar. <key:bcv=Esther 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:13">13 </verse></sup>A copy
of the letter, that the decree should be given out
in every province, was published to all the peoples,
that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge
themselves on their enemies. <key:bcv=Esther 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:14">14 </verse></sup>So the couriers
who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and
pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree
was given out in the citadel of Susa.
<key:bcv=Esther 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Mordecai went out of the presence of the king
in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a
great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen
and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was
glad. <key:bcv=Esther 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:16">16 </verse></sup>The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
<key:bcv=Esther 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Esther 8:17">17 </verse></sup>In every province and in every city, wherever the
king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews
had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from
among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the
fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

#BCV:Esther 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the twelfth month, which is the month
Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the
king’s commandment and his decree came near to
be put in execution, on the day that the enemies
of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it turned
out that the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered
those who hated them), <key:bcv=Esther 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:2">2 </verse></sup>the Jews gathered
themselves together in their cities throughout all
the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands
on those who wanted to harm them. No one could
withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen
on all the people. <key:bcv=Esther 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:3">3 </verse></sup>All the princes of the provinces,
the local governors, the governors, and those who
did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the
fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. <key:bcv=Esther 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:4">4 </verse></sup>For Mordecai
was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out
throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai
grew greater and greater. <key:bcv=Esther 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:5">5 </verse></sup>The Jews struck all
their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and
with slaughter and destruction, and did what they
wanted to those who hated them. <key:bcv=Esther 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:6">6 </verse></sup>In the citadel
of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred
men. <key:bcv=Esther 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:7">7 </verse></sup>They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
<key:bcv=Esther 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, <key:bcv=Esther 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Parmashta, Arisai,
Aridai, and Vaizatha, <key:bcv=Esther 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:10">10 </verse></sup>the ten sons of Haman the
son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they
didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
<key:bcv=Esther 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:11">11 </verse></sup>On that day, the number of those who were
slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the
king. <key:bcv=Esther 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:12">12 </verse></sup>The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews
have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the
citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman;
what then have they done in the rest of the king’s
provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be
granted you. What is your further request? It shall
be done.”

<key:bcv=Esther 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be
granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow
also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s
ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

<key:bcv=Esther 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:14">14 </verse></sup>The king commanded this to be done. A decree
was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s
ten sons. <key:bcv=Esther 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:15">15 </verse></sup>The Jews who were in Susa gathered
themselves together on the fourteenth day also of
the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in
Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
<key:bcv=Esther 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:16">16 </verse></sup>The other Jews who were in the king’s
provinces gathered themselves together, defended
their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed
seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but
they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. <key:bcv=Esther 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:17">17 </verse></sup>This
was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar;
and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested
and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
<key:bcv=Esther 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:18">18 </verse></sup>But the Jews who were in Susa assembled
together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth
days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that
month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting
and gladness. <key:bcv=Esther 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore the Jews of the villages,
who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth
day of the month Adar a day of gladness and
feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of
food to one another.

<key:bcv=Esther 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters
to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the
King Ahasuerus, both near and far, <key:bcv=Esther 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:21">21 </verse></sup>to enjoin them
that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth
days of the month Adar yearly, <key:bcv=Esther 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:22">22 </verse></sup>as the days in
which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and
the month which was turned to them from sorrow
to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday;
that they should make them days of feasting and
gladness, and of sending presents of food to one
another, and gifts to the needy. <key:bcv=Esther 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:23">23 </verse></sup>The Jews accepted
the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai
had written to them, <key:bcv=Esther 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:24">24 </verse></sup>because Haman the son
of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the
Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them,
and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume
them and to destroy them; <key:bcv=Esther 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:25">25 </verse></sup>but when this became
known to the king, he commanded by letters that
his wicked plan, which he had planned against the
Jews, should return on his own head, and that he
and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
<key:bcv=Esther 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore they called these days “Purim”,<footnote:1>9:26 Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot. </footnote>
from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the
words of this letter, and of that which they had
seen concerning this matter, and that which had
come to them, <key:bcv=Esther 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:27">27 </verse></sup>the Jews established and imposed
on themselves, on their descendants, and on all
those who joined themselves to them, so that it
should not fail that they would keep these two days
according to what was written and according to its
appointed time every year; <key:bcv=Esther 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:28">28 </verse></sup>and that these days
should be remembered and kept throughout every
generation, every family, every province, and every
city; and that these days of Purim should not fail
from among the Jews, nor their memory perish
from their offspring.<footnote:1>9:28 or, seed</footnote>

<key:bcv=Esther 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail,
and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to
confirm this second letter of Purim. <key:bcv=Esther 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:30">30 </verse></sup>He sent
letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven
provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words
of peace and truth, <key:bcv=Esther 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:31">31 </verse></sup>to confirm these days of Purim
in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and
Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had
imposed upon themselves and their descendants
in the matter of the fastings and their mourning.
<key:bcv=Esther 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Esther 9:32">32 </verse></sup>The commandment of Esther confirmed these
matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

#BCV:Esther 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Esther 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Esther 10:1">1 </verse></sup>King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and
on the islands of the sea. <key:bcv=Esther 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Esther 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Aren’t all the acts of his
power and of his might, and the full account of the
greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced
him, written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Media and Persia? <key:bcv=Esther 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Esther 10:3">3 </verse></sup>For Mordecai the Jew
was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the
Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brothers,
seeking the good of his people and speaking peace
to all his descendants.

#OUTLINE:1,Job
<h2>The Book of Job</h2>

<key:bcv=Job 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:1">1 </verse></sup>There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name
was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and
one who feared God,<footnote:1>1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> and turned away from evil.
<key:bcv=Job 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:2">2 </verse></sup>There were born to him seven sons and three
daughters. <key:bcv=Job 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:3">3 </verse></sup>His possessions also were seven thousand
sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred
yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and
a very great household; so that this man was the
greatest of all the children of the east. <key:bcv=Job 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:4">4 </verse></sup>His sons
went and held a feast in the house of each one
on his birthday; and they sent and called for their
three sisters to eat and to drink with them. <key:bcv=Job 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:5">5 </verse></sup>It was
so, when the days of their feasting had run their
course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose
up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings
according to the number of them all. For Job said,
“It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced
God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
<key:bcv=Job 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Now on the day when God’s sons came to
present themselves before Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> Satan also
came among them. <key:bcv=Job 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Where
have you come from?”
<br>
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From
going back and forth in the earth, and from walking
up and down in it.”

<key:bcv=Job 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my
servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the
earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who
fears God, and turns away from evil.”
<key:bcv=Job 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does
Job fear God for nothing? <key:bcv=Job 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Haven’t you made
a hedge around him, and around his house, and
around all that he has, on every side? You have
blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is
increased in the land. <key:bcv=Job 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:11">11 </verse></sup>But stretch out your hand
now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce
you to your face.”

<key:bcv=Job 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:12 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> all that he has
is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out
your hand.”
<br>
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Job 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:13">13 </verse></sup>It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their oldest
brother’s house, <key:bcv=Job 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:14">14 </verse></sup>that a messenger came to Job,
and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys
feeding beside them, <key:bcv=Job 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:15">15 </verse></sup>and the Sabeans attacked,
and took them away. Yes, they have killed the
servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone
have escaped to tell you.”

<key:bcv=Job 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:16">16 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, another also came
and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky,
and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and
consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell
you.”

<key:bcv=Job 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:17">17 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, another also came
and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and
swept down on the camels, and have taken them
away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of
the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
<key:bcv=Job 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:18">18 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, there came also another,
and said, “Your sons and your daughters were
eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s
house, <key:bcv=Job 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:19">19 </verse></sup>and behold, there came a great wind from
the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the
house, and it fell on the young men, and they are
dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
<key:bcv=Job 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved
his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
<key:bcv=Job 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:21">21 </verse></sup>He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s
womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave,
and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s
name.” <key:bcv=Job 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 1:22">22 </verse></sup>In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God
with wrongdoing.

#BCV:Job 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Again, on the day when God’s sons came to
present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also
among them to present himself before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Job 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come
from?”
<br>
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going
back and forth in the earth, and from walking up
and down in it.”

<key:bcv=Job 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered
my servant Job? For there is no one like him in
the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one
who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still
maintains his integrity, although you incited me
against him, to ruin him without cause.”
<key:bcv=Job 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for
skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
<key:bcv=Job 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:5">5 </verse></sup>But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone
and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
<key:bcv=Job 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your
hand. Only spare his life.”

<key:bcv=Job 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:7">7 </verse></sup>So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh,
and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his
foot to his head. <key:bcv=Job 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:8">8 </verse></sup>He took for himself a potsherd
to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
<key:bcv=Job 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain
your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
<key:bcv=Job 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:10">10 </verse></sup>But he said to her, “You speak as one of the
foolish women would speak. What? Shall we
receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not
receive evil?”

In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. <key:bcv=Job 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Now
when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that
had come on him, they each came from his own
place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite,
and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an
appointment together to come to sympathize with
him and to comfort him. <key:bcv=Job 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:12">12 </verse></sup>When they lifted up
their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize
him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they
each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads
toward the sky. <key:bcv=Job 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 2:13">13 </verse></sup>So they sat down with him on
the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one
spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was
very great.

#BCV:Job 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:1">1 </verse></sup>After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the
day of his birth. <key:bcv=Job 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Job answered:

<key:bcv=Job 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:3">3 </verse></sup>“Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
<key:bcv=Job 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Let that day be darkness.
<br>
Don’t let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it.

<key:bcv=Job 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for
their own.
<br>
Let a cloud dwell on it.
<br>
Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
<key:bcv=Job 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:6">6 </verse></sup>As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
Let it not come into the number of the months.
<key:bcv=Job 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, let that night be barren.
<br>
Let no joyful voice come therein.

<key:bcv=Job 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

<key:bcv=Job 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
<key:bcv=Job 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:10">10 </verse></sup>because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s
womb,
<br>
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
<key:bcv=Job 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:11">11 </verse></sup>“Why didn’t I die from the womb?
<br>
Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother
bore me?

<key:bcv=Job 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Why did the knees receive me?
<br>
Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
<key:bcv=Job 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:13">13 </verse></sup>For now I should have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at
rest,

<key:bcv=Job 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:14">14 </verse></sup>with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built up waste places for themselves;
<key:bcv=Job 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:15">15 </verse></sup>or with princes who had gold,
<br>
who filled their houses with silver;

<key:bcv=Job 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:16">16 </verse></sup>or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
as infants who never saw light.

<key:bcv=Job 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:17">17 </verse></sup>There the wicked cease from troubling.
There the weary are at rest.

<key:bcv=Job 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:18">18 </verse></sup>There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
<key:bcv=Job 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:19">19 </verse></sup>The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.

<key:bcv=Job 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:20">20 </verse></sup>“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
life to the bitter in soul,

<key:bcv=Job 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:21">21 </verse></sup>who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
<key:bcv=Job 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:22">22 </verse></sup>who rejoice exceedingly,
<br>
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
<key:bcv=Job 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?

<key:bcv=Job 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:24">24 </verse></sup>For my sighing comes before I eat.
My groanings are poured out like water.
<key:bcv=Job 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:25">25 </verse></sup>For the thing which I fear comes on me,
that which I am afraid of comes to me.
<key:bcv=Job 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 3:26">26 </verse></sup>I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I
have rest;
<br>
but trouble comes.”

#BCV:Job 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:2">2 </verse></sup>“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be
grieved?
<br>
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
<key:bcv=Job 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, you have instructed many,
<br>
you have strengthened the weak hands.
<key:bcv=Job 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Your words have supported him who was falling,
you have made the feeble knees firm.

<key:bcv=Job 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:5">5 </verse></sup>But now it has come to you, and you faint.
It touches you, and you are troubled.
<key:bcv=Job 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Isn’t your piety your confidence?
<br>
Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
<key:bcv=Job 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:7">7 </verse></sup>“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent?
Or where were the upright cut off?

<key:bcv=Job 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:8">8 </verse></sup>According to what I have seen, those who plow
iniquity
<br>
and sow trouble, reap the same.

<key:bcv=Job 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:9">9 </verse></sup>By the breath of God they perish.
<br>
By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
<key:bcv=Job 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:10">10 </verse></sup>The roaring of the lion,
<br>
and the voice of the fierce lion,
<br>
the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
<key:bcv=Job 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:11">11 </verse></sup>The old lion perishes for lack of prey.
The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
<key:bcv=Job 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:12">12 </verse></sup>“Now a thing was secretly brought to me.
My ear received a whisper of it.

<key:bcv=Job 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:13">13 </verse></sup>In thoughts from the visions of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,

<key:bcv=Job 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:14">14 </verse></sup>fear came on me, and trembling,
<br>
which made all my bones shake.

<key:bcv=Job 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Then a spirit passed before my face.
The hair of my flesh stood up.

<key:bcv=Job 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:16">16 </verse></sup>It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance.
A form was before my eyes.
<br>
Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
<key:bcv=Job 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:17">17 </verse></sup>‘Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
<key:bcv=Job 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, he puts no trust in his servants.
He charges his angels with error.

<key:bcv=Job 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:19">19 </verse></sup>How much more those who dwell in houses of
clay,
<br>
whose foundation is in the dust,
<br>
who are crushed before the moth!

<key:bcv=Job 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Between morning and evening they are destroyed.
They perish forever without any regarding it.
<key:bcv=Job 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them?
They die, and that without wisdom.’

#BCV:Job 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:1">1 </verse></sup>“Call now; is there any who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
<key:bcv=Job 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:2">2 </verse></sup>For resentment kills the foolish man,
and jealousy kills the simple.

<key:bcv=Job 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:3">3 </verse></sup>I have seen the foolish taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

<key:bcv=Job 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:4">4 </verse></sup>His children are far from safety.
<br>
They are crushed in the gate.
<br>
Neither is there any to deliver them,
<key:bcv=Job 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:5">5 </verse></sup>whose harvest the hungry eat up,
<br>
and take it even out of the thorns.
<br>
The snare gapes for their substance.

<key:bcv=Job 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:6">6 </verse></sup>For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
<key:bcv=Job 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:7">7 </verse></sup>but man is born to trouble,
<br>
as the sparks fly upward.

<key:bcv=Job 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:8">8 </verse></sup>“But as for me, I would seek God.
<br>
I would commit my cause to God,

<key:bcv=Job 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:9">9 </verse></sup>who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
marvelous things without number;

<key:bcv=Job 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:10">10 </verse></sup>who gives rain on the earth,
<br>
and sends waters on the fields;

<key:bcv=Job 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:11">11 </verse></sup>so that he sets up on high those who are low,
those who mourn are exalted to safety.
<key:bcv=Job 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:12">12 </verse></sup>He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
<key:bcv=Job 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:13">13 </verse></sup>He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
<key:bcv=Job 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:14">14 </verse></sup>They meet with darkness in the day time,
and grope at noonday as in the night.
<key:bcv=Job 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:15">15 </verse></sup>But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
<key:bcv=Job 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:16">16 </verse></sup>So the poor has hope,
<br>
and injustice shuts her mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:17">17 </verse></sup>“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the
Almighty.

<key:bcv=Job 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:18">18 </verse></sup>For he wounds and binds up.
<br>
He injures and his hands make whole.

<key:bcv=Job 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:19">19 </verse></sup>He will deliver you in six troubles;
yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
<key:bcv=Job 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:20">20 </verse></sup>In famine he will redeem you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword.

<key:bcv=Job 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:21">21 </verse></sup>You will be hidden from the scourge of the
tongue,
<br>
neither will you be afraid of destruction when
it comes.

<key:bcv=Job 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:22">22 </verse></sup>You will laugh at destruction and famine,
neither will you be afraid of the animals of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Job 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:23">23 </verse></sup>For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
The animals of the field will be at peace with
you.

<key:bcv=Job 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:24">24 </verse></sup>You will know that your tent is in peace.
You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
<key:bcv=Job 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:25">25 </verse></sup>You will know also that your offspring<footnote:1>5:25 or, seed</footnote> will be
great,
<br>
your offspring as the grass of the earth.
<key:bcv=Job 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:26">26 </verse></sup>You will come to your grave in a full age,
like a shock of grain comes in its season.
<key:bcv=Job 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 5:27">27 </verse></sup>Behold, we have researched it. It is so.
Hear it, and know it for your good.”

#BCV:Job 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:2">2 </verse></sup>“Oh that my anguish were weighed,
<br>
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
<key:bcv=Job 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:3">3 </verse></sup>For now it would be heavier than the sand of the
seas,
<br>
therefore my words have been rash.

<key:bcv=Job 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:4">4 </verse></sup>For the arrows of the Almighty are within me.
My spirit drinks up their poison.
<br>
The terrors of God set themselves in array against
me.

<key:bcv=Job 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass?
Or does the ox low over his fodder?

<key:bcv=Job 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Can that which has no flavor be eaten without
salt?
<br>
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
<key:bcv=Job 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:7">7 </verse></sup>My soul refuses to touch them.
<br>
They are as loathsome food to me.

<key:bcv=Job 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:8">8 </verse></sup>“Oh that I might have my request,
<br>
that God would grant the thing that I long for,
<key:bcv=Job 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:9">9 </verse></sup>even that it would please God to crush me;
that he would let loose his hand, and cut me
off!

<key:bcv=Job 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Let it still be my consolation,
<br>
yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare,
that I have not denied the words of the Holy
One.

<key:bcv=Job 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:11">11 </verse></sup>What is my strength, that I should wait?
What is my end, that I should be patient?
<key:bcv=Job 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Is my strength the strength of stones?
Or is my flesh of bronze?

<key:bcv=Job 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Isn’t it that I have no help in me,
that wisdom is driven away from me?

<key:bcv=Job 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:14">14 </verse></sup>“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be
shown from his friend;
<br>
even to him who forsakes the fear of the
Almighty.

<key:bcv=Job 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:15">15 </verse></sup>My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
as the channel of brooks that pass away;
<key:bcv=Job 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:16">16 </verse></sup>which are black by reason of the ice,
in which the snow hides itself.

<key:bcv=Job 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:17">17 </verse></sup>In the dry season, they vanish.
<br>
When it is hot, they are consumed out of their
place.

<key:bcv=Job 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:18">18 </verse></sup>The caravans that travel beside them turn away.
They go up into the waste, and perish.
<key:bcv=Job 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:19">19 </verse></sup>The caravans of Tema looked.
<br>
The companies of Sheba waited for them.
<key:bcv=Job 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:20">20 </verse></sup>They were distressed because they were confident.
They came there, and were confounded.
<key:bcv=Job 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:21">21 </verse></sup>For now you are nothing.
<br>
You see a terror, and are afraid.

<key:bcv=Job 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Did I ever say, ‘Give to me?’
<br>
or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’
<key:bcv=Job 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:23">23 </verse></sup>or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’
or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
<key:bcv=Job 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:24">24 </verse></sup>“Teach me, and I will hold my peace.
Cause me to understand my error.

<key:bcv=Job 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:25">25 </verse></sup>How forcible are words of uprightness!
But your reproof, what does it reprove?
<key:bcv=Job 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Do you intend to reprove words,
<br>
since the speeches of one who is desperate are
as wind?

<key:bcv=Job 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless,
and make merchandise of your friend.

<key:bcv=Job 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:28">28 </verse></sup>Now therefore be pleased to look at me,
for surely I will not lie to your face.
<key:bcv=Job 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:29">29 </verse></sup>Please return.
<br>
Let there be no injustice.
<br>
Yes, return again.
<br>
My cause is righteous.

<key:bcv=Job 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Is there injustice on my tongue?
<br>
Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

#BCV:Job 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:1">1 </verse></sup>“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth?
Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
<key:bcv=Job 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:2">2 </verse></sup>As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,
as a hireling who looks for his wages,
<key:bcv=Job 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:3">3 </verse></sup>so I am made to possess months of misery,
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
<key:bcv=Job 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:4">4 </verse></sup>When I lie down, I say,
<br>
‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’
I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
<key:bcv=Job 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:5">5 </verse></sup>My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
<key:bcv=Job 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:6">6 </verse></sup>My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and are spent without hope.

<key:bcv=Job 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Oh remember that my life is a breath.
My eye will no more see good.

<key:bcv=Job 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:8">8 </verse></sup>The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
<key:bcv=Job 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:9">9 </verse></sup>As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
so he who goes down to Sheol<footnote:1>7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> will come up no
more.

<key:bcv=Job 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:10">10 </verse></sup>He will return no more to his house,
neither will his place know him any more.
<key:bcv=Job 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:11">11 </verse></sup>“Therefore I will not keep silent.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
<key:bcv=Job 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
<br>
that you put a guard over me?

<key:bcv=Job 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:13">13 </verse></sup>When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
My couch will ease my complaint,’

<key:bcv=Job 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:14">14 </verse></sup>then you scare me with dreams
<br>
and terrify me through visions,

<key:bcv=Job 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:15">15 </verse></sup>so that my soul chooses strangling,
death rather than my bones.

<key:bcv=Job 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:16">16 </verse></sup>I loathe my life.
<br>
I don’t want to live forever.
<br>
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
<key:bcv=Job 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:17">17 </verse></sup>What is man, that you should magnify him,
that you should set your mind on him,
<key:bcv=Job 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:18">18 </verse></sup>that you should visit him every morning,
and test him every moment?

<key:bcv=Job 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:19">19 </verse></sup>How long will you not look away from me,
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my
spittle?

<key:bcv=Job 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:20">20 </verse></sup>If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher
of men?
<br>
Why have you set me as a mark for you,
so that I am a burden to myself?

<key:bcv=Job 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and
take away my iniquity?
<br>
For now will I lie down in the dust.
<br>
You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

#BCV:Job 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:2">2 </verse></sup>“How long will you speak these things?
Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty
wind?

<key:bcv=Job 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Does God pervert justice?
<br>
Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
<key:bcv=Job 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:4">4 </verse></sup>If your children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their
disobedience.

<key:bcv=Job 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:5">5 </verse></sup>If you want to seek God diligently,
make your supplication to the Almighty.
<key:bcv=Job 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:6">6 </verse></sup>If you were pure and upright,
<br>
surely now he would awaken for you,
<br>
and make the habitation of your righteousness
prosperous.

<key:bcv=Job 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Though your beginning was small,
<br>
yet your latter end would greatly increase.
<key:bcv=Job 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:8">8 </verse></sup>“Please inquire of past generations.
Find out about the learning of their fathers.
<key:bcv=Job 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:9">9 </verse></sup>(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days on earth are a shadow.)
<key:bcv=Job 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Shall they not teach you, tell you,
and utter words out of their heart?

<key:bcv=Job 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:11">11 </verse></sup>“Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
Can the rushes grow without water?

<key:bcv=Job 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:12">12 </verse></sup>While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
it withers before any other reed.

<key:bcv=Job 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:13">13 </verse></sup>So are the paths of all who forget God.
The hope of the godless man will perish,
<key:bcv=Job 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:14">14 </verse></sup>whose confidence will break apart,
whose trust is a spider’s web.

<key:bcv=Job 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.
He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
<key:bcv=Job 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:16">16 </verse></sup>He is green before the sun.
<br>
His shoots go out along his garden.

<key:bcv=Job 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:17">17 </verse></sup>His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
He sees the place of stones.

<key:bcv=Job 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:18">18 </verse></sup>If he is destroyed from his place,
then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen
you.’

<key:bcv=Job 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, this is the joy of his way.
Out of the earth, others will spring.
<key:bcv=Job 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:20">20 </verse></sup>“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,
neither will he uphold the evildoers.
<key:bcv=Job 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:21">21 </verse></sup>He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
your lips with shouting.

<key:bcv=Job 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.
The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

#BCV:Job 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:2">2 </verse></sup>“Truly I know that it is so,
<br>
but how can man be just with God?

<key:bcv=Job 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:3">3 </verse></sup>If he is pleased to contend with him,
he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
<key:bcv=Job 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:4">4 </verse></sup>God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
Who has hardened himself against him and
prospered?

<key:bcv=Job 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:5">5 </verse></sup>He removes the mountains, and they don’t know
it,
<br>
when he overturns them in his anger.

<key:bcv=Job 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:6">6 </verse></sup>He shakes the earth out of its place.
Its pillars tremble.

<key:bcv=Job 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:7">7 </verse></sup>He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
and seals up the stars.

<key:bcv=Job 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:8">8 </verse></sup>He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on the waves of the sea.

<key:bcv=Job 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:9">9 </verse></sup>He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
and the rooms of the south.

<key:bcv=Job 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:10">10 </verse></sup>He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvelous things without number.
<key:bcv=Job 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
<key:bcv=Job 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, he snatches away.
<br>
Who can hinder him?
<br>
Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
<key:bcv=Job 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:13">13 </verse></sup>“God will not withdraw his anger.
<br>
The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
<key:bcv=Job 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:14">14 </verse></sup>How much less will I answer him,
<br>
and choose my words to argue with him?
<key:bcv=Job 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer
him.
<br>
I would make supplication to my judge.
<key:bcv=Job 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:16">16 </verse></sup>If I had called, and he had answered me,
yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my
voice.

<key:bcv=Job 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:17">17 </verse></sup>For he breaks me with a storm,
<br>
and multiplies my wounds without cause.
<key:bcv=Job 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:18">18 </verse></sup>He will not allow me to catch my breath,
but fills me with bitterness.

<key:bcv=Job 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:19">19 </verse></sup>If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!
If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
<key:bcv=Job 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Though I am righteous, my own mouth will
condemn me.
<br>
Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
<key:bcv=Job 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:21">21 </verse></sup>I am blameless.
<br>
I don’t respect myself.
<br>
I despise my life.

<key:bcv=Job 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:22">22 </verse></sup>“It is all the same.
<br>
Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and
the wicked.

<key:bcv=Job 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:23">23 </verse></sup>If the scourge kills suddenly,
<br>
he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
<key:bcv=Job 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:24">24 </verse></sup>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
He covers the faces of its judges.
<br>
If not he, then who is it?

<key:bcv=Job 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:25">25 </verse></sup>“Now my days are swifter than a runner.
They flee away. They see no good.

<key:bcv=Job 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:26">26 </verse></sup>They have passed away as the swift ships,
as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
<key:bcv=Job 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:27">27 </verse></sup>If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
<key:bcv=Job 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:28">28 </verse></sup>I am afraid of all my sorrows.
<br>
I know that you will not hold me innocent.
<key:bcv=Job 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:29">29 </verse></sup>I will be condemned.
<br>
Why then do I labor in vain?

<key:bcv=Job 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:30">30 </verse></sup>If I wash myself with snow,
<br>
and cleanse my hands with lye,

<key:bcv=Job 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:31">31 </verse></sup>yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
My own clothes will abhor me.

<key:bcv=Job 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:32">32 </verse></sup>For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer
him,
<br>
that we should come together in judgment.
<key:bcv=Job 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:33">33 </verse></sup>There is no umpire between us,
<br>
that might lay his hand on us both.

<key:bcv=Job 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:34">34 </verse></sup>Let him take his rod away from me.
Let his terror not make me afraid;

<key:bcv=Job 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Job 9:35">35 </verse></sup>then I would speak, and not fear him,
for I am not so in myself.

#BCV:Job 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:1">1 </verse></sup>“My soul is weary of my life.
<br>
I will give free course to my complaint.
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
<key:bcv=Job 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:2">2 </verse></sup>I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.
Show me why you contend with me.

<key:bcv=Job 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Is it good to you that you should oppress,
that you should despise the work of your
hands,
<br>
and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
<key:bcv=Job 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Do you have eyes of flesh?
<br>
Or do you see as man sees?

<key:bcv=Job 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Are your days as the days of mortals,
or your years as man’s years,

<key:bcv=Job 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:6">6 </verse></sup>that you inquire after my iniquity,
and search after my sin?

<key:bcv=Job 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Although you know that I am not wicked,
there is no one who can deliver out of your
hand.

<key:bcv=Job 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me
altogether,
<br>
yet you destroy me.

<key:bcv=Job 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me
as clay.
<br>
Will you bring me into dust again?

<key:bcv=Job 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Haven’t you poured me out like milk,
and curdled me like cheese?

<key:bcv=Job 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:11">11 </verse></sup>You have clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
<key:bcv=Job 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:12">12 </verse></sup>You have granted me life and loving kindness.
Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
<key:bcv=Job 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet you hid these things in your heart.
I know that this is with you:

<key:bcv=Job 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:14">14 </verse></sup>if I sin, then you mark me.
<br>
You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
<key:bcv=Job 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:15">15 </verse></sup>If I am wicked, woe to me.
<br>
If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,
being filled with disgrace,
<br>
and conscious of my affliction.

<key:bcv=Job 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:16">16 </verse></sup>If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.
Again you show yourself powerful to me.
<key:bcv=Job 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:17">17 </verse></sup>You renew your witnesses against me,
and increase your indignation on me.
<br>
Changes and warfare are with me.

<key:bcv=Job 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the
womb?
<br>
I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had
seen me.

<key:bcv=Job 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:19">19 </verse></sup>I should have been as though I had not been.
I should have been carried from the womb to
the grave.

<key:bcv=Job 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Aren’t my days few?
<br>
Stop!
<br>
Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
<key:bcv=Job 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:21">21 </verse></sup>before I go where I will not return from,
to the land of darkness and of the shadow of
death;

<key:bcv=Job 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 10:22">22 </verse></sup>the land dark as midnight,
<br>
of the shadow of death,
<br>
without any order,
<br>
where the light is as midnight.’ ”

#BCV:Job 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
<key:bcv=Job 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:2">2 </verse></sup>“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered?
Should a man full of talk be justified?
<key:bcv=Job 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Should your boastings make men hold their peace?
When you mock, will no man make you
<br>
ashamed?

<key:bcv=Job 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:4">4 </verse></sup>For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure.
<br>
I am clean in your eyes.’

<key:bcv=Job 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:5">5 </verse></sup>But oh that God would speak,
<br>
and open his lips against you,

<key:bcv=Job 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:6">6 </verse></sup>that he would show you the secrets of wisdom!
For true wisdom has two sides.
<br>
Know therefore that God exacts of you less
than your iniquity deserves.

<key:bcv=Job 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:7">7 </verse></sup>“Can you fathom the mystery of God?
Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
<key:bcv=Job 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:8">8 </verse></sup>They are high as heaven. What can you do?
They are deeper than Sheol.<footnote:1>11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> What can you
know?

<key:bcv=Job 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Its measure is longer than the earth,
and broader than the sea.

<key:bcv=Job 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:10">10 </verse></sup>If he passes by, or confines,
<br>
or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
<key:bcv=Job 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:11">11 </verse></sup>For he knows false men.
<br>
He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t
consider it.

<key:bcv=Job 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:12">12 </verse></sup>An empty-headed man becomes wise
<br>
when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
<key:bcv=Job 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:13">13 </verse></sup>“If you set your heart aright,
<br>
stretch out your hands toward him.

<key:bcv=Job 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:14">14 </verse></sup>If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away.
Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
<key:bcv=Job 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Surely then you will lift up your face without spot.
Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
<key:bcv=Job 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:16">16 </verse></sup>for you will forget your misery.
<br>
You will remember it like waters that have
passed away.

<key:bcv=Job 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:17">17 </verse></sup>Life will be clearer than the noonday.
Though there is darkness, it will be as the
morning.

<key:bcv=Job 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:18">18 </verse></sup>You will be secure, because there is hope.
Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in
safety.

<key:bcv=Job 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Also you will lie down, and no one will make you
afraid.
<br>
Yes, many will court your favor.

<key:bcv=Job 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 11:20">20 </verse></sup>But the eyes of the wicked will fail.
They will have no way to flee.
<br>
Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

#BCV:Job 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:2">2 </verse></sup>“No doubt, but you are the people,
<br>
and wisdom will die with you.

<key:bcv=Job 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:3">3 </verse></sup>But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
<br>
Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
<key:bcv=Job 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:4">4 </verse></sup>I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor,
I, who called on God, and he answered.
The just, the blameless man is a joke.
<key:bcv=Job 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:5">5 </verse></sup>In the thought of him who is at ease there is
contempt for misfortune.
<br>
It is ready for them whose foot slips.
<key:bcv=Job 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:6">6 </verse></sup>The tents of robbers prosper.
<br>
Those who provoke God are secure,
<br>
who carry their god in their hands.

<key:bcv=Job 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:7">7 </verse></sup>“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you;
the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
<key:bcv=Job 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.
The fish of the sea will declare to you.
<key:bcv=Job 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Who doesn’t know that in all these,
Yahweh’s hand has done this,

<key:bcv=Job 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:10">10 </verse></sup>in whose hand is the life of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind?

<key:bcv=Job 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:11">11 </verse></sup>Doesn’t the ear try words,
<br>
even as the palate tastes its food?

<key:bcv=Job 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:12">12 </verse></sup>With aged men is wisdom,
<br>
in length of days understanding.

<key:bcv=Job 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:13">13 </verse></sup>“With God is wisdom and might.
<br>
He has counsel and understanding.

<key:bcv=Job 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built
again.
<br>
He imprisons a man, and there can be no
release.

<key:bcv=Job 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up.
Again, he sends them out, and they overturn
the earth.

<key:bcv=Job 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:16">16 </verse></sup>With him is strength and wisdom.
<br>
The deceived and the deceiver are his.
<key:bcv=Job 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:17">17 </verse></sup>He leads counselors away stripped.
He makes judges fools.

<key:bcv=Job 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:18">18 </verse></sup>He loosens the bond of kings.
<br>
He binds their waist with a belt.

<key:bcv=Job 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:19">19 </verse></sup>He leads priests away stripped,
<br>
and overthrows the mighty.

<key:bcv=Job 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:20">20 </verse></sup>He removes the speech of those who are trusted,
and takes away the understanding of the elders.
<key:bcv=Job 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:21">21 </verse></sup>He pours contempt on princes,
<br>
and loosens the belt of the strong.

<key:bcv=Job 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:22">22 </verse></sup>He uncovers deep things out of darkness,
and brings out to light the shadow of death.

<key:bcv=Job 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:23">23 </verse></sup>He increases the nations, and he destroys them.
He enlarges the nations, and he leads them
captive.

<key:bcv=Job 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:24">24 </verse></sup>He takes away understanding from the chiefs of
the people of the earth,
<br>
and causes them to wander in a wilderness
where there is no way.

<key:bcv=Job 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 12:25">25 </verse></sup>They grope in the dark without light.
He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

#BCV:Job 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:1">1 </verse></sup>“Behold, my eye has seen all this.
My ear has heard and understood it.

<key:bcv=Job 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:2">2 </verse></sup>What you know, I know also.
<br>
I am not inferior to you.

<key:bcv=Job 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:3">3 </verse></sup>“Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
I desire to reason with God.

<key:bcv=Job 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:4">4 </verse></sup>But you are forgers of lies.
<br>
You are all physicians of no value.

<key:bcv=Job 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Oh that you would be completely silent!
Then you would be wise.

<key:bcv=Job 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Hear now my reasoning.
<br>
Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

<key:bcv=Job 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Will you speak unrighteously for God,
and talk deceitfully for him?

<key:bcv=Job 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Will you show partiality to him?
<br>
Will you contend for God?

<key:bcv=Job 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Is it good that he should search you out?
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
<key:bcv=Job 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:10">10 </verse></sup>He will surely reprove you
<br>
if you secretly show partiality.

<key:bcv=Job 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Won’t his majesty make you afraid
<br>
and his dread fall on you?

<key:bcv=Job 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

<key:bcv=Job 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:13">13 </verse></sup>“Be silent!
<br>
Leave me alone, that I may speak.
<br>
Let come on me what will.

<key:bcv=Job 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:14">14 </verse></sup>Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand?

<key:bcv=Job 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, he will kill me.
<br>
I have no hope.
<br>
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before
him.

<key:bcv=Job 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:16">16 </verse></sup>This also will be my salvation,
<br>
that a godless man will not come before him.
<key:bcv=Job 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Listen carefully to my speech.
<br>
Let my declaration be in your ears.

<key:bcv=Job 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:18">18 </verse></sup>See now, I have set my cause in order.
I know that I am righteous.

<key:bcv=Job 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Who is he who will contend with me?
For then would I hold my peace and give up the
spirit.

<key:bcv=Job 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:20">20 </verse></sup>“Only don’t do two things to me,
<br>
then I will not hide myself from your face:
<key:bcv=Job 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:21">21 </verse></sup>withdraw your hand far from me,
<br>
and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
<key:bcv=Job 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Then call, and I will answer,
<br>
or let me speak, and you answer me.

<key:bcv=Job 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:23">23 </verse></sup>How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
<key:bcv=Job 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Why do you hide your face,
<br>
and consider me your enemy?

<key:bcv=Job 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Will you harass a driven leaf?
<br>
Will you pursue the dry stubble?

<key:bcv=Job 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:26">26 </verse></sup>For you write bitter things against me,
and make me inherit the iniquities of my
youth.

<key:bcv=Job 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:27">27 </verse></sup>You also put my feet in the stocks,
and mark all my paths.
<br>
You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
<key:bcv=Job 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 13:28">28 </verse></sup>though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.

#BCV:Job 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:1">1 </verse></sup>“Man, who is born of a woman,
<br>
is of few days, and full of trouble.

<key:bcv=Job 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:2">2 </verse></sup>He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
<key:bcv=Job 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?

<key:bcv=Job 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.

<key:bcv=Job 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Seeing his days are determined,
<br>
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he
can’t pass.

<key:bcv=Job 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
<key:bcv=Job 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:7">7 </verse></sup>“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
<br>
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
<key:bcv=Job 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,

<key:bcv=Job 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:9">9 </verse></sup>yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.

<key:bcv=Job 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:10">10 </verse></sup>But man dies, and is laid low.
<br>
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
<key:bcv=Job 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:11">11 </verse></sup>As the waters fail from the sea,
<br>
and the river wastes and dries up,

<key:bcv=Job 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:12">12 </verse></sup>so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not
awake,
<br>
nor be roused out of their sleep.

<key:bcv=Job 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:13">13 </verse></sup>“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,<footnote:1>14:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
that you would keep me secret until your wrath
is past,
<br>
that you would appoint me a set time and
remember me!

<key:bcv=Job 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:14">14 </verse></sup>If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should come.

<key:bcv=Job 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:15">15 </verse></sup>You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your
hands.

<key:bcv=Job 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:16">16 </verse></sup>But now you count my steps.
<br>
Don’t you watch over my sin?

<key:bcv=Job 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:17">17 </verse></sup>My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity.

<key:bcv=Job 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:18">18 </verse></sup>“But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place.
<key:bcv=Job 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The waters wear the stones.
<br>
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the
earth.
<br>
So you destroy the hope of man.

<key:bcv=Job 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:20">20 </verse></sup>You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
<key:bcv=Job 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:21">21 </verse></sup>His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive
it of them.

<key:bcv=Job 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 14:22">22 </verse></sup>But his flesh on him has pain,
<br>
and his soul within him mourns.”

#BCV:Job 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:2">2 </verse></sup>“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,
and fill himself with the east wind?

<key:bcv=Job 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
or with speeches with which he can do no
good?

<key:bcv=Job 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Yes, you do away with fear,
<br>
and hinder devotion before God.

<key:bcv=Job 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:5">5 </verse></sup>For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the language of the crafty.
<key:bcv=Job 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
<key:bcv=Job 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:7">7 </verse></sup>“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought out before the hills?
<key:bcv=Job 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:8">8 </verse></sup>Have you heard the secret counsel of God?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

<key:bcv=Job 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:9">9 </verse></sup>What do you know that we don’t know?
What do you understand which is not in us?
<key:bcv=Job 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:10">10 </verse></sup>With us are both the gray-headed and the very
aged men,
<br>
much older than your father.

<key:bcv=Job 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Are the consolations of God too small for you,
even the word that is gentle toward you?
<key:bcv=Job 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Why does your heart carry you away?
Why do your eyes flash,

<key:bcv=Job 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:13">13 </verse></sup>that you turn your spirit against God,
and let such words go out of your mouth?
<key:bcv=Job 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:14">14 </verse></sup>What is man, that he should be clean?
What is he who is born of a woman, that he
should be righteous?

<key:bcv=Job 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
<key:bcv=Job 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:16">16 </verse></sup>how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks iniquity like water!
<key:bcv=Job 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:17">17 </verse></sup>“I will show you, listen to me;
<br>
that which I have seen I will declare
<key:bcv=Job 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:18">18 </verse></sup>(which wise men have told by their fathers,
and have not hidden it;

<key:bcv=Job 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:19">19 </verse></sup>to whom alone the land was given,
<br>
and no stranger passed among them):

<key:bcv=Job 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:20">20 </verse></sup>the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
even the number of years that are laid up for
the oppressor.

<key:bcv=Job 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:21">21 </verse></sup>A sound of terrors is in his ears.
In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
<key:bcv=Job 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:22">22 </verse></sup>He doesn’t believe that he will return out of
darkness.
<br>
He is waited for by the sword.

<key:bcv=Job 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:23">23 </verse></sup>He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is
it?’
<br>
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at
his hand.

<key:bcv=Job 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Distress and anguish make him afraid.
They prevail against him, as a king ready to the
battle.

<key:bcv=Job 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Because he has stretched out his hand against
God,
<br>
and behaves himself proudly against the
Almighty,

<key:bcv=Job 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:26">26 </verse></sup>he runs at him with a stiff neck,
<br>
with the thick shields of his bucklers,
<key:bcv=Job 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:27">27 </verse></sup>because he has covered his face with his fatness,
and gathered fat on his thighs.

<key:bcv=Job 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:28">28 </verse></sup>He has lived in desolate cities,
<br>
in houses which no one inhabited,
<br>
which were ready to become heaps.

<key:bcv=Job 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:29">29 </verse></sup>He will not be rich, neither will his substance
continue,
<br>
neither will their possessions be extended on
the earth.

<key:bcv=Job 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:30">30 </verse></sup>He will not depart out of darkness.
The flame will dry up his branches.
<br>
He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
<key:bcv=Job 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his reward.

<key:bcv=Job 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:32">32 </verse></sup>It will be accomplished before his time.
His branch will not be green.

<key:bcv=Job 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:33">33 </verse></sup>He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
<key:bcv=Job 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:34">34 </verse></sup>For the company of the godless will be barren,
and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
<key:bcv=Job 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Job 15:35">35 </verse></sup>They conceive mischief and produce iniquity.
Their heart prepares deceit.”

#BCV:Job 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:2">2 </verse></sup>“I have heard many such things.
<br>
You are all miserable comforters!

<key:bcv=Job 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Shall vain words have an end?
<br>
Or what provokes you that you answer?
<key:bcv=Job 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:4">4 </verse></sup>I also could speak as you do.
<br>
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you,

<key:bcv=Job 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:5">5 </verse></sup>but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
<key:bcv=Job 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:6">6 </verse></sup>“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?

<key:bcv=Job 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:7">7 </verse></sup>But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
You have made all my company desolate.
<key:bcv=Job 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:8">8 </verse></sup>You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against
me.
<br>
My leanness rises up against me.
<br>
It testifies to my face.

<key:bcv=Job 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:9">9 </verse></sup>He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me.
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
<br>
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
<key:bcv=Job 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:10">10 </verse></sup>They have gaped on me with their mouth.
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather themselves together against me.
<key:bcv=Job 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:11">11 </verse></sup>God delivers me to the ungodly,
<br>
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Job 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:12">12 </verse></sup>I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed
me to pieces.
<br>
He has also set me up for his target.
<key:bcv=Job 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:13">13 </verse></sup>His archers surround me.
<br>
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my bile on the ground.

<key:bcv=Job 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:14">14 </verse></sup>He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs at me like a giant.

<key:bcv=Job 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:15">15 </verse></sup>I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have thrust my horn in the dust.

<key:bcv=Job 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:16">16 </verse></sup>My face is red with weeping.
<br>
Deep darkness is on my eyelids,

<key:bcv=Job 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:17">17 </verse></sup>although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.

<key:bcv=Job 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:18">18 </verse></sup>“Earth, don’t cover my blood.
<br>
Let my cry have no place to rest.

<key:bcv=Job 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.

<key:bcv=Job 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:20">20 </verse></sup>My friends scoff at me.
<br>
My eyes pour out tears to God,

<key:bcv=Job 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:21">21 </verse></sup>that he would maintain the right of a man with
God,
<br>
of a son of man with his neighbor!

<key:bcv=Job 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 16:22">22 </verse></sup>For when a few years have come,
<br>
I will go the way of no return.

#BCV:Job 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:1">1 </verse></sup>“My spirit is consumed.
<br>
My days are extinct
<br>
and the grave is ready for me.

<key:bcv=Job 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Surely there are mockers with me.
<br>
My eye dwells on their provocation.

<key:bcv=Job 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:3">3 </verse></sup>“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with
yourself.
<br>
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
<key:bcv=Job 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:4">4 </verse></sup>For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.

<key:bcv=Job 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:5">5 </verse></sup>He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
<key:bcv=Job 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:6">6 </verse></sup>“But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.

<key:bcv=Job 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:7">7 </verse></sup>My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.

<key:bcv=Job 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the
godless.

<key:bcv=Job 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and
stronger.

<key:bcv=Job 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:10">10 </verse></sup>But as for you all, come back.
<br>
I will not find a wise man among you.
<key:bcv=Job 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:11">11 </verse></sup>My days are past.
<br>
My plans are broken off,
<br>
as are the thoughts of my heart.

<key:bcv=Job 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:12">12 </verse></sup>They change the night into day,
<br>
saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of
darkness.

<key:bcv=Job 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:13">13 </verse></sup>If I look for Sheol<footnote:1>17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> as my house,
<br>
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
<key:bcv=Job 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:14">14 </verse></sup>if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
<key:bcv=Job 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:15">15 </verse></sup>where then is my hope?
<br>
As for my hope, who will see it?

<key:bcv=Job 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,<footnote:1>17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
or descend together into the dust?”

#BCV:Job 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:2">2 </verse></sup>“How long will you hunt for words?
<br>
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
<key:bcv=Job 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Why are we counted as animals,
<br>
which have become unclean in your sight?
<key:bcv=Job 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:4">4 </verse></sup>You who tear yourself in your anger,
will the earth be forsaken for you?
<br>
Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
<key:bcv=Job 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:5">5 </verse></sup>“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out.
The spark of his fire won’t shine.

<key:bcv=Job 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:6">6 </verse></sup>The light will be dark in his tent.
His lamp above him will be put out.

<key:bcv=Job 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:7">7 </verse></sup>The steps of his strength will be shortened.
His own counsel will cast him down.

<key:bcv=Job 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:8">8 </verse></sup>For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he wanders into its mesh.

<key:bcv=Job 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:9">9 </verse></sup>A snare will take him by the heel.
<br>
A trap will catch him.

<key:bcv=Job 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:10">10 </verse></sup>A noose is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him on the path.

<key:bcv=Job 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Terrors will make him afraid on every side,
and will chase him at his heels.

<key:bcv=Job 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:12">12 </verse></sup>His strength will be famished.
<br>
Calamity will be ready at his side.

<key:bcv=Job 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:13">13 </verse></sup>The members of his body will be devoured.
The firstborn of death will devour his members.
<key:bcv=Job 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:14">14 </verse></sup>He will be rooted out of the security of his tent.
He will be brought to the king of terrors.
<key:bcv=Job 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:15">15 </verse></sup>There will dwell in his tent that which is none of
his.
<br>
Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
<key:bcv=Job 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:16">16 </verse></sup>His roots will be dried up beneath.
His branch will be cut off above.

<key:bcv=Job 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:17">17 </verse></sup>His memory will perish from the earth.
He will have no name in the street.

<key:bcv=Job 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:18">18 </verse></sup>He will be driven from light into darkness,
and chased out of the world.

<key:bcv=Job 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:19">19 </verse></sup>He will have neither son nor grandson among his
people,
<br>
nor any remaining where he lived.

<key:bcv=Job 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Those who come after will be astonished at his
day,
<br>
as those who went before were frightened.

<key:bcv=Job 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous.
This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

#BCV:Job 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:2">2 </verse></sup>“How long will you torment me,
<br>
and crush me with words?

<key:bcv=Job 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:3">3 </verse></sup>You have reproached me ten times.
<br>
You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
<key:bcv=Job 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:4">4 </verse></sup>If it is true that I have erred,
<br>
my error remains with myself.

<key:bcv=Job 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:5">5 </verse></sup>If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach,

<key:bcv=Job 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:6">6 </verse></sup>know now that God has subverted me,
and has surrounded me with his net.

<key:bcv=Job 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:7">7 </verse></sup>“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
<key:bcv=Job 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
and has set darkness in my paths.

<key:bcv=Job 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:9">9 </verse></sup>He has stripped me of my glory,
<br>
and taken the crown from my head.

<key:bcv=Job 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:10">10 </verse></sup>He has broken me down on every side, and I am
gone.
<br>
He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
<key:bcv=Job 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:11">11 </verse></sup>He has also kindled his wrath against me.
He counts me among his adversaries.

<key:bcv=Job 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:12">12 </verse></sup>His troops come on together,
<br>
build a siege ramp against me,
<br>
and encamp around my tent.

<key:bcv=Job 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:13">13 </verse></sup>“He has put my brothers far from me.
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from
me.

<key:bcv=Job 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:14">14 </verse></sup>My relatives have gone away.
<br>
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
<key:bcv=Job 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Those who dwell in my house and my maids
consider me a stranger.
<br>
I am an alien in their sight.

<key:bcv=Job 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:16">16 </verse></sup>I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
I beg him with my mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:17">17 </verse></sup>My breath is offensive to my wife.
I am loathsome to the children of my own
mother.

<key:bcv=Job 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Even young children despise me.
<br>
If I arise, they speak against me.

<key:bcv=Job 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:19">19 </verse></sup>All my familiar friends abhor me.
<br>
They whom I loved have turned against me.
<key:bcv=Job 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:20">20 </verse></sup>My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
<key:bcv=Job 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:21">21 </verse></sup>“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my
friends,
<br>
for the hand of God has touched me.

<key:bcv=Job 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Why do you persecute me as God,
<br>
and are not satisfied with my flesh?

<key:bcv=Job 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:23">23 </verse></sup>“Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
<key:bcv=Job 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:24">24 </verse></sup>That with an iron pen and lead
<br>
they were engraved in the rock forever!
<key:bcv=Job 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:25">25 </verse></sup>But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
<key:bcv=Job 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:26">26 </verse></sup>After my skin is destroyed,
<br>
then I will see God in my flesh,

<key:bcv=Job 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:27">27 </verse></sup>whom I, even I, will see on my side.
My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.
“My heart is consumed within me.

<key:bcv=Job 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:28">28 </verse></sup>If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
because the root of the matter is found in me,
<key:bcv=Job 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 19:29">29 </verse></sup>be afraid of the sword,
<br>
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
that you may know there is a judgment.”

#BCV:Job 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:2">2 </verse></sup>“Therefore my thoughts answer me,
<br>
even by reason of my haste that is in me.
<key:bcv=Job 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:3">3 </verse></sup>I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
The spirit of my understanding answers me.
<key:bcv=Job 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t you know this from old time,
<br>
since man was placed on earth,

<key:bcv=Job 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:5">5 </verse></sup>that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
the joy of the godless but for a moment?
<key:bcv=Job 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,

<key:bcv=Job 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:7">7 </verse></sup>yet he will perish forever like his own dung.
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is
he?’

<key:bcv=Job 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:8">8 </verse></sup>He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.
Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the
night.

<key:bcv=Job 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:9">9 </verse></sup>The eye which saw him will see him no more,
neither will his place see him any more.
<key:bcv=Job 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:10">10 </verse></sup>His children will seek the favor of the poor.
His hands will give back his wealth.

<key:bcv=Job 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:11">11 </verse></sup>His bones are full of his youth,
<br>
but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
<key:bcv=Job 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:12">12 </verse></sup>“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue,

<key:bcv=Job 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:13">13 </verse></sup>though he spare it, and will not let it go,
but keep it still within his mouth,

<key:bcv=Job 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:14">14 </verse></sup>yet his food in his bowels is turned.
It is cobra venom within him.

<key:bcv=Job 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:15">15 </verse></sup>He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit
them up again.
<br>
God will cast them out of his belly.

<key:bcv=Job 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:16">16 </verse></sup>He will suck cobra venom.
<br>
The viper’s tongue will kill him.

<key:bcv=Job 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:17">17 </verse></sup>He will not look at the rivers,
<br>
the flowing streams of honey and butter.
<key:bcv=Job 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:18">18 </verse></sup>He will restore that for which he labored, and will
not swallow it down.
<br>
He will not rejoice according to the substance
that he has gotten.

<key:bcv=Job 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:19">19 </verse></sup>For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
He has violently taken away a house, and he
will not build it up.

<key:bcv=Job 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:20">20 </verse></sup>“Because he knew no quietness within him,
he will not save anything of that in which he
delights.

<key:bcv=Job 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:21">21 </verse></sup>There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
<key:bcv=Job 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:22">22 </verse></sup>In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will
overtake him.
<br>
The hand of everyone who is in misery will
come on him.

<key:bcv=Job 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:23">23 </verse></sup>When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the
fierceness of his wrath on him.
<br>
It will rain on him while he is eating.
<key:bcv=Job 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:24">24 </verse></sup>He will flee from the iron weapon.
The bronze arrow will strike him through.
<key:bcv=Job 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:25">25 </verse></sup>He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.
Terrors are on him.

<key:bcv=Job 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:26">26 </verse></sup>All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
An unfanned fire will devour him.
<br>
It will consume that which is left in his tent.
<key:bcv=Job 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:27">27 </verse></sup>The heavens will reveal his iniquity.
The earth will rise up against him.

<key:bcv=Job 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:28">28 </verse></sup>The increase of his house will depart.
They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
<key:bcv=Job 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 20:29">29 </verse></sup>This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
the heritage appointed to him by God.”

#BCV:Job 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:2">2 </verse></sup>“Listen diligently to my speech.
<br>
Let this be your consolation.

<key:bcv=Job 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Allow me, and I also will speak.
<br>
After I have spoken, mock on.

<key:bcv=Job 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:4">4 </verse></sup>As for me, is my complaint to man?
<br>
Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

<key:bcv=Job 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:5">5 </verse></sup>Look at me, and be astonished.
<br>
Lay your hand on your mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:6">6 </verse></sup>When I remember, I am troubled.
<br>
Horror takes hold of my flesh.

<key:bcv=Job 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:7">7 </verse></sup>“Why do the wicked live,
<br>
become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
<key:bcv=Job 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Their child is established with them in their sight,
their offspring before their eyes.

<key:bcv=Job 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Their houses are safe from fear,
<br>
neither is the rod of God upon them.

<key:bcv=Job 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Their bulls breed without fail.
<br>
Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
<key:bcv=Job 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:11">11 </verse></sup>They send out their little ones like a flock.
Their children dance.

<key:bcv=Job 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:12">12 </verse></sup>They sing to the tambourine and harp,
and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
<key:bcv=Job 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:13">13 </verse></sup>They spend their days in prosperity.
In an instant they go down to Sheol.<footnote:1>21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Job 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:14">14 </verse></sup>They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
<br>
for we don’t want to know about your ways.
<key:bcv=Job 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:15">15 </verse></sup>What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
<key:bcv=Job 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
<key:bcv=Job 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:17">17 </verse></sup>“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put
out,
<br>
that their calamity comes on them,
<br>
that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
<key:bcv=Job 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:18">18 </verse></sup>How often is it that they are as stubble before the
wind,
<br>
as chaff that the storm carries away?
<key:bcv=Job 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:19">19 </verse></sup>You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’
Let him recompense it to himself, that he may
know it.

<key:bcv=Job 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:20">20 </verse></sup>Let his own eyes see his destruction.
Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
<key:bcv=Job 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:21">21 </verse></sup>For what does he care for his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off?
<key:bcv=Job 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:22">22 </verse></sup>“Shall any teach God knowledge,
<br>
since he judges those who are high?

<key:bcv=Job 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:23">23 </verse></sup>One dies in his full strength,
<br>
being wholly at ease and quiet.

<key:bcv=Job 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:24">24 </verse></sup>His pails are full of milk.
<br>
The marrow of his bones is moistened.
<key:bcv=Job 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Another dies in bitterness of soul,
and never tastes of good.

<key:bcv=Job 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:26">26 </verse></sup>They lie down alike in the dust.
<br>
The worm covers them.

<key:bcv=Job 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:27">27 </verse></sup>“Behold, I know your thoughts,
<br>
the plans with which you would wrong me.
<key:bcv=Job 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:28">28 </verse></sup>For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
<key:bcv=Job 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:29">29 </verse></sup>Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
<br>
Don’t you know their evidences,

<key:bcv=Job 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:30">30 </verse></sup>that the evil man is reserved to the day of
calamity,
<br>
that they are led out to the day of wrath?
<key:bcv=Job 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Who will declare his way to his face?
Who will repay him what he has done?

<key:bcv=Job 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:32">32 </verse></sup>Yet he will be borne to the grave.
Men will keep watch over the tomb.

<key:bcv=Job 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:33">33 </verse></sup>The clods of the valley will be sweet to him.
All men will draw after him,
<br>
as there were innumerable before him.
<key:bcv=Job 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 21:34">34 </verse></sup>So how can you comfort me with nonsense,
because in your answers there remains only
falsehood?”

#BCV:Job 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:2">2 </verse></sup>“Can a man be profitable to God?
<br>
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
<key:bcv=Job 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:3">3 </verse></sup>Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are
righteous?
<br>
Or does it benefit him that you make your ways
perfect?

<key:bcv=Job 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
that he enters with you into judgment?
<key:bcv=Job 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Isn’t your wickedness great?
<br>
Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
<key:bcv=Job 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:6">6 </verse></sup>For you have taken pledges from your brother for
nothing,
<br>
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
<key:bcv=Job 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:7">7 </verse></sup>You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
<key:bcv=Job 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:8">8 </verse></sup>But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.
The honorable man, he lived in it.

<key:bcv=Job 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:9">9 </verse></sup>You have sent widows away empty,
<br>
and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
<key:bcv=Job 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore snares are around you.
<br>
Sudden fear troubles you,

<key:bcv=Job 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:11">11 </verse></sup>or darkness, so that you can not see,
and floods of waters cover you.

<key:bcv=Job 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:12">12 </verse></sup>“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
See the height of the stars, how high they are!

<key:bcv=Job 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:13">13 </verse></sup>You say, ‘What does God know?
<br>
Can he judge through the thick darkness?
<key:bcv=Job 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he
doesn’t see.
<br>
He walks on the vault of the sky.’

<key:bcv=Job 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Will you keep the old way,
<br>
which wicked men have trodden,

<key:bcv=Job 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:16">16 </verse></sup>who were snatched away before their time,
whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
<key:bcv=Job 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:17">17 </verse></sup>who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’
and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
<key:bcv=Job 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:18">18 </verse></sup>Yet he filled their houses with good things,
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
<key:bcv=Job 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:19">19 </verse></sup>The righteous see it, and are glad.
The innocent ridicule them,

<key:bcv=Job 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:20">20 </verse></sup>saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are
cut off.
<br>
The fire has consumed their remnant.’
<key:bcv=Job 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:21">21 </verse></sup>“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace.
By it, good will come to you.

<key:bcv=Job 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:22">22 </verse></sup>Please receive instruction from his mouth,
and lay up his words in your heart.

<key:bcv=Job 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:23">23 </verse></sup>If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up,
if you put away unrighteousness far from your
tents.

<key:bcv=Job 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:24">24 </verse></sup>Lay your treasure in the dust,
<br>
the gold of Ophir among the stones of the
brooks.

<key:bcv=Job 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:25">25 </verse></sup>The Almighty will be your treasure,
and precious silver to you.

<key:bcv=Job 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:26">26 </verse></sup>For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
and will lift up your face to God.

<key:bcv=Job 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:27">27 </verse></sup>You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear
you.
<br>
You will pay your vows.

<key:bcv=Job 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:28">28 </verse></sup>You will also decree a thing, and it will be established
to you.
<br>
Light will shine on your ways.

<key:bcv=Job 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:29">29 </verse></sup>When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’
He will save the humble person.

<key:bcv=Job 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 22:30">30 </verse></sup>He will even deliver him who is not innocent.
Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness
of your hands.”

#BCV:Job 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:2">2 </verse></sup>“Even today my complaint is rebellious.
His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
<key:bcv=Job 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Oh that I knew where I might find him!
That I might come even to his seat!

<key:bcv=Job 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:4">4 </verse></sup>I would set my cause in order before him,
and fill my mouth with arguments.

<key:bcv=Job 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:5">5 </verse></sup>I would know the words which he would answer
me,
<br>
and understand what he would tell me.
<key:bcv=Job 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:6">6 </verse></sup>Would he contend with me in the greatness of his
power?
<br>
No, but he would listen to me.

<key:bcv=Job 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:7">7 </verse></sup>There the upright might reason with him,
so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
<key:bcv=Job 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:8">8 </verse></sup>“If I go east, he is not there.
<br>
If I go west, I can’t find him.

<key:bcv=Job 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:9">9 </verse></sup>He works to the north, but I can’t see him.
He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of
him.

<key:bcv=Job 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:10">10 </verse></sup>But he knows the way that I take.
<br>
When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
<key:bcv=Job 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:11">11 </verse></sup>My foot has held fast to his steps.
I have kept his way, and not turned away.
<key:bcv=Job 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:12">12 </verse></sup>I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his
lips.
<br>
I have treasured up the words of his mouth
more than my necessary food.

<key:bcv=Job 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:13">13 </verse></sup>But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?
What his soul desires, even that he does.
<key:bcv=Job 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:14">14 </verse></sup>For he performs that which is appointed for me.
Many such things are with him.

<key:bcv=Job 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore I am terrified at his presence.
When I consider, I am afraid of him.

<key:bcv=Job 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:16">16 </verse></sup>For God has made my heart faint.
<br>
The Almighty has terrified me.

<key:bcv=Job 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither did he cover the thick darkness from
my face.

#BCV:Job 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:1">1 </verse></sup>“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty?
Why don’t those who know him see his days?
<key:bcv=Job 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:2">2 </verse></sup>There are people who remove the landmarks.
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
<key:bcv=Job 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:3">3 </verse></sup>They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,
and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
<key:bcv=Job 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:4">4 </verse></sup>They turn the needy out of the way.
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
<key:bcv=Job 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
they go out to their work, seeking diligently for
food.
<br>
The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
<key:bcv=Job 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:6">6 </verse></sup>They cut their food in the field.
<br>
They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Job 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:7">7 </verse></sup>They lie all night naked without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.

<key:bcv=Job 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:8">8 </verse></sup>They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
<key:bcv=Job 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:9">9 </verse></sup>There are those who pluck the fatherless from
the breast,
<br>
and take a pledge of the poor,

<key:bcv=Job 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:10">10 </verse></sup>so that they go around naked without clothing.
Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
<key:bcv=Job 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:11">11 </verse></sup>They make oil within the walls of these men.
They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
<key:bcv=Job 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:12">12 </verse></sup>From out of the populous city, men groan.
The soul of the wounded cries out,
<br>
yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

<key:bcv=Job 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:13">13 </verse></sup>“These are of those who rebel against the light.
They don’t know its ways,
<br>
nor stay in its paths.

<key:bcv=Job 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:14">14 </verse></sup>The murderer rises with the light.
He kills the poor and needy.
<br>
In the night he is like a thief.

<key:bcv=Job 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:15">15 </verse></sup>The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
<br>
He disguises his face.

<key:bcv=Job 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:16">16 </verse></sup>In the dark they dig through houses.
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the light.

<key:bcv=Job 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:17">17 </verse></sup>For the morning is to all of them like thick
darkness,
<br>
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
<key:bcv=Job 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:18">18 </verse></sup>“They are foam on the surface of the waters.
Their portion is cursed in the earth.
They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
<key:bcv=Job 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:19">19 </verse></sup>Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
so does Sheol<footnote:1>24:19 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> those who have sinned.
<key:bcv=Job 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:20">20 </verse></sup>The womb will forget him.
<br>
The worm will feed sweetly on him.
<br>
He will be no more remembered.
<br>
Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
<key:bcv=Job 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:21">21 </verse></sup>He devours the barren who don’t bear.
He shows no kindness to the widow.

<key:bcv=Job 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
<key:bcv=Job 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:23">23 </verse></sup>God gives them security, and they rest in it.
His eyes are on their ways.

<key:bcv=Job 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:24">24 </verse></sup>They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are
gone.
<br>
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out
of the way as all others,
<br>
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
<key:bcv=Job 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 24:25">25 </verse></sup>If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
and make my speech worth nothing?”

#BCV:Job 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
<key:bcv=Job 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:2">2 </verse></sup>“Dominion and fear are with him.
<br>
He makes peace in his high places.

<key:bcv=Job 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Can his armies be counted?
<br>
On whom does his light not arise?

<key:bcv=Job 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:4">4 </verse></sup>How then can man be just with God?
<br>
Or how can he who is born of a woman be
clean?

<key:bcv=Job 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, even the moon has no brightness,
and the stars are not pure in his sight;
<key:bcv=Job 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 25:6">6 </verse></sup>How much less man, who is a worm,
<br>
and the son of man, who is a worm!”

#BCV:Job 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered,

<key:bcv=Job 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no
strength!

<key:bcv=Job 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:3">3 </verse></sup>How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
<key:bcv=Job 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:4">4 </verse></sup>To whom have you uttered words?
<br>
Whose spirit came out of you?

<key:bcv=Job 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:5">5 </verse></sup>“The departed spirits tremble,
<br>
those beneath the waters and all that live in
them.

<key:bcv=Job 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Sheol<footnote:1>26:6 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> is naked before God,

and Abaddon<footnote:1>26:6 Abaddon means Destroyer.</footnote> has no covering.

<key:bcv=Job 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:7">7 </verse></sup>He stretches out the north over empty space,
and hangs the earth on nothing.

<key:bcv=Job 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:8">8 </verse></sup>He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not burst under them.
<key:bcv=Job 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:9">9 </verse></sup>He encloses the face of his throne,
and spreads his cloud on it.

<key:bcv=Job 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:10">10 </verse></sup>He has described a boundary on the surface of the
waters,
<br>
and to the confines of light and darkness.
<key:bcv=Job 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:11">11 </verse></sup>The pillars of heaven tremble
<br>
and are astonished at his rebuke.

<key:bcv=Job 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:12">12 </verse></sup>He stirs up the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he strikes through
Rahab.

<key:bcv=Job 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:13">13 </verse></sup>By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
<key:bcv=Job 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 26:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

#BCV:Job 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Job again took up his parable, and said,
<key:bcv=Job 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:2">2 </verse></sup>“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
<key:bcv=Job 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:3">3 </verse></sup>(for the length of my life is still in me,
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
<key:bcv=Job 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:4">4 </verse></sup>surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness,
neither will my tongue utter deceit.

<key:bcv=Job 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:5">5 </verse></sup>Far be it from me that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from
me.

<key:bcv=Job 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:6">6 </verse></sup>I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it
go.
<br>
My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
<key:bcv=Job 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:7">7 </verse></sup>“Let my enemy be as the wicked.
<br>
Let him who rises up against me be as the
unrighteous.

<key:bcv=Job 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:8">8 </verse></sup>For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut
off,
<br>
when God takes away his life?

<key:bcv=Job 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
<key:bcv=Job 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:10">10 </verse></sup>Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
and call on God at all times?

<key:bcv=Job 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:11">11 </verse></sup>I will teach you about the hand of God.
I will not conceal that which is with the
Almighty.

<key:bcv=Job 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
<key:bcv=Job 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:13">13 </verse></sup>“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
the heritage of oppressors, which they receive
from the Almighty.

<key:bcv=Job 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:14">14 </verse></sup>If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword.
His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
<key:bcv=Job 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:15">15 </verse></sup>Those who remain of him will be buried in death.
His widows will make no lamentation.

<key:bcv=Job 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:16">16 </verse></sup>Though he heap up silver as the dust,
and prepare clothing as the clay;

<key:bcv=Job 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:17">17 </verse></sup>he may prepare it, but the just will put it on,
and the innocent will divide the silver.
<key:bcv=Job 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:18">18 </verse></sup>He builds his house as the moth,
as a booth which the watchman makes.

<key:bcv=Job 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:19">19 </verse></sup>He lies down rich, but he will not do so again.
He opens his eyes, and he is not.

<key:bcv=Job 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:20">20 </verse></sup>Terrors overtake him like waters.
<br>
A storm steals him away in the night.
<key:bcv=Job 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:21">21 </verse></sup>The east wind carries him away, and he departs.
It sweeps him out of his place.

<key:bcv=Job 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:22">22 </verse></sup>For it hurls at him, and does not spare,
as he flees away from his hand.

<key:bcv=Job 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 27:23">23 </verse></sup>Men will clap their hands at him,
<br>
and will hiss him out of his place.

#BCV:Job 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:1">1 </verse></sup>“Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place for gold which they refine.
<key:bcv=Job 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Iron is taken out of the earth,
<br>
and copper is smelted out of the ore.
<key:bcv=Job 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:3">3 </verse></sup>Man sets an end to darkness,
<br>
and searches out, to the furthest bound,
the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
<key:bcv=Job 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:4">4 </verse></sup>He breaks open a shaft away from where people
live.
<br>
They are forgotten by the foot.
<br>
They hang far from men, they swing back and
forth.

<key:bcv=Job 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:5">5 </verse></sup>As for the earth, out of it comes bread.
Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
<key:bcv=Job 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:6">6 </verse></sup>Sapphires come from its rocks.
<br>
It has dust of gold.

<key:bcv=Job 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:7">7 </verse></sup>That path no bird of prey knows,
<br>
neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
<key:bcv=Job 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The proud animals have not trodden it,
nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
<key:bcv=Job 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:9">9 </verse></sup>He puts his hand on the flinty rock,
and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
<key:bcv=Job 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:10">10 </verse></sup>He cuts out channels among the rocks.
His eye sees every precious thing.

<key:bcv=Job 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:11">11 </verse></sup>He binds the streams that they don’t trickle.
The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
<key:bcv=Job 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:12">12 </verse></sup>“But where will wisdom be found?
<br>
Where is the place of understanding?

<key:bcv=Job 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:13">13 </verse></sup>Man doesn’t know its price,
<br>
and it isn’t found in the land of the living.
<key:bcv=Job 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:14">14 </verse></sup>The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’
<br>
The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

<key:bcv=Job 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:15">15 </verse></sup>It can’t be gotten for gold,
<br>
neither will silver be weighed for its price.
<key:bcv=Job 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:16">16 </verse></sup>It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir,
with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.<footnote:1>28:16 or, lapis lazuli </footnote>
<key:bcv=Job 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:17">17 </verse></sup>Gold and glass can’t equal it,
<br>
neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine
gold.

<key:bcv=Job 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:18">18 </verse></sup>No mention will be made of coral or of crystal.
Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
<key:bcv=Job 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:19">19 </verse></sup>The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it.
It won’t be valued with pure gold.

<key:bcv=Job 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Where then does wisdom come from?
<br>
Where is the place of understanding?

<key:bcv=Job 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:21">21 </verse></sup>Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the birds of the sky.
<key:bcv=Job 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:22">22 </verse></sup>Destruction and Death say,
<br>
‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
<key:bcv=Job 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:23">23 </verse></sup>“God understands its way,
<br>
and he knows its place.

<key:bcv=Job 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:24">24 </verse></sup>For he looks to the ends of the earth,
and sees under the whole sky.

<key:bcv=Job 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:25">25 </verse></sup>He establishes the force of the wind.
Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
<key:bcv=Job 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:26">26 </verse></sup>When he made a decree for the rain,
and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
<key:bcv=Job 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:27">27 </verse></sup>then he saw it, and declared it.
<br>
He established it, yes, and searched it out.
<key:bcv=Job 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 28:28">28 </verse></sup>To man he said,

‘Behold, the fear of the Lord,<footnote:1>28:28 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> that is wisdom.
To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

#BCV:Job 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Job again took up his parable, and said,
<key:bcv=Job 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:2">2 </verse></sup>“Oh that I were as in the months of old,
as in the days when God watched over me;
<key:bcv=Job 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:3">3 </verse></sup>when his lamp shone on my head,
<br>
and by his light I walked through darkness,
<key:bcv=Job 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:4">4 </verse></sup>as I was in my prime,
<br>
when the friendship of God was in my tent,
<key:bcv=Job 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:5">5 </verse></sup>when the Almighty was yet with me,
<br>
and my children were around me,

<key:bcv=Job 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:6">6 </verse></sup>when my steps were washed with butter,
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
<key:bcv=Job 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:7">7 </verse></sup>when I went out to the city gate,
<br>
when I prepared my seat in the street.
<key:bcv=Job 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:8">8 </verse></sup>The young men saw me and hid themselves.
The aged rose up and stood.

<key:bcv=Job 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:9">9 </verse></sup>The princes refrained from talking,
and laid their hand on their mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:10">10 </verse></sup>The voice of the nobles was hushed,
and their tongue stuck to the roof of their
mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:11">11 </verse></sup>For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me,
and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
<key:bcv=Job 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:12">12 </verse></sup>because I delivered the poor who cried,
and the fatherless also, who had no one to help
him,

<key:bcv=Job 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:13">13 </verse></sup>the blessing of him who was ready to perish came
on me,
<br>
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
<key:bcv=Job 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:14">14 </verse></sup>I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.
My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
<key:bcv=Job 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:15">15 </verse></sup>I was eyes to the blind,
<br>
and feet to the lame.

<key:bcv=Job 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:16">16 </verse></sup>I was a father to the needy.
<br>
I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t
know.

<key:bcv=Job 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:17">17 </verse></sup>I broke the jaws of the unrighteous
and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
<key:bcv=Job 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:18">18 </verse></sup>Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house,
I will count my days as the sand.

<key:bcv=Job 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:19">19 </verse></sup>My root is spread out to the waters.
The dew lies all night on my branch.

<key:bcv=Job 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:20">20 </verse></sup>My glory is fresh in me.
<br>
My bow is renewed in my hand.’

<key:bcv=Job 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:21">21 </verse></sup>“Men listened to me, waited,
<br>
and kept silence for my counsel.

<key:bcv=Job 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:22">22 </verse></sup>After my words they didn’t speak again.
My speech fell on them.

<key:bcv=Job 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:23">23 </verse></sup>They waited for me as for the rain.
Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
<key:bcv=Job 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:24">24 </verse></sup>I smiled on them when they had no confidence.
They didn’t reject the light of my face.
<key:bcv=Job 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 29:25">25 </verse></sup>I chose out their way, and sat as chief.
I lived as a king in the army,
<br>
as one who comforts the mourners.

#BCV:Job 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:1">1 </verse></sup>“But now those who are younger than I have me in
derision,
<br>
whose fathers I considered unworthy to put
with my sheep dogs.

<key:bcv=Job 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:2">2 </verse></sup>Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,
men in whom ripe age has perished?

<key:bcv=Job 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:3">3 </verse></sup>They are gaunt from lack and famine.
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of
waste and desolation.

<key:bcv=Job 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:4">4 </verse></sup>They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
The roots of the broom tree are their food.
<key:bcv=Job 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:5">5 </verse></sup>They are driven out from among men.
They cry after them as after a thief,
<key:bcv=Job 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:6">6 </verse></sup>so that they live in frightful valleys,
and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
<key:bcv=Job 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:7">7 </verse></sup>They bray among the bushes.
<br>
They are gathered together under the nettles.
<key:bcv=Job 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:8">8 </verse></sup>They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked
men.
<br>
They were flogged out of the land.

<key:bcv=Job 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:9">9 </verse></sup>“Now I have become their song.
<br>
Yes, I am a byword to them.

<key:bcv=Job 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:10">10 </verse></sup>They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,
and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
<key:bcv=Job 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:11">11 </verse></sup>For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me;
and they have thrown off restraint before me.
<key:bcv=Job 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:12">12 </verse></sup>On my right hand rise the rabble.
<br>
They thrust aside my feet.
<br>
They cast their ways of destruction up against
me.

<key:bcv=Job 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:13">13 </verse></sup>They mar my path.
<br>
They promote my destruction
<br>
without anyone’s help.

<key:bcv=Job 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:14">14 </verse></sup>As through a wide breach they come.
They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
<key:bcv=Job 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:15">15 </verse></sup>Terrors have turned on me.
<br>
They chase my honor as the wind.
<br>
My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
<key:bcv=Job 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:16">16 </verse></sup>“Now my soul is poured out within me.
Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
<key:bcv=Job 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:17">17 </verse></sup>In the night season my bones are pierced in me,
and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
<key:bcv=Job 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:18">18 </verse></sup>My garment is disfigured by great force.
It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
<key:bcv=Job 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:19">19 </verse></sup>He has cast me into the mire.
<br>
I have become like dust and ashes.

<key:bcv=Job 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:20">20 </verse></sup>I cry to you, and you do not answer me.
I stand up, and you gaze at me.

<key:bcv=Job 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:21">21 </verse></sup>You have turned to be cruel to me.
With the might of your hand you persecute me.
<key:bcv=Job 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:22">22 </verse></sup>You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.
You dissolve me in the storm.

<key:bcv=Job 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:23">23 </verse></sup>For I know that you will bring me to death,
to the house appointed for all living.
<key:bcv=Job 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:24">24 </verse></sup>“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his
fall?
<br>
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
<key:bcv=Job 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:25">25 </verse></sup>Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?
Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
<key:bcv=Job 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:26">26 </verse></sup>When I looked for good, then evil came.
When I waited for light, darkness came.
<key:bcv=Job 30:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:27">27 </verse></sup>My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.
Days of affliction have come on me.

<key:bcv=Job 30:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:28">28 </verse></sup>I go mourning without the sun.
<br>
I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
<key:bcv=Job 30:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:29">29 </verse></sup>I am a brother to jackals,
<br>
and a companion to ostriches.

<key:bcv=Job 30:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:30">30 </verse></sup>My skin grows black and peels from me.
My bones are burned with heat.

<key:bcv=Job 30:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 30:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore my harp has turned to mourning,
and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

#BCV:Job 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:1">1 </verse></sup>“I made a covenant with my eyes;
how then should I look lustfully at a young
woman?

<key:bcv=Job 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:2">2 </verse></sup>For what is the portion from God above,
and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
<key:bcv=Job 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,
and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
<key:bcv=Job 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Doesn’t he see my ways,
<br>
and count all my steps?

<key:bcv=Job 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:5">5 </verse></sup>“If I have walked with falsehood,
<br>
and my foot has hurried to deceit

<key:bcv=Job 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:6">6 </verse></sup>(let me be weighed in an even balance,
that God may know my integrity);

<key:bcv=Job 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:7">7 </verse></sup>if my step has turned out of the way,
if my heart walked after my eyes,
<br>
if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
<key:bcv=Job 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:8">8 </verse></sup>then let me sow, and let another eat.
Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
<key:bcv=Job 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:9">9 </verse></sup>“If my heart has been enticed to a woman,
and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
<key:bcv=Job 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:10">10 </verse></sup>then let my wife grind for another,
and let others sleep with her.

<key:bcv=Job 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:11">11 </verse></sup>For that would be a heinous crime.
Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by
the judges,

<key:bcv=Job 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:12">12 </verse></sup>for it is a fire that consumes to destruction,
and would root out all my increase.

<key:bcv=Job 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:13">13 </verse></sup>“If I have despised the cause of my male servant
or of my female servant,
<br>
when they contended with me,

<key:bcv=Job 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:14">14 </verse></sup>what then will I do when God rises up?
When he visits, what will I answer him?
<key:bcv=Job 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?
Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

<key:bcv=Job 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:16">16 </verse></sup>“If I have withheld the poor from their desire,
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
<key:bcv=Job 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:17">17 </verse></sup>or have eaten my morsel alone,
<br>
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
<key:bcv=Job 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:18">18 </verse></sup>(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a
father,
<br>
I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
<key:bcv=Job 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:19">19 </verse></sup>if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
or that the needy had no covering;

<key:bcv=Job 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:20">20 </verse></sup>if his heart hasn’t blessed me,
<br>
if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s
fleece;

<key:bcv=Job 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:21">21 </verse></sup>if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
because I saw my help in the gate;

<key:bcv=Job 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:22">22 </verse></sup>then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,
and my arm be broken from the bone.

<key:bcv=Job 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:23">23 </verse></sup>For calamity from God is a terror to me.
Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
<key:bcv=Job 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:24">24 </verse></sup>“If I have made gold my hope,
<br>
and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my
confidence;’

<key:bcv=Job 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:25">25 </verse></sup>If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,
and because my hand had gotten much;

<key:bcv=Job 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:26">26 </verse></sup>if I have seen the sun when it shined,
or the moon moving in splendor,

<key:bcv=Job 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:27">27 </verse></sup>and my heart has been secretly enticed,
and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;
<key:bcv=Job 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:28">28 </verse></sup>this also would be an iniquity to be punished by
the judges,
<br>
for I would have denied the God who is above.
<key:bcv=Job 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:29">29 </verse></sup>“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who
hated me,
<br>
or lifted up myself when evil found him
<key:bcv=Job 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:30">30 </verse></sup>(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin
by asking his life with a curse);

<key:bcv=Job 31:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:31">31 </verse></sup>if the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who can find one who has not been filled with
his meat?’

<key:bcv=Job 31:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:32">32 </verse></sup>(the foreigner has not camped in the street,
but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
<key:bcv=Job 31:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:33">33 </verse></sup>if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,
by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

<key:bcv=Job 31:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:34">34 </verse></sup>because I feared the great multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the
door—

<key:bcv=Job 31:35><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:35">35 </verse></sup>oh that I had one to hear me!
<br>
Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty
answer me!
<br>
Let the accuser write my indictment!

<key:bcv=Job 31:36><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:36">36 </verse></sup>Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
and I would bind it to me as a crown.
<key:bcv=Job 31:37><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:37">37 </verse></sup>I would declare to him the number of my steps.
I would go near to him like a prince.
<key:bcv=Job 31:38><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:38">38 </verse></sup>If my land cries out against me,
<br>
and its furrows weep together;

<key:bcv=Job 31:39><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:39">39 </verse></sup>if I have eaten its fruits without money,
or have caused its owners to lose their life,
<key:bcv=Job 31:40><sup><verse bcv="Job 31:40">40 </verse></sup>let briers grow instead of wheat,
<br>
and stinkweed instead of barley.”
<br>
The words of Job are ended.

#BCV:Job 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:1">1 </verse></sup>So these three men ceased to answer Job, because
he was righteous in his own eyes. <key:bcv=Job 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:2">2 </verse></sup>Then the
wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the
family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath
was kindled because he justified himself rather than
God. <key:bcv=Job 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:3">3 </verse></sup>Also his wrath was kindled against his three
friends, because they had found no answer, and
yet had condemned Job. <key:bcv=Job 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Elihu had waited
to speak to Job, because they were older than he.
<key:bcv=Job 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:5">5 </verse></sup>When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the
mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
<key:bcv=Job 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:6">6 </verse></sup>Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered,
“I am young, and you are very old.
<br>
Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you
my opinion.

<key:bcv=Job 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:7">7 </verse></sup>I said, ‘Days should speak,
<br>
and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
<key:bcv=Job 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:8">8 </verse></sup>But there is a spirit in man,

and the Spirit<footnote:1>32:8 or, breath</footnote> of the Almighty gives them
understanding.

<key:bcv=Job 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:9">9 </verse></sup>It is not the great who are wise,
<br>
nor the aged who understand justice.

<key:bcv=Job 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me;
<br>
I also will show my opinion.’

<key:bcv=Job 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:11">11 </verse></sup>“Behold, I waited for your words,
<br>
and I listened for your reasoning,
<br>
while you searched out what to say.

<key:bcv=Job 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:12">12 </verse></sup>Yes, I gave you my full attention,
but there was no one who convinced Job,
or who answered his words, among you.
<key:bcv=Job 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:13">13 </verse></sup>Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom.
God may refute him, not man;’

<key:bcv=Job 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:14">14 </verse></sup>for he has not directed his words against me;
neither will I answer him with your speeches.
<key:bcv=Job 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:15">15 </verse></sup>“They are amazed. They answer no more.
They don’t have a word to say.

<key:bcv=Job 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:16">16 </verse></sup>Shall I wait, because they don’t speak,
because they stand still, and answer no more?
<key:bcv=Job 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:17">17 </verse></sup>I also will answer my part,
<br>
and I also will show my opinion.

<key:bcv=Job 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:18">18 </verse></sup>For I am full of words.
<br>
The spirit within me constrains me.

<key:bcv=Job 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent;
like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
<key:bcv=Job 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:20">20 </verse></sup>I will speak, that I may be refreshed.
I will open my lips and answer.

<key:bcv=Job 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:21">21 </verse></sup>Please don’t let me respect any man’s person,
neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
<key:bcv=Job 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 32:22">22 </verse></sup>For I don’t know how to give flattering titles,
or else my Maker would soon take me away.

#BCV:Job 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:1">1 </verse></sup>“However, Job, please hear my speech,
and listen to all my words.

<key:bcv=Job 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:2">2 </verse></sup>See now, I have opened my mouth.
<br>
My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:3">3 </verse></sup>My words will utter the uprightness of my heart.
<br>
That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
<key:bcv=Job 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:4">4 </verse></sup>The Spirit of God has made me,
<br>
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
<key:bcv=Job 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:5">5 </verse></sup>If you can, answer me.
<br>
Set your words in order before me, and stand
up.

<key:bcv=Job 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, I am toward God even as you are.
I am also formed out of the clay.

<key:bcv=Job 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, my terror will not make you afraid,
neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
<key:bcv=Job 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:8">8 </verse></sup>“Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
<key:bcv=Job 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:9">9 </verse></sup>‘I am clean, without disobedience.
<br>
I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
<key:bcv=Job 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, he finds occasions against me.
He counts me for his enemy.

<key:bcv=Job 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:11">11 </verse></sup>He puts my feet in the stocks.
<br>
He marks all my paths.’

<key:bcv=Job 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:12">12 </verse></sup>“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just,
for God is greater than man.

<key:bcv=Job 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:13">13 </verse></sup>Why do you strive against him,
<br>
because he doesn’t give account of any of his
matters?

<key:bcv=Job 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:14">14 </verse></sup>For God speaks once,
<br>
yes twice, though man pays no attention.
<key:bcv=Job 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:15">15 </verse></sup>In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
<br>
in slumbering on the bed,

<key:bcv=Job 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:16">16 </verse></sup>then he opens the ears of men,
<br>
and seals their instruction,

<key:bcv=Job 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:17">17 </verse></sup>that he may withdraw man from his purpose,
and hide pride from man.

<key:bcv=Job 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:18">18 </verse></sup>He keeps back his soul from the pit,
and his life from perishing by the sword.
<key:bcv=Job 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:19">19 </verse></sup>“He is chastened also with pain on his bed,
with continual strife in his bones,

<key:bcv=Job 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:20">20 </verse></sup>so that his life abhors bread,
<br>
and his soul dainty food.

<key:bcv=Job 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:21">21 </verse></sup>His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen.
His bones that were not seen stick out.
<key:bcv=Job 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:22">22 </verse></sup>Yes, his soul draws near to the pit,
and his life to the destroyers.

<key:bcv=Job 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:23">23 </verse></sup>“If there is beside him an angel,
<br>
an interpreter, one among a thousand,
to show to man what is right for him,
<key:bcv=Job 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:24">24 </verse></sup>then God is gracious to him, and says,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom.’

<key:bcv=Job 33:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:25">25 </verse></sup>His flesh will be fresher than a child’s.
He returns to the days of his youth.

<key:bcv=Job 33:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:26">26 </verse></sup>He prays to God, and he is favorable to him,
so that he sees his face with joy.
<br>
He restores to man his righteousness.
<key:bcv=Job 33:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:27">27 </verse></sup>He sings before men, and says,
<br>
‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was
right,
<br>
and it didn’t profit me.

<key:bcv=Job 33:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:28">28 </verse></sup>He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit.
My life will see the light.’

<key:bcv=Job 33:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:29">29 </verse></sup>“Behold, God does all these things,
twice, yes three times, with a man,

<key:bcv=Job 33:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:30">30 </verse></sup>to bring back his soul from the pit,
that he may be enlightened with the light of
the living.

<key:bcv=Job 33:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:31">31 </verse></sup>Mark well, Job, and listen to me.
<br>
Hold your peace, and I will speak.

<key:bcv=Job 33:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:32">32 </verse></sup>If you have anything to say, answer me.
Speak, for I desire to justify you.

<key:bcv=Job 33:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 33:33">33 </verse></sup>If not, listen to me.
<br>
Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

#BCV:Job 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Elihu answered,

<key:bcv=Job 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:2">2 </verse></sup>“Hear my words, you wise men.
<br>
Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
<key:bcv=Job 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:3">3 </verse></sup>For the ear tries words,
<br>
as the palate tastes food.

<key:bcv=Job 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:4">4 </verse></sup>Let us choose for us that which is right.
Let us know among ourselves what is good.
<key:bcv=Job 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:5">5 </verse></sup>For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
<br>
God has taken away my right.

<key:bcv=Job 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:6">6 </verse></sup>Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.
My wound is incurable, though I am without
disobedience.’

<key:bcv=Job 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:7">7 </verse></sup>What man is like Job,
<br>
who drinks scorn like water,

<key:bcv=Job 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:8">8 </verse></sup>who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
and walks with wicked men?

<key:bcv=Job 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:9">9 </verse></sup>For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should delight himself with God.’
<key:bcv=Job 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:10">10 </verse></sup>“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding:
far be it from God, that he should do wickedness,
from the Almighty, that he should commit
iniquity.

<key:bcv=Job 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:11">11 </verse></sup>For the work of a man he will render to him,
and cause every man to find according to his
ways.

<key:bcv=Job 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:12">12 </verse></sup>Yes surely, God will not do wickedly,
neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
<key:bcv=Job 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:13">13 </verse></sup>Who put him in charge of the earth?
Or who has appointed him over the whole
world?

<key:bcv=Job 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:14">14 </verse></sup>If he set his heart on himself,
<br>
if he gathered to himself his spirit and his
breath,

<key:bcv=Job 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:15">15 </verse></sup>all flesh would perish together,
<br>
and man would turn again to dust.

<key:bcv=Job 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:16">16 </verse></sup>“If now you have understanding, hear this.
Listen to the voice of my words.

<key:bcv=Job 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:17">17 </verse></sup>Should even one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn him who is righteous and
mighty,

<key:bcv=Job 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:18">18 </verse></sup>who says to a king, ‘Vile!’
<br>
or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

<key:bcv=Job 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:19">19 </verse></sup>He doesn’t respect the persons of princes,
nor respect the rich more than the poor,
for they all are the work of his hands.
<key:bcv=Job 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:20">20 </verse></sup>In a moment they die, even at midnight.
The people are shaken and pass away.
<br>
The mighty are taken away without a hand.
<key:bcv=Job 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:21">21 </verse></sup>“For his eyes are on the ways of a man.
He sees all his goings.

<key:bcv=Job 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:22">22 </verse></sup>There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
<key:bcv=Job 34:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:23">23 </verse></sup>For he doesn’t need to consider a man further,
that he should go before God in judgment.
<key:bcv=Job 34:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:24">24 </verse></sup>He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past
finding out,
<br>
and sets others in their place.

<key:bcv=Job 34:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore he takes knowledge of their works.
He overturns them in the night, so that they
are destroyed.

<key:bcv=Job 34:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:26">26 </verse></sup>He strikes them as wicked men
<br>
in the open sight of others;

<key:bcv=Job 34:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:27">27 </verse></sup>because they turned away from following him,
and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,
<key:bcv=Job 34:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:28">28 </verse></sup>so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to
him.
<br>
He heard the cry of the afflicted.

<key:bcv=Job 34:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:29">29 </verse></sup>When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?
When he hides his face, who then can see him?
He is over a nation or a man alike,

<key:bcv=Job 34:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:30">30 </verse></sup>that the godless man may not reign,
that there be no one to ensnare the people.
<key:bcv=Job 34:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:31">31 </verse></sup>“For has any said to God,
<br>
‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
<key:bcv=Job 34:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:32">32 </verse></sup>Teach me that which I don’t see.
<br>
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
<key:bcv=Job 34:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:33">33 </verse></sup>Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you
refuse it?
<br>
For you must choose, and not I.
<br>
Therefore speak what you know.

<key:bcv=Job 34:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:34">34 </verse></sup>Men of understanding will tell me,
yes, every wise man who hears me:

<key:bcv=Job 34:35><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:35">35 </verse></sup>‘Job speaks without knowledge.
<br>
His words are without wisdom.’

<key:bcv=Job 34:36><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:36">36 </verse></sup>I wish that Job were tried to the end,
because of his answering like wicked men.
<key:bcv=Job 34:37><sup><verse bcv="Job 34:37">37 </verse></sup>For he adds rebellion to his sin.
<br>
He claps his hands among us,
<br>
and multiplies his words against God.”

#BCV:Job 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Elihu answered,

<key:bcv=Job 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:2">2 </verse></sup>“Do you think this to be your right,
or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than
God’s,’

<key:bcv=Job 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:3">3 </verse></sup>that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you?
What profit will I have, more than if I had
sinned?’

<key:bcv=Job 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:4">4 </verse></sup>I will answer you,
<br>
and your companions with you.

<key:bcv=Job 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:5">5 </verse></sup>Look to the skies, and see.
<br>
See the skies, which are higher than you.
<key:bcv=Job 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:6">6 </verse></sup>If you have sinned, what effect do you have against
him?
<br>
If your transgressions are multiplied, what do
you do to him?

<key:bcv=Job 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:7">7 </verse></sup>If you are righteous, what do you give him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
<key:bcv=Job 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:8">8 </verse></sup>Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are,
and your righteousness may profit a son of
man.

<key:bcv=Job 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:9">9 </verse></sup>“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they
cry out.
<br>
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the
mighty.

<key:bcv=Job 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:10">10 </verse></sup>But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,

<key:bcv=Job 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:11">11 </verse></sup>who teaches us more than the animals of the
earth,
<br>
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
<key:bcv=Job 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:12">12 </verse></sup>There they cry, but no one answers,
because of the pride of evil men.

<key:bcv=Job 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:13">13 </verse></sup>Surely God will not hear an empty cry,
neither will the Almighty regard it.

<key:bcv=Job 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:14">14 </verse></sup>How much less when you say you don’t see him.
The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
<key:bcv=Job 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:15">15 </verse></sup>But now, because he has not visited in his anger,
neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
<key:bcv=Job 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 35:16">16 </verse></sup>therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk,
and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

#BCV:Job 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:1">1 </verse></sup>Elihu also continued, and said,

<key:bcv=Job 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:2">2 </verse></sup>“Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
for I still have something to say on God’s
behalf.

<key:bcv=Job 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:3">3 </verse></sup>I will get my knowledge from afar,
<br>
and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
<key:bcv=Job 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:4">4 </verse></sup>For truly my words are not false.
<br>
One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
<key:bcv=Job 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:5">5 </verse></sup>“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
<key:bcv=Job 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:6">6 </verse></sup>He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
but gives justice to the afflicted.

<key:bcv=Job 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:7">7 </verse></sup>He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
but with kings on the throne,
<br>
he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
<key:bcv=Job 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:8">8 </verse></sup>If they are bound in fetters,
<br>
and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
<key:bcv=Job 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:9">9 </verse></sup>then he shows them their work,
<br>
and their transgressions, that they have behaved
themselves proudly.

<key:bcv=Job 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:10">10 </verse></sup>He also opens their ears to instruction,
and commands that they return from iniquity.
<key:bcv=Job 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:11">11 </verse></sup>If they listen and serve him,
<br>
they will spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasures.

<key:bcv=Job 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:12">12 </verse></sup>But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the
sword;
<br>
they will die without knowledge.

<key:bcv=Job 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:13">13 </verse></sup>“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
<key:bcv=Job 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:14">14 </verse></sup>They die in youth.
<br>
Their life perishes among the unclean.
<key:bcv=Job 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:15">15 </verse></sup>He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
and opens their ear in oppression.

<key:bcv=Job 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:16">16 </verse></sup>Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,
into a wide place, where there is no restriction.
<br>
That which is set on your table would be full of
fatness.

<key:bcv=Job 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:17">17 </verse></sup>“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.
Judgment and justice take hold of you.
<key:bcv=Job 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:18">18 </verse></sup>Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,
neither let the great size of a bribe turn you
aside.

<key:bcv=Job 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:19">19 </verse></sup>Would your wealth sustain you in distress,
or all the might of your strength?

<key:bcv=Job 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t desire the night,
<br>
when people are cut off in their place.
<key:bcv=Job 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:21">21 </verse></sup>Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;
<br>
for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
<key:bcv=Job 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, God is exalted in his power.
Who is a teacher like him?

<key:bcv=Job 36:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:23">23 </verse></sup>Who has prescribed his way for him?
Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
<key:bcv=Job 36:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:24">24 </verse></sup>“Remember that you magnify his work,
about which men have sung.

<key:bcv=Job 36:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:25">25 </verse></sup>All men have looked on it.
<br>
Man sees it afar off.

<key:bcv=Job 36:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:26">26 </verse></sup>Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.
The number of his years is unsearchable.
<key:bcv=Job 36:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:27">27 </verse></sup>For he draws up the drops of water,
which distill in rain from his vapor,
<key:bcv=Job 36:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:28">28 </verse></sup>which the skies pour down
<br>
and which drop on man abundantly.

<key:bcv=Job 36:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:29">29 </verse></sup>Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of
the clouds
<br>
and the thunderings of his pavilion?

<key:bcv=Job 36:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:30">30 </verse></sup>Behold, he spreads his light around him.
He covers the bottom of the sea.

<key:bcv=Job 36:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:31">31 </verse></sup>For by these he judges the people.
He gives food in abundance.

<key:bcv=Job 36:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:32">32 </verse></sup>He covers his hands with the lightning,
and commands it to strike the mark.

<key:bcv=Job 36:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 36:33">33 </verse></sup>Its noise tells about him,
<br>
and the livestock also, concerning the storm
that comes up.

#BCV:Job 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:1">1 </verse></sup>“Yes, at this my heart trembles,
and is moved out of its place.

<key:bcv=Job 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice,
the sound that goes out of his mouth.
<key:bcv=Job 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:3">3 </verse></sup>He sends it out under the whole sky,
and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
<key:bcv=Job 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:4">4 </verse></sup>After it a voice roars.
<br>
He thunders with the voice of his majesty.
He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice
is heard.

<key:bcv=Job 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:5">5 </verse></sup>God thunders marvelously with his voice.
He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
<key:bcv=Job 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:6">6 </verse></sup>For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’
likewise to the shower of rain,
<br>
and to the showers of his mighty rain.
<key:bcv=Job 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:7">7 </verse></sup>He seals up the hand of every man,
<br>
that all men whom he has made may know it.
<key:bcv=Job 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the animals take cover,
<br>
and remain in their dens.

<key:bcv=Job 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:9">9 </verse></sup>Out of its room comes the storm,
<br>
and cold out of the north.

<key:bcv=Job 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:10">10 </verse></sup>By the breath of God, ice is given,
and the width of the waters is frozen.
<key:bcv=Job 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture.
He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
<key:bcv=Job 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:12">12 </verse></sup>It is turned around by his guidance,
that they may do whatever he commands them
on the surface of the habitable world,
<key:bcv=Job 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:13">13 </verse></sup>whether it is for correction, or for his land,
or for loving kindness, that he causes it to
come.

<key:bcv=Job 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:14">14 </verse></sup>“Listen to this, Job.
<br>
Stand still, and consider the wondrous works
of God.

<key:bcv=Job 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:15">15 </verse></sup>Do you know how God controls them,
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
<key:bcv=Job 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:16">16 </verse></sup>Do you know the workings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of him who is perfect in
knowledge?

<key:bcv=Job 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:17">17 </verse></sup>You whose clothing is warm
<br>
when the earth is still by reason of the south
wind?

<key:bcv=Job 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:18">18 </verse></sup>Can you, with him, spread out the sky,
which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
<key:bcv=Job 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:19">19 </verse></sup>Teach us what we will tell him,
<br>
for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
<key:bcv=Job 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:20">20 </verse></sup>Will it be told him that I would speak?
Or should a man wish that he were swallowed
up?

<key:bcv=Job 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:21">21 </verse></sup>Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the
skies,
<br>
but the wind passes, and clears them.
<key:bcv=Job 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:22">22 </verse></sup>Out of the north comes golden splendor.
With God is awesome majesty.

<key:bcv=Job 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:23">23 </verse></sup>We can’t reach the Almighty.
<br>
He is exalted in power.
<br>
In justice and great righteousness, he will not
oppress.

<key:bcv=Job 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 37:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore men revere him.
<br>
He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

#BCV:Job 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
<key:bcv=Job 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:2">2 </verse></sup>“Who is this who darkens counsel
<br>
by words without knowledge?

<key:bcv=Job 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:3">3 </verse></sup>Brace yourself like a man,
<br>
for I will question you, then you answer me!
<key:bcv=Job 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:4">4 </verse></sup>“Where were you when I laid the foundations of
the earth?
<br>
Declare, if you have understanding.

<key:bcv=Job 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:5">5 </verse></sup>Who determined its measures, if you know?
Or who stretched the line on it?

<key:bcv=Job 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:6">6 </verse></sup>What were its foundations fastened on?
Or who laid its cornerstone,

<key:bcv=Job 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:7">7 </verse></sup>when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
<key:bcv=Job 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:8">8 </verse></sup>“Or who shut up the sea with doors,
when it broke out of the womb,

<key:bcv=Job 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:9">9 </verse></sup>when I made clouds its garment,
<br>
and wrapped it in thick darkness,

<key:bcv=Job 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:10">10 </verse></sup>marked out for it my bound,
<br>
set bars and doors,

<key:bcv=Job 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:11">11 </verse></sup>and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.
Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
<key:bcv=Job 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:12">12 </verse></sup>“Have you commanded the morning in your days,
and caused the dawn to know its place,
<key:bcv=Job 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:13">13 </verse></sup>that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
and shake the wicked out of it?

<key:bcv=Job 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:14">14 </verse></sup>It is changed as clay under the seal,
and presented as a garment.

<key:bcv=Job 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:15">15 </verse></sup>From the wicked, their light is withheld.
The high arm is broken.

<key:bcv=Job 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:16">16 </verse></sup>“Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
<key:bcv=Job 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:17">17 </verse></sup>Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of
death?

<key:bcv=Job 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:18">18 </verse></sup>Have you comprehended the earth in its width?
Declare, if you know it all.

<key:bcv=Job 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:19">19 </verse></sup>“What is the way to the dwelling of light?
As for darkness, where is its place,

<key:bcv=Job 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:20">20 </verse></sup>that you should take it to its bound,
that you should discern the paths to its house?
<key:bcv=Job 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:21">21 </verse></sup>Surely you know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great!
<key:bcv=Job 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:22">22 </verse></sup>Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
<key:bcv=Job 38:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:23">23 </verse></sup>which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and war?

<key:bcv=Job 38:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:24">24 </verse></sup>By what way is the lightning distributed,
or the east wind scattered on the earth?
<key:bcv=Job 38:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:25">25 </verse></sup>Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
or the path for the thunderstorm,

<key:bcv=Job 38:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:26">26 </verse></sup>to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
<key:bcv=Job 38:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:27">27 </verse></sup>to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
to cause the tender grass to grow?

<key:bcv=Job 38:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:28">28 </verse></sup>Does the rain have a father?
<br>
Or who fathers the drops of dew?

<key:bcv=Job 38:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:29">29 </verse></sup>Whose womb did the ice come out of?
Who has given birth to the gray frost of the
sky?

<key:bcv=Job 38:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:30">30 </verse></sup>The waters become hard like stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen.
<key:bcv=Job 38:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:31">31 </verse></sup>“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
or loosen the cords of Orion?

<key:bcv=Job 38:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:32">32 </verse></sup>Can you lead the constellations out in their season?
Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
<key:bcv=Job 38:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:33">33 </verse></sup>Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
<key:bcv=Job 38:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:34">34 </verse></sup>“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
that abundance of waters may cover you?
<key:bcv=Job 38:35><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:35">35 </verse></sup>Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
<key:bcv=Job 38:36><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:36">36 </verse></sup>Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
Or who has given understanding to the mind?
<key:bcv=Job 38:37><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:37">37 </verse></sup>Who can count the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
<key:bcv=Job 38:38><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:38">38 </verse></sup>when the dust runs into a mass,
<br>
and the clods of earth stick together?
<key:bcv=Job 38:39><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:39">39 </verse></sup>“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
<key:bcv=Job 38:40><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:40">40 </verse></sup>when they crouch in their dens,
<br>
and lie in wait in the thicket?

<key:bcv=Job 38:41><sup><verse bcv="Job 38:41">41 </verse></sup>Who provides for the raven his prey,
when his young ones cry to God,
<br>
and wander for lack of food?

#BCV:Job 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:1">1 </verse></sup>“Do you know the time when the mountain goats
give birth?
<br>
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
<key:bcv=Job 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:2">2 </verse></sup>Can you count the months that they fulfill?
Or do you know the time when they give birth?
<key:bcv=Job 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:3">3 </verse></sup>They bow themselves. They bear their young.
They end their labor pains.

<key:bcv=Job 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:4">4 </verse></sup>Their young ones become strong.
<br>
They grow up in the open field.
<br>
They go out, and don’t return again.

<key:bcv=Job 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:5">5 </verse></sup>“Who has set the wild donkey free?
<br>
Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift
donkey,

<key:bcv=Job 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:6">6 </verse></sup>whose home I have made the wilderness,
and the salt land his dwelling place?
<key:bcv=Job 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:7">7 </verse></sup>He scorns the tumult of the city,
<br>
neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
<key:bcv=Job 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:8">8 </verse></sup>The range of the mountains is his pasture.
He searches after every green thing.

<key:bcv=Job 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:9">9 </verse></sup>“Will the wild ox be content to serve you?
Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
<key:bcv=Job 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:10">10 </verse></sup>Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his
harness?
<br>
Or will he till the valleys after you?
<key:bcv=Job 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:11">11 </verse></sup>Will you trust him, because his strength is great?
Or will you leave to him your labor?

<key:bcv=Job 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:12">12 </verse></sup>Will you confide in him, that he will bring home
your seed,
<br>
and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
<key:bcv=Job 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:13">13 </verse></sup>“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
<key:bcv=Job 39:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:14">14 </verse></sup>For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
warms them in the dust,

<key:bcv=Job 39:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:15">15 </verse></sup>and forgets that the foot may crush them,
or that the wild animal may trample them.
<key:bcv=Job 39:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:16">16 </verse></sup>She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they
were not hers.
<br>
Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
<key:bcv=Job 39:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:17">17 </verse></sup>because God has deprived her of wisdom,
neither has he imparted to her understanding.
<key:bcv=Job 39:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:18">18 </verse></sup>When she lifts up herself on high,
she scorns the horse and his rider.

<key:bcv=Job 39:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:19">19 </verse></sup>“Have you given the horse might?
<br>
Have you clothed his neck with a quivering
mane?

<key:bcv=Job 39:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:20">20 </verse></sup>Have you made him to leap as a locust?
<br>
The glory of his snorting is awesome.
<key:bcv=Job 39:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:21">21 </verse></sup>He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.
He goes out to meet the armed men.

<key:bcv=Job 39:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:22">22 </verse></sup>He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,
neither does he turn back from the sword.
<key:bcv=Job 39:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:23">23 </verse></sup>The quiver rattles against him,
<br>
the flashing spear and the javelin.

<key:bcv=Job 39:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:24">24 </verse></sup>He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,
neither does he stand still at the sound of the
trumpet.

<key:bcv=Job 39:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:25">25 </verse></sup>As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle afar off,
<br>
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
<key:bcv=Job 39:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:26">26 </verse></sup>“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
and stretches her wings toward the south?
<key:bcv=Job 39:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:27">27 </verse></sup>Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,
and makes his nest on high?

<key:bcv=Job 39:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:28">28 </verse></sup>On the cliff he dwells and makes his home,
on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
<key:bcv=Job 39:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:29">29 </verse></sup>From there he spies out the prey.
<br>
His eyes see it afar off.

<key:bcv=Job 39:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 39:30">30 </verse></sup>His young ones also suck up blood.
Where the slain are, there he is.”

#BCV:Job 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh answered Job,

<key:bcv=Job 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:2">2 </verse></sup>“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
<key:bcv=Job 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Job answered Yahweh,

<key:bcv=Job 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:4">4 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer
you?
<br>
I lay my hand on my mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:5">5 </verse></sup>I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
<key:bcv=Job 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind:
<key:bcv=Job 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:7">7 </verse></sup>“Now brace yourself like a man.
<br>
I will question you, and you will answer me.
<key:bcv=Job 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:8">8 </verse></sup>Will you even annul my judgment?
<br>
Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
<key:bcv=Job 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:9">9 </verse></sup>Or do you have an arm like God?
<br>
Can you thunder with a voice like him?
<key:bcv=Job 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:10">10 </verse></sup>“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
Array yourself with honor and majesty.
<key:bcv=Job 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:11">11 </verse></sup>Pour out the fury of your anger.
<br>
Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him
low.

<key:bcv=Job 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:12">12 </verse></sup>Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him.
Crush the wicked in their place.

<key:bcv=Job 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:13">13 </verse></sup>Hide them in the dust together.
<br>
Bind their faces in the hidden place.
<key:bcv=Job 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:14">14 </verse></sup>Then I will also admit to you
<br>
that your own right hand can save you.
<key:bcv=Job 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:15">15 </verse></sup>“See now behemoth, which I made as well as you.
He eats grass as an ox.

<key:bcv=Job 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:16">16 </verse></sup>Look now, his strength is in his thighs.
His force is in the muscles of his belly.
<key:bcv=Job 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:17">17 </verse></sup>He moves his tail like a cedar.
<br>
The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
<key:bcv=Job 40:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:18">18 </verse></sup>His bones are like tubes of bronze.
His limbs are like bars of iron.

<key:bcv=Job 40:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:19">19 </verse></sup>He is the chief of the ways of God.
He who made him gives him his sword.

<key:bcv=Job 40:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:20">20 </verse></sup>Surely the mountains produce food for him,
where all the animals of the field play.
<key:bcv=Job 40:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:21">21 </verse></sup>He lies under the lotus trees,
<br>
in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
<key:bcv=Job 40:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:22">22 </verse></sup>The lotuses cover him with their shade.
The willows of the brook surround him.
<key:bcv=Job 40:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:23">23 </verse></sup>Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble.
He is confident, though the Jordan swells even
to his mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 40:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 40:24">24 </verse></sup>Shall any take him when he is on the watch,
or pierce through his nose with a snare?

#BCV:Job 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:1">1 </verse></sup>“Can you draw out Leviathan<footnote:1>41:1 Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.</footnote> with a fish hook,
or press down his tongue with a cord?
<key:bcv=Job 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:2">2 </verse></sup>Can you put a rope into his nose,
<br>
or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
<key:bcv=Job 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:3">3 </verse></sup>Will he make many petitions to you,
or will he speak soft words to you?

<key:bcv=Job 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:4">4 </verse></sup>Will he make a covenant with you,
<br>
that you should take him for a servant forever?
<key:bcv=Job 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:5">5 </verse></sup>Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him for your girls?

<key:bcv=Job 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:6">6 </verse></sup>Will traders barter for him?
<br>
Will they part him among the merchants?
<key:bcv=Job 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:7">7 </verse></sup>Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
or his head with fish spears?

<key:bcv=Job 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:8">8 </verse></sup>Lay your hand on him.
<br>
Remember the battle, and do so no more.
<key:bcv=Job 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of
him?

<key:bcv=Job 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:10">10 </verse></sup>None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
Who then is he who can stand before me?
<key:bcv=Job 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:11">11 </verse></sup>Who has first given to me, that I should repay
him?
<br>
Everything under the heavens is mine.
<key:bcv=Job 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:12">12 </verse></sup>“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
<key:bcv=Job 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:13">13 </verse></sup>Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who will come within his jaws?

<key:bcv=Job 41:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:14">14 </verse></sup>Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth is terror.

<key:bcv=Job 41:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:15">15 </verse></sup>Strong scales are his pride,
<br>
shut up together with a close seal.

<key:bcv=Job 41:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:16">16 </verse></sup>One is so near to another,
<br>
that no air can come between them.

<key:bcv=Job 41:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:17">17 </verse></sup>They are joined to one another.
<br>
They stick together, so that they can’t be
pulled apart.

<key:bcv=Job 41:18><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:18">18 </verse></sup>His sneezing flashes out light.
<br>
His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

<key:bcv=Job 41:19><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:19">19 </verse></sup>Out of his mouth go burning torches.
Sparks of fire leap out.

<key:bcv=Job 41:20><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:20">20 </verse></sup>Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
<br>
as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
<key:bcv=Job 41:21><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:21">21 </verse></sup>His breath kindles coals.
<br>
A flame goes out of his mouth.

<key:bcv=Job 41:22><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:22">22 </verse></sup>There is strength in his neck.
<br>
Terror dances before him.

<key:bcv=Job 41:23><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:23">23 </verse></sup>The flakes of his flesh are joined together.
They are firm on him.
<br>
They can’t be moved.

<key:bcv=Job 41:24><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:24">24 </verse></sup>His heart is as firm as a stone,
<br>
yes, firm as the lower millstone.

<key:bcv=Job 41:25><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:25">25 </verse></sup>When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
They retreat before his thrashing.

<key:bcv=Job 41:26><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:26">26 </verse></sup>If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail;
nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
<key:bcv=Job 41:27><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:27">27 </verse></sup>He counts iron as straw,
<br>
and bronze as rotten wood.

<key:bcv=Job 41:28><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:28">28 </verse></sup>The arrow can’t make him flee.
<br>
Sling stones are like chaff to him.

<key:bcv=Job 41:29><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:29">29 </verse></sup>Clubs are counted as stubble.
<br>
He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
<key:bcv=Job 41:30><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:30">30 </verse></sup>His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing
sledge.

<key:bcv=Job 41:31><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:31">31 </verse></sup>He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
<key:bcv=Job 41:32><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:32">32 </verse></sup>He makes a path shine after him.
<br>
One would think the deep had white hair.
<key:bcv=Job 41:33><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:33">33 </verse></sup>On earth there is not his equal,
<br>
that is made without fear.

<key:bcv=Job 41:34><sup><verse bcv="Job 41:34">34 </verse></sup>He sees everything that is high.
<br>
He is king over all the sons of pride.”

#BCV:Job 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Job 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Job answered Yahweh:

<key:bcv=Job 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:2">2 </verse></sup>“I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
<key:bcv=Job 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:3">3 </verse></sup>You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without
knowledge?’
<br>
therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t
understand,
<br>
things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t
know.

<key:bcv=Job 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:4">4 </verse></sup>You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer me.’
<key:bcv=Job 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:5">5 </verse></sup>I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you.

<key:bcv=Job 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore I abhor myself,
<br>
and repent in dust and ashes.”

<key:bcv=Job 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:7">7 </verse></sup>It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these
words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
“My wrath is kindled against you, and against your
two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing
that is right, as my servant Job has. <key:bcv=Job 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:8">8 </verse></sup>Now therefore,
take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and
go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for
you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you
according to your folly. For you have not spoken of
me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
<key:bcv=Job 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:9">9 </verse></sup>So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what
Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted
Job.

<key:bcv=Job 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he
prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as
much as he had before. <key:bcv=Job 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:11">11 </verse></sup>Then all his brothers,
all his sisters, and all those who had been of his
acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread
with him in his house. They comforted him, and
consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh
had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece
of money,<footnote:1>42:11 literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver</footnote> and everyone a ring of gold.
<key:bcv=Job 42:12><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:12">12 </verse></sup>So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more
than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand
sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. <key:bcv=Job 42:13><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:13">13 </verse></sup>He had
also seven sons and three daughters. <key:bcv=Job 42:14><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:14">14 </verse></sup>He called
the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the
second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren
Happuch. <key:bcv=Job 42:15><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:15">15 </verse></sup>In all the land were no women found so
beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave
them an inheritance among their brothers. <key:bcv=Job 42:16><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:16">16 </verse></sup>After
this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his
sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. <key:bcv=Job 42:17><sup><verse bcv="Job 42:17">17 </verse></sup>So
Job died, being old and full of days.

#OUTLINE:1,The Psalms
<h2>The Psalms</h2>

#BCV:Job 1:0
<P align="center"><h3>1</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel
of the wicked,
<br>
nor stand on the path of sinners,
<br>
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

<key:bcv=Psalms 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:2">2 </verse></sup>but his delight is in Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
<key:bcv=Psalms 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:3">3 </verse></sup>He will be like a tree planted by the streams of
water,
<br>
that produces its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also does not wither.
<br>
Whatever he does shall prosper.

<key:bcv=Psalms 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:4">4 </verse></sup>The wicked are not so,
<br>
but are like the chaff which the wind drives
away.

<key:bcv=Psalms 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
<key:bcv=Psalms 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 1:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.

#BCV:Psalms 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Why do the nations rage,
<br>
and the peoples plot a vain thing?

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The kings of the earth take a stand,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against Yahweh, and against his Anointed,<footnote:1>2:2 The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ” </footnote>
saying,

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:3">3 </verse></sup>“Let’s break their bonds apart,
<br>
and cast their cords from us.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:4">4 </verse></sup>He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
The Lord<footnote:1>2:4 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> will have them in derision.
<key:bcv=Psalms 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Then he will speak to them in his anger,
and terrify them in his wrath:

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:6">6 </verse></sup>“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:7">7 </verse></sup>I will tell of the decree:
<br>
Yahweh said to me, “You are my son.
<br>
Today I have become your father.

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your
inheritance,
<br>
the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
<key:bcv=Psalms 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:9">9 </verse></sup>You shall break them with a rod of iron.
You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s
vessel.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Now therefore be wise, you kings.
<br>
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Serve Yahweh with fear,
<br>
and rejoice with trembling.

<key:bcv=Psalms 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Give sincere homage to the Son,<footnote:1>2:12 or, Kiss the son </footnote> lest he be angry,
and you perish on the way,
<br>
for his wrath will soon be kindled.
<br>
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

#BCV:Psalm 3:0
#BCV:Psalms 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his
son.

<key:bcv=Psalms 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are those who rise up against me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Many there are who say of my soul,

“There is no help for him in God.”<footnote:1>3:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:3">3 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
<key:bcv=Psalms 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:4">4 </verse></sup>I cry to Yahweh with my voice,
<br>
and he answers me out of his holy hill.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:5">5 </verse></sup>I laid myself down and slept.
<br>
I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:6">6 </verse></sup>I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people
who have set themselves against me on every
side.

<key:bcv=Psalms 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh!
<br>
Save me, my God!
<br>
For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek
bone.
<br>
You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Psalms 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Salvation belongs to Yahweh.
<br>
May your blessing be on your people.
<br>
Selah.

#BCV:Psalm 4:0
#BCV:Psalms 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A
Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness.
Give me relief from my distress.
<br>
Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
<key:bcv=Psalms 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:2">2 </verse></sup>You sons of men, how long shall my glory be
turned into dishonor?
<br>
Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:3">3 </verse></sup>But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself
him who is godly;
<br>
Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Stand in awe, and don’t sin.
<br>
Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.
Put your trust in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Many say, “Who will show us any good?”
Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
<key:bcv=Psalms 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:7">7 </verse></sup>You have put gladness in my heart,
<br>
more than when their grain and their new
wine are increased.

<key:bcv=Psalms 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 4:8">8 </verse></sup>In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,
for you alone, Yahweh, make me live in safety.

#BCV:Psalm 5:0
#BCV:Psalms 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by
David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Give ear to my words, Yahweh.
<br>
Consider my meditation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God,
for I pray to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice.
<br>
In the morning I will lay my requests before
you, and will watch expectantly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:4">4 </verse></sup>For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
Evil can’t live with you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:5">5 </verse></sup>The arrogant will not stand in your sight.
You hate all workers of iniquity.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:6">6 </verse></sup>You will destroy those who speak lies.
Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful
man.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:7">7 </verse></sup>But as for me, in the abundance of your loving
kindness I will come into your house.
I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence
of you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because
of my enemies.
<br>
Make your way straight before my face.
<key:bcv=Psalms 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:9">9 </verse></sup>For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
Their heart is destruction.
<br>
Their throat is an open tomb.
<br>
They flatter with their tongue.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Hold them guilty, God.
<br>
Let them fall by their own counsels.
<br>
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:11">11 </verse></sup>But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice.
Let them always shout for joy, because you
defend them.
<br>
Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For you will bless the righteous.
<br>
Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a
shield.

#BCV:Psalm 6:0
#BCV:Psalms 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments,
upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
neither discipline me in your wrath.

<key:bcv=Psalms 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint.
Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:3">3 </verse></sup>My soul is also in great anguish.
<br>
But you, Yahweh—how long?

<key:bcv=Psalms 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul,
<br>
and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:5">5 </verse></sup>For in death there is no memory of you.
In Sheol,<footnote:1>6:5 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> who shall give you thanks?
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:6">6 </verse></sup>I am weary with my groaning.
<br>
Every night I flood my bed.
<br>
I drench my couch with my tears.

<key:bcv=Psalms 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:7">7 </verse></sup>My eye wastes away because of grief.
It grows old because of all my adversaries.
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,
for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
<key:bcv=Psalms 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh has heard my supplication.
<br>
Yahweh accepts my prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 6:10">10 </verse></sup>May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.
They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced
suddenly.

#BCV:Psalm 7:0
#BCV:Psalms 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<br>
A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh,
concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and
deliver me,

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:2">2 </verse></sup>lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to
deliver.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
if there is iniquity in my hands,

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:4">4 </verse></sup>if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace
with me
<br>
(yes, I have delivered him who without cause
was my adversary),

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:5">5 </verse></sup>let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake
it;
<br>
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
and lay my glory in the dust.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
<br>
Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
<key:bcv=Psalms 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Let the congregation of the peoples surround
you.
<br>
Rule over them on high.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
and to my integrity that is in me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an
end,
<br>
but establish the righteous;
<br>
their minds and hearts are searched by the
righteous God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:10">10 </verse></sup>My shield is with God,
<br>
who saves the upright in heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:11">11 </verse></sup>God is a righteous judge,
<br>
yes, a God who has indignation every day.
<key:bcv=Psalms 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:12">12 </verse></sup>If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:13">13 </verse></sup>He has also prepared for himself the instruments
of death.
<br>
He makes ready his flaming arrows.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>7:14 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> he travails with iniquity.
Yes, he has conceived mischief,
<br>
and brought out falsehood.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:15">15 </verse></sup>He has dug a hole,
<br>
and has fallen into the pit which he made.
<key:bcv=Psalms 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:16">16 </verse></sup>The trouble he causes shall return to his own
head.
<br>
His violence shall come down on the crown of
his own head.

<key:bcv=Psalms 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 7:17">17 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his
righteousness,
<br>
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh
Most High.

#BCV:Psalm 8:0
#BCV:Psalms 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A
Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
<br>
You have set your glory above the heavens!
<key:bcv=Psalms 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:2">2 </verse></sup>From the lips of babes and infants you have established
strength,
<br>
because of your adversaries, that you might
silence the enemy and the avenger.

<key:bcv=Psalms 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:3">3 </verse></sup>When I consider your heavens, the work of your
fingers,
<br>
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,
<key:bcv=Psalms 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:4">4 </verse></sup>what is man, that you think of him?
What is the son of man, that you care for him?
<key:bcv=Psalms 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:5">5 </verse></sup>For you have made him a little lower than the
angels,<footnote:1>8:5 Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7. </footnote>
<br>
and crowned him with glory and honor.
<key:bcv=Psalms 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:6">6 </verse></sup>You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet:
<key:bcv=Psalms 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:7">7 </verse></sup>All sheep and cattle,
<br>
yes, and the animals of the field,

<key:bcv=Psalms 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:8">8 </verse></sup>the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea,
and whatever passes through the paths of the
seas.

<key:bcv=Psalms 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh, our Lord,
<br>
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

#BCV:Psalm 9:0
#BCV:Psalms 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the
Son.” A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:1">1 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart.
I will tell of all your marvelous works.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:2">2 </verse></sup>I will be glad and rejoice in you.
<br>
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:3">3 </verse></sup>When my enemies turn back,
<br>
they stumble and perish in your presence.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:4">4 </verse></sup>For you have maintained my just cause.
You sit on the throne judging righteously.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:5">5 </verse></sup>You have rebuked the nations.
<br>
You have destroyed the wicked.
<br>
You have blotted out their name forever and
ever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:6">6 </verse></sup>The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
The very memory of the cities which you have
overthrown has perished.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:7">7 </verse></sup>But Yahweh reigns forever.
<br>
He has prepared his throne for judgment.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:8">8 </verse></sup>He will judge the world in righteousness.
He will administer judgment to the peoples in
uprightness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed;
a high tower in times of trouble.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Those who know your name will put their trust in
you,
<br>
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who
seek you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion,
and declare among the people what he has
done.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:12">12 </verse></sup>For he who avenges blood remembers them.
He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Have mercy on me, Yahweh.
<br>
See my affliction by those who hate me,
and lift me up from the gates of death,
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:14">14 </verse></sup>that I may show all of your praise.
I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of
the daughter of Zion.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:15">15 </verse></sup>The nations have sunk down in the pit that they
made.
<br>
In the net which they hid, their own foot is
taken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh has made himself known.
<br>
He has executed judgment.
<br>
The wicked is snared by the work of his own
hands.
<br>
Meditation. Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:17">17 </verse></sup>The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,<footnote:1>9:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
even all the nations that forget God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:18">18 </verse></sup>For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail.
Let the nations be judged in your sight.
<key:bcv=Psalms 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Put them in fear, Yahweh.
<br>
Let the nations know that they are only men.
Selah.

#BCV:Psalms 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Why do you stand far off, Yahweh?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:2">2 </verse></sup>In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak.
They are caught in the schemes that they
devise.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:3">3 </verse></sup>For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings.
He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:4">4 </verse></sup>The wicked, in the pride of his face,
has no room in his thoughts for God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:5">5 </verse></sup>His ways are prosperous at all times.
He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his
sight.
<br>
As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:6">6 </verse></sup>He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken.
For generations I shall have no trouble.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:7">7 </verse></sup>His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:8">8 </verse></sup>He lies in wait near the villages.
<br>
From ambushes, he murders the innocent.
His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:9">9 </verse></sup>He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
He catches the helpless when he draws him in
his net.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The helpless are crushed.
<br>
They collapse.
<br>
They fall under his strength.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
He hides his face.
<br>
He will never see it.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh!
<br>
God, lift up your hand!
<br>
Don’t forget the helpless.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Why does the wicked person condemn God,
and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into
account?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:14">14 </verse></sup>But you do see trouble and grief.
<br>
You consider it to take it into your hand.
You help the victim and the fatherless.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Break the arm of the wicked.
<br>
As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness
until you find none.

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh is King forever and ever!
<br>
The nations will perish out of his land.
<key:bcv=Psalms 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.
You will prepare their heart.
<br>
You will cause your ear to hear,

<key:bcv=Psalms 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 10:18">18 </verse></sup>to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that man who is of the earth may terrify no
more.

#BCV:Psalm 11:0
#BCV:Psalms 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:1">1 </verse></sup>In Yahweh, I take refuge.
<br>
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to
your mountain”?

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:2">2 </verse></sup>For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.
They set their arrows on the strings,
that they may shoot in darkness at the upright
in heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:3">3 </verse></sup>If the foundations are destroyed,
<br>
what can the righteous do?

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh is in his holy temple.
<br>
Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
<br>
His eyes observe.
<br>
His eyes examine the children of men.
<key:bcv=Psalms 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh examines the righteous,
<br>
but his soul hates the wicked and him who
loves violence.

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:6">6 </verse></sup>On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;
fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the
portion of their cup.

<key:bcv=Psalms 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 11:7">7 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is righteous.
<br>
He loves righteousness.
<br>
The upright shall see his face.

#BCV:Psalm 12:0
#BCV:Psalms 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre.
A Psalm of David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of
men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Everyone lies to his neighbor.
<br>
They speak with flattering lips, and with a
double heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:3">3 </verse></sup>May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that boasts,

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:4">4 </verse></sup>who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
<br>
Who is lord over us?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:5">5 </verse></sup>“Because of the oppression of the weak and because
of the groaning of the needy,
<br>
I will now arise,” says Yahweh;
<br>
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s words are flawless words,
<br>
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified
seven times.

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:7">7 </verse></sup>You will keep them, Yahweh.
<br>
You will preserve them from this generation
forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 12:8">8 </verse></sup>The wicked walk on every side,
<br>
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of
men.

#BCV:Psalm 13:0
#BCV:Psalms 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:1">1 </verse></sup>How long, Yahweh?
<br>
Will you forget me forever?
<br>
How long will you hide your face from me?
<key:bcv=Psalms 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:2">2 </verse></sup>How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
having sorrow in my heart every day?
<br>
How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
<key:bcv=Psalms 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God.
Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
<key:bcv=Psalms 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:4">4 </verse></sup>lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against
him;”
<br>
lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
<key:bcv=Psalms 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:5">5 </verse></sup>But I trust in your loving kindness.
My heart rejoices in your salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 13:6">6 </verse></sup>I will sing to Yahweh,
<br>
because he has been good to me.

#BCV:Psalms 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:1">1 </verse></sup>The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt.
<br>
They have done abominable deeds.
<br>
There is no one who does good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children
of men,
<br>
to see if there were any who understood,
who sought after God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:3">3 </verse></sup>They have all gone aside.
<br>
They have together become corrupt.
<br>
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
<key:bcv=Psalms 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and don’t call on Yahweh?

<key:bcv=Psalms 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:5">5 </verse></sup>There they were in great fear,
<br>
for God is in the generation of the righteous.
<key:bcv=Psalms 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:6">6 </verse></sup>You frustrate the plan of the poor,
because Yahweh is his refuge.

<key:bcv=Psalms 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of
Zion!
<br>
When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his
people,
<br>
then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be
glad.

#BCV:Psalm 15:0
#BCV:Psalms 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?
Who shall live on your holy hill?

<key:bcv=Psalms 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 15:2">2 </verse></sup>He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,
and speaks truth in his heart;

<key:bcv=Psalms 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 15:3">3 </verse></sup>he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,
nor does evil to his friend,
<br>
nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
<key:bcv=Psalms 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 15:4">4 </verse></sup>in whose eyes a vile man is despised,
but who honors those who fear Yahweh;
he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and
doesn’t change;

<key:bcv=Psalms 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 15:5">5 </verse></sup>he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,
nor take a bribe against the innocent.
<br>
He who does these things shall never be shaken.

#BCV:Psalm 15:0
#BCV:Psalms 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<br>
A Poem by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:2">2 </verse></sup>My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my
Lord.
<br>
Apart from you I have no good thing.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:3">3 </verse></sup>As for the saints who are in the earth,
they are the excellent ones in whom is all my
delight.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to
another god.
<br>
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
nor take their names on my lips.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup.
You made my lot secure.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:6">6 </verse></sup>The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
Yes, I have a good inheritance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:7">7 </verse></sup>I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel.
Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
<key:bcv=Psalms 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:8">8 </verse></sup>I have set Yahweh always before me.
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be
moved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.
My body shall also dwell in safety.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:10">10 </verse></sup>For you will not leave my soul in Sheol,<footnote:1>16:10 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
neither will you allow your holy one to see
corruption.

<key:bcv=Psalms 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 16:11">11 </verse></sup>You will show me the path of life.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
<br>
In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

#BCV:Psalm 17:0
#BCV:Psalms 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<br>
A Prayer by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea.
<br>
Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of
deceitful lips.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Let my sentence come out of your presence.
Let your eyes look on equity.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:3">3 </verse></sup>You have proved my heart.
<br>
You have visited me in the night.
<br>
You have tried me, and found nothing.
I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:4">4 </verse></sup>As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips,
I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:5">5 </verse></sup>My steps have held fast to your paths.
My feet have not slipped.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:6">6 </verse></sup>I have called on you, for you will answer me, God.
Turn your ear to me.
<br>
Hear my speech.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Show your marvelous loving kindness,
you who save those who take refuge by your
right hand from their enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Keep me as the apple of your eye.
<br>
Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:9">9 </verse></sup>from the wicked who oppress me,
<br>
my deadly enemies, who surround me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:10">10 </verse></sup>They close up their callous hearts.
With their mouth they speak proudly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:11">11 </verse></sup>They have now surrounded us in our steps.
They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:12">12 </verse></sup>He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh, confront him.
<br>
Cast him down.
<br>
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:14">14 </verse></sup>from men by your hand, Yahweh,
<br>
from men of the world, whose portion is in this
life.
<br>
You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty,
<br>
and they store up wealth for their children.
<key:bcv=Psalms 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 17:15">15 </verse></sup>As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing
your form.

#BCV:Psalm 18:0
#BCV:Psalms 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of
Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this
song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the
hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
He said,

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:1">1 </verse></sup>I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my
high tower.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:3">3 </verse></sup>I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
and I am saved from my enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:4">4 </verse></sup>The cords of death surrounded me.
<br>
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:5">5 </verse></sup>The cords of Sheol<footnote:1>18:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> were around me.
The snares of death came on me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:6">6 </verse></sup>In my distress I called on Yahweh,
<br>
and cried to my God.
<br>
He heard my voice out of his temple.
<br>
My cry before him came into his ears.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Then the earth shook and trembled.
<br>
The foundations also of the mountains quaked
and were shaken,
<br>
because he was angry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Smoke went out of his nostrils.
<br>
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:9">9 </verse></sup>He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:10">10 </verse></sup>He rode on a cherub, and flew.
<br>
Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:11">11 </verse></sup>He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion
around him,
<br>
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:12">12 </verse></sup>At the brightness before him his thick clouds
passed,
<br>
hailstones and coals of fire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
<br>
The Most High uttered his voice:
<br>
hailstones and coals of fire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:14">14 </verse></sup>He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.
He routed them with great lightning bolts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the channels of waters appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare at
your rebuke, Yahweh,
<br>
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:16">16 </verse></sup>He sent from on high.
<br>
He took me.
<br>
He drew me out of many waters.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:17">17 </verse></sup>He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me; for they were too
mighty for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:18">18 </verse></sup>They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:19">19 </verse></sup>He brought me out also into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands, he has
recompensed me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:21">21 </verse></sup>For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:22">22 </verse></sup>For all his ordinances were before me.
I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:23">23 </verse></sup>I was also blameless with him.
<br>
I kept myself from my iniquity.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to
my righteousness,
<br>
according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:25">25 </verse></sup>With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself
perfect.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:26">26 </verse></sup>With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself
shrewd.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:27">27 </verse></sup>For you will save the afflicted people,
but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:28">28 </verse></sup>For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
My God will light up my darkness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:29">29 </verse></sup>For by you, I advance through a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:30">30 </verse></sup>As for God, his way is perfect.
<br>
Yahweh’s word is tried.
<br>
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in
him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:31">31 </verse></sup>For who is God, except Yahweh?
<br>
Who is a rock, besides our God,

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:32">32 </verse></sup>the God who arms me with strength, and
makes my way perfect?

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:33">33 </verse></sup>He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and sets me on my high places.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:34">34 </verse></sup>He teaches my hands to war,
<br>
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:35">35 </verse></sup>You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
<br>
Your gentleness has made me great.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:36">36 </verse></sup>You have enlarged my steps under me,
My feet have not slipped.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:37">37 </verse></sup>I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:38">38 </verse></sup>I will strike them through, so that they will not be
able to rise.
<br>
They shall fall under my feet.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:39">39 </verse></sup>For you have armed me with strength to the
battle.
<br>
You have subdued under me those who rose up
against me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:40">40 </verse></sup>You have also made my enemies turn their backs
to me,
<br>
that I might cut off those who hate me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:41">41 </verse></sup>They cried, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:42">42 </verse></sup>Then I beat them small as the dust before the
wind.
<br>
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:43">43 </verse></sup>You have delivered me from the strivings of the
people.
<br>
You have made me the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:44">44 </verse></sup>As soon as they hear of me they shall obey
me.
<br>
The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 18:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:45">45 </verse></sup>The foreigners shall fade away,
<br>
and shall come trembling out of their
strongholds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:46><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:46">46 </verse></sup>Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock.
<br>
Exalted be the God of my salvation,

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:47><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:47">47 </verse></sup>even the God who executes vengeance for me,
and subdues peoples under me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:48><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:48">48 </verse></sup>He rescues me from my enemies.
<br>
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up
against me.
<br>
You deliver me from the violent man.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:49><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:49">49 </verse></sup>Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh,
among the nations,
<br>
and will sing praises to your name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 18:50><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 18:50">50 </verse></sup>He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring,<footnote:1>18:50 or, seed</footnote> forever more.

#BCV:Psalm 19:0
#BCV:Psalms 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:1">1 </verse></sup>The heavens declare the glory of God.
The expanse shows his handiwork.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:2">2 </verse></sup>Day after day they pour out speech,
and night after night they display knowledge.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:3">3 </verse></sup>There is no speech nor language
<br>
where their voice is not heard.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
their words to the end of the world.
<br>
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:5">5 </verse></sup>which is as a bridegroom coming out of his
room,
<br>
like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:6">6 </verse></sup>His going out is from the end of the heavens,
his circuit to its ends.
<br>
There is nothing hidden from its heat.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.
Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the
simple.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening
the eyes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:9">9 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
<br>
Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous
altogether.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:10">10 </verse></sup>They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than
much fine gold,
<br>
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the
honeycomb.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover your servant is warned by them.
In keeping them there is great reward.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:12">12 </verse></sup>Who can discern his errors?
<br>
Forgive me from hidden errors.

<key:bcv=Psalms 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Keep back your servant also from presumptuous
sins.
<br>
Let them not have dominion over me.
<br>
Then I will be upright.
<br>
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
<key:bcv=Psalms 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart
<br>
be acceptable in your sight,
<br>
Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

#BCV:Psalm 20:0
#BCV:Psalms 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:1">1 </verse></sup>May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on
high,

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:2">2 </verse></sup>send you help from the sanctuary,
<br>
grant you support from Zion,

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:3">3 </verse></sup>remember all your offerings,
<br>
and accept your burned sacrifice.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:4">4 </verse></sup>May he grant you your heart’s desire,
and fulfill all your counsel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:5">5 </verse></sup>We will triumph in your salvation.
<br>
In the name of our God, we will set up our
banners.
<br>
May Yahweh grant all your requests.

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed.
He will answer him from his holy heaven,
with the saving strength of his right hand.
<key:bcv=Psalms 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Some trust in chariots, and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:8">8 </verse></sup>They are bowed down and fallen,
<br>
but we rise up, and stand upright.

<key:bcv=Psalms 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Save, Yahweh!
<br>
Let the King answer us when we call!

#BCV:Psalm 21:0
#BCV:Psalms 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:1">1 </verse></sup>The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh!
How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:2">2 </verse></sup>You have given him his heart’s desire,
and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:3">3 </verse></sup>For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:4">4 </verse></sup>He asked life of you and you gave it to him,
even length of days forever and ever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:5">5 </verse></sup>His glory is great in your salvation.
You lay honor and majesty on him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:6">6 </verse></sup>For you make him most blessed forever.
You make him glad with joy in your presence.
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:7">7 </verse></sup>For the king trusts in Yahweh.
<br>
Through the loving kindness of the Most High,
he shall not be moved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Your hand will find out all of your enemies.
Your right hand will find out those who hate
you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:9">9 </verse></sup>You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time
of your anger.
<br>
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath.
The fire shall devour them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:10">10 </verse></sup>You will destroy their descendants from the
earth,
<br>
their posterity from among the children of
men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:11">11 </verse></sup>For they intended evil against you.
They plotted evil against you which cannot
succeed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:12">12 </verse></sup>For you will make them turn their back,
when you aim drawn bows at their face.
<key:bcv=Psalms 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 21:13">13 </verse></sup>Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength,
so we will sing and praise your power.

#BCV:Psalm 22:0
#BCV:Psalms 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the
Morning.” A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:1">1 </verse></sup>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, and from
the words of my groaning?

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:2">2 </verse></sup>My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;
in the night season, and am not silent.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:3">3 </verse></sup>But you are holy,
<br>
you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Our fathers trusted in you.
<br>
They trusted, and you delivered them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:5">5 </verse></sup>They cried to you, and were delivered.
They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:6">6 </verse></sup>But I am a worm, and no man;
<br>
a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:7">7 </verse></sup>All those who see me mock me.
<br>
They insult me with their lips. They shake
their heads, saying,

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:8">8 </verse></sup>“He trusts in Yahweh.
<br>
Let him deliver him.
<br>
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:9">9 </verse></sup>But you brought me out of the womb.
You made me trust while at my mother’s
breasts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:10">10 </verse></sup>I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.
You are my God since my mother bore me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.
For there is no one to help.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:12">12 </verse></sup>Many bulls have surrounded me.
<br>
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:13">13 </verse></sup>They open their mouths wide against me,
lions tearing prey and roaring.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:14">14 </verse></sup>I am poured out like water.
<br>
All my bones are out of joint.
<br>
My heart is like wax.
<br>
It is melted within me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:15">15 </verse></sup>My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have brought me into the dust of death.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:16">16 </verse></sup>For dogs have surrounded me.
<br>
A company of evildoers have enclosed me.

They have pierced my hands and feet.<footnote:1>22:16 So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”</footnote>
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:17">17 </verse></sup>I can count all of my bones.
<br>
They look and stare at me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:18">18 </verse></sup>They divide my garments among them.
They cast lots for my clothing.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:19">19 </verse></sup>But don’t be far off, Yahweh.
<br>
You are my help. Hurry to help me!

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:20">20 </verse></sup>Deliver my soul from the sword,
<br>
my precious life from the power of the dog.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Save me from the lion’s mouth!
<br>
Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the
wild oxen.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:22">22 </verse></sup>I will declare your name to my brothers.
Among the assembly, I will praise you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:23">23 </verse></sup>You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
<br>
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of
Israel!

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:24">24 </verse></sup>For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction
of the afflicted,
<br>
neither has he hidden his face from him;
but when he cried to him, he heard.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:25">25 </verse></sup>My praise of you comes in the great assembly.
I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:26">26 </verse></sup>The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him.
Let your hearts live forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:27">27 </verse></sup>All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn
to Yahweh.
<br>
All the relatives of the nations shall worship
before you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:28">28 </verse></sup>For the kingdom is Yahweh’s.
<br>
He is the ruler over the nations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:29">29 </verse></sup>All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and
worship.
<br>
All those who go down to the dust shall bow
before him,
<br>
even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
<key:bcv=Psalms 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:30">30 </verse></sup>Posterity shall serve him.
<br>
Future generations shall be told about the
Lord.

<key:bcv=Psalms 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 22:31">31 </verse></sup>They shall come and shall declare his righteousness
to a people that shall be born,
<br>
for he has done it.

#BCV:Psalm 23:0
#BCV:Psalms 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh is my shepherd;
<br>
I shall lack nothing.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:2">2 </verse></sup>He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:3">3 </verse></sup>He restores my soul.
<br>
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for
his name’s sake.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Even though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death,
<br>
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff,
<br>
they comfort me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:5">5 </verse></sup>You prepare a table before me
<br>
in the presence of my enemies.
<br>
You anoint my head with oil.
<br>
My cup runs over.

<key:bcv=Psalms 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 23:6">6 </verse></sup>Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow
me all the days of my life,
<br>
and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

#BCV:Psalm 24:0
#BCV:Psalms 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:1">1 </verse></sup>The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell in it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:2">2 </verse></sup>For he has founded it on the seas,
<br>
and established it on the floods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill?
<br>
Who may stand in his holy place?

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:4">4 </verse></sup>He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
and has not sworn deceitfully.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:5">5 </verse></sup>He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh,
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:6">6 </verse></sup>This is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek your face—even Jacob.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:7">7 </verse></sup>Lift up your heads, you gates!
<br>
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
<br>
and the King of glory will come in.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:8">8 </verse></sup>Who is the King of glory?
<br>
Yahweh strong and mighty,
<br>
Yahweh mighty in battle.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:9">9 </verse></sup>Lift up your heads, you gates;
<br>
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.

<key:bcv=Psalms 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Who is this King of glory?
<br>
Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory!
Selah.

#BCV:Psalm 25:0
#BCV:Psalms 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:1">1 </verse></sup>To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:2">2 </verse></sup>My God, I have trusted in you.
<br>
Don’t let me be shamed.
<br>
Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed.
They will be shamed who deal treacherously
without cause.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Show me your ways, Yahweh.
<br>
Teach me your paths.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Guide me in your truth, and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation.
<br>
I wait for you all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your
loving kindness,
<br>
for they are from old times.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my
transgressions.
<br>
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Good and upright is Yahweh,
<br>
therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
<key:bcv=Psalms 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:9">9 </verse></sup>He will guide the humble in justice.
<br>
He will teach the humble his way.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:10">10 </verse></sup>All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and
truth
<br>
to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:11">11 </verse></sup>For your name’s sake, Yahweh,
<br>
pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:12">12 </verse></sup>What man is he who fears Yahweh?
<br>
He shall instruct him in the way that he shall
choose.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:13">13 </verse></sup>His soul will dwell at ease.
<br>
His offspring will inherit the land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:14">14 </verse></sup>The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear
him.
<br>
He will show them his covenant.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:15">15 </verse></sup>My eyes are ever on Yahweh,
<br>
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
<key:bcv=Psalms 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:16">16 </verse></sup>Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
<br>
for I am desolate and afflicted.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:17">17 </verse></sup>The troubles of my heart are enlarged.
Oh bring me out of my distresses.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:18">18 </verse></sup>Consider my affliction and my travail.
Forgive all my sins.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:19">19 </verse></sup>Consider my enemies, for they are many.
They hate me with cruel hatred.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:20">20 </verse></sup>Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
<br>
Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in
you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:21">21 </verse></sup>Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 25:22">22 </verse></sup>God, redeem Israel
<br>
out of all his troubles.

#BCV:Psalm 26:0
#BCV:Psalms 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:1">1 </verse></sup>Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
<key:bcv=Psalms 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me.
<br>
Try my heart and my mind.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:3">3 </verse></sup>For your loving kindness is before my eyes.
I have walked in your truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:4">4 </verse></sup>I have not sat with deceitful men,
<br>
neither will I go in with hypocrites.
<key:bcv=Psalms 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:5">5 </verse></sup>I hate the assembly of evildoers,
<br>
and will not sit with the wicked.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:6">6 </verse></sup>I will wash my hands in innocence,
<br>
so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,
<key:bcv=Psalms 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:7">7 </verse></sup>that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to
be heard
<br>
and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house,
the place where your glory dwells.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t gather my soul with sinners,
<br>
nor my life with bloodthirsty men

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:10">10 </verse></sup>in whose hands is wickedness;
<br>
their right hand is full of bribes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:11">11 </verse></sup>But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.
Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 26:12">12 </verse></sup>My foot stands in an even place.
<br>
In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

#BCV:Psalm 27:0
#BCV:Psalms 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear?
<br>
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
<br>
Of whom shall I be afraid?

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:2">2 </verse></sup>When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh,
even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled
and fell.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:3">3 </verse></sup>Though an army should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear.
<br>
Though war should rise against me,
<br>
even then I will be confident.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:4">4 </verse></sup>One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek
after:
<br>
that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days
of my life,
<br>
to see Yahweh’s beauty,
<br>
and to inquire in his temple.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:5">5 </verse></sup>For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly
in his pavilion.
<br>
In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will
hide me.
<br>
He will lift me up on a rock.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:6">6 </verse></sup>Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies
around me.
<br>
I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:7">7 </verse></sup>Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice.
Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:8">8 </verse></sup>When you said, “Seek my face,”
<br>
my heart said to you, “I will seek your face,
Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t hide your face from me.
<br>
Don’t put your servant away in anger.
You have been my help.
<br>
Don’t abandon me,
<br>
neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:10">10 </verse></sup>When my father and my mother forsake me,
then Yahweh will take me up.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Teach me your way, Yahweh.
<br>
Lead me in a straight path, because of my
enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:12">12 </verse></sup>Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
for false witnesses have risen up against me,
such as breathe out cruelty.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:13">13 </verse></sup>I am still confident of this:
<br>
I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land
of the living.

<key:bcv=Psalms 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 27:14">14 </verse></sup>Wait for Yahweh.
<br>
Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
Yes, wait for Yahweh.

#BCV:Psalm 28:0
#BCV:Psalms 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:1">1 </verse></sup>To you, Yahweh, I call.
<br>
My rock, don’t be deaf to me,
<br>
lest, if you are silent to me,
<br>
I would become like those who go down into
the pit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy
Place.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
with the workers of iniquity who speak peace
with their neighbors,
<br>
but mischief is in their hearts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:4">4 </verse></sup>Give them according to their work, and according
to the wickedness of their doings.
<br>
Give them according to the operation of their
hands.
<br>
Bring back on them what they deserve.
<key:bcv=Psalms 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,
nor the operation of his hands,
<br>
he will break them down and not build them
up.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh,
<br>
because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
<key:bcv=Psalms 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh is my strength and my shield.
My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
<br>
With my song I will thank him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh is their strength.
<br>
He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 28:9">9 </verse></sup>Save your people,
<br>
and bless your inheritance.
<br>
Be their shepherd also,
<br>
and bear them up forever.

#BCV:Psalm 29:0
#BCV:Psalms 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
<key:bcv=Psalms 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:2">2 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice is on the waters.
<br>
The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on
many waters.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice is powerful.
<br>
Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars.
<br>
Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of
Lebanon.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:6">6 </verse></sup>He makes them also to skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
<key:bcv=Psalms 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
<key:bcv=Psalms 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness.
Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve,
and strips the forests bare.
<br>
In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
<key:bcv=Psalms 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood.
Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 29:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh will give strength to his people.
Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

#BCV:Psalm 30:0
#BCV:Psalms 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple.
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:1">1 </verse></sup>I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh my God, I cried to you,
<br>
and you have healed me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.<footnote:1>30:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
You have kept me alive, that I should not go
down to the pit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:4">4 </verse></sup>Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his.
Give thanks to his holy name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:5">5 </verse></sup>For his anger is but for a moment.
<br>
His favor is for a lifetime.
<br>
Weeping may stay for the night,
<br>
but joy comes in the morning.

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:6">6 </verse></sup>As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:7">7 </verse></sup>You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my
mountain stand strong;
<br>
but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
<key:bcv=Psalms 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:8">8 </verse></sup>I cried to you, Yahweh.
<br>
I made supplication to the Lord:

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:9">9 </verse></sup>“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go
down to the pit?
<br>
Shall the dust praise you?
<br>
Shall it declare your truth?

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:10">10 </verse></sup>Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me.
Yahweh, be my helper.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:11">11 </verse></sup>You have turned my mourning into dancing for
me.
<br>
You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed
me with gladness,

<key:bcv=Psalms 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 30:12">12 </verse></sup>to the end that my heart may sing praise to
you, and not be silent.
<br>
Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

#BCV:Psalm 31:0
#BCV:Psalms 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:1">1 </verse></sup>In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
<br>
Let me never be disappointed.
<br>
Deliver me in your righteousness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:2">2 </verse></sup>Bow down your ear to me.
<br>
Deliver me speedily.
<br>
Be to me a strong rock,
<br>
a house of defense to save me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:3">3 </verse></sup>For you are my rock and my fortress,
therefore for your name’s sake lead me and
guide me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:4">4 </verse></sup>Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly
for me,
<br>
for you are my stronghold.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:5">5 </verse></sup>Into your hand I commend my spirit.
You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:6">6 </verse></sup>I hate those who regard lying vanities,
but I trust in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:7">7 </verse></sup>I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,
for you have seen my affliction.
<br>
You have known my soul in adversities.
<key:bcv=Psalms 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:8">8 </verse></sup>You have not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy.
<br>
You have set my feet in a large place.
<key:bcv=Psalms 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:9">9 </verse></sup>Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress.
My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with
grief.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:10">10 </verse></sup>For my life is spent with sorrow,
<br>
my years with sighing.
<br>
My strength fails because of my iniquity.
My bones are wasted away.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:11">11 </verse></sup>Because of all my adversaries I have become
utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
<br>
a horror to my acquaintances.
<br>
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:12">12 </verse></sup>I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like broken pottery.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:13">13 </verse></sup>For I have heard the slander of many, terror on
every side,
<br>
while they conspire together against me,
they plot to take away my life.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:14">14 </verse></sup>But I trust in you, Yahweh.
<br>
I said, “You are my God.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:15">15 </verse></sup>My times are in your hand.
<br>
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and
from those who persecute me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:16">16 </verse></sup>Make your face to shine on your servant.
Save me in your loving kindness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:17">17 </verse></sup>Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have
called on you.
<br>
Let the wicked be disappointed.

Let them be silent in Sheol.<footnote:1>31:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:18">18 </verse></sup>Let the lying lips be mute,
<br>
which speak against the righteous insolently,
with pride and contempt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:19">19 </verse></sup>Oh how great is your goodness,
<br>
which you have laid up for those who fear you,
which you have worked for those who take
refuge in you,
<br>
before the sons of men!

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:20">20 </verse></sup>In the shelter of your presence you will hide them
from the plotting of man.
<br>
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away
from the strife of tongues.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:21">21 </verse></sup>Praise be to Yahweh,
<br>
for he has shown me his marvelous loving
kindness in a strong city.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:22">22 </verse></sup>As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from
before your eyes.”
<br>
Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions
when I cried to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:23">23 </verse></sup>Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints!
Yahweh preserves the faithful,
<br>
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
<key:bcv=Psalms 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 31:24">24 </verse></sup>Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who hope in Yahweh.

#BCV:Psalm 32:0
#BCV:Psalms 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<br>
By David. A contemplative psalm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:2">2 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute
iniquity,
<br>
in whose spirit there is no deceit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:3">3 </verse></sup>When I kept silence, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:4">4 </verse></sup>For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:5">5 </verse></sup>I acknowledged my sin to you.
<br>
I didn’t hide my iniquity.
<br>
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:6">6 </verse></sup>For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a
time when you may be found.
<br>
Surely when the great waters overflow, they
shall not reach to him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:7">7 </verse></sup>You are my hiding place.
<br>
You will preserve me from trouble.
<br>
You will surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:8">8 </verse></sup>I will instruct you and teach you in the way which
you shall go.
<br>
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which
have no understanding,
<br>
who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else
they will not come near to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Many sorrows come to the wicked,
<br>
but loving kindness shall surround him who
trusts in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 32:11">11 </verse></sup>Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous!
Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

#BCV:Psalms 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:2">2 </verse></sup>Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:3">3 </verse></sup>Sing to him a new song.
<br>
Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh’s word is right.
<br>
All his work is done in faithfulness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:5">5 </verse></sup>He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:6">6 </verse></sup>By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made:
all their army by the breath of his mouth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:7">7 </verse></sup>He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:8">8 </verse></sup>Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
<br>
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe
of him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:9">9 </verse></sup>For he spoke, and it was done.
<br>
He commanded, and it stood firm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to
nothing.
<br>
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of
no effect.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:11">11 </verse></sup>The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:12">12 </verse></sup>Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
the people whom he has chosen for his own
inheritance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh looks from heaven.
<br>
He sees all the sons of men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:14">14 </verse></sup>From the place of his habitation he looks out on
all the inhabitants of the earth,

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:15">15 </verse></sup>he who fashions all of their hearts;
and he considers all of their works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:16">16 </verse></sup>There is no king saved by the multitude of an
army.
<br>
A mighty man is not delivered by great
strength.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:17">17 </verse></sup>A horse is a vain thing for safety,
neither does he deliver any by his great power.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
<br>
on those who hope in his loving kindness,
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:19">19 </verse></sup>to deliver their soul from death,
<br>
to keep them alive in famine.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:20">20 </verse></sup>Our soul has waited for Yahweh.
<br>
He is our help and our shield.

<key:bcv=Psalms 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:21">21 </verse></sup>For our heart rejoices in him,
<br>
because we have trusted in his holy name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 33:22">22 </verse></sup>Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh,
since we have hoped in you.

#BCV:Psalm 34:0
#BCV:Psalms 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<br>
By David; when he pretended to be insane before
Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:1">1 </verse></sup><footnote:1>34:1 Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</footnote> I will bless Yahweh at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:2">2 </verse></sup>My soul shall boast in Yahweh.
<br>
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:3">3 </verse></sup>Oh magnify Yahweh with me.
<br>
Let’s exalt his name together.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:4">4 </verse></sup>I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:5">5 </verse></sup>They looked to him, and were radiant.
Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:6">6 </verse></sup>This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear
him,
<br>
and delivers them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:8">8 </verse></sup>Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good.
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:9">9 </verse></sup>Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints,
<br>
for there is no lack with those who fear him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:10">10 </verse></sup>The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,
but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any
good thing.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:11">11 </verse></sup>Come, you children, listen to me.
<br>
I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:12">12 </verse></sup>Who is someone who desires life,
<br>
and loves many days, that he may see good?
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:13">13 </verse></sup>Keep your tongue from evil,
<br>
and your lips from speaking lies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:14">14 </verse></sup>Depart from evil, and do good.
<br>
Seek peace, and pursue it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous.
His ears listen to their cry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil,
to cut off their memory from the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:17">17 </verse></sup>The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears,
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart,
and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:19">19 </verse></sup>Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:20">20 </verse></sup>He protects all of his bones.
<br>
Not one of them is broken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:21">21 </verse></sup>Evil shall kill the wicked.
<br>
Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
<key:bcv=Psalms 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 34:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants.
None of those who take refuge in him shall be
condemned.

#BCV:Psalm 35:0
#BCV:Psalms 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with
me.
<br>
Fight against those who fight against me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:2">2 </verse></sup>Take hold of shield and buckler,
<br>
and stand up for my help.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:3">3 </verse></sup>Brandish the spear and block those who pursue
me.
<br>
Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:4">4 </verse></sup>Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed
and brought to dishonor.
<br>
Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and
confounded.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:5">5 </verse></sup>Let them be as chaff before the wind,
Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:6">6 </verse></sup>Let their way be dark and slippery,
Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:7">7 </verse></sup>For without cause they have hidden their net in a
pit for me.
<br>
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:8">8 </verse></sup>Let destruction come on him unawares.
Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.
Let him fall into that destruction.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:9">9 </verse></sup>My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
<br>
It shall rejoice in his salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:10">10 </verse></sup>All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you,
who delivers the poor from him who is too
strong for him;
<br>
yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs
him?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:11">11 </verse></sup>Unrighteous witnesses rise up.
<br>
They ask me about things that I don’t know
about.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:12">12 </verse></sup>They reward me evil for good,
<br>
to the bereaving of my soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:13">13 </verse></sup>But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing
was sackcloth.
<br>
I afflicted my soul with fasting.
<br>
My prayer returned into my own bosom.
<key:bcv=Psalms 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:14">14 </verse></sup>I behaved myself as though it had been my friend
or my brother.
<br>
I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns
his mother.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:15">15 </verse></sup>But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together.
<br>
The attackers gathered themselves together
against me, and I didn’t know it.
<br>
They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:16">16 </verse></sup>Like the profane mockers in feasts,
they gnashed their teeth at me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:17">17 </verse></sup>Lord, how long will you look on?
<br>
Rescue my soul from their destruction,
my precious life from the lions.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:18">18 </verse></sup>I will give you thanks in the great assembly.
I will praise you among many people.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully
rejoice over me;
<br>
neither let those who hate me without a cause
wink their eyes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:20">20 </verse></sup>For they don’t speak peace,
<br>
but they devise deceitful words against those
who are quiet in the land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:21">21 </verse></sup>Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.
They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
<key:bcv=Psalms 35:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:22">22 </verse></sup>You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent.
Lord, don’t be far from me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:23">23 </verse></sup>Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God!
My Lord, contend for me!

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:24">24 </verse></sup>Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your
righteousness.
<br>
Don’t let them gloat over me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:25">25 </verse></sup>Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the
way we want it!”
<br>
Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him
up!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:26">26 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed and confounded together
who rejoice at my calamity.
<br>
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 35:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:27">27 </verse></sup>Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for
joy and be glad.
<br>
Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be
magnified,
<br>
who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
<key:bcv=Psalms 35:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 35:28">28 </verse></sup>My tongue shall talk about your righteousness
and about your praise all day long.

#BCV:Psalm 36:0
#BCV:Psalms 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:1">1 </verse></sup>A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience
of the wicked:
<br>
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
<key:bcv=Psalms 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:2">2 </verse></sup>For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
too much to detect and hate his sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:3">3 </verse></sup>The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
<key:bcv=Psalms 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:4">4 </verse></sup>He plots iniquity on his bed.
<br>
He sets himself in a way that is not good.
He doesn’t abhor evil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:5">5 </verse></sup>Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
Your judgments are like a great deep.
Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:7">7 </verse></sup>How precious is your loving kindness, God!
The children of men take refuge under the
shadow of your wings.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:8">8 </verse></sup>They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance
of your house.
<br>
You will make them drink of the river of your
pleasures.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:9">9 </verse></sup>For with you is the spring of life.
In your light we will see light.

<key:bcv=Psalms 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:10">10 </verse></sup>Oh continue your loving kindness to those who
know you,
<br>
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 36:12">12 </verse></sup>There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
They are thrust down, and shall not be able to
rise.

#BCV:Psalm 37:0
#BCV:Psalms 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:1">1 </verse></sup>Don’t fret because of evildoers,
<br>
neither be envious against those who work
unrighteousness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:2">2 </verse></sup>For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:3">3 </verse></sup>Trust in Yahweh, and do good.
<br>
Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:4">4 </verse></sup>Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
<br>
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:5">5 </verse></sup>Commit your way to Yahweh.
<br>
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:6">6 </verse></sup>he will make your righteousness shine out like
light,
<br>
and your justice as the noon day sun.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:7">7 </verse></sup>Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him.
Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his
way,
<br>
because of the man who makes wicked plots
happen.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:8">8 </verse></sup>Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:9">9 </verse></sup>For evildoers shall be cut off,
<br>
but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit
the land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:10">10 </verse></sup>For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no
more.
<br>
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t
there.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:11">11 </verse></sup>But the humble shall inherit the land,
and shall delight themselves in the abundance
of peace.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:12">12 </verse></sup>The wicked plots against the just,
and gnashes at him with his teeth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:13">13 </verse></sup>The Lord will laugh at him,
<br>
for he sees that his day is coming.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:14">14 </verse></sup>The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have
bent their bow,
<br>
to cast down the poor and needy,
<br>
to kill those who are upright on the path.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:15">15 </verse></sup>Their sword shall enter into their own heart.
Their bows shall be broken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:16">16 </verse></sup>Better is a little that the righteous has,
than the abundance of many wicked.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:17">17 </verse></sup>For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh knows the days of the perfect.
Their inheritance shall be forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:19">19 </verse></sup>They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:20">20 </verse></sup>But the wicked shall perish.
<br>
The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty
of the fields.
<br>
They will vanish—
<br>
vanish like smoke.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:21">21 </verse></sup>The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:22">22 </verse></sup>For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the
land.
<br>
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:23">23 </verse></sup>A man’s steps are established by Yahweh.
He delights in his way.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:24">24 </verse></sup>Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:25">25 </verse></sup>I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his children begging for bread.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:26">26 </verse></sup>All day long he deals graciously, and lends.
His offspring is blessed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:27">27 </verse></sup>Depart from evil, and do good.
<br>
Live securely forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:28">28 </verse></sup>For Yahweh loves justice,
<br>
and doesn’t forsake his saints.
<br>
They are preserved forever,
<br>
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:29">29 </verse></sup>The righteous shall inherit the land,
and live in it forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:30">30 </verse></sup>The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
His tongue speaks justice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:31">31 </verse></sup>The law of his God is in his heart.
None of his steps shall slide.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:32">32 </verse></sup>The wicked watch the righteous,
<br>
and seek to kill him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:34">34 </verse></sup>Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way,
and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:35">35 </verse></sup>I have seen the wicked in great power,
spreading himself like a green tree in its native
soil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 37:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:36">36 </verse></sup>But he passed away, and behold, he was not.
Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:37">37 </verse></sup>Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,
for there is a future for the man of peace.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:38">38 </verse></sup>As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed
together.
<br>
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:39">39 </verse></sup>But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
<key:bcv=Psalms 37:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 37:40">40 </verse></sup>Yahweh helps them and rescues them.
He rescues them from the wicked and saves
them,
<br>
because they have taken refuge in him.

#BCV:Psalm 38:0
#BCV:Psalms 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
<key:bcv=Psalms 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:2">2 </verse></sup>For your arrows have pierced me,
<br>
your hand presses hard on me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:3">3 </verse></sup>There is no soundness in my flesh because of your
indignation,
<br>
neither is there any health in my bones because
of my sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:4">4 </verse></sup>For my iniquities have gone over my head.
As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:5">5 </verse></sup>My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
because of my foolishness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:6">6 </verse></sup>I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
I go mourning all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:7">7 </verse></sup>For my waist is filled with burning.
There is no soundness in my flesh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:8">8 </verse></sup>I am faint and severely bruised.
<br>
I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my
heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:9">9 </verse></sup>Lord, all my desire is before you.
<br>
My groaning is not hidden from you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:10">10 </verse></sup>My heart throbs.
<br>
My strength fails me.
<br>
As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:11">11 </verse></sup>My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my
plague.
<br>
My kinsmen stand far away.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:12">12 </verse></sup>They also who seek after my life lay snares.
Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous
things,
<br>
and meditate deceits all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:13">13 </verse></sup>But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
<br>
I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his
mouth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:14">14 </verse></sup>Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
in whose mouth are no reproofs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:15">15 </verse></sup>For I hope in you, Yahweh.
<br>
You will answer, Lord my God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:16">16 </verse></sup>For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
or exalt themselves over me when my foot
slips.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:17">17 </verse></sup>For I am ready to fall.
<br>
My pain is continually before me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:18">18 </verse></sup>For I will declare my iniquity.
<br>
I will be sorry for my sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:19">19 </verse></sup>But my enemies are vigorous and many.
Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
<key:bcv=Psalms 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:20">20 </verse></sup>They who render evil for good are also adversaries
to me,
<br>
because I follow what is good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:21">21 </verse></sup>Don’t forsake me, Yahweh.
<br>
My God, don’t be far from me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 38:22">22 </verse></sup>Hurry to help me,
<br>
Lord, my salvation.

#BCV:Psalm 39:0
#BCV:Psalms 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by
David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:1">1 </verse></sup>I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with
my tongue.
<br>
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the
wicked is before me.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:2">2 </verse></sup>I was mute with silence.
<br>
I held my peace, even from good.
<br>
My sorrow was stirred.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:3">3 </verse></sup>My heart was hot within me.
<br>
While I meditated, the fire burned.
<br>
I spoke with my tongue:

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, show me my end,
<br>
what is the measure of my days.
<br>
Let me know how frail I am.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, you have made my days hand widths.
My lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely every man stands as a breath.”
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:6">6 </verse></sup>“Surely every man walks like a shadow.
Surely they busy themselves in vain.
<br>
He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall
gather.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:7">7 </verse></sup>Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
<br>
My hope is in you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:8">8 </verse></sup>Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
<key:bcv=Psalms 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:9">9 </verse></sup>I was mute.
<br>
I didn’t open my mouth,
<br>
because you did it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:10">10 </verse></sup>Remove your scourge away from me.
<br>
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
<key:bcv=Psalms 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:11">11 </verse></sup>When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
you consume his wealth like a moth.
<br>
Surely every man is but a breath.”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:12">12 </verse></sup>“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don’t be silent at my tears.
<br>
For I am a stranger with you,
<br>
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

<key:bcv=Psalms 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 39:13">13 </verse></sup>Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go away and exist no more.”

#BCV:Psalm 40:0
#BCV:Psalms 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:1">1 </verse></sup>I waited patiently for Yahweh.
<br>
He turned to me, and heard my cry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:2">2 </verse></sup>He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay.
<br>
He set my feet on a rock,
<br>
and gave me a firm place to stand.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:3">3 </verse></sup>He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to
our God.
<br>
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:4">4 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn
away to lies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:5">5 </verse></sup>Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works
which you have done,
<br>
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared back to you.
<br>
If I would declare and speak of them, they are
more than can be counted.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:6">6 </verse></sup>Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
You have opened my ears.
<br>
You have not required burnt offering and sin
offering.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:7">7 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
<br>
It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
<key:bcv=Psalms 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:8">8 </verse></sup>I delight to do your will, my God.
<br>
Yes, your law is within my heart.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:9">9 </verse></sup>I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in
the great assembly.
<br>
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you
know.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:10">10 </verse></sup>I have not hidden your righteousness within my
heart.
<br>
I have declared your faithfulness and your
salvation.
<br>
I have not concealed your loving kindness and
your truth from the great assembly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me,
Yahweh.
<br>
Let your loving kindness and your truth continually
preserve me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:12">12 </verse></sup>For innumerable evils have surrounded me.
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am
not able to look up.
<br>
They are more than the hairs of my head.
My heart has failed me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:13">13 </verse></sup>Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.
Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:14">14 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed and confounded together
who seek after my soul to destroy it.
Let them be turned backward and brought to
dishonor who delight in my hurt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:15">15 </verse></sup>Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that
tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:16">16 </verse></sup>Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in
you.
<br>
Let such as love your salvation say continually,
“Let Yahweh be exalted!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 40:17">17 </verse></sup>But I am poor and needy.
<br>
May the Lord think about me.
<br>
You are my help and my deliverer.
<br>
Don’t delay, my God.

#BCV:Psalm 41:0
#BCV:Psalms 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed is he who considers the poor.
Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth,
<br>
and he will not surrender him to the will of his
enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:4">4 </verse></sup>I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me!
<br>
Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:5">5 </verse></sup>My enemies speak evil against me:
<br>
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:6">6 </verse></sup>If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:7">7 </verse></sup>All who hate me whisper together against me.
They imagine the worst for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:8">8 </verse></sup>“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:9">9 </verse></sup>Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
<br>
has lifted up his heel against me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:10">10 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me
up,
<br>
that I may repay them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:11">11 </verse></sup>By this I know that you delight in me,
because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:12">12 </verse></sup>As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:13">13 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting!

Amen and amen. BOOK <key:bcv=Psalms 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 41:2">2 </verse></sup>

#BCV:Psalm 42:0
#BCV:Psalms 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons
of Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:1">1 </verse></sup>As the deer pants for the water brooks,
so my soul pants after you, God.<footnote:1>42:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:2">2 </verse></sup>My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
<key:bcv=Psalms 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:3">3 </verse></sup>My tears have been my food day and night,
while they continually ask me, “Where is your
God?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:4">4 </verse></sup>These things I remember, and pour out my soul
within me,
<br>
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them
to God’s house,
<br>
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude
keeping a holy day.

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:5">5 </verse></sup>Why are you in despair, my soul?
<br>
Why are you disturbed within me?
<br>
Hope in God!
<br>
For I shall still praise him for the saving help of
his presence.

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:6">6 </verse></sup>My God, my soul is in despair within me.
Therefore I remember you from the land of the
Jordan,
<br>
the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
<key:bcv=Psalms 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:7">7 </verse></sup>Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept
over me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh<footnote:1>42:8 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> will command his loving kindness in the
daytime.
<br>
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:9">9 </verse></sup>I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten
me?
<br>
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression
of the enemy?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:10">10 </verse></sup>As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries
reproach me,
<br>
while they continually ask me, “Where is your
God?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 42:11">11 </verse></sup>Why are you in despair, my soul?
<br>
Why are you disturbed within me?
<br>
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,
the saving help of my countenance, and my
God.

#BCV:Psalms 43:0
<P align="center"><h3>43</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 43:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 43:1">1 </verse></sup>Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an
ungodly nation.
<br>
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
<key:bcv=Psalms 43:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 43:2">2 </verse></sup>For you are the God of my strength. Why have you
rejected me?
<br>
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression
of the enemy?

<key:bcv=Psalms 43:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 43:3">3 </verse></sup>Oh, send out your light and your truth.
Let them lead me.
<br>
Let them bring me to your holy hill,
<br>
to your tents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 43:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 43:4">4 </verse></sup>Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my exceeding joy.
<br>
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 43:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 43:5">5 </verse></sup>Why are you in despair, my soul?
<br>
Why are you disturbed within me?
<br>
Hope in God!
<br>
For I shall still praise him:
<br>
my Savior, my helper, and my God.

#BCV:Psalm 44:0
#BCV:Psalms 44:0
<P align="center"><h3>44</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A
contemplative psalm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:1">1 </verse></sup>We have heard with our ears, God;
<br>
our fathers have told us what work you did in
their days,
<br>
in the days of old.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:2">2 </verse></sup>You drove out the nations with your hand,
but you planted them.
<br>
You afflicted the peoples,
<br>
but you spread them abroad.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:3">3 </verse></sup>For they didn’t get the land in possession by their
own sword,
<br>
neither did their own arm save them;
<br>
but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your
face,
<br>
because you were favorable to them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:4">4 </verse></sup>God, you are my King.
<br>
Command victories for Jacob!

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:5">5 </verse></sup>Through you, we will push down our adversaries.
Through your name, we will tread down those
who rise up against us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:6">6 </verse></sup>For I will not trust in my bow,
<br>
neither will my sword save me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:7">7 </verse></sup>But you have saved us from our adversaries,
and have shamed those who hate us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:8">8 </verse></sup>In God we have made our boast all day long.
We will give thanks to your name forever.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:9">9 </verse></sup>But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor,
and don’t go out with our armies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:10">10 </verse></sup>You make us turn back from the adversary.
Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:11">11 </verse></sup>You have made us like sheep for food,
and have scattered us among the nations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:12">12 </verse></sup>You sell your people for nothing,
<br>
and have gained nothing from their sale.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:13">13 </verse></sup>You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and a derision to those who are
around us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:14">14 </verse></sup>You make us a byword among the nations,
a shaking of the head among the peoples.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:15">15 </verse></sup>All day long my dishonor is before me,
and shame covers my face,

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:16">16 </verse></sup>at the taunt of one who reproaches and
verbally abuses,
<br>
because of the enemy and the avenger.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:17">17 </verse></sup>All this has come on us,
<br>
yet we haven’t forgotten you.
<br>
We haven’t been false to your covenant.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:18">18 </verse></sup>Our heart has not turned back,
<br>
neither have our steps strayed from your path,
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:19">19 </verse></sup>though you have crushed us in the haunt of
jackals,
<br>
and covered us with the shadow of death.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:20">20 </verse></sup>If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or spread out our hands to a strange god,
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:21">21 </verse></sup>won’t God search this out?
<br>
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:22">22 </verse></sup>Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.
We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:23">23 </verse></sup>Wake up!

Why do you sleep, Lord?<footnote:1>44:23 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote>
<br>
Arise!
<br>
Don’t reject us forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:24">24 </verse></sup>Why do you hide your face,
<br>
and forget our affliction and our oppression?
<key:bcv=Psalms 44:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:25">25 </verse></sup>For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
Our body clings to the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 44:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 44:26">26 </verse></sup>Rise up to help us.
<br>
Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

#BCV:Psalm 45:0
#BCV:Psalms 45:0
<P align="center"><h3>45</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A
contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding
song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:1">1 </verse></sup>My heart overflows with a noble theme.
I recite my verses for the king.
<br>
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:2">2 </verse></sup>You are the most excellent of the sons of men.
Grace has anointed your lips,
<br>
therefore God has blessed you forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:3">3 </verse></sup>Strap your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
in your splendor and your majesty.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:4">4 </verse></sup>In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of
truth, humility, and righteousness.
<br>
Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:5">5 </verse></sup>Your arrows are sharp.
<br>
The nations fall under you, with arrows in the
heart of the king’s enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:6">6 </verse></sup>Your throne, God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of equity is the scepter of your
kingdom.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:7">7 </verse></sup>You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:8">8 </verse></sup>All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and
cassia.
<br>
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have
made you glad.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:9">9 </verse></sup>Kings’ daughters are among your honorable
women.
<br>
At your right hand the queen stands in gold of
Ophir.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:10">10 </verse></sup>Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.
Forget your own people, and also your father’s
house.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:11">11 </verse></sup>So the king will desire your beauty,
honor him, for he is your lord.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:12">12 </verse></sup>The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.
The rich among the people entreat your favor.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:13">13 </verse></sup>The princess inside is all glorious.
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:14">14 </verse></sup>She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.
The virgins, her companions who follow her,
shall be brought to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 45:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:15">15 </verse></sup>With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.
They shall enter into the king’s palace.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:16">16 </verse></sup>Your sons will take the place of your fathers.
You shall make them princes in all the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 45:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 45:17">17 </verse></sup>I will make your name to be remembered in all
generations.
<br>
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks
forever and ever.

#BCV:Psalm 46:0
#BCV:Psalms 46:0
<P align="center"><h3>46</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah.
According to Alamoth.<footnote:1>46: Alamoth is a musical term.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:1">1 </verse></sup>God is our refuge and strength,
<br>
a very present help in trouble.

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth
changes,
<br>
though the mountains are shaken into the
heart of the seas;

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:3">3 </verse></sup>though its waters roar and are troubled,
though the mountains tremble with their
swelling.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:4">4 </verse></sup>There is a river, the streams of which make the city
of God glad,
<br>
the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
<key:bcv=Psalms 46:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:5">5 </verse></sup>God is within her. She shall not be moved.
God will help her at dawn.

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:6">6 </verse></sup>The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved.
He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 46:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies is with us.
<br>
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:8">8 </verse></sup>Come, see Yahweh’s works,
<br>
what desolations he has made in the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 46:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:9">9 </verse></sup>He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.
He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.
He burns the chariots in the fire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:10">10 </verse></sup>“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations.
<br>
I will be exalted in the earth.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 46:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 46:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies is with us.
<br>
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
<br>
Selah.

#BCV:Psalm 47:0
#BCV:Psalms 47:0
<P align="center"><h3>47</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of
Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:1">1 </verse></sup>Oh clap your hands, all you nations.
Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
<key:bcv=Psalms 47:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:2">2 </verse></sup>For Yahweh Most High is awesome.
<br>
He is a great King over all the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 47:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:3">3 </verse></sup>He subdues nations under us,
<br>
and peoples under our feet.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:4">4 </verse></sup>He chooses our inheritance for us,
<br>
the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:5">5 </verse></sup>God has gone up with a shout,
<br>
Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:6">6 </verse></sup>Sing praises to God! Sing praises!
<br>
Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!
<key:bcv=Psalms 47:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:7">7 </verse></sup>For God is the King of all the earth.
Sing praises with understanding.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:8">8 </verse></sup>God reigns over the nations.
<br>
God sits on his holy throne.

<key:bcv=Psalms 47:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 47:9">9 </verse></sup>The princes of the peoples are gathered together,
the people of the God of Abraham.
<br>
For the shields of the earth belong to God.
He is greatly exalted!

#BCV:Psalm 48:0
#BCV:Psalms 48:0
<P align="center"><h3>48</h3></p>
<br>
A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:1">1 </verse></sup>Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
<key:bcv=Psalms 48:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:2">2 </verse></sup>Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
<br>
the city of the great King.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:3">3 </verse></sup>God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
<key:bcv=Psalms 48:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:4">4 </verse></sup>For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,
they passed by together.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:5">5 </verse></sup>They saw it, then they were amazed.
They were dismayed.
<br>
They hurried away.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:6">6 </verse></sup>Trembling took hold of them there,
<br>
pain, as of a woman in travail.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:7">7 </verse></sup>With the east wind, you break the ships of
Tarshish.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:8">8 </verse></sup>As we have heard, so we have seen,
<br>
in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of
our God.
<br>
God will establish it forever.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:9">9 </verse></sup>We have thought about your loving kindness, God,
in the middle of your temple.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:10">10 </verse></sup>As is your name, God,
<br>
so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 48:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:11">11 </verse></sup>Let Mount Zion be glad!
<br>
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of
your judgments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:12">12 </verse></sup>Walk about Zion, and go around her.
Number its towers.

<key:bcv=Psalms 48:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:13">13 </verse></sup>Notice her bulwarks.
<br>
Consider her palaces,
<br>
that you may tell it to the next generation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 48:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 48:14">14 </verse></sup>For this God is our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide even to death.

#BCV:Psalm 49:0
#BCV:Psalms 49:0
<P align="center"><h3>49</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of
Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear this, all you peoples.
<br>
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
<key:bcv=Psalms 49:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:2">2 </verse></sup>both low and high,
<br>
rich and poor together.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:3">3 </verse></sup>My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
My heart will utter understanding.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:4">4 </verse></sup>I will incline my ear to a proverb.
I will solve my riddle on the harp.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:5">5 </verse></sup>Why should I fear in the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
<key:bcv=Psalms 49:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:6">6 </verse></sup>Those who trust in their wealth,
<br>
and boast in the multitude of their riches—
<key:bcv=Psalms 49:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:7">7 </verse></sup>none of them can by any means redeem his
brother,
<br>
nor give God a ransom for him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:8">8 </verse></sup>For the redemption of their life is costly,
no payment is ever enough,

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:9">9 </verse></sup>that he should live on forever,
<br>
that he should not see corruption.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:10">10 </verse></sup>For he sees that wise men die;
<br>
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
and leave their wealth to others.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:11">11 </verse></sup>Their inward thought is that their houses will
endure forever,
<br>
and their dwelling places to all generations.
They name their lands after themselves.
<key:bcv=Psalms 49:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:12">12 </verse></sup>But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.
He is like the animals that perish.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:13">13 </verse></sup>This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
and of those who approve their sayings.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:14">14 </verse></sup>They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.<footnote:1>49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
Death shall be their shepherd.
<br>
The upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning.

Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,<footnote:1>49:14 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
far from their mansion.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:15">15 </verse></sup>But God will redeem my soul from the power of
Sheol,<footnote:1>49:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<br>
for he will receive me.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased;
<key:bcv=Psalms 49:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:17">17 </verse></sup>for when he dies he will carry nothing away.
His glory won’t descend after him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:18">18 </verse></sup>Though while he lived he blessed his soul—
and men praise you when you do well for
yourself—

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:19">19 </verse></sup>he shall go to the generation of his fathers.
They shall never see the light.

<key:bcv=Psalms 49:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 49:20">20 </verse></sup>A man who has riches without understanding,
is like the animals that perish.

#BCV:Psalm 50:0
#BCV:Psalms 50:0
<P align="center"><h3>50</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:1">1 </verse></sup>The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:2">2 </verse></sup>Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines out.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:3">3 </verse></sup>Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before him.
<br>
It is very stormy around him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:4">4 </verse></sup>He calls to the heavens above,
<br>
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:5">5 </verse></sup>“Gather my saints together to me,
<br>
those who have made a covenant with me by
sacrifice.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:6">6 </verse></sup>The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:7">7 </verse></sup>“Hear, my people, and I will speak.
Israel, I will testify against you.
<br>
I am God, your God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:8">8 </verse></sup>I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before
me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:9">9 </verse></sup>I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:10">10 </verse></sup>For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:11">11 </verse></sup>I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:12">12 </verse></sup>If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:13">13 </verse></sup>Will I eat the meat of bulls,
<br>
or drink the blood of goats?

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:14">14 </verse></sup>Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:15">15 </verse></sup>Call on me in the day of trouble.
<br>
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:16">16 </verse></sup>But to the wicked God says,
<br>
“What right do you have to declare my
statutes,
<br>
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:17">17 </verse></sup>since you hate instruction,
<br>
and throw my words behind you?

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:18">18 </verse></sup>When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
<key:bcv=Psalms 50:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:19">19 </verse></sup>“You give your mouth to evil.
<br>
Your tongue frames deceit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:20">20 </verse></sup>You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:21">21 </verse></sup>You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of
your eyes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:22">22 </verse></sup>“Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one
to deliver.

<key:bcv=Psalms 50:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 50:23">23 </verse></sup>Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies
me,
<br>
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s
salvation to him.”

#BCV:Psalm 51:0
#BCV:Psalms 51:0
<P align="center"><h3>51</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when
Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone
in to Bathsheba.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:1">1 </verse></sup>Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving
kindness.
<br>
According to the multitude of your tender
mercies, blot out my transgressions.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:2">2 </verse></sup>Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:3">3 </verse></sup>For I know my transgressions.
<br>
My sin is constantly before me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:4">4 </verse></sup>Against you, and you only, I have sinned,
and done that which is evil in your sight,
so you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, I was born in iniquity.
<br>
My mother conceived me in sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
<key:bcv=Psalms 51:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:7">7 </verse></sup>Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
<key:bcv=Psalms 51:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:8">8 </verse></sup>Let me hear joy and gladness,
<br>
that the bones which you have broken may
rejoice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:9">9 </verse></sup>Hide your face from my sins,
<br>
and blot out all of my iniquities.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:10">10 </verse></sup>Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t throw me from your presence,
and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 51:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:12">12 </verse></sup>Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:13">13 </verse></sup>Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
Sinners will be converted to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:14">14 </verse></sup>Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the
God of my salvation.
<br>
My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 51:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:15">15 </verse></sup>Lord, open my lips.
<br>
My mouth will declare your praise.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:16">16 </verse></sup>For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would
give it.
<br>
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
<key:bcv=Psalms 51:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:17">17 </verse></sup>The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
O God, you will not despise a broken and
contrite heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:18">18 </verse></sup>Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Psalms 51:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 51:19">19 </verse></sup>Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

#BCV:Psalm 52:0
#BCV:Psalms 52:0
<P align="center"><h3>52</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David,
when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David
has come to Ahimelech’s house.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:1">1 </verse></sup>Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
God’s loving kindness endures continually.
<key:bcv=Psalms 52:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:2">2 </verse></sup>Your tongue plots destruction,
<br>
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
<key:bcv=Psalms 52:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:3">3 </verse></sup>You love evil more than good,
<br>
lying rather than speaking the truth.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:4">4 </verse></sup>You love all devouring words,
<br>
you deceitful tongue.

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:5">5 </verse></sup>God will likewise destroy you forever.
He will take you up, and pluck you out of your
tent,
<br>
and root you out of the land of the living.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:6">6 </verse></sup>The righteous also will see it, and fear,
and laugh at him, saying,

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:7">7 </verse></sup>“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his
strength,
<br>
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 52:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:8">8 </verse></sup>But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s
house.
<br>
I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and
ever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 52:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 52:9">9 </verse></sup>I will give you thanks forever, because you have
done it.
<br>
I will hope in your name, for it is good,
in the presence of your saints.

#BCV:Psalm 53:0
#BCV:Psalms 53:0
<P align="center"><h3>53</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.”
A contemplation by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 53:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:1">1 </verse></sup>The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done abominable
iniquity.
<br>
There is no one who does good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 53:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:2">2 </verse></sup>God looks down from heaven on the children of
men,
<br>
to see if there are any who understood,
who seek after God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 53:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:3">3 </verse></sup>Every one of them has gone back.
<br>
They have become filthy together.
<br>
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
<key:bcv=Psalms 53:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:4">4 </verse></sup>Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and don’t call on God?

<key:bcv=Psalms 53:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:5">5 </verse></sup>There they were in great fear, where no fear was,
for God has scattered the bones of him who
encamps against you.
<br>
You have put them to shame,
<br>
because God has rejected them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 53:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 53:6">6 </verse></sup>Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of
Zion!
<br>
When God brings back his people from captivity,
then Jacob shall rejoice,
<br>
and Israel shall be glad.

#BCV:Psalm 54:0
#BCV:Psalms 54:0
<P align="center"><h3>54</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.
A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came
and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among
us?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:1">1 </verse></sup>Save me, God, by your name.
<br>
Vindicate me in your might.

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear my prayer, God.
<br>
Listen to the words of my mouth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:3">3 </verse></sup>For strangers have risen up against me.
Violent men have sought after my soul.
They haven’t set God before them.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, God is my helper.
<br>
The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 54:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:5">5 </verse></sup>He will repay the evil to my enemies.
Destroy them in your truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:6">6 </verse></sup>With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.
I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it
is good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 54:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 54:7">7 </verse></sup>For he has delivered me out of all trouble.
My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
#BCV:Psalms 55:0
<P align="center"><h3>55</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A
contemplation by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen to my prayer, God.
<br>
Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:2">2 </verse></sup>Attend to me, and answer me.
<br>
I am restless in my complaint,

and moan <key:bcv=Psalms 55:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:3">3 </verse></sup>because of the voice of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they bring suffering on me.
<br>
In anger they hold a grudge against me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:4">4 </verse></sup>My heart is severely pained within me.
The terrors of death have fallen on me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:5">5 </verse></sup>Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.
Horror has overwhelmed me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:6">6 </verse></sup>I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove!
Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, then I would wander far off.
I would lodge in the wilderness.”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:8">8 </verse></sup>“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind
and storm.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:9">9 </verse></sup>Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:10">10 </verse></sup>Day and night they prowl around on its walls.
Malice and abuse are also within her.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:11">11 </verse></sup>Destructive forces are within her.
Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:12">12 </verse></sup>For it was not an enemy who insulted me,
then I could have endured it.
<br>
Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself
up against me,
<br>
then I would have hidden myself from him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:13">13 </verse></sup>But it was you, a man like me,
<br>
my companion, and my familiar friend.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:14">14 </verse></sup>We took sweet fellowship together.
We walked in God’s house with company.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:15">15 </verse></sup>Let death come suddenly on them.

Let them go down alive into Sheol.<footnote:1>55:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<br>
For wickedness is among them, in their
dwelling.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:16">16 </verse></sup>As for me, I will call on God.
<br>
Yahweh will save me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:17">17 </verse></sup>Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in
distress.
<br>
He will hear my voice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:18">18 </verse></sup>He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle
that was against me,
<br>
although there are many who oppose me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:19">19 </verse></sup>God, who is enthroned forever,
<br>
will hear and answer them.
<br>
Selah.
<br>
They never change
<br>
and don’t fear God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:20">20 </verse></sup>He raises his hands against his friends.
He has violated his covenant.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:21">21 </verse></sup>His mouth was smooth as butter,
<br>
but his heart was war.
<br>
His words were softer than oil,
<br>
yet they were drawn swords.

<key:bcv=Psalms 55:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:22">22 </verse></sup>Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain
you.
<br>
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
<key:bcv=Psalms 55:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 55:23">23 </verse></sup>But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of
destruction.
<br>
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live
out half their days,
<br>
but I will trust in you.

#BCV:Psalm 56:0
#BCV:Psalms 56:0
<P align="center"><h3>56</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove
in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the
Philistines seized him in Gath.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:1">1 </verse></sup>Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow
me up.
<br>
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 56:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:2">2 </verse></sup>My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,
for they are many who fight proudly against
me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:3">3 </verse></sup>When I am afraid,
<br>
I will put my trust in you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:4">4 </verse></sup>In God, I praise his word.
<br>
In God, I put my trust.
<br>
I will not be afraid.
<br>
What can flesh do to me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:5">5 </verse></sup>All day long they twist my words.
<br>
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
<key:bcv=Psalms 56:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:6">6 </verse></sup>They conspire and lurk,
<br>
watching my steps.
<br>
They are eager to take my life.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:7">7 </verse></sup>Shall they escape by iniquity?
<br>
In anger cast down the peoples, God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:8">8 </verse></sup>You count my wanderings.
<br>
You put my tears into your container.
Aren’t they in your book?

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:9">9 </verse></sup>Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I
call.
<br>
I know this: that God is for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:10">10 </verse></sup>In God, I will praise his word.
<br>
In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:11">11 </verse></sup>I have put my trust in God.
<br>
I will not be afraid.
<br>
What can man do to me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:12">12 </verse></sup>Your vows are on me, God.
<br>
I will give thank offerings to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 56:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 56:13">13 </verse></sup>For you have delivered my soul from death,
and prevented my feet from falling,
<br>
that I may walk before God in the light of the
living.

#BCV:Psalm 57:0
#BCV:Psalms 57:0
<P align="center"><h3>57</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not
Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul,
in the cave.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:1">1 </verse></sup>Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me,
for my soul takes refuge in you.
<br>
Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
until disaster has passed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:2">2 </verse></sup>I cry out to God Most High,
<br>
to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 57:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:3">3 </verse></sup>He will send from heaven, and save me,
he rebukes the one who is pursuing me.
Selah.
<br>
God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 57:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:4">4 </verse></sup>My soul is among lions.
<br>
I lie among those who are set on fire,
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears
and arrows,
<br>
and their tongue a sharp sword.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:5">5 </verse></sup>Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be above all the earth!
<key:bcv=Psalms 57:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:6">6 </verse></sup>They have prepared a net for my steps.
My soul is bowed down.
<br>
They dig a pit before me.
<br>
They fall into the middle of it themselves.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:7">7 </verse></sup>My heart is steadfast, God.
<br>
My heart is steadfast.
<br>
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
<key:bcv=Psalms 57:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:8">8 </verse></sup>Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp!
I will wake up the dawn.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:9">9 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 57:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:10">10 </verse></sup>For your great loving kindness reaches to the
heavens,
<br>
and your truth to the skies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 57:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 57:11">11 </verse></sup>Be exalted, God, above the heavens.
Let your glory be over all the earth.

#BCV:Psalm 58:0
#BCV:Psalms 58:0
<P align="center"><h3>58</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not
Destroy.” A poem by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:1">1 </verse></sup>Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
<key:bcv=Psalms 58:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:2">2 </verse></sup>No, in your heart you plot injustice.
You measure out the violence of your hands in
the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:3">3 </verse></sup>The wicked go astray from the womb.
They are wayward as soon as they are born,
speaking lies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:4">4 </verse></sup>Their poison is like the poison of a snake,
like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
<key:bcv=Psalms 58:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:5">5 </verse></sup>which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,
no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
<key:bcv=Psalms 58:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:6">6 </verse></sup>Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.
Break out the great teeth of the young lions,
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:7">7 </verse></sup>Let them vanish like water that flows away.
When they draw the bow, let their arrows be
made blunt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:8">8 </verse></sup>Let them be like a snail which melts and passes
away,
<br>
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the
sun.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:9">9 </verse></sup>Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,
he will sweep away the green and the burning
alike.

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:10">10 </verse></sup>The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the
vengeance.
<br>
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the
wicked,

<key:bcv=Psalms 58:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 58:11">11 </verse></sup>so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a
reward for the righteous.
<br>
Most certainly there is a God who judges the
earth.”

#BCV:Psalm 59:0
#BCV:Psalms 59:0
<P align="center"><h3>59</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not
Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and
they watched the house to kill him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:1">1 </verse></sup>Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
Set me on high from those who rise up against
me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:2">2 </verse></sup>Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:3">3 </verse></sup>For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
<br>
The mighty gather themselves together
against me,
<br>
not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 59:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:4">4 </verse></sup>I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack
me.
<br>
Rise up, behold, and help me!

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:5">5 </verse></sup>You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel,
rouse yourself to punish the nations.
Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:6">6 </verse></sup>They return at evening, howling like dogs,
and prowl around the city.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, they spew with their mouth.
Swords are in their lips,
<br>
“For”, they say, “who hears us?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:8">8 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
<br>
You scoff at all the nations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:9">9 </verse></sup>Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,
<br>
for God is my high tower.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:10">10 </verse></sup>My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
<key:bcv=Psalms 59:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.
Scatter them by your power, and bring them
down, Lord our shield.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:12">12 </verse></sup>For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their
lips,
<br>
let them be caught in their pride,
<br>
for the curses and lies which they utter.
<key:bcv=Psalms 59:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:13">13 </verse></sup>Consume them in wrath.
<br>
Consume them, and they will be no more.
Let them know that God rules in Jacob,
to the ends of the earth.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:14">14 </verse></sup>At evening let them return.
<br>
Let them howl like a dog, and go around the
city.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:15">15 </verse></sup>They shall wander up and down for food,
and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
<key:bcv=Psalms 59:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:16">16 </verse></sup>But I will sing of your strength.
<br>
Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in
the morning.
<br>
For you have been my high tower,
<br>
a refuge in the day of my distress.

<key:bcv=Psalms 59:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 59:17">17 </verse></sup>To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

#BCV:Psalm 60:0
#BCV:Psalms 60:0
<P align="center"><h3>60</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of
the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he
fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah,
and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of
Edom in the Valley of Salt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:1">1 </verse></sup>God, you have rejected us.
<br>
You have broken us down.
<br>
You have been angry.
<br>
Restore us, again.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:2">2 </verse></sup>You have made the land tremble.
<br>
You have torn it.
<br>
Mend its fractures,
<br>
for it quakes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:3">3 </verse></sup>You have shown your people hard things.
You have made us drink the wine that makes
us stagger.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:4">4 </verse></sup>You have given a banner to those who fear you,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:5">5 </verse></sup>So that your beloved may be delivered,
save with your right hand, and answer us.
<key:bcv=Psalms 60:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:6">6 </verse></sup>God has spoken from his sanctuary:
<br>
“I will triumph.
<br>
I will divide Shechem,
<br>
and measure out the valley of Succoth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 60:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:7">7 </verse></sup>Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.
Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
Judah is my scepter.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:8">8 </verse></sup>Moab is my wash basin.
<br>
I will throw my sandal on Edom.
<br>
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:9">9 </verse></sup>Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who has led me to Edom?

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:10">10 </verse></sup>Haven’t you, God, rejected us?
<br>
You don’t go out with our armies, God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 60:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:11">11 </verse></sup>Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of man is vain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 60:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 60:12">12 </verse></sup>Through God we will do valiantly,
<br>
for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

#BCV:Psalm 61:0
#BCV:Psalms 61:0
<P align="center"><h3>61</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument.
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear my cry, God.
<br>
Listen to my prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:2">2 </verse></sup>From the end of the earth, I will call to you when
my heart is overwhelmed.
<br>
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
<key:bcv=Psalms 61:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:3">3 </verse></sup>For you have been a refuge for me,
<br>
a strong tower from the enemy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:4">4 </verse></sup>I will dwell in your tent forever.
<br>
I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:5">5 </verse></sup>For you, God, have heard my vows.
<br>
You have given me the heritage of those who
fear your name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:6">6 </verse></sup>You will prolong the king’s life.
<br>
His years will be for generations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever.
Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that
they may preserve him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 61:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 61:8">8 </verse></sup>So I will sing praise to your name forever,
that I may fulfill my vows daily.

#BCV:Psalm 62:0
#BCV:Psalms 62:0
<P align="center"><h3>62</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by
David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:1">1 </verse></sup>My soul rests in God alone.
<br>
My salvation is from him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:2">2 </verse></sup>He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.
I will never be greatly shaken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:3">3 </verse></sup>How long will you assault a man?
<br>
Would all of you throw him down,
<br>
like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
<key:bcv=Psalms 62:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:4">4 </verse></sup>They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty
place.
<br>
They delight in lies.
<br>
They bless with their mouth, but they curse
inwardly.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:5">5 </verse></sup>My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
for my expectation is from him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:6">6 </verse></sup>He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.
I will not be shaken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:7">7 </verse></sup>My salvation and my honor is with God.
The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in
God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:8">8 </verse></sup>Trust in him at all times, you people.
Pour out your heart before him.
<br>
God is a refuge for us.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:9">9 </verse></sup>Surely men of low degree are just a breath,
and men of high degree are a lie.
<br>
In the balances they will go up.
<br>
They are together lighter than a breath.
<key:bcv=Psalms 62:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t trust in oppression.
<br>
Don’t become vain in robbery.
<br>
If riches increase,
<br>
don’t set your heart on them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:11">11 </verse></sup>God has spoken once;
<br>
twice I have heard this,
<br>
that power belongs to God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 62:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 62:12">12 </verse></sup>Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,
for you reward every man according to his
work.

#BCV:Psalm 63:0
#BCV:Psalms 63:0
<P align="center"><h3>63</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of
Judah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:1">1 </verse></sup>God, you are my God.
<br>
I will earnestly seek you.
<br>
My soul thirsts for you.
<br>
My flesh longs for you,
<br>
in a dry and weary land, where there is no
water.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:2">2 </verse></sup>So I have seen you in the sanctuary,
watching your power and your glory.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:3">3 </verse></sup>Because your loving kindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:4">4 </verse></sup>So I will bless you while I live.
<br>
I will lift up my hands in your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 63:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:5">5 </verse></sup>My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.
My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
<key:bcv=Psalms 63:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:6">6 </verse></sup>when I remember you on my bed,
<br>
and think about you in the night watches.
<key:bcv=Psalms 63:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:7">7 </verse></sup>For you have been my help.
<br>
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
<key:bcv=Psalms 63:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:8">8 </verse></sup>My soul stays close to you.
<br>
Your right hand holds me up.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:9">9 </verse></sup>But those who seek my soul to destroy it
shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 63:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:10">10 </verse></sup>They shall be given over to the power of the
sword.
<br>
They shall be jackal food.

<key:bcv=Psalms 63:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 63:11">11 </verse></sup>But the king shall rejoice in God.
Everyone who swears by him will praise him,
for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be
silenced.

#BCV:Psalm 64:0
#BCV:Psalms 64:0
<P align="center"><h3>64</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear my voice, God, in my complaint.
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:2">2 </verse></sup>Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:3">3 </verse></sup>who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
and aim their arrows, deadly words,

<key:bcv=Psalms 64:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:4">4 </verse></sup>to shoot innocent men from ambushes.
They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:5">5 </verse></sup>They encourage themselves in evil plans.
They talk about laying snares secretly.
They say, “Who will see them?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 64:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:6">6 </verse></sup>They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a
perfect plan!”
<br>
Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:7">7 </verse></sup>But God will shoot at them.
<br>
They will be suddenly struck down with an
arrow.

<key:bcv=Psalms 64:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:8">8 </verse></sup>Their own tongues shall ruin them.
<br>
All who see them will shake their heads.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:9">9 </verse></sup>All mankind shall be afraid.
<br>
They shall declare the work of God,
<br>
and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
<key:bcv=Psalms 64:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 64:10">10 </verse></sup>The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh,
and shall take refuge in him.
<br>
All the upright in heart shall praise him!

#BCV:Psalm 56:0
#BCV:Psalms 65:0
<P align="center"><h3>65</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
<key:bcv=Psalms 65:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.
Vows shall be performed to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:2">2 </verse></sup>You who hear prayer,
<br>
all men will come to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:3">3 </verse></sup>Sins overwhelmed me,
<br>
but you atoned for our transgressions.
<key:bcv=Psalms 65:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:4">4 </verse></sup>Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to
come near,
<br>
that he may live in your courts.
<br>
We will be filled with the goodness of your
house,
<br>
your holy temple.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:5">5 </verse></sup>By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer
us,
<br>
God of our salvation.
<br>
You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
of those who are far away on the sea.
<key:bcv=Psalms 65:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:6">6 </verse></sup>By your power, you form the mountains,
having armed yourself with strength.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:7">7 </verse></sup>You still the roaring of the seas,
<br>
the roaring of their waves,
<br>
and the turmoil of the nations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:8">8 </verse></sup>They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at
your wonders.
<br>
You call the morning’s dawn and the evening
with songs of joy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:9">9 </verse></sup>You visit the earth, and water it.
<br>
You greatly enrich it.
<br>
The river of God is full of water.
<br>
You provide them grain, for so you have ordained
it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:10">10 </verse></sup>You drench its furrows.
<br>
You level its ridges.
<br>
You soften it with showers.
<br>
You bless it with a crop.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:11">11 </verse></sup>You crown the year with your bounty.
Your carts overflow with abundance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:12">12 </verse></sup>The wilderness grasslands overflow.
The hills are clothed with gladness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 65:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 65:13">13 </verse></sup>The pastures are covered with flocks.
The valleys also are clothed with grain.
They shout for joy!
<br>
They also sing.

#BCV:Psalm 66:0
#BCV:Psalms 66:0
<P align="center"><h3>66</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:1">1 </verse></sup>Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:2">2 </verse></sup>Sing to the glory of his name!
<br>
Offer glory and praise!

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:3">3 </verse></sup>Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!
Through the greatness of your power, your
enemies submit themselves to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:4">4 </verse></sup>All the earth will worship you,
<br>
and will sing to you;
<br>
they will sing to your name.”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:5">5 </verse></sup>Come, and see God’s deeds—
<br>
awesome work on behalf of the children of
men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:6">6 </verse></sup>He turned the sea into dry land.
<br>
They went through the river on foot.
<br>
There, we rejoiced in him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:7">7 </verse></sup>He rules by his might forever.
<br>
His eyes watch the nations.
<br>
Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:8">8 </verse></sup>Praise our God, you peoples!
<br>
Make the sound of his praise heard,

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:9">9 </verse></sup>who preserves our life among the living,
and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:10">10 </verse></sup>For you, God, have tested us.
<br>
You have refined us, as silver is refined.
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:11">11 </verse></sup>You brought us into prison.
<br>
You laid a burden on our backs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:12">12 </verse></sup>You allowed men to ride over our heads.
We went through fire and through water,
but you brought us to the place of abundance.
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:13">13 </verse></sup>I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
I will pay my vows to you, <key:bcv=Psalms 66:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:14">14 </verse></sup>which my lips
promised,
<br>
and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:15">15 </verse></sup>I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals,
with the offering of rams,
<br>
I will offer bulls with goats.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:16">16 </verse></sup>Come and hear, all you who fear God.
I will declare what he has done for my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 66:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:17">17 </verse></sup>I cried to him with my mouth.
<br>
He was extolled with my tongue.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:18">18 </verse></sup>If I cherished sin in my heart,
<br>
the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:19">19 </verse></sup>But most certainly, God has listened.
He has heard the voice of my prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 66:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 66:20">20 </verse></sup>Blessed be God, who has not turned away my
prayer,
<br>
nor his loving kindness from me.

#BCV:Psalm 67:0
#BCV:Psalms 67:0
<P align="center"><h3>67</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.
A Psalm. A song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 67:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:1">1 </verse></sup>May God be merciful to us, bless us,
and cause his face to shine on us.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 67:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:2">2 </verse></sup>That your way may be known on earth,
and your salvation among all nations,
<key:bcv=Psalms 67:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:3">3 </verse></sup>let the peoples praise you, God.
<br>
Let all the peoples praise you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 67:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:4">4 </verse></sup>Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you will judge the peoples with equity,
and govern the nations on earth.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 67:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:5">5 </verse></sup>Let the peoples praise you, God.
<br>
Let all the peoples praise you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 67:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:6">6 </verse></sup>The earth has yielded its increase.
God, even our own God, will bless us.
<key:bcv=Psalms 67:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 67:7">7 </verse></sup>God will bless us.
<br>
All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

#BCV:Psalm 68:0
#BCV:Psalms 68:0
<P align="center"><h3>68</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:1">1 </verse></sup>Let God arise!
<br>
Let his enemies be scattered!
<br>
Let them who hate him also flee before him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:2">2 </verse></sup>As smoke is driven away,
<br>
so drive them away.
<br>
As wax melts before the fire,
<br>
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:3">3 </verse></sup>But let the righteous be glad.
<br>
Let them rejoice before God.
<br>
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:4">4 </verse></sup>Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!
Extol him who rides on the clouds:
<br>
to Yah, his name!
<br>
Rejoice before him!

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:5">5 </verse></sup>A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the
widows,
<br>
is God in his holy habitation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:6">6 </verse></sup>God sets the lonely in families.
<br>
He brings out the prisoners with singing,
but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:7">7 </verse></sup>God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the wilderness...
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:8">8 </verse></sup>The earth trembled.
<br>
The sky also poured down rain at the presence
of the God of Sinai—
<br>
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:9">9 </verse></sup>You, God, sent a plentiful rain.
<br>
You confirmed your inheritance when it was
weary.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:10">10 </verse></sup>Your congregation lived therein.
<br>
You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:11">11 </verse></sup>The Lord announced the word.
<br>
The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:12">12 </verse></sup>“Kings of armies flee! They flee!”
She who waits at home divides the plunder,
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:13">13 </verse></sup>while you sleep among the camp fires,
the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,
her feathers with shining gold.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:14">14 </verse></sup>When the Almighty scattered kings in her,
it snowed on Zalmon.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:15">15 </verse></sup>The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:16">16 </verse></sup>Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,
at the mountain where God chooses to reign?
<br>
Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:17">17 </verse></sup>The chariots of God are tens of thousands and
thousands of thousands.
<br>
The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the
sanctuary.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:18">18 </verse></sup>You have ascended on high.
<br>
You have led away captives.
<br>
You have received gifts among people,
yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God
might dwell there.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:19">19 </verse></sup>Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,
even the God who is our salvation.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:20">20 </verse></sup>God is to us a God of deliverance.
To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from
death.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:21">21 </verse></sup>But God will strike through the head of his enemies,
the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues
in his guiltiness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:22">22 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,
I will bring you again from the depths of the
sea,

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:23">23 </verse></sup>that you may crush them, dipping your foot in
blood,
<br>
that the tongues of your dogs may have their
portion from your enemies.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:24">24 </verse></sup>They have seen your processions, God,
even the processions of my God, my King, into
the sanctuary.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:25">25 </verse></sup>The singers went before, the minstrels followed
after,
<br>
among the ladies playing with tambourines,
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:26">26 </verse></sup>“Bless God in the congregations,
<br>
even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:27">27 </verse></sup>There is little Benjamin, their ruler,
the princes of Judah, their council,
<br>
the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of
Naphtali.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:28">28 </verse></sup>Your God has commanded your strength.
Strengthen, God, that which you have done for
us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:29">29 </verse></sup>Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
kings shall bring presents to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:30">30 </verse></sup>Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,
the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the
peoples.
<br>
Trample under foot the bars of silver.
Scatter the nations who delight in war.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:31">31 </verse></sup>Princes shall come out of Egypt.
<br>
Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to
God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:32">32 </verse></sup>Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!
Sing praises to the Lord—
<br>
Selah—

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:33">33 </verse></sup>to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which
are of old;
<br>
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
<key:bcv=Psalms 68:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:34">34 </verse></sup>Ascribe strength to God!
<br>
His excellency is over Israel,
<br>
his strength is in the skies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 68:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 68:35">35 </verse></sup>You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
The God of Israel gives strength and power to
his people.
<br>
Praise be to God!

#BCV:Psalm 69:0
#BCV:Psalms 69:0
<P align="center"><h3>69</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By
David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:1">1 </verse></sup>Save me, God,
<br>
for the waters have come up to my neck!
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:2">2 </verse></sup>I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.
I have come into deep waters, where the floods
overflow me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:3">3 </verse></sup>I am weary with my crying.
<br>
My throat is dry.
<br>
My eyes fail looking for my God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:4">4 </verse></sup>Those who hate me without a cause are more than
the hairs of my head.
<br>
Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies
wrongfully, are mighty.
<br>
I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:5">5 </verse></sup>God, you know my foolishness.
<br>
My sins aren’t hidden from you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed
through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.
<br>
Don’t let those who seek you be brought to
dishonor through me, God of Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:7">7 </verse></sup>Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
Shame has covered my face.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:8">8 </verse></sup>I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:9">9 </verse></sup>For the zeal of your house consumes me.
The reproaches of those who reproach you
have fallen on me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:10">10 </verse></sup>When I wept and I fasted,
<br>
that was to my reproach.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:11">11 </verse></sup>When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:12">12 </verse></sup>Those who sit in the gate talk about me.
I am the song of the drunkards.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:13">13 </verse></sup>But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an
acceptable time.
<br>
God, in the abundance of your loving kindness,
answer me in the truth of your salvation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:14">14 </verse></sup>Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
and out of the deep waters.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,
neither let the deep swallow me up.
<br>
Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:16">16 </verse></sup>Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is
good.
<br>
According to the multitude of your tender
mercies, turn to me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress.
<br>
Answer me speedily!

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:18">18 </verse></sup>Draw near to my soul and redeem it.
Ransom me because of my enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:19">19 </verse></sup>You know my reproach, my shame, and my
dishonor.
<br>
My adversaries are all before you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:20">20 </verse></sup>Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of
heaviness.
<br>
I looked for some to take pity, but there was
none;
<br>
for comforters, but I found none.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:21">21 </verse></sup>They also gave me poison for my food.
In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:22">22 </verse></sup>Let their table before them become a snare.
May it become a retribution and a trap.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:23">23 </verse></sup>Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.
Let their backs be continually bent.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:24">24 </verse></sup>Pour out your indignation on them.
Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:25">25 </verse></sup>Let their habitation be desolate.
<br>
Let no one dwell in their tents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:26">26 </verse></sup>For they persecute him whom you have wounded.
They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have
hurt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:27">27 </verse></sup>Charge them with crime upon crime.
Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:28">28 </verse></sup>Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
and not be written with the righteous.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:29">29 </verse></sup>But I am in pain and distress.
<br>
Let your salvation, God, protect me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:30">30 </verse></sup>I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:31">31 </verse></sup>It will please Yahweh better than an ox,
or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:32">32 </verse></sup>The humble have seen it, and are glad.
You who seek after God, let your heart live.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:33">33 </verse></sup>For Yahweh hears the needy,
<br>
and doesn’t despise his captive people.
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:34">34 </verse></sup>Let heaven and earth praise him;
<br>
the seas, and everything that moves therein!
<key:bcv=Psalms 69:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:35">35 </verse></sup>For God will save Zion, and build the cities of
Judah.
<br>
They shall settle there, and own it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 69:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 69:36">36 </verse></sup>The children also of his servants shall inherit it.
Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

#BCV:Psalm 70:0
#BCV:Psalms 70:0
<P align="center"><h3>70</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.

<key:bcv=Psalms 70:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 70:1">1 </verse></sup>Hurry, God, to deliver me.
<br>
Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 70:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 70:2">2 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed and confounded who
seek my soul.
<br>
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in
disgrace.

<key:bcv=Psalms 70:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 70:3">3 </verse></sup>Let them be turned because of their shame
who say, “Aha! Aha!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 70:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 70:4">4 </verse></sup>Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in
you.
<br>
Let those who love your salvation continually
say,
<br>
“Let God be exalted!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 70:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 70:5">5 </verse></sup>But I am poor and needy.
<br>
Come to me quickly, God.
<br>
You are my help and my deliverer.
<br>
Yahweh, don’t delay.

#BCV:Psalms 71:0
<P align="center"><h3>71</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 71:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:1">1 </verse></sup>In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
<br>
Never let me be disappointed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:2">2 </verse></sup>Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:3">3 </verse></sup>Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
Give the command to save me,
<br>
for you are my rock and my fortress.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:4">4 </verse></sup>Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel
man.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:5">5 </verse></sup>For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh,
<br>
my confidence from my youth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:6">6 </verse></sup>I have relied on you from the womb.
You are he who took me out of my mother’s
womb.
<br>
I will always praise you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:7">7 </verse></sup>I am a marvel to many,
<br>
but you are my strong refuge.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:8">8 </verse></sup>My mouth shall be filled with your praise,
with your honor all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t reject me in my old age.
<br>
Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
<key:bcv=Psalms 71:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:10">10 </verse></sup>For my enemies talk about me.
<br>
Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
<key:bcv=Psalms 71:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:11">11 </verse></sup>saying, “God has forsaken him.
<br>
Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue
him.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:12">12 </verse></sup>God, don’t be far from me.
<br>
My God, hurry to help me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:13">13 </verse></sup>Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.
Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn
who want to harm me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:14">14 </verse></sup>But I will always hope,
<br>
and will add to all of your praise.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:15">15 </verse></sup>My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
and of your salvation all day,
<br>
though I don’t know its full measure.
<key:bcv=Psalms 71:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:16">16 </verse></sup>I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord
Yahweh.
<br>
I will make mention of your righteousness,
even of yours alone.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:17">17 </verse></sup>God, you have taught me from my youth.
Until now, I have declared your wondrous
works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:18">18 </verse></sup>Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God,
don’t forsake me,
<br>
until I have declared your strength to the next
generation,
<br>
your might to everyone who is to come.
<key:bcv=Psalms 71:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:19">19 </verse></sup>God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens.
You have done great things.
<br>
God, who is like you?

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:20">20 </verse></sup>You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,
you will let me live.
<br>
You will bring us up again from the depths of
the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:21">21 </verse></sup>Increase my honor
<br>
and comfort me again.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:22">22 </verse></sup>I will also praise you with the harp for your
faithfulness, my God.
<br>
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of
Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:23">23 </verse></sup>My lips shall shout for joy!
<br>
My soul, which you have redeemed, sings
praises to you!

<key:bcv=Psalms 71:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 71:24">24 </verse></sup>My tongue will also talk about your righteousness
all day long,
<br>
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,
who want to harm me.

#BCV:Psalm 72:0
#BCV:Psalms 72:0
<P align="center"><h3>72</h3></p>
<br>
By Solomon.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:1">1 </verse></sup>God, give the king your justice;
<br>
your righteousness to the royal son.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:2">2 </verse></sup>He will judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:3">3 </verse></sup>The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:4">4 </verse></sup>He will judge the poor of the people.
He will save the children of the needy,
and will break the oppressor in pieces.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:5">5 </verse></sup>They shall fear you while the sun endures;
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:6">6 </verse></sup>He will come down like rain on the mown grass,
as showers that water the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:7">7 </verse></sup>In his days, the righteous shall flourish,
and abundance of peace, until the moon is no
more.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:8">8 </verse></sup>He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
from the River to the ends of the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:9">9 </verse></sup>Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow
before him.
<br>
His enemies shall lick the dust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:10">10 </verse></sup>The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring
tribute.
<br>
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.
All nations shall serve him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:12">12 </verse></sup>For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
the poor, who has no helper.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:13">13 </verse></sup>He will have pity on the poor and needy.
He will save the souls of the needy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:14">14 </verse></sup>He will redeem their soul from oppression and
violence.
<br>
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
<key:bcv=Psalms 72:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:15">15 </verse></sup>He will live; and Sheba’s gold will be given to him.
Men will pray for him continually.
<br>
They will bless him all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:16">16 </verse></sup>Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
<br>
Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the
field.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:17">17 </verse></sup>His name endures forever.
<br>
His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
<br>
All nations will call him blessed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:18">18 </verse></sup>Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel,
who alone does marvelous deeds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:19">19 </verse></sup>Blessed be his glorious name forever!
Let the whole earth be filled with his glory!
Amen and amen.

<key:bcv=Psalms 72:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:20">20 </verse></sup>This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. BOOK <key:bcv=Psalms 72:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 72:3">3 </verse></sup>

#BCV:Psalm 73:0
#BCV:Psalms 73:0
<P align="center"><h3>73</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:1">1 </verse></sup>Surely God<footnote:1>73:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> is good to Israel,
<br>
to those who are pure in heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:2">2 </verse></sup>But as for me, my feet were almost gone.
My steps had nearly slipped.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:3">3 </verse></sup>For I was envious of the arrogant,
<br>
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:4">4 </verse></sup>For there are no struggles in their death,
but their strength is firm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:5">5 </verse></sup>They are free from burdens of men,
<br>
neither are they plagued like other men.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.
Violence covers them like a garment.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:7">7 </verse></sup>Their eyes bulge with fat.
<br>
Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:8">8 </verse></sup>They scoff and speak with malice.
<br>
In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:9">9 </verse></sup>They have set their mouth in the heavens.
Their tongue walks through the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore their people return to them,
and they drink up waters of abundance.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:11">11 </verse></sup>They say, “How does God know?
<br>
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, these are the wicked.
<br>
Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:13">13 </verse></sup>Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence,

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:14">14 </verse></sup>For all day long I have been plagued,
and punished every morning.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:15">15 </verse></sup>If I had said, “I will speak thus”,
behold, I would have betrayed the generation
of your children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:16">16 </verse></sup>When I tried to understand this,
<br>
it was too painful for me—

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:17">17 </verse></sup>until I entered God’s sanctuary,
<br>
and considered their latter end.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:18">18 </verse></sup>Surely you set them in slippery places.
You throw them down to destruction.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:19">19 </verse></sup>How they are suddenly destroyed!
<br>
They are completely swept away with terrors.
<key:bcv=Psalms 73:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:20">20 </verse></sup>As a dream when one wakes up,

so, Lord,<footnote:1>73:20 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> when you awake, you will despise
their fantasies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:21">21 </verse></sup>For my soul was grieved.
<br>
I was embittered in my heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:22">22 </verse></sup>I was so senseless and ignorant.
<br>
I was a brute beast before you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:23">23 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
You have held my right hand.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:24">24 </verse></sup>You will guide me with your counsel,
and afterward receive me to glory.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:25">25 </verse></sup>Whom do I have in heaven?
<br>
There is no one on earth whom I desire besides
you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:26">26 </verse></sup>My flesh and my heart fails,
<br>
but God is the strength of my heart and my
portion forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:27">27 </verse></sup>For, behold, those who are far from you shall
perish.
<br>
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful
to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 73:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 73:28">28 </verse></sup>But it is good for me to come close to God.
I have made the Lord Yahweh<footnote:1>73:28 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.

#BCV:Psalm 74:0
#BCV:Psalms 74:0
<P align="center"><h3>74</h3></p>
<br>
A contemplation by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:1">1 </verse></sup>God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the
sheep of your pasture?

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:2">2 </verse></sup>Remember your congregation, which you purchased
of old,
<br>
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of
your inheritance:
<br>
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:3">3 </verse></sup>Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
all the evil that the enemy has done in the
sanctuary.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:4">4 </verse></sup>Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your
assembly.
<br>
They have set up their standards as signs.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:5">5 </verse></sup>They behaved like men wielding axes,
cutting through a thicket of trees.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:6">6 </verse></sup>Now they break all its carved work down with
hatchet and hammers.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:7">7 </verse></sup>They have burned your sanctuary to the
ground.
<br>
They have profaned the dwelling place of your
Name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:8">8 </verse></sup>They said in their heart, “We will crush them
completely.”
<br>
They have burned up all the places in the land
where God was worshiped.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:9">9 </verse></sup>We see no miraculous signs.
<br>
There is no longer any prophet,
<br>
neither is there among us anyone who knows
how long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:10">10 </verse></sup>How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:11">11 </verse></sup>Why do you draw back your hand, even your right
hand?
<br>
Take it from your chest and consume them!
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:12">12 </verse></sup>Yet God is my King of old,
<br>
working salvation throughout the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:13">13 </verse></sup>You divided the sea by your strength.
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the
waters.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:14">14 </verse></sup>You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
You gave him as food to people and desert
creatures.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:15">15 </verse></sup>You opened up spring and stream.
<br>
You dried up mighty rivers.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:16">16 </verse></sup>The day is yours, the night is also yours.
You have prepared the light and the sun.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:17">17 </verse></sup>You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
You have made summer and winter.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:18">18 </verse></sup>Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you,
Yahweh.
<br>
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:20">20 </verse></sup>Honor your covenant,
<br>
for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:21">21 </verse></sup>Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.
Let the poor and needy praise your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 74:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:22">22 </verse></sup>Arise, God! Plead your own cause.
<br>
Remember how the foolish man mocks you all
day.

<key:bcv=Psalms 74:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 74:23">23 </verse></sup>Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.
The tumult of those who rise up against you
ascends continually.

#BCV:Psalm 75:0
#BCV:Psalms 75:0
<P align="center"><h3>75</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not
Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:1">1 </verse></sup>We give thanks to you, God.
<br>
We give thanks, for your Name is near.
Men tell about your wondrous works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:2">2 </verse></sup>When I choose the appointed time,
<br>
I will judge blamelessly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:3">3 </verse></sup>The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
I firmly hold its pillars.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:4">4 </verse></sup>I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”
I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
<key:bcv=Psalms 75:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t lift up your horn on high.
<br>
Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:6">6 </verse></sup>For neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 75:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:7">7 </verse></sup>But God is the judge.
<br>
He puts down one, and lifts up another.
<key:bcv=Psalms 75:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:8">8 </verse></sup>For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup,
full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours it out.
<br>
Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink
it to its very dregs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 75:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:9">9 </verse></sup>But I will declare this forever:
<br>
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
<key:bcv=Psalms 75:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 75:10">10 </verse></sup>I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted
up.

#BCV:Psalm 76:0
#BCV:Psalms 76:0
<P align="center"><h3>76</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A
Psalm by Asaph. A song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:1">1 </verse></sup>In Judah, God is known.
<br>
His name is great in Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:2">2 </verse></sup>His tabernacle is also in Salem.
<br>
His dwelling place in Zion.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:3">3 </verse></sup>There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of
war.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:4">4 </verse></sup>Glorious are you, and excellent,
<br>
more than mountains of game.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:5">5 </verse></sup>Valiant men lie plundered,
<br>
they have slept their last sleep.
<br>
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
<key:bcv=Psalms 76:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:6">6 </verse></sup>At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse are cast into a dead
sleep.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:7">7 </verse></sup>You, even you, are to be feared.
<br>
Who can stand in your sight when you are
angry?

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:8">8 </verse></sup>You pronounced judgment from heaven.
The earth feared, and was silent,

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:9">9 </verse></sup>when God arose to judgment,
<br>
to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:10">10 </verse></sup>Surely the wrath of man praises you.
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
<key:bcv=Psalms 76:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:11">11 </verse></sup>Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them!
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him
who is to be feared.

<key:bcv=Psalms 76:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 76:12">12 </verse></sup>He will cut off the spirit of princes.
He is feared by the kings of the earth.

#BCV:Psalm 77:0
#BCV:Psalms 77:0
<P align="center"><h3>77</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by
Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:1">1 </verse></sup>My cry goes to God!
<br>
Indeed, I cry to God for help,
<br>
and for him to listen to me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:2">2 </verse></sup>In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
My hand was stretched out in the night, and
didn’t get tired.
<br>
My soul refused to be comforted.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:3">3 </verse></sup>I remember God, and I groan.
<br>
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:4">4 </verse></sup>You hold my eyelids open.
<br>
I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:5">5 </verse></sup>I have considered the days of old,
<br>
the years of ancient times.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:6">6 </verse></sup>I remember my song in the night.
<br>
I consider in my own heart;
<br>
my spirit diligently inquires:

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:7">7 </verse></sup>“Will the Lord reject us forever?
<br>
Will he be favorable no more?

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:8">8 </verse></sup>Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
Does his promise fail for generations?
<key:bcv=Psalms 77:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:9">9 </verse></sup>Has God forgotten to be gracious?
<br>
Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:10">10 </verse></sup>Then I thought, “I will appeal to this:
the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 77:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:11">11 </verse></sup>I will remember Yah’s deeds;
<br>
for I will remember your wonders of old.
<key:bcv=Psalms 77:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:12">12 </verse></sup>I will also meditate on all your work,
and consider your doings.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:13">13 </verse></sup>Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
What god is great like God?

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:14">14 </verse></sup>You are the God who does wonders.
<br>
You have made your strength known among
the peoples.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:15">15 </verse></sup>You have redeemed your people with your arm,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:16">16 </verse></sup>The waters saw you, God.
<br>
The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:17">17 </verse></sup>The clouds poured out water.
<br>
The skies resounded with thunder.
<br>
Your arrows also flashed around.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:18">18 </verse></sup>The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
The lightnings lit up the world.
<br>
The earth trembled and shook.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:19">19 </verse></sup>Your way was through the sea,
<br>
your paths through the great waters.
<br>
Your footsteps were not known.

<key:bcv=Psalms 77:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 77:20">20 </verse></sup>You led your people like a flock,
<br>
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

#BCV:Psalm 78:0
#BCV:Psalms 78:0
<P align="center"><h3>78</h3></p>
<br>
A contemplation by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear my teaching, my people.
<br>
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:2">2 </verse></sup>I will open my mouth in a parable.
<br>
I will utter dark sayings of old,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:3">3 </verse></sup>which we have heard and known,
<br>
and our fathers have told us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:4">4 </verse></sup>We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the generation to come the praises of
Yahweh,
<br>
his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he
has done.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:5">5 </verse></sup>For he established a covenant in Jacob,
and appointed a teaching in Israel,
<br>
which he commanded our fathers,
<br>
that they should make them known to their
children;

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:6">6 </verse></sup>that the generation to come might know, even the
children who should be born;
<br>
who should arise and tell their children,
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:7">7 </verse></sup>that they might set their hope in God,
and not forget God’s deeds,
<br>
but keep his commandments,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:8">8 </verse></sup>and might not be as their fathers—
<br>
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn’t make their hearts
loyal,
<br>
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:9">9 </verse></sup>The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying
bows,
<br>
turned back in the day of battle.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:10">10 </verse></sup>They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
<br>
and refused to walk in his law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:11">11 </verse></sup>They forgot his doings,
<br>
his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:12">12 </verse></sup>He did marvelous things in the sight of their
fathers,
<br>
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:13">13 </verse></sup>He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:14">14 </verse></sup>In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
and all night with a light of fire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:15">15 </verse></sup>He split rocks in the wilderness,
<br>
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the
depths.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:16">16 </verse></sup>He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:17">17 </verse></sup>Yet they still went on to sin against him,
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:18">18 </verse></sup>They tempted God in their heart
<br>
by asking food according to their desire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:19">19 </verse></sup>Yes, they spoke against God.
<br>
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the
wilderness?

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:20">20 </verse></sup>Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed
out,
<br>
and streams overflowed.
<br>
Can he give bread also?
<br>
Will he provide meat for his people?”
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
<br>
anger also went up against Israel,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:22">22 </verse></sup>because they didn’t believe in God,
and didn’t trust in his salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:23">23 </verse></sup>Yet he commanded the skies above,
<br>
and opened the doors of heaven.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:24">24 </verse></sup>He rained down manna on them to eat,
and gave them food from the sky.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:25">25 </verse></sup>Man ate the bread of angels.
<br>
He sent them food to the full.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:26">26 </verse></sup>He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:27">27 </verse></sup>He also rained meat on them as the dust,
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:28">28 </verse></sup>He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
around their habitations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:29">29 </verse></sup>So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:30">30 </verse></sup>They didn’t turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:31">31 </verse></sup>when the anger of God went up against them,
killed some of their strongest,
<br>
and struck down the young men of Israel.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:32">32 </verse></sup>For all this they still sinned,
<br>
and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:33">33 </verse></sup>Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
and their years in terror.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:34">34 </verse></sup>When he killed them, then they inquired after
him.
<br>
They returned and sought God earnestly.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:35">35 </verse></sup>They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their redeemer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:36">36 </verse></sup>But they flattered him with their mouth,
and lied to him with their tongue.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:37">37 </verse></sup>For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:38">38 </verse></sup>But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and
didn’t destroy them.
<br>
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:39">39 </verse></sup>He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come
again.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:40">40 </verse></sup>How often they rebelled against him in the
wilderness,
<br>
and grieved him in the desert!

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:41">41 </verse></sup>They turned again and tempted God,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:42">42 </verse></sup>They didn’t remember his hand,
<br>
nor the day when he redeemed them from the
adversary;

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:43">43 </verse></sup>how he set his signs in Egypt,
<br>
his wonders in the field of Zoan,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:44">44 </verse></sup>he turned their rivers into blood,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:45">45 </verse></sup>He sent among them swarms of flies, which
devoured them;
<br>
and frogs, which destroyed them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:46><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:46">46 </verse></sup>He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,
and their labor to the locust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:47><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:47">47 </verse></sup>He destroyed their vines with hail,
their sycamore fig trees with frost.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:48><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:48">48 </verse></sup>He also gave over their livestock to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:49><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:49">49 </verse></sup>He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
<br>
and a band of angels of evil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:50><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:50">50 </verse></sup>He made a path for his anger.
<br>
He didn’t spare their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:51><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:51">51 </verse></sup>and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:52><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:52">52 </verse></sup>But he led out his own people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:53><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:53">53 </verse></sup>He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:54><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:54">54 </verse></sup>He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
to this mountain, which his right hand had
taken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:55><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:55">55 </verse></sup>He also drove out the nations before them,
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their
tents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:56><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:56">56 </verse></sup>Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most
High God,
<br>
and didn’t keep his testimonies,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:57><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:57">57 </verse></sup>but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their
fathers.
<br>
They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:58><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:58">58 </verse></sup>For they provoked him to anger with their high
places,
<br>
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved
images.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:59><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:59">59 </verse></sup>When God heard this, he was angry,
and greatly abhorred Israel,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:60><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:60">60 </verse></sup>so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
the tent which he placed among men,

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:61><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:61">61 </verse></sup>and delivered his strength into captivity,
his glory into the adversary’s hand.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:62><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:62">62 </verse></sup>He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:63><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:63">63 </verse></sup>Fire devoured their young men.
<br>
Their virgins had no wedding song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:64><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:64">64 </verse></sup>Their priests fell by the sword,
<br>
and their widows couldn’t weep.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:65><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:65">65 </verse></sup>Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of
wine.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:66><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:66">66 </verse></sup>He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:67><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:67">67 </verse></sup>Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:68><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:68">68 </verse></sup>But chose the tribe of Judah,
<br>
Mount Zion which he loved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:69><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:69">69 </verse></sup>He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which he has established forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 78:70><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:70">70 </verse></sup>He also chose David his servant,
<br>
and took him from the sheepfolds;

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:71><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:71">71 </verse></sup>from following the ewes that have their young,
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his
people,
<br>
and Israel, his inheritance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 78:72><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 78:72">72 </verse></sup>So he was their shepherd according to the integrity
of his heart,
<br>
and guided them by the skillfulness of his
hands.

#BCV:Psalm 79:0
#BCV:Psalms 79:0
<P align="center"><h3>79</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:1">1 </verse></sup>God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
They have defiled your holy temple.
<br>
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:2">2 </verse></sup>They have given the dead bodies of your servants
to be food for the birds of the sky,
<br>
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:3">3 </verse></sup>They have shed their blood like water around
Jerusalem.
<br>
There was no one to bury them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:4">4 </verse></sup>We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around
us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:5">5 </verse></sup>How long, Yahweh?
<br>
Will you be angry forever?
<br>
Will your jealousy burn like fire?

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:6">6 </verse></sup>Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t
know you,
<br>
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
<key:bcv=Psalms 79:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:7">7 </verse></sup>for they have devoured Jacob,
<br>
and destroyed his homeland.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against
us.
<br>
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:9">9 </verse></sup>Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your
name.
<br>
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your
name’s sake.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:10">10 </verse></sup>Why should the nations say, “Where is their
God?”
<br>
Let it be known among the nations, before our
eyes,
<br>
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is
being poured out.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:11">11 </verse></sup>Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power,
preserve those who are sentenced to death.
<key:bcv=Psalms 79:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:12">12 </verse></sup>Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their
bosom
<br>
their reproach with which they have reproached
you, Lord.

<key:bcv=Psalms 79:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 79:13">13 </verse></sup>So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
<br>
We will praise you forever, to all generations.

#BCV:Psalm 80:0
#BCV:Psalms 80:0
<P align="center"><h3>80</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of
the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
<br>
you who lead Joseph like a flock,
<br>
you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:2">2 </verse></sup>Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up
your might!
<br>
Come to save us!

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:3">3 </verse></sup>Turn us again, God.
<br>
Cause your face to shine,
<br>
and we will be saved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh God of Armies,
<br>
how long will you be angry against the prayer
of your people?

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:5">5 </verse></sup>You have fed them with the bread of tears,
and given them tears to drink in large measure.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:6">6 </verse></sup>You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.
Our enemies laugh among themselves.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:7">7 </verse></sup>Turn us again, God of Armies.
<br>
Cause your face to shine,
<br>
and we will be saved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:8">8 </verse></sup>You brought a vine out of Egypt.
<br>
You drove out the nations, and planted it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:9">9 </verse></sup>You cleared the ground for it.
<br>
It took deep root, and filled the land.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:10">10 </verse></sup>The mountains were covered with its shadow.
Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:11">11 </verse></sup>It sent out its branches to the sea,
its shoots to the River.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:12">12 </verse></sup>Why have you broken down its walls,
so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:13">13 </verse></sup>The boar out of the wood ravages it.
The wild animals of the field feed on it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:14">14 </verse></sup>Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies.
Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this
vine,

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:15">15 </verse></sup>the stock which your right hand planted,
the branch that you made strong for yourself.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:16">16 </verse></sup>It’s burned with fire.
<br>
It’s cut down.
<br>
They perish at your rebuke.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:17">17 </verse></sup>Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
on the son of man whom you made strong for
yourself.

<key:bcv=Psalms 80:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:18">18 </verse></sup>So we will not turn away from you.
Revive us, and we will call on your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 80:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 80:19">19 </verse></sup>Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies.
Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

#BCV:Psalm 81:0
#BCV:Psalms 81:0
<P align="center"><h3>81</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.
By Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:1">1 </verse></sup>Sing aloud to God, our strength!
<br>
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:2">2 </verse></sup>Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
the pleasant lyre with the harp.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:3">3 </verse></sup>Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
<br>
at the full moon, on our feast day.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:4">4 </verse></sup>For it is a statute for Israel,
<br>
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:5">5 </verse></sup>He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,
when he went out over the land of Egypt,
I heard a language that I didn’t know.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:6">6 </verse></sup>“I removed his shoulder from the burden.
His hands were freed from the basket.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:7">7 </verse></sup>You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
<br>
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:8">8 </verse></sup>“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,
Israel, if you would listen to me!

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:9">9 </verse></sup>There shall be no strange god in you,
neither shall you worship any foreign god.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:10">10 </verse></sup>I am Yahweh, your God,
<br>
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:11">11 </verse></sup>But my people didn’t listen to my voice.
Israel desired none of me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:12">12 </verse></sup>So I let them go after the stubbornness of their
hearts,
<br>
that they might walk in their own counsels.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:13">13 </verse></sup>Oh that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!

<key:bcv=Psalms 81:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:14">14 </verse></sup>I would soon subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:15">15 </verse></sup>The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him,
and their punishment would last forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 81:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 81:16">16 </verse></sup>But he would have also fed them with the finest
of the wheat.
<br>
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

#BCV:Psalm 82:0
#BCV:Psalms 82:0
<P align="center"><h3>82</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 82:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:1">1 </verse></sup>God presides in the great assembly.
He judges among the gods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 82:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:2">2 </verse></sup>“How long will you judge unjustly,
<br>
and show partiality to the wicked?”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 82:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:3">3 </verse></sup>“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 82:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:4">4 </verse></sup>Rescue the weak and needy.
<br>
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 82:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:5">5 </verse></sup>They don’t know, neither do they understand.
They walk back and forth in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
<key:bcv=Psalms 82:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:6">6 </verse></sup>I said, “You are gods,
<br>
all of you are sons of the Most High.
<key:bcv=Psalms 82:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:7">7 </verse></sup>Nevertheless you shall die like men,
and fall like one of the rulers.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 82:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 82:8">8 </verse></sup>Arise, God, judge the earth,
<br>
for you inherit all of the nations.

#BCV:Psalm 83:0
#BCV:Psalms 83:0
<P align="center"><h3>83</h3></p>
<br>
A song. A Psalm by Asaph.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:1">1 </verse></sup>God, don’t keep silent.
<br>
Don’t keep silent,
<br>
and don’t be still, God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:2">2 </verse></sup>For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:3">3 </verse></sup>They conspire with cunning against your people.
They plot against your cherished ones.
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:4">4 </verse></sup>“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered no
more.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:5">5 </verse></sup>For they have conspired together with one mind.
They form an alliance against you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:6">6 </verse></sup>The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:7">7 </verse></sup>Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
<br>
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:8">8 </verse></sup>Assyria also is joined with them.
<br>
They have helped the children of Lot.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:9">9 </verse></sup>Do to them as you did to Midian,
<br>
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:10">10 </verse></sup>who perished at Endor,
<br>
who became as dung for the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:11">11 </verse></sup>Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:12">12 </verse></sup>who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s
pasture lands.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:13">13 </verse></sup>My God, make them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:14">14 </verse></sup>As the fire that burns the forest,
as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:15">15 </verse></sup>so pursue them with your tempest,
<br>
and terrify them with your storm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 83:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:16">16 </verse></sup>Fill their faces with confusion,
<br>
that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:17">17 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
<key:bcv=Psalms 83:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 83:18">18 </verse></sup>that they may know that you alone, whose name
is Yahweh,
<br>
are the Most High over all the earth.

#BCV:Psalm 84:0
#BCV:Psalms 84:0
<P align="center"><h3>84</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.
A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:1">1 </verse></sup>How lovely are your dwellings,
<br>
Yahweh of Armies!

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:2">2 </verse></sup>My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of
Yahweh.
<br>
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living
God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
<br>
and the swallow a nest for herself, where she
may have her young,
<br>
near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King,
and my God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:4">4 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:5">5 </verse></sup>Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
<key:bcv=Psalms 84:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:6">6 </verse></sup>Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make
it a place of springs.
<br>
Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
<key:bcv=Psalms 84:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:7">7 </verse></sup>They go from strength to strength.
<br>
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
<key:bcv=Psalms 84:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer.
Listen, God of Jacob.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, God our shield,
<br>
look at the face of your anointed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:10">10 </verse></sup>For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of
my God,
<br>
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 84:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:11">11 </verse></sup>For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
Yahweh will give grace and glory.
<br>
He withholds no good thing from those who
walk blamelessly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 84:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 84:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies,
<br>
blessed is the man who trusts in you.

#BCV:Psalm 85:0
#BCV:Psalms 85:0
<P align="center"><h3>85</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of
Korah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land.
You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
<key:bcv=Psalms 85:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:2">2 </verse></sup>You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
You have covered all their sin.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:3">3 </verse></sup>You have taken away all your wrath.
You have turned from the fierceness of your
anger.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:4">4 </verse></sup>Turn us, God of our salvation,
<br>
and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
<key:bcv=Psalms 85:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:5">5 </verse></sup>Will you be angry with us forever?
<br>
Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
<key:bcv=Psalms 85:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:6">6 </verse></sup>Won’t you revive us again,
<br>
that your people may rejoice in you?

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:7">7 </verse></sup>Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Grant us your salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:8">8 </verse></sup>I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;
but let them not turn again to folly.
<key:bcv=Psalms 85:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:9">9 </verse></sup>Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:10">10 </verse></sup>Mercy and truth meet together.
<br>
Righteousness and peace have kissed each
other.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:11">11 </verse></sup>Truth springs out of the earth.
<br>
Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
<key:bcv=Psalms 85:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:12">12 </verse></sup>Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good.
Our land will yield its increase.

<key:bcv=Psalms 85:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 85:13">13 </verse></sup>Righteousness goes before him,
<br>
and prepares the way for his steps.

#BCV:Psalm 86:0
#BCV:Psalms 86:0
<P align="center"><h3>86</h3></p>
<br>
A Prayer by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,
<br>
for I am poor and needy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:2">2 </verse></sup>Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
<br>
You, my God, save your servant who trusts in
you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:3">3 </verse></sup>Be merciful to me, Lord,
<br>
for I call to you all day long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:4">4 </verse></sup>Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 86:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:5">5 </verse></sup>For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
abundant in loving kindness to all those who
call on you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:6">6 </verse></sup>Hear, Yahweh, my prayer.
<br>
Listen to the voice of my petitions.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:7">7 </verse></sup>In the day of my trouble I will call on you,
for you will answer me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:8">8 </verse></sup>There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,
nor any deeds like your deeds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:9">9 </verse></sup>All nations you have made will come and worship
before you, Lord.
<br>
They shall glorify your name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:10">10 </verse></sup>For you are great, and do wondrous things.
You are God alone.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:11">11 </verse></sup>Teach me your way, Yahweh.
<br>
I will walk in your truth.
<br>
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 86:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:12">12 </verse></sup>I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole
heart.
<br>
I will glorify your name forever more.
<key:bcv=Psalms 86:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:13">13 </verse></sup>For your loving kindness is great toward me.
You have delivered my soul from the lowest
Sheol.<footnote:1>86:13 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:14">14 </verse></sup>God, the proud have risen up against me.
A company of violent men have sought after
my soul,
<br>
and they don’t hold regard for you before
them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:15">15 </verse></sup>But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness
and truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:16">16 </verse></sup>Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
<br>
Give your strength to your servant.
<br>
Save the son of your servant.

<key:bcv=Psalms 86:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 86:17">17 </verse></sup>Show me a sign of your goodness,
<br>
that those who hate me may see it, and be
shamed,
<br>
because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and
comforted me.

#BCV:Psalm 87:0
#BCV:Psalms 87:0
<P align="center"><h3>87</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.

<key:bcv=Psalms 87:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:1">1 </verse></sup>His foundation is in the holy mountains.
<key:bcv=Psalms 87:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all
the dwellings of Jacob.

<key:bcv=Psalms 87:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:3">3 </verse></sup>Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 87:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:4">4 </verse></sup>I will record Rahab<footnote:1>87:4 Rahab is a reference to Egypt. </footnote> and Babylon among those who
acknowledge me.
<br>
Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
“This one was born there.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 87:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:5">5 </verse></sup>Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one
was born in her;”
<br>
the Most High himself will establish her.
<key:bcv=Psalms 87:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples,
“This one was born there.”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 87:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 87:7">7 </verse></sup>Those who sing as well as those who dance say,
“All my springs are in you.”

#BCV:Psalm 88:0
#BCV:Psalms 88:0
<P align="center"><h3>88</h3></p>
<br>
A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the
Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering
of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the
Ezrahite.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the God of my salvation,
<br>
I have cried day and night before you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 88:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:2">2 </verse></sup>Let my prayer enter into your presence.
Turn your ear to my cry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:3">3 </verse></sup>For my soul is full of troubles.

My life draws near to Sheol.<footnote:1>88:3 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:4">4 </verse></sup>I am counted among those who go down into the
pit.
<br>
I am like a man who has no help,

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:5">5 </verse></sup>set apart among the dead,
<br>
like the slain who lie in the grave,
<br>
whom you remember no more.
<br>
They are cut off from your hand.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:6">6 </verse></sup>You have laid me in the lowest pit,
in the darkest depths.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:7">7 </verse></sup>Your wrath lies heavily on me.
<br>
You have afflicted me with all your waves.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:8">8 </verse></sup>You have taken my friends from me.
<br>
You have made me an abomination to them.
I am confined, and I can’t escape.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:9">9 </verse></sup>My eyes are dim from grief.
<br>
I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
<br>
I have spread out my hands to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:10">10 </verse></sup>Do you show wonders to the dead?
<br>
Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:11">11 </verse></sup>Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:12">12 </verse></sup>Are your wonders made known in the dark?
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
<key:bcv=Psalms 88:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:13">13 </verse></sup>But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.
<br>
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 88:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:15">15 </verse></sup>I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 88:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:16">16 </verse></sup>Your fierce wrath has gone over me.
Your terrors have cut me off.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:17">17 </verse></sup>They came around me like water all day long.
They completely engulfed me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 88:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 88:18">18 </verse></sup>You have put lover and friend far from me,
and my friends into darkness.

#BCV:Psalm 89:0
#BCV:Psalms 89:0
<P align="center"><h3>89</h3></p>
<br>
A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:1">1 </verse></sup>I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness
to all generations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:2">2 </verse></sup>I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
<br>
Your faithfulness is in them.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:3">3 </verse></sup>“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:4">4 </verse></sup>‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:5">5 </verse></sup>The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the
holy ones.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:6">6 </verse></sup>For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is
like Yahweh,

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:7">7 </verse></sup>a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around
him?

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like
you?
<br>
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:9">9 </verse></sup>You rule the pride of the sea.
<br>
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:10">10 </verse></sup>You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the
slain.
<br>
You have scattered your enemies with your
mighty arm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:11">11 </verse></sup>The heavens are yours.
<br>
The earth also is yours,
<br>
the world and its fullness.
<br>
You have founded them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:12">12 </verse></sup>You have created the north and the south.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:13">13 </verse></sup>You have a mighty arm.
<br>
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is
exalted.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:14">14 </verse></sup>Righteousness and justice are the foundation of
your throne.
<br>
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:15">15 </verse></sup>Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:16">16 </verse></sup>In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:17">17 </verse></sup>For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:18">18 </verse></sup>For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
<br>
our king to the Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:19">19 </verse></sup>Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:20">20 </verse></sup>I have found David, my servant.
<br>
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:21">21 </verse></sup>with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:22">22 </verse></sup>No enemy will tax him.
<br>
No wicked man will oppress him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:23">23 </verse></sup>I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:24">24 </verse></sup>But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will
be with him.
<br>
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:25">25 </verse></sup>I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:26">26 </verse></sup>He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:27">27 </verse></sup>I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:28">28 </verse></sup>I will keep my loving kindness for him forever
more.
<br>
My covenant will stand firm with him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:29">29 </verse></sup>I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:30">30 </verse></sup>If his children forsake my law,
<br>
and don’t walk in my ordinances;

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:31">31 </verse></sup>if they break my statutes,
<br>
and don’t keep my commandments;

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:32">32 </verse></sup>then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:33">33 </verse></sup>But I will not completely take my loving kindness
from him,
<br>
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:34">34 </verse></sup>I will not break my covenant,
<br>
nor alter what my lips have uttered.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:35">35 </verse></sup>Once I have sworn by my holiness,
<br>
I will not lie to David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:36">36 </verse></sup>His offspring will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:37">37 </verse></sup>It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.”
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:38">38 </verse></sup>But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:39">39 </verse></sup>You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:40">40 </verse></sup>You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:41">41 </verse></sup>All who pass by the way rob him.
<br>
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:42">42 </verse></sup>You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:43">43 </verse></sup>Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven’t supported him in battle.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:44">44 </verse></sup>You have ended his splendor,
<br>
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:45">45 </verse></sup>You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:46><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:46">46 </verse></sup>How long, Yahweh?
<br>
Will you hide yourself forever?
<br>
Will your wrath burn like fire?

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:47><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:47">47 </verse></sup>Remember how short my time is,
<br>
for what vanity you have created all the children
of men!

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:48><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:48">48 </verse></sup>What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of
Sheol?<footnote:1>89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:49><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:49">49 </verse></sup>Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
<key:bcv=Psalms 89:50><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:50">50 </verse></sup>Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the
mighty peoples,

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:51><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:51">51 </verse></sup>With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of
your anointed one.

<key:bcv=Psalms 89:52><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:52">52 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh forever more.

Amen, and Amen. BOOK <key:bcv=Psalms 89:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 89:4">4 </verse></sup>
<br>
#BCV:Psalm :0
#BCV:Psalms 90:0
<P align="center"><h3>90</h3></p>

A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.<footnote:1>90: The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:1">1 </verse></sup>Lord,<footnote:1>90:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> you have been our dwelling place for all
generations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:2">2 </verse></sup>Before the mountains were born,
<br>
before you had formed the earth and the
world,
<br>
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are
God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:3">3 </verse></sup>You turn man to destruction, saying,
“Return, you children of men.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:4">4 </verse></sup>For a thousand years in your sight are just like
yesterday when it is past,
<br>
like a watch in the night.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:5">5 </verse></sup>You sweep them away as they sleep.
<br>
In the morning they sprout like new grass.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:6">6 </verse></sup>In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:7">7 </verse></sup>For we are consumed in your anger.
<br>
We are troubled in your wrath.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:8">8 </verse></sup>You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:9">9 </verse></sup>For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:10">10 </verse></sup>The days of our years are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:11">11 </verse></sup>Who knows the power of your anger,
your wrath according to the fear that is due to
you?

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:12">12 </verse></sup>So teach us to count our days,
<br>
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:13">13 </verse></sup>Relent, Yahweh!<footnote:1>90:13 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote>
<br>
How long?
<br>
Have compassion on your servants!

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:14">14 </verse></sup>Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:15">15 </verse></sup>Make us glad for as many days as you have
afflicted us,
<br>
for as many years as we have seen evil.
<key:bcv=Psalms 90:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:16">16 </verse></sup>Let your work appear to your servants,
your glory to their children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 90:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 90:17">17 </verse></sup>Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

#BCV:Psalms 91:0
<P align="center"><h3>91</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:1">1 </verse></sup>He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:2">2 </verse></sup>I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my
fortress;
<br>
my God, in whom I trust.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:3">3 </verse></sup>For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:4">4 </verse></sup>He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day,

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:6">6 </verse></sup>nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:7">7 </verse></sup>A thousand may fall at your side,
<br>
and ten thousand at your right hand;
<br>
but it will not come near you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:8">8 </verse></sup>You will only look with your eyes,
<br>
and see the recompense of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:9">9 </verse></sup>Because you have made Yahweh your refuge,
and the Most High your dwelling place,
<key:bcv=Psalms 91:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:10">10 </verse></sup>no evil shall happen to you,
<br>
neither shall any plague come near your
dwelling.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:11">11 </verse></sup>For he will put his angels in charge of you,
to guard you in all your ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:12">12 </verse></sup>They will bear you up in their hands,
so that you won’t dash your foot against a
stone.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:13">13 </verse></sup>You will tread on the lion and cobra.
You will trample the young lion and the serpent
underfoot.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:14">14 </verse></sup>“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will
deliver him.
<br>
I will set him on high, because he has known
my name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:15">15 </verse></sup>He will call on me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
<br>
I will deliver him, and honor him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 91:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 91:16">16 </verse></sup>I will satisfy him with long life,
and show him my salvation.”

#BCV:Psalm 92:0
#BCV:Psalms 92:0
<P align="center"><h3>92</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:1">1 </verse></sup>It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh,
to sing praises to your name, Most High,
<key:bcv=Psalms 92:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:2">2 </verse></sup>to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,
and your faithfulness every night,

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:3">3 </verse></sup>with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
and with the melody of the lyre.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:4">4 </verse></sup>For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your
work.
<br>
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
<key:bcv=Psalms 92:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:5">5 </verse></sup>How great are your works, Yahweh!
<br>
Your thoughts are very deep.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:6">6 </verse></sup>A senseless man doesn’t know,
<br>
neither does a fool understand this:

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:7">7 </verse></sup>though the wicked spring up as the grass,
and all the evildoers flourish,
<br>
they will be destroyed forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:8">8 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
<key:bcv=Psalms 92:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:9">9 </verse></sup>For behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
<br>
for behold, your enemies shall perish.
All the evildoers will be scattered.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:10">10 </verse></sup>But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild
ox.
<br>
I am anointed with fresh oil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:11">11 </verse></sup>My eye has also seen my enemies.
<br>
My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who
rise up against me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:12">12 </verse></sup>The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
<key:bcv=Psalms 92:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:13">13 </verse></sup>They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
They will flourish in our God’s courts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 92:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:14">14 </verse></sup>They will still produce fruit in old age.
They will be full of sap and green,

<key:bcv=Psalms 92:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 92:15">15 </verse></sup>to show that Yahweh is upright.
<br>
He is my rock,
<br>
and there is no unrighteousness in him.

#BCV:Psalms 93:0
<P align="center"><h3>93</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 93:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 93:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh reigns!
<br>
He is clothed with majesty!
<br>
Yahweh is armed with strength.
<br>
The world also is established.
<br>
It can’t be moved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 93:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 93:2">2 </verse></sup>Your throne is established from long ago.
You are from everlasting.

<key:bcv=Psalms 93:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 93:3">3 </verse></sup>The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
<br>
the floods have lifted up their voice.
The floods lift up their waves.

<key:bcv=Psalms 93:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 93:4">4 </verse></sup>Above the voices of many waters,
<br>
the mighty breakers of the sea,
<br>
Yahweh on high is mighty.

<key:bcv=Psalms 93:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 93:5">5 </verse></sup>Your statutes stand firm.
<br>
Holiness adorns your house,
<br>
Yahweh, forever more.

#BCV:Psalms 94:0
<P align="center"><h3>94</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine
out.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:2">2 </verse></sup>Rise up, you judge of the earth.
<br>
Pay back the proud what they deserve.
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
<br>
how long will the wicked triumph?

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:4">4 </verse></sup>They pour out arrogant words.
<br>
All the evildoers boast.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:5">5 </verse></sup>They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
and afflict your heritage.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:6">6 </verse></sup>They kill the widow and the alien,
<br>
and murder the fatherless.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:7">7 </verse></sup>They say, “Yah will not see,
<br>
neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:8">8 </verse></sup>Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:9">9 </verse></sup>He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:10">10 </verse></sup>He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
He who teaches man knows.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
<br>
that they are futile.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:12">12 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
and teach out of your law,

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:13">13 </verse></sup>that you may give him rest from the days of
adversity,
<br>
until the pit is dug for the wicked.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:14">14 </verse></sup>For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:15">15 </verse></sup>For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:16">16 </verse></sup>Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:17">17 </verse></sup>Unless Yahweh had been my help,
<br>
my soul would have soon lived in silence.
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:18">18 </verse></sup>When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:19">19 </verse></sup>In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:20">20 </verse></sup>Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship
with you,
<br>
which brings about mischief by statute?
<key:bcv=Psalms 94:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:21">21 </verse></sup>They gather themselves together against the soul
of the righteous,
<br>
and condemn the innocent blood.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:22">22 </verse></sup>But Yahweh has been my high tower,
my God, the rock of my refuge.

<key:bcv=Psalms 94:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 94:23">23 </verse></sup>He has brought on them their own iniquity,
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

#BCV:Psalms 95:0
<P align="center"><h3>95</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:1">1 </verse></sup>Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
<br>
Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:2">2 </verse></sup>Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
Let’s extol him with songs!

<key:bcv=Psalms 95:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:3">3 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is a great God,
a great King above all gods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 95:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:4">4 </verse></sup>In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
The heights of the mountains are also his.
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:5">5 </verse></sup>The sea is his, and he made it.
<br>
His hands formed the dry land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 95:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:6">6 </verse></sup>Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.
Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:7">7 </verse></sup>for he is our God.
<br>
We are the people of his pasture,
<br>
and the sheep in his care.
<br>
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
<key:bcv=Psalms 95:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:9">9 </verse></sup>when your fathers tempted me,
<br>
tested me, and saw my work.

<key:bcv=Psalms 95:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:10">10 </verse></sup>Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,
and said, “They are a people who err in their
heart.
<br>
They have not known my ways.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 95:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 95:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore I swore in my wrath,
<br>
“They won’t enter into my rest.”

#BCV:Psalms 96:0
<P align="center"><h3>96</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:1">1 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh a new song!
<br>
Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:2">2 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh!
<br>
Bless his name!
<br>
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:3">3 </verse></sup>Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples.
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised!
He is to be feared above all gods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:5">5 </verse></sup>For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but Yahweh made the heavens.

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:6">6 </verse></sup>Honor and majesty are before him.
<br>
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:7">7 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:8">8 </verse></sup>Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:9">9 </verse></sup>Worship Yahweh in holy array.
<br>
Tremble before him, all the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:10">10 </verse></sup>Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.”
The world is also established.
<br>
It can’t be moved.
<br>
He will judge the peoples with equity.
<key:bcv=Psalms 96:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:11">11 </verse></sup>Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:12">12 </verse></sup>Let the field and all that is in it exult!
Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for
joy

<key:bcv=Psalms 96:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 96:13">13 </verse></sup>before Yahweh; for he comes,
<br>
for he comes to judge the earth.
<br>
He will judge the world with righteousness,
the peoples with his truth.

#BCV:Psalms 97:0
<P align="center"><h3>97</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh reigns!
<br>
Let the earth rejoice!
<br>
Let the multitude of islands be glad!
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:2">2 </verse></sup>Clouds and darkness are around him.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation
of his throne.

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:3">3 </verse></sup>A fire goes before him,
<br>
and burns up his adversaries on every side.
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:4">4 </verse></sup>His lightning lights up the world.
<br>
The earth sees, and trembles.

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:5">5 </verse></sup>The mountains melt like wax at the presence of
Yahweh,
<br>
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:6">6 </verse></sup>The heavens declare his righteousness.
All the peoples have seen his glory.

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:7">7 </verse></sup>Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
who boast in their idols.

Worship him, all you gods!<footnote:1>97:7 LXX reads “angels” instead of “gods”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:8">8 </verse></sup>Zion heard and was glad.
<br>
The daughters of Judah rejoiced
<br>
because of your judgments, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:9">9 </verse></sup>For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
You are exalted far above all gods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 97:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:10">10 </verse></sup>You who love Yahweh, hate evil!
<br>
He preserves the souls of his saints.
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:11">11 </verse></sup>Light is sown for the righteous,
<br>
and gladness for the upright in heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 97:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 97:12">12 </verse></sup>Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people!
Give thanks to his holy Name.

#BCV:Psalm 98:0
#BCV:Psalms 98:0
<P align="center"><h3>98</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm.

<key:bcv=Psalms 98:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:1">1 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh a new song,
<br>
for he has done marvelous things!
<br>
His right hand and his holy arm have worked
salvation for him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 98:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh has made known his salvation.
He has openly shown his righteousness in the
sight of the nations.

<key:bcv=Psalms 98:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:3">3 </verse></sup>He has remembered his loving kindness and his
faithfulness toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 98:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:4">4 </verse></sup>Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth!
Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
<key:bcv=Psalms 98:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:5">5 </verse></sup>Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp,
with the harp and the voice of melody.
<key:bcv=Psalms 98:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:6">6 </verse></sup>With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 98:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:7">7 </verse></sup>Let the sea roar with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell therein.
<key:bcv=Psalms 98:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:8">8 </verse></sup>Let the rivers clap their hands.
<br>
Let the mountains sing for joy together.
<key:bcv=Psalms 98:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 98:9">9 </verse></sup>Let them sing before Yahweh,
<br>
for he comes to judge the earth.
<br>
He will judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples with equity.

#BCV:Psalms 99:0
<P align="center"><h3>99</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 99:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
Let the earth be moved.

<key:bcv=Psalms 99:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh is great in Zion.
<br>
He is high above all the peoples.

<key:bcv=Psalms 99:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:3">3 </verse></sup>Let them praise your great and awesome name.
<br>
He is Holy!

<key:bcv=Psalms 99:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:4">4 </verse></sup>The King’s strength also loves justice.
You establish equity.
<br>
You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
<key:bcv=Psalms 99:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:5">5 </verse></sup>Exalt Yahweh our God.
<br>
Worship at his footstool.
<br>
He is Holy!

<key:bcv=Psalms 99:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:6">6 </verse></sup>Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel was among those who call on his name.
They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 99:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:7">7 </verse></sup>He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
They kept his testimonies,
<br>
the statute that he gave them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 99:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:8">8 </verse></sup>You answered them, Yahweh our God.
<br>
You are a God who forgave them,
<br>
although you took vengeance for their doings.
<key:bcv=Psalms 99:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 99:9">9 </verse></sup>Exalt Yahweh, our God.
<br>
Worship at his holy hill,
<br>
for Yahweh, our God, is holy!

#BCV:Psalm 100:0
#BCV:Psalms 100:0
<P align="center"><h3>100</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm of thanksgiving.

<key:bcv=Psalms 100:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 100:1">1 </verse></sup>Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
<key:bcv=Psalms 100:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 100:2">2 </verse></sup>Serve Yahweh with gladness.
<br>
Come before his presence with singing.
<key:bcv=Psalms 100:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 100:3">3 </verse></sup>Know that Yahweh, he is God.
<br>
It is he who has made us, and we are his.
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
<key:bcv=Psalms 100:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 100:4">4 </verse></sup>Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
and into his courts with praise.
<br>
Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 100:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 100:5">5 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is good.
<br>
His loving kindness endures forever,
<br>
his faithfulness to all generations.

#BCV:Psalm 101:0
#BCV:Psalms 101:0
<P align="center"><h3>101</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:1">1 </verse></sup>I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:2">2 </verse></sup>I will be careful to live a blameless life.
When will you come to me?
<br>
I will walk within my house with a blameless
heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:3">3 </verse></sup>I will set no vile thing before my eyes.
I hate the deeds of faithless men.
<br>
They will not cling to me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:4">4 </verse></sup>A perverse heart will be far from me.
I will have nothing to do with evil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:5">5 </verse></sup>I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
<key:bcv=Psalms 101:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:6">6 </verse></sup>My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,
that they may dwell with me.
<br>
He who walks in a perfect way,
<br>
he will serve me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:7">7 </verse></sup>He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my
house.
<br>
He who speaks falsehood won’t be established
before my eyes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 101:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 101:8">8 </verse></sup>Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked
of the land,
<br>
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from
Yahweh’s city.

#BCV:Psalm 102:0
#BCV:Psalms 102:0
<P align="center"><h3>102</h3></p>
<br>
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed
and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
<br>
Let my cry come to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my
distress.
<br>
Turn your ear to me.
<br>
Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:3">3 </verse></sup>For my days consume away like smoke.
My bones are burned as a torch.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:4">4 </verse></sup>My heart is blighted like grass, and withered,
for I forget to eat my bread.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:5">5 </verse></sup>By reason of the voice of my groaning,
my bones stick to my skin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:6">6 </verse></sup>I am like a pelican of the wilderness.
I have become as an owl of the waste places.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:7">7 </verse></sup>I watch, and have become like a sparrow that
is alone on the housetop.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:8">8 </verse></sup>My enemies reproach me all day.
<br>
Those who are mad at me use my name as a
curse.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:9">9 </verse></sup>For I have eaten ashes like bread,
<br>
and mixed my drink with tears,

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:10">10 </verse></sup>because of your indignation and your wrath;
for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:11">11 </verse></sup>My days are like a long shadow.
<br>
I have withered like grass.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:12">12 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, will remain forever;
your renown endures to all generations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:13">13 </verse></sup>You will arise and have mercy on Zion,
for it is time to have pity on her.
<br>
Yes, the set time has come.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:14">14 </verse></sup>For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
and have pity on her dust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:15">15 </verse></sup>So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name,
all the kings of the earth your glory.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:16">16 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has built up Zion.
<br>
He has appeared in his glory.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:17">17 </verse></sup>He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,
and has not despised their prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:18">18 </verse></sup>This will be written for the generation to come.
A people which will be created will praise Yah,
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:19">19 </verse></sup>for he has looked down from the height of his
sanctuary.
<br>
From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth,

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:20">20 </verse></sup>to hear the groans of the prisoner,
to free those who are condemned to death,
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:21">21 </verse></sup>that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem,

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:22">22 </verse></sup>when the peoples are gathered together,
the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:23">23 </verse></sup>He weakened my strength along the course.
He shortened my days.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:24">24 </verse></sup>I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle
of my days.
<br>
Your years are throughout all generations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:25">25 </verse></sup>Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the work of your hands.
<key:bcv=Psalms 102:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:26">26 </verse></sup>They will perish, but you will endure.
<br>
Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a cloak, and they will
be changed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:27">27 </verse></sup>But you are the same.
<br>
Your years will have no end.

<key:bcv=Psalms 102:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 102:28">28 </verse></sup>The children of your servants will continue.
Their offspring will be established before you.”

#BCV:Psalm 103:0
#BCV:Psalms 103:0
<P align="center"><h3>103</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, my soul!
<br>
All that is within me, praise his holy name!
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:2">2 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, my soul,
<br>
and don’t forget all his benefits,

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:3">3 </verse></sup>who forgives all your sins,
<br>
who heals all your diseases,

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:4">4 </verse></sup>who redeems your life from destruction,
who crowns you with loving kindness and
tender mercies,

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:5">5 </verse></sup>who satisfies your desire with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh executes righteous acts,
<br>
and justice for all who are oppressed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:7">7 </verse></sup>He made known his ways to Moses,
<br>
his deeds to the children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
<br>
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:9">9 </verse></sup>He will not always accuse;
<br>
neither will he stay angry forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:10">10 </verse></sup>He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
nor repaid us for our iniquities.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:11">11 </verse></sup>For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is his loving kindness toward those
who fear him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:12">12 </verse></sup>As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from
us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:13">13 </verse></sup>Like a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear
him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:14">14 </verse></sup>For he knows how we are made.
<br>
He remembers that we are dust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:15">15 </verse></sup>As for man, his days are like grass.
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:16">16 </verse></sup>For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.
Its place remembers it no more.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:17">17 </verse></sup>But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting
to everlasting with those who fear him,
his righteousness to children’s children,
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:18">18 </verse></sup>to those who keep his covenant,
<br>
to those who remember to obey his precepts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
His kingdom rules over all.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:20">20 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, you angels of his,
<br>
who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his
word,
<br>
obeying the voice of his word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 103:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:21">21 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his,
you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
<key:bcv=Psalms 103:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 103:22">22 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, all you works of his,
in all places of his dominion.
<br>
Praise Yahweh, my soul!

#BCV:Psalms 104:0
<P align="center"><h3>104</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:1">1 </verse></sup>Bless Yahweh, my soul.
<br>
Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
<br>
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:2">2 </verse></sup>He covers himself with light as with a garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:3">3 </verse></sup>He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot.
<br>
He walks on the wings of the wind.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:4">4 </verse></sup>He makes his messengers<footnote:1>104:4 or, angels</footnote> winds,
<br>
and his servants flames of fire.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:5">5 </verse></sup>He laid the foundations of the earth,
that it should not be moved forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:6">6 </verse></sup>You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.
The waters stood above the mountains.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:7">7 </verse></sup>At your rebuke they fled.
<br>
At the voice of your thunder they hurried
away.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:8">8 </verse></sup>The mountains rose,
<br>
the valleys sank down,
<br>
to the place which you had assigned to them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:9">9 </verse></sup>You have set a boundary that they may not pass
over,
<br>
that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:10">10 </verse></sup>He sends springs into the valleys.
They run among the mountains.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:11">11 </verse></sup>They give drink to every animal of the field.
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:12">12 </verse></sup>The birds of the sky nest by them.
They sing among the branches.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:13">13 </verse></sup>He waters the mountains from his rooms.
The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:14">14 </verse></sup>He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,
and plants for man to cultivate,
<br>
that he may produce food out of the earth:
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:15">15 </verse></sup>wine that makes the heart of man glad,
oil to make his face to shine,
<br>
and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s trees are well watered,
<br>
the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:17">17 </verse></sup>where the birds make their nests.
<br>
The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:18">18 </verse></sup>The high mountains are for the wild goats.
The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:19">19 </verse></sup>He appointed the moon for seasons.
The sun knows when to set.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:20">20 </verse></sup>You make darkness, and it is night,
in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:21">21 </verse></sup>The young lions roar after their prey,
and seek their food from God.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:22">22 </verse></sup>The sun rises, and they steal away,
and lie down in their dens.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:23">23 </verse></sup>Man goes out to his work,
<br>
to his labor until the evening.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh, how many are your works!
<br>
In wisdom, you have made them all.
<br>
The earth is full of your riches.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:25">25 </verse></sup>There is the sea, great and wide,
<br>
in which are innumerable living things,
both small and large animals.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:26">26 </verse></sup>There the ships go,
<br>
and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:27">27 </verse></sup>These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food in due
season.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:28">28 </verse></sup>You give to them; they gather.
<br>
You open your hand; they are satisfied with
good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:29">29 </verse></sup>You hide your face; they are troubled.
You take away their breath; they die and return
to the dust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:30">30 </verse></sup>You send out your Spirit and they are created.
You renew the face of the ground.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:31">31 </verse></sup>Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever.
Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:32">32 </verse></sup>He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
<key:bcv=Psalms 104:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:33">33 </verse></sup>I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God while I have any
being.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:34">34 </verse></sup>Let my meditation be sweet to him.
I will rejoice in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 104:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 104:35">35 </verse></sup>Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
Let the wicked be no more.
<br>
Bless Yahweh, my soul.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 105:0
<P align="center"><h3>105</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:1">1 </verse></sup>Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:2">2 </verse></sup>Sing to him, sing praises to him!
<br>
Tell of all his marvelous works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:3">3 </verse></sup>Glory in his holy name.
<br>
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:4">4 </verse></sup>Seek Yahweh and his strength.
<br>
Seek his face forever more.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:5">5 </verse></sup>Remember his marvelous works that he has done:
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:6">6 </verse></sup>you offspring of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:7">7 </verse></sup>He is Yahweh, our God.
<br>
His judgments are in all the earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:8">8 </verse></sup>He has remembered his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand
generations,

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:9">9 </verse></sup>the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac,

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:10">10 </verse></sup>and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;
to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:11">11 </verse></sup>saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance,”

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:12">12 </verse></sup>when they were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:13">13 </verse></sup>They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:14">14 </verse></sup>He allowed no one to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:15">15 </verse></sup>“Don’t touch my anointed ones!
<br>
Do my prophets no harm!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:16">16 </verse></sup>He called for a famine on the land.
He destroyed the food supplies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:17">17 </verse></sup>He sent a man before them.
<br>
Joseph was sold for a slave.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:18">18 </verse></sup>They bruised his feet with shackles.
His neck was locked in irons,

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:19">19 </verse></sup>until the time that his word happened,
and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:20">20 </verse></sup>The king sent and freed him,
<br>
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:21">21 </verse></sup>He made him lord of his house,
<br>
and ruler of all of his possessions,

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:22">22 </verse></sup>to discipline his princes at his pleasure,
and to teach his elders wisdom.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:23">23 </verse></sup>Israel also came into Egypt.
<br>
Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:24">24 </verse></sup>He increased his people greatly,
<br>
and made them stronger than their adversaries.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:25">25 </verse></sup>He turned their heart to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:26">26 </verse></sup>He sent Moses, his servant,
<br>
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:27">27 </verse></sup>They performed miracles among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:28">28 </verse></sup>He sent darkness, and made it dark.
They didn’t rebel against his words.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:29">29 </verse></sup>He turned their waters into blood,
and killed their fish.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:30">30 </verse></sup>Their land swarmed with frogs,
<br>
even in the rooms of their kings.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:31">31 </verse></sup>He spoke, and swarms of flies came,
and lice in all their borders.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:32">32 </verse></sup>He gave them hail for rain,
<br>
with lightning in their land.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:33">33 </verse></sup>He struck their vines and also their fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their country.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:34">34 </verse></sup>He spoke, and the locusts came
<br>
with the grasshoppers, without number.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:35">35 </verse></sup>They ate up every plant in their land,
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:36">36 </verse></sup>He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:37">37 </verse></sup>He brought them out with silver and gold.
There was not one feeble person among his
tribes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:38">38 </verse></sup>Egypt was glad when they departed,
for the fear of them had fallen on them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:39">39 </verse></sup>He spread a cloud for a covering,
<br>
fire to give light in the night.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:40">40 </verse></sup>They asked, and he brought quails,
and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:41">41 </verse></sup>He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.
They ran as a river in the dry places.
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:42">42 </verse></sup>For he remembered his holy word,
<br>
and Abraham, his servant.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:43">43 </verse></sup>He brought his people out with joy,
his chosen with singing.

<key:bcv=Psalms 105:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:44">44 </verse></sup>He gave them the lands of the nations.
They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
<key:bcv=Psalms 105:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 105:45">45 </verse></sup>that they might keep his statutes,
and observe his laws.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 106:0
<P align="center"><h3>106</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh!
<br>
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:2">2 </verse></sup>Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
or fully declare all his praise?

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:3">3 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who keep justice.
<br>
Blessed is one who does what is right at all
times.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:4">4 </verse></sup>Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you
show to your people.
<br>
Visit me with your salvation,

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:5">5 </verse></sup>that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your
nation,
<br>
that I may glory with your inheritance.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:6">6 </verse></sup>We have sinned with our fathers.
<br>
We have committed iniquity.
<br>
We have done wickedly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:7">7 </verse></sup>Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in
Egypt.
<br>
They didn’t remember the multitude of your
loving kindnesses,
<br>
but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red
Sea.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:8">8 </verse></sup>Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
that he might make his mighty power known.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:9">9 </verse></sup>He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;
so he led them through the depths, as through
a desert.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:10">10 </verse></sup>He saved them from the hand of him who hated
them,
<br>
and redeemed them from the hand of the
enemy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:11">11 </verse></sup>The waters covered their adversaries.
There was not one of them left.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they believed his words.
<br>
They sang his praise.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:13">13 </verse></sup>They soon forgot his works.
<br>
They didn’t wait for his counsel,

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:14">14 </verse></sup>but gave in to craving in the desert,
and tested God in the wasteland.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:15">15 </verse></sup>He gave them their request,
<br>
but sent leanness into their soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:16">16 </verse></sup>They envied Moses also in the camp,
and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:17">17 </verse></sup>The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:18">18 </verse></sup>A fire was kindled in their company.
The flame burned up the wicked.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:19">19 </verse></sup>They made a calf in Horeb,
<br>
and worshiped a molten image.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:20">20 </verse></sup>Thus they exchanged their glory
<br>
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:21">21 </verse></sup>They forgot God, their Savior,
<br>
who had done great things in Egypt,

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:22">22 </verse></sup>wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in
the breach,
<br>
to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t
destroy them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:24">24 </verse></sup>Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
They didn’t believe his word,

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:25">25 </verse></sup>but murmured in their tents,
<br>
and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore he swore to them
<br>
that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:27">27 </verse></sup>that he would overthrow their offspring
among the nations,
<br>
and scatter them in the lands.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:28">28 </verse></sup>They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:29">29 </verse></sup>Thus they provoked him to anger with their
deeds.
<br>
The plague broke in on them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:30">30 </verse></sup>Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment,
so the plague was stopped.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:31">31 </verse></sup>That was credited to him for righteousness,
for all generations to come.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:32">32 </verse></sup>They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:33">33 </verse></sup>because they were rebellious against his spirit,
he spoke rashly with his lips.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:34">34 </verse></sup>They didn’t destroy the peoples,
<br>
as Yahweh commanded them,

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:35">35 </verse></sup>but mixed themselves with the nations,
and learned their works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:36">36 </verse></sup>They served their idols,
<br>
which became a snare to them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:37">37 </verse></sup>Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters
to demons.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:38">38 </verse></sup>They shed innocent blood,
<br>
even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted with blood.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:39">39 </verse></sup>Thus they were defiled with their works,
and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:40">40 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his
people.
<br>
He abhorred his inheritance.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:41">41 </verse></sup>He gave them into the hand of the nations.
Those who hated them ruled over them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:42">42 </verse></sup>Their enemies also oppressed them.
They were brought into subjection under their
hand.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:43">43 </verse></sup>He rescued them many times,
<br>
but they were rebellious in their counsel,
and were brought low in their iniquity.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:44">44 </verse></sup>Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
when he heard their cry.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:45">45 </verse></sup>He remembered for them his covenant,
and repented according to the multitude of his
loving kindnesses.

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:46><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:46">46 </verse></sup>He made them also to be pitied
<br>
by all those who carried them captive.
<key:bcv=Psalms 106:47><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:47">47 </verse></sup>Save us, Yahweh, our God,
<br>
gather us from among the nations,
<br>
to give thanks to your holy name,
<br>
to triumph in your praise!

<key:bcv=Psalms 106:48><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:48">48 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting!
Let all the people say, “Amen.”

Praise Yah! BOOK <key:bcv=Psalms 106:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 106:5">5 </verse></sup>

#BCV:Psalms 107:0
<P align="center"><h3>107</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:1">1 </verse></sup>Give thanks to Yahweh,<footnote:1>107:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:2">2 </verse></sup>Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so,
<br>
whom he has redeemed from the hand of the
adversary,

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:3">3 </verse></sup>and gathered out of the lands,
<br>
from the east and from the west,
<br>
from the north and from the south.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:4">4 </verse></sup>They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.
They found no city to live in.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:5">5 </verse></sup>Hungry and thirsty,
<br>
their soul fainted in them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:6">6 </verse></sup>Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he delivered them out of their distresses.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:7">7 </verse></sup>He led them also by a straight way,
that they might go to a city to live in.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:8">8 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:9">9 </verse></sup>For he satisfies the longing soul.
<br>
He fills the hungry soul with good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:10">10 </verse></sup>Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
being bound in affliction and iron,

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:11">11 </verse></sup>because they rebelled against the words of
God,<footnote:1>107:11 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
<br>
and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore he brought down their heart with
labor.
<br>
They fell down, and there was no one to help.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:13">13 </verse></sup>Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he saved them out of their distresses.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:14">14 </verse></sup>He brought them out of darkness and the shadow
of death,
<br>
and broke away their chains.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:15">15 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:16">16 </verse></sup>For he has broken the gates of bronze,
and cut through bars of iron.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:17">17 </verse></sup>Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,
and because of their iniquities.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:18">18 </verse></sup>Their soul abhors all kinds of food.
They draw near to the gates of death.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:19">19 </verse></sup>Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he saves them out of their distresses.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:20">20 </verse></sup>He sends his word, and heals them,
and delivers them from their graves.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:21">21 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:22">22 </verse></sup>Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
and declare his deeds with singing.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:23">23 </verse></sup>Those who go down to the sea in ships,
who do business in great waters,

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:24">24 </verse></sup>these see Yahweh’s deeds,
<br>
and his wonders in the deep.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:25">25 </verse></sup>For he commands, and raises the stormy wind,
which lifts up its waves.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:26">26 </verse></sup>They mount up to the sky; they go down again to
the depths.
<br>
Their soul melts away because of trouble.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:27">27 </verse></sup>They reel back and forth, and stagger like a
drunken man,
<br>
and are at their wits’ end.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:28">28 </verse></sup>Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he brings them out of their distress.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:29">29 </verse></sup>He makes the storm a calm,
<br>
so that its waves are still.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:30">30 </verse></sup>Then they are glad because it is calm,
so he brings them to their desired haven.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:31">31 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds for the children of
men!

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:32">32 </verse></sup>Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the
people,
<br>
and praise him in the seat of the elders.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:33">33 </verse></sup>He turns rivers into a desert,
<br>
water springs into a thirsty ground,

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:34">34 </verse></sup>and a fruitful land into a salt waste,
for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:35">35 </verse></sup>He turns a desert into a pool of water,
and a dry land into water springs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:36">36 </verse></sup>There he makes the hungry live,
<br>
that they may prepare a city to live in,
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:37">37 </verse></sup>sow fields, plant vineyards,
<br>
and reap the fruits of increase.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:38">38 </verse></sup>He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied
greatly.
<br>
He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:39">39 </verse></sup>Again, they are diminished and bowed down
through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:40">40 </verse></sup>He pours contempt on princes,
<br>
and causes them to wander in a trackless
waste.

<key:bcv=Psalms 107:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:41">41 </verse></sup>Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,
and increases their families like a flock.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:42">42 </verse></sup>The upright will see it, and be glad.
All the wicked will shut their mouths.
<key:bcv=Psalms 107:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 107:43">43 </verse></sup>Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.
They will consider the loving kindnesses of
Yahweh.

#BCV:Psalm 108:0
#BCV:Psalms 108:0
<P align="center"><h3>108</h3></p>
<br>
A Song. A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:1">1 </verse></sup>My heart is steadfast, God.
<br>
I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:2">2 </verse></sup>Wake up, harp and lyre!
<br>
I will wake up the dawn.

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:3">3 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the
nations.
<br>
I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:4">4 </verse></sup>For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:5">5 </verse></sup>Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:6">6 </verse></sup>That your beloved may be delivered,
save with your right hand, and answer us.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:7">7 </verse></sup>God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph,
<br>
I will divide Shechem, and measure out the
valley of Succoth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:8">8 </verse></sup>Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.
<br>
Ephraim also is my helmet.
<br>
Judah is my scepter.

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:9">9 </verse></sup>Moab is my wash pot.
<br>
I will toss my sandal on Edom.
<br>
I will shout over Philistia.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:10">10 </verse></sup>Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:11">11 </verse></sup>Haven’t you rejected us, God?
<br>
You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 108:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:12">12 </verse></sup>Give us help against the enemy,
<br>
for the help of man is vain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 108:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 108:13">13 </verse></sup>Through God, we will do valiantly,
for it is he who will tread down our enemies.

#BCV:Psalm 109:0
#BCV:Psalms 109:0
<P align="center"><h3>109</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:1">1 </verse></sup>God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:2">2 </verse></sup>for they have opened the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of deceit against me.
<br>
They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:3">3 </verse></sup>They have also surrounded me with words of
hatred,
<br>
and fought against me without a cause.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:4">4 </verse></sup>In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
but I am in prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:5">5 </verse></sup>They have rewarded me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:6">6 </verse></sup>Set a wicked man over him.
<br>
Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:7">7 </verse></sup>When he is judged, let him come out guilty.
Let his prayer be turned into sin.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:8">8 </verse></sup>Let his days be few.
<br>
Let another take his office.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:9">9 </verse></sup>Let his children be fatherless,
<br>
and his wife a widow.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:10">10 </verse></sup>Let his children be wandering beggars.
Let them be sought from their ruins.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:11">11 </verse></sup>Let the creditor seize all that he has.
Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:12">12 </verse></sup>Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
neither let there be anyone to have pity on his
fatherless children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:13">13 </verse></sup>Let his posterity be cut off.
<br>
In the generation following let their name be
blotted out.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:14">14 </verse></sup>Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by
Yahweh.
<br>
Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:15">15 </verse></sup>Let them be before Yahweh continually,
that he may cut off their memory from the
earth;

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:16">16 </verse></sup>because he didn’t remember to show kindness,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
the broken in heart, to kill them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:17">17 </verse></sup>Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far
from him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:18">18 </verse></sup>He clothed himself also with cursing as with his
garment.
<br>
It came into his inward parts like water,
like oil into his bones.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:19">19 </verse></sup>Let it be to him as the clothing with which he
covers himself,
<br>
for the belt that is always around him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:20">20 </verse></sup>This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,
of those who speak evil against my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:21">21 </verse></sup>But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord,<footnote:1>109:21 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> for your
name’s sake,
<br>
because your loving kindness is good, deliver
me;

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:22">22 </verse></sup>for I am poor and needy.
<br>
My heart is wounded within me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:23">23 </verse></sup>I fade away like an evening shadow.
I am shaken off like a locust.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:24">24 </verse></sup>My knees are weak through fasting.
My body is thin and lacks fat.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:25">25 </verse></sup>I have also become a reproach to them.
When they see me, they shake their head.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:26">26 </verse></sup>Help me, Yahweh, my God.
<br>
Save me according to your loving kindness;
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:27">27 </verse></sup>that they may know that this is your hand;
that you, Yahweh, have done it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:28">28 </verse></sup>They may curse, but you bless.
<br>
When they arise, they will be shamed,
but your servant shall rejoice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:29">29 </verse></sup>Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.
Let them cover themselves with their own
shame as with a robe.

<key:bcv=Psalms 109:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:30">30 </verse></sup>I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.
Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
<key:bcv=Psalms 109:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 109:31">31 </verse></sup>For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
to save him from those who judge his soul.

#BCV:Psalm 110:0
#BCV:Psalms 110:0
<P align="center"><h3>110</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 110:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool for
your feet.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 110:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out
of Zion.
<br>
Rule among your enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 110:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:3">3 </verse></sup>Your people offer themselves willingly in the day
of your power, in holy array.
<br>
Out of the womb of the morning, you have the
dew of your youth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 110:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever in the order of
Melchizedek.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 110:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:5">5 </verse></sup>The Lord is at your right hand.
<br>
He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
<key:bcv=Psalms 110:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:6">6 </verse></sup>He will judge among the nations.
<br>
He will heap up dead bodies.
<br>
He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 110:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 110:7">7 </verse></sup>He will drink of the brook on the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.

#BCV:Psalms 111:0
<P align="center"><h3>111</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 111:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!<footnote:1>111:1 Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</footnote>
<br>
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole
heart,
<br>
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 111:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s works are great,
<br>
pondered by all those who delight in them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 111:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:3">3 </verse></sup>His work is honor and majesty.
<br>
His righteousness endures forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 111:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:4">4 </verse></sup>He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

<key:bcv=Psalms 111:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:5">5 </verse></sup>He has given food to those who fear him.
He always remembers his covenant.

<key:bcv=Psalms 111:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:6">6 </verse></sup>He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 111:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:7">7 </verse></sup>The works of his hands are truth and justice.
All his precepts are sure.

<key:bcv=Psalms 111:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:8">8 </verse></sup>They are established forever and ever.
They are done in truth and uprightness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 111:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:9">9 </verse></sup>He has sent redemption to his people.
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome!

<key:bcv=Psalms 111:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 111:10">10 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
All those who do his work have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever!

#BCV:Psalms 112:0
<P align="center"><h3>112</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!<footnote:1>112:1 Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</footnote>
<br>
Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
<br>
who delights greatly in his commandments.
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:2">2 </verse></sup>His offspring will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:3">3 </verse></sup>Wealth and riches are in his house.
His righteousness endures forever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 112:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:4">4 </verse></sup>Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.

<key:bcv=Psalms 112:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:5">5 </verse></sup>It is well with the man who deals graciously and
lends.
<br>
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:6">6 </verse></sup>For he will never be shaken.
<br>
The righteous will be remembered forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:7">7 </verse></sup>He will not be afraid of evil news.
His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 112:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:8">8 </verse></sup>His heart is established.
<br>
He will not be afraid in the end when he sees
his adversaries.

<key:bcv=Psalms 112:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:9">9 </verse></sup>He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.
His righteousness endures forever.
<br>
His horn will be exalted with honor.

<key:bcv=Psalms 112:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 112:10">10 </verse></sup>The wicked will see it, and be grieved.
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.
The desire of the wicked will perish.

#BCV:Psalms 113:0
<P align="center"><h3>113</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 113:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!
<br>
Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
<br>
praise Yahweh’s name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:2">2 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh’s name,
<br>
from this time forward and forever more.
<key:bcv=Psalms 113:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:3">3 </verse></sup>From the rising of the sun to its going down,
Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh is high above all nations,
<br>
his glory above the heavens.

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:5">5 </verse></sup>Who is like Yahweh, our God,
<br>
who has his seat on high,

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:6">6 </verse></sup>who stoops down to see in heaven and in the
earth?

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:7">7 </verse></sup>He raises up the poor out of the dust,
and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
<key:bcv=Psalms 113:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:8">8 </verse></sup>that he may set him with princes,
<br>
even with the princes of his people.

<key:bcv=Psalms 113:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 113:9">9 </verse></sup>He settles the barren woman in her home
as a joyful mother of children.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 114:0
<P align="center"><h3>114</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 114:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:1">1 </verse></sup>When Israel went out of Egypt,
<br>
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign
language,

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:2">2 </verse></sup>Judah became his sanctuary,
<br>
Israel his dominion.

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:3">3 </verse></sup>The sea saw it, and fled.
<br>
The Jordan was driven back.

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:4">4 </verse></sup>The mountains skipped like rams,
<br>
the little hills like lambs.

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:5">5 </verse></sup>What was it, you sea, that you fled?
You Jordan, that you turned back?

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:6">6 </verse></sup>You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
You little hills, like lambs?

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:7">7 </verse></sup>Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,

<key:bcv=Psalms 114:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 114:8">8 </verse></sup>who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of waters.

#BCV:Psalms 115:0
<P align="center"><h3>115</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 115:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:1">1 </verse></sup>Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
<br>
but to your name give glory,
<br>
for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s
sake.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:2">2 </verse></sup>Why should the nations say,
<br>
“Where is their God, now?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:3">3 </verse></sup>But our God is in the heavens.
<br>
He does whatever he pleases.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:4">4 </verse></sup>Their idols are silver and gold,
<br>
the work of men’s hands.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:5">5 </verse></sup>They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:6">6 </verse></sup>They have ears, but they don’t hear.
They have noses, but they don’t smell.
<key:bcv=Psalms 115:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:7">7 </verse></sup>They have hands, but they don’t feel.
They have feet, but they don’t walk,
<br>
neither do they speak through their throat.
<key:bcv=Psalms 115:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:8">8 </verse></sup>Those who make them will be like them;
yes, everyone who trusts in them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:9">9 </verse></sup>Israel, trust in Yahweh!
<br>
He is their help and their shield.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:10">10 </verse></sup>House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
<br>
He is their help and their shield.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:11">11 </verse></sup>You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
He will bless the house of Israel.
<br>
He will bless the house of Aaron.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:13">13 </verse></sup>He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
both small and great.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:14">14 </verse></sup>May Yahweh increase you more and more,
you and your children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:15">15 </verse></sup>Blessed are you by Yahweh,
<br>
who made heaven and earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:16">16 </verse></sup>The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
<br>
but he has given the earth to the children of
men.

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:17">17 </verse></sup>The dead don’t praise Yah,
<br>
nor any who go down into silence,

<key:bcv=Psalms 115:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 115:18">18 </verse></sup>but we will bless Yah,
<br>
from this time forward and forever more.
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 116:0
<P align="center"><h3>116</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:1">1 </verse></sup>I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
and my cries for mercy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:2">2 </verse></sup>Because he has turned his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:3">3 </verse></sup>The cords of death surrounded me,

the pains of Sheol<footnote:1>116:3 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> got a hold of me.
I found trouble and sorrow.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:4">4 </verse></sup>Then I called on Yahweh’s name:
<br>
“Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh is gracious and righteous.
<br>
Yes, our God is merciful.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh preserves the simple.
<br>
I was brought low, and he saved me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:7">7 </verse></sup>Return to your rest, my soul,
<br>
for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:8">8 </verse></sup>For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
<br>
and my feet from falling.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:9">9 </verse></sup>I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:10">10 </verse></sup>I believed, therefore I said,
<br>
“I was greatly afflicted.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:11">11 </verse></sup>I said in my haste,
<br>
“All people are liars.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:12">12 </verse></sup>What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits
toward me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:13">13 </verse></sup>I will take the cup of salvation, and call on
Yahweh’s name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:14">14 </verse></sup>I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
<br>
yes, in the presence of all his people.
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:15">15 </verse></sup>Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his
saints.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh, truly I am your servant.
<br>
I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.
You have freed me from my chains.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:17">17 </verse></sup>I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and will call on Yahweh’s name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 116:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:18">18 </verse></sup>I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
<br>
yes, in the presence of all his people,
<key:bcv=Psalms 116:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 116:19">19 </verse></sup>in the courts of Yahweh’s house,
<br>
in the middle of you, Jerusalem.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 117:0
<P align="center"><h3>117</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 117:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 117:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!

<key:bcv=Psalms 117:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 117:2">2 </verse></sup>For his loving kindness is great toward us.
Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever.
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 118:0
<P align="center"><h3>118</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:1">1 </verse></sup>Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:2">2 </verse></sup>Let Israel now say
<br>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:3">3 </verse></sup>Let the house of Aaron now say
<br>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:4">4 </verse></sup>Now let those who fear Yahweh say
<br>
that his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:5">5 </verse></sup>Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
Yah answered me with freedom.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh is on my side among those who help me.
Therefore I will look in triumph at those who
hate me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:8">8 </verse></sup>It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in man.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:9">9 </verse></sup>It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in princes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:10">10 </verse></sup>All the nations surrounded me,
<br>
but in Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:11">11 </verse></sup>They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:12">12 </verse></sup>They surrounded me like bees.
<br>
They are quenched like the burning thorns.
In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:13">13 </verse></sup>You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,
but Yahweh helped me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:14">14 </verse></sup>Yah is my strength and song.
<br>
He has become my salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:15">15 </verse></sup>The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents
of the righteous.
<br>
“The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:16">16 </verse></sup>The right hand of Yahweh is exalted!
The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:17">17 </verse></sup>I will not die, but live,
<br>
and declare Yah’s works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:18">18 </verse></sup>Yah has punished me severely,
<br>
but he has not given me over to death.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:19">19 </verse></sup>Open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will enter into them.
<br>
I will give thanks to Yah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:20">20 </verse></sup>This is the gate of Yahweh;
<br>
the righteous will enter into it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:21">21 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to you, for you have answered
me,
<br>
and have become my salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:22">22 </verse></sup>The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.<footnote:1>118:22 Literally, head of the corner</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:23">23 </verse></sup>This is Yahweh’s doing.
<br>
It is marvelous in our eyes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:24">24 </verse></sup>This is the day that Yahweh has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it!

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:25">25 </verse></sup>Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh!
<br>
Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:26">26 </verse></sup>Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name!
We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=Psalms 118:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:27">27 </verse></sup>Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.
<br>
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns
of the altar.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:28">28 </verse></sup>You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
You are my God, I will exalt you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 118:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 118:29">29 </verse></sup>Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
#BCV:Psalms 119:0
<P align="center"><h3>119</h3></p>
<br>
ALEPH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:2">2 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, they do nothing wrong.
<br>
They walk in his ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:4">4 </verse></sup>You have commanded your precepts,
<br>
that we should fully obey them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:5">5 </verse></sup>Oh that my ways were steadfast
<br>
to obey your statutes!

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:6">6 </verse></sup>Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,
<br>
when I consider all of your commandments.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:7">7 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart,
when I learn your righteous judgments.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:8">8 </verse></sup>I will observe your statutes.
<br>
Don’t utterly forsake me.
<br>
BETH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:9">9 </verse></sup>How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:10">10 </verse></sup>With my whole heart I have sought you.
Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:11">11 </verse></sup>I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:12">12 </verse></sup>Blessed are you, Yahweh.
<br>
Teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:13">13 </verse></sup>With my lips,
<br>
I have declared all the ordinances of your
mouth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:14">14 </verse></sup>I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,
as much as in all riches.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:15">15 </verse></sup>I will meditate on your precepts,
<br>
and consider your ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:16">16 </verse></sup>I will delight myself in your statutes.
I will not forget your word.
<br>
GIMEL

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:17">17 </verse></sup>Do good to your servant.
<br>
I will live and I will obey your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:18">18 </verse></sup>Open my eyes,
<br>
that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:19">19 </verse></sup>I am a stranger on the earth.
<br>
Don’t hide your commandments from me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:20">20 </verse></sup>My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances
at all times.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:21">21 </verse></sup>You have rebuked the proud who are cursed,
who wander from your commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:22">22 </verse></sup>Take reproach and contempt away from me,
for I have kept your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:23">23 </verse></sup>Though princes sit and slander me,
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:24">24 </verse></sup>Indeed your statutes are my delight,
and my counselors.
<br>
DALETH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:25">25 </verse></sup>My soul is laid low in the dust.
<br>
Revive me according to your word!

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:26">26 </verse></sup>I declared my ways, and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:27><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:27">27 </verse></sup>Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:28><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:28">28 </verse></sup>My soul is weary with sorrow;
<br>
strengthen me according to your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:29><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:29">29 </verse></sup>Keep me from the way of deceit.
<br>
Grant me your law graciously!

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:30><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:30">30 </verse></sup>I have chosen the way of truth.
<br>
I have set your ordinances before me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:31><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:31">31 </verse></sup>I cling to your statutes, Yahweh.
<br>
Don’t let me be disappointed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:32><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:32">32 </verse></sup>I run in the path of your commandments,
for you have set my heart free.
<br>
HE

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:33><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:33">33 </verse></sup>Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes.
I will keep them to the end.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:34><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:34">34 </verse></sup>Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.
Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:35><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:35">35 </verse></sup>Direct me in the path of your commandments,
for I delight in them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:36><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:36">36 </verse></sup>Turn my heart toward your statutes,
not toward selfish gain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:37><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:37">37 </verse></sup>Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless
things.
<br>
Revive me in your ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:38><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:38">38 </verse></sup>Fulfill your promise to your servant,
that you may be feared.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:39><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:39">39 </verse></sup>Take away my disgrace that I dread,
for your ordinances are good.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:40><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:40">40 </verse></sup>Behold, I long for your precepts!
<br>
Revive me in your righteousness.
<br>
VAV

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:41><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:41">41 </verse></sup>Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh,
your salvation, according to your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:42><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:42">42 </verse></sup>So I will have an answer for him who reproaches
me,
<br>
for I trust in your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:43><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:43">43 </verse></sup>Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:44><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:44">44 </verse></sup>So I will obey your law continually,
forever and ever.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:45><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:45">45 </verse></sup>I will walk in liberty,
<br>
for I have sought your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:46><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:46">46 </verse></sup>I will also speak of your statutes before kings,
and will not be disappointed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:47><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:47">47 </verse></sup>I will delight myself in your commandments,
because I love them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:48><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:48">48 </verse></sup>I reach out my hands for your commandments,
which I love.
<br>
I will meditate on your statutes.
<br>
ZAYIN

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:49><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:49">49 </verse></sup>Remember your word to your servant,
because you gave me hope.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:50><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:50">50 </verse></sup>This is my comfort in my affliction,
for your word has revived me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:51><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:51">51 </verse></sup>The arrogant mock me excessively,
<br>
but I don’t swerve from your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:52><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:52">52 </verse></sup>I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh,
and have comforted myself.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:53><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:53">53 </verse></sup>Indignation has taken hold on me,
<br>
because of the wicked who forsake your law.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:54><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:54">54 </verse></sup>Your statutes have been my songs
in the house where I live.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:55><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:55">55 </verse></sup>I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the
night,
<br>
and I obey your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:56><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:56">56 </verse></sup>This is my way,
<br>
that I keep your precepts.
<br>
HETH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:57><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:57">57 </verse></sup>Yahweh is my portion.
<br>
I promised to obey your words.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:58><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:58">58 </verse></sup>I sought your favor with my whole heart.
Be merciful to me according to your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:59><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:59">59 </verse></sup>I considered my ways,
<br>
and turned my steps to your statutes.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:60><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:60">60 </verse></sup>I will hurry, and not delay,
<br>
to obey your commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:61><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:61">61 </verse></sup>The ropes of the wicked bind me,
<br>
but I won’t forget your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:62><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:62">62 </verse></sup>At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,
because of your righteous ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:63><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:63">63 </verse></sup>I am a friend of all those who fear you,
of those who observe your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:64><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:64">64 </verse></sup>The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
<br>
TETH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:65><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:65">65 </verse></sup>You have treated your servant well,
according to your word, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:66><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:66">66 </verse></sup>Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:67><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:67">67 </verse></sup>Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:68><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:68">68 </verse></sup>You are good, and do good.
<br>
Teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:69><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:69">69 </verse></sup>The proud have smeared a lie upon me.
With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:70><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:70">70 </verse></sup>Their heart is as callous as the fat,
but I delight in your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:71><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:71">71 </verse></sup>It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:72><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:72">72 </verse></sup>The law of your mouth is better to me than
thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
YODH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:73><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:73">73 </verse></sup>Your hands have made me and formed me.
Give me understanding, that I may learn your
commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:74><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:74">74 </verse></sup>Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
because I have put my hope in your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:75><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:75">75 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:76><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:76">76 </verse></sup>Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:77><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:77">77 </verse></sup>Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may
live;
<br>
for your law is my delight.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:78><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:78">78 </verse></sup>Let the proud be disappointed, for they have
overthrown me wrongfully.
<br>
I will meditate on your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:79><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:79">79 </verse></sup>Let those who fear you turn to me.
They will know your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:80><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:80">80 </verse></sup>Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees,
that I may not be disappointed.
<br>
KAPF

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:81><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:81">81 </verse></sup>My soul faints for your salvation.
I hope in your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:82><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:82">82 </verse></sup>My eyes fail for your word.
<br>
I say, “When will you comfort me?”

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:83><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:83">83 </verse></sup>For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.
I don’t forget your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:84><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:84">84 </verse></sup>How many are the days of your servant?
When will you execute judgment on those who
persecute me?

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:85><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:85">85 </verse></sup>The proud have dug pits for me,
<br>
contrary to your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:86><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:86">86 </verse></sup>All of your commandments are faithful.
They persecute me wrongfully.
<br>
Help me!

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:87><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:87">87 </verse></sup>They had almost wiped me from the earth,
but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:88><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:88">88 </verse></sup>Preserve my life according to your loving kindness,
so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
LAMEDH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:89><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:89">89 </verse></sup>Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:90><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:90">90 </verse></sup>Your faithfulness is to all generations.
You have established the earth, and it remains.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:91><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:91">91 </verse></sup>Your laws remain to this day,
<br>
for all things serve you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:92><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:92">92 </verse></sup>Unless your law had been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:93><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:93">93 </verse></sup>I will never forget your precepts,
for with them, you have revived me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:94><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:94">94 </verse></sup>I am yours.
<br>
Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:95><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:95">95 </verse></sup>The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.
I will consider your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:96><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:96">96 </verse></sup>I have seen a limit to all perfection,
but your commands are boundless.
<br>
MEM

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:97><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:97">97 </verse></sup>How I love your law!
<br>
It is my meditation all day.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:98><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:98">98 </verse></sup>Your commandments make me wiser than my
enemies,
<br>
for your commandments are always with me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:99><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:99">99 </verse></sup>I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:100><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:100">100 </verse></sup>I understand more than the aged,
<br>
because I have kept your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:101><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:101">101 </verse></sup>I have kept my feet from every evil way,
that I might observe your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:102><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:102">102 </verse></sup>I have not turned away from your ordinances,
for you have taught me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:103><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:103">103 </verse></sup>How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth!

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:104><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:104">104 </verse></sup>Through your precepts, I get understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.
<br>
NUN

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:105><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:105">105 </verse></sup>Your word is a lamp to my feet,
<br>
and a light for my path.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:106><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:106">106 </verse></sup>I have sworn, and have confirmed it,
that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:107><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:107">107 </verse></sup>I am afflicted very much.
<br>
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:108><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:108">108 </verse></sup>Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my
mouth.
<br>
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:109><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:109">109 </verse></sup>My soul is continually in my hand,
yet I won’t forget your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:110><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:110">110 </verse></sup>The wicked have laid a snare for me,
yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:111><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:111">111 </verse></sup>I have taken your testimonies as a heritage
forever,
<br>
for they are the joy of my heart.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:112><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:112">112 </verse></sup>I have set my heart to perform your statutes
forever,
<br>
even to the end.
<br>
SAMEKH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:113><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:113">113 </verse></sup>I hate double-minded men,
<br>
but I love your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:114><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:114">114 </verse></sup>You are my hiding place and my shield.
I hope in your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:115><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:115">115 </verse></sup>Depart from me, you evildoers,
<br>
that I may keep the commandments of my God.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:116><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:116">116 </verse></sup>Uphold me according to your word, that I may
live.
<br>
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:117><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:117">117 </verse></sup>Hold me up, and I will be safe,
<br>
and will have respect for your statutes continually.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:118><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:118">118 </verse></sup>You reject all those who stray from your statutes,
for their deceit is in vain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:119><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:119">119 </verse></sup>You put away all the wicked of the earth like
dross.
<br>
Therefore I love your testimonies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:120><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:120">120 </verse></sup>My flesh trembles for fear of you.
I am afraid of your judgments.
<br>
AYIN

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:121><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:121">121 </verse></sup>I have done what is just and righteous.
Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:122><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:122">122 </verse></sup>Ensure your servant’s well-being.
Don’t let the proud oppress me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:123><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:123">123 </verse></sup>My eyes fail looking for your salvation,
for your righteous word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:124><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:124">124 </verse></sup>Deal with your servant according to your loving
kindness.
<br>
Teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:125><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:125">125 </verse></sup>I am your servant. Give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:126><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:126">126 </verse></sup>It is time to act, Yahweh,
<br>
for they break your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:127><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:127">127 </verse></sup>Therefore I love your commandments more than
gold,
<br>
yes, more than pure gold.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:128><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:128">128 </verse></sup>Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be
right.
<br>
I hate every false way.
<br>
PE

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:129><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:129">129 </verse></sup>Your testimonies are wonderful,
<br>
therefore my soul keeps them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:130><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:130">130 </verse></sup>The entrance of your words gives light.
It gives understanding to the simple.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:131><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:131">131 </verse></sup>I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:132><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:132">132 </verse></sup>Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
as you always do to those who love your name.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:133><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:133">133 </verse></sup>Establish my footsteps in your word.
Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:134><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:134">134 </verse></sup>Redeem me from the oppression of man,
so I will observe your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:135><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:135">135 </verse></sup>Make your face shine on your servant.
Teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:136><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:136">136 </verse></sup>Streams of tears run down my eyes,
because they don’t observe your law.
<br>
TZADHE

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:137><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:137">137 </verse></sup>You are righteous, Yahweh.
<br>
Your judgments are upright.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:138><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:138">138 </verse></sup>You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.
They are fully trustworthy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:139><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:139">139 </verse></sup>My zeal wears me out,
<br>
because my enemies ignore your words.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:140><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:140">140 </verse></sup>Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
and your servant loves them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:141><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:141">141 </verse></sup>I am small and despised.
<br>
I don’t forget your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:142><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:142">142 </verse></sup>Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
Your law is truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:143><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:143">143 </verse></sup>Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me.
Your commandments are my delight.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:144><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:144">144 </verse></sup>Your testimonies are righteous forever.
Give me understanding, that I may live.
<br>
QOPH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:145><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:145">145 </verse></sup>I have called with my whole heart.
Answer me, Yahweh!
<br>
I will keep your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:146><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:146">146 </verse></sup>I have called to you. Save me!
<br>
I will obey your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:147><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:147">147 </verse></sup>I rise before dawn and cry for help.
I put my hope in your words.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:148><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:148">148 </verse></sup>My eyes stay open through the night watches,
that I might meditate on your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:149><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:149">149 </verse></sup>Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:150><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:150">150 </verse></sup>They draw near who follow after wickedness.
They are far from your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:151><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:151">151 </verse></sup>You are near, Yahweh.
<br>
All your commandments are truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:152><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:152">152 </verse></sup>Of old I have known from your testimonies,
that you have founded them forever.
<br>
RESH

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:153><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:153">153 </verse></sup>Consider my affliction, and deliver me,
for I don’t forget your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:154><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:154">154 </verse></sup>Plead my cause, and redeem me!
<br>
Revive me according to your promise.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:155><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:155">155 </verse></sup>Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they don’t seek your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:156><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:156">156 </verse></sup>Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh.
Revive me according to your ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:157><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:157">157 </verse></sup>Many are my persecutors and my adversaries.
I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:158><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:158">158 </verse></sup>I look at the faithless with loathing,
because they don’t observe your word.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:159><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:159">159 </verse></sup>Consider how I love your precepts.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving
kindness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:160><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:160">160 </verse></sup>All of your words are truth.
<br>
Every one of your righteous ordinances endures
forever.
<br>
SIN AND SHIN

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:161><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:161">161 </verse></sup>Princes have persecuted me without a cause,
but my heart stands in awe of your words.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:162><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:162">162 </verse></sup>I rejoice at your word,
<br>
as one who finds great plunder.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:163><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:163">163 </verse></sup>I hate and abhor falsehood.
<br>
I love your law.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:164><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:164">164 </verse></sup>Seven times a day, I praise you,
<br>
because of your righteous ordinances.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:165><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:165">165 </verse></sup>Those who love your law have great peace.
Nothing causes them to stumble.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:166><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:166">166 </verse></sup>I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh.
I have done your commandments.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:167><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:167">167 </verse></sup>My soul has observed your testimonies.
I love them exceedingly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:168><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:168">168 </verse></sup>I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies,
for all my ways are before you.
<br>
TAV

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:169><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:169">169 </verse></sup>Let my cry come before you, Yahweh.
Give me understanding according to your
word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:170><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:170">170 </verse></sup>Let my supplication come before you.
Deliver me according to your word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:171><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:171">171 </verse></sup>Let my lips utter praise,
<br>
for you teach me your statutes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:172><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:172">172 </verse></sup>Let my tongue sing of your word,
<br>
for all your commandments are righteousness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 119:173><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:173">173 </verse></sup>Let your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen your precepts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:174><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:174">174 </verse></sup>I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh.
Your law is my delight.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:175><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:175">175 </verse></sup>Let my soul live, that I may praise you.
Let your ordinances help me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 119:176><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 119:176">176 </verse></sup>I have gone astray like a lost sheep.
Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

#BCV:Psalm 120:0
#BCV:Psalms 120:0
<P align="center"><h3>120</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:1">1 </verse></sup>In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
<br>
He answered me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:2">2 </verse></sup>Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:3">3 </verse></sup>What will be given to you, and what will be done
more to you,
<br>
you deceitful tongue?

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:4">4 </verse></sup>Sharp arrows of the mighty,
<br>
with coals of juniper.

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:5">5 </verse></sup>Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
<br>
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
<key:bcv=Psalms 120:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:6">6 </verse></sup>My soul has had her dwelling too long
with him who hates peace.

<key:bcv=Psalms 120:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 120:7">7 </verse></sup>I am for peace,
<br>
but when I speak, they are for war.

#BCV:Psalm 121:0
#BCV:Psalms 121:0
<P align="center"><h3>121</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:1">1 </verse></sup>I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
Where does my help come from?

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:2">2 </verse></sup>My help comes from Yahweh,
<br>
who made heaven and earth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:3">3 </verse></sup>He will not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not slumber.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, he who keeps Israel
<br>
will neither slumber nor sleep.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh is your keeper.
<br>
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
<key:bcv=Psalms 121:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:6">6 </verse></sup>The sun will not harm you by day,
<br>
nor the moon by night.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
He will keep your soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 121:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 121:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming
in,
<br>
from this time forward, and forever more.

#BCV:Psalm 122:0
#BCV:Psalms 122:0
<P align="center"><h3>122</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:1">1 </verse></sup>I was glad when they said to me,
<br>
“Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:2">2 </verse></sup>Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!
<key:bcv=Psalms 122:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:3">3 </verse></sup>Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact
together,

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:4">4 </verse></sup>where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,
according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:5">5 </verse></sup>For there are set thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David’s house.

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:6">6 </verse></sup>Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
<br>
Those who love you will prosper.

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:7">7 </verse></sup>Peace be within your walls,
<br>
and prosperity within your palaces.

<key:bcv=Psalms 122:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:8">8 </verse></sup>For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 122:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 122:9">9 </verse></sup>For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.

#BCV:Psalm 123:0
#BCV:Psalms 123:0
<P align="center"><h3>123</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 123:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 123:1">1 </verse></sup>I lift up my eyes to you,
<br>
you who sit in the heavens.

<key:bcv=Psalms 123:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 123:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of
their master,
<br>
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her
mistress,
<br>
so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God,
<br>
until he has mercy on us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 123:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 123:3">3 </verse></sup>Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,
for we have endured much contempt.

<key:bcv=Psalms 123:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 123:4">4 </verse></sup>Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of
those who are at ease,
<br>
with the contempt of the proud.

#BCV:Psalm 124:0
#BCV:Psalms 124:0
<P align="center"><h3>124</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 124:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:1">1 </verse></sup>If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
let Israel now say,

<key:bcv=Psalms 124:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:2">2 </verse></sup>if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
when men rose up against us,

<key:bcv=Psalms 124:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:3">3 </verse></sup>then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their wrath was kindled against us,
<key:bcv=Psalms 124:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:4">4 </verse></sup>then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
the stream would have gone over our soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 124:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the proud waters would have gone over our
soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 124:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh,
<br>
who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 124:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:7">7 </verse></sup>Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s
snare.
<br>
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
<key:bcv=Psalms 124:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 124:8">8 </verse></sup>Our help is in Yahweh’s name,
<br>
who made heaven and earth.

#BCV:Psalm 125:0
#BCV:Psalms 125:0
<P align="center"><h3>125</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 125:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 125:1">1 </verse></sup>Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,
which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 125:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 125:2">2 </verse></sup>As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time
forward and forever more.

<key:bcv=Psalms 125:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 125:3">3 </verse></sup>For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over
the allotment of the righteous,
<br>
so that the righteous won’t use their hands to
do evil.

<key:bcv=Psalms 125:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 125:4">4 </verse></sup>Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good,
to those who are upright in their hearts.
<key:bcv=Psalms 125:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 125:5">5 </verse></sup>But as for those who turn away to their crooked
ways,
<br>
Yahweh will lead them away with the workers
of iniquity.
<br>
Peace be on Israel.

#BCV:Psalm 120:0
#BCV:Psalms 126:0
<P align="center"><h3>126</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 126:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:1">1 </verse></sup>When Yahweh brought back those who returned
to Zion,
<br>
we were like those who dream.

<key:bcv=Psalms 126:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:2">2 </verse></sup>Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
<br>
Then they said among the nations,
<br>
“Yahweh has done great things for them.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 126:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh has done great things for us,
and we are glad.

<key:bcv=Psalms 126:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:4">4 </verse></sup>Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,
like the streams in the Negev.

<key:bcv=Psalms 126:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:5">5 </verse></sup>Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
<key:bcv=Psalms 126:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 126:6">6 </verse></sup>He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for
sowing,
<br>
will certainly come again with joy, carrying his
sheaves.

#BCV:Psalm 127:0
#BCV:Psalms 127:0
<P align="center"><h3>127</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.

<key:bcv=Psalms 127:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 127:1">1 </verse></sup>Unless Yahweh builds the house,
<br>
they who build it labor in vain.
<br>
Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
<br>
the watchman guards it in vain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 127:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 127:2">2 </verse></sup>It is vain for you to rise up early,
to stay up late,
<br>
eating the bread of toil,
<br>
for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
<key:bcv=Psalms 127:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 127:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
The fruit of the womb is his reward.

<key:bcv=Psalms 127:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 127:4">4 </verse></sup>As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
so are the children of youth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 127:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 127:5">5 </verse></sup>Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
They won’t be disappointed when they speak
with their enemies in the gate.

#BCV:Psalm 128:0
#BCV:Psalms 128:0
<P align="center"><h3>128</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 128:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 128:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:2">2 </verse></sup>For you will eat the labor of your hands.
You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 128:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:3">3 </verse></sup>Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost
parts of your house,
<br>
your children like olive shoots around your
table.

<key:bcv=Psalms 128:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is
blessed.

<key:bcv=Psalms 128:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:5">5 </verse></sup>May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
<br>
and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the
days of your life.

<key:bcv=Psalms 128:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 128:6">6 </verse></sup>Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel.

#BCV:Psalm 129:0
#BCV:Psalms 129:0
<P align="center"><h3>129</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:1">1 </verse></sup>Many times they have afflicted me from my youth
up.
<br>
Let Israel now say:

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:2">2 </verse></sup>many times they have afflicted me from my youth
up,
<br>
yet they have not prevailed against me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 129:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:3">3 </verse></sup>The plowers plowed on my back.
<br>
They made their furrows long.

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh is righteous.
<br>
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Psalms 129:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:5">5 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion.

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:6">6 </verse></sup>Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:7">7 </verse></sup>with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

<key:bcv=Psalms 129:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 129:8">8 </verse></sup>Neither do those who go by say,
<br>
“The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
<br>
We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”

#BCV:Psalm 130:0
#BCV:Psalms 130:0
<P align="center"><h3>130</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:1">1 </verse></sup>Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 130:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:2">2 </verse></sup>Lord, hear my voice.
<br>
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my
petitions.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:3">3 </verse></sup>If you, Yah, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:4">4 </verse></sup>But there is forgiveness with you,
<br>
therefore you are feared.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:5">5 </verse></sup>I wait for Yahweh.
<br>
My soul waits.
<br>
I hope in his word.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:6">6 </verse></sup>My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen
long for the morning,
<br>
more than watchmen for the morning.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:7">7 </verse></sup>Israel, hope in Yahweh,
<br>
for there is loving kindness with Yahweh.
Abundant redemption is with him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 130:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 130:8">8 </verse></sup>He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

#BCV:Psalm 131:0
#BCV:Psalms 131:0
<P align="center"><h3>131</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 131:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 131:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes
lofty;
<br>
nor do I concern myself with great matters,
or things too wonderful for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 131:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 131:2">2 </verse></sup>Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with his mother,
<br>
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
<key:bcv=Psalms 131:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 131:3">3 </verse></sup>Israel, hope in Yahweh,
<br>
from this time forward and forever more.

#BCV:Psalm 132:0
#BCV:Psalms 132:0
<P align="center"><h3>132</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:2">2 </verse></sup>how he swore to Yahweh,
<br>
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:3">3 </verse></sup>“Surely I will not come into the structure of my
house,
<br>
nor go up into my bed;

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:4">4 </verse></sup>I will not give sleep to my eyes,
<br>
or slumber to my eyelids,

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:5">5 </verse></sup>until I find out a place for Yahweh,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar.

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:7">7 </verse></sup>“We will go into his dwelling place.
We will worship at his footstool.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:8">8 </verse></sup>Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place,
you, and the ark of your strength.

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:9">9 </verse></sup>Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.
Let your saints shout for joy!

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:10">10 </verse></sup>For your servant David’s sake,
<br>
don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
<br>
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:12">12 </verse></sup>If your children will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
<br>
their children also will sit on your throne
forever more.”

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:13">13 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
<br>
He has desired it for his habitation.
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:14">14 </verse></sup>“This is my resting place forever.
I will live here, for I have desired it.
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:15">15 </verse></sup>I will abundantly bless her provision.
I will satisfy her poor with bread.

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:16">16 </verse></sup>I will also clothe her priests with salvation.
Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 132:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:17">17 </verse></sup>I will make the horn of David to bud there.
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
<key:bcv=Psalms 132:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 132:18">18 </verse></sup>I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but on himself, his crown will shine.”

#BCV:Psalm 133:0
#BCV:Psalms 133:0
<P align="center"><h3>133</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents. By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 133:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 133:1">1 </verse></sup>See how good and how pleasant it is
for brothers to live together in unity!
<key:bcv=Psalms 133:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 133:2">2 </verse></sup>It is like the precious oil on the head,
that ran down on the beard,
<br>
even Aaron’s beard,
<br>
that came down on the edge of his robes,
<key:bcv=Psalms 133:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 133:3">3 </verse></sup>like the dew of Hermon,
<br>
that comes down on the hills of Zion;
for there Yahweh gives the blessing,
<br>
even life forever more.

#BCV:Psalm 134:0
#BCV:Psalms 134:0
<P align="center"><h3>134</h3></p>
<br>
A Song of Ascents.

<key:bcv=Psalms 134:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 134:1">1 </verse></sup>Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,
who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
<key:bcv=Psalms 134:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 134:2">2 </verse></sup>Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
Praise Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Psalms 134:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 134:3">3 </verse></sup>May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
<br>
even he who made heaven and earth.

#BCV:Psalms 135:0
<P align="center"><h3>135</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 135:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!
<br>
Praise Yahweh’s name!
<br>
Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:2">2 </verse></sup>you who stand in Yahweh’s house,
<br>
in the courts of our God’s house.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:3">3 </verse></sup>Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.
<br>
Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
<key:bcv=Psalms 135:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:5">5 </verse></sup>For I know that Yahweh is great,
<br>
that our Lord is above all gods.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:6">6 </verse></sup>Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done,
in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all
deeps.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:7">7 </verse></sup>He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the
earth.
<br>
He makes lightnings with the rain.
<br>
He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
<key:bcv=Psalms 135:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:8">8 </verse></sup>He struck the firstborn of Egypt,
<br>
both of man and animal.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:9">9 </verse></sup>He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you,
Egypt,
<br>
on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:10">10 </verse></sup>He struck many nations,
<br>
and killed mighty kings—

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:11">11 </verse></sup>Sihon king of the Amorites,
<br>
Og king of Bashan,
<br>
and all the kingdoms of Canaan—

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:12">12 </verse></sup>and gave their land for a heritage,
a heritage to Israel, his people.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:13">13 </verse></sup>Your name, Yahweh, endures forever;
your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
<key:bcv=Psalms 135:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:14">14 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will judge his people
<br>
and have compassion on his servants.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:15">15 </verse></sup>The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:16">16 </verse></sup>They have mouths, but they can’t speak.
They have eyes, but they can’t see.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:17">17 </verse></sup>They have ears, but they can’t hear,
neither is there any breath in their mouths.
<key:bcv=Psalms 135:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:18">18 </verse></sup>Those who make them will be like them,
yes, everyone who trusts in them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:19">19 </verse></sup>House of Israel, praise Yahweh!
<br>
House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:20">20 </verse></sup>House of Levi, praise Yahweh!
<br>
You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Psalms 135:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 135:21">21 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
<br>
who dwells in Jerusalem.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 136:0
<P align="center"><h3>136</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Psalms 136:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:1">1 </verse></sup>Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:2">2 </verse></sup>Give thanks to the God of gods,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:3">3 </verse></sup>Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:4">4 </verse></sup>to him who alone does great wonders,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:5">5 </verse></sup>to him who by understanding made the heavens,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:6">6 </verse></sup>to him who spread out the earth above the waters,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:7">7 </verse></sup>to him who made the great lights,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;

<key:bcv=Psalms 136:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:8">8 </verse></sup>the sun to rule by day,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:9">9 </verse></sup>the moon and stars to rule by night,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:10">10 </verse></sup>to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:11">11 </verse></sup>and brought out Israel from among them,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:12">12 </verse></sup>with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:13">13 </verse></sup>to him who divided the Red Sea apart,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:14">14 </verse></sup>and made Israel to pass through the middle of it,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:15">15 </verse></sup>but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red
Sea,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:16">16 </verse></sup>to him who led his people through the wilderness,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:17">17 </verse></sup>to him who struck great kings,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:18">18 </verse></sup>and killed mighty kings,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:19">19 </verse></sup>Sihon king of the Amorites,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:20">20 </verse></sup>Og king of Bashan,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:21">21 </verse></sup>and gave their land as an inheritance,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:22">22 </verse></sup>even a heritage to Israel his servant,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:23">23 </verse></sup>who remembered us in our low estate,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:24">24 </verse></sup>and has delivered us from our adversaries,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:25><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:25">25 </verse></sup>who gives food to every creature,
<br>
for his loving kindness endures forever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 136:26><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 136:26">26 </verse></sup>Oh give thanks to the God of heaven,
for his loving kindness endures forever.

#BCV:Psalms 137:0
<P align="center"><h3>137</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 137:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:1">1 </verse></sup>By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
<key:bcv=Psalms 137:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:2">2 </verse></sup>On the willows in that land,
<br>
we hung up our harps.

<key:bcv=Psalms 137:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:3">3 </verse></sup>For there, those who led us captive asked us for
songs.
<br>
Those who tormented us demanded songs of
joy:
<br>
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 137:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:4">4 </verse></sup>How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
<key:bcv=Psalms 137:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:5">5 </verse></sup>If I forget you, Jerusalem,
<br>
let my right hand forget its skill.

<key:bcv=Psalms 137:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:6">6 </verse></sup>Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I
don’t remember you,
<br>
if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
<key:bcv=Psalms 137:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:7">7 </verse></sup>Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom
in the day of Jerusalem,
<br>
who said, “Raze it!
<br>
Raze it even to its foundation!”

<key:bcv=Psalms 137:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:8">8 </verse></sup>Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
he will be happy who repays you,
<br>
as you have done to us.

<key:bcv=Psalms 137:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 137:9">9 </verse></sup>Happy shall he be,
<br>
who takes and dashes your little ones against
the rock.

#BCV:Psalm 138:0
#BCV:Psalms 138:0
<P align="center"><h3>138</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 138:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:1">1 </verse></sup>I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
Before the gods,<footnote:1>138:1 The word elohim, used here, usually means “God” but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. </footnote> I will sing praises to you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 138:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:2">2 </verse></sup>I will bow down toward your holy temple,
and give thanks to your Name for your loving
kindness and for your truth;
<br>
for you have exalted your Name and your Word
above all.

<key:bcv=Psalms 138:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:3">3 </verse></sup>In the day that I called, you answered me.
You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
<key:bcv=Psalms 138:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:4">4 </verse></sup>All the kings of the earth will give you thanks,
Yahweh,
<br>
for they have heard the words of your mouth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 138:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:5">5 </verse></sup>Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,
for Yahweh’s glory is great!

<key:bcv=Psalms 138:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:6">6 </verse></sup>For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the
lowly;
<br>
but he knows the proud from afar.

<key:bcv=Psalms 138:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:7">7 </verse></sup>Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will
revive me.
<br>
You will stretch out your hand against the
wrath of my enemies.
<br>
Your right hand will save me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 138:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 138:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me.
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

#BCV:Psalm 139:0
#BCV:Psalms 139:0
<P align="center"><h3>139</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have searched me,
<br>
and you know me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:2">2 </verse></sup>You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:3">3 </verse></sup>You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:4">4 </verse></sup>For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:5">5 </verse></sup>You hem me in behind and before.
<br>
You laid your hand on me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:6">6 </verse></sup>This knowledge is beyond me.
<br>
It’s lofty.
<br>
I can’t attain it.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:7">7 </verse></sup>Where could I go from your Spirit?
<br>
Or where could I flee from your presence?
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:8">8 </verse></sup>If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol,<footnote:1>139:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> behold, you are
there!

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:9">9 </verse></sup>If I take the wings of the dawn,
<br>
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:10">10 </verse></sup>even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:11">11 </verse></sup>If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
The light around me will be night,”

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:12">12 </verse></sup>even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
<br>
The darkness is like light to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:13">13 </verse></sup>For you formed my inmost being.
<br>
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:14">14 </verse></sup>I will give thanks to you,
<br>
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
<br>
My soul knows that very well.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:15">15 </verse></sup>My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
<br>
when I was made in secret,
<br>
woven together in the depths of the earth.
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:16">16 </verse></sup>Your eyes saw my body.
<br>
In your book they were all written,
<br>
the days that were ordained for me,
<br>
when as yet there were none of them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:17">17 </verse></sup>How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:18">18 </verse></sup>If I would count them, they are more in number
than the sand.
<br>
When I wake up, I am still with you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:19">19 </verse></sup>If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
<key:bcv=Psalms 139:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:20">20 </verse></sup>For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against
you?

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:22><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:22">22 </verse></sup>I hate them with perfect hatred.
<br>
They have become my enemies.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:23><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:23">23 </verse></sup>Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 139:24><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 139:24">24 </verse></sup>See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.

#BCV:Psalm 140:0
#BCV:Psalms 140:0
<P align="center"><h3>140</h3></p>
<br>
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:1">1 </verse></sup>Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men.
<br>
Preserve me from violent men:

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:2">2 </verse></sup>those who devise mischief in their hearts.
They continually gather themselves together
for war.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:3">3 </verse></sup>They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
Viper’s poison is under their lips.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked.
Preserve me from the violent men who have
determined to trip my feet.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:5">5 </verse></sup>The proud have hidden a snare for me,
they have spread the cords of a net by the path.
They have set traps for me.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:6">6 </verse></sup>I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.”
Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Psalms 140:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
<key:bcv=Psalms 140:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked.
Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will
become proud.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:9">9 </verse></sup>As for the head of those who surround me,
let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 140:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:10">10 </verse></sup>Let burning coals fall on them.
<br>
Let them be thrown into the fire,
<br>
into miry pits, from where they never rise.
<key:bcv=Psalms 140:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:11">11 </verse></sup>An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth.
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow
him.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:12">12 </verse></sup>I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the
afflicted,
<br>
and justice for the needy.

<key:bcv=Psalms 140:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 140:13">13 </verse></sup>Surely the righteous will give thanks to your
name.
<br>
The upright will dwell in your presence.

#BCV:Psalm 141:0
#BCV:Psalms 141:0
<P align="center"><h3>141</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I have called on you.
<br>
Come to me quickly!
<br>
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 141:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:2">2 </verse></sup>Let my prayer be set before you like incense;
the lifting up of my hands like the evening
sacrifice.

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:3">3 </verse></sup>Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth.
Keep the door of my lips.

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice deeds of wickedness with men who
work iniquity.
<br>
Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
<key:bcv=Psalms 141:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:5">5 </verse></sup>Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;
let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;
don’t let my head refuse it;
<br>
Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
<key:bcv=Psalms 141:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:6">6 </verse></sup>Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the
rock.
<br>
They will hear my words, for they are well
spoken.

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:7">7 </verse></sup>“As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
our bones are scattered at the mouth of
Sheol.”<footnote:1>141:7 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:8">8 </verse></sup>For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord.
I take refuge in you.
<br>
Don’t leave my soul destitute.

<key:bcv=Psalms 141:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:9">9 </verse></sup>Keep me from the snare which they have laid for
me,
<br>
from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
<key:bcv=Psalms 141:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 141:10">10 </verse></sup>Let the wicked fall together into their own nets
while I pass by.

#BCV:Psalm 142:0
#BCV:Psalms 142:0
<P align="center"><h3>142</h3></p>
<br>
A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave.
A Prayer.

<key:bcv=Psalms 142:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:1">1 </verse></sup>I cry with my voice to Yahweh.
<br>
With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
<key:bcv=Psalms 142:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:2">2 </verse></sup>I pour out my complaint before him.
I tell him my troubles.

<key:bcv=Psalms 142:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:3">3 </verse></sup>When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
you knew my route.
<br>
On the path in which I walk,
<br>
they have hidden a snare for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 142:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:4">4 </verse></sup>Look on my right, and see;
<br>
for there is no one who is concerned for me.
Refuge has fled from me.
<br>
No one cares for my soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 142:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:5">5 </verse></sup>I cried to you, Yahweh.
<br>
I said, “You are my refuge,
<br>
my portion in the land of the living.”
<key:bcv=Psalms 142:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:6">6 </verse></sup>Listen to my cry,
<br>
for I am in desperate need.
<br>
Deliver me from my persecutors,
<br>
for they are too strong for me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 142:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 142:7">7 </verse></sup>Bring my soul out of prison,
<br>
that I may give thanks to your name.
<br>
The righteous will surround me,
<br>
for you will be good to me.

#BCV:Psalm 143:0
#BCV:Psalms 143:0
<P align="center"><h3>143</h3></p>
<br>
A Psalm by David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
<br>
Listen to my petitions.
<br>
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve
me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t enter into judgment with your servant,
for in your sight no man living is righteous.
<key:bcv=Psalms 143:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:3">3 </verse></sup>For the enemy pursues my soul.
<br>
He has struck my life down to the ground.
He has made me live in dark places, as those
who have been long dead.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me.
My heart within me is desolate.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:5">5 </verse></sup>I remember the days of old.
<br>
I meditate on all your doings.
<br>
I contemplate the work of your hands.
<key:bcv=Psalms 143:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:6">6 </verse></sup>I spread out my hands to you.
<br>
My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.
Selah.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:7">7 </verse></sup>Hurry to answer me, Yahweh.
<br>
My spirit fails.
<br>
Don’t hide your face from me,
<br>
so that I don’t become like those who go down
into the pit.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:8">8 </verse></sup>Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the
morning,
<br>
for I trust in you.
<br>
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:9">9 </verse></sup>Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies.
I flee to you to hide me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:10">10 </verse></sup>Teach me to do your will,
<br>
for you are my God.
<br>
Your Spirit is good.
<br>
Lead me in the land of uprightness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:11">11 </verse></sup>Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake.
In your righteousness, bring my soul out of
trouble.

<key:bcv=Psalms 143:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 143:12">12 </verse></sup>In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies,
and destroy all those who afflict my soul,
for I am your servant.

#BCV:Psalm 144:0
#BCV:Psalms 144:0
<P align="center"><h3>144</h3></p>
<br>
By David.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:1">1 </verse></sup>Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
<br>
who trains my hands to war,
<br>
and my fingers to battle—

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:2">2 </verse></sup>my loving kindness, my fortress,
<br>
my high tower, my deliverer,
<br>
my shield, and he in whom I take refuge,
who subdues my people under me.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him?
Or the son of man, that you think of him?
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:4">4 </verse></sup>Man is like a breath.
<br>
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:5">5 </verse></sup>Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down.
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:6">6 </verse></sup>Throw out lightning, and scatter them.
Send out your arrows, and rout them.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:7">7 </verse></sup>Stretch out your hand from above,
<br>
rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
out of the hands of foreigners,

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:8">8 </verse></sup>whose mouths speak deceit,
<br>
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:9">9 </verse></sup>I will sing a new song to you, God.
On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:10">10 </verse></sup>You are he who gives salvation to kings,
who rescues David, his servant, from the
deadly sword.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:11">11 </verse></sup>Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of
foreigners,
<br>
whose mouths speak deceit,
<br>
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
<key:bcv=Psalms 144:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:12">12 </verse></sup>Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants,
our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a
palace.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:13">13 </verse></sup>Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.
Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands
in our fields.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:14">14 </verse></sup>Our oxen will pull heavy loads.
<br>
There is no breaking in, and no going away,
and no outcry in our streets.

<key:bcv=Psalms 144:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 144:15">15 </verse></sup>Happy are the people who are in such a situation.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

#BCV:Psalm 145:0
#BCV:Psalms 145:0
<P align="center"><h3>145</h3></p>

A praise psalm by David.<footnote:1>145: This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:1">1 </verse></sup>I will exalt you, my God, the King.
I will praise your name forever and ever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:2">2 </verse></sup>Every day I will praise you.
<br>
I will extol your name forever and ever.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:3">3 </verse></sup>Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
His greatness is unsearchable.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:4">4 </verse></sup>One generation will commend your works to another,
and will declare your mighty acts.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:5">5 </verse></sup>I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your
honor,
<br>
on your wondrous works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:6">6 </verse></sup>Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:7">7 </verse></sup>They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh is gracious, merciful,
<br>
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh is good to all.
<br>
His tender mercies are over all his works.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:10">10 </verse></sup>All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh.
Your saints will extol you.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:11">11 </verse></sup>They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and talk about your power,

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:12">12 </verse></sup>to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
<br>
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:13">13 </verse></sup>Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Yahweh is faithful in all his words,

and loving in all his deeds.<footnote:1>145:13 Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh upholds all who fall,
<br>
and raises up all those who are bowed down.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:15">15 </verse></sup>The eyes of all wait for you.
<br>
You give them their food in due season.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:16">16 </verse></sup>You open your hand,
<br>
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:19">19 </verse></sup>He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him.
He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
<key:bcv=Psalms 145:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh preserves all those who love him,
but he will destroy all the wicked.

<key:bcv=Psalms 145:21><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 145:21">21 </verse></sup>My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh.
Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and
ever.

#BCV:Psalms 146:0
<P align="center"><h3>146</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 146:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!
<br>
Praise Yahweh, my soul.

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:2">2 </verse></sup>While I live, I will praise Yahweh.
I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
<key:bcv=Psalms 146:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t put your trust in princes,
<br>
in a son of man in whom there is no help.
<key:bcv=Psalms 146:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:4">4 </verse></sup>His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.
In that very day, his thoughts perish.
<key:bcv=Psalms 146:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:5">5 </verse></sup>Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
whose hope is in Yahweh, his God,

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:6">6 </verse></sup>who made heaven and earth,
<br>
the sea, and all that is in them;
<br>
who keeps truth forever;

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:7">7 </verse></sup>who executes justice for the oppressed;
who gives food to the hungry.
<br>
Yahweh frees the prisoners.

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind.
Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
Yahweh loves the righteous.

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
<br>
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
<br>
but he turns the way of the wicked upside
down.

<key:bcv=Psalms 146:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 146:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh will reign forever;
<br>
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 147:0
<P align="center"><h3>147</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah,
<br>
for it is good to sing praises to our God;
for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
<br>
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:3">3 </verse></sup>He heals the broken in heart,
<br>
and binds up their wounds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:4">4 </verse></sup>He counts the number of the stars.
<br>
He calls them all by their names.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:5">5 </verse></sup>Great is our Lord, and mighty in power.
His understanding is infinite.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh upholds the humble.
<br>
He brings the wicked down to the ground.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:7">7 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving.
<br>
Sing praises on the harp to our God,

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:8">8 </verse></sup>who covers the sky with clouds,
<br>
who prepares rain for the earth,
<br>
who makes grass grow on the mountains.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:9">9 </verse></sup>He provides food for the livestock,
and for the young ravens when they call.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:10">10 </verse></sup>He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse.
He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who hope in his loving kindness.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:12">12 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem!
<br>
Praise your God, Zion!

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:13">13 </verse></sup>For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.
He has blessed your children within you.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:14">14 </verse></sup>He makes peace in your borders.
<br>
He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:15><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:15">15 </verse></sup>He sends out his commandment to the earth.
His word runs very swiftly.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:16><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:16">16 </verse></sup>He gives snow like wool,
<br>
and scatters frost like ashes.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:17><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:17">17 </verse></sup>He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who can stand before his cold?

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:18><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:18">18 </verse></sup>He sends out his word, and melts them.
He causes his wind to blow, and the waters
flow.

<key:bcv=Psalms 147:19><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:19">19 </verse></sup>He shows his word to Jacob,
<br>
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
<key:bcv=Psalms 147:20><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 147:20">20 </verse></sup>He has not done this for just any nation.
They don’t know his ordinances.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 148:0
<P align="center"><h3>148</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!
<br>
Praise Yahweh from the heavens!
<br>
Praise him in the heights!

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:2">2 </verse></sup>Praise him, all his angels!
<br>
Praise him, all his army!

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:3">3 </verse></sup>Praise him, sun and moon!
<br>
Praise him, all you shining stars!

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:4">4 </verse></sup>Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
you waters that are above the heavens.
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:5">5 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh’s name,
<br>
for he commanded, and they were created.
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:6">6 </verse></sup>He has also established them forever and ever.
He has made a decree which will not pass away.
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:7">7 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh from the earth,
<br>
you great sea creatures, and all depths,
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:8">8 </verse></sup>lightning and hail, snow and clouds,
stormy wind, fulfilling his word,

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:9">9 </verse></sup>mountains and all hills,
<br>
fruit trees and all cedars,

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:10><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:10">10 </verse></sup>wild animals and all livestock,
<br>
small creatures and flying birds,

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:11><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:11">11 </verse></sup>kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all judges of the earth,

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:12><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:12">12 </verse></sup>both young men and maidens,
<br>
old men and children.

<key:bcv=Psalms 148:13><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:13">13 </verse></sup>Let them praise Yahweh’s name,
<br>
for his name alone is exalted.
<br>
His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
<key:bcv=Psalms 148:14><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 148:14">14 </verse></sup>He has lifted up the horn of his people,
the praise of all his saints,
<br>
even of the children of Israel, a people near to
him.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 149:0
<P align="center"><h3>149</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 149:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yahweh!
<br>
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
<br>
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
<key:bcv=Psalms 149:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:2">2 </verse></sup>Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
<key:bcv=Psalms 149:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:3">3 </verse></sup>Let them praise his name in the dance!
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine
and harp!

<key:bcv=Psalms 149:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.

<key:bcv=Psalms 149:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:5">5 </verse></sup>Let the saints rejoice in honor.
<br>
Let them sing for joy on their beds.

<key:bcv=Psalms 149:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:6">6 </verse></sup>May the high praises of God be in their mouths,
and a two-edged sword in their hand,

<key:bcv=Psalms 149:7><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:7">7 </verse></sup>to execute vengeance on the nations,
and punishments on the peoples;

<key:bcv=Psalms 149:8><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:8">8 </verse></sup>to bind their kings with chains,
<br>
and their nobles with fetters of iron;
<key:bcv=Psalms 149:9><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 149:9">9 </verse></sup>to execute on them the written judgment.
All his saints have this honor.
<br>
Praise Yah!

#BCV:Psalms 150:0
<P align="center"><h3>150</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Psalms 150:1><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:1">1 </verse></sup>Praise Yah!
<br>
Praise God in his sanctuary!
<br>
Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
<key:bcv=Psalms 150:2><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:2">2 </verse></sup>Praise him for his mighty acts!
<br>
Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
<key:bcv=Psalms 150:3><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:3">3 </verse></sup>Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet!
Praise him with harp and lyre!

<key:bcv=Psalms 150:4><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:4">4 </verse></sup>Praise him with tambourine and dancing!
Praise him with stringed instruments and
flute!

<key:bcv=Psalms 150:5><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:5">5 </verse></sup>Praise him with loud cymbals!
<br>
Praise him with resounding cymbals!

<key:bcv=Psalms 150:6><sup><verse bcv="Psalms 150:6">6 </verse></sup>Let everything that has breath praise Yah!
Praise Yah!

#OUTLINE:1,Proverbs
<h2>The Proverbs</h2>

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king
of Israel:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to know wisdom and instruction;
<br>
to discern the words of understanding;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:3">3 </verse></sup>to receive instruction in wise dealing,
in righteousness, justice, and equity;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:4">4 </verse></sup>to give prudence to the simple,
<br>
knowledge and discretion to the young man—
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:5">5 </verse></sup>that the wise man may hear, and increase in
learning;
<br>
that the man of understanding may attain to
sound counsel;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:6">6 </verse></sup>to understand a proverb and parables,
the words and riddles of the wise.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh<footnote:1>1:7 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> is the beginning of knowledge,
but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:8">8 </verse></sup>My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:9">9 </verse></sup>for they will be a garland to grace your head,
and chains around your neck.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:10">10 </verse></sup>My son, if sinners entice you,
<br>
don’t consent.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:11">11 </verse></sup>If they say, “Come with us.
<br>
Let’s lie in wait for blood.
<br>
Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without
cause.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,<footnote:1>1:12 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:13">13 </verse></sup>We’ll find all valuable wealth.
<br>
We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall cast your lot among us.
<br>
We’ll all have one purse”—

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:15">15 </verse></sup>my son, don’t walk on the path with them.
Keep your foot from their path,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:16">16 </verse></sup>for their feet run to evil.
<br>
They hurry to shed blood.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any
bird;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:18">18 </verse></sup>but these lay in wait for their own blood.
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:19">19 </verse></sup>So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for
gain.
<br>
It takes away the life of its owners.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
<br>
She utters her voice in the public squares.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:21">21 </verse></sup>She calls at the head of noisy places.
At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her
words:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:22">22 </verse></sup>“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
How long will mockers delight themselves in
mockery,
<br>
and fools hate knowledge?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Turn at my reproof.

Behold,<footnote:1>1:23 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I will pour out my spirit on you.
I will make known my words to you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Because I have called, and you have refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no one has
paid attention;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:25">25 </verse></sup>but you have ignored all my counsel,
and wanted none of my reproof;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:26">26 </verse></sup>I also will laugh at your disaster.
I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:27">27 </verse></sup>when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come on you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Then they will call on me, but I will not answer.
They will seek me diligently, but they will not
find me,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:29">29 </verse></sup>because they hated knowledge,
<br>
and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:30">30 </verse></sup>They wanted none of my counsel.
<br>
They despised all my reproof.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own
way,
<br>
and be filled with their own schemes.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:32">32 </verse></sup>For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.
The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 1:33">33 </verse></sup>But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,
and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

#BCV:Proverbs 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:1">1 </verse></sup>My son, if you will receive my words,
and store up my commandments within you,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:2">2 </verse></sup>so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
<br>
and apply your heart to understanding;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:3">3 </verse></sup>yes, if you call out for discernment,
and lift up your voice for understanding;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:4">4 </verse></sup>if you seek her as silver,
<br>
and search for her as for hidden treasures;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:5">5 </verse></sup>then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
and find the knowledge of God.<footnote:1>2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh gives wisdom.
<br>
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:7">7 </verse></sup>He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:8">8 </verse></sup>that he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For wisdom will enter into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Discretion will watch over you.
<br>
Understanding will keep you,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:12">12 </verse></sup>to deliver you from the way of evil,
from the men who speak perverse things,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:13">13 </verse></sup>who forsake the paths of uprightness,
to walk in the ways of darkness,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:14">14 </verse></sup>who rejoice to do evil,
<br>
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:15">15 </verse></sup>who are crooked in their ways,
and wayward in their paths,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:16">16 </verse></sup>to deliver you from the strange woman,
even from the foreigner who flatters with her
words,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:17">17 </verse></sup>who forsakes the friend of her youth,
and forgets the covenant of her God;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:18">18 </verse></sup>for her house leads down to death,
her paths to the departed spirits.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:19">19 </verse></sup>None who go to her return again,
<br>
neither do they attain to the paths of life.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore walk in the way of good men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:21">21 </verse></sup>For the upright will dwell in the land.
The perfect will remain in it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 2:22">22 </verse></sup>But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

#BCV:Proverbs 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:1">1 </verse></sup>My son, don’t forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:2">2 </verse></sup>for they will add to you length of days,
years of life, and peace.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
<br>
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:4">4 </verse></sup>So you will find favor,
<br>
and good understanding in the sight of God
and man.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
and don’t lean on your own understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:6">6 </verse></sup>In all your ways acknowledge him,
<br>
and he will make your paths straight.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
<br>
Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:8">8 </verse></sup>It will be health to your body,
<br>
and nourishment to your bones.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Honor Yahweh with your substance,
<br>
with the first fruits of all your increase;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:10">10 </verse></sup>so your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will overflow with new wine.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:11">11 </verse></sup>My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
neither be weary of his correction;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:12">12 </verse></sup>for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
even as a father reproves the son in whom he
delights.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
the man who gets understanding.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:14">14 </verse></sup>For her good profit is better than getting silver,
and her return is better than fine gold.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:15">15 </verse></sup>She is more precious than rubies.
<br>
None of the things you can desire are to be
compared to her.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Length of days is in her right hand.
In her left hand are riches and honor.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
All her paths are peace.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:18">18 </verse></sup>She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
Happy is everyone who retains her.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:19">19 </verse></sup>By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
By understanding, he established the heavens.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:20">20 </verse></sup>By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
and the skies drop down the dew.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:21">21 </verse></sup>My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:22">22 </verse></sup>so they will be life to your soul,
and grace for your neck.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Then you shall walk in your way securely.
Your foot won’t stumble.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:24">24 </verse></sup>When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be
sweet.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
<br>
neither of the desolation of the wicked, when
it comes;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:26">26 </verse></sup>for Yahweh will be your confidence,
and will keep your foot from being taken.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
tomorrow I will give it to you,”
<br>
when you have it by you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:29">29 </verse></sup>Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
since he dwells securely by you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:30">30 </verse></sup>Don’t strive with a man without cause,
if he has done you no harm.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:31">31 </verse></sup>Don’t envy the man of violence.
<br>
Choose none of his ways.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:32">32 </verse></sup>For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
but his friendship is with the upright.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:34">34 </verse></sup>Surely he mocks the mockers,
<br>
but he gives grace to the humble.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 3:35><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 3:35">35 </verse></sup>The wise will inherit glory,
<br>
but shame will be the promotion of fools.

#BCV:Proverbs 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:2">2 </verse></sup>for I give you sound learning.
<br>
Don’t forsake my law.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For I was a son to my father,
<br>
tender and an only child in the sight of my
mother.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:4">4 </verse></sup>He taught me, and said to me:
<br>
“Let your heart retain my words.
<br>
Keep my commandments, and live.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Get wisdom.
<br>
Get understanding.
<br>
Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words
of my mouth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you.
Love her, and she will keep you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Wisdom is supreme.
<br>
Get wisdom.
<br>
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get
understanding.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
She will bring you to honor when you embrace
her.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:9">9 </verse></sup>She will give to your head a garland of grace.
She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
The years of your life will be many.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:11">11 </verse></sup>I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:12">12 </verse></sup>When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
<br>
When you run, you will not stumble.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Take firm hold of instruction.
<br>
Don’t let her go.
<br>
Keep her, for she is your life.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
<br>
Turn from it, and pass on.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:16">16 </verse></sup>For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
Their sleep is taken away, unless they make
someone fall.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:17">17 </verse></sup>For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:18">18 </verse></sup>But the path of the righteous is like the dawning
light
<br>
that shines more and more until the perfect
day.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:19">19 </verse></sup>The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don’t know what they stumble over.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:20">20 </verse></sup>My son, attend to my words.
<br>
Turn your ear to my sayings.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the center of your heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:22">22 </verse></sup>For they are life to those who find them,
and health to their whole body.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it is the wellspring of life.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:24">24 </verse></sup>Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
Put corrupt lips far from you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Fix your gaze directly before you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Make the path of your feet level.
<br>
Let all of your ways be established.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.

#BCV:Proverbs 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:1">1 </verse></sup>My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Turn your ear to my understanding,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:2">2 </verse></sup>that you may maintain discretion,
<br>
that your lips may preserve knowledge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
Her mouth is smoother than oil,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:4">4 </verse></sup>but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Her feet go down to death.

Her steps lead straight to Sheol.<footnote:1>5:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:6">6 </verse></sup>She gives no thought to the way of life.
Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Remove your way far from her.
<br>
Don’t come near the door of her house,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:9">9 </verse></sup>lest you give your honor to others,
and your years to the cruel one;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:10">10 </verse></sup>lest strangers feast on your wealth,
and your labors enrich another man’s house.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:11">11 </verse></sup>You will groan at your latter end,
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:12">12 </verse></sup>and say, “How I have hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:13">13 </verse></sup>I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:14">14 </verse></sup>I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
among the gathered assembly.”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Drink water out of your own cistern,
running water out of your own well.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Should your springs overflow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Let them be for yourself alone,
<br>
not for strangers with you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Let your spring be blessed.
<br>
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:19">19 </verse></sup>A loving doe and a graceful deer—
<br>
let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
Be captivated always with her love.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:20">20 </verse></sup>For why should you, my son, be captivated with
an adulteress?
<br>
Why embrace the bosom of another?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:21">21 </verse></sup>For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes.
He examines all his paths.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:22">22 </verse></sup>The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.
The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 5:23">23 </verse></sup>He will die for lack of instruction.
In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

#BCV:Proverbs 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:1">1 </verse></sup>My son, if you have become collateral for your
neighbor,
<br>
if you have struck your hands in pledge for a
stranger,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:2">2 </verse></sup>you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
you are ensnared with the words of your
mouth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
since you have come into the hand of your
neighbor.
<br>
Go, humble yourself.
<br>
Press your plea with your neighbor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Give no sleep to your eyes,
<br>
nor slumber to your eyelids.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the
hunter,
<br>
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Go to the ant, you sluggard.
<br>
Consider her ways, and be wise;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:7">7 </verse></sup>which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:8">8 </verse></sup>provides her bread in the summer,
<br>
and gathers her food in the harvest.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:9">9 </verse></sup>How long will you sleep, sluggard?
<br>
When will you arise out of your sleep?
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:10">10 </verse></sup>A little sleep, a little slumber,
<br>
a little folding of the hands to sleep—
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:11">11 </verse></sup>so your poverty will come as a robber,
and your scarcity as an armed man.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:12">12 </verse></sup>A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:13">13 </verse></sup>who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
who motions with his fingers,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:14">14 </verse></sup>in whose heart is perverseness,
<br>
who devises evil continually,
<br>
who always sows discord.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
He will be broken suddenly, and that without
remedy.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:16">16 </verse></sup>There are six things which Yahweh hates;
yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:17">17 </verse></sup>arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
<br>
hands that shed innocent blood,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:18">18 </verse></sup>a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:19">19 </verse></sup>a false witness who utters lies,
<br>
and he who sows discord among brothers.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:20">20 </verse></sup>My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Bind them continually on your heart.
Tie them around your neck.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:22">22 </verse></sup>When you walk, it will lead you.
<br>
When you sleep, it will watch over you.
When you awake, it will talk with you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:23">23 </verse></sup>For the commandment is a lamp,
<br>
and the law is light.
<br>
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:24">24 </verse></sup>to keep you from the immoral woman,
from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:26">26 </verse></sup>For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
and his clothes not be burned?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:28">28 </verse></sup>Or can one walk on hot coals,
<br>
and his feet not be scorched?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:29">29 </verse></sup>So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Men don’t despise a thief
<br>
if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:31">31 </verse></sup>but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
He shall give all the wealth of his house.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:32">32 </verse></sup>He who commits adultery with a woman is void of
understanding.
<br>
He who does it destroys his own soul.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:33">33 </verse></sup>He will get wounds and dishonor.
<br>
His reproach will not be wiped away.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:34">34 </verse></sup>For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 6:35><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 6:35">35 </verse></sup>He won’t regard any ransom,
<br>
neither will he rest content, though you give
many gifts.

#BCV:Proverbs 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:1">1 </verse></sup>My son, keep my words.
<br>
Lay up my commandments within you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Keep my commandments and live!
<br>
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Bind them on your fingers.
<br>
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
<br>
Call understanding your relative,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:5">5 </verse></sup>that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her
words.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For at the window of my house,
<br>
I looked out through my lattice.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:7">7 </verse></sup>I saw among the simple ones.
<br>
I discerned among the youths a young man
void of understanding,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:8">8 </verse></sup>passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:9">9 </verse></sup>in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of
a prostitute,
<br>
and with crafty intent.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:11">11 </verse></sup>She is loud and defiant.
<br>
Her feet don’t stay in her house.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurking at every corner.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:13">13 </verse></sup>So she caught him, and kissed him.
With an impudent face she said to him:
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:14">14 </verse></sup>“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
Today I have paid my vows.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore I came out to meet you,
<br>
to diligently seek your face,
<br>
and I have found you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:16">16 </verse></sup>I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:17">17 </verse></sup>I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and
cinnamon.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:18">18 </verse></sup>Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:19">19 </verse></sup>For my husband isn’t at home.
<br>
He has gone on a long journey.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:20">20 </verse></sup>He has taken a bag of money with him.
He will come home at the full moon.”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:21">21 </verse></sup>With persuasive words, she led him astray.
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:22">22 </verse></sup>He followed her immediately,
<br>
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
<br>
as a fool stepping into a noose.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
as a bird hurries to the snare,
<br>
and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:26">26 </verse></sup>for she has thrown down many wounded.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 7:27">27 </verse></sup>Her house is the way to Sheol,<footnote:1>7:27 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<br>
going down to the rooms of death.

#BCV:Proverbs 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Doesn’t wisdom cry out?
<br>
Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:2">2 </verse></sup>On the top of high places by the way,
where the paths meet, she stands.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,
at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:4">4 </verse></sup>“I call to you men!
<br>
I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:5">5 </verse></sup>You simple, understand prudence!
<br>
You fools, be of an understanding heart!
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Hear, for I will speak excellent things.
The opening of my lips is for right things.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For my mouth speaks truth.
<br>
Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:8">8 </verse></sup>All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:9">9 </verse></sup>They are all plain to him who understands,
right to those who find knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Receive my instruction rather than silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:11">11 </verse></sup>For wisdom is better than rubies.
<br>
All the things that may be desired can’t be
compared to it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:12">12 </verse></sup>“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling.
Find out knowledge and discretion.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:13">13 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the
perverse mouth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Counsel and sound knowledge are mine.
I have understanding and power.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:15">15 </verse></sup>By me kings reign,
<br>
and princes decree justice.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:16">16 </verse></sup>By me princes rule,
<br>
nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:17">17 </verse></sup>I love those who love me.
<br>
Those who seek me diligently will find me.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:18">18 </verse></sup>With me are riches, honor,
<br>
enduring wealth, and prosperity.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:19">19 </verse></sup>My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
my yield than choice silver.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:20">20 </verse></sup>I walk in the way of righteousness,
in the middle of the paths of justice,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:21">21 </verse></sup>that I may give wealth to those who love me.
I fill their treasuries.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:22">22 </verse></sup>“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his
work,
<br>
before his deeds of old.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:23">23 </verse></sup>I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
before the earth existed.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:24">24 </verse></sup>When there were no depths, I was born,
when there were no springs abounding with
water.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was born;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:26">26 </verse></sup>while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the
fields,
<br>
nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:27">27 </verse></sup>When he established the heavens, I was there.
When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:28">28 </verse></sup>when he established the clouds above,
when the springs of the deep became strong,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:29">29 </verse></sup>when he gave to the sea its boundary,
that the waters should not violate his commandment,
when he marked out the foundations of the
earth,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:30">30 </verse></sup>then I was the craftsman by his side.
I was a delight day by day,
<br>
always rejoicing before him,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:31">31 </verse></sup>rejoicing in his whole world.
<br>
My delight was with the sons of men.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:32">32 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
for blessed are those who keep my ways.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:33">33 </verse></sup>Hear instruction, and be wise.
<br>
Don’t refuse it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man who hears me,
<br>
watching daily at my gates,
<br>
waiting at my door posts.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:35">35 </verse></sup>For whoever finds me finds life,
<br>
and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 8:36">36 </verse></sup>But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul.
All those who hate me love death.”

#BCV:Proverbs 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Wisdom has built her house.
<br>
She has carved out her seven pillars.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:2">2 </verse></sup>She has prepared her meat.
<br>
She has mixed her wine.
<br>
She has also set her table.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:3">3 </verse></sup>She has sent out her maidens.
<br>
She cries from the highest places of the city:
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:4">4 </verse></sup>“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who is void of understanding, she
says to him,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:5">5 </verse></sup>“Come, eat some of my bread,
<br>
Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Leave your simple ways, and live.
<br>
Walk in the way of understanding.”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:7">7 </verse></sup>One who corrects a mocker invites insult.
One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.
Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.
Teach a righteous person, and he will increase
in learning.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:10">10 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:11">11 </verse></sup>For by me your days will be multiplied.
The years of your life will be increased.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:12">12 </verse></sup>If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.
If you mock, you alone will bear it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:13">13 </verse></sup>The foolish woman is loud,
<br>
undisciplined, and knows nothing.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:14">14 </verse></sup>She sits at the door of her house,
on a seat in the high places of the city,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:15">15 </verse></sup>to call to those who pass by,
<br>
who go straight on their ways,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:16">16 </verse></sup>“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”
As for him who is void of understanding, she
says to him,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:17">17 </verse></sup>“Stolen water is sweet.
<br>
Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 9:18">18 </verse></sup>But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are
there,

that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.<footnote:1>9:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

#BCV:Proverbs 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:1">1 </verse></sup>The proverbs of Solomon.
<br>
A wise son makes a glad father;
<br>
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
but righteousness delivers from death.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to
go hungry,
<br>
but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:4">4 </verse></sup>He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand,
but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:5">5 </verse></sup>He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son
who causes shame.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:7">7 </verse></sup>The memory of the righteous is blessed,
but the name of the wicked will rot.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:8">8 </verse></sup>The wise in heart accept commandments,
but a chattering fool will fall.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:9">9 </verse></sup>He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:10">10 </verse></sup>One who winks with the eye causes sorrow,
but a chattering fool will fall.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:11">11 </verse></sup>The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life,
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Hatred stirs up strife,
<br>
but love covers all wrongs.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:13">13 </verse></sup>Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has
discernment,
<br>
but a rod is for the back of him who is void of
understanding.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Wise men lay up knowledge,
<br>
but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:15">15 </verse></sup>The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:16">16 </verse></sup>The labor of the righteous leads to life.
The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:17">17 </verse></sup>He is in the way of life who heeds correction,
but he who forsakes reproof leads others
astray.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:18">18 </verse></sup>He who hides hatred has lying lips.
He who utters a slander is a fool.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:19">19 </verse></sup>In the multitude of words there is no lack of
disobedience,
<br>
but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:20">20 </verse></sup>The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver.
The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:21">21 </verse></sup>The lips of the righteous feed many,
but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth,
<br>
and he adds no trouble to it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:23">23 </verse></sup>It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness,
but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:24">24 </verse></sup>What the wicked fear will overtake them,
but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:25">25 </verse></sup>When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no
more;
<br>
but the righteous stand firm forever.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:26">26 </verse></sup>As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:27">27 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh prolongs days,
<br>
but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:28">28 </verse></sup>The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hope of the wicked will perish.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:29">29 </verse></sup>The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright,
but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:30">30 </verse></sup>The righteous will never be removed,
but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:31">31 </verse></sup>The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 10:32">32 </verse></sup>The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

#BCV:Proverbs 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:1">1 </verse></sup>A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh,
but accurate weights are his delight.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:2">2 </verse></sup>When pride comes, then comes shame,
but with humility comes wisdom.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:3">3 </verse></sup>The integrity of the upright shall guide them,
but the perverseness of the treacherous shall
destroy them.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:5">5 </verse></sup>The righteousness of the blameless will direct his
way,
<br>
but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:6">6 </verse></sup>The righteousness of the upright shall deliver
them,
<br>
but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:7">7 </verse></sup>When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
and expectation of power comes to nothing.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:8">8 </verse></sup>A righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
and the wicked takes his place.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:9">9 </verse></sup>With his mouth the godless man destroys his
neighbor,
<br>
but the righteous will be delivered through
knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:10">10 </verse></sup>When it goes well with the righteous, the city
rejoices.
<br>
When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:11">11 </verse></sup>By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted,
but it is overthrown by the mouth of the
wicked.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:12">12 </verse></sup>One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom,
but a man of understanding holds his peace.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:13">13 </verse></sup>One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one
who keeps a secret.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls,
but in the multitude of counselors there is
victory.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:15">15 </verse></sup>He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for
it,
<br>
but he who refuses pledges of collateral is
secure.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:16">16 </verse></sup>A gracious woman obtains honor,
<br>
but violent men obtain riches.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:17">17 </verse></sup>The merciful man does good to his own soul,
but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure
reward.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:19">19 </verse></sup>He who is truly righteous gets life.
He who pursues evil gets death.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:20">20 </verse></sup>Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination
to Yahweh,
<br>
but those whose ways are blameless are his
delight.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
but the offspring<footnote:1>11:21 or, seed</footnote> of the righteous will be
delivered.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout,
is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:23">23 </verse></sup>The desire of the righteous is only good.
The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:24">24 </verse></sup>There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
There is one who withholds more than is appropriate,
but gains poverty.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:25">25 </verse></sup>The liberal soul shall be made fat.
He who waters shall be watered also himself.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:26">26 </verse></sup>People curse someone who withholds grain,
but blessing will be on the head of him who
sells it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:27">27 </verse></sup>He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
but he who searches after evil, it shall come to
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:28">28 </verse></sup>He who trusts in his riches will fall,
but the righteous shall flourish as the green
leaf.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:29">29 </verse></sup>He who troubles his own house shall inherit the
wind.
<br>
The foolish shall be servant to the wise of
heart.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:30">30 </verse></sup>The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
He who is wise wins souls.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 11:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth,
how much more the wicked and the sinner!

#BCV:Proverbs 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Whoever loves correction loves knowledge,
but he who hates reproof is stupid.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:2">2 </verse></sup>A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh,
but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:3">3 </verse></sup>A man shall not be established by wickedness,
but the root of the righteous shall not be
moved.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:4">4 </verse></sup>A worthy woman is the crown of her husband,
but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his
bones.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:5">5 </verse></sup>The thoughts of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:6">6 </verse></sup>The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for
blood,
<br>
but the speech of the upright rescues them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:7">7 </verse></sup>The wicked are overthrown, and are no more,
but the house of the righteous shall stand.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:8">8 </verse></sup>A man shall be commended according to his wisdom,
but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Better is he who is little known, and has a servant,
than he who honors himself and lacks bread.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:10">10 </verse></sup>A righteous man respects the life of his animal,
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:11">11 </verse></sup>He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread,
but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:12">12 </verse></sup>The wicked desires the plunder of evil men,
but the root of the righteous flourishes.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:13">13 </verse></sup>An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips,
but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:14">14 </verse></sup>A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of
his mouth.
<br>
The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded
to him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:15">15 </verse></sup>The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
but he who is wise listens to counsel.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:16">16 </verse></sup>A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:17">17 </verse></sup>He who is truthful testifies honestly,
but a false witness lies.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:18">18 </verse></sup>There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing
of a sword,
<br>
but the tongue of the wise heals.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Truth’s lips will be established forever,
but a lying tongue is only momentary.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil,
but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:21">21 </verse></sup>No mischief shall happen to the righteous,
but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:22">22 </verse></sup>Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh,
but those who do the truth are his delight.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:23">23 </verse></sup>A prudent man keeps his knowledge,
but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:24">24 </verse></sup>The hands of the diligent ones shall rule,
but laziness ends in slave labor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
but a kind word makes it glad.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:26">26 </verse></sup>A righteous person is cautious in friendship,
but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:27">27 </verse></sup>The slothful man doesn’t roast his game,
but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 12:28">28 </verse></sup>In the way of righteousness is life;
in its path there is no death.

#BCV:Proverbs 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:1">1 </verse></sup>A wise son listens to his father’s instruction,
but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:2">2 </verse></sup>By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things,
but the unfaithful crave violence.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:3">3 </verse></sup>He who guards his mouth guards his soul.
One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:4">4 </verse></sup>The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing,
but the desire of the diligent shall be fully
satisfied.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:5">5 </verse></sup>A righteous man hates lies,
<br>
but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Righteousness guards the way of integrity,
but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:7">7 </verse></sup>There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have
nothing.
<br>
There are some who pretend to be poor, yet
have great wealth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:8">8 </verse></sup>The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
but the poor hear no threats.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:9">9 </verse></sup>The light of the righteous shines brightly,
but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Pride only breeds quarrels,
but wisdom is with people who take advice.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away,
but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Whoever despises instruction will pay for it,
but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:14">14 </verse></sup>The teaching of the wise is a spring of life,
to turn from the snares of death.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Good understanding wins favor,
<br>
but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Every prudent man acts from knowledge,
but a fool exposes folly.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:17">17 </verse></sup>A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Poverty and shame come to him who refuses
discipline,
<br>
but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
but fools detest turning from evil.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:20">20 </verse></sup>One who walks with wise men grows wise,
but a companion of fools suffers harm.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:21">21 </verse></sup>Misfortune pursues sinners,
<br>
but prosperity rewards the righteous.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:22">22 </verse></sup>A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s
children,
<br>
but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the
righteous.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:23">23 </verse></sup>An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields,
but injustice sweeps it away.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:24">24 </verse></sup>One who spares the rod hates his son,
but one who loves him is careful to discipline
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 13:25">25 </verse></sup>The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his
soul,
<br>
but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

#BCV:Proverbs 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Every wise woman builds her house,
but the foolish one tears it down with her own
hands.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:2">2 </verse></sup>He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh,
but he who is perverse in his ways despises
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:3">3 </verse></sup>The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back,
but the lips of the wise protect them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Where no oxen are, the crib is clean,
but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:5">5 </verse></sup>A truthful witness will not lie,
<br>
but a false witness pours out lies.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:6">6 </verse></sup>A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to a discerning
person.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Stay away from a foolish man,
<br>
for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:8">8 </verse></sup>The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his
way,
<br>
but the folly of fools is deceit.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Fools mock at making atonement for sins,
but among the upright there is good will.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:10">10 </verse></sup>The heart knows its own bitterness and joy;
he will not share these with a stranger.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:11">11 </verse></sup>The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
but the tent of the upright will flourish.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:12">12 </verse></sup>There is a way which seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful,
and mirth may end in heaviness.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:14">14 </verse></sup>The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways;
likewise a good man will be rewarded for his
ways.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:15">15 </verse></sup>A simple man believes everything,
<br>
but the prudent man carefully considers his
ways.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:16">16 </verse></sup>A wise man fears and shuns evil,
<br>
but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:17">17 </verse></sup>He who is quick to become angry will commit
folly,
<br>
and a crafty man is hated.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:18">18 </verse></sup>The simple inherit folly,
<br>
but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The evil bow down before the good,
and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:20">20 </verse></sup>The poor person is shunned even by his own
neighbor,
<br>
but the rich person has many friends.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:21">21 </verse></sup>He who despises his neighbor sins,
but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t they go astray who plot evil?
But love and faithfulness belong to those who
plan good.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:23">23 </verse></sup>In all hard work there is profit,
<br>
but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:24">24 </verse></sup>The crown of the wise is their riches,
but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:25">25 </verse></sup>A truthful witness saves souls,
<br>
but a false witness is deceitful.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:26">26 </verse></sup>In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress,
and he will be a refuge for his children.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:27">27 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life,
turning people from the snares of death.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:28">28 </verse></sup>In the multitude of people is the king’s glory,
but in the lack of people is the destruction of
the prince.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:29">29 </verse></sup>He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:30">30 </verse></sup>The life of the body is a heart at peace,
but envy rots the bones.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:31">31 </verse></sup>He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for
his Maker,
<br>
but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:32">32 </verse></sup>The wicked is brought down in his calamity,
but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:33">33 </verse></sup>Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,
and is even made known in the inward part of
fools.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:34">34 </verse></sup>Righteousness exalts a nation,
<br>
but sin is a disgrace to any people.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 14:35">35 </verse></sup>The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals
wisely,
<br>
but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

#BCV:Proverbs 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:1">1 </verse></sup>A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:2">2 </verse></sup>The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
<br>
but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere,
<br>
keeping watch on the evil and the good.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:4">4 </verse></sup>A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
<br>
but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:5">5 </verse></sup>A fool despises his father’s correction,
but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:6">6 </verse></sup>In the house of the righteous is much treasure,
but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:7">7 </verse></sup>The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
not so with the heart of fools.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:8">8 </verse></sup>The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination
to Yahweh,
<br>
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:9">9 </verse></sup>The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:10">10 </verse></sup>There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the
way.
<br>
Whoever hates reproof shall die.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Sheol<footnote:1>15:11 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> and Abaddon are before Yahweh—
how much more then the hearts of the children
of men!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:12">12 </verse></sup>A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved;
he will not go to the wise.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:13">13 </verse></sup>A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:14">14 </verse></sup>The heart of one who has understanding seeks
knowledge,
<br>
but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:15">15 </verse></sup>All the days of the afflicted are wretched,
but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a
continual feast.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh,
than great treasure with trouble.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
than a fattened calf with hatred.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:18">18 </verse></sup>A wrathful man stirs up contention,
but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:19">19 </verse></sup>The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:20">20 </verse></sup>A wise son makes a father glad,
<br>
but a foolish man despises his mother.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom,
but a man of understanding keeps his way
straight.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
How good is a word at the right time!
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:24">24 </verse></sup>The path of life leads upward for the wise,
to keep him from going downward to Sheol.<footnote:1>15:24 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud,
but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked,
but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:27">27 </verse></sup>He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,
but he who hates bribes will live.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:28">28 </verse></sup>The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Yahweh is far from the wicked,
<br>
but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:30">30 </verse></sup>The light of the eyes rejoices the heart.
Good news gives health to the bones.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:31">31 </verse></sup>The ear that listens to reproof lives,
and will be at home among the wise.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:32">32 </verse></sup>He who refuses correction despises his own soul,
but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 15:33">33 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom.
Before honor is humility.

#BCV:Proverbs 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:1">1 </verse></sup>The plans of the heart belong to man,
but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:2">2 </verse></sup>All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes,
but Yahweh weighs the motives.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Commit your deeds to Yahweh,
<br>
and your plans shall succeed.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh has made everything for its own end—
yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination
to Yahweh;
<br>
they shall certainly not be unpunished.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:6">6 </verse></sup>By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:7">7 </verse></sup>When a man’s ways please Yahweh,
<br>
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Better is a little with righteousness,
than great revenues with injustice.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:9">9 </verse></sup>A man’s heart plans his course,
<br>
but Yahweh directs his steps.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king.
He shall not betray his mouth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s;
all the weights in the bag are his work.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:12">12 </verse></sup>It is an abomination for kings to do wrong,
for the throne is established by righteousness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Righteous lips are the delight of kings.
They value one who speaks the truth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:14">14 </verse></sup>The king’s wrath is a messenger of death,
but a wise man will pacify it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:15">15 </verse></sup>In the light of the king’s face is life.
His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:16">16 </verse></sup>How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen
rather than silver.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:17">17 </verse></sup>The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:18">18 </verse></sup>Pride goes before destruction,
<br>
and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:19">19 </verse></sup>It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,
than to divide the plunder with the proud.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:20">20 </verse></sup>He who heeds the Word finds prosperity.
Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:21">21 </verse></sup>The wise in heart shall be called prudent.
Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:22">22 </verse></sup>Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has
it,
<br>
but the punishment of fools is their folly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:23">23 </verse></sup>The heart of the wise instructs his mouth,
and adds learning to his lips.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
<br>
sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:25">25 </verse></sup>There is a way which seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:26">26 </verse></sup>The appetite of the laboring man labors for him,
for his mouth urges him on.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:27">27 </verse></sup>A worthless man devises mischief.
<br>
His speech is like a scorching fire.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:28">28 </verse></sup>A perverse man stirs up strife.
<br>
A whisperer separates close friends.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:29">29 </verse></sup>A man of violence entices his neighbor,
and leads him in a way that is not good.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:30">30 </verse></sup>One who winks his eyes to plot perversities,
one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:31">31 </verse></sup>Gray hair is a crown of glory.
<br>
It is attained by a life of righteousness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:32">32 </verse></sup>One who is slow to anger is better than the
mighty;
<br>
one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a
city.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 16:33">33 </verse></sup>The lot is cast into the lap,
<br>
but its every decision is from Yahweh.

#BCV:Proverbs 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Better is a dry morsel with quietness,
than a house full of feasting with strife.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:2">2 </verse></sup>A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who
causes shame,
<br>
and shall have a part in the inheritance among
the brothers.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:3">3 </verse></sup>The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for
gold,
<br>
but Yahweh tests the hearts.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:4">4 </verse></sup>An evildoer heeds wicked lips.
<br>
A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker.
He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:6">6 </verse></sup>Children’s children are the crown of old men;
the glory of children is their parents.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool,
much less do lying lips fit a prince.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:8">8 </verse></sup>A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who
gives it;
<br>
wherever he turns, he prospers.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:9">9 </verse></sup>He who covers an offense promotes love;
but he who repeats a matter separates best
friends.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:10">10 </verse></sup>A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding
than a hundred lashes into a fool.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:11">11 </verse></sup>An evil man seeks only rebellion;
<br>
therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent
against him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
rather than a fool in his folly.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Whoever rewards evil for good,
<br>
evil shall not depart from his house.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:14">14 </verse></sup>The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam,
therefore stop contention before quarreling
breaks out.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:15">15 </verse></sup>He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns
the righteous,
<br>
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy
wisdom,
<br>
since he has no understanding?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:17">17 </verse></sup>A friend loves at all times;
<br>
and a brother is born for adversity.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:18">18 </verse></sup>A man void of understanding strikes hands,
and becomes collateral in the presence of his
neighbor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:19">19 </verse></sup>He who loves disobedience loves strife.
One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:20">20 </verse></sup>One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity,
and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into
trouble.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:21">21 </verse></sup>He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
The father of a fool has no joy.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:22">22 </verse></sup>A cheerful heart makes good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:23">23 </verse></sup>A wicked man receives a bribe in secret,
to pervert the ways of justice.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:24">24 </verse></sup>Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding,
but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:25">25 </verse></sup>A foolish son brings grief to his father,
and bitterness to her who bore him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:26">26 </verse></sup>Also to punish the righteous is not good,
nor to flog officials for their integrity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:27">27 </verse></sup>He who spares his words has knowledge.
He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 17:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 17:28">28 </verse></sup>Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise.
When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be
discerning.

#BCV:Proverbs 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:1">1 </verse></sup>A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness,
and defies all sound judgment.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:2">2 </verse></sup>A fool has no delight in understanding,
but only in revealing his own opinion.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:3">3 </verse></sup>When wickedness comes, contempt also comes,
and with shame comes disgrace.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:4">4 </verse></sup>The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters.
The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:5">5 </verse></sup>To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good,
nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:6">6 </verse></sup>A fool’s lips come into strife,
<br>
and his mouth invites beatings.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:7">7 </verse></sup>A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
<br>
and his lips are a snare to his soul.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:8">8 </verse></sup>The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:
they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:9">9 </verse></sup>One who is slack in his work
<br>
is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s name is a strong tower:
<br>
the righteous run to him, and are safe.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:12">12 </verse></sup>Before destruction the heart of man is proud,
but before honor is humility.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:13">13 </verse></sup>He who answers before he hears,
that is folly and shame to him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:14">14 </verse></sup>A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness,
but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:15">15 </verse></sup>The heart of the discerning gets knowledge.
The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:16">16 </verse></sup>A man’s gift makes room for him,
<br>
and brings him before great men.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:17">17 </verse></sup>He who pleads his cause first seems right—
until another comes and questions him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:18">18 </verse></sup>The lot settles disputes,
<br>
and keeps strong ones apart.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:19">19 </verse></sup>A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified
city.
<br>
Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:20">20 </verse></sup>A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his
mouth.
<br>
With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Death and life are in the power of the tongue;
those who love it will eat its fruit.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,
and obtains favor of Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:23">23 </verse></sup>The poor plead for mercy,
<br>
but the rich answer harshly.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 18:24">24 </verse></sup>A man of many companions may be ruined,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a
brother.

#BCV:Proverbs 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:2">2 </verse></sup>It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge,
nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the
way.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:3">3 </verse></sup>The foolishness of man subverts his way;
his heart rages against Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Wealth adds many friends,
<br>
but the poor is separated from his friend.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:5">5 </verse></sup>A false witness shall not be unpunished.
He who pours out lies shall not go free.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
and everyone is a friend to a man who gives
gifts.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:7">7 </verse></sup>All the relatives of the poor shun him;
how much more do his friends avoid him!
He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He who gets wisdom loves his own soul.
He who keeps understanding shall find good.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:9">9 </verse></sup>A false witness shall not be unpunished.
He who utters lies shall perish.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool,
much less for a servant to have rule over
princes.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:11">11 </verse></sup>The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger.
It is his glory to overlook an offense.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:12">12 </verse></sup>The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:13">13 </verse></sup>A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:14">14 </verse></sup>House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.
The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:16">16 </verse></sup>He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall
die.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:17">17 </verse></sup>He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh;
he will reward him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Discipline your son, for there is hope;
don’t be a willing party to his death.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:19">19 </verse></sup>A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty,
for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Listen to counsel and receive instruction,
that you may be wise in your latter end.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:21">21 </verse></sup>There are many plans in a man’s heart,
but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:22">22 </verse></sup>That which makes a man to be desired is his
kindness.
<br>
A poor man is better than a liar.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:23">23 </verse></sup>The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment;
he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:24">24 </verse></sup>The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he will not so much as bring it to his mouth
again.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:25">25 </verse></sup>Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
rebuke one who has understanding, and he will
gain knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:26">26 </verse></sup>He who robs his father and drives away his
mother
<br>
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:27">27 </verse></sup>If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:28">28 </verse></sup>A corrupt witness mocks justice,
<br>
and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 19:29">29 </verse></sup>Penalties are prepared for scoffers,
and beatings for the backs of fools.

#BCV:Proverbs 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:2">2 </verse></sup>The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own
life.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:3">3 </verse></sup>It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:4">4 </verse></sup>The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have
nothing.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
but who can find a faithful man?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:7">7 </verse></sup>A righteous man walks in integrity.
Blessed are his children after him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:8">8 </verse></sup>A king who sits on the throne of judgment
scatters away all evil with his eyes.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:9">9 </verse></sup>Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
I am clean and without sin?”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Differing weights and differing measures,
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:11">11 </verse></sup>Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
whether his work is pure, and whether it is
right.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:12">12 </verse></sup>The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
<br>
Yahweh has made even both of them.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with
bread.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:14">14 </verse></sup>“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:15">15 </verse></sup>There is gold and abundance of rubies,
but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Take the garment of one who puts up collateral
for a stranger;
<br>
and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:17">17 </verse></sup>Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Plans are established by advice;
<br>
by wise guidance you wage war!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:19">19 </verse></sup>He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
therefore don’t keep company with him who
opens wide his lips.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:21">21 </verse></sup>An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning
won’t be blessed in the end.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh detests differing weights,
<br>
and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:24">24 </verse></sup>A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
<br>
how then can man understand his way?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:25">25 </verse></sup>It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
then later to consider his vows.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:26">26 </verse></sup>A wise king winnows out the wicked,
and drives the threshing wheel over them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:27">27 </verse></sup>The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
searching all his innermost parts.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:28">28 </verse></sup>Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
His throne is sustained by love.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:29">29 </verse></sup>The glory of young men is their strength.
The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 20:30">30 </verse></sup>Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
<br>
and beatings purge the innermost parts.

#BCV:Proverbs 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:1">1 </verse></sup>The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the
watercourses.
<br>
He turns it wherever he desires.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:3">3 </verse></sup>To do righteousness and justice
<br>
is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:4">4 </verse></sup>A high look and a proud heart,
<br>
the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:5">5 </verse></sup>The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to
poverty.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:6">6 </verse></sup>Getting treasures by a lying tongue
is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:7">7 </verse></sup>The violence of the wicked will drive them away,
because they refuse to do what is right.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:8">8 </verse></sup>The way of the guilty is devious,
<br>
but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:9">9 </verse></sup>It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
than to share a house with a contentious
woman.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:10">10 </verse></sup>The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:11">11 </verse></sup>When the mocker is punished, the simple gains
wisdom.
<br>
When the wise is instructed, he receives
knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:12">12 </verse></sup>The Righteous One considers the house of the
wicked,
<br>
and brings the wicked to ruin.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:13">13 </verse></sup>Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor,
he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:14">14 </verse></sup>A gift in secret pacifies anger,
<br>
and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:15">15 </verse></sup>It is joy to the righteous to do justice;
but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:16">16 </verse></sup>The man who wanders out of the way of understanding
shall rest in the assembly of the departed
spirits.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:17">17 </verse></sup>He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.
He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:18">18 </verse></sup>The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
the treacherous for the upright.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:19">19 </verse></sup>It is better to dwell in a desert land,
than with a contentious and fretful woman.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:20">20 </verse></sup>There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling
of the wise,
<br>
but a foolish man swallows it up.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:21">21 </verse></sup>He who follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:22">22 </verse></sup>A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
and brings down the strength of its confidence.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue
keeps his soul from troubles.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:24">24 </verse></sup>The proud and arrogant man —“Scoffer” is his
name—
<br>
he works in the arrogance of pride.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:25">25 </verse></sup>The desire of the sluggard kills him,
for his hands refuse to labor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:26">26 </verse></sup>There are those who covet greedily all day long;
but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:27">27 </verse></sup>The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination—
how much more, when he brings it with a
wicked mind!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:28">28 </verse></sup>A false witness will perish.
<br>
A man who listens speaks to eternity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:29">29 </verse></sup>A wicked man hardens his face;
<br>
but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:30">30 </verse></sup>There is no wisdom nor understanding
nor counsel against Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 21:31">31 </verse></sup>The horse is prepared for the day of battle;
but victory is with Yahweh.

#BCV:Proverbs 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:1">1 </verse></sup>A good name is more desirable than great riches,
and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:2">2 </verse></sup>The rich and the poor have this in common:
Yahweh is the maker of them all.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:3">3 </verse></sup>A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:4">4 </verse></sup>The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
is wealth, honor, and life.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked;
whoever guards his soul stays from them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:7">7 </verse></sup>The rich rule over the poor.
<br>
The borrower is servant to the lender.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:8">8 </verse></sup>He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:9">9 </verse></sup>He who has a generous eye will be blessed,
for he shares his food with the poor.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;
yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:11">11 </verse></sup>He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully
is the king’s friend.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge,
but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:13">13 </verse></sup>The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I will be killed in the streets!”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:14">14 </verse></sup>The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.
He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into
it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Folly is bound up in the heart of a child;
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:16">16 </verse></sup>Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase
and whoever gives to the rich,
<br>
both come to poverty.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.
Apply your heart to my teaching.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:18">18 </verse></sup>For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within
you,
<br>
if all of them are ready on your lips.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:19">19 </verse></sup>I teach you today, even you,
<br>
so that your trust may be in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:20">20 </verse></sup>Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things
of counsel and knowledge,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:21">21 </verse></sup>To teach you truth, reliable words,
to give sound answers to the ones who sent
you?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor;
and don’t crush the needy in court;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:23">23 </verse></sup>for Yahweh will plead their case,
<br>
and plunder the life of those who plunder
them.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:24">24 </verse></sup>Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man.
Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:25">25 </verse></sup>lest you learn his ways
<br>
and ensnare your soul.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:26">26 </verse></sup>Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
of those who are collateral for debts.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:27">27 </verse></sup>If you don’t have means to pay,
<br>
why should he take away your bed from under
you?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
which your fathers have set up.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 22:29">29 </verse></sup>Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve kings.
<br>
He won’t serve obscure men.

#BCV:Proverbs 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:1">1 </verse></sup>When you sit to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently what is before you;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:2">2 </verse></sup>put a knife to your throat
<br>
if you are a man given to appetite.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t be desirous of his dainties,
<br>
since they are deceitful food.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
<br>
In your wisdom, show restraint.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and
flies in the sky.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
and don’t crave his delicacies,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:7">7 </verse></sup>for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
<br>
but his heart is not with you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:8">8 </verse></sup>You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
<br>
for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:11">11 </verse></sup>for their Defender is strong.
<br>
He will plead their case against you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Apply your heart to instruction,
<br>
and your ears to the words of knowledge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t withhold correction from a child.
If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:14">14 </verse></sup>Punish him with the rod,

and save his soul from Sheol.<footnote:1>23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:15">15 </verse></sup>My son, if your heart is wise,
<br>
then my heart will be glad, even mine.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Yes, my heart will rejoice
<br>
when your lips speak what is right.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t let your heart envy sinners,
but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:18">18 </verse></sup>Indeed surely there is a future hope,
and your hope will not be cut off.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:19">19 </verse></sup>Listen, my son, and be wise,
<br>
and keep your heart on the right path!
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
or those who gorge themselves on meat;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:21">21 </verse></sup>for the drunkard and the glutton shall become
poor;
<br>
and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:22">22 </verse></sup>Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:23">23 </verse></sup>Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
<br>
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:24">24 </verse></sup>The father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:25">25 </verse></sup>Let your father and your mother be glad!
Let her who bore you rejoice!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:26">26 </verse></sup>My son, give me your heart;
<br>
and let your eyes keep in my ways.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:27">27 </verse></sup>For a prostitute is a deep pit;
<br>
and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
and increases the unfaithful among men.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:29">29 </verse></sup>Who has woe?
<br>
Who has sorrow?
<br>
Who has strife?
<br>
Who has complaints?
<br>
Who has needless bruises?
<br>
Who has bloodshot eyes?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Those who stay long at the wine;
<br>
those who go to seek out mixed wine.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:31">31 </verse></sup>Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
<br>
when it goes down smoothly.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:32">32 </verse></sup>In the end, it bites like a snake,
and poisons like a viper.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:33">33 </verse></sup>Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind will imagine confusing things.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:34">34 </verse></sup>Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle
of the sea,
<br>
or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
<key:bcv=Proverbs 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 23:35">35 </verse></sup>“They hit me, and I was not hurt!
<br>
They beat me, and I don’t feel it!
<br>
When will I wake up? I can do it again.
I will look for more.”

#BCV:Proverbs 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Don’t be envious of evil men,
<br>
neither desire to be with them;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:2">2 </verse></sup>for their hearts plot violence
<br>
and their lips talk about mischief.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Through wisdom a house is built;
<br>
by understanding it is established;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:4">4 </verse></sup>by knowledge the rooms are filled
<br>
with all rare and beautiful treasure.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:5">5 </verse></sup>A wise man has great power.
<br>
A knowledgeable man increases strength,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:6">6 </verse></sup>for by wise guidance you wage your war,
and victory is in many advisors.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:7">7 </verse></sup>Wisdom is too high for a fool.
<br>
He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:8">8 </verse></sup>One who plots to do evil
<br>
will be called a schemer.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:9">9 </verse></sup>The schemes of folly are sin.
<br>
The mocker is detested by men.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:10">10 </verse></sup>If you falter in the time of trouble,
your strength is small.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Rescue those who are being led away to death!
Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to
the slaughter!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:12">12 </verse></sup>If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,”
doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it?
Shall he not render to every man according to
his work?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:13">13 </verse></sup>My son, eat honey, for it is good,
the droppings of the honeycomb, which are
sweet to your taste;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:14">14 </verse></sup>so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
If you have found it, then there will be a
reward:
<br>
Your hope will not be cut off.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation
of the righteous.
<br>
Don’t destroy his resting place;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:16">16 </verse></sup>for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up
again,
<br>
but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:18">18 </verse></sup>lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
and he turn away his wrath from him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers,
neither be envious of the wicked;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:20">20 </verse></sup>for there will be no reward to the evil man.
The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:21">21 </verse></sup>My son, fear Yahweh and the king.
<br>
Don’t join those who are rebellious,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:22">22 </verse></sup>for their calamity will rise suddenly.
Who knows what destruction may come from
them both?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:23">23 </verse></sup>These also are sayings of the wise:
To show partiality in judgment is not good.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:24">24 </verse></sup>He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor
him—

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:25">25 </verse></sup>but it will go well with those who convict the
guilty,
<br>
and a rich blessing will come on them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:26">26 </verse></sup>An honest answer
<br>
is like a kiss on the lips.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:27">27 </verse></sup>Prepare your work outside,
<br>
and get your fields ready.
<br>
Afterwards, build your house.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without
cause.
<br>
Don’t deceive with your lips.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:29">29 </verse></sup>Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
I will repay the man according to his work.”
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:30">30 </verse></sup>I went by the field of the sluggard,
by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
Its surface was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:32">32 </verse></sup>Then I saw, and considered well.
<br>
I saw, and received instruction:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:33">33 </verse></sup>a little sleep, a little slumber,
<br>
a little folding of the hands to sleep,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 24:34><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 24:34">34 </verse></sup>so your poverty will come as a robber
and your want as an armed man.

#BCV:Proverbs 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:1">1 </verse></sup>These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the
men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:2">2 </verse></sup>It is the glory of God to conceal a thing,
but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:3">3 </verse></sup>As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Take away the dross from the silver,
and material comes out for the refiner.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Take away the wicked from the king’s presence,
and his throne will be established in righteousness.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king,
or claim a place among great men;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:7">7 </verse></sup>for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up
here,”
<br>
than that you should be put lower in the presence
of the prince,
<br>
whom your eyes have seen.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court.
What will you do in the end when your neighbor
shames you?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:9">9 </verse></sup>Debate your case with your neighbor,
and don’t betray the confidence of another,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:10">10 </verse></sup>lest one who hears it put you to shame,
and your bad reputation never depart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:11">11 </verse></sup>A word fitly spoken
<br>
is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:12">12 </verse></sup>As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine
gold,
<br>
so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:13">13 </verse></sup>As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
so is a faithful messenger to those who send
him;
<br>
for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:14">14 </verse></sup>As clouds and wind without rain,
<br>
so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:15">15 </verse></sup>By patience a ruler is persuaded.
<br>
A soft tongue breaks the bone.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:16">16 </verse></sup>Have you found honey?
<br>
Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:17">17 </verse></sup>Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:18">18 </verse></sup>A man who gives false testimony against his
neighbor
<br>
is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:19">19 </verse></sup>Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of
trouble
<br>
is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:20">20 </verse></sup>As one who takes away a garment in cold weather,
or vinegar on soda,
<br>
so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:21">21 </verse></sup>If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat.
If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:22">22 </verse></sup>for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
and Yahweh will reward you.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:23">23 </verse></sup>The north wind produces rain;
<br>
so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:24">24 </verse></sup>It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
than to share a house with a contentious
woman.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:25">25 </verse></sup>Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
so is good news from a far country.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:26">26 </verse></sup>Like a muddied spring and a polluted well,
so is a righteous man who gives way before the
wicked.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:27">27 </verse></sup>It is not good to eat much honey,
<br>
nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 25:28">28 </verse></sup>Like a city that is broken down and without walls
is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

#BCV:Proverbs 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:1">1 </verse></sup>Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,
so honor is not fitting for a fool.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Like a fluttering sparrow,
<br>
like a darting swallow,
<br>
so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:3">3 </verse></sup>A whip is for the horse,
<br>
a bridle for the donkey,
<br>
and a rod for the back of fools!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,
lest you also be like him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:5">5 </verse></sup>Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:6">6 </verse></sup>One who sends a message by the hand of a fool
is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:7">7 </verse></sup>Like the legs of the lame that hang loose,
so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:8">8 </verse></sup>As one who binds a stone in a sling,
so is he who gives honor to a fool.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a
drunkard,
<br>
so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:10">10 </verse></sup>As an archer who wounds all,
<br>
so is he who hires a fool
<br>
or he who hires those who pass by.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:11">11 </verse></sup>As a dog that returns to his vomit,
so is a fool who repeats his folly.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:12">12 </verse></sup>Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:13">13 </verse></sup>The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
A fierce lion roams the streets!”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:14">14 </verse></sup>As the door turns on its hinges,
<br>
so does the sluggard on his bed.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:15">15 </verse></sup>The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.
He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:16">16 </verse></sup>The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who answer with discretion.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
<br>
is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel
not his own.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:18">18 </verse></sup>Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and
death,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:19">19 </verse></sup>is the man who deceives his neighbor and
says, “Am I not joking?”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:20">20 </verse></sup>For lack of wood a fire goes out.
<br>
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:21">21 </verse></sup>As coals are to hot embers,
<br>
and wood to fire,
<br>
so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:22">22 </verse></sup>The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
they go down into the innermost parts.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:23">23 </verse></sup>Like silver dross on an earthen vessel
are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:24">24 </verse></sup>A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
but he harbors evil in his heart.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:25">25 </verse></sup>When his speech is charming, don’t believe him,
for there are seven abominations in his heart.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:26">26 </verse></sup>His malice may be concealed by deception,
but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:27">27 </verse></sup>Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.
Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 26:28">28 </verse></sup>A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
and a flattering mouth works ruin.

#BCV:Proverbs 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Don’t boast about tomorrow;
<br>
for you don’t know what a day may bring.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:2">2 </verse></sup>Let another man praise you,
<br>
and not your own mouth;
<br>
a stranger, and not your own lips.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:3">3 </verse></sup>A stone is heavy,
<br>
and sand is a burden;
<br>
but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Wrath is cruel,
<br>
and anger is overwhelming;
<br>
but who is able to stand before jealousy?
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:5">5 </verse></sup>Better is open rebuke
<br>
than hidden love.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:6">6 </verse></sup>The wounds of a friend are faithful,
although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:7">7 </verse></sup>A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
<br>
but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is
sweet.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:8">8 </verse></sup>As a bird that wanders from her nest,
so is a man who wanders from his home.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart;
so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of
your disaster.
<br>
A neighbor who is near is better than a distant
brother.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Be wise, my son,
<br>
and bring joy to my heart,
<br>
then I can answer my tormentor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:12">12 </verse></sup>A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:13">13 </verse></sup>Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a
stranger.
<br>
Hold it for a wayward woman!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:14">14 </verse></sup>He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
early in the morning,
<br>
it will be taken as a curse by him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:15">15 </verse></sup>A continual dropping on a rainy day
and a contentious wife are alike:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:16">16 </verse></sup>restraining her is like restraining the wind,
or like grasping oil in his right hand.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:17">17 </verse></sup>Iron sharpens iron;
<br>
so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:18">18 </verse></sup>Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit.
He who looks after his master shall be honored.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:19">19 </verse></sup>Like water reflects a face,
<br>
so a man’s heart reflects the man.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:20">20 </verse></sup>Sheol<footnote:1>27:20 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> and Abaddon are never satisfied;
and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:21">21 </verse></sup>The crucible is for silver,
<br>
and the furnace for gold;
<br>
but man is refined by his praise.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:22">22 </verse></sup>Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with grain,
<br>
yet his foolishness will not be removed from
him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:23">23 </verse></sup>Know well the state of your flocks,
and pay attention to your herds,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:24">24 </verse></sup>for riches are not forever,
<br>
nor does the crown endure to all generations.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:25">25 </verse></sup>The hay is removed, and the new growth appears,
the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:26">26 </verse></sup>The lambs are for your clothing,
<br>
and the goats are the price of a field.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 27:27">27 </verse></sup>There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food,
for your family’s food,
<br>
and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

#BCV:Proverbs 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:1">1 </verse></sup>The wicked flee when no one pursues;
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:2">2 </verse></sup>In rebellion, a land has many rulers,
but order is maintained by a man of understanding
and knowledge.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:3">3 </verse></sup>A needy man who oppresses the poor
<br>
is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:4">4 </verse></sup>Those who forsake the law praise the wicked;
but those who keep the law contend with them.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Evil men don’t understand justice;
<br>
but those who seek Yahweh understand it
fully.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:6">6 </verse></sup>Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is
rich.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Whoever keeps the law is a wise son;
but he who is a companion of gluttons shames
his father.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:8">8 </verse></sup>He who increases his wealth by excessive interest
gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:9">9 </verse></sup>He who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil
way,
<br>
he will fall into his own trap;
<br>
but the blameless will inherit good.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:11">11 </verse></sup>The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
but the poor who has understanding sees
through him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:12">12 </verse></sup>When the righteous triumph, there is great glory;
but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:13">13 </verse></sup>He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
but whoever confesses and renounces them
finds mercy.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:14">14 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man who always fears;
but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:15">15 </verse></sup>As a roaring lion or a charging bear,
so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:16">16 </verse></sup>A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment.
One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long
days.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:17">17 </verse></sup>A man who is tormented by blood guilt will be a
fugitive until death.
<br>
No one will support him.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:18">18 </verse></sup>Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe;
but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:19">19 </verse></sup>One who works his land will have an abundance
of food;
<br>
but one who chases fantasies will have his fill
of poverty.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:20">20 </verse></sup>A faithful man is rich with blessings;
<br>
but one who is eager to be rich will not go
unpunished.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:21">21 </verse></sup>To show partiality is not good,
<br>
yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:22">22 </verse></sup>A stingy man hurries after riches,
and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:23">23 </verse></sup>One who rebukes a man will afterward find more
favor
<br>
than one who flatters with the tongue.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:24">24 </verse></sup>Whoever robs his father or his mother and says,
“It’s not wrong,”
<br>
is a partner with a destroyer.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:25">25 </verse></sup>One who is greedy stirs up strife;
but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:26">26 </verse></sup>One who trusts in himself is a fool;
but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:27">27 </verse></sup>One who gives to the poor has no lack;
but one who closes his eyes will have many
curses.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 28:28">28 </verse></sup>When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;
but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

#BCV:Proverbs 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:1">1 </verse></sup>He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck
will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:2">2 </verse></sup>When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:3">3 </verse></sup>Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
but a companion of prostitutes squanders his
wealth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:4">4 </verse></sup>The king by justice makes the land stable,
but he who takes bribes tears it down.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:5">5 </verse></sup>A man who flatters his neighbor
<br>
spreads a net for his feet.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:6">6 </verse></sup>An evil man is snared by his sin,
<br>
but the righteous can sing and be glad.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:7">7 </verse></sup>The righteous care about justice for the poor.
The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:8">8 </verse></sup>Mockers stir up a city,
<br>
but wise men turn away anger.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:9">9 </verse></sup>If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man,
the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:10">10 </verse></sup>The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity;
and they seek the life of the upright.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:11">11 </verse></sup>A fool vents all of his anger,
<br>
but a wise man brings himself under control.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:12">12 </verse></sup>If a ruler listens to lies,
<br>
all of his officials are wicked.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:13">13 </verse></sup>The poor man and the oppressor have this in
common:
<br>
Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:14">14 </verse></sup>The king who fairly judges the poor,
his throne shall be established forever.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:15">15 </verse></sup>The rod of correction gives wisdom,
but a child left to himself causes shame to his
mother.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:16">16 </verse></sup>When the wicked increase, sin increases;
but the righteous will see their downfall.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:17">17 </verse></sup>Correct your son, and he will give you peace;
yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:18">18 </verse></sup>Where there is no revelation, the people cast off
restraint;
<br>
but one who keeps the law is blessed.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:19">19 </verse></sup>A servant can’t be corrected by words.
Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:21">21 </verse></sup>He who pampers his servant from youth
will have him become a son in the end.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:22">22 </verse></sup>An angry man stirs up strife,
<br>
and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:23">23 </verse></sup>A man’s pride brings him low,
<br>
but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:24">24 </verse></sup>Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy
of his own soul.
<br>
He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:25">25 </verse></sup>The fear of man proves to be a snare,
but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept
safe.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:26">26 </verse></sup>Many seek the ruler’s favor,
<br>
but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 29:27">27 </verse></sup>A dishonest man detests the righteous,
and the upright in their ways detest the
wicked.

#BCV:Proverbs 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the revelation:
the man says to Ithiel,
<br>
to Ithiel and Ucal:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:2">2 </verse></sup>“Surely I am the most ignorant man,
and don’t have a man’s understanding.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:3">3 </verse></sup>I have not learned wisdom,
<br>
neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy
One.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:4">4 </verse></sup>Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has bound the waters in his garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name,
if you know?

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:5">5 </verse></sup>“Every word of God is flawless.
<br>
He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t you add to his words,
<br>
lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:7">7 </verse></sup>“Two things I have asked of you.
<br>
Don’t deny me before I die.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:8">8 </verse></sup>Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
<br>
Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:9">9 </verse></sup>lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’
or lest I be poor, and steal,
<br>
and so dishonor the name of my God.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:10">10 </verse></sup>“Don’t slander a servant to his master,
lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:11">11 </verse></sup>There is a generation that curses their father,
and doesn’t bless their mother.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:12">12 </verse></sup>There is a generation that is pure in their own
eyes,
<br>
yet are not washed from their filthiness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:13">13 </verse></sup>There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
Their eyelids are lifted up.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:14">14 </verse></sup>There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
and their jaws like knives,
<br>
to devour the poor from the earth, and the
needy from among men.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:15">15 </verse></sup>“The leech has two daughters:
<br>
‘Give, give.’
<br>
“There are three things that are never satisfied;
four that don’t say, ‘Enough!’:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:16">16 </verse></sup>Sheol,<footnote:1>30:16 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
the barren womb,
<br>
the earth that is not satisfied with water,
and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough!’
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:17">17 </verse></sup>“The eye that mocks at his father,
and scorns obedience to his mother,
<br>
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
the young eagles shall eat it.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:18">18 </verse></sup>“There are three things which are too amazing for
me,
<br>
four which I don’t understand:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:19">19 </verse></sup>The way of an eagle in the air,
<br>
the way of a serpent on a rock,
<br>
the way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
and the way of a man with a maiden.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:20">20 </verse></sup>“So is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
<br>
and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:21">21 </verse></sup>“For three things the earth trembles,
and under four, it can’t bear up:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:22">22 </verse></sup>For a servant when he is king,
<br>
a fool when he is filled with food,

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:23">23 </verse></sup>for an unloved woman when she is married,
and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:24">24 </verse></sup>“There are four things which are little on the
earth,
<br>
but they are exceedingly wise:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:25">25 </verse></sup>The ants are not a strong people,
<br>
yet they provide their food in the summer.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:26">26 </verse></sup>The hyraxes are but a feeble folk,
yet make they their houses in the rocks.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:27">27 </verse></sup>The locusts have no king,
<br>
yet they advance in ranks.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:28">28 </verse></sup>You can catch a lizard with your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:29">29 </verse></sup>“There are three things which are stately in their
march,
<br>
four which are stately in going:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:30">30 </verse></sup>The lion, which is mightiest among animals,
and doesn’t turn away for any;

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:31">31 </verse></sup>the greyhound;
<br>
the male goat;
<br>
and the king against whom there is no rising
up.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:32><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:32">32 </verse></sup>“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself,
or if you have thought evil,
<br>
put your hand over your mouth.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 30:33><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 30:33">33 </verse></sup>For as the churning of milk produces butter,
and the wringing of the nose produces blood,
so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

#BCV:Proverbs 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of King Lemuel —the revelation
which his mother taught him:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:2">2 </verse></sup>“Oh, my son!
<br>
Oh, son of my womb!
<br>
Oh, son of my vows!

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t give your strength to women,
<br>
nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:4">4 </verse></sup>It is not for kings, Lemuel,
<br>
it is not for kings to drink wine,
<br>
nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:5">5 </verse></sup>lest they drink, and forget the law,
and pervert the justice due to anyone who is
afflicted.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:6">6 </verse></sup>Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish,
and wine to the bitter in soul.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:7">7 </verse></sup>Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
and remember his misery no more.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:8">8 </verse></sup>Open your mouth for the mute,
<br>
in the cause of all who are left desolate.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:9">9 </verse></sup>Open your mouth, judge righteously,
and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:10">10 </verse></sup><footnote:1>31:10 Proverbs 31:10-31 form an acrostic, with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in order.</footnote>Who can find a worthy woman?
<br>
For her value is far above rubies.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:11">11 </verse></sup>The heart of her husband trusts in her.
He shall have no lack of gain.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:12">12 </verse></sup>She does him good, and not harm,
<br>
all the days of her life.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:13">13 </verse></sup>She seeks wool and flax,
<br>
and works eagerly with her hands.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:14">14 </verse></sup>She is like the merchant ships.
<br>
She brings her bread from afar.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:15">15 </verse></sup>She rises also while it is yet night,
gives food to her household,
<br>
and portions for her servant girls.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:16">16 </verse></sup>She considers a field, and buys it.
With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:17">17 </verse></sup>She arms her waist with strength,
<br>
and makes her arms strong.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:18">18 </verse></sup>She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:19">19 </verse></sup>She lays her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:20">20 </verse></sup>She opens her arms to the poor;
<br>
yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:21">21 </verse></sup>She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:22">22 </verse></sup>She makes for herself carpets of tapestry.
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:23">23 </verse></sup>Her husband is respected in the gates,
when he sits among the elders of the land.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:24">24 </verse></sup>She makes linen garments and sells them,
and delivers sashes to the merchant.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:25">25 </verse></sup>Strength and dignity are her clothing.
She laughs at the time to come.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:26">26 </verse></sup>She opens her mouth with wisdom.
<br>
Kind instruction is on her tongue.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:27">27 </verse></sup>She looks well to the ways of her household,
and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:28">28 </verse></sup>Her children rise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also praises her:

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:29">29 </verse></sup>“Many women do noble things,
<br>
but you excel them all.”

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:30">30 </verse></sup>Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain;
but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be
praised.

<key:bcv=Proverbs 31:31><sup><verse bcv="Proverbs 31:31">31 </verse></sup>Give her of the fruit of her hands!
Let her works praise her in the gates!

#OUTLINE:1,Ecclesiastes
<h2>Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher</h2>

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king
in Jerusalem:

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity
of vanities, all is vanity.” <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:3">3 </verse></sup>What does man gain
from all his labor in which he labors under the
sun? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:4">4 </verse></sup>One generation goes, and another generation
comes; but the earth remains forever. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:5">5 </verse></sup>The sun
also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to
its place where it rises. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:6">6 </verse></sup>The wind goes toward
the south, and turns around to the north. It turns
around continually as it goes, and the wind returns
again to its courses. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:7">7 </verse></sup>All the rivers run into the
sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the
rivers flow, there they flow again. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:8">8 </verse></sup>All things are
full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not
satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:9">9 </verse></sup>That which has been is that which shall be, and
that which has been done is that which shall be
done; and there is no new thing under the sun. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Is
there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:10 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> this
is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which
were before us. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:11">11 </verse></sup>There is no memory of the former;
neither shall there be any memory of the latter that
are to come, among those that shall come after.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:12">12 </verse></sup>I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:13">13 </verse></sup>I applied my heart to seek and to
search out by wisdom concerning all that is done
under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God<footnote:1>1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> has
given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:14">14 </verse></sup>I
have seen all the works that are done under the sun;
and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:15">15 </verse></sup>That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and
that which is lacking can’t be counted. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:16">16 </verse></sup>I said to
myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great
wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom
and knowledge.” <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:17">17 </verse></sup>I applied my heart to know
wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived
that this also was a chasing after wind. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 1:18">18 </verse></sup>For in
much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases
knowledge increases sorrow.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:1">1 </verse></sup>I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you
with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold,
this also was vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:2">2 </verse></sup>I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;”
and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:3">3 </verse></sup>I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh
with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom,
and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what
it was good for the sons of men that they should
do under heaven all the days of their lives. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:4">4 </verse></sup>I
made myself great works. I built myself houses. I
planted myself vineyards. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:5">5 </verse></sup>I made myself gardens
and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds
of fruit. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:6">6 </verse></sup>I made myself pools of water, to water the
forest where trees were grown. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:7">7 </verse></sup>I bought male servants
and female servants, and had servants born in
my house. I also had great possessions of herds and
flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:8">8 </verse></sup>I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the
treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself
male and female singers, and the delights of the
sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:9">9 </verse></sup>So
I was great, and increased more than all who were
before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained
with me. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep
from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any
joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor,
and this was my portion from all my labor. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Then
I looked at all the works that my hands had worked,
and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold,
all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there
was no profit under the sun.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:12">12 </verse></sup>I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness,
and folly; for what can the king’s successor do?
Just that which has been done long ago. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Then I
saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels
darkness. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:14">14 </verse></sup>The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and
the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that
one event happens to them all. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Then I said in my
heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen
even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I
said in my heart that this also is vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:16">16 </verse></sup>For of the
wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory
forever, since in the days to come all will have been
long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just
like the fool!

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:17">17 </verse></sup>So I hated life, because the work that is worked
under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity
and a chasing after wind. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:18">18 </verse></sup>I hated all my labor
in which I labored under the sun, because I must
leave it to the man who comes after me. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Who
knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?
Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which
I have labored, and in which I have shown myself
wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair
concerning all the labor in which I had labored under
the sun. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:21">21 </verse></sup>For there is a man whose labor is with
wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet
he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has
not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great
evil. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:22">22 </verse></sup>For what does a man have of all his labor
and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors
under the sun? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:23">23 </verse></sup>For all his days are sorrows, and
his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart
takes no rest. This also is vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:24">24 </verse></sup>There is nothing
better for a man than that he should eat and drink,
and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also
I saw, that it is from the hand of God. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:25">25 </verse></sup>For who
can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than
I? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 2:26">26 </verse></sup>For to the man who pleases him, God gives
wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he
gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may
give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and
a chasing after wind.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:1">1 </verse></sup>For everything there is a season, and a time for
every purpose under heaven:

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:2">2 </verse></sup>a time to be born,
<br>
and a time to die;
<br>
a time to plant,
<br>
and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:3">3 </verse></sup>a time to kill,
<br>
and a time to heal;
<br>
a time to break down,
<br>
and a time to build up;

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:4">4 </verse></sup>a time to weep,
<br>
and a time to laugh;
<br>
a time to mourn,
<br>
and a time to dance;

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:5">5 </verse></sup>a time to cast away stones,
<br>
and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace,
<br>
and a time to refrain from embracing;
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:6">6 </verse></sup>a time to seek,
<br>
and a time to lose;
<br>
a time to keep,
<br>
and a time to cast away;

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:7">7 </verse></sup>a time to tear,
<br>
and a time to sew;
<br>
a time to keep silence,
<br>
and a time to speak;

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:8">8 </verse></sup>a time to love,
<br>
and a time to hate;
<br>
a time for war,
<br>
and a time for peace.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:9">9 </verse></sup>What profit has he who works in that in which
he labors? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:10">10 </verse></sup>I have seen the burden which God has
given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:11">11 </verse></sup>He
has made everything beautiful in its time. He has
also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man
can’t find out the work that God has done from the
beginning even to the end. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:12">12 </verse></sup>I know that there is
nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do
good as long as they live. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Also that every man
should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor,
is the gift of God. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:14">14 </verse></sup>I know that whatever God does,
it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor
anything taken from it; and God has done it, that
men should fear before him. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:15">15 </verse></sup>That which is has
been long ago, and that which is to be has been long
ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place
of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the
place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:17">17 </verse></sup>I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous
and the wicked; for there is a time there for every
purpose and for every work.” <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:18">18 </verse></sup>I said in my heart,
“As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they
may see that they themselves are like animals. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:19">19 </verse></sup>For
that which happens to the sons of men happens to
animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the
one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one
breath; and man has no advantage over the animals,
for all is vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:20">20 </verse></sup>All go to one place. All are from
the dust, and all turn to dust again. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Who knows
the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the
spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to
the earth?”

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore I saw that there is nothing better
than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that
is his portion; for who can bring him to see what
will be after him?

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Then I returned and saw all the oppressions
that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears
of those who were oppressed, and they had no
comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there
was power; but they had no comforter. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore
I praised the dead who have been long dead more
than the living who are yet alive. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, better than
them both is him who has not yet been, who has
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is
the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity
and a striving after wind.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:5">5 </verse></sup>The fool folds his hands together and ruins
himself. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Better is a handful, with quietness, than
two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:8">8 </verse></sup>There is one who is alone, and he has neither
son nor brother. There is no end to all of his
labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth.
“For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul
of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a
miserable business.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Two are better than one, because they have a
good reward for their labor. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:10">10 </verse></sup>For if they fall, the
one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is
alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift
him up. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Again, if two lie together, then they have
warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:12">12 </verse></sup>If
a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall
withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly
broken.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Better is a poor and wise youth than an old
and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive
admonition any more. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:14">14 </verse></sup>For out of prison he came
out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was
born poor. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:15">15 </verse></sup>I saw all the living who walk under
the sun, that they were with the youth, the other,
who succeeded him. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 4:16">16 </verse></sup>There was no end of all
the people, even of all them over whom he was—
yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Guard your steps when you go to God’s house;
for to draw near to listen is better than to give the
sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do
evil. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let
your heart be hasty to utter anything before God;
for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore
let your words be few. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For as a dream comes
with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with
a multitude of words. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:4">4 </verse></sup>When you vow a vow to
God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in
fools. Pay that which you vow. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:5">5 </verse></sup>It is better that you
should not vow, than that you should vow and not
pay. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin.
Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a
mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice,
and destroy the work of your hands? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:7">7 </verse></sup>For in the
multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in
many words; but you must fear God.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:8">8 </verse></sup>If you see the oppression of the poor, and the
violent taking away of justice and righteousness in
a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official
is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over
them. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Moreover the profit of the earth is for all.
The king profits from the field.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:10">10 </verse></sup>He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with
silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:11">11 </verse></sup>When goods increase, those
who eat them are increased; and what advantage is
there to its owner, except to feast on them with his
eyes?

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:12">12 </verse></sup>The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether
he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich
will not allow him to sleep.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:13">13 </verse></sup>There is a grievous evil which I have seen under
the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has
fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:15">15 </verse></sup>As
he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he
go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his
labor, which he may carry away in his hand. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:16">16 </verse></sup>This
also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came,
so shall he go. And what profit does he have who
labors for the wind? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:17">17 </verse></sup>All his days he also eats
in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and
wrath.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, that which I have seen to be good and
proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy
good in all his labor, in which he labors under the
sun, all the days of his life which God has given him;
for this is his portion. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Every man also to whom
God has given riches and wealth, and has given him
power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to
rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 5:20">20 </verse></sup>For he
shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because
God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:1">1 </verse></sup>There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,
and it is heavy on men: <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:2">2 </verse></sup>a man to whom God gives
riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing
for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him
no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is
vanity, and it is an evil disease.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:3">3 </verse></sup>If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives
many years, so that the days of his years are many,
but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover
he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better
than he; <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:4">4 </verse></sup>for it comes in vanity, and departs in
darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it.
This has rest rather than the other. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Yes, though
he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails
to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:7">7 </verse></sup>All the
labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite
is not filled. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:8">8 </verse></sup>For what advantage has the wise more
than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows
how to walk before the living? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Better is the sight
of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This
also is vanity and a chasing after wind. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Whatever
has been, its name was given long ago; and it is
known what man is; neither can he contend with
him who is mightier than he. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:11">11 </verse></sup>For there are many
words that create vanity. What does that profit
man? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 6:12">12 </verse></sup>For who knows what is good for man in life,
all the days of his vain life which he spends like a
shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after
him under the sun?

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:1">1 </verse></sup>A good name is better than fine perfume; and
the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:2">2 </verse></sup>It is better to go to the house of mourning than
to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end
of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness
of the face the heart is made good. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:4">4 </verse></sup>The heart of
the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart
of fools is in the house of mirth. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:5">5 </verse></sup>It is better to hear
the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the
song of fools. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For as the crackling of thorns under a
pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and
a bribe destroys the understanding. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Better is the
end of a thing than its beginning.
<br>
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in
spirit. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry,
for anger rests in the bosom of fools. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t say,
“Why were the former days better than these?” For
you do not ask wisely about this.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is
more excellent for those who see the sun. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:12">12 </verse></sup>For
wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense;
but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom
preserves the life of him who has it.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Consider the work of God, for who can make
that straight which he has made crooked? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:14">14 </verse></sup>In
the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of
adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side
by side with the other, to the end that man should
not find out anything after him.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:15">15 </verse></sup>All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is
a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness,
and there is a wicked man who lives long in his
evildoing. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t be overly righteous, neither
make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy
yourself? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish.
Why should you die before your time? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:18">18 </verse></sup>It is good
that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t
withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God
will come out of them all. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Wisdom is a strength to
the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who
does good and doesn’t sin. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Also don’t take heed to
all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant
curse you; <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:22">22 </verse></sup>for often your own heart knows that
you yourself have likewise cursed others. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:23">23 </verse></sup>All this
I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but
it was far from me. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:24">24 </verse></sup>That which is, is far off and
exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:25">25 </verse></sup>I turned
around, and my heart sought to know and to search
out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things,
and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that
foolishness is madness.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:26">26 </verse></sup>I find more bitter than death the woman whose
heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains.
Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the
sinner will be ensnared by her.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:27">27 </verse></sup>“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher,
“to one another, to find an explanation <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:28">28 </verse></sup>which my
soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found
one man among a thousand, but I have not found
a woman among all those. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 7:29">29 </verse></sup>Behold, I have only
found this: that God made mankind upright; but
they search for many inventions.”

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Who is like the wise man? And who knows
the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom
makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face
is changed.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:2">2 </verse></sup>I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because
of the oath to God. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t be hasty to go out of
his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he
does whatever pleases him, <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:4">4 </verse></sup>for the king’s word
is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you
doing?” <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Whoever keeps the commandment shall
not come to harm, and his wise heart will know
the time and procedure. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:6">6 </verse></sup>For there is a time and
procedure for every purpose, although the misery
of man is heavy on him. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For he doesn’t know that
which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:8">8 </verse></sup>There is no man who has power over the spirit
to contain the spirit; neither does he have power
over the day of death. There is no discharge in war;
neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice
it.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:9">9 </verse></sup>All this I have seen, and applied my mind to
every work that is done under the sun. There is
a time in which one man has power over another
to his hurt. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:10">10 </verse></sup>So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed
they came also from holiness. They went and were
forgotten in the city where they did this. This also
is vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Because sentence against an evil work
is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the
sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Though
a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives
long, yet surely I know that it will be better with
those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:13">13 </verse></sup>But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither
shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he
doesn’t fear God.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:14">14 </verse></sup>There is a vanity which is done on the earth,
that there are righteous men to whom it happens
according to the work of the wicked. Again, there
are wicked men to whom it happens according to
the work of the righteous. I said that this also is
vanity. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Then I commended mirth, because a man
has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to
drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him
in his labor all the days of his life which God has
given him under the sun.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:16">16 </verse></sup>When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and
to see the business that is done on the earth (even
though eyes see no sleep day or night), <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 8:17">17 </verse></sup>then I saw
all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work
that is done under the sun, because however much
a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes
even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend
it, he won’t be able to find it.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:1">1 </verse></sup>For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore
all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their
works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love
or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:2">2 </verse></sup>All things come alike to all. There is one event
to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to
the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and
to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is
the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears
an oath. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:3">3 </verse></sup>This is an evil in all that is done under
the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the
heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness
is in their heart while they live, and after that they
go to the dead. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:4">4 </verse></sup>For to him who is joined with all
the living there is hope; for a living dog is better
than a dead lion. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:5">5 </verse></sup>For the living know that they will
die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do
they have any more a reward; for their memory is
forgotten. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Also their love, their hatred, and their
envy has perished long ago; neither do they any
longer have a portion forever in anything that is
done under the sun.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink
your wine with a merry heart; for God has already
accepted your works. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Let your garments be always
white, and don’t let your head lack oil. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Live joyfully
with the wife whom you love all the days of your
life of vanity, which he has given you under the
sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion
in life, and in your labor in which you labor under
the sun. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Whatever your hand finds to do, do it
with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol,<footnote:1>9:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> where you are
going.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:11">11 </verse></sup>I returned and saw under the sun that the race
is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men
of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but
time and chance happen to them all. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:12">12 </verse></sup>For man also
doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in
an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the
snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil
time, when it falls suddenly on them.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:13">13 </verse></sup>I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this
way, and it seemed great to me. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:14">14 </verse></sup>There was a
little city, and few men within it; and a great king
came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks
against it. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Now a poor wise man was found in it,
and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man
remembered that same poor man. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Then I said,
“Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the
poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are
not heard. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:17">17 </verse></sup>The words of the wise heard in quiet
are better than the cry of him who rules among
fools. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but
one sinner destroys much good.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce
an evil odor;
<br>
so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and
honor.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:2">2 </verse></sup>A wise man’s heart is at his right hand,
but a fool’s heart at his left. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes also when
the fool walks by the way, his understanding
fails him, and he says to everyone that he
is a fool. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:4">4 </verse></sup>If the spirit of the ruler rises
up against you, don’t leave your place; for
gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:5">5 </verse></sup>There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low
place. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:7">7 </verse></sup>I have seen servants on horses, and princes
walking like servants on the earth. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:8">8 </verse></sup>He who digs
a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through
a wall may be bitten by a snake. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Whoever carves
out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits
wood may be endangered by it. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:10">10 </verse></sup>If the ax is blunt,
and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use
more strength; but skill brings success.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:11">11 </verse></sup>If the snake bites before it is charmed, then
is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:12">12 </verse></sup>The
words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool
is swallowed by his own lips. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:13">13 </verse></sup>The beginning of
the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end
of his talk is mischievous madness. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:14">14 </verse></sup>A fool also
multiplies words.
<br>
Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which
will be after him, who can tell him? <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:15">15 </verse></sup>The labor
of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t
know how to go to the city.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Woe to you, land, when your king is a child,
and your princes eat in the morning!

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of
nobles,
<br>
and your princes eat in due season,
<br>
for strength, and not for drunkenness!
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:18">18 </verse></sup>By slothfulness the roof sinks in;
and through idleness of the hands the house
leaks.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:19">19 </verse></sup>A feast is made for laughter,
<br>
and wine makes the life glad;
<br>
and money is the answer for all things.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts;
and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom,
for a bird of the sky may carry your voice,
and that which has wings may tell the matter.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Cast your bread on the waters;
<br>
for you shall find it after many days.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight;
for you don’t know what evil will be on the
earth.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:3">3 </verse></sup>If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves
on the earth;
<br>
and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward
the north,
<br>
in the place where the tree falls, there shall it
be.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:4">4 </verse></sup>He who observes the wind won’t sow;
and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:5">5 </verse></sup>As you don’t know what is the way of the wind,
nor how the bones grow in the womb of her
who is with child;
<br>
even so you don’t know the work of God who
does all.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:6">6 </verse></sup>In the morning sow your seed,
<br>
and in the evening don’t withhold your hand;
for you don’t know which will prosper,
whether this or that,
<br>
or whether they both will be equally good.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Truly the light is sweet,
<br>
and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the
sun.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in
them all;
<br>
but let him remember the days of darkness, for
they shall be many.
<br>
All that comes is vanity.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Rejoice, young man, in your youth,
<br>
and let your heart cheer you in the days of your
youth,
<br>
and walk in the ways of your heart,
<br>
and in the sight of your eyes;
<br>
but know that for all these things God will
bring you into judgment.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away evil from your flesh;
<br>
for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

#BCV:Ecclesiastes 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Remember also your Creator in the days of your
youth,
<br>
before the evil days come, and the years draw
near,
<br>
when you will say, “I have no pleasure in
them;”

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars
are darkened,
<br>
and the clouds return after the rain;
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:3">3 </verse></sup>in the day when the keepers of the house shall
tremble,
<br>
and the strong men shall bow themselves,
and the grinders cease because they are few,
and those who look out of the windows are
darkened,

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:4">4 </verse></sup>and the doors shall be shut in the street;
when the sound of the grinding is low,
and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,
and all the daughters of music shall be brought
low;

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:5">5 </verse></sup>yes, they shall be afraid of heights,
and terrors will be on the way;
<br>
and the almond tree shall blossom,
<br>
and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
and desire shall fail;
<br>
because man goes to his everlasting home,
and the mourners go about the streets;
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:6">6 </verse></sup>before the silver cord is severed,
<br>
or the golden bowl is broken,
<br>
or the pitcher is broken at the spring,
or the wheel broken at the cistern,

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:7">7 </verse></sup>and the dust returns to the earth as it was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:8">8 </verse></sup>“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher.
“All is vanity!”

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still
taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered,
sought out, and set in order many proverbs. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:10">10 </verse></sup>The
Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and
that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:11">11 </verse></sup>The words of the wise are like goads; and like
nails well fastened are words from the masters of
assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making
many books there is no end; and much study is a
weariness of the flesh.

<key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:13">13 </verse></sup>This is the end of the matter. All has been
heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for
this is the whole duty of man. <key:bcv=Ecclesiastes 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Ecclesiastes 12:14">14 </verse></sup>For God will bring
every work into judgment, with every hidden thing,
whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

#OUTLINE:1,Song of Solomon
<h2>The Song of Solomon</h2>

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
for your love is better than wine.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Your oils have a pleasing fragrance.
Your name is oil poured out,
<br>
therefore the virgins love you.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Take me away with you.
<br>
Let’s hurry.
<br>
The king has brought me into his rooms.
Friends
<br>
We will be glad and rejoice in you.
<br>
We will praise your love more than wine!
Beloved
<br>
They are right to love you.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:5">5 </verse></sup>I am dark, but lovely,
<br>
you daughters of Jerusalem,
<br>
like Kedar’s tents,
<br>
like Solomon’s curtains.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
because the sun has scorched me.
<br>
My mother’s sons were angry with me.
<br>
They made me keeper of the vineyards.
I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
<br>
where you graze your flock,
<br>
where you rest them at noon;
<br>
for why should I be as one who is veiled
beside the flocks of your companions?
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:8">8 </verse></sup>If you don’t know, most beautiful among women,
follow the tracks of the sheep.
<br>
Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’
tents.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:9">9 </verse></sup>I have compared you, my love,
<br>
to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
your neck with strings of jewels.
<br>
Friends

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:11">11 </verse></sup>We will make you earrings of gold,
with studs of silver.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:12">12 </verse></sup>While the king sat at his table,
<br>
my perfume spread its fragrance.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:13">13 </verse></sup>My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,
that lies between my breasts.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:14">14 </verse></sup>My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
from the vineyards of En Gedi.
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:15 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
<br>
Your eyes are like doves.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;
and our couch is verdant.
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 1:17">17 </verse></sup>The beams of our house are cedars.
Our rafters are firs.

#BCV:Song of Solomon 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:1">1 </verse></sup>I am a rose of Sharon,
<br>
a lily of the valleys.
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:2">2 </verse></sup>As a lily among thorns,
<br>
so is my love among the daughters.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:3">3 </verse></sup>As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons.
<br>
I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
his fruit was sweet to my taste.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:4">4 </verse></sup>He brought me to the banquet hall.
<br>
His banner over me is love.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Strengthen me with raisins,
<br>
refresh me with apples;
<br>
for I am faint with love.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:6">6 </verse></sup>His left hand is under my head.
<br>
His right hand embraces me.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:7">7 </verse></sup>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The voice of my beloved!
<br>
Behold, he comes,
<br>
leaping on the mountains,
<br>
skipping on the hills.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:9">9 </verse></sup>My beloved is like a roe or a young deer.
Behold, he stands behind our wall!
<br>
He looks in at the windows.
<br>
He glances through the lattice.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:10">10 </verse></sup>My beloved spoke, and said to me,
<br>
“Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come
away.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For behold, the winter is past.
<br>
The rain is over and gone.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:12">12 </verse></sup>The flowers appear on the earth.
<br>
The time of the singing has come,
<br>
and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our
land.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The fig tree ripens her green figs.
The vines are in blossom.
<br>
They give out their fragrance.
<br>
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
<br>
and come away.”
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:14">14 </verse></sup>My dove in the clefts of the rock,
in the hiding places of the mountainside,
let me see your face.
<br>
Let me hear your voice;
<br>
for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Catch for us the foxes,
<br>
the little foxes that plunder the vineyards;
for our vineyards are in blossom.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:16">16 </verse></sup>My beloved is mine, and I am his.
<br>
He browses among the lilies.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved,
<br>
and be like a roe or a young deer on the
mountains of Bether.

#BCV:Song of Solomon 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:1">1 </verse></sup>By night on my bed,
<br>
I sought him whom my soul loves.
<br>
I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:2">2 </verse></sup>I will get up now, and go about the city;
in the streets and in the squares I will seek him
whom my soul loves.
<br>
I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:3">3 </verse></sup>The watchmen who go about the city found me;
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:4">4 </verse></sup>I had scarcely passed from them,
<br>
when I found him whom my soul loves.
<br>
I held him, and would not let him go,
until I had brought him into my mother’s
house,
<br>
into the room of her who conceived me.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:5">5 </verse></sup>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
that you not stir up nor awaken love,
until it so desires.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like
pillars of smoke,
<br>
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all spices of the merchant?

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage!
<br>
Sixty mighty men are around it,
<br>
of the mighty men of Israel.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:8">8 </verse></sup>They all handle the sword, and are expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh,
because of fear in the night.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:9">9 </verse></sup>King Solomon made himself a carriage
of the wood of Lebanon.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:10">10 </verse></sup>He made its pillars of silver,
<br>
its bottom of gold, its seat of purple,
the middle of it being paved with love,
from the daughters of Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King
Solomon,
<br>
with the crown with which his mother has
crowned him,
<br>
in the day of his weddings,
<br>
in the day of the gladness of his heart.
#BCV:Song of Solomon 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
<br>
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil.
Your hair is as a flock of goats,
<br>
that descend from Mount Gilead.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock,
which have come up from the washing,
<br>
where every one of them has twins.
<br>
None is bereaved among them.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Your lips are like scarlet thread.
<br>
Your mouth is lovely.
<br>
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
behind your veil.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory,
on which a thousand shields hang,
<br>
all the shields of the mighty men.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Your two breasts are like two fawns
that are twins of a roe,
<br>
which feed among the lilies.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
<br>
to the hill of frankincense.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:7">7 </verse></sup>You are all beautiful, my love.
<br>
There is no spot in you.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
with me from Lebanon.
<br>
Look from the top of Amana,
<br>
from the top of Senir and Hermon,
<br>
from the lions’ dens,
<br>
from the mountains of the leopards.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:9">9 </verse></sup>You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.
You have ravished my heart with one of your
eyes,
<br>
with one chain of your neck.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:10">10 </verse></sup>How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds
of spices!

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
Honey and milk are under your tongue.
The smell of your garments is like the smell of
Lebanon.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:12">12 </verse></sup>My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden;
a locked up spring,
<br>
a sealed fountain.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with
precious fruits,
<br>
henna with spikenard plants,

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:14">14 </verse></sup>spikenard and saffron,
<br>
calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of
incense tree;
<br>
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:15">15 </verse></sup>a fountain of gardens,
<br>
a well of living waters,
<br>
flowing streams from Lebanon.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Awake, north wind, and come, you south!
Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow
out.
<br>
Let my beloved come into his garden,
<br>
and taste his precious fruits.

#BCV:Song of Solomon 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:1">1 </verse></sup>I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
<br>
Friends
<br>
Eat, friends!
<br>
Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:2">2 </verse></sup>I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled;
<br>
for my head is filled with dew,
<br>
and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:3">3 </verse></sup>I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?
I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil
them?

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:4">4 </verse></sup>My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch
opening.
<br>
My heart pounded for him.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:5">5 </verse></sup>I rose up to open for my beloved.
<br>
My hands dripped with myrrh,
<br>
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
<br>
on the handles of the lock.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:6">6 </verse></sup>I opened to my beloved;
<br>
but my beloved left, and had gone away.
My heart went out when he spoke.
<br>
I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.
I called him, but he didn’t answer.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The watchmen who go about the city found me.
They beat me.
<br>
They bruised me.
<br>
The keepers of the walls took my cloak away
from me.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:8">8 </verse></sup>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
<br>
that you tell him that I am faint with love.
Friends

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:9">9 </verse></sup>How is your beloved better than another beloved,
you fairest among women?
<br>
How is your beloved better than another beloved,
that you do so adjure us?
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:10">10 </verse></sup>My beloved is white and ruddy.
<br>
The best among ten thousand.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:11">11 </verse></sup>His head is like the purest gold.
<br>
His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:12">12 </verse></sup>His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,
washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:13">13 </verse></sup>His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of
perfumes.
<br>
His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:14">14 </verse></sup>His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.
His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:15">15 </verse></sup>His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of
fine gold.
<br>
His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as
the cedars.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 5:16">16 </verse></sup>His mouth is sweetness;
<br>
yes, he is altogether lovely.
<br>
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
daughters of Jerusalem.

#BCV:Song of Solomon 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<br>
Friends

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among
women?
<br>
Where has your beloved turned, that we may
seek him with you?
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:2">2 </verse></sup>My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
<br>
to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to
gather lilies.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:3">3 </verse></sup>I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.
He browses among the lilies.
<br>
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:4">4 </verse></sup>You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
<br>
awesome as an army with banners.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Turn away your eyes from me,
<br>
for they have overcome me.
<br>
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
<br>
that lie along the side of Gilead.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
which have come up from the washing,
<br>
of which every one has twins;
<br>
not one is bereaved among them.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
behind your veil.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:8">8 </verse></sup>There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
and virgins without number.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:9">9 </verse></sup>My dove, my perfect one, is unique.
She is her mother’s only daughter.
<br>
She is the favorite one of her who bore her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed.
The queens and the concubines saw her, and
they praised her.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Who is she who looks out as the morning,
beautiful as the moon,
<br>
clear as the sun,
<br>
and awesome as an army with banners?

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:11">11 </verse></sup>I went down into the nut tree grove,
to see the green plants of the valley,
to see whether the vine budded,
<br>
and the pomegranates were in flower.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Without realizing it,
<br>
my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
Friends

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Return, return, Shulammite!
<br>
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
Lover
<br>
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?

#BCV:Song of Solomon 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:1">1 </verse></sup>How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s
daughter!
<br>
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
<br>
the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Your body is like a round goblet,
<br>
no mixed wine is wanting.
<br>
Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
<br>
set about with lilies.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Your two breasts are like two fawns,
that are twins of a roe.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Your neck is like an ivory tower.
<br>
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the
gate of Bathrabbim.
<br>
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which
looks toward Damascus.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Your head on you is like Carmel.
<br>
The hair of your head like purple.
<br>
The king is held captive in its tresses.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:6">6 </verse></sup>How beautiful and how pleasant you are,
love, for delights!

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:7">7 </verse></sup>This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
your breasts like its fruit.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:8">8 </verse></sup>I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree.
I will take hold of its fruit.”
<br>
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
the smell of your breath like apples.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Your mouth is like the best wine,
<br>
that goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding through the lips of those who are
asleep.
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:10">10 </verse></sup>I am my beloved’s.
<br>
His desire is toward me.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.
Let’s lodge in the villages.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Let’s go early up to the vineyards.
Let’s see whether the vine has budded,
its blossom is open,
<br>
and the pomegranates are in flower.
<br>
There I will give you my love.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 7:13">13 </verse></sup>The mandrakes produce fragrance.
<br>
At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits,
new and old,
<br>
which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

#BCV:Song of Solomon 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Oh that you were like my brother,
who nursed from the breasts of my mother!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
yes, and no one would despise me.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:2">2 </verse></sup>I would lead you, bringing you into the house of
my mother,
<br>
who would instruct me.
<br>
I would have you drink spiced wine,
<br>
of the juice of my pomegranate.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:3">3 </verse></sup>His left hand would be under my head.
His right hand would embrace me.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:4">4 </verse></sup>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
<br>
Friends

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
<br>
Beloved
<br>
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
<br>
There your mother conceived you.
<br>
There she was in labor and bore you.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Set me as a seal on your heart,
<br>
as a seal on your arm;
<br>
for love is strong as death.

Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.<footnote:1>8:6 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
Its flashes are flashes of fire,

a very flame of Yahweh.<footnote:1>8:6 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Many waters can’t quench love,
<br>
neither can floods drown it.
<br>
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for
love,
<br>
he would be utterly scorned.
<br>
Brothers

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:8">8 </verse></sup>We have a little sister.
<br>
She has no breasts.
<br>
What shall we do for our sister
<br>
in the day when she is to be spoken for?
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:9">9 </verse></sup>If she is a wall,
<br>
we will build on her a turret of silver.
If she is a door,
<br>
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:10">10 </verse></sup>I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
Each was to bring a thousand shekels<footnote:1>8:11 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.</footnote> of silver
for its fruit.

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:12">12 </verse></sup>My own vineyard is before me.
<br>
The thousand are for you, Solomon,
<br>
two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Lover

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:13">13 </verse></sup>You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in
attendance,
<br>
let me hear your voice!
<br>
Beloved

<key:bcv=Song of Solomon 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Song of Solomon 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Come away, my beloved!
<br>
Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains
of spices!

#OUTLINE:1,Isaiah
<h2>The Book of the Prophet</h2>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear, heavens,

and listen, earth; for Yahweh<footnote:1>1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children
and they have rebelled against me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>The ox knows his owner,
<br>
and the donkey his master’s crib;
<br>
but Israel doesn’t know.
<br>
My people don’t consider.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Ah sinful nation,
<br>
a people loaded with iniquity,

offspring<footnote:1>1:4 or, seed </footnote> of evildoers,
<br>
children who deal corruptly!
<br>
They have forsaken Yahweh.
<br>
They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
They are estranged and backward.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Why should you be beaten more,
<br>
that you revolt more and more?
<br>
The whole head is sick,
<br>
and the whole heart faint.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>From the sole of the foot even to the head there is
no soundness in it,
<br>
but wounds, welts, and open sores.
<br>
They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or
soothed with oil.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Your country is desolate.
<br>
Your cities are burned with fire.
<br>
Strangers devour your land in your presence
and it is desolate,
<br>
as overthrown by strangers.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a
vineyard,
<br>
like a hut in a field of melons,
<br>
like a besieged city.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small
remnant,
<br>
we would have been as Sodom.
<br>
We would have been like Gomorrah.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the law of our God,<footnote:1>1:10 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> you people of
Gomorrah!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to
me?”, says Yahweh.
<br>
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of
rams
<br>
and the fat of fed animals.
<br>
I don’t delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs,
<br>
or of male goats.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>When you come to appear before me,
who has required this at your hand, to trample
my courts?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Bring no more vain offerings.
<br>
Incense is an abomination to me.
<br>
New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—
I can’t stand evil assemblies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed
feasts.
<br>
They are a burden to me.
<br>
I am weary of bearing them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>When you spread out your hands, I will hide my
eyes from you.
<br>
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not
hear.
<br>
Your hands are full of blood.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean.
Put away the evil of your doings from before
my eyes.
<br>
Cease to do evil.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Learn to do well.
<br>
Seek justice.
<br>
Relieve the oppressed.
<br>
Defend the fatherless.
<br>
Plead for the widow.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:18">18 </verse></sup>“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:
“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow.
<br>
Though they are red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:19">19 </verse></sup>If you are willing and obedient,
<br>
you will eat the good of the land;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:20">20 </verse></sup>but if you refuse and rebel, you will be
devoured with the sword;
<br>
for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:21">21 </verse></sup>How the faithful city has become a prostitute!
She was full of justice.
<br>
Righteousness lodged in her,
<br>
but now there are murderers.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Your silver has become dross,
<br>
your wine mixed with water.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Your princes are rebellious and companions of
thieves.
<br>
Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.
They don’t defend the fatherless,
<br>
neither does the cause of the widow come to
them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord,<footnote:1>1:24 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh of Armies,
the Mighty One of Israel, says:
<br>
“Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries,
and avenge myself on my enemies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:25">25 </verse></sup>I will turn my hand on you,
<br>
thoroughly purge away your dross,

and will take away all your tin.<footnote:1>1:25 tin is a metal that is separated from silver during the refining and purification process.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:26">26 </verse></sup>I will restore your judges as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness,
a faithful town.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
and her converts with righteousness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:28">28 </verse></sup>But the destruction of transgressors and sinners
shall be together,
<br>
and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:29">29 </verse></sup>For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you
have desired,
<br>
and you shall be confounded for the gardens
that you have chosen.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:30">30 </verse></sup>For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades,
and as a garden that has no water.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 1:31">31 </verse></sup>The strong will be like tinder,
<br>
and his work like a spark.
<br>
They will both burn together,
<br>
and no one will quench them.”

#BCV:Isaiah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain
of Yahweh’s house shall be established
on the top of the mountains,
<br>
and shall be raised above the hills;
<br>
and all nations shall flow to it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Many peoples shall go and say,
<br>
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
<br>
and he will teach us of his ways,
<br>
and we will walk in his paths.”
<br>
For the law shall go out of Zion,
<br>
and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>He will judge between the nations,
<br>
and will decide concerning many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
<br>
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>For you have forsaken your people, the house of
Jacob,
<br>
because they are filled from the east,
with those who practice divination like the
Philistines,
<br>
and they clasp hands with the children of
foreigners.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Their land is full of silver and gold,
neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
<br>
neither is there any end of their chariots.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Their land also is full of idols.
<br>
They worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Man is brought low,
<br>
and mankind is humbled;
<br>
therefore don’t forgive them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Enter into the rock,
<br>
and hide in the dust,
<br>
from before the terror of Yahweh,
<br>
and from the glory of his majesty.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
the arrogance of men will be bowed down,
and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all
that is proud and arrogant,
<br>
and for all that is lifted up,
<br>
and it shall be brought low—

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
and lifted up,
<br>
for all the oaks of Bashan,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:14">14 </verse></sup>for all the high mountains,
<br>
for all the hills that are lifted up,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:15">15 </verse></sup>for every lofty tower,
<br>
for every fortified wall,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:16">16 </verse></sup>for all the ships of Tarshish,
<br>
and for all pleasant imagery.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:18">18 </verse></sup>The idols shall utterly pass away.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
and into the holes of the earth,
<br>
from before the terror of Yahweh,
<br>
and from the glory of his majesty,
<br>
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:20">20 </verse></sup>In that day, men shall cast away their idols of
silver
<br>
and their idols of gold,
<br>
which have been made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bats,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:21">21 </verse></sup>to go into the caverns of the rocks,
and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
<br>
and from the glory of his majesty,
<br>
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his
nostrils;
<br>
for of what account is he?

#BCV:Isaiah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>For, behold,<footnote:1>3:1 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes
away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply
and support,
<br>
the whole supply of bread,
<br>
and the whole supply of water;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>the mighty man,
<br>
the man of war,
<br>
the judge,
<br>
the prophet,
<br>
the diviner,
<br>
the elder,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>the captain of fifty,
<br>
the honorable man,
<br>
the counselor,
<br>
the skilled craftsman,
<br>
and the clever enchanter.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>I will give boys to be their princes,
and children shall rule over them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>The people will be oppressed,
<br>
everyone by another,
<br>
and everyone by his neighbor.
<br>
The child will behave himself proudly against the
old man,
<br>
and the wicked against the honorable.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the
house of his father, saying,
<br>
“You have clothing, you be our ruler,
and let this ruin be under your hand.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a
healer;
<br>
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
You shall not make me ruler of the people.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
because their tongue and their doings are
against Yahweh,
<br>
to provoke the eyes of his glory.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>The look of their faces testify against them.
They parade their sin like Sodom.
<br>
They don’t hide it.
<br>
Woe to their soul!
<br>
For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Tell the righteous that it will be well with them,
for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Woe to the wicked!
<br>
Disaster is upon them,
<br>
for the deeds of their hands will be paid back
to them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:12">12 </verse></sup>As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
<br>
My people, those who lead you cause you to
err,
<br>
and destroy the way of your paths.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh stands up to contend,
<br>
and stands to judge the peoples.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders
of his people
<br>
and their leaders:
<br>
“It is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:15">15 </verse></sup>What do you mean that you crush my people,
and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of
Zion are arrogant,
<br>
and walk with outstretched necks and flirting
eyes,
<br>
walking daintily as they go,
<br>
jingling ornaments on their feet;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:17">17 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of
the head of the women of Zion,
<br>
and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:18">18 </verse></sup>In that day the Lord will take away the beauty
of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:19">19 </verse></sup>the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, <key:bcv=Isaiah 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:20">20 </verse></sup>the
headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume
containers, the charms, <key:bcv=Isaiah 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:21">21 </verse></sup>the signet rings,
the nose rings, <key:bcv=Isaiah 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:22">22 </verse></sup>the fine robes, the capes, the
cloaks, the purses, <key:bcv=Isaiah 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:23">23 </verse></sup>the hand mirrors, the fine
linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:24">24 </verse></sup>It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there
shall be rottenness;
<br>
instead of a belt, a rope;
<br>
instead of well set hair, baldness;
<br>
instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth;
and branding instead of beauty.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Your men shall fall by the sword,
<br>
and your mighty in the war.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 3:26">26 </verse></sup>Her gates shall lament and mourn.
<br>
She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

#BCV:Isaiah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Seven women shall take hold of one man in that
day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear
our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name.
Take away our reproach.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the
beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>It
will happen that he who is left in Zion and he
who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy,
even everyone who is written among the living in
Jerusalem, <key:bcv=Isaiah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>when the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have
purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by
the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of
Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and
smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by
night, for over all the glory will be a canopy. <key:bcv=Isaiah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>There
will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the
heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm
and from rain.

#BCV:Isaiah 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my
beloved about his vineyard.
<br>
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful
hill.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:2">2 </verse></sup>He dug it up,
<br>
gathered out its stones,
<br>
planted it with the choicest vine,
<br>
built a tower in the middle of it,
<br>
and also cut out a wine press in it.
<br>
He looked for it to yield grapes,
<br>
but it yielded wild grapes.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:3">3 </verse></sup>“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
please judge between me and my vineyard.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:4">4 </verse></sup>What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
<br>
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it
yield wild grapes?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten
up.
<br>
I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled
down.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:6">6 </verse></sup>I will lay it a wasteland.
<br>
It won’t be pruned or hoed,
<br>
but it will grow briers and thorns.
<br>
I will also command the clouds that they rain
no rain on it.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:7">7 </verse></sup>For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house
of Israel,
<br>
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.
He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,
for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Woe to those who join house to house,
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle
of the land!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:9">9 </verse></sup>In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many
houses will be desolate,
<br>
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:10">10 </verse></sup>For ten acres<footnote:1>5:10 literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares. </footnote> of vineyard shall yield one bath,<footnote:1>5:10 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons </footnote>
and a homer<footnote:1>5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels </footnote> of seed shall yield an ephah.”<footnote:1>5:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Woe to those who rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink,
<br>
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames
them!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:12">12 </verse></sup>The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine,
are at their feasts;
<br>
but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of
his hands.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of
knowledge.
<br>
Their honorable men are famished,
<br>
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore Sheol<footnote:1>5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> has enlarged its desire,
and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp,
and he who rejoices among them, descend
into it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:15">15 </verse></sup>So man is brought low,
<br>
mankind is humbled,
<br>
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:16">16 </verse></sup>but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,
and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of
falsehood,
<br>
and wickedness as with cart rope,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:19">19 </verse></sup>who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his
work, that we may see it;
<br>
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
near and come,
<br>
that we may know it!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light,
<br>
and light for darkness;
<br>
who put bitter for sweet,
<br>
and sweet for bitter!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
and champions at mixing strong drink;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:23">23 </verse></sup>who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice for the innocent!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust,
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of
Armies,
<br>
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,
and he has stretched out his hand against them
and has struck them.
<br>
The mountains tremble,
<br>
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the
middle of the streets.
<br>
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is still stretched out.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:26">26 </verse></sup>He will lift up a banner to the nations from far
away,
<br>
and he will whistle for them from the end of
the earth.
<br>
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:27">27 </verse></sup>No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;
no one shall slumber nor sleep,
<br>
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:28">28 </verse></sup>whose arrows are sharp,
<br>
and all their bows bent.
<br>
Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
<br>
Yes, they shall roar,
<br>
and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 5:30">30 </verse></sup>They will roar against them in that day like the
roaring of the sea.
<br>
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and
distress.
<br>
The light is darkened in its clouds.

#BCV:Isaiah 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:1">1 </verse></sup>In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train
filled the temple. <key:bcv=Isaiah 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Above him stood the seraphim.
Each one had six wings. With two he covered his
face. With two he covered his feet. With two he
flew. <key:bcv=Isaiah 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:3">3 </verse></sup>One called to another, and said,
“Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies!
The whole earth is full of his glory!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:4">4 </verse></sup>The foundations of the thresholds shook at the
voice of him who called, and the house was filled
with smoke. <key:bcv=Isaiah 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am
undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live
among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have
seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the
tongs from off the altar. <key:bcv=Isaiah 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:7">7 </verse></sup>He touched my mouth
with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your
lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin
forgiven.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:8">8 </verse></sup>I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us?”
<br>
Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:9">9 </verse></sup>He said, “Go, and tell this people,
‘You hear indeed,
<br>
but don’t understand.
<br>
You see indeed,
<br>
but don’t perceive.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Make the heart of this people fat.
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
<br>
hear with their ears,
<br>
understand with their heart,
<br>
and turn again, and be healed.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
<br>
He answered,
<br>
“Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
houses without man,
<br>
the land becomes utterly waste,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:12">12 </verse></sup>and Yahweh has removed men far away,
and the forsaken places are many within the
land.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 6:13">13 </verse></sup>If there is a tenth left in it,
<br>
that also will in turn be consumed,
<br>
as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains
when they are cut down,
<br>
so the holy seed is its stump.”

#BCV:Isaiah 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:1">1 </verse></sup>In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son
of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and
Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail
against it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:2">2 </verse></sup>David’s house was told, “Syria is allied
with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with
the wind.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet
Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of
the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of
the fuller’s field. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep
calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint
because of these two tails of smoking torches, for
the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son
of Remaliah. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son
of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:6">6 </verse></sup>“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and
let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king
within it, even the son of Tabeel.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:7">7 </verse></sup>This is what
the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither
shall it happen.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:8">8 </verse></sup>For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixtyfive
years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that
it shall not be a people. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:9">9 </verse></sup>The head of Ephraim
is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s
son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be
established.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:11">11 </verse></sup>“Ask a
sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:12">12 </verse></sup>But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt
Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:13">13 </verse></sup>He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not
enough for you to try the patience of men, that you
will try the patience of my God also? <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore
the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel.<footnote:1>7:14 “Immanuel” means “God with us”. </footnote> <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:15">15 </verse></sup>He shall eat butter and
honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose
the good. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:16">16 </verse></sup>For before the child knows to refuse the
evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings
you abhor shall be forsaken. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh will bring
on you, on your people, and on your father’s house
days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:18">18 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that Yahweh will
whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of
the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land
of Assyria. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:19">19 </verse></sup>They shall come, and shall all rest in
the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all
thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:20">20 </verse></sup>In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that
is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the
king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet;
and it shall also consume the beard.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:21">21 </verse></sup>It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep
alive a young cow, and two sheep. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:22">22 </verse></sup>It shall happen,
that because of the abundance of milk which they
shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat
butter and honey that is left within the land.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:23">23 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that every place
where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand
silver shekels,<footnote:1>7:23 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or 22 pounds. </footnote> will be for briers and thorns.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:24">24 </verse></sup>People will go there with arrows and with bow,
because all the land will be briers and thorns. <key:bcv=Isaiah 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 7:25">25 </verse></sup>All
the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall
not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it
shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep
to tread on.”

#BCV:Isaiah 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and
write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash
Baz’;<footnote:1>8:1 “Maher Shalal Hash Baz” means “quick to the plunder, swift to the prey”.</footnote> <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:2">2 </verse></sup>and I will take for myself faithful witnesses
to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son
of Jeberechiah.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:3">3 </verse></sup>I went to the prophetess, and she conceived,
and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his
name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:4">4 </verse></sup>For before the child
knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the
riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will
be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:6">6 </verse></sup>“Because this people has refused the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah’s son; <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:7">7 </verse></sup>now therefore, behold, the Lord
brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the
River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will
come up over all its channels, and go over all its
banks. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:8">8 </verse></sup>It will sweep onward into Judah. It will
overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the
neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the
width of your land, O Immanuel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in
pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for
battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be
shattered! <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Take counsel together, and it will be
brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not
stand, for God is with us.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:11">11 </verse></sup>For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong
hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of
this people, saying, <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:12">12 </verse></sup>“Don’t call a conspiracy all
that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their
threats or be terrorized. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies is who
you must respect as holy. He is the one you must
fear. He is the one you must dread. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He will be a
sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be
a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall.
For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a
snare. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken,
be snared, and be captured.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:16">16 </verse></sup>Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among
my disciples. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:17">17 </verse></sup>I will wait for Yahweh, who hides
his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for
him. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh
has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel
from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:19">19 </verse></sup>When they tell you, “Consult with those who
have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who
chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult
with their God? Should they consult the dead on
behalf of the living? <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Turn to the law and to
the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this
word, surely there is no morning for them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:21">21 </verse></sup>They
will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It
will happen that when they are hungry, they will
worry, and curse their king and their God. They
will turn their faces upward, <key:bcv=Isaiah 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 8:22">22 </verse></sup>then look to the
earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of
anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

#BCV:Isaiah 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:1">1 </verse></sup>But there shall be no more gloom for her who
was in anguish. In the former time, he brought
into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land
of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the nations.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:2">2 </verse></sup>The people who walked in darkness have seen a
great light.
<br>
The light has shined on those who lived in the
land of the shadow of death.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:3">3 </verse></sup>You have multiplied the nation.
<br>
You have increased their joy.
<br>
They rejoice before you according to the joy
in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the
plunder. <key:bcv=Isaiah 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:4">4 </verse></sup>For the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you
have broken as in the day of Midian. <key:bcv=Isaiah 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:5">5 </verse></sup>For all the
armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and
the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning,
fuel for the fire. <key:bcv=Isaiah 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:6">6 </verse></sup>For a child is born to us. A
son is given to us; and the government will be on
his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace. <key:bcv=Isaiah 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the increase of his government and
of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne,
and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness from that time
on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will
perform this.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:8">8 </verse></sup>The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
<br>
and it falls on Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:9">9 </verse></sup>All the people will know,
<br>
including Ephraim and the inhabitants of
Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance
of heart,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:10">10 </verse></sup>“The bricks have fallen,
<br>
but we will build with cut stone.
<br>
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,
but we will put cedars in their place.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him
the adversaries of Rezin,
<br>
and will stir up his enemies,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:12">12 </verse></sup>The Syrians in front,
<br>
and the Philistines behind;
<br>
and they will devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet the people have not turned to him who struck
them,
<br>
neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head
and tail,
<br>
palm branch and reed, in one day.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:15">15 </verse></sup>The elder and the honorable man is the head,
and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:16">16 </verse></sup>For those who lead this people lead them astray;
and those who are led by them are destroyed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their
young men,
<br>
neither will he have compassion on their fatherless
and widows;
<br>
for everyone is profane and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
<br>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:18">18 </verse></sup>For wickedness burns like a fire.
<br>
It devours the briers and thorns;
<br>
yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is
burned up;
<br>
and the people are the fuel for the fire.
No one spares his brother.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:20">20 </verse></sup>One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry;
and he will eat on the left hand, and they will
not be satisfied.
<br>
Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
<key:bcv=Isaiah 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Manasseh eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating
Manasseh, and they together will be
<br>
against Judah.
<br>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

#BCV:Isaiah 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees,
and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:2">2 </verse></sup>to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the
poor among my people of their rights, that widows
may be their plunder, and that they may make the
fatherless their prey! <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:3">3 </verse></sup>What will you do in the day
of visitation, and in the desolation which will come
from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where
will you leave your wealth?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:4">4 </verse></sup>They will only bow down under the prisoners,
and will fall under the slain.
<br>
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in
whose hand is my indignation! <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:6">6 </verse></sup>I will send him
against a profane nation, and against the people
who anger me I will give him a command to take
the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them
down like the mire of the streets. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:7">7 </verse></sup>However, he
doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a
few nations. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:8">8 </verse></sup>For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes
kings? <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath
like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?” <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:10">10 </verse></sup>As my
hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose
engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and
of Samaria, <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:11">11 </verse></sup>shall I not, as I have done to Samaria
and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore it will happen that when the Lord
has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and
on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful
proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence
of his arrogant looks. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:13">13 </verse></sup>For he has said, “By the
strength of my hand I have done it, and by my
wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed
the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed
their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought
down their rulers. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:14">14 </verse></sup>My hand has found the riches
of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs
that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth.
There was no one who moved their wing, or that
opened their mouth, or chirped.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Should an ax brag against him who chops with
it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws
with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up,
or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not
wood. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will
send among his fat ones leanness; and under his
glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of
fire. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:17">17 </verse></sup>The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his
Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his
thorns and his briers in one day. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:18">18 </verse></sup>He will consume
the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer
faints. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:19">19 </verse></sup>The remnant of the trees of his forest shall
be few, so that a child could write their number.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:20">20 </verse></sup>It will come to pass in that day that the remnant
of Israel, and those who have escaped from the
house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who
struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:21">21 </verse></sup>A remnant will return, even the
remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:22">22 </verse></sup>For though
your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only
a remnant of them will return. A destruction is
determined, overflowing with righteousness. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:23">23 </verse></sup>For
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end,
and that determined, throughout all the earth.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says,
“My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of
the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and
lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:25">25 </verse></sup>For yet
a very little while, and the indignation against you
will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed
to his destruction.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies will stir up
a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian
at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea,
and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:27">27 </verse></sup>It
will happen in that day that his burden will depart
from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your
neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing oil.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:28">28 </verse></sup>He has come to Aiath. He has passed through
Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:29">29 </verse></sup>They
have gone over the pass. They have taken up their
lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul
has fled. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Cry aloud with your voice, daughter
of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim
flee for safety. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:32">32 </verse></sup>This very day he will halt at Nob.
He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter
of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:33">33 </verse></sup>Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop
the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down,
and the lofty will be brought low. <key:bcv=Isaiah 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 10:34">34 </verse></sup>He will cut
down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

#BCV:Isaiah 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:1">1 </verse></sup>A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
<br>
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
<br>
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:3">3 </verse></sup>His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:4">4 </verse></sup>but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
and decide with equity for the humble of the
earth.
<br>
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the
wicked.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Righteousness will be the belt around his waist,
and faithfulness the belt around his waist.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:6">6 </verse></sup>The wolf will live with the lamb,
<br>
and the leopard will lie down with the young
goat,
<br>
the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf
together;
<br>
and a little child will lead them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:7">7 </verse></sup>The cow and the bear will graze.
<br>
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:8">8 </verse></sup>The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the
viper’s den.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:9">9 </verse></sup>They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain;
<br>
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of
Yahweh,
<br>
as the waters cover the sea.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:10">10 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that the nations will
seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the
peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:11">11 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that the Lord will
set his hand again the second time to recover the
remnant that is left of his people from Assyria,
from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam,
from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands
of the sea. <key:bcv=Isaiah 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:12">12 </verse></sup>He will set up a banner for the
nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather together the dispersed of Judah from
the four corners of the earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:13">13 </verse></sup>The envy also
of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute
Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah,
and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim. <key:bcv=Isaiah 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:14">14 </verse></sup>They will
fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the
west. Together they will plunder the children of
the east. They will extend their power over Edom
and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey
them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of
the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he
will wave his hand over the River, and will split it
into seven streams, and cause men to march over in
sandals. <key:bcv=Isaiah 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 11:16">16 </verse></sup>There will be a highway for the remnant
that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was
for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land
of Egypt.

#BCV:Isaiah 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:1">1 </verse></sup>In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to
you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will
not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and
song; and he has become my salvation.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore
with joy you will draw water out of the wells of
salvation. <key:bcv=Isaiah 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:4">4 </verse></sup>In that day you will say, “Give thanks
to Yahweh! Call on his name! Declare his doings
among the peoples! Proclaim that his name is
exalted! <key:bcv=Isaiah 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent
things! Let this be known in all the earth! <key:bcv=Isaiah 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Cry
aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for the
Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
#BCV:Isaiah 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of
Amoz saw.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift
up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:3">3 </verse></sup>I have
commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called
my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly
exulting ones. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:4">4 </verse></sup>The noise of a multitude is in the
mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an
uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered
together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army
for the battle. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:5">5 </verse></sup>They come from a far country, from
the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come
as destruction from the Almighty. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore all
hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:8">8 </verse></sup>They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will
seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in
labor. They will look in amazement one at another.
Their faces will be faces of flame. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, the
day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce
anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy
its sinners out of it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:10">10 </verse></sup>For the stars of the sky and its
constellations will not give their light. The sun will
be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not
cause its light to shine. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:11">11 </verse></sup>I will punish the world
for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I
will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will humble the arrogance of the terrible. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:12">12 </verse></sup>I will
make people more rare than fine gold, even a person
than the pure gold of Ophir. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I will make
the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken
out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in
the day of his fierce anger. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:14">14 </verse></sup>It will happen that
like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one
gathers, they will each turn to their own people,
and will each flee to their own land. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Everyone
who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who
is captured will fall by the sword. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Their infants
also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their
houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
who will not value silver, and as for gold, they
will not delight in it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Their bows will dash the
young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity
on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare
children. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:19">19 </verse></sup>Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the
beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:20">20 </verse></sup>It will
never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from
generation to generation. The Arabian will not
pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make
their flocks lie down there. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:21">21 </verse></sup>But wild animals
of the desert will lie there, and their houses will
be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and
wild goats will frolic there. <key:bcv=Isaiah 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Hyenas will cry in
their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces.
Her time is near to come, and her days will not be
prolonged.

#BCV:Isaiah 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:1">1 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob,
and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their
own land. The foreigner will join himself with
them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:2">2 </verse></sup>The peoples will take them, and bring them to
their place. The house of Israel will possess them
in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids.
They will take as captives those whose captives they
were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:3">3 </verse></sup>It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give
you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and
from the hard service in which you were made to
serve, <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:4">4 </verse></sup>that you will take up this parable against
the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor
has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh
has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of
the rulers, <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:6">6 </verse></sup>who struck the peoples in wrath with
a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger,
with a persecution that no one restrained. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:7">7 </verse></sup>The
whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out
in song. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you,
with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are
humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Sheol<footnote:1>14:9 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> from beneath has moved for you to meet
you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits
for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised
up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:10">10 </verse></sup>They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also
become as weak as we are? Have you become like
us?” <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,<footnote:1>14:11 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> with
the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots
are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:12">12 </verse></sup>How you have fallen from heaven, shining one,
son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the
ground, who laid the nations low! <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:13">13 </verse></sup>You said in
your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on
the mountain of assembly, in the far north! <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:14">14 </verse></sup>I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will
make myself like the Most High!” <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Yet you shall
be brought down to Sheol,<footnote:1>14:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> to the depths of the pit.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Those who see you will stare at you. They will
ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the
earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:17">17 </verse></sup>who made
the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities,
who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:18">18 </verse></sup>All the kings of the nations sleep in glory,
everyone in his own house. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:19">19 </verse></sup>But you are cast
away from your tomb like an abominable branch,
clothed with the slain who are thrust through with
the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like
a dead body trodden under foot. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:20">20 </verse></sup>You will not join
them in burial, because you have destroyed your
land. You have killed your people. The offspring of
evildoers will not be named forever.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Prepare for slaughter of his children because
of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise
up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the
world with cities. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:22">22 </verse></sup>“I will rise up against them,”
says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon
name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:23">23 </verse></sup>“I will also make it a possession for the
porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with
the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely,
as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have
purposed, so shall it stand: <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:25">25 </verse></sup>that I will break the
Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on
my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and
his burden leave their shoulders. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:26">26 </verse></sup>This is the plan
that is determined for the whole earth. This is the
hand that is stretched out over all the nations. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:27">27 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop
it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it
back?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:28">28 </verse></sup>This burden was in the year that King Ahaz
died.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because
the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the
serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit
will be a fiery flying serpent. <key:bcv=Isaiah 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:30">30 </verse></sup>The firstborn of
the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in
safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your
remnant will be killed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away,
Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the
north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 14:32">32 </verse></sup>What will they answer the messengers of the
nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her
the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

#BCV:Isaiah 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of Moab.
<br>
For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to nothing. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:2">2 </verse></sup>They have
gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places,
to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba.
Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is
cut off. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:3">3 </verse></sup>In their streets, they clothe themselves in
sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops,
everyone wails, weeping abundantly. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Heshbon
cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to
Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud.
Their souls tremble within them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:5">5 </verse></sup>My heart cries
out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath
Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith
with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they
raise up a cry of destruction. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:6">6 </verse></sup>For the waters of
Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered
away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore they will carry away the abundance they
have gotten, and that which they have stored up,
over the brook of the willows. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:8">8 </verse></sup>For the cry has gone
around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim,
and its wailing to Beer Elim. <key:bcv=Isaiah 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 15:9">9 </verse></sup>For the waters of
Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on
Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on
the remnant of the land.

#BCV:Isaiah 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from
Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the
daughter of Zion. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:2">2 </verse></sup>For it will be that as wandering
birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of
Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Give counsel!
Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in
the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t
betray the fugitive! <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:4">4 </verse></sup>Let my outcasts dwell with
you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the
face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought
to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors
are consumed out of the land. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:5">5 </verse></sup>A throne will be
established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in
truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice,
and swift to do righteousness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:6">6 </verse></sup>We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is
very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his
wrath. His boastings are nothing. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore Moab
will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will
mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly
stricken. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:8">8 </verse></sup>For the fields of Heshbon languish with
the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have
broken down its choice branches, which reached
even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness.
Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over
the sea. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore I will weep with the weeping
of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you
with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your
summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout
has fallen. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Gladness is taken away, and joy out of
the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be
no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread
out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting
stop. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for
Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:12">12 </verse></sup>It will
happen that when Moab presents himself, when he
wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his
sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:13">13 </verse></sup>This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning
Moab in time past. <key:bcv=Isaiah 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 16:14">14 </verse></sup>But now Yahweh has spoken,
saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound
by contract would count them, the glory of Moab
shall be brought into contempt, with all his great
multitude; and the remnant will be very small and
feeble.”

#BCV:Isaiah 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of Damascus.
<br>
“Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it will be a ruinous heap. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:2">2 </verse></sup>The cities of
Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:3">3 </verse></sup>The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the
kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria.
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
says Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:4">4 </verse></sup>“It will happen in that day that the glory of
Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his
flesh will become lean. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:5">5 </verse></sup>It will be like when the
harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the
grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain
in the valley of Rephaim. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:6">6 </verse></sup>Yet gleanings will be
left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or
three olives in the top of the uppermost bough,
four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful
tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:7">7 </verse></sup>In that day,
people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will
have respect for the Holy One of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:8">8 </verse></sup>They
will not look to the altars, the work of their hands;
neither shall they respect that which their fingers
have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense
altars. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:9">9 </verse></sup>In that day, their strong cities will be
like the forsaken places in the woods and on the
mountain top, which were forsaken from before the
children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:10">10 </verse></sup>For
you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and
have not remembered the rock of your strength.
Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out
foreign seedlings. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:11">11 </verse></sup>In the day of your planting, you
hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed
blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like
the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations
that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:13">13 </verse></sup>The
nations will rush like the rushing of many waters,
but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off,
and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains
before the wind, and like the whirling dust before
the storm. <key:bcv=Isaiah 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 17:14">14 </verse></sup>At evening, behold, terror! Before the
morning, they are no more. This is the portion of
those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob
us.

#BCV:Isaiah 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; <key:bcv=Isaiah 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:2">2 </verse></sup>that sends ambassadors
by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on
the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a
nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from
their beginning onward, a nation that measures out
and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:3">3 </verse></sup>All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers
on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the
mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown,
listen!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will
see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:5">5 </verse></sup>For
before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and
the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut
off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut
down and take away the spreading branches. <key:bcv=Isaiah 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:6">6 </verse></sup>They
will be left together for the ravenous birds of the
mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The
ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all
the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 18:7">7 </verse></sup>In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh
of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from
a people awesome from their beginning onward, a
nation that measures out and treads down, whose
land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of
Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.

#BCV:Isaiah 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of Egypt.
<br>
“Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and
comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble
at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt
within it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:2">2 </verse></sup>I will stir up the Egyptians against the
Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his
brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city
against city, and kingdom against kingdom. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:3">3 </verse></sup>The
spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will
destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the
charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the
wizards. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:4">4 </verse></sup>I will give over the Egyptians into the
hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over
them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:5">5 </verse></sup>The waters will fail from the sea, and the river
will be wasted and become dry. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:6">6 </verse></sup>The rivers will
become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished
and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither
away. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:7">7 </verse></sup>The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of
the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will
become dry, be driven away, and be no more. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:8">8 </verse></sup>The
fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the
Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the
waters will languish. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:9">9 </verse></sup>Moreover those who work
in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth,
will be confounded. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:10">10 </verse></sup>The pillars will be broken in
pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved
in soul.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:11">11 </verse></sup>The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The
counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has
become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I
am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:12">12 </verse></sup>Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you
now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has
purposed concerning Egypt. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:13">13 </verse></sup>The princes of Zoan
have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived.
They have caused Egypt to go astray, those
who are the cornerstone of her tribes. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh
has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle
of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray
in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in
his vomit. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Neither shall there be any work for
Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may
do. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:16">16 </verse></sup>In that day the Egyptians will be like women.
They will tremble and fear because of the shaking
of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over
them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:17">17 </verse></sup>The land of Judah will become a terror to
Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will
be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies,
which he determines against it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:18">18 </verse></sup>In that day, there
will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak
the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of
Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:19">19 </verse></sup>In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh
in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to
Yahweh at its border. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:20">20 </verse></sup>It will be for a sign and for
a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt;
for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors,
and he will send them a savior and a defender,
and he will deliver them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh will be known
to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in
that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and
offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will
perform it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and
healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be
entreated by them, and will heal them.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:23">23 </verse></sup>In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt,
and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians
will worship with the Assyrians.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:24">24 </verse></sup>In that day, Israel will be the third with
Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 19:25">25 </verse></sup>because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them,
saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the
work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

#BCV:Isaiah 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:1">1 </verse></sup>In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought
against Ashdod and took it; <key:bcv=Isaiah 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:2">2 </verse></sup>at that time Yahweh
spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and
loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take
your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking
naked and barefoot. <key:bcv=Isaiah 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “As my servant
Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years
for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and
concerning Ethiopia, <key:bcv=Isaiah 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:4">4 </verse></sup>so the king of Assyria will
lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of
Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and
with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:5">5 </verse></sup>They will be dismayed and confounded, because of
Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 20:6">6 </verse></sup>The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that
day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled
for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria.
And we, how will we escape?’ ”

#BCV:Isaiah 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it
comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:2">2 </verse></sup>A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous
man deals treacherously, and the destroyer
destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped
all of Media’s sighing. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore my thighs are
filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the
pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain
that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t
see. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:4">4 </verse></sup>My heart flutters. Horror has frightened
me. The twilight that I desired has been turned
into trembling for me. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:5">5 </verse></sup>They prepare the table.
They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise
up, you princes, oil the shield! <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:6">6 </verse></sup>For the Lord said
to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what
he sees. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:7">7 </verse></sup>When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs,
a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen
diligently with great attentiveness.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:8">8 </verse></sup>He cried like
a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower
in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in
pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and
all the engraved images of her gods are broken to
the ground.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:10">10 </verse></sup>You are my threshing, and the grain of my
floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:11">11 </verse></sup>The burden of Dumah.
<br>
One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of
the night? Watchman, what of the night?” <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:12">12 </verse></sup>The
watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the
night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:13">13 </verse></sup>The burden on Arabia.
<br>
You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you
caravans of Dedanites. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:14">14 </verse></sup>They brought water to
him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land
of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:15">15 </verse></sup>For
they fled away from the swords, from the drawn
sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of
battle. <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:16">16 </verse></sup>For the Lord said to me, “Within a year,
as a worker bound by contract would count it, all
the glory of Kedar will fail, <key:bcv=Isaiah 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 21:17">17 </verse></sup>and the residue of
the number of the archers, the mighty men of the
children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God
of Israel, has spoken it.”

#BCV:Isaiah 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up
to the housetops? <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:2">2 </verse></sup>You that are full of shouting,
a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are
not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in
battle. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:3">3 </verse></sup>All your rulers fled away together. They
were bound by the archers. All who were found
by you were bound together. They fled far away.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will
weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the
destruction of the daughter of my people.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:5">5 </verse></sup>For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down,
and of perplexity from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls,
and a crying to the mountains.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:6">6 </verse></sup>Elam carried his
quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir
uncovered the shield. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:7">7 </verse></sup>Your choicest valleys were
full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in
array at the gate. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:8">8 </verse></sup>He took away the covering of
Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in
the house of the forest. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:9">9 </verse></sup>You saw the breaches of
David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered
together the waters of the lower pool. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:10">10 </verse></sup>You
counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke
down the houses to fortify the wall. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:11">11 </verse></sup>You also made
a reservoir between the two walls for the water of
the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had
done this, neither did you have respect for him who
planned it long ago.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:12">12 </verse></sup>In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and
to dressing in sackcloth; <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:13">13 </verse></sup>and behold, there is
joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep,
eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink,
for tomorrow we will die.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies
revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity
will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:15">15 </verse></sup>The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get
yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is
over the house, and say, <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:16">16 </verse></sup>‘What are you doing
here? Who has you here, that you have dug out
a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on
high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you
away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:18">18 </verse></sup>He
will surely wind you around and around, and throw
you like a ball into a large country. There you will
die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you
disgrace of your lord’s house. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:19">19 </verse></sup>I will thrust you
from your office. You will be pulled down from your
station.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:20">20 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:21">21 </verse></sup>and I will
clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with
your belt. I will commit your government into his
hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:22">22 </verse></sup>I will lay
the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will
open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one
will open. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:23">23 </verse></sup>I will fasten him like a nail in a sure
place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s
house. <key:bcv=Isaiah 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:24">24 </verse></sup>They will hang on him all the glory of his
father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every
small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 22:25">25 </verse></sup>“In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail
that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It
will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it
will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

#BCV:Isaiah 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:1">1 </verse></sup>The burden of Tyre.
<br>
Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste,
so that there is no house, no entering in. From
the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Be
still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the
merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have
replenished. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:3">3 </verse></sup>On great waters, the seed of the
Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue.
She was the market of nations. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Be ashamed,
Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the
sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth,
neither have I nourished young men, nor brought
up virgins.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:5">5 </verse></sup>When the report comes to Egypt, they
will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:6">6 </verse></sup>Pass over
to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:7">7 </verse></sup>Is
this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient
days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:8">8 </verse></sup>Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver
of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose
traders are the honorable of the earth? <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh
of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all
glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of
the earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Pass through your land like the Nile,
daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any
more. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:11">11 </verse></sup>He has stretched out his hand over the sea.
He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered
the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:12">12 </verse></sup>He said,
“You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin
daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even
there you will have no rest.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people
didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those
who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their
towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made
it a ruin. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:14">14 </verse></sup>Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your
stronghold is laid waste! <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:15">15 </verse></sup>It will come to pass in
that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years,
according to the days of one king. After the end
of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song
of the prostitute. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Take a harp; go about the
city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make
sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be
remembered. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:17">17 </verse></sup>It will happen after the end of
seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will
return to her wages, and will play the prostitute
with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of
the earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 23:18">18 </verse></sup>Her merchandise and her wages will be
holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid
up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell
before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable
clothing.

#BCV:Isaiah 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes
it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its
inhabitants. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:2">2 </verse></sup>It will be as with the people, so with
the priest; as with the servant, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with
the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor,
so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest,
so with the giver of interest. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:3">3 </verse></sup>The earth will be
utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh
has spoken this word. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:4">4 </verse></sup>The earth mourns and fades
away. The world languishes and fades away. The
lofty people of the earth languish. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:5">5 </verse></sup>The earth also
is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and
broken the everlasting covenant. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore the
curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell
therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men are left. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:7">7 </verse></sup>The
new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the
merry-hearted sigh. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:8">8 </verse></sup>The mirth of tambourines
ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The
joy of the harp ceases. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:9">9 </verse></sup>They will not drink wine
with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who
drink it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:10">10 </verse></sup>The confused city is broken down. Every
house is shut up, that no man may come in. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:11">11 </verse></sup>There
is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy
is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:12">12 </verse></sup>The
city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with
destruction. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:13">13 </verse></sup>For it will be so within the earth
among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree,
as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:14">14 </verse></sup>These shall lift up their voice. They will shout
for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the
sea. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even
the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands
of the sea! <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:16">16 </verse></sup>From the uttermost part of the earth
have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!
But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!”
The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Fear,
the pit, and the snare are on you who inhabit the
earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:18">18 </verse></sup>It will happen that he who flees from the
noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who
comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in
the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and
the foundations of the earth tremble. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:19">19 </verse></sup>The earth
is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth
is shaken violently. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:20">20 </verse></sup>The earth will stagger like a
drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a
hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and
it will fall and not rise again.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:21">21 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that Yahweh will
punish the army of the high ones on high, and the
kings of the earth on the earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:22">22 </verse></sup>They will be
gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many
days they will be visited. <key:bcv=Isaiah 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 24:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the moon will be
confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of
Armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem;
and glory will be before his elders.

#BCV:Isaiah 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I
will praise your name, for you have done wonderful
things, things planned long ago, in complete
faithfulness and truth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:2">2 </verse></sup>For you have made a city
into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace
of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of
awesome nations will fear you. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:4">4 </verse></sup>For you have been a
stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from
the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like
a storm against the wall. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:5">5 </verse></sup>As the heat in a dry place
you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the
heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded
ones will be brought low.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:6">6 </verse></sup>In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make
all peoples a feast of choice meat,<footnote:1>25:6 literally, fat things</footnote> a feast of choice
wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined
choice wines. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:7">7 </verse></sup>He will destroy in this mountain
the surface of the covering that covers all peoples,
and the veil that is spread over all nations. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:8">8 </verse></sup>He has
swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will
wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the
reproach of his people away from off all the earth,
for Yahweh has spoken it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:9">9 </verse></sup>It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our
God! We have waited for him, and he will save us!
This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be
glad and rejoice in his salvation!” <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:10">10 </verse></sup>For Yahweh’s
hand will rest in this mountain.
<br>
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like
straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:11">11 </verse></sup>He will spread out his hands in the middle of it,
like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but
his pride will be humbled together with the craft
of his hands. <key:bcv=Isaiah 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 25:12">12 </verse></sup>He has brought the high fortress
of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the
ground, even to the dust.

#BCV:Isaiah 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:1">1 </verse></sup>In that day, this song will be sung in the land of
Judah:
<br>
“We have a strong city.
<br>
God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:2">2 </verse></sup>Open the gates, that the righteous nation may
enter:
<br>
the one which keeps faith.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:3">3 </verse></sup>You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect
peace,
<br>
because he trusts in you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:4">4 </verse></sup>Trust in Yahweh forever;
<br>
for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:5">5 </verse></sup>For he has brought down those who dwell on high,
the lofty city.
<br>
He lays it low.
<br>
He lays it low even to the ground.
<br>
He brings it even to the dust.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:6">6 </verse></sup>The foot shall tread it down,
<br>
even the feet of the poor
<br>
and the steps of the needy.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:7">7 </verse></sup>The way of the just is uprightness.
You who are upright make the path of the
righteous level.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we
have waited for you.
<br>
Your name and your renown are the desire of
our soul.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:9">9 </verse></sup>With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you
earnestly;
<br>
for when your judgments are in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:10">10 </verse></sup>Let favor be shown to the wicked,
<br>
yet he will not learn righteousness.
<br>
In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see;
but they will see your zeal for the people and
be disappointed.
<br>
Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had
dominion over us,
<br>
but we will only acknowledge your name.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:14">14 </verse></sup>The dead shall not live.
<br>
The departed spirits shall not rise.
<br>
Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,
and caused all memory of them to perish.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:15">15 </verse></sup>You have increased the nation, O Yahweh.
You have increased the nation!
<br>
You are glorified!
<br>
You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.
They poured out a prayer when your chastening
was on them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Just as a woman with child, who draws near the
time of her delivery,
<br>
is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
so we have been before you, Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:18">18 </verse></sup>We have been with child.
<br>
We have been in pain.
<br>
We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance in the
earth;
<br>
neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:19">19 </verse></sup>Your dead shall live.
<br>
Their dead bodies shall arise.
<br>
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Come, my people, enter into your rooms,
and shut your doors behind you.
<br>
Hide yourself for a little moment,
<br>
until the indignation is past.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 26:21">21 </verse></sup>For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity.
<br>
The earth also will disclose her blood, and will
no longer cover her slain.

#BCV:Isaiah 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:1">1 </verse></sup>In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great
and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing
serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he
will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:2">2 </verse></sup>In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:3">3 </verse></sup>I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every
moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night
and day. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Wrath is not in me, but if I should find
briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march
on them and I would burn them together. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:5">5 </verse></sup>Or else
let him take hold of my strength, that he may make
peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:6">6 </verse></sup>In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel
will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface
of the world with fruit. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:7">7 </verse></sup>Has he struck them as
he struck those who struck them? Or are they
killed like those who killed them were killed? <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:8">8 </verse></sup>In
measure, when you send them away, you contend
with them. He has removed them with his rough
blast in the day of the east wind. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore by this
the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all
the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the
stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in
pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense
altars shall rise no more. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:10">10 </verse></sup>For the fortified city is
solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the
wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he
will lie down, and consume its branches. <key:bcv=Isaiah 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:11">11 </verse></sup>When
its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The
women will come and set them on fire, for they are
a people of no understanding. Therefore he who
made them will not have compassion on them, and
he who formed them will show them no favor.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:12">12 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that Yahweh will
thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to
the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by
one, children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 27:13">13 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that a great trumpet
will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in
the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in
the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship
Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
#BCV:Isaiah 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious
beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley
of those who are overcome with wine! <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold,
the Lord has one who is mighty and strong. Like a
storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of
mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down
to the earth with his hand. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:3">3 </verse></sup>The crown of pride
of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under
foot. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:4">4 </verse></sup>The fading flower of his glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall
be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which
someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:5">5 </verse></sup>In
that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of
glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his
people, <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:6">6 </verse></sup>and a spirit of justice to him who sits in
judgment, and strength to those who turn back the
battle at the gate.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:7">7 </verse></sup>They also reel with wine, and stagger with
strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with
strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They
stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They
stumble in judgment. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:8">8 </verse></sup>For all tables are completely
full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:9">9 </verse></sup>Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will
he explain the message? Those who are weaned
from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:10">10 </verse></sup>For
it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on
line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:11">11 </verse></sup>But he will speak to this nation with stammering
lips and in another language, <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:12">12 </verse></sup>to whom he said,
“This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,”
and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not
hear. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them
precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line,
line on line; here a little, there a little; that they
may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be
taken.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers,
that rule this people in Jerusalem: <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:15">15 </verse></sup>“Because you
have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death,
and we are in agreement with Sheol.<footnote:1>28:15 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> When the
overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come
to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have
hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ” <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore
the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious
cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes
shall not act hastily. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:17">17 </verse></sup>I will make justice the
measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line.
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and
the waters will overflow the hiding place. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:18">18 </verse></sup>Your
covenant with death shall be annulled, and your
agreement with Sheol<footnote:1>28:18 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> shall not stand. When the
overflowing scourge passes through, then you will
be trampled down by it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:19">19 </verse></sup>As often as it passes
through, it will seize you; for morning by morning
it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will
be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:20">20 </verse></sup>For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and
the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:21">21 </verse></sup>For
Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will
be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do
his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his
act, his extraordinary act. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:22">22 </verse></sup>Now therefore don’t
be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I
have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:23">23 </verse></sup>Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear
my speech! <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:24">24 </verse></sup>Does he who plows to sow plow
continually? Does he keep turning the soil and
breaking the clods? <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:25">25 </verse></sup>When he has leveled its
surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the
cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley
in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:26">26 </verse></sup>For his God instructs him in right judgment and
teaches him. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:27">27 </verse></sup>For the dill isn’t threshed with a
sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned
over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a
stick, and the cumin with a rod. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:28">28 </verse></sup>Bread flour must
be ground; so he will not always be threshing it.
Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart
over it, his horses don’t grind it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 28:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 28:29">29 </verse></sup>This also comes
out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in
counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

#BCV:Isaiah 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David
encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come
around; <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:2">2 </verse></sup>then I will distress Ariel, and there will
be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me
as an altar hearth.<footnote:1>29:2 or, Ariel</footnote> <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:3">3 </verse></sup>I will encamp against you
all around you, and will lay siege against you with
posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:4">4 </verse></sup>You will be brought down, and will speak out of the
ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust.
Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out
of the dust.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:5">5 </verse></sup>But the multitude of your foes will be like fine
dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like
chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant,
suddenly. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:6">6 </verse></sup>She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies
with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise,
with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a
devouring fire. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:7">7 </verse></sup>The multitude of all the nations
that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against
her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will
be like a dream, a vision of the night. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:8">8 </verse></sup>It will be like
when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats;
but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like
when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks;
but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still
thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight
against Mount Zion will be like that.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:9">9 </verse></sup>Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be
blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:10">10 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and
has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has
covered your heads, the seers. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:11">11 </verse></sup>All vision has
become to you like the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one who is educated, saying,
“Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is
sealed;” <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:12">12 </verse></sup>and the book is delivered to one who is
not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he
says, “I can’t read.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:13">13 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “Because this people draws near
with their mouth and honors me with their lips,
but they have removed their heart far from me, and
their fear of me is a commandment of men which
has been taught; <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:14">14 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I will proceed
to do a marvelous work among this people, even a
marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of
their wise men will perish, and the understanding
of their prudent men will be hidden.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:15">15 </verse></sup>Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel
from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and
who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:16">16 </verse></sup>You turn things upside down! Should the potter
be thought to be like clay, that the thing made
should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make
me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:17">17 </verse></sup>Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will
be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
will be regarded as a forest? <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:18">18 </verse></sup>In that day, the
deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes
of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of
darkness. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:19">19 </verse></sup>The humble also will increase their joy
in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in
the Holy One of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:20">20 </verse></sup>For the ruthless is brought
to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who
are alert to do evil are cut off— <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:21">21 </verse></sup>who cause a person
to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who
reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent
of justice with false testimony.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham,
says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no
longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:23">23 </verse></sup>But when he sees his children, the work of my
hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my
name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 29:24">24 </verse></sup>They
also who err in spirit will come to understanding,
and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

#BCV:Isaiah 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:1">1 </verse></sup>“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh,
“who take counsel, but not from me; and who
make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they
may add sin to sin; <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:2">2 </verse></sup>who set out to go down into
Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take
refuge in the shadow of Egypt! <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore the
strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the
refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:4">4 </verse></sup>For
their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors
have come to Hanes. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:5">5 </verse></sup>They shall all be ashamed
because of a people that can’t profit them, that
are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:6">6 </verse></sup>The burden of the animals of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the
lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of
young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps
of camels, to an unprofitable people. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:7">7 </verse></sup>For Egypt
helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have
called her Rahab who sits still. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:8">8 </verse></sup>Now go, write it
before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come forever and
ever. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:9">9 </verse></sup>For it is a rebellious people, lying children,
children who will not hear Yahweh’s law; <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:10">10 </verse></sup>who
tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t
prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things.
Prophesy deceits. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:11">11 </verse></sup>Get out of the way. Turn away
from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore the Holy One
of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on
it, <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:13">13 </verse></sup>therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a
breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,
whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:14">14 </verse></sup>He
will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking
it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be
found among the broken pieces a piece good enough
to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out
of the cistern.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:15">15 </verse></sup>For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of
Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your
strength will be in quietness and in confidence.”
You refused, <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:16">16 </verse></sup>but you said, “No, for we will flee on
horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride
on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will
be swift. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:17">17 </verse></sup>One thousand will flee at the threat of
one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are
left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like
a banner on a hill.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be
gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted,
that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God
of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:19">19 </verse></sup>For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You
will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to
you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he
will answer you. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:20">20 </verse></sup>Though the Lord may give you
the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but
your eyes will see your teachers; <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:21">21 </verse></sup>and when you
turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the
left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
“This is the way. Walk in it.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall defile the
overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and
the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall
cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell
it, “Go away!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:23">23 </verse></sup>He will give the rain for your seed, with which
you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase
of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day,
your livestock will feed in large pastures. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:24">24 </verse></sup>The
oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the
ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed
with the shovel and with the fork. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:25">25 </verse></sup>There
will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty
mountain and on every high hill in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:26">26 </verse></sup>Moreover
the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter,
like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh
binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the
wound they were struck with.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:27">27 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke.
His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a
devouring fire. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:28">28 </verse></sup>His breath is as an overflowing
stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that
leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:29">29 </verse></sup>You
will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is
kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with
a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s
Rock. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to
be heard, and will show the descent of his arm,
with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a
devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 30:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:31">31 </verse></sup>For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be
dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:32><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:32">32 </verse></sup>Every
stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will
lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines
and harps. He will fight with them in battles,
brandishing weapons. <key:bcv=Isaiah 30:33><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 30:33">33 </verse></sup>For his burning place has
long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He
has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much
wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur,
kindles it.

#BCV:Isaiah 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
and rely on horses,
<br>
and trust in chariots because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel,
and they don’t seek Yahweh!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:2">2 </verse></sup>Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
and will not call back his words, but will arise
against the house of the evildoers,
<br>
and against the help of those who work iniquity.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who
helps shall stumble,
<br>
and he who is helped shall fall,
<br>
and they all shall be consumed together.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says to me,
<br>
“As the lion and the young lion growling over his
prey,
<br>
if a multitude of shepherds is called together
against him,
<br>
will not be dismayed at their voice,
<br>
nor abase himself for their noise,
<br>
so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight
on Mount Zion and on its heights.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:5">5 </verse></sup>As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect
Jerusalem.
<br>
He will protect and deliver it.
<br>
He will pass over and preserve it.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:6">6 </verse></sup>Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted,
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Isaiah 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:7">7 </verse></sup>For in that day
everyone shall cast away his idols of silver
and his idols of gold—sin which your own
hands have made for you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:8">8 </verse></sup>“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;
and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour
him.
<br>
He will flee from the sword,
<br>
and his young men will become subject to
forced labor.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 31:9">9 </verse></sup>His rock will pass away by reason of terror,
and his princes will be afraid of the banner,”
says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,
<br>
and his furnace in Jerusalem.

#BCV:Isaiah 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in justice.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:2">2 </verse></sup>A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the storm,
<br>
as streams of water in a dry place,
<br>
as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:3">3 </verse></sup>The eyes of those who see will not be dim,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:4">4 </verse></sup>The heart of the rash will understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready
to speak plainly.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:5">5 </verse></sup>The fool will no longer be called noble,
nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:6">6 </verse></sup>For the fool will speak folly,
<br>
and his heart will work iniquity,
<br>
to practice profanity,
<br>
and to utter error against Yahweh,
<br>
to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:7">7 </verse></sup>The ways of the scoundrel are evil.
He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble
with lying words,
<br>
even when the needy speaks right.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:8">8 </verse></sup>But the noble devises noble things,
and he will continue in noble things.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:9">9 </verse></sup>Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my
voice!
<br>
You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:10">10 </verse></sup>For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you
careless women;
<br>
for the vintage will fail.
<br>
The harvest won’t come.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:11">11 </verse></sup>Tremble, you women who are at ease!
Be troubled, you careless ones!
<br>
Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,
and put sackcloth on your waist.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:12">12 </verse></sup>Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:13">13 </verse></sup>Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s
land;
<br>
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:14">14 </verse></sup>For the palace will be forsaken.
<br>
The populous city will be deserted.
<br>
The hill and the watchtower will be for dens
forever,
<br>
a delight for wild donkeys,
<br>
a pasture of flocks,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:15">15 </verse></sup>until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:16">16 </verse></sup>Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;
and righteousness will remain in the fruitful
field.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:17">17 </verse></sup>The work of righteousness will be peace,
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and
confidence forever.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:18">18 </verse></sup>My people will live in a peaceful habitation,
in safe dwellings,
<br>
and in quiet resting places,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:19">19 </verse></sup>though hail flattens the forest,
<br>
and the city is leveled completely.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 32:20">20 </verse></sup>Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

#BCV:Isaiah 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!
When you have finished destroying, you will be
destroyed;
<br>
and when you have finished betrayal, you will
be betrayed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
Be our strength every morning,
<br>
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:3">3 </verse></sup>At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
When you lift yourself up, the nations are
scattered.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:4">4 </verse></sup>Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar
gathers.
<br>
Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:6">6 </verse></sup>There will be stability in your times, abundance of
salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
<br>
The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:8">8 </verse></sup>The highways are desolate.
<br>
The traveling man ceases.
<br>
The covenant is broken.
<br>
He has despised the cities.
<br>
He doesn’t respect man.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:9">9 </verse></sup>The land mourns and languishes.
<br>
Lebanon is confounded and withers away.
Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel
are stripped bare.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:10">10 </verse></sup>“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
<br>
“Now I will lift myself up.
<br>
Now I will be exalted.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:11">11 </verse></sup>You will conceive chaff.
<br>
You will give birth to stubble.
<br>
Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:12">12 </verse></sup>The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
like thorns that are cut down and burned in the
fire.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:13">13 </verse></sup>Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
and, you who are near, acknowledge my
might.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:14">14 </verse></sup>The sinners in Zion are afraid.
<br>
Trembling has seized the godless ones.
Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:15">15 </verse></sup>He who walks righteously
<br>
and speaks blamelessly,
<br>
he who despises the gain of oppressions,
who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a
bribe,
<br>
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:16">16 </verse></sup>he will dwell on high.
<br>
His place of defense will be the fortress of
rocks.
<br>
His bread will be supplied.
<br>
His waters will be sure.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:17">17 </verse></sup>Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
They will see a distant land.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:18">18 </verse></sup>Your heart will meditate on the terror.
Where is he who counted?
<br>
Where is he who weighed?
<br>
Where is he who counted the towers?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:19">19 </verse></sup>You will no longer see the fierce people,
a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend,
with a strange language that you can’t understand.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:20">20 </verse></sup>Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,
a tent that won’t be removed.
<br>
Its stakes will never be plucked up,
<br>
nor will any of its cords be broken.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:21">21 </verse></sup>But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
a place of wide rivers and streams,
<br>
in which no galley with oars will go,
neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:22">22 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is our judge.
<br>
Yahweh is our lawgiver.
<br>
Yahweh is our king.
<br>
He will save us.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:23">23 </verse></sup>Your rigging is untied.
<br>
They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their
mast.
<br>
They couldn’t spread the sail.
<br>
Then the prey of a great plunder was divided.
The lame took the prey.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 33:24">24 </verse></sup>The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell therein will be forgiven
their iniquity.

#BCV:Isaiah 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Come near, you nations, to hear!
Listen, you peoples.
<br>
Let the earth and all it contains hear,
the world, and everything that comes from it.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:2">2 </verse></sup>For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,
and angry with all their armies.
<br>
He has utterly destroyed them.
<br>
He has given them over for slaughter.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:3">3 </verse></sup>Their slain will also be cast out,
<br>
and the stench of their dead bodies will come
up.
<br>
The mountains will melt in their blood.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:4">4 </verse></sup>All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all its armies will fade away,
<br>
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:5">5 </verse></sup>For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
<br>
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs
and goats,
<br>
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
<br>
for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:7">7 </verse></sup>The wild oxen will come down with them,
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
and their land will be drunken with blood,
and their dust made greasy with fat.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:8">8 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
<br>
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:9">9 </verse></sup>Its streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
<br>
and its land will become burning pitch.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:10">10 </verse></sup>It won’t be quenched night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
<br>
From generation to generation, it will lie
waste.
<br>
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:11">11 </verse></sup>But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
<br>
He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:12">12 </verse></sup>They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none
shall be there;
<br>
and all its princes shall be nothing.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:13">13 </verse></sup>Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
and it will be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:14">14 </verse></sup>The wild animals of the desert will meet with the
wolves,
<br>
and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
Yes, the night creature<footnote:1>34:14 literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster</footnote> shall settle there,
and shall find herself a place of rest.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:15">15 </verse></sup>The arrow snake will make her nest there,
and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one
with her mate.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:16">16 </verse></sup>Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:
not one of these will be missing.
<br>
None will lack her mate.
<br>
For my mouth has commanded,
<br>
and his Spirit has gathered them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 34:17">17 </verse></sup>He has cast the lot for them,
<br>
and his hand has divided it to them with a
measuring line.
<br>
They shall possess it forever.
<br>
From generation to generation they will dwell
in it.

#BCV:Isaiah 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:1">1 </verse></sup>The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.
The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:2">2 </verse></sup>It will blossom abundantly,
<br>
and rejoice even with joy and singing.
Lebanon’s glory will be given to it,
<br>
the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
<br>
They will see Yahweh’s glory,
<br>
the excellence of our God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:3">3 </verse></sup>Strengthen the weak hands,
<br>
and make the feeble knees firm.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:4">4 </verse></sup>Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong!
Don’t be afraid!
<br>
Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s
retribution.
<br>
He will come and save you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the lame man will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing;
for waters will break out in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:7">7 </verse></sup>The burning sand will become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water.
Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the
habitation of jackals, where they lay.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:8">8 </verse></sup>A highway will be there, a road,
<br>
and it will be called “The Holy Way”.
The unclean shall not pass over it,
<br>
but it will be for those who walk in the Way.
Wicked fools shall not go there.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:9">9 </verse></sup>No lion will be there,
<br>
nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
They will not be found there;
<br>
but the redeemed will walk there.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 35:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return,
and come with singing to Zion;
<br>
and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
<br>
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

#BCV:Isaiah 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified
cities of Judah and captured them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:2">2 </verse></sup>The king of
Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the
aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field
highway. <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:4">4 </verse></sup>Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah,
‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What
confidence is this in which you trust? <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:5">5 </verse></sup>I say that
your counsel and strength for the war are only vain
words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have
rebelled against me? <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Behold, you trust in the staff
of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man
leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it.
So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:7">7 </verse></sup>But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’
isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and
to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’ ”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:8">8 </verse></sup>Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master
the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand
horses, if you are able on your part to set riders
on them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:9">9 </verse></sup>How then can you turn away the face
of one captain of the least of my master’s servants,
and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen? <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:10">10 </verse></sup>Have I come up now without Yahweh
against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me,
“Go up against this land, and destroy it.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh,
“Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,
for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’
language in the hearing of the people who are on
the wall.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:12">12 </verse></sup>But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me
only to your master and to you, to speak these
words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who
will eat their own dung and drink their own urine
with you?” <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Rabshakeh stood, and called
out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and
said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king
of Assyria! <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:14">14 </verse></sup>The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah
deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh,
saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city
won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria
says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to
me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each
one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink
the waters of his own cistern; <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:17">17 </verse></sup>until I come and
take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and
vineyards. <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:18">18 </verse></sup>Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you,
saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the
gods of the nations delivered their lands from the
hand of the king of Assyria? <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:19">19 </verse></sup>Where are the
gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my
hand? <key:bcv=Isaiah 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:20">20 </verse></sup>Who are they among all the gods of these
countries that have delivered their country out of
my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out
of my hand?’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:21">21 </verse></sup>But they remained silent, and said nothing
in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t
answer him.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 36:22">22 </verse></sup>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,
the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah
with their clothes torn, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.

#BCV:Isaiah 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:1">1 </verse></sup>When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his
clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:2">2 </verse></sup>He sent Eliakim, who was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:3">3 </verse></sup>They said
to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble,
and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children
have come to the birth, and there is no strength
to give birth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:4">4 </verse></sup>It may be Yahweh your God will
hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
remnant that is left.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:5">5 </verse></sup>So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:6">6 </verse></sup>Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh
says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have
heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, I will put a
spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return
to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:8">8 </verse></sup>So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that
he had departed from Lachish. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:9">9 </verse></sup>He heard news
concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come
out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:10">10 </verse></sup>“Thus you shall
speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let
your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying,
“Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king
of Assyria.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, you have heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying
them utterly. Shall you be delivered? <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:12">12 </verse></sup>Have
the gods of the nations delivered them, which my
fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and
the children of Eden who were in Telassar? <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:13">13 </verse></sup>Where
is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and
Ivvah?’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:14">14 </verse></sup>Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of
the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went
up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:15">15 </verse></sup>Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:16">16 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among
the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven
and earth. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:17">17 </verse></sup>Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear.
Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of
the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the
living God. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:18">18 </verse></sup>Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed all the countries and their land,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:19">19 </verse></sup>and have cast their gods into the fire; for they
were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood
and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:20">20 </verse></sup>Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because
you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king
of Assyria, <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:22">22 </verse></sup>this is the word which Yahweh has
spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of
Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The
daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:23">23 </verse></sup>Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against
whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up
your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:24">24 </verse></sup>By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and
have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have
come up to the height of the mountains, to the
innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall
cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into
its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:25">25 </verse></sup>I
have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my
feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it
long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I
have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to
destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous
heaps. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore their inhabitants had little
power. They were dismayed and confounded. They
were like the grass of the field, and like the green
herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a
field before its crop has grown. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:28">28 </verse></sup>But I know your
sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and
your raging against me. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:29">29 </verse></sup>Because of your raging
against me, and because your arrogance has come
up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your
nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you
back by the way by which you came.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this
year that which grows of itself, and in the second
year that which springs from it; and in the third
year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their
fruit. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:31">31 </verse></sup>The remnant that is escaped of the house
of Judah will again take root downward, and bear
fruit upward. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:32><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:32">32 </verse></sup>For out of Jerusalem a remnant will
go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion.
The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:33><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:33">33 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king
of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot
an arrow there, neither will he come before it with
shield, nor cast up a mound against it. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:34><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:34">34 </verse></sup>He will
return the way that he came, and he won’t come
to this city,’ says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:35><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:35">35 </verse></sup>‘For I will defend this
city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant
David’s sake.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 37:36><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:36">36 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one
hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp
of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the
morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:37><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:37">37 </verse></sup>So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away,
returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. <key:bcv=Isaiah 37:38><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 37:38">38 </verse></sup>As he
was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god,
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him
with the sword; and they escaped into the land of
Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

#BCV:Isaiah 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death.
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him,
and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in
order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and
prayed to Yahweh, <key:bcv=Isaiah 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:3">3 </verse></sup>and said, “Remember now,
Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in
truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept
bitterly.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:5">5 </verse></sup>“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David
your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have
seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to
your life. <key:bcv=Isaiah 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:6">6 </verse></sup>I will deliver you and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this
city. <key:bcv=Isaiah 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:7">7 </verse></sup>This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh,
that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial,
which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with
the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun
returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had
gone down.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:9">9 </verse></sup>The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he
had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness:
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:10">10 </verse></sup>I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates
of Sheol.<footnote:1>38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote>
<br>
I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:11">11 </verse></sup>I said, “I won’t see Yah,
<br>
Yah in the land of the living.
<br>
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of
the world.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:12">12 </verse></sup>My dwelling is removed,
<br>
and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s
tent.
<br>
I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
He will cut me off from the loom.
<br>
From day even to night you will make an end
of me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:13">13 </verse></sup>I waited patiently until morning.
<br>
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
<br>
From day even to night you will make an end
of me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:14">14 </verse></sup>I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
I moaned like a dove.
<br>
My eyes weaken looking upward.
<br>
Lord, I am oppressed.
<br>
Be my security.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:15">15 </verse></sup>What will I say?
<br>
He has both spoken to me, and himself has
done it.
<br>
I will walk carefully all my years because of the
anguish of my soul.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:16">16 </verse></sup>Lord, men live by these things;
<br>
and my spirit finds life in all of them.
You restore me, and cause me to live.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
but you have in love for my soul delivered it
from the pit of corruption;
<br>
for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:18">18 </verse></sup>For Sheol<footnote:1>38:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> can’t praise you.
<br>
Death can’t celebrate you.
<br>
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your
truth.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:19">19 </verse></sup>The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do
today.
<br>
The father shall make known your truth to the
children.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh will save me.
<br>
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed
instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s
house.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:21">21 </verse></sup>Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of
figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he
shall recover.” <key:bcv=Isaiah 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 38:22">22 </verse></sup>Hezekiah also had said, “What is
the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

#BCV:Isaiah 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time, Merodach-baladan the son of
Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present
to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick, and
had recovered. <key:bcv=Isaiah 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:2">2 </verse></sup>Hezekiah was pleased with them,
and showed them the house of his precious things,
the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious
oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was
found in his treasures. There was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t
show them. <key:bcv=Isaiah 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Isaiah the prophet came to King
Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say?
From where did they come to you?”
<br>
Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country
far from me, even from Babylon.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:4">4 </verse></sup>Then he asked, “What have they seen in your
house?”
<br>
Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is
in my house. There is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shown them.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of
Yahweh of Armies: <key:bcv=Isaiah 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:6">6 </verse></sup>‘Behold, the days are coming
when all that is in your house, and that which your
fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to
Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Isaiah 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:7">7 </verse></sup>‘They
will take away your sons who will issue from you,
whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in
the king of Babylon’s palace.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 39:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word
which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover,
“For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

#BCV:Isaiah 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:1">1 </verse></sup>“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to
her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s
hand double for all her sins.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:3">3 </verse></sup>The voice of one who calls out,
<br>
“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!
Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:4">4 </verse></sup>Every valley shall be exalted,
<br>
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The uneven shall be made level,
<br>
and the rough places a plain.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed,
<br>
and all flesh shall see it together;
<br>
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:6">6 </verse></sup>The voice of one saying, “Cry out!”
One said, “What shall I cry?”
<br>
“All flesh is like grass,
<br>
and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:7">7 </verse></sup>The grass withers,
<br>
the flower fades,
<br>
because Yahweh’s breath blows on it.
<br>
Surely the people are like grass.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:8">8 </verse></sup>The grass withers,
<br>
the flower fades;
<br>
but the word of our God stands forever.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:9">9 </verse></sup>You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high
mountain.
<br>
You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up
your voice with strength!
<br>
Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!
<br>
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty
one,
<br>
and his arm will rule for him.
<br>
Behold, his reward is with him,
<br>
and his recompense before him.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:11">11 </verse></sup>He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
He will gather the lambs in his arm,
<br>
and carry them in his bosom.
<br>
He will gently lead those who have their young.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:12">12 </verse></sup>Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand,
<br>
and marked off the sky with his span,
and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring
basket,
<br>
and weighed the mountains in scales,
<br>
and the hills in a balance?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:13">13 </verse></sup>Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,
<br>
or has taught him as his counselor?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:14">14 </verse></sup>Who did he take counsel with,
<br>
and who instructed him,
<br>
and taught him in the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge,
<br>
and showed him the way of understanding?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little
thing.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:16">16 </verse></sup>Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:17">17 </verse></sup>All the nations are like nothing before him.
They are regarded by him as less than nothing,
and vanity.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:18">18 </verse></sup>To whom then will you liken God?
<br>
Or what likeness will you compare to him?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:19">19 </verse></sup>A workman has cast an image,
<br>
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
and casts silver chains for it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:20">20 </verse></sup>He who is too impoverished for such an offering
chooses a tree that will not rot.
<br>
He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved
image for him that will not be moved.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:21">21 </verse></sup>Haven’t you known?
<br>
Haven’t you heard?
<br>
Haven’t you been told from the beginning?
Haven’t you understood from the foundations
of the earth?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:22">22 </verse></sup>It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:23">23 </verse></sup>who brings princes to nothing,
<br>
who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:24">24 </verse></sup>They are planted scarcely.
<br>
They are sown scarcely.
<br>
Their stock has scarcely taken root in the
ground.
<br>
He merely blows on them, and they wither,
and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:25">25 </verse></sup>“To whom then will you liken me?
<br>
Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:26">26 </verse></sup>Lift up your eyes on high,
<br>
and see who has created these,
<br>
who brings out their army by number.
<br>
He calls them all by name.
<br>
by the greatness of his might,
<br>
and because he is strong in power,
<br>
not one is lacking.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:27">27 </verse></sup>Why do you say, Jacob,
<br>
and speak, Israel,
<br>
“My way is hidden from Yahweh,
<br>
and the justice due me is disregarded by my
God?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:28">28 </verse></sup>Haven’t you known?
<br>
Haven’t you heard?
<br>
The everlasting God, Yahweh,
<br>
the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t
faint.
<br>
He isn’t weary.
<br>
His understanding is unsearchable.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:29">29 </verse></sup>He gives power to the weak.
<br>
He increases the strength of him who has no
might.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:30><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:30">30 </verse></sup>Even the youths faint and get weary,
<br>
and the young men utterly fall;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 40:31><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 40:31">31 </verse></sup>but those who wait for Yahweh will renew
their strength.
<br>
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
<br>
They will walk, and not faint.

#BCV:Isaiah 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:1">1 </verse></sup>“Keep silent before me, islands,
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
<br>
then let them speak.
<br>
Let’s meet together for judgment.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:2">2 </verse></sup>Who has raised up one from the east?
Who called him to his feet in righteousness?
He hands over nations to him
<br>
and makes him rule over kings.
<br>
He gives them like the dust to his sword,
like the driven stubble to his bow.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:3">3 </verse></sup>He pursues them
<br>
and passes by safely,
<br>
even by a way that he had not gone with his
feet.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:4">4 </verse></sup>Who has worked and done it,
<br>
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:5">5 </verse></sup>The islands have seen, and fear.
<br>
The ends of the earth tremble.
<br>
They approach, and come.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:6">6 </verse></sup>Everyone helps his neighbor.
<br>
They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:7">7 </verse></sup>So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.
He who smooths with the hammer encourages
him who strikes the anvil,
<br>
saying of the soldering, “It is good;”
and he fastens it with nails, that it might not
totter.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:8">8 </verse></sup>“But you, Israel, my servant,
<br>
Jacob whom I have chosen,
<br>
the offspring of Abraham my friend,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:9">9 </verse></sup>you whom I have taken hold of from the ends
of the earth,
<br>
and called from its corners,
<br>
and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have
chosen you and have not cast you away.’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you.
<br>
Yes, I will help you.
<br>
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my
righteousness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, all those who are incensed against you
will be disappointed and confounded.
<br>
Those who strive with you will be like nothing,
and shall perish.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:12">12 </verse></sup>You will seek them, and won’t find them,
even those who contend with you.
<br>
Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a nonexistent thing.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:13">13 </verse></sup>For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,
saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid.
<br>
I will help you.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,
<br>
and you men of Israel.
<br>
I will help you,” says Yahweh.
<br>
“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing
instrument with teeth.
<br>
You will thresh the mountains,
<br>
and beat them small,
<br>
and will make the hills like chaff.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:16">16 </verse></sup>You will winnow them,
<br>
and the wind will carry them away,
<br>
and the whirlwind will scatter them.
<br>
You will rejoice in Yahweh.
<br>
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:17">17 </verse></sup>The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
Their tongue fails for thirst.
<br>
I, Yahweh, will answer them.
<br>
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:18">18 </verse></sup>I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and springs in the middle of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:19">19 </verse></sup>I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the
wilderness.
<br>
I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees
together in the desert;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:20">20 </verse></sup>that they may see, know, consider, and
understand together,
<br>
that Yahweh’s hand has done this,
<br>
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:21">21 </verse></sup>Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
<br>
“Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King
of Jacob.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:22">22 </verse></sup>“Let them announce and declare to us what will
happen!
<br>
Declare the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them, and know the
latter end of them;
<br>
or show us things to come.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:23">23 </verse></sup>Declare the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that you are gods.
<br>
Yes, do good, or do evil,
<br>
that we may be dismayed,
<br>
and see it together.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, you are nothing,
<br>
and your work is nothing.
<br>
He who chooses you is an abomination.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:25">25 </verse></sup>“I have raised up one from the north, and he has
come,
<br>
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my
name,
<br>
and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,
and as the potter treads clay.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:26">26 </verse></sup>Who has declared it from the beginning, that we
may know?
<br>
and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’
Surely, there is no one who declares.
Surely, there is no one who shows.
<br>
Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:27">27 </verse></sup>I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’
and I will give one who brings good news to
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:28">28 </verse></sup>When I look, there is no man,
<br>
even among them there is no counselor who,
when I ask, can answer a word.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 41:29><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 41:29">29 </verse></sup>Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.
Their molten images are wind and confusion.

#BCV:Isaiah 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:1">1 </verse></sup>“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
<br>
I have put my Spirit on him.
<br>
He will bring justice to the nations.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:2">2 </verse></sup>He will not shout,
<br>
nor raise his voice,
<br>
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:3">3 </verse></sup>He won’t break a bruised reed.
<br>
He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
He will faithfully bring justice.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:4">4 </verse></sup>He will not fail nor be discouraged,
until he has set justice in the earth,
and the islands wait for his law.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:5">5 </verse></sup>God Yahweh,
<br>
he who created the heavens and stretched
them out,
<br>
he who spread out the earth and that which
comes out of it,
<br>
he who gives breath to its people and spirit to
those who walk in it, says:

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:6">6 </verse></sup>“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
I will hold your hand.
<br>
I will keep you,
<br>
and make you a covenant for the people,
as a light for the nations,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:7">7 </verse></sup>to open the blind eyes,
<br>
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:8">8 </verse></sup>“I am Yahweh.
<br>
That is my name.
<br>
I will not give my glory to another,
<br>
nor my praise to engraved images.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, the former things have happened
and I declare new things.
<br>
I tell you about them before they come up.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:10">10 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh a new song,
<br>
and his praise from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea,
<br>
and all that is therein,
<br>
the islands and their inhabitants.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:11">11 </verse></sup>Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,
with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
<br>
Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:12">12 </verse></sup>Let them give glory to Yahweh,
<br>
and declare his praise in the islands.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
He will raise a war cry.
<br>
Yes, he will shout aloud.
<br>
He will triumph over his enemies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:14">14 </verse></sup>“I have been silent a long time.
<br>
I have been quiet and restrained myself.
Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I
will both gasp and pant.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:15">15 </verse></sup>I will destroy mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs.
<br>
I will make the rivers islands,
<br>
and will dry up the pools.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:16">16 </verse></sup>I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t
know.
<br>
I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.
I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked places straight.
<br>
I will do these things,
<br>
and I will not forsake them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:17">17 </verse></sup>“Those who trust in engraved images,
who tell molten images,
<br>
‘You are our gods,’
<br>
will be turned back.
<br>
They will be utterly disappointed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:18">18 </verse></sup>“Hear, you deaf,
<br>
and look, you blind,
<br>
that you may see.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:19">19 </verse></sup>Who is blind, but my servant?
<br>
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I
send?
<br>
Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:20">20 </verse></sup>You see many things, but don’t observe.
His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:21">21 </verse></sup>It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to
magnify the law
<br>
and make it honorable.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:22">22 </verse></sup>But this is a robbed and plundered people.
All of them are snared in holes,
<br>
and they are hidden in prisons.
<br>
They have become captives, and no one delivers,
and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:23">23 </verse></sup>Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:24">24 </verse></sup>Who gave Jacob as plunder,
<br>
and Israel to the robbers?
<br>
Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have
sinned?
<br>
For they would not walk in his ways,
<br>
and they disobeyed his law.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 42:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 42:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger
on him,
<br>
and the strength of battle.
<br>
It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know.
It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

#BCV:Isaiah 43:0
<P align="center"><h3>43</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:1">1 </verse></sup>But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob,
and he who formed you, Israel, says:
<br>
“Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
I have called you by your name.
<br>
You are mine.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:2">2 </verse></sup>When you pass through the waters, I will be with
you,
<br>
and through the rivers, they will not overflow
you.
<br>
When you walk through the fire, you will not be
burned,
<br>
and flame will not scorch you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:3">3 </verse></sup>For I am Yahweh your God,
<br>
the Holy One of Israel,
<br>
your Savior.
<br>
I have given Egypt as your ransom,
<br>
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:4">4 </verse></sup>Since you have been precious and honored in my
sight,
<br>
and I have loved you,
<br>
therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
I will bring your offspring from the east,
and gather you from the west.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:6">6 </verse></sup>I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
Bring my sons from far away,
<br>
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:7">7 </verse></sup>everyone who is called by my name,
<br>
and whom I have created for my glory,
whom I have formed,
<br>
yes, whom I have made.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:8">8 </verse></sup>Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
and the deaf who have ears.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:9">9 </verse></sup>Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the peoples be assembled.
<br>
Who among them can declare this,
<br>
and show us former things?
<br>
Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be
justified,
<br>
or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:10">10 </verse></sup>“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh,
“With my servant whom I have chosen;
<br>
that you may know and believe me,
<br>
and understand that I am he.
<br>
Before me there was no God formed,
<br>
neither will there be after me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:11">11 </verse></sup>I myself am Yahweh.
<br>
Besides me, there is no savior.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:12">12 </verse></sup>I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,
and there was no strange god among you.
Therefore you are my witnesses”,
<br>
says Yahweh, “and I am God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:13">13 </verse></sup>Yes, since the day was, I am he.
<br>
There is no one who can deliver out of my
hand.
<br>
I will work, and who can hinder it?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel
says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I
will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the
Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. <key:bcv=Isaiah 43:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:15">15 </verse></sup>I am
Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your
King.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
and a path in the mighty waters,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:17">17 </verse></sup>who brings out the chariot and horse,
the army and the mighty man
<br>
(they lie down together, they shall not rise;
they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick)
says:

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:18">18 </verse></sup>“Don’t remember the former things,
and don’t consider the things of old.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, I will do a new thing.
<br>
It springs out now.
<br>
Don’t you know it?
<br>
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:20">20 </verse></sup>The animals of the field, the jackals and the
ostriches, shall honor me,
<br>
because I give water in the wilderness and
rivers in the desert,
<br>
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:21">21 </verse></sup>the people which I formed for myself,
that they might declare my praise.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:22">22 </verse></sup>Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;
but you have been weary of me, Israel.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:23">23 </verse></sup>You have not brought me any of your sheep for
burnt offerings,
<br>
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
nor wearied you with frankincense.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:24">24 </verse></sup>You have bought me no sweet cane with money,
nor have you filled me with the fat of your
sacrifices,
<br>
but you have burdened me with your sins.
You have wearied me with your iniquities.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:25">25 </verse></sup>I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions
for my own sake;
<br>
and I will not remember your sins.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:26">26 </verse></sup>Put me in remembrance.
<br>
Let us plead together.
<br>
Declare your case,
<br>
that you may be justified.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:27">27 </verse></sup>Your first father sinned,
<br>
and your teachers have transgressed against
me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 43:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 43:28">28 </verse></sup>Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
and I will make Jacob a curse,
<br>
and Israel an insult.”

#BCV:Isaiah 44:0
<P align="center"><h3>44</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:1">1 </verse></sup>Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
and Israel, whom I have chosen.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:2">2 </verse></sup>This is what Yahweh who made you,
<br>
and formed you from the womb,
<br>
who will help you says:
<br>
“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;
<br>
and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:3">3 </verse></sup>For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
and streams on the dry ground.
<br>
I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,
and my blessing on your offspring;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:4">4 </verse></sup>and they will spring up among the grass,
as willows by the watercourses.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:5">5 </verse></sup>One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’
<br>
Another will be called by the name of Jacob;
and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’
and honor the name of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:6">6 </verse></sup>This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,
and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:
“I am the first, and I am the last;
<br>
and besides me there is no God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:7">7 </verse></sup>Who is like me?
<br>
Who will call,
<br>
and will declare it,
<br>
and set it in order for me,
<br>
since I established the ancient people?
Let them declare the things that are coming,
and that will happen.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t fear,
<br>
neither be afraid.
<br>
Haven’t I declared it to you long ago,
and shown it?
<br>
You are my witnesses.
<br>
Is there a God besides me?
<br>
Indeed, there is not.
<br>
I don’t know any other Rock.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:9">9 </verse></sup>Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.
The things that they delight in will not profit.
Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that
they may be disappointed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:10">10 </verse></sup>Who has fashioned a god,
<br>
or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;
and the workmen are mere men.
<br>
Let them all be gathered together.
<br>
Let them stand up.
<br>
They will fear.
<br>
They will be put to shame together.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:12">12 </verse></sup>The blacksmith takes an ax,
<br>
works in the coals,
<br>
fashions it with hammers,
<br>
and works it with his strong arm.
<br>
He is hungry,
<br>
and his strength fails;
<br>
he drinks no water,
<br>
and is faint.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:13">13 </verse></sup>The carpenter stretches out a line.
He marks it out with a pencil.
<br>
He shapes it with planes.
<br>
He marks it out with compasses,
<br>
and shapes it like the figure of a man,
with the beauty of a man,
<br>
to reside in a house.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:14">14 </verse></sup>He cuts down cedars for himself,
<br>
and takes the cypress and the oak,
<br>
and strengthens for himself one among the
trees of the forest.
<br>
He plants a cypress tree,
<br>
and the rain nourishes it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:15">15 </verse></sup>Then it will be for a man to burn;
and he takes some of it and warms himself.
Yes, he burns it and bakes bread.
<br>
Yes, he makes a god and worships it;
<br>
he makes it a carved image, and falls down to
it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:16">16 </verse></sup>He burns part of it in the fire.
<br>
With part of it, he eats meat.
<br>
He roasts a roast and is satisfied.
<br>
Yes, he warms himself
<br>
and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the
fire.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:17">17 </verse></sup>The rest of it he makes into a god,
even his engraved image.
<br>
He bows down to it and worships,
<br>
and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you
are my god!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:18">18 </verse></sup>They don’t know, neither do they consider,
for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see,
and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:19">19 </verse></sup>No one thinks,
<br>
neither is there knowledge nor understanding
to say,
<br>
“I have burned part of it in the fire.
Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.
I have roasted meat and eaten it.
<br>
Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?
Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:20">20 </verse></sup>He feeds on ashes.
<br>
A deceived heart has turned him aside;
and he can’t deliver his soul,
<br>
nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:21">21 </verse></sup>Remember these things, Jacob and Israel,
for you are my servant.
<br>
I have formed you.
<br>
You are my servant.
<br>
Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:22">22 </verse></sup>I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins.
<br>
Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:23">23 </verse></sup>Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!
Shout, you lower parts of the earth!
<br>
Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest,
all of your trees,
<br>
for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,
<br>
and will glorify himself in Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh, your Redeemer,
<br>
and he who formed you from the womb says:
“I am Yahweh, who makes all things;
<br>
who alone stretches out the heavens;
<br>
who spreads out the earth by myself;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:25">25 </verse></sup>who frustrates the signs of the liars,
and makes diviners mad;
<br>
who turns wise men backward,
<br>
and makes their knowledge foolish;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:26">26 </verse></sup>who confirms the word of his servant,
and performs the counsel of his messengers;
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’
and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’
and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:27><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:27">27 </verse></sup>who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’
<br>
and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 44:28><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 44:28">28 </verse></sup>who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure,’
<br>
even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’
and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be
laid.’ ”

#BCV:Isaiah 45:0
<P align="center"><h3>45</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I have held to subdue nations before him
and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors
before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:2">2 </verse></sup>“I will go before you
<br>
and make the rough places smooth.
<br>
I will break the doors of bronze in pieces
and cut apart the bars of iron.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:3">3 </verse></sup>I will give you the treasures of darkness
and hidden riches of secret places,
<br>
that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who calls
you by your name,
<br>
even the God of Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:4">4 </verse></sup>For Jacob my servant’s sake,
<br>
and Israel my chosen,
<br>
I have called you by your name.
<br>
I have given you a title,
<br>
though you have not known me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:5">5 </verse></sup>I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Besides me, there is no God.

I will strengthen<footnote:1>45:5 or, equip</footnote> you,
<br>
though you have not known me,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:6">6 </verse></sup>that they may know from the rising of the sun,
and from the west,
<br>
that there is no one besides me.
<br>
I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:7">7 </verse></sup>I form the light
<br>
and create darkness.
<br>
I make peace
<br>
and create calamity.
<br>
I am Yahweh,
<br>
who does all these things.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:8">8 </verse></sup>Rain, you heavens, from above,
<br>
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,
and let it cause righteousness to spring up with
it.
<br>
I, Yahweh, have created it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:9">9 </verse></sup>Woe to him who strives with his Maker—
a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!
Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you
making?’
<br>
or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:10">10 </verse></sup>Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you
become the father of?’
<br>
or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth
to?’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
<br>
and his Maker says:
<br>
“You ask me about the things that are to come,
concerning my sons,
<br>
and you command me concerning the work of
my hands!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:12">12 </verse></sup>I have made the earth, and created man on it.
I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens.
I have commanded all their army.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:13">13 </verse></sup>I have raised him up in righteousness,
and I will make all his ways straight.
He shall build my city,
<br>
and he shall let my exiles go free,
<br>
not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of
Armies.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,
<br>
and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
<br>
and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come
over to you,
<br>
and they will be yours.
<br>
They will go after you.
<br>
They shall come over in chains.
<br>
They will bow down to you.
<br>
They will make supplication to you:
<br>
‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.
There is no other god.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:15">15 </verse></sup>Most certainly you are a God who has hidden
yourself,
<br>
God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:16">16 </verse></sup>They will be disappointed,
<br>
yes, confounded, all of them.
<br>
Those who are makers of idols will go into
confusion together.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:17">17 </verse></sup>Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting
salvation.
<br>
You will not be disappointed nor confounded
to ages everlasting.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:18">18 </verse></sup>For Yahweh who created the heavens,
the God who formed the earth and made it,
who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
who formed it to be inhabited says:
<br>
“I am Yahweh.
<br>
There is no other.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:19">19 </verse></sup>I have not spoken in secret,
<br>
in a place of the land of darkness.
<br>
I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in
vain.’
<br>
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.
<br>
I declare things that are right.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:20">20 </verse></sup>“Assemble yourselves and come.
<br>
Draw near together, you who have escaped
from the nations.
<br>
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of
their engraved image,
<br>
and pray to a god that can’t save.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:21">21 </verse></sup>Declare and present it.
<br>
Yes, let them take counsel together.
<br>
Who has shown this from ancient time?
Who has declared it of old?
<br>
Haven’t I, Yahweh?
<br>
There is no other God besides me, a just God and a
Savior.
<br>
There is no one besides me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:22">22 </verse></sup>“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the
earth;
<br>
for I am God, and there is no other.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:23">23 </verse></sup>I have sworn by myself.
<br>
The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and will not be revoked,
<br>
that to me every knee shall bow,
<br>
every tongue shall take an oath.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:24">24 </verse></sup>They will say of me,
<br>
‘There is righteousness and strength only in
Yahweh.’ ”
<br>
Even to him will men come.
<br>
All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 45:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 45:25">25 </verse></sup>All the offspring of Israel will be justified in
Yahweh,
<br>
and will rejoice!

#BCV:Isaiah 46:0
<P align="center"><h3>46</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:1">1 </verse></sup>Bel bows down.
<br>
Nebo stoops.
<br>
Their idols are carried by animals,
<br>
and on the livestock.
<br>
The things that you carried around are heavy loads,
a burden for the weary.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:2">2 </verse></sup>They stoop and they bow down together.
They could not deliver the burden,
<br>
but they have gone into captivity.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:3">3 </verse></sup>“Listen to me, house of Jacob,
<br>
and all the remnant of the house of Israel,
that have been carried from their birth,
that have been carried from the womb.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:4">4 </verse></sup>Even to old age I am he,
<br>
and even to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear.
<br>
Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:5">5 </verse></sup>“To whom will you compare me, and consider my
equal,
<br>
and compare me, as if we were the same?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:6">6 </verse></sup>Some pour out gold from the bag,
<br>
and weigh silver in the balance.
<br>
They hire a goldsmith,
<br>
and he makes it a god.
<br>
They fall down—
<br>
yes, they worship.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:7">7 </verse></sup>They bear it on their shoulder.
<br>
They carry it, and set it in its place, and it
stands there.
<br>
It cannot move from its place.
<br>
Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer.
It cannot save him out of his trouble.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:8">8 </verse></sup>“Remember this, and show yourselves men.
Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:9">9 </verse></sup>Remember the former things of old;
<br>
for I am God, and there is no other.
<br>
I am God, and there is none like me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:10">10 </verse></sup>I declare the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not yet
done.
<br>
I say: My counsel will stand,
<br>
and I will do all that I please.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:11">11 </verse></sup>I call a ravenous bird from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken.
<br>
I will also bring it to pass.
<br>
I have planned.
<br>
I will also do it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:12">12 </verse></sup>Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
who are far from righteousness!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 46:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 46:13">13 </verse></sup>I bring my righteousness near.
<br>
It is not far off,
<br>
and my salvation will not wait.
<br>
I will grant salvation to Zion,
<br>
my glory to Israel.

#BCV:Isaiah 47:0
<P align="center"><h3>47</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:1">1 </verse></sup>“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter
of Babylon.
<br>
Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter
of the Chaldeans.
<br>
For you will no longer be called tender and
delicate.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:2">2 </verse></sup>Take the millstones and grind flour.
Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover
your legs,
<br>
and wade through the rivers.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:3">3 </verse></sup>Your nakedness will be uncovered.
<br>
Yes, your shame will be seen.
<br>
I will take vengeance,
<br>
and will spare no one.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:4">4 </verse></sup>Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name,
is the Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:5">5 </verse></sup>“Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
daughter of the Chaldeans.
<br>
For you shall no longer be called
<br>
the mistress of kingdoms.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:6">6 </verse></sup>I was angry with my people.
<br>
I profaned my inheritance
<br>
and gave them into your hand.
<br>
You showed them no mercy.
<br>
You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:7">7 </verse></sup>You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’
so that you didn’t lay these things to your
heart,
<br>
nor did you remember the results.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:8">8 </verse></sup>“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to
pleasures,
<br>
who sit securely,
<br>
who say in your heart,
<br>
‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.
I won’t sit as a widow,
<br>
neither will I know the loss of children.’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:9">9 </verse></sup>But these two things will come to you in a moment
in one day:
<br>
the loss of children and widowhood.
<br>
They will come on you in their full measure,
in the multitude of your sorceries,
<br>
and the great abundance of your enchantments.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:10">10 </verse></sup>For you have trusted in your wickedness.
You have said, ‘No one sees me.’
<br>
Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted
you.
<br>
You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is
no one else besides me.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore disaster will come on you.
You won’t know when it dawns.
<br>
Mischief will fall on you.
<br>
You won’t be able to put it away.
<br>
Desolation will come on you suddenly,
which you don’t understand.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:12">12 </verse></sup>“Stand now with your enchantments
<br>
and with the multitude of your sorceries,
in which you have labored from your youth,
as if you might profit,
<br>
as if you might prevail.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:13">13 </verse></sup>You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the
monthly prognosticators stand up and save
you from the things that will happen to you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, they are like stubble.
<br>
The fire will burn them.
<br>
They won’t deliver themselves from the power
of the flame.
<br>
It won’t be a coal to warm at
<br>
or a fire to sit by.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 47:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 47:15">15 </verse></sup>The things that you labored in will be like this:
those who have trafficked with you from your
youth will each wander in his own way.
There will be no one to save you.

#BCV:Isaiah 48:0
<P align="center"><h3>48</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:1">1 </verse></sup>“Hear this, house of Jacob,
<br>
you who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
<br>
and make mention of the God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:2">2 </verse></sup>for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,
and rely on the God of Israel;
<br>
Yahweh of Armies is his name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:3">3 </verse></sup>I have declared the former things from of old.
Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed
them.
<br>
I did them suddenly, and they happened.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:4">4 </verse></sup>Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew,
<br>
and your brow bronze;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:5">5 </verse></sup>therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
before it came to pass I showed it to you;
lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
My engraved image and my molten image has
commanded them.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:6">6 </verse></sup>You have heard it.
<br>
Now see all this.
<br>
And you, won’t you declare it?
<br>
“I have shown you new things from this time,
even hidden things, which you have not
known.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:7">7 </verse></sup>They are created now, and not from of old.
Before today, you didn’t hear them,
<br>
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes, you didn’t hear.
<br>
Yes, you didn’t know.
<br>
Yes, from of old your ear was not opened,
for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,
and were called a transgressor from the womb.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:9">9 </verse></sup>For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
and for my praise, I hold it back for you
so that I don’t cut you off.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, I have refined you,
<br>
but not as silver.
<br>
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:11">11 </verse></sup>For my own sake,
<br>
for my own sake, I will do it;
<br>
for how would my name be profaned?
<br>
I will not give my glory to another.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:12">12 </verse></sup>“Listen to me, O Jacob,
<br>
and Israel my called:
<br>
I am he.
<br>
I am the first.
<br>
I am also the last.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:13">13 </verse></sup>Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
when I call to them, they stand up together.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:14">14 </verse></sup>“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to
Babylon,
<br>
and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:15">15 </verse></sup>I, even I, have spoken.
<br>
Yes, I have called him.
<br>
I have brought him
<br>
and he shall make his way prosperous.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:16">16 </verse></sup>“Come near to me and hear this:
<br>
“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it happened, I was there.”
Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me
<br>
with his Spirit.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh,
<br>
your Redeemer,
<br>
the Holy One of Israel, says:
<br>
“I am Yahweh your God,
<br>
who teaches you to profit,
<br>
who leads you by the way that you should go.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:18">18 </verse></sup>Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river
and your righteousness like the waves of the
sea.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:19">19 </verse></sup>Your offspring also would have been as the sand
and the descendants of your body like its
grains.
<br>
His name would not be cut off nor destroyed
from before me.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:20">20 </verse></sup>Leave Babylon!
<br>
Flee from the Chaldeans!
<br>
With a voice of singing announce this,
tell it even to the end of the earth;
say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:21">21 </verse></sup>They didn’t thirst when he led them through the
deserts.
<br>
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for
them.
<br>
He also split the rock and the waters gushed
out.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 48:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 48:22">22 </verse></sup>“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the
wicked.”

#BCV:Isaiah 49:0
<P align="center"><h3>49</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen, islands, to me.
<br>
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
<br>
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
<br>
from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned
my name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:2">2 </verse></sup>He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
<br>
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me a polished shaft.
<br>
He has kept me close in his quiver.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:4">4 </verse></sup>But I said, “I have labored in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh,
and my reward with my God.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:5">5 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb
to be his servant,
<br>
says to bring Jacob again to him,
<br>
and to gather Israel to him,
<br>
for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes,
<br>
and my God has become my strength.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:6">6 </verse></sup>Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you
should be my servant to raise up the tribes
of Jacob,
<br>
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also give you as a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the
earth.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom
the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:
“Kings shall see and rise up,
<br>
princes, and they shall worship,
<br>
because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the
Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable
time.
<br>
I have helped you in a day of salvation.
I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of
the people,
<br>
to raise up the land, to make them inherit the
desolate heritage,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:9">9 </verse></sup>saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They shall feed along the paths,
<br>
and their pasture shall be on all treeless
heights.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:10">10 </verse></sup>They shall not hunger nor thirst;
<br>
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them,
for he who has mercy on them will lead them.
He will guide them by springs of water.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:11">11 </verse></sup>I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, these from the north and from the
west,
<br>
and these from the land of Sinim.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:13">13 </verse></sup>Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
Break out into singing, mountains!
<br>
For Yahweh has comforted his people,
<br>
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:14">14 </verse></sup>But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:15">15 </verse></sup>“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the
son of her womb?
<br>
Yes, these may forget,
<br>
yet I will not forget you!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my
hands.
<br>
Your walls are continually before me.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:17">17 </verse></sup>Your children hurry.
<br>
Your destroyers and those who devastated you
will leave you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:18">18 </verse></sup>Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and
come to you.
<br>
As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe
yourself with them all as with an ornament,
and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:19">19 </verse></sup>“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now that land will be too small for the
inhabitants,
<br>
and those who swallowed you up will be far
away.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:20">20 </verse></sup>The children of your bereavement will say in your
ears,
<br>
‘This place is too small for me.
<br>
Give me a place to live in.’

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:21">21 </verse></sup>Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived
these for me, since I have been bereaved
of my children
<br>
and am alone, an exile, and wandering back
and forth?
<br>
Who has brought these up?
<br>
Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:22">22 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lift up my
hand to the nations,
<br>
and lift up my banner to the peoples.
They shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on their
shoulders.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:23">23 </verse></sup>Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the
earth,
<br>
and lick the dust of your feet.
<br>
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
<br>
and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:24">24 </verse></sup>Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:25">25 </verse></sup>But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away,
<br>
and the plunder retrieved from the fierce,
for I will contend with him who contends with you
and I will save your children.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 49:26><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 49:26">26 </verse></sup>I will feed those who oppress you with their own
flesh;
<br>
and they will be drunk on their own blood, as
with sweet wine.
<br>
Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your
Savior
<br>
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

#BCV:Isaiah 50:0
<P align="center"><h3>50</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s
divorce, with which I have put her away?
Or to which of my creditors have I sold you?
<br>
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:2">2 </verse></sup>Why, when I came, was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
<br>
Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.
I make the rivers a wilderness.
<br>
Their fish stink because there is no water, and
die of thirst.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:3">3 </verse></sup>I clothe the heavens with blackness.
I make sackcloth their covering.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:4">4 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those
who are taught,
<br>
that I may know how to sustain with words him
who is weary.
<br>
He awakens morning by morning,
<br>
he awakens my ear to hear as those who are
taught.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:5">5 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.
<br>
I was not rebellious.
<br>
I have not turned back.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:6">6 </verse></sup>I gave my back to those who beat me,
and my cheeks to those who plucked off the
hair.
<br>
I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:7">7 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh will help me.
<br>
Therefore I have not been confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:8">8 </verse></sup>He who justifies me is near.
<br>
Who will bring charges against me?
<br>
Let us stand up together.
<br>
Who is my adversary?
<br>
Let him come near to me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me!
Who is he who will condemn me?
<br>
Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.
The moths will eat them up.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:10">10 </verse></sup>Who among you fears Yahweh
<br>
and obeys the voice of his servant?
<br>
He who walks in darkness
<br>
and has no light,
<br>
let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
<br>
and rely on his God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 50:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 50:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who adorn yourselves with torches around
yourselves,
<br>
walk in the flame of your fire,
<br>
and among the torches that you have kindled.
You will have this from my hand:
<br>
you will lie down in sorrow.

#BCV:Isaiah 51:0
<P align="center"><h3>51</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:1">1 </verse></sup>“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek Yahweh.
<br>
Look to the rock you were cut from,
<br>
and to the quarry you were dug from.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:2">2 </verse></sup>Look to Abraham your father,
<br>
and to Sarah who bore you;
<br>
for when he was but one I called him,
I blessed him,
<br>
and made him many.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:3">3 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has comforted Zion.
<br>
He has comforted all her waste places,
and has made her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of Yahweh.
Joy and gladness will be found in them,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:4">4 </verse></sup>“Listen to me, my people;
<br>
and hear me, my nation,
<br>
for a law will go out from me,
<br>
and I will establish my justice for a light to the
peoples.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:5">5 </verse></sup>My righteousness is near.
<br>
My salvation has gone out,
<br>
and my arms will judge the peoples.
<br>
The islands will wait for me,
<br>
and they will trust my arm.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:6">6 </verse></sup>Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
<br>
and look at the earth beneath;
<br>
for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like a garment.
Its inhabitants will die in the same way,
but my salvation will be forever,
<br>
and my righteousness will not be abolished.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:7">7 </verse></sup>“Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law.
<br>
Don’t fear the reproach of men,
<br>
and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:8">8 </verse></sup>For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool;
but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:9">9 </verse></sup>Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh!
Awake, as in the days of old,
<br>
the generations of ancient times.
<br>
Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the monster?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:10">10 </verse></sup>Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
<br>
who made the depths of the sea a way for the
redeemed to pass over?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:11">11 </verse></sup>Those ransomed by Yahweh will return,
and come with singing to Zion.
<br>
Everlasting joy shall be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy.
<br>
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:12">12 </verse></sup>“I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you, that you are afraid of man who
shall die,
<br>
and of the son of man who will be made as
grass?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:13">13 </verse></sup>Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens,
<br>
and laid the foundations of the earth?
Do you live in fear continually all day because of the
fury of the oppressor,
<br>
when he prepares to destroy?
<br>
Where is the fury of the oppressor?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:14">14 </verse></sup>The captive exile will speedily be freed.
He will not die and go down into the pit.
<br>
His bread won’t fail.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:15">15 </verse></sup>For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar.
<br>
Yahweh of Armies is his name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:16">16 </verse></sup>I have put my words in your mouth
<br>
and have covered you in the shadow of my
hand,
<br>
that I may plant the heavens,
<br>
and lay the foundations of the earth,
and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:17">17 </verse></sup>Awake, awake!
<br>
Stand up, Jerusalem,
<br>
you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the
cup of his wrath.
<br>
You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,
and drained it.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:18">18 </verse></sup>There is no one to guide her among all the sons to
whom she has given birth;
<br>
and there is no one who takes her by the hand
among all the sons whom she has brought
up.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:19">19 </verse></sup>These two things have happened to you—
who will grieve with you?—
<br>
desolation and destruction,
<br>
and famine and the sword.
<br>
How can I comfort you?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:20">20 </verse></sup>Your sons have fainted.
<br>
They lie at the head of all the streets,
like an antelope in a net.
<br>
They are full of Yahweh’s wrath,
<br>
the rebuke of your God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,
and drunken, but not with wine:

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:22">22 </verse></sup>Your Lord Yahweh,
<br>
your God who pleads the cause of his people,
says,
<br>
“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of
staggering,
<br>
even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.
You will not drink it any more.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 51:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 51:23">23 </verse></sup>I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we
may walk over you;’
<br>
and you have laid your back as the ground,
like a street to those who walk over.”

#BCV:Isaiah 52:0
<P align="center"><h3>52</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:1">1 </verse></sup>Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the
holy city,
<br>
for from now on the uncircumcised and the
unclean will no more come into you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:2">2 </verse></sup>Shake yourself from the dust!
<br>
Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
<br>
Release yourself from the bonds of your neck,
captive daughter of Zion!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:3">3 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing;
and you will be redeemed without money.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:4">4 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“My people went down at the first into Egypt to live
there;
<br>
and the Assyrian has oppressed them without
cause.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:5">5 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh,
“seeing that my people are taken away for
nothing?
<br>
Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh,
“and my name is blasphemed continually all
day long.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore my people shall know my name.
Therefore they shall know in that day that I am
he who speaks.
<br>
Behold, it is I.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:7">7 </verse></sup>How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him
who brings good news,
<br>
who publishes peace,
<br>
who brings good news,
<br>
who proclaims salvation,
<br>
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:8">8 </verse></sup>Your watchmen lift up their voice.
<br>
Together they sing;
<br>
for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh
returns to Zion.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:9">9 </verse></sup>Break out into joy!
<br>
Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people.
<br>
He has redeemed Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of
all the nations.
<br>
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:11">11 </verse></sup>Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no
unclean thing!
<br>
Go out from among her!
<br>
Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s
vessels.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:12">12 </verse></sup>For you shall not go out in haste,
neither shall you go by flight;
<br>
for Yahweh will go before you,
<br>
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
He will be exalted and lifted up,
<br>
and will be very high.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:14">14 </verse></sup>Just as many were astonished at you—
his appearance was marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of
men—

<key:bcv=Isaiah 52:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 52:15">15 </verse></sup>so he will cleanse<footnote:1>52:15 or, sprinkle</footnote> many nations.
<br>
Kings will shut their mouths at him;
<br>
for they will see that which had not been told
them,
<br>
and they will understand that which they had
not heard.

#BCV:Isaiah 53:0
<P align="center"><h3>53</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:1">1 </verse></sup>Who has believed our message?
<br>
To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:2">2 </verse></sup>For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground.
<br>
He has no good looks or majesty.
<br>
When we see him, there is no beauty that we
should desire him.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:3">3 </verse></sup>He was despised
<br>
and rejected by men,
<br>
a man of suffering
<br>
and acquainted with disease.
<br>
He was despised as one from whom men hide their
face;
<br>
and we didn’t respect him.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:4">4 </verse></sup>Surely he has borne our sickness
<br>
and carried our suffering;
<br>
yet we considered him plagued,
<br>
struck by God, and afflicted.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:5">5 </verse></sup>But he was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
<br>
The punishment that brought our peace was on
him;
<br>
and by his wounds we are healed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:6">6 </verse></sup>All we like sheep have gone astray.
Everyone has turned to his own way;
<br>
and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us
all.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:7">7 </verse></sup>He was oppressed,
<br>
yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his
mouth.
<br>
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he didn’t open his mouth.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:8">8 </verse></sup>He was taken away by oppression and judgment.
As for his generation,
<br>
who considered that he was cut off out of the
land of the living
<br>
and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:9">9 </verse></sup>They made his grave with the wicked,
and with a rich man in his death,
<br>
although he had done no violence,
<br>
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:10">10 </verse></sup>Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
He has caused him to suffer.
<br>
When you make his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring.
<br>
He will prolong his days
<br>
and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his
hand.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:11">11 </verse></sup>After the suffering of his soul,

he will see the light<footnote:1>53:11 So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text omits “the light”.</footnote> and be satisfied.
My righteous servant will justify many by the
knowledge of himself;
<br>
and he will bear their iniquities.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 53:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 53:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore I will give him a portion with the great.
He will divide the plunder with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was counted with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sins of many
<br>
and made intercession for the transgressors.

#BCV:Isaiah 54:0
<P align="center"><h3>54</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:1">1 </verse></sup>“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth!
Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who
didn’t travail with child!
<br>
For more are the children of the desolate than
the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:2">2 </verse></sup>“Enlarge the place of your tent,
<br>
and let them stretch out the curtains of your
habitations;
<br>
don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and
strengthen your stakes.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:3">3 </verse></sup>For you will spread out on the right hand and on
the left;
<br>
and your offspring will possess the nations
and settle in desolate cities.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:4">4 </verse></sup>“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed.
Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed.
For you will forget the shame of your youth.
You will remember the reproach of your widowhood
no more.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:5">5 </verse></sup>For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies
is his name.
<br>
The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
He will be called the God of the whole earth.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and
grieved in spirit,
<br>
even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says
your God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:7">7 </verse></sup>“For a small moment I have forsaken you,
but I will gather you with great mercies.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:8">8 </verse></sup>In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a
moment,
<br>
but with everlasting loving kindness I will have
mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:9">9 </verse></sup>“For this is like the waters of Noah to me;
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will
no more go over the earth,
<br>
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with
you, nor rebuke you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:10">10 </verse></sup>For the mountains may depart,
<br>
and the hills be removed,
<br>
but my loving kindness will not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace will not be removed,”
says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:11">11 </verse></sup>“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors,
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:12">12 </verse></sup>I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
<br>
and all your walls of precious stones.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:13">13 </verse></sup>All your children will be taught by Yahweh,
and your children’s peace will be great.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:14">14 </verse></sup>You will be established in righteousness.
You will be far from oppression,
<br>
for you will not be afraid,
<br>
and far from terror,
<br>
for it shall not come near you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, they may gather together, but not by me.
Whoever gathers together against you will fall
because of you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:16">16 </verse></sup>“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans
the coals into flame,
<br>
and forges a weapon for his work;
<br>
and I have created the destroyer to destroy.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 54:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 54:17">17 </verse></sup>No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;
and you will condemn every tongue that rises
against you in judgment.
<br>
This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants,
and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

#BCV:Isaiah 55:0
<P align="center"><h3>55</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:1">1 </verse></sup>“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money
and without price.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:2">2 </verse></sup>Why do you spend money for that which is not
bread,
<br>
and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in richness.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:3">3 </verse></sup>Turn your ear, and come to me.
<br>
Hear, and your soul will live.
<br>
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, I have given him for a witness to the
peoples,
<br>
a leader and commander to the peoples.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;
and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to
you,
<br>
because of Yahweh your God,
<br>
and for the Holy One of Israel;
<br>
for he has glorified you.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:6">6 </verse></sup>Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
<br>
Call on him while he is near.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:7">7 </verse></sup>Let the wicked forsake his way,
<br>
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy
on him,
<br>
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:8">8 </verse></sup>“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:9">9 </verse></sup>“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:10">10 </verse></sup>For as the rain comes down and the snow from the
sky,
<br>
and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,
and makes it grow and bud,
<br>
and gives seed to the sower and bread to the
eater;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:11">11 </verse></sup>so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
<br>
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:12">12 </verse></sup>For you shall go out with joy,
<br>
and be led out with peace.
<br>
The mountains and the hills will break out before
you into singing;
<br>
and all the trees of the fields will clap their
hands.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 55:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 55:13">13 </verse></sup>Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;
and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will
come up.
<br>
It will make a name for Yahweh,
<br>
for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

#BCV:Isaiah 56:0
<P align="center"><h3>56</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Maintain justice
<br>
and do what is right,
<br>
for my salvation is near
<br>
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:2">2 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man who does this,
<br>
and the son of man who holds it fast;
who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:3">3 </verse></sup>Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh
speak, saying,
<br>
“Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”
Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry
tree.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my
Sabbaths,
<br>
choose the things that please me,
<br>
and hold fast to my covenant,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:5">5 </verse></sup>I will give them in my house and within my walls
a memorial and a name better than of sons
and of daughters.
<br>
I will give them an everlasting name that will
not be cut off.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:6">6 </verse></sup>Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh
to serve him,
<br>
and to love Yahweh’s name,
<br>
to be his servants,
<br>
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and holds fast my covenant,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:7">7 </verse></sup>I will bring these to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be
accepted on my altar;
<br>
for my house will be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:8">8 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of
Israel, says,
<br>
“I will yet gather others to him,
<br>
in addition to his own who are gathered.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:9">9 </verse></sup>All you animals of the field,
<br>
come to devour,
<br>
all you animals in the forest.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:10">10 </verse></sup>His watchmen are blind.
<br>
They are all without knowledge.
<br>
They are all mute dogs.
<br>
They can’t bark—
<br>
dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, the dogs are greedy.
<br>
They can never have enough.
<br>
They are shepherds who can’t understand.
They have all turned to their own way,
each one to his gain, from every quarter.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 56:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 56:12">12 </verse></sup>“Come,” they say, “I will get wine,
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow will be as today,
<br>
great beyond measure.”

#BCV:Isaiah 57:0
<P align="center"><h3>57</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:1">1 </verse></sup>The righteous perish,
<br>
and no one lays it to heart.
<br>
Merciful men are taken away,
<br>
and no one considers that the righteous is
taken away from the evil.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:2">2 </verse></sup>He enters into peace.
<br>
They rest in their beds,
<br>
each one who walks in his uprightness.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:3">3 </verse></sup>“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:4">4 </verse></sup>Whom do you mock?
<br>
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
and stick out your tongue?
<br>
Aren’t you children of disobedience
<br>
and offspring of falsehood,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:5">5 </verse></sup>you who inflame yourselves among the oaks,
under every green tree;
<br>
who kill the children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:6">6 </verse></sup>Among the smooth stones of the valley is your
portion.
<br>
They, they are your lot.
<br>
You have even poured a drink offering to them.
You have offered an offering.
<br>
Shall I be appeased for these things?
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:7">7 </verse></sup>On a high and lofty mountain you have set your
bed.
<br>
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:8">8 </verse></sup>You have set up your memorial behind the doors
and the posts,
<br>
for you have exposed yourself to someone
besides me,
<br>
and have gone up.
<br>
You have enlarged your bed
<br>
and made you a covenant with them.
<br>
You loved what you saw on their bed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:9">9 </verse></sup>You went to the king with oil,
<br>
increased your perfumes,
<br>
sent your ambassadors far off,

and degraded yourself even to Sheol.<footnote:1>57:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:10">10 </verse></sup>You were wearied with the length of your ways;
yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’
<br>
You found a reviving of your strength;
therefore you weren’t faint.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:11">11 </verse></sup>“Whom have you dreaded and feared,
so that you lie,
<br>
and have not remembered me, nor laid it to
your heart?
<br>
Haven’t I held my peace for a long time,
and you don’t fear me?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:12">12 </verse></sup>I will declare your righteousness;
and as for your works, they will not benefit
you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:13">13 </verse></sup>When you cry,
<br>
let those whom you have gathered deliver you,
but the wind will take them.
<br>
A breath will carry them all away,
<br>
but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,
and will inherit my holy mountain.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:14">14 </verse></sup>He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!
Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of
my people.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:15">15 </verse></sup>For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy, says:
<br>
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
<br>
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:16">16 </verse></sup>For I will not contend forever, neither will I
always be angry;
<br>
for the spirit would faint before me,
and the souls whom I have made.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:17">17 </verse></sup>I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness
and struck him.
<br>
I hid myself and was angry;
<br>
and he went on backsliding in the way of his
heart.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:18">18 </verse></sup>I have seen his ways, and will heal him.
I will lead him also,
<br>
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:19">19 </verse></sup>I create the fruit of the lips:
<br>
Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him
who is near,”
<br>
says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:20">20 </verse></sup>But the wicked are like the troubled sea;
for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and
mud.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 57:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 57:21">21 </verse></sup>“There is no peace”, says my God,
<br>
“for the wicked.”

#BCV:Isaiah 58:0
<P align="center"><h3>58</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:1">1 </verse></sup>“Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
<br>
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
<br>
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:2">2 </verse></sup>Yet they seek me daily,
<br>
and delight to know my ways.
<br>
As a nation that did righteousness,
<br>
and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God,
they ask of me righteous judgments.
<br>
They delight to draw near to God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:3">3 </verse></sup>‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t
notice?’
<br>
“Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
and oppress all your laborers.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don’t fast today so as to make your voice
to be heard on high.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:5">5 </verse></sup>Is this the fast that I have chosen?
<br>
A day for a man to humble his soul?
<br>
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
Will you call this a fast,
<br>
and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:6">6 </verse></sup>“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
<br>
to undo the straps of the yoke,
<br>
to let the oppressed go free,
<br>
and that you break every yoke?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:7">7 </verse></sup>Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
and that you bring the poor who are cast out to
your house?
<br>
When you see the naked,
<br>
that you cover him;
<br>
and that you not hide yourself from your own
flesh?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:8">8 </verse></sup>Then your light will break out as the morning,
and your healing will appear quickly;
then your righteousness shall go before you,
and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:9">9 </verse></sup>Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer.
You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I
am.’
<br>
“If you take away from among you the yoke,
finger pointing,
<br>
and speaking wickedly;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:10">10 </verse></sup>and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
<br>
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:11">11 </verse></sup>and Yahweh will guide you continually,
satisfy your soul in dry places,
<br>
and make your bones strong.
<br>
You will be like a watered garden,
<br>
and like a spring of water
<br>
whose waters don’t fail.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:12">12 </verse></sup>Those who will be of you will build the old waste
places.
<br>
You will raise up the foundations of many
generations.
<br>
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:13">13 </verse></sup>“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight,
<br>
and the holy of Yahweh honorable,
<br>
and honor it,
<br>
not doing your own ways,
<br>
nor finding your own pleasure,
<br>
nor speaking your own words,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 58:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 58:14">14 </verse></sup>then you will delight yourself in Yahweh,
and I will make you to ride on the high places
of the earth,
<br>
and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob
your father;”
<br>
for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

#BCV:Isaiah 59:0
<P align="center"><h3>59</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it
can’t save;
<br>
nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:2">2 </verse></sup>But your iniquities have separated you and your
God,
<br>
and your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:3">3 </verse></sup>For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity.
<br>
Your lips have spoken lies.
<br>
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:4">4 </verse></sup>No one sues in righteousness,
<br>
and no one pleads in truth.
<br>
They trust in vanity
<br>
and speak lies.
<br>
They conceive mischief
<br>
and give birth to iniquity.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:5">5 </verse></sup>They hatch adders’ eggs
<br>
and weave the spider’s web.
<br>
He who eats of their eggs dies;
<br>
and that which is crushed breaks out into a
viper.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:6">6 </verse></sup>Their webs won’t become garments.
<br>
They won’t cover themselves with their works.
Their works are works of iniquity,
<br>
and acts of violence are in their hands.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:7">7 </verse></sup>Their feet run to evil,
<br>
and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:8">8 </verse></sup>They don’t know the way of peace;
<br>
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked paths for themselves;
whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore justice is far from us,
<br>
and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.
We look for light, but see darkness;
<br>
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:10">10 </verse></sup>We grope for the wall like the blind.
Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.
We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.
Among those who are strong, we are like dead
men.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:11">11 </verse></sup>We all roar like bears
<br>
and moan sadly like doves.
<br>
We look for justice, but there is none,
for salvation, but it is far off from us.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:12">12 </verse></sup>For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
<br>
for our transgressions are with us,
<br>
and as for our iniquities, we know them:
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:13">13 </verse></sup>transgressing and denying Yahweh,
<br>
and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
<br>
conceiving and uttering from the heart words
of falsehood.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:14">14 </verse></sup>Justice is turned away backward,
<br>
and righteousness stands far away;
<br>
for truth has fallen in the street,
<br>
and uprightness can’t enter.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:15">15 </verse></sup>Yes, truth is lacking;
<br>
and he who departs from evil makes himself a
prey.
<br>
Yahweh saw it,
<br>
and it displeased him that there was no justice.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:16">16 </verse></sup>He saw that there was no man,
<br>
and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness sustained him.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:17">17 </verse></sup>He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head.
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:18">18 </verse></sup>According to their deeds,
<br>
he will repay as appropriate:
<br>
wrath to his adversaries,
<br>
recompense to his enemies.
<br>
He will repay the islands their due.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:19">19 </verse></sup>So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he will come as a rushing stream,
which Yahweh’s breath drives.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:20">20 </verse></sup>“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
<br>
and to those who turn from disobedience in
Jacob,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 59:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 59:21">21 </verse></sup>“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says
Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words
which I have put in your mouth shall not depart
out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your
offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s
offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

#BCV:Isaiah 60:0
<P align="center"><h3>60</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:1">1 </verse></sup>“Arise, shine; for your light has come,
and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:2">2 </verse></sup>For behold, darkness will cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
<br>
but Yahweh will arise on you,
<br>
and his glory shall be seen on you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:3">3 </verse></sup>Nations will come to your light,
<br>
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:4">4 </verse></sup>“Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
they all gather themselves together.
<br>
They come to you.
<br>
Your sons will come from far away,
<br>
and your daughters will be carried in arms.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:5">5 </verse></sup>Then you shall see and be radiant,
<br>
and your heart will thrill and be enlarged;
because the abundance of the sea will be turned to
you.
<br>
The wealth of the nations will come to you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:6">6 </verse></sup>A multitude of camels will cover you,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah.
<br>
All from Sheba will come.
<br>
They will bring gold and frankincense,
and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:7">7 </verse></sup>All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to
you.
<br>
The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.
<br>
They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;
and I will beautify my glorious house.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:8">8 </verse></sup>“Who are these who fly as a cloud,
<br>
and as the doves to their windows?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:9">9 </verse></sup>Surely the islands will wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first,
<br>
to bring your sons from far away,
<br>
their silver and their gold with them,
for the name of Yahweh your God,
<br>
and for the Holy One of Israel,
<br>
because he has glorified you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:10">10 </verse></sup>“Foreigners will build up your walls,
and their kings will serve you;
<br>
for in my wrath I struck you,
<br>
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:11">11 </verse></sup>Your gates also shall be open continually; they
shall not be shut day nor night, that men
may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
and their kings led captive.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:12">12 </verse></sup>For that nation and kingdom that will not serve
you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be
utterly wasted.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:13">13 </verse></sup>“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the
cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet
<br>
glorious.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:14">14 </verse></sup>The sons of those who afflicted you will come
bowing to you;
<br>
and all those who despised you will bow themselves
down at the soles of your feet.
<br>
They will call you Yahweh’s City,
<br>
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:15">15 </verse></sup>“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
so that no one passed through you,
<br>
I will make you an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:16">16 </verse></sup>You will also drink the milk of the nations,
and will nurse from royal breasts.
<br>
Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
your Redeemer,
<br>
the Mighty One of Jacob.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:17">17 </verse></sup>For bronze I will bring gold;
<br>
for iron I will bring silver;
<br>
for wood, bronze,
<br>
and for stones, iron.
<br>
I will also make peace your governor,
and righteousness your ruler.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:18">18 </verse></sup>Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
nor desolation or destruction within your borders;
but you will call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:19">19 </verse></sup>The sun will be no more your light by day,
nor will the brightness of the moon give light
to you,
<br>
but Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:20">20 </verse></sup>Your sun will not go down any more,
nor will your moon withdraw itself;
<br>
for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your mourning will end.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:21">21 </verse></sup>Then your people will all be righteous.
They will inherit the land forever,
<br>
the branch of my planting,
<br>
the work of my hands,
<br>
that I may be glorified.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 60:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 60:22">22 </verse></sup>The little one will become a thousand,
and the small one a strong nation.
<br>
I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

#BCV:Isaiah 61:0
<P align="center"><h3>61</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:1">1 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
because Yahweh has anointed me to preach
good news to the humble.
<br>
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives

and release to those who are bound,<footnote:1>61:1 LXX and DSS add: recovery of sight to the blind </footnote>

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:2">2 </verse></sup>to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
<br>
to comfort all who mourn,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:3">3 </verse></sup>to provide for those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland for ashes,
<br>
the oil of joy for mourning,
<br>
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
that they may be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of Yahweh,
<br>
that he may be glorified.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:4">4 </verse></sup>They will rebuild the old ruins.
<br>
They will raise up the former devastated
places.
<br>
They will repair the ruined cities
<br>
that have been devastated for many generations.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:5">5 </verse></sup>Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:6">6 </verse></sup>But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
Men will call you the servants of our God.
You will eat the wealth of the nations.
You will boast in their glory.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:7">7 </verse></sup>Instead of your shame you will have double.
Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their
portion.
<br>
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
Everlasting joy will be to them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:8">8 </verse></sup>“For I, Yahweh, love justice.
<br>
I hate robbery and iniquity.
<br>
I will give them their reward in truth
and I will make an everlasting covenant with
them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:9">9 </verse></sup>Their offspring will be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge them,
that they are the offspring which Yahweh has
blessed.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:10">10 </verse></sup>I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
<br>
My soul will be joyful in my God,
<br>
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 61:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 61:11">11 </verse></sup>For as the earth produces its bud,
and as the garden causes the things that are
sown in it to spring up,
<br>
so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness
and praise to spring up before all the nations.

#BCV:Isaiah 62:0
<P align="center"><h3>62</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:1">1 </verse></sup>For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
and her salvation like a burning lamp.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:2">2 </verse></sup>The nations will see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory.
<br>
You will be called by a new name,
<br>
which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:3">3 </verse></sup>You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s
hand,
<br>
and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:4">4 </verse></sup>You will not be called Forsaken any more,
nor will your land be called Desolate any more;
but you will be called Hephzibah,<footnote:1>62:4 Hephzibah means “I delight in her”. </footnote>

and your land Beulah;<footnote:1>62:4 Beulah means “married”</footnote>
<br>
for Yahweh delights in you,
<br>
and your land will be married.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:5">5 </verse></sup>For as a young man marries a virgin,
so your sons will marry you.
<br>
As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:6">6 </verse></sup>I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:7">7 </verse></sup>and give him no rest until he establishes,
and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the
earth.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength,
<br>
“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for
your enemies,
<br>
and foreigners will not drink your new wine,
for which you have labored,

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:9">9 </verse></sup>but those who have harvested it will eat it, and
praise Yahweh.
<br>
Those who have gathered it will drink it in the
courts of my sanctuary.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:10">10 </verse></sup>Go through, go through the gates!
<br>
Prepare the way of the people!
<br>
Build up, build up the highway!
<br>
Gather out the stones!
<br>
Lift up a banner for the peoples.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the
earth:
<br>
“Say to the daughter of Zion,
<br>
‘Behold, your salvation comes!
<br>
Behold, his reward is with him,
<br>
and his recompense before him!’ ”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 62:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 62:12">12 </verse></sup>They will call them “The Holy People,
Yahweh’s Redeemed”.
<br>
You will be called “Sought Out,
<br>
A City Not Forsaken”.

#BCV:Isaiah 63:0
<P align="center"><h3>63</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:1">1 </verse></sup>Who is this who comes from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bozrah?
<br>
Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I who speak in righteousness,
<br>
mighty to save.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:2">2 </verse></sup>Why is your clothing red,
<br>
and your garments like him who treads in the
wine vat?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:3">3 </verse></sup>“I have trodden the wine press alone.
Of the peoples, no one was with me.
<br>
Yes, I trod them in my anger
<br>
and trampled them in my wrath.
<br>
Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
and I have stained all my clothing.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:4">4 </verse></sup>For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redeemed has come.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:5">5 </verse></sup>I looked, and there was no one to help;
and I wondered that there was no one to
uphold.
<br>
Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.
My own wrath upheld me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:6">6 </verse></sup>I trod down the peoples in my anger
and made them drunk in my wrath.
<br>
I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:7">7 </verse></sup>I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
and the praises of Yahweh,
<br>
according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has given to them according to his
mercies,
<br>
and according to the multitude of his loving
kindnesses.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:8">8 </verse></sup>For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely;”
<br>
so he became their Savior.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:9">9 </verse></sup>In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
He bore them,
<br>
and carried them all the days of old.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:10">10 </verse></sup>But they rebelled
<br>
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
<br>
Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
and he himself fought against them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:11">11 </verse></sup>Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying,
<br>
“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
<br>
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among
them?”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:12">12 </verse></sup>Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right
hand?
<br>
Who divided the waters before them, to make
himself an everlasting name?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:13">13 </verse></sup>Who led them through the depths,
<br>
like a horse in the wilderness,
<br>
so that they didn’t stumble?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:14">14 </verse></sup>As the livestock that go down into the valley,
Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
<br>
So you led your people to make yourself a
glorious name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:15">15 </verse></sup>Look down from heaven,
<br>
and see from the habitation of your holiness
and of your glory.
<br>
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
The yearning of your heart and your compassion
is restrained toward me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:16">16 </verse></sup>For you are our Father,
<br>
though Abraham doesn’t know us,
<br>
and Israel does not acknowledge us.
<br>
You, Yahweh, are our Father.
<br>
Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:17">17 </verse></sup>O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your
ways,
<br>
and harden our heart from your fear?
<br>
Return for your servants’ sake,
<br>
the tribes of your inheritance.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:18">18 </verse></sup>Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 63:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 63:19">19 </verse></sup>We have become like those over whom you never
ruled,
<br>
like those who were not called by your name.

#BCV:Isaiah 64:0
<P align="center"><h3>64</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:1">1 </verse></sup>Oh that you would tear the heavens,
that you would come down,
<br>
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:2">2 </verse></sup>as when fire kindles the brushwood,
and the fire causes the water to boil.
Make your name known to your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at your presence!
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:3">3 </verse></sup>When you did awesome things which we didn’t
look for,
<br>
you came down, and the mountains quaked at
your presence.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:4">4 </verse></sup>For from of old men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear,
<br>
nor has the eye seen a God besides you,
who works for him who waits for him.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:5">5 </verse></sup>You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
<br>
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
We have been in sin for a long time.
<br>
Shall we be saved?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:6">6 </verse></sup>For we have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteousness is like a polluted
garment.
<br>
We all fade like a leaf;
<br>
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:7">7 </verse></sup>There is no one who calls on your name,
who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:8">8 </verse></sup>But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
We are the clay and you our potter.
<br>
We all are the work of your hand.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
<br>
Don’t remember iniquity forever.
<br>
Look and see, we beg you,
<br>
we are all your people.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:10">10 </verse></sup>Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
Zion has become a wilderness,
<br>
Jerusalem a desolation.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:11">11 </verse></sup>Our holy and our beautiful house where our
fathers praised you
<br>
is burned with fire.
<br>
All our pleasant places are laid waste.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 64:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 64:12">12 </verse></sup>Will you hold yourself back for these things,
Yahweh?
<br>
Will you keep silent and punish us very
severely?

#BCV:Isaiah 65:0
<P align="center"><h3>65</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:1">1 </verse></sup>“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not
called by my name.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:2">2 </verse></sup>I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious
people,
<br>
who walk in a way that is not good,
<br>
after their own thoughts;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:3">3 </verse></sup>a people who provoke me to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens,
<br>
and burning incense on bricks;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:4">4 </verse></sup>who sit among the graves,
<br>
and spend nights in secret places;
<br>
who eat pig’s meat,
<br>
and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:5">5 </verse></sup>who say, ‘Stay by yourself,
<br>
don’t come near to me,
<br>
for I am holier than you.’
<br>
These are smoke in my nose,
<br>
a fire that burns all day.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:6">6 </verse></sup>“Behold, it is written before me:
<br>
I will not keep silence,
<br>
but will repay,
<br>
yes, I will repay into their bosom

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:7">7 </verse></sup>your own iniquities and the iniquities of your
fathers together”, says Yahweh,
<br>
“who have burned incense on the mountains,
and blasphemed me on the hills.
<br>
Therefore I will first measure their work into
their bosom.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh says,
<br>
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is
in it:’
<br>
so I will do for my servants’ sake,
<br>
that I may not destroy them all.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:9">9 </verse></sup>I will bring offspring out of Jacob,
and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
My chosen will inherit it,
<br>
and my servants will dwell there.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:10">10 </verse></sup>Sharon will be a fold of flocks,
<br>
and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie
down in,
<br>
for my people who have sought me.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:11">11 </verse></sup>“But you who forsake Yahweh,
<br>
who forget my holy mountain,
<br>
who prepare a table for Fortune,
<br>
and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:12">12 </verse></sup>I will destine you to the sword,
<br>
and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you didn’t answer.
When I spoke, you didn’t listen;
<br>
but you did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
<br>
“Behold, my servants will eat,
<br>
but you will be hungry;
<br>
behold, my servants will drink,
<br>
but you will be thirsty.
<br>
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
<br>
but you will be disappointed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
but you will cry for sorrow of heart,
and will wail for anguish of spirit.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:15">15 </verse></sup>You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen,
and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.
<br>
He will call his servants by another name,
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:16">16 </verse></sup>so that he who blesses himself in the earth
will bless himself in the God of truth;
and he who swears in the earth will swear by
the God of truth;
<br>
because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hidden from my eyes.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:17">17 </verse></sup>“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth;
<br>
and the former things will not be remembered,
nor come into mind.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:18">18 </verse></sup>But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I
create;
<br>
for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
and her people a joy.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:19">19 </verse></sup>I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
<br>
and delight in my people;
<br>
and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying
will be heard in her no more.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:20">20 </verse></sup>“No more will there be an infant who only lives a
few days,
<br>
nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
and the sinner being one hundred years old
will be accursed.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:21">21 </verse></sup>They will build houses and inhabit them.
They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:22">22 </verse></sup>They will not build and another inhabit.
They will not plant and another eat;
<br>
for the days of my people will be like the days of a
tree,
<br>
and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their
hands.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:23">23 </verse></sup>They will not labor in vain
<br>
nor give birth for calamity;
<br>
for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed
and their descendants with them.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:24">24 </verse></sup>It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 65:25><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 65:25">25 </verse></sup>The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
<br>
Dust will be the serpent’s food.
<br>
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

#BCV:Isaiah 66:0
<P align="center"><h3>66</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:1><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build to me?
Where will I rest?

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:2><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:2">2 </verse></sup>For my hand has made all these things,
and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:
“but I will look to this man,
<br>
even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and who trembles at my word.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:3><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:3">3 </verse></sup>He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a
dog’s neck;
<br>
he who offers an offering, as he who offers
pig’s blood;
<br>
he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses
an idol.
<br>
Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:4><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:4">4 </verse></sup>I also will choose their delusions,
and will bring their fears on them,
<br>
because when I called, no one answered;
when I spoke, they didn’t listen,
<br>
but they did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:5><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:5">5 </verse></sup>Hear Yahweh’s word,
<br>
you who tremble at his word:
<br>
“Your brothers who hate you,
<br>
who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said,
‘Let Yahweh be glorified,
<br>
that we may see your joy;’
<br>
but it is those who shall be disappointed.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:6><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:6">6 </verse></sup>A voice of tumult from the city,
<br>
a voice from the temple,
<br>
a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies
what they deserve.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:7><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:7">7 </verse></sup>“Before she travailed, she gave birth.
Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:8><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:8">8 </verse></sup>Who has heard of such a thing?
<br>
Who has seen such things?
<br>
Shall a land be born in one day?
<br>
Shall a nation be born at once?
<br>
For as soon as Zion travailed,
<br>
she gave birth to her children.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:9><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:9">9 </verse></sup>Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be
delivered?” says Yahweh.
<br>
“Shall I who cause to give birth shut the
womb?” says your God.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:10><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:10">10 </verse></sup>“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all
you who love her.
<br>
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn
over her;

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:11><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:11">11 </verse></sup>that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting
breasts;
<br>
that you may drink deeply,
<br>
and be delighted with the abundance of her
glory.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:12><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:12">12 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to
her like a river,
<br>
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing
stream,
<br>
and you will nurse.
<br>
You will be carried on her side,
<br>
and will be dandled on her knees.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:13><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:13">13 </verse></sup>As one whom his mother comforts,
<br>
so I will comfort you.
<br>
You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:14><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:14">14 </verse></sup>You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones will flourish like the tender
grass.
<br>
Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
and he will have indignation against his enemies.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:15><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:15">15 </verse></sup>For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire,
and his chariots will be like the whirlwind;
to render his anger with fierceness,
<br>
and his rebuke with flames of fire.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:16><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:16">16 </verse></sup>For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by
his sword on all flesh;
<br>
and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:17><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:17">17 </verse></sup>“Those who sanctify themselves and purify
themselves to go to the gardens, following one in
the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things,
and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:18><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:18">18 </verse></sup>“For I know their works and their thoughts.
The time comes that I will gather all nations and
languages, and they will come, and will see my
glory.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:19><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:19">19 </verse></sup>“I will set a sign among them, and I will
send those who escape of them to the nations, to
Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal
and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard
my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall
declare my glory among the nations. <key:bcv=Isaiah 66:20><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:20">20 </verse></sup>They shall
bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an
offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters,
on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain
Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel
bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=Isaiah 66:21><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:21">21 </verse></sup>Of them I will also select priests and
Levites,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Isaiah 66:22><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:22">22 </verse></sup>“For as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make, shall remain before me,” says
Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall
remain. <key:bcv=Isaiah 66:23><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:23">23 </verse></sup>It shall happen that from one new
moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another,
all flesh will come to worship before me,” says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Isaiah 66:24><sup><verse bcv="Isaiah 66:24">24 </verse></sup>“They will go out, and look at the dead
bodies of the men who have transgressed against
me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire
be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all
mankind.”

#OUTLINE:1,Jeremiah
<h2>The Book of Jeremiah</h2>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one
of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of
Benjamin. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word came to him in the
days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in
the thirteenth year of his reign. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>It came also in
the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah,
the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying
away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Now
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
Before you were born, I sanctified you.
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Ah, Lord<footnote:1>1:6 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh! Behold,<footnote:1>1:6 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> I don’t
know how to speak; for I am a child.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’
for you must go to whomever I send you, and you
must say whatever I command you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid
because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and
touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold,
I have put my words in your mouth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold,
I have today set you over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy
and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
“Jeremiah, what do you see?”
<br>
I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well;
for I watch over my word to perform it.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me the second time,
saying, “What do you see?”
<br>
I said, “I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping
away from the north.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north,
evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the
land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>For behold, I will call all the families of the
kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh.
<br>
“They will come, and they will each set his throne
at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
and against all its walls all around, and against
all the cities of Judah.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>I will utter my judgments against them concerning
all their wickedness,
<br>
in that they have forsaken me,
<br>
and have burned incense to other gods,
and worshiped the works of their own hands.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>“You therefore put your belt on your waist,
arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t
be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:18">18 </verse></sup>For behold, I have made you today a fortified city,
an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole
land—against the kings of Judah, against its princes,
against its priests, and against the people of the
land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 1:19">19 </verse></sup>They will fight against you, but they will
not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says
Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“Go and
proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh
says,
<br>
“I remember for you the kindness of your youth,
your love as a bride,
<br>
how you went after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not sown.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Israel was holiness to Yahweh,
<br>
the first fruits of his increase.
<br>
All who devour him will be held guilty.
Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all
the families of the house of Israel! <key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh says,
“What unrighteousness have your fathers found in
me,
<br>
that they have gone far from me,
<br>
and have walked after worthless vanity,
and have become worthless?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us
up out of the land of Egypt,
<br>
who led us through the wilderness,
<br>
through a land of deserts and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow
of death,
<br>
through a land that no one passed through,
and where no man lived?’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>I brought you into a plentiful land
to eat its fruit and its goodness;
<br>
but when you entered, you defiled my land,
and made my heritage an abomination.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’
and those who handle the law didn’t know me.
The rulers also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal
<br>
and followed things that do not profit.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says
Yahweh,
<br>
“and I will contend with your children’s children.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see.
Send to Kedar, and consider diligently,
and see if there has been such a thing.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Has a nation changed its gods,
<br>
which really are no gods?
<br>
But my people have changed their glory for
that which doesn’t profit.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>“Be astonished, you heavens, at this
and be horribly afraid.
<br>
Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>“For my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me, the spring of living
waters,
<br>
and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken
cisterns that can’t hold water.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Is Israel a slave?
<br>
Is he born into slavery?
<br>
Why has he become a captive?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:15">15 </verse></sup>The young lions have roared at him and raised
their voices.
<br>
They have made his land waste.
<br>
His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:16">16 </verse></sup>The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes
have broken the crown of your head.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:17">17 </verse></sup>“Haven’t you brought this on yourself,
in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,<footnote:1>2:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote>
when he led you by the way?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink
the waters of the Shihor?
<br>
Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to
drink the waters of the River?<footnote:1>2:18 i.e., the Euphrates River</footnote>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:19">19 </verse></sup>“Your own wickedness will correct you,
and your backsliding will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter
thing,
<br>
that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:20">20 </verse></sup>“For long ago I broke off your yoke,
and burst your bonds.
<br>
You said, ‘I will not serve;’
<br>
for on every high hill and under every green
tree you bowed yourself,
<br>
playing the prostitute.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
a pure and faithful seed.
<br>
How then have you turned into the degenerate
branches of a foreign vine to me?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:22">22 </verse></sup>For though you wash yourself with lye,
and use much soap,
<br>
yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says
the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:23">23 </verse></sup>“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled.
I have not gone after the Baals’?
<br>
See your way in the valley.
<br>
Know what you have done.

You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:24">24 </verse></sup>a
wild donkey used to the wilderness, that
sniffs the wind in her craving.
<br>
When she is in heat, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves.
In her month, they will find her.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:25">25 </verse></sup>“Keep your feet from being bare,
<br>
and your throat from thirst.
<br>
But you said, ‘It is in vain.
<br>
No, for I have loved strangers,
<br>
and I will go after them.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:26">26 </verse></sup>As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
so the house of Israel is ashamed—
<br>
they, their kings, their princes, their priests,
and their prophets,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:27">27 </verse></sup>who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’
and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
for they have turned their back to me,
and not their face,
<br>
but in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise, and save us!’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:28">28 </verse></sup>“But where are your gods that you have made for
yourselves?
<br>
Let them arise, if they can save you in the time
of your trouble,
<br>
for you have as many gods as you have towns,
O Judah.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:29">29 </verse></sup>“Why will you contend with me?
<br>
You all have transgressed against me,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:30">30 </verse></sup>“I have struck your children in vain.
They received no correction.
<br>
Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:31">31 </verse></sup>Generation, consider Yahweh’s word.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel?
<br>
Or a land of thick darkness?
<br>
Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.
We will come to you no more’?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:32">32 </verse></sup>“Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
<br>
Yet my people have forgotten me for days
without number.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:33">33 </verse></sup>How well you prepare your way to seek love!
Therefore you have even taught the wicked
women your ways.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:34">34 </verse></sup>Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is
found in your skirts.
<br>
You didn’t find them breaking in,
<br>
but it is because of all these things.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:35">35 </verse></sup>“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent.
<br>
Surely his anger has turned away from me.’
“Behold, I will judge you,
<br>
because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:36">36 </verse></sup>Why do you go about so much to change your
ways?
<br>
You will be ashamed of Egypt also,
<br>
as you were ashamed of Assyria.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 2:37">37 </verse></sup>You will also leave that place with your hands on
your head;
<br>
for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you
trust,
<br>
and you won’t prosper with them.

#BCV:Jeremiah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and
she goes from him, and becomes another man’s,
should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that
land be greatly polluted? But you have played the
prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to
me,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been lain with? You have sat
waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the
wilderness. You have polluted the land with your
prostitution and with your wickedness. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore
the showers have been withheld and there has
been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s
forehead and you refused to be ashamed. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Will you
not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the
guide of my youth!’?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep
it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have
done evil things, and have had your way.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of
Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding
Israel has done? She has gone up on every
high mountain and under every green tree, and
has played the prostitute there. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>I said after she
had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’
but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister
Judah saw it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>I saw when, for this very cause, that
backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put
her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet
treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she
also went and played the prostitute. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Because she
took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted,
and she committed adultery with stones and with
wood. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Yet for all this her treacherous sister,
Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart,
but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has
shown herself more righteous than treacherous
Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Go, and proclaim these words toward
the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’
says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you,
for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep
anger forever. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Only acknowledge your iniquity,
that you have transgressed against Yahweh your
God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers
under every green tree, and you have not obeyed
my voice,’ ” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:14">14 </verse></sup>“Return, backsliding
children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you.
I will take one of you from a city, and two from a
family, and I will bring you to Zion. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:15">15 </verse></sup>I will give you
shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you
with knowledge and understanding. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:16">16 </verse></sup>It will come
to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in
the land in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no
longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will
not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They
won’t miss it, nor will another be made. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:17">17 </verse></sup>At that
time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and
all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s
name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after
the stubbornness of their evil heart. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:18">18 </verse></sup>In those days
the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel,
and they will come together out of the land of the
north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to
your fathers.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:19">19 </verse></sup>“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among
the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly
heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said,
‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn
away from following me.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:20">20 </verse></sup>“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from
her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with
me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:21">21 </verse></sup>A voice is
heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the
petitions of the children of Israel; because they have
perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh
their God. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Return, you backsliding children, and I
will heal your backsliding.
<br>
“Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh
our God. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Truly help from the hills, the tumult
on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation
of Israel is in Yahweh our God. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:24">24 </verse></sup>But the shameful
thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our
youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and
their daughters. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Let us lie down in our shame,
and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned
against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from
our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed
Yahweh our God’s voice.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you
will return to me, and if you will put away your
abominations out of my sight; then you will not be
removed; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in
truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations
will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in
him.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to
Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t
sow among thorns. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Circumcise yourselves to
Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart,
you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest
my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one
can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and
say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and
say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified
cities!’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for
safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the
north, and a great destruction.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:7">7 </verse></sup>A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a
destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has
gone out from his place, to make your land desolate,
that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:8">8 </verse></sup>For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and
wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned
back from us. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“It will happen at that day,” says
Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish,
along with the heart of the princes. The priests will
be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have
greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying,
‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to
the heart.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:11">11 </verse></sup>At that time it will be said to this people and
to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare
heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of
my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:12">12 </verse></sup>A full
wind from these will come for me. Now I will also
utter judgments against them.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his
chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that
you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts
lodge within you? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For a voice declares from Dan,
and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:16">16 </verse></sup>“Tell
the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem,
‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their
voice against the cities of Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:17">17 </verse></sup>As keepers of
a field, they are against her all around, because
she has been rebellious against me,’ ” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:18">18 </verse></sup>“Your way and your doings have brought these
things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is
bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:19">19 </verse></sup>My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at
my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I
can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O
my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
war. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Destruction on destruction is decreed, for
the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents
are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:21">21 </verse></sup>How long will I see the standard and hear the
sound of the trumpet?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:22">22 </verse></sup>“For my people are foolish. They don’t know
me. They are foolish children, and they have no
understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but
they don’t know how to do good.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:23">23 </verse></sup>I saw the earth
and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens,
and they had no light. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:24">24 </verse></sup>I saw the mountains, and
behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back
and forth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:25">25 </verse></sup>I saw, and behold, there was no man,
and all the birds of the sky had fled. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:26">26 </verse></sup>I saw, and
behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its
cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh,
before his fierce anger. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:27">27 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “The
whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make
a full end. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:28">28 </verse></sup>For this the earth will mourn, and the
heavens above be black, because I have spoken it.
I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither
will I turn back from it.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:29">29 </verse></sup>Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen
and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up
on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man
dwells therein. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:30">30 </verse></sup>You, when you are made desolate,
what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with
scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments
of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup,
you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers
despise you. They seek your life. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 4:31">31 </verse></sup>For I have heard
a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of
her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of
the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who
spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my
soul faints before the murderers.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:1">1 </verse></sup>“Run back and forth through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its
wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone
who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon
her. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely
they swear falsely.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:3">3 </verse></sup>O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You
have stricken them, but they were not grieved.
You have consumed them, but they have refused
to receive correction. They have made their faces
harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are
foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor
the law of their God. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:5">5 </verse></sup>I will go to the great men
and will speak to them, for they know the way of
Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with
one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the
bonds. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill
them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A
leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone
who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because
their transgressions are many and their backsliding
has increased.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:7">7 </verse></sup>“How can I pardon you? Your children have
forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When
I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery,
and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’
houses. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:8">8 </verse></sup>They were as fed horses roaming at
large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says
Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:10">10 </verse></sup>“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t
make a full end. Take away her branches, for they
are not Yahweh’s. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:11">11 </verse></sup>For the house of Israel and
the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously
against me,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:12">12 </verse></sup>They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not
he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or
famine. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:13">13 </verse></sup>The prophets will become wind, and the
word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says,
“Because you speak this word, behold, I will make
my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood,
and it will devour them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, I will bring a
nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says
Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient
nation, a nation whose language you don’t know
and don’t understand what they say. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Their quiver
is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:17">17 </verse></sup>They
will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your
sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat
up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your
vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your
fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:18">18 </verse></sup>“But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will
not make a full end of you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:19">19 </verse></sup>It will happen when
you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these
things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as
you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in
your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that
is not yours.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:20">20 </verse></sup>“Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish
it in Judah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:21">21 </verse></sup>‘Hear this now, foolish people
without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t
see, who have ears, and don’t hear: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t you
fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘Won’t you tremble at my
presence, who have placed the sand for the bound
of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass
it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t
prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over
it.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:23">23 </verse></sup>“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious
heart. They have revolted and gone. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:24">24 </verse></sup>They don’t
say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God,
who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its
season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of
the harvest.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:25">25 </verse></sup>“Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins have withheld good from you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:26">26 </verse></sup>For
wicked men are found among my people. They
watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They
catch men. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:27">27 </verse></sup>As a cage is full of birds, so are their
houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become
great, and grew rich. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:28">28 </verse></sup>They have grown fat. They
shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They
don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the
rights of the needy.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:29">29 </verse></sup>“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says
Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a
nation as this?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:30">30 </verse></sup>“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened
in the land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 5:31">31 </verse></sup>The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule by their own authority; and my
people love to have it so. What will you do in the
end of it?

#BCV:Jeremiah 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:1">1 </verse></sup>“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of
the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa
and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil
looks out from the north with a great destruction.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:2">2 </verse></sup>I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the
daughter of Zion. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Shepherds with their flocks will
come to her. They will pitch their tents against her
all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:4">4 </verse></sup>“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up
at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the
shadows of the evening are stretched out. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Arise!
Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and
cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city
to be visited. She is filled with oppression within
herself. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:7">7 </verse></sup>As a well produces its waters, so she produces
her wickedness. Violence and destruction is
heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually
before me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul
be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation,
an uninhabited land.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly
glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again
your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:10">10 </verse></sup>To whom should I speak and testify, that they
may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised,
and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has
become a reproach to them. They have no delight
in it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am
weary with holding it in.
<br>
“Pour it out on the children in the street,
and on the assembly of young men together;
for even the husband with the wife will be taken,
the aged with him who is full of days.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Their houses will be turned to others,
their fields and their wives together;
for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of
the land, says Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:13">13 </verse></sup>“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone
is given to covetousness.
<br>
From the prophet even to the priest, everyone
deals falsely.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:14">14 </verse></sup>They have healed also the hurt of my people
superficially,
<br>
saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination?
<br>
No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush.
<br>
Therefore they will fall among those who fall.
When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and
ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and
walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But
they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:17">17 </verse></sup>I set watchmen
over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore
hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is
among them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring
evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts,
because they have not listened to my words; and
as for my law, they have rejected it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:20">20 </verse></sup>To what
purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me,
and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are
not pleasing to me.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay
stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers
and the sons together will stumble against them.
The neighbor and his friend will perish.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh
says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country.
A great nation will be stirred up from the
uttermost parts of the earth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:23">23 </verse></sup>They take hold of
bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on
horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle,
against you, daughter of Zion.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:24">24 </verse></sup>We have heard its report. Our hands become
feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as
of a woman in labor. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Don’t go out into the field
or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and
terror are on every side. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Daughter of my people,
clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes!
Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation,
for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:27">27 </verse></sup>“I have made you a tester of metals and a
fortress among my people, that you may know
and try their way. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:28">28 </verse></sup>They are all grievous rebels,
going around to slander. They are bronze and iron.
All of them deal corruptly. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:29">29 </verse></sup>The bellows blow
fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain
they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked
away. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Men will call them rejected silver, because
Yahweh has rejected them.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:2">2 </verse></sup>“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and
proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s
word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates
to worship Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says,
“Amend your ways and your doings, and I will
cause you to dwell in this place. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t trust in
lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s
temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:5">5 </verse></sup>For if you
thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if
you thoroughly execute justice between a man and
his neighbor; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:6">6 </verse></sup>if you don’t oppress the foreigner,
the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent
blood in this place, and don’t walk after other
gods to your own hurt, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:7">7 </verse></sup>then I will cause you to
dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your
fathers, from of old even forever more. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold,
you trust in lying words that can’t profit. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Will
you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely,
burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that
you have not known, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:10">10 </verse></sup>then come and stand before
me in this house, which is called by my name, and
say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these
abominations? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Has this house, which is called by
my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:12">12 </verse></sup>“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh,
where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and
see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
Israel. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Now, because you have done all these
works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up
early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called
you, but you didn’t answer; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:14">14 </verse></sup>therefore I will do to
the house which is called by my name, in which you
trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to
your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:15">15 </verse></sup>I will cast you out
of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even
the whole offspring<footnote:1>7:15 or, seed</footnote> of Ephraim.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:16">16 </verse></sup>“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift
up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to
me; for I will not hear you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t you see what
they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:18">18 </verse></sup>The children gather wood, and
the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky,
and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that
they may provoke me to anger. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Do they provoke
me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke
themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my
anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place,
on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on
the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not
be quenched.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add
your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:22">22 </verse></sup>For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command
them in the day that I brought them out of the land
of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:23">23 </verse></sup>but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen
to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall
be my people. Walk in all the way that I command
you, that it may be well with you.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:24">24 </verse></sup>But they didn’t
listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own
counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Since the
day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt
to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear,
but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their
fathers.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:27">27 </verse></sup>“You shall speak all these words to them, but
they will not listen to you. You shall also call to
them, but they will not answer you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:28">28 </verse></sup>You shall
tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to
Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction.
Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:29">29 </verse></sup>Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up
a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has
rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:30">30 </verse></sup>“For the children of Judah have done that which
is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set
their abominations in the house which is called by
my name, to defile it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:31">31 </verse></sup>They have built the high
places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it
come into my mind. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:32">32 </verse></sup>Therefore behold, the days
come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called
‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’,
but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in
Topheth until there is no place to bury. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:33">33 </verse></sup>The dead
bodies of this people will be food for the birds of
the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one
will frighten them away. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 7:34">34 </verse></sup>Then I will cause to
cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets
of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:1">1 </verse></sup>“At that time,” says Yahweh, “they will bring the
bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes,
the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets,
and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out
of their graves. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:2">2 </verse></sup>They will spread them before the
sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which
they have loved, which they have served, after
which they have walked, which they have sought,
and which they have worshiped. They will not be
gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the
surface of the earth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Death will be chosen rather
than life by all the residue that remain of this evil
family, that remain in all the places where I have
driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:4">4 </verse></sup>“Moreover
you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:
<br>
“ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again?
Does one turn away, and not return?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back
by a perpetual backsliding?
<br>
They cling to deceit.
<br>
They refuse to return.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:6">6 </verse></sup>I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is
right.
<br>
No one repents of his wickedness, saying,
“What have I done?”
<br>
Everyone turns to his course,
<br>
as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed
times.
<br>
The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane
observe the time of their coming;
<br>
but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law
is with us?”
<br>
But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has
made that a lie.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:9">9 </verse></sup>The wise men are disappointed.
<br>
They are dismayed and trapped.
<br>
Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word.
<br>
What kind of wisdom is in them?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore I will give their wives to others
and their fields to those who will possess them.
For everyone from the least even to the greatest is
given to covetousness;
<br>
from the prophet even to the priest everyone
deals falsely.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:11">11 </verse></sup>They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying,
<br>
“Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination?
<br>
No, they were not at all ashamed.
<br>
They couldn’t blush.
<br>
Therefore they will fall among those who fall.
In the time of their visitation they will be cast
down, says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh.
No grapes will be on the vine,
<br>
no figs on the fig tree,
<br>
and the leaf will fade.
<br>
The things that I have given them
<br>
will pass away from them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:14">14 </verse></sup>“Why do we sit still?
<br>
Assemble yourselves!
<br>
Let’s enter into the fortified cities,
and let’s be silent there;
<br>
for Yahweh our God has put us to silence,
and given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:15">15 </verse></sup>We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:16">16 </verse></sup>The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.
The whole land trembles at the sound of the
neighing of his strong ones;
<br>
for they have come, and have devoured the land and
all that is in it,
<br>
the city and those who dwell therein.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:17">17 </verse></sup>“For, behold, I will send serpents,
adders among you,
<br>
which will not be charmed;
<br>
and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!
My heart is faint within me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people from a land that is very far off:
“Isn’t Yahweh in Zion?
<br>
Isn’t her King in her?”
<br>
“Why have they provoked me to anger with their
engraved images,
<br>
and with foreign idols?”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:20">20 </verse></sup>“The harvest is past.
<br>
The summer has ended,
<br>
and we are not saved.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:21">21 </verse></sup>For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am
hurt.
<br>
I mourn.
<br>
Dismay has taken hold of me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Is there no balm in Gilead?
<br>
Is there no physician there?
<br>
Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my
people recovered?

#BCV:Jeremiah 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Oh that my head were waters,
<br>
and my eyes a spring of tears,
<br>
that I might weep day and night
<br>
for the slain of the daughter of my people!
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Oh that I had in the wilderness
<br>
a lodging place of wayfaring men,
<br>
that I might leave my people
<br>
and go from them!
<br>
For they are all adulterers,
<br>
an assembly of treacherous men.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:3">3 </verse></sup>“They bend their tongue,
<br>
as their bow, for falsehood.
<br>
They have grown strong in the land,
<br>
but not for truth;
<br>
for they proceed from evil to evil,
<br>
and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:4">4 </verse></sup>“Everyone beware of his neighbor,
<br>
and don’t trust in any brother;
<br>
for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Friends deceive each other,
<br>
and will not speak the truth.
<br>
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
They weary themselves committing iniquity.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
<br>
“Behold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal with the daughter of my
people?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
<br>
It speaks deceit.
<br>
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his
mouth,
<br>
but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says
Yahweh.
<br>
“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation
such as this?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:10">10 </verse></sup>I will weep and wail for the mountains,
and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they are burned up, so that no one passes
through;
<br>
Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.
Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
They are gone.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:11">11 </verse></sup>“I will make Jerusalem heaps,
<br>
a dwelling place of jackals.
<br>
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is
he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that
he may declare it? Why has the land perished and
burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes
through?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken
my law which I set before them, and have not
obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:14">14 </verse></sup>but
have walked after the stubbornness of their own
heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught
them.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this
people, with wormwood and give them poisoned
water to drink. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:16">16 </verse></sup>I will scatter them also among the
nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known. I will send the sword after them, until I have
consumed them.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says,
<br>
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that
they may come.
<br>
Send for the skillful women, that they may
come.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Let them make haste
<br>
and take up a wailing for us,
<br>
that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids gush out with waters.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:19">19 </verse></sup>For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
<br>
We are greatly confounded
<br>
because we have forsaken the land,
<br>
because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters wailing.
<br>
Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:21">21 </verse></sup>For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
<br>
to cut off the children from outside,
and the young men from the streets.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Speak, “Yahweh says,
<br>
“ ‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the
open field,
<br>
and as the handful after the harvester.
No one will gather them.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh says,
<br>
“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.
Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:24">24 </verse></sup>But let him who glories glory in this,
that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness,
justice, and righteousness in the earth,
for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:25">25 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I
will punish all those who are circumcised only in
their flesh: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 9:26">26 </verse></sup>Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of
Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their
hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all
the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of
Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you,
house of Israel! <key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh says,
<br>
“Don’t learn the way of the nations,
<br>
and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky;
for the nations are dismayed at them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:3">3 </verse></sup>For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman with the
ax.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:4">4 </verse></sup>They deck it with silver and with gold.
They fasten it with nails and with hammers,
so that it can’t move.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:5">5 </verse></sup>They are like a palm tree, of turned work,
and don’t speak.
<br>
They must be carried,
<br>
because they can’t move.
<br>
Don’t be afraid of them;
<br>
for they can’t do evil,
<br>
neither is it in them to do good.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:6">6 </verse></sup>There is no one like you, Yahweh.
<br>
You are great,
<br>
and your name is great in might.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Who shouldn’t fear you,
<br>
King of the nations?
<br>
For it belongs to you.
<br>
Because among all the wise men of the nations,
and in all their royal estate,
<br>
there is no one like you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:8">8 </verse></sup>But they are together brutish and foolish,
instructed by idols!
<br>
It is just wood.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:9">9 </verse></sup>There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought
from Tarshish,
<br>
and gold from Uphaz,
<br>
the work of the engraver and of the hands of
the goldsmith.
<br>
Their clothing is blue and purple.
<br>
They are all the work of skillful men.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:10">10 </verse></sup>But Yahweh is the true God.
<br>
He is the living God,
<br>
and an everlasting King.
<br>
At his wrath, the earth trembles.
<br>
The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:11">11 </verse></sup>“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have
not made the heavens and the earth will perish from
the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:12">12 </verse></sup>God has made the earth by his power.
He has established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding has he stretched out
the heavens.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:13">13 </verse></sup>When he utters his voice,
<br>
the waters in the heavens roar,
<br>
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the
ends of the earth.
<br>
He makes lightnings for the rain,
<br>
and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Every man has become brutish and without
knowledge.
<br>
Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved
image;
<br>
for his molten image is falsehood,
<br>
and there is no breath in them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:15">15 </verse></sup>They are vanity, a work of delusion.
In the time of their visitation they will perish.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:16">16 </verse></sup>The portion of Jacob is not like these;
for he is the maker of all things;
<br>
and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance.
Yahweh of Armies is his name.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Gather up your wares out of the land,
you who live under siege.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:18">18 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says,
<br>
“Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the
land at this time,
<br>
and will distress them, that they may feel it.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Woe is me because of my injury!
<br>
My wound is serious;
<br>
but I said,
<br>
“Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:20">20 </verse></sup>My tent has been destroyed,
<br>
and all my cords are broken.
<br>
My children have gone away from me, and they are
no more.
<br>
There is no one to spread my tent any more,
to set up my curtains.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:21">21 </verse></sup>For the shepherds have become brutish,
and have not inquired of Yahweh.
<br>
Therefore they have not prospered,
<br>
and all their flocks have scattered.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:22">22 </verse></sup>The voice of news, behold, it comes,
and a great commotion out of the north country,
to make the cities of Judah a desolation,
a dwelling place of jackals.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in
himself.
<br>
It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Yahweh, correct me, but gently;
<br>
not in your anger,
<br>
lest you reduce me to nothing.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t
know you,
<br>
and on the families that don’t call on your
name;
<br>
for they have devoured Jacob.
<br>
Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.

#BCV:Jeremiah 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:2">2 </verse></sup>“Hear the words of this covenant, and
speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:3">3 </verse></sup>and say to them, Yahweh, the God
of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear
the words of this covenant, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:4">4 </verse></sup>which I commanded
your fathers in the day that I brought them out of
the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying,
‘Obey my voice and do them, according to all which
I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will
be your God; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:5">5 </verse></sup>that I may establish the oath which I
swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing
with milk and honey,’ as it is today.”
Then I answered, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do
them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:7">7 </verse></sup>For I earnestly protested to your fathers in
the day that I brought them up out of the land of
Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting,
saying, “Obey my voice.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Yet they didn’t obey,
nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness
of their evil heart. Therefore I brought
on them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found
among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:10">10 </verse></sup>They have turned back to
the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to
hear my words. They have gone after other gods
to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of
Judah have broken my covenant which I made with
their fathers. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold,
I will bring evil on them which they will not be
able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will
not listen to them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the cities of Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the
gods to which they offer incense, but they will not
save them at all in the time of their trouble. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:13">13 </verse></sup>For
according to the number of your cities are your
gods, Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the
shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:14">14 </verse></sup>“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift
up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them
in the time that they cry to me because of their
trouble.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:15">15 </verse></sup>What has my beloved to do in my house,
since she has behaved lewdly with many,
and the holy flesh has passed from you?
When you do evil,
<br>
then you rejoice.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree,
beautiful with goodly fruit.”
<br>
With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on
it,
<br>
and its branches are broken.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:17">17 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has
pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of
the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have done to themselves in provoking me to
anger by offering incense to Baal.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew
it. Then you showed me their doings. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:19">19 </verse></sup>But I was
like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I
didn’t know that they had devised plans against me,
saying,
<br>
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit,
and let’s cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:20">20 </verse></sup>But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously,
who tests the heart and the mind,
<br>
I will see your vengeance on them;
<br>
for to you I have revealed my cause.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:21">21 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of
Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not
prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our
hand’— <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:22">22 </verse></sup>therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold,
I will punish them. The young men will die by the
sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by
famine. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 11:23">23 </verse></sup>There will be no remnant to them, for
I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the
year of their visitation.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:1">1 </verse></sup>You are righteous, Yahweh,
<br>
when I contend with you;
<br>
yet I would like to plead a case with you.
<br>
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:2">2 </verse></sup>You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root.
They grow. Yes, they produce fruit.
<br>
You are near in their mouth,
<br>
and far from their heart.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:3">3 </verse></sup>But you, Yahweh, know me.
<br>
You see me, and test my heart toward you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:4">4 </verse></sup>How long will the land mourn,
<br>
and the herbs of the whole country wither?
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell
therein,
<br>
the animals and birds are consumed;
<br>
because they said,
<br>
“He won’t see our latter end.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:5">5 </verse></sup>“If you have run with the footmen,
<br>
and they have wearied you,
<br>
then how can you contend with horses?
Though in a land of peace you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:6">6 </verse></sup>For even your brothers, and the house of your
father,
<br>
even they have dealt treacherously with you!
Even they have cried aloud after you!
Don’t believe them,
<br>
though they speak beautiful words to you.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:7">7 </verse></sup>“I have forsaken my house.
<br>
I have cast off my heritage.
<br>
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into
the hand of her enemies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:8">8 </verse></sup>My heritage has become to me as a lion in the
forest.
<br>
She has uttered her voice against me.
Therefore I have hated her.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?
Are the birds of prey against her all around?
Go, assemble all the animals of the field.
Bring them to devour.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.
They have trodden my portion under foot.
They have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:11">11 </verse></sup>They have made it a desolation.
<br>
It mourns to me, being desolate.
<br>
The whole land is made desolate,
<br>
because no one cares.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in
the wilderness;
<br>
for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one
end of the land even to the other end of the
land.
<br>
No flesh has peace.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:13">13 </verse></sup>They have sown wheat,
<br>
and have reaped thorns.
<br>
They have exhausted themselves,
<br>
and profit nothing.
<br>
You will be ashamed of your fruits,
<br>
because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors,
who touch the inheritance which I have
caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will
pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck
up the house of Judah from among them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:15">15 </verse></sup>It
will happen that after I have plucked them up, I
will return and have compassion on them. I will
bring them again, every man to his heritage, and
every man to his land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:16">16 </verse></sup>It will happen, if they will
diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by
my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my
people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up
in the middle of my people. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 12:17">17 </verse></sup>But if they will not
hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up
and destroying it,” says Yahweh.

#BCV:Jeremiah 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen
belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in
water.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:2">2 </verse></sup>So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word,
and put it on my waist.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me the second time,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:4">4 </verse></sup>“Take the belt that you have bought, which
is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and
hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:5">5 </verse></sup>So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh
commanded me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:6">6 </verse></sup>After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise,
go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there,
which I commanded you to hide there.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took
the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and
behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for
nothing.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:9">9 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of
Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:10">10 </verse></sup>This evil
people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in
the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after
other gods to serve them and to worship them, will
even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:11">11 </verse></sup>For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I
have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole
house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that
they may be to me for a people, for a name, for
praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:12">12 </verse></sup>“Therefore you shall speak to them this word:
‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Every container
should be filled with wine.” ’ They will tell you, ‘Do
we not certainly know that every container should
be filled with wine?’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Then tell them, ‘Yahweh
says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this
land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne,
the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:14">14 </verse></sup>I will dash
them one against another, even the fathers and
the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity,
spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy
them.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Hear, and give ear.
<br>
Don’t be proud,
<br>
for Yahweh has spoken.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Give glory to Yahweh your God,
<br>
before he causes darkness,
<br>
and before your feet stumble on the dark
mountains,
<br>
and while you look for light,
<br>
he turns it into the shadow of death,
and makes it deep darkness.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:17">17 </verse></sup>But if you will not hear it,
<br>
my soul will weep in secret for your pride.
My eye will weep bitterly,
<br>
and run down with tears,
<br>
because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Say to the king and to the queen mother,
“Humble yourselves.
<br>
Sit down, for your crowns have come down,
even the crown of your glory.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:19">19 </verse></sup>The cities of the South are shut up,
and there is no one to open them.
<br>
Judah is carried away captive: all of them.
They are wholly carried away captive.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Lift up your eyes,
<br>
and see those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given to you,
your beautiful flock?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:21">21 </verse></sup>What will you say when he sets over you as head
those whom you have yourself taught to be
friends to you?
<br>
Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman
in travail?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:22">22 </verse></sup>If you say in your heart,
<br>
“Why have these things come on me?”
<br>
Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness
of your iniquity,
<br>
and your heels suffer violence.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:23">23 </verse></sup>Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
or the leopard his spots?
<br>
Then may you also do good,
<br>
who are accustomed to do evil.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:24">24 </verse></sup>“Therefore I will scatter them
<br>
as the stubble that passes away
<br>
by the wind of the wilderness.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:25">25 </verse></sup>This is your lot,
<br>
the portion measured to you from me,” says
Yahweh,
<br>
“because you have forgotten me,
<br>
and trusted in falsehood.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your
face,
<br>
and your shame will appear.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 13:27">27 </verse></sup>I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries
and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution,
on the hills in the field.
<br>
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
<br>
You will not be made clean.
<br>
How long will it yet be?”

#BCV:Jeremiah 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:1">1 </verse></sup>This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah
concerning the drought:

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:2">2 </verse></sup>“Judah mourns,
<br>
and its gates languish.
<br>
They sit in black on the ground.
<br>
The cry of Jerusalem goes up.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Their nobles send their little ones to the waters.
They come to the cisterns,
<br>
and find no water.
<br>
They return with their vessels empty.
They are disappointed and confounded,
and cover their heads.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Because of the ground which is cracked,
because no rain has been in the land,
the plowmen are disappointed.
<br>
They cover their heads.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes
her young,
<br>
because there is no grass.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:6">6 </verse></sup>The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights.
They pant for air like jackals.
<br>
Their eyes fail,
<br>
because there is no vegetation.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Though our iniquities testify against us,
work for your name’s sake, Yahweh;
<br>
for our rebellions are many.
<br>
We have sinned against you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:8">8 </verse></sup>You hope of Israel,
<br>
its Savior in the time of trouble,
<br>
why should you be as a foreigner in the land,
and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay
for a night?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Why should you be like a scared man,
as a mighty man who can’t save?
<br>
Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us,
and we are called by your name.
<br>
Don’t leave us.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh says to this people:
<br>
“Even so they have loved to wander.
<br>
They have not restrained their feet.
<br>
Therefore Yahweh does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
<br>
and punish them for their sins.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people
for their good. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:12">12 </verse></sup>When they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and
meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will
consume them by the sword, by famine, and by
pestilence.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the
prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword,
neither will you have famine; but I will give you
assured peace in this place.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy
lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t
command them. I didn’t speak to them. They
prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a
thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets
who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them,
yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this
land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword
and famine. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:16">16 </verse></sup>The people to whom they prophesy
will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because
of the famine and the sword. They will have no one
to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their
daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:17">17 </verse></sup>“You shall say this word to them:
<br>
“ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
<br>
and let them not cease;
<br>
for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with
a great breach,
<br>
with a very grievous wound.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:18">18 </verse></sup>If I go out into the field,
<br>
then behold, the slain with the sword!
If I enter into the city,
<br>
then behold, those who are sick with famine!
For both the prophet and the priest go about in the
land,
<br>
and have no knowledge.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:19">19 </verse></sup>Have you utterly rejected Judah?
<br>
Has your soul loathed Zion?
<br>
Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for
us?
<br>
We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:20">20 </verse></sup>We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness,
and the iniquity of our fathers;
<br>
for we have sinned against you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake.
Do not disgrace the throne of your glory.
Remember, and don’t break your covenant
with us.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Are there any among the vanities of the nations
that can cause rain?
<br>
Or can the sky give showers?
<br>
Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God?
<br>
Therefore we will wait for you;
<br>
for you have made all these things.

#BCV:Jeremiah 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and
Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not
turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight,
and let them go out! <key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:2">2 </verse></sup>It will happen when they ask
you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell
them, ‘Yahweh says:
<br>
“Such as are for death, to death;
<br>
such as are for the sword, to the sword;
such as are for the famine, to the famine;
and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:3">3 </verse></sup>“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says
Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the
birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to
devour and to destroy. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:4">4 </verse></sup>I will cause them to be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah,
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:5">5 </verse></sup>For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
Who will mourn you?
<br>
Who will come to ask of your welfare?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:6">6 </verse></sup>You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.
“You have gone backward.
<br>
Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you
and destroyed you.
<br>
I am weary of showing compassion.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:7">7 </verse></sup>I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of
the land.
<br>
I have bereaved them of children.
<br>
I have destroyed my people.
<br>
They didn’t return from their ways.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:8">8 </verse></sup>Their widows are increased more than the sand of
the seas.
<br>
I have brought on them against the mother of
the young men a destroyer at noonday.
I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her
suddenly.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:9">9 </verse></sup>She who has borne seven languishes.
She has given up the spirit.
<br>
Her sun has gone down while it was yet day.
She has been disappointed and confounded.
I will deliver their residue to the sword before
their enemies,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a
man of strife,
<br>
and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;
yet every one of them curses me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh said,
<br>
“Most certainly I will strengthen you for good.
Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make
supplication to you in the time of evil
and in the time of affliction.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Can one break iron,
<br>
even iron from the north, and bronze?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:13">13 </verse></sup>I will give your substance and your treasures for
a plunder without price,
<br>
and that for all your sins,
<br>
even in all your borders.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:14">14 </verse></sup>I will make them to pass with your enemies into a
land which you don’t know;
<br>
for a fire is kindled in my anger,
<br>
which will burn on you.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you know.
<br>
Remember me, visit me,
<br>
and avenge me of my persecutors.
<br>
You are patient, so don’t take me away.
Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:16">16 </verse></sup>Your words were found,
<br>
and I ate them.
<br>
Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my
heart,
<br>
for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of
Armies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:17">17 </verse></sup>I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make
merry and rejoice.
<br>
I sat alone because of your hand,
<br>
for you have filled me with indignation.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:18">18 </verse></sup>Why is my pain perpetual,
<br>
and my wound incurable,
<br>
which refuses to be healed?
<br>
Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says,
<br>
“If you return, then I will bring you again,
that you may stand before me;
<br>
and if you take out the precious from the vile,
you will be as my mouth.
<br>
They will return to you,
<br>
but you will not return to them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:20">20 </verse></sup>I will make you to this people a fortified bronze
wall.
<br>
They will fight against you,
<br>
but they will not prevail against you;
for I am with you to save you
<br>
and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 15:21">21 </verse></sup>“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem you out of the hand of the
terrible.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:2">2 </verse></sup>“You
shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or
daughters, in this place.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:3">3 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says concerning
the sons and concerning the daughters who
are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
who bore them, and concerning their fathers who
became their father in this land: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:4">4 </verse></sup>“They will die
grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither
will they be buried. They will be as dung on the
surface of the ground. They will be consumed by
the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be
food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of
the earth.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:5">5 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of
mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them,
for I have taken away my peace from this people,”
says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender
mercies. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Both great and small will die in this
land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament
for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald
for them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Men won’t break bread for them in
mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t
give them the cup of consolation to drink for their
father or for their mother.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:8">8 </verse></sup>“You shall not go into the house of feasting to
sit with them, to eat and to drink.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:9">9 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will
cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes
and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice
of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:10">10 </verse></sup>It will happen, when you tell
this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why
has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against
us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin
that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:11">11 </verse></sup>then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers
have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked
after other gods, have served them, have worshiped
them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my
law. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:12">12 </verse></sup>You have done evil more than your fathers,
for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness
of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the
land that you have not known, neither you nor your
fathers. There you will serve other gods day and
night, for I will show you no favor.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:14">14 </verse></sup>“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives,
who brought up the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt;’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:15">15 </verse></sup>but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up
the children of Israel from the land of the north, and
from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I
will bring them again into their land that I gave to
their fathers.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:16">16 </verse></sup>“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says
Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward
I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt
them from every mountain, from every hill, and
out of the clefts of the rocks. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:17">17 </verse></sup>For my eyes are
on all their ways. They are not hidden from my
face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:18">18 </verse></sup>First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double, because they have polluted my land with
the carcasses of their detestable things, and have
filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold,
and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the nations will come to you from the ends of the
earth,
<br>
and will say,
<br>
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
vanity and things in which there is no profit.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Should a man make to himself gods
<br>
which yet are no gods?”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 16:21">21 </verse></sup>“Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,
this once I will cause them to know my hand
and my might.
<br>
Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:1">1 </verse></sup>“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
and with the point of a diamond.
<br>
It is engraved on the tablet of their heart,
and on the horns of your altars.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Even their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles by the green trees on
the high hills.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:3">3 </verse></sup>My mountain in the field,
<br>
I will give your substance and all your treasures
for a plunder,
<br>
and your high places, because of sin, throughout
all your borders.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:4">4 </verse></sup>You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your
heritage that I gave you.
<br>
I will cause you to serve your enemies in the
land which you don’t know,
<br>
for you have kindled a fire in my anger which
will burn forever.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man,
relies on strength of flesh,
<br>
and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:6">6 </verse></sup>For he will be like a bush in the desert,
and will not see when good comes,
<br>
but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
an uninhabited salt land.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:7">7 </verse></sup>“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh,
and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:8">8 </verse></sup>For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,
who spreads out its roots by the river,
and will not fear when heat comes,
<br>
but its leaf will be green,
<br>
and will not be concerned in the year of drought.
It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:9">9 </verse></sup>The heart is deceitful above all things
and it is exceedingly corrupt.
<br>
Who can know it?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:10">10 </verse></sup>“I, Yahweh, search the mind.
<br>
I try the heart,
<br>
even to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his doings.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:11">11 </verse></sup>As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has
not laid,
<br>
so is he who gets riches, and not by right.
In the middle of his days, they will leave him.
At his end, he will be a fool.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:12">12 </verse></sup>A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the hope of Israel,
<br>
all who forsake you will be disappointed.
Those who depart from me will be written in the
earth,
<br>
because they have forsaken Yahweh,
<br>
the spring of living waters.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:14">14 </verse></sup>Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed.
Save me, and I will be saved;
<br>
for you are my praise.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold, they ask me,
<br>
“Where is Yahweh’s word?
<br>
Let it be fulfilled now.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:16">16 </verse></sup>As for me, I have not hurried from being a
shepherd after you.
<br>
I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know.
That which came out of my lips was before your
face.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t be a terror to me.
<br>
You are my refuge in the day of evil.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Let them be disappointed who persecute me,
but don’t let me be disappointed.
<br>
Let them be dismayed,
<br>
but don’t let me be dismayed.
<br>
Bring on them the day of evil,
<br>
and destroy them with double destruction.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the
gate of the children of the people, through which
the kings of Judah come in and by which they go
out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:20">20 </verse></sup>Tell them,
‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by
these gates: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no
burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the
gates of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t carry a burden out of
your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work,
but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded
your fathers. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:23">23 </verse></sup>But they didn’t listen. They didn’t
turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they
might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:24">24 </verse></sup>It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says
Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates
of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the
Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:25">25 </verse></sup>then
there will enter in by the gates of this city kings
and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in
chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the
men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and this city will remain forever. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:26">26 </verse></sup>They will
come from the cities of Judah, and from the places
around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from
the lowland, from the hill country, and from the
South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal
offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices
of thanksgiving to Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 17:27">27 </verse></sup>But if you
will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy,
and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates
of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle
a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of
Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:1">1 </verse></sup>The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:2">2 </verse></sup>“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house,
and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Then I went down to the potter’s house, and
behold, he was making something on the wheels.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:4">4 </verse></sup>When the vessel that he made of the clay was
marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again
another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to
make it.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:6">6 </verse></sup>“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?”
says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s
hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:7">7 </verse></sup>At the
instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning
a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to
destroy it, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:8">8 </verse></sup>if that nation, concerning which I have
spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do to them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:9">9 </verse></sup>At the instant I speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:10">10 </verse></sup>if they do that which is evil
in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will
repent of the good with which I said I would benefit
them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:11">11 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh
says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a
plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way
now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:12">12 </verse></sup>But
they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own
plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of
his evil heart.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says:
<br>
“Ask now among the nations,
<br>
‘Who has heard such things?’
<br>
The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible
thing.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the
field?
<br>
Will the cold waters that flow down from afar
be dried up?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:15">15 </verse></sup>For my people have forgotten me.
<br>
They have burned incense to false gods.
They have been made to stumble in their ways
in the ancient paths,
<br>
to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:16">16 </verse></sup>to make their land an astonishment,
and a perpetual hissing.
<br>
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
and shake his head.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:17">17 </verse></sup>I will scatter them as with an east wind before the
enemy.
<br>
I will show them the back, and not the face,
in the day of their calamity.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans
against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the
priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from
the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the
tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Give heed to me, Yahweh,
<br>
and listen to the voice of those who contend
with me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Should evil be recompensed for good?
For they have dug a pit for my soul.
<br>
Remember how I stood before you to speak good for
them,
<br>
to turn away your wrath from them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
and give them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives become childless and widows.
Let their men be killed
<br>
and their young men struck by the sword in
battle.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Let a cry be heard from their houses
when you bring a troop suddenly on them;
for they have dug a pit to take me
<br>
and hidden snares for my feet.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against
me to kill me.
<br>
Don’t forgive their iniquity.
<br>
Don’t blot out their sin from your sight,
Let them be overthrown before you.
<br>
Deal with them in the time of your anger.

#BCV:Jeremiah 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:1">1 </verse></sup>Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s
earthen container, and take some of the elders of
the people and of the elders of the priests; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:2">2 </verse></sup>and go
out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there
the words that I will tell you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s
word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I
will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears,
his ears will tingle. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Because they have forsaken
me, and have defiled this place, and have burned
incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know
—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:5">5 </verse></sup>and have built the high places of Baal to burn
their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal,
which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t
even enter into my mind. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore, behold, the
days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no
more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son
of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “I will make the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to
fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the
hand of those who seek their life. I will give their
dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and
for the animals of the earth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:8">8 </verse></sup>I will make this city an
astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes
by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its
plagues. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:9">9 </verse></sup>I will cause them to eat the flesh of their
sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each
eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the
distress with which their enemies, and those who
seek their life, will distress them.” ’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:10">10 </verse></sup>“Then you shall break the container in the sight
of the men who go with you, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:11">11 </verse></sup>and shall tell them,
‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this
people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel,
that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in
Topheth until there is no place to bury. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:12">12 </verse></sup>This is
what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to
its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:13">13 </verse></sup>The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place
of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they
have burned incense to all the army of the sky and
have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where
Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood
in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the
people: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 19:15">15 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel
says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its
towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it,
because they have made their neck stiff, that they
may not hear my words.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who
was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah
prophesying these things. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Pashhur struck
Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks
that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which
was in Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:3">3 </verse></sup>On the next day, Pashhur
released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah
said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name
Pashhur, but Magormissabib.<footnote:1>20:3 “Magormissabib” means “surrounded by terror”</footnote> <key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says,
‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and
to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of
their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give
all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill
them with the sword. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Moreover I will give all
the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its
precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of
the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies.
They will make them captives, take them, and carry
them to Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:6">6 </verse></sup>You, Pashhur, and all who dwell
in your house will go into captivity. You will come
to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you
will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom
you have prophesied falsely.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded.
You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day.
Everyone mocks me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:8">8 </verse></sup>For as often as I speak, I cry out;
I cry, “Violence and destruction!”
<br>
because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach
to me,
<br>
and a derision, all day.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:9">9 </verse></sup>If I say that I will not make mention of him,
or speak any more in his name,
<br>
then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones.
<br>
I am weary with holding it in.
<br>
I can’t.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:10">10 </verse></sup>For I have heard the defaming of many:
“Terror on every side!
<br>
Denounce, and we will denounce him!”
<br>
say all my familiar friends,
<br>
those who watch for my fall.
<br>
“Perhaps he will be persuaded,
<br>
and we will prevail against him,
<br>
and we will take our revenge on him.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:11">11 </verse></sup>But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one.
Therefore my persecutors will stumble,
and they won’t prevail.
<br>
They will be utterly disappointed
<br>
because they have not dealt wisely,
<br>
even with an everlasting dishonor which will
never be forgotten.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:12">12 </verse></sup>But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous,
who sees the heart and the mind,
<br>
let me see your vengeance on them,
<br>
for I have revealed my cause to you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:13">13 </verse></sup>Sing to Yahweh!
<br>
Praise Yahweh,
<br>
for he has delivered the soul of the needy from
the hand of evildoers.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Cursed is the day in which I was born.
Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me
be blessed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Cursed is the man who brought news to my father,
saying,
<br>
“A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh
overthrew,
<br>
and didn’t repent.
<br>
Let him hear a cry in the morning,
<br>
and shouting at noontime,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:17">17 </verse></sup>because he didn’t kill me from the womb.
So my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb always great.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and
sorrow,
<br>
that my days should be consumed with shame?

#BCV:Jeremiah 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:1">1 </verse></sup>The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of
Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
priest, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:2">2 </verse></sup>“Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against
us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to
all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from
us.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah said to them, “Tell Zedekiah:
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:4">4 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn
back the weapons of war that are in your hands,
with which you fight against the king of Babylon,
and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside
the walls; and I will gather them into the middle
of this city. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:5">5 </verse></sup>I myself will fight against you with
an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even
in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:6">6 </verse></sup>I
will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man
and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:7">7 </verse></sup>Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah
king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even
those who are left in this city from the pestilence,
from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
who seek their life. He will strike them with the
edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity,
or have mercy.” ’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:8">8 </verse></sup>“You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says:
“Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way
of death. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:9">9 </verse></sup>He who remains in this city will die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he
who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who
besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his
life. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:10">10 </verse></sup>For I have set my face on this city for evil, and
not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with
fire.” ’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:11">11 </verse></sup>“Concerning the house of the king of Judah,
hear Yahweh’s word: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:12">12 </verse></sup>House of David, Yahweh
says,
<br>
‘Execute justice in the morning,
<br>
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand
of the oppressor,
<br>
lest my wrath go out like fire,
<br>
and burn so that no one can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the
valley,
<br>
and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh.
‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?”
or, “Who would enter into our homes?”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 21:14">14 </verse></sup>I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings, says Yahweh;
<br>
and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the
king of Judah, and speak this word there: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:2">2 </verse></sup>‘Hear
Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s
throne—you, your servants, and your people who
enter in by these gates. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh says: “Execute
justice and righteousness, and deliver him who
is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do
no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the
fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood
in this place. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:4">4 </verse></sup>For if you do this thing indeed,
then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in
by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and
on horses—they, their servants, and their people.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:5">5 </verse></sup>But if you will not hear these words, I swear by
myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become
a desolation.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:6">6 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says concerning the house of the
king of Judah:
<br>
“You are Gilead to me,
<br>
the head of Lebanon.
<br>
Yet surely I will make you a wilderness,
cities which are not inhabited.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:7">7 </verse></sup>I will prepare destroyers against you,
everyone with his weapons,
<br>
and they will cut down your choice cedars,
and cast them into the fire.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:8">8 </verse></sup>“Many nations will pass by this city, and they
will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done
this to this great city?’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Then they will answer, ‘Because
they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their
God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t weep for the dead.
<br>
Don’t bemoan him;
<br>
but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
for he will return no more,
<br>
and not see his native country.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:11">11 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says touching Shallum the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah
his father, and who went out of this place: “He won’t
return there any more. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:12">12 </verse></sup>But he will die in the place
where they have led him captive. He will see this
land no more.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:13">13 </verse></sup>“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
and his rooms by injustice;
<br>
who uses his neighbor’s service without wages,
and doesn’t give him his hire;

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:14">14 </verse></sup>who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and
spacious rooms,’
<br>
and cuts out windows for himself,
<br>
with a cedar ceiling,
<br>
and painted with red.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:15">15 </verse></sup>“Should you reign because you strive to excel in
cedar?
<br>
Didn’t your father eat and drink,
<br>
and do justice and righteousness?
<br>
Then it was well with him.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:16">16 </verse></sup>He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
so then it was well.
<br>
Wasn’t this to know me?”
<br>
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:17">17 </verse></sup>But your eyes and your heart are only for your
covetousness,
<br>
for shedding innocent blood,
<br>
for oppression, and for doing violence.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah:
<br>
“They won’t lament for him,
<br>
saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’
They won’t lament for him,
<br>
saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:19">19 </verse></sup>He will be buried with the burial of a donkey,
drawn and cast out beyond the gates of
Jerusalem.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:20">20 </verse></sup>“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out.
<br>
Lift up your voice in Bashan,
<br>
and cry from Abarim;
<br>
for all your lovers have been destroyed.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:21">21 </verse></sup>I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
<br>
This has been your way from your youth,
that you didn’t obey my voice.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:22">22 </verse></sup>The wind will feed all your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Surely then you will be ashamed
<br>
and confounded for all your wickedness.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Inhabitant of Lebanon,
<br>
who makes your nest in the cedars,
<br>
how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs
come on you,
<br>
the pain as of a woman in travail!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:24">24 </verse></sup>“As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the
son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on
my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:25">25 </verse></sup>I would give you into the hand of those who seek
your life, and into the hand of them of whom you
are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:26">26 </verse></sup>I will cast you out with your mother who bore you
into another country, where you were not born; and
there you will die. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:27">27 </verse></sup>But to the land to which their
soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel?
Is he a vessel in which no one delights?
Why are they cast out, he and his offspring,
and cast into a land which they don’t know?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:29">29 </verse></sup>O earth, earth, earth,
<br>
hear Yahweh’s word!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 22:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh says,
<br>
“Record this man as childless,
<br>
a man who will not prosper in his days;
for no more will a man of his offspring prosper,
sitting on David’s throne
<br>
and ruling in Judah.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:1">1 </verse></sup>“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore
Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds
who feed my people: “You have scattered my
flock, driven them away, and have not visited them.
Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,”
says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:3">3 </verse></sup>“I will gather the remnant of my
flock out of all the countries where I have driven
them, and will bring them again to their folds; and
they will be fruitful and multiply. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:4">4 </verse></sup>I will set up
shepherds over them who will feed them. They will
no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be
lacking,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:5">5 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will raise to David a righteous Branch;
and he will reign as king and deal wisely,
and will execute justice and righteousness in
the land.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:6">6 </verse></sup>In his days Judah will be saved,
<br>
and Israel will dwell safely.
<br>
This is his name by which he will be called:
Yahweh our righteousness.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:7">7 </verse></sup>“Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt;’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:8">8 </verse></sup>but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and
who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of
the north country, and from all the countries where
I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own
land.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Concerning the prophets:
<br>
My heart within me is broken.
<br>
All my bones shake.
<br>
I am like a drunken man,
<br>
and like a man whom wine has overcome,
because of Yahweh,
<br>
and because of his holy words.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:10">10 </verse></sup>“For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of the curse the land mourns.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course is evil,
<br>
and their might is not right;

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:11">11 </verse></sup>for both prophet and priest are profane.
Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore their way will be to them as slippery
places in the darkness.
<br>
They will be driven on,
<br>
and fall therein;
<br>
for I will bring evil on them,
<br>
even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:13">13 </verse></sup>“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.
They prophesied by Baal,
<br>
and caused my people Israel to err.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:14">14 </verse></sup>In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a
horrible thing:
<br>
they commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one returns from his wickedness.
They have all become to me as Sodom,
<br>
and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning
the prophets:
<br>
“Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink poisoned water;
<br>
for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness
has gone out into all the land.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says,
<br>
“Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who
prophesy to you.
<br>
They teach you vanity.
<br>
They speak a vision of their own heart,
and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:17">17 </verse></sup>They say continually to those who despise me,
‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’
and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of
his own heart they say,
<br>
‘No evil will come on you.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:18">18 </verse></sup>For who has stood in the council of Yahweh,
that he should perceive and hear his word?
Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
Yes, a whirling storm!
<br>
It will burst on the head of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has
executed
<br>
and performed the intents of his heart.
In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:21">21 </verse></sup>I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:22">22 </verse></sup>But if they had stood in my council,
then they would have caused my people to
hear my words,
<br>
and would have turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:23">23 </verse></sup>“Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh,
“and not a God afar off?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:24">24 </verse></sup>Can anyone hide himself in secret places
so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh.
“Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:25">25 </verse></sup>“I have heard what the prophets have said, who
prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I
had a dream!’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:26">26 </verse></sup>How long will this be in the heart of
the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets
of the deceit of their own heart? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:27">27 </verse></sup>They intend to
cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers
forgot my name because of Baal. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:28">28 </verse></sup>The prophet who
has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has
my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:29">29 </verse></sup>“Isn’t my
word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer
that breaks the rock in pieces?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,”
says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his
neighbor. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold, I am against the prophets,” says
Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:32">32 </verse></sup>Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying
dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause
my people to err by their lies, and by their vain
boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them.
They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:33">33 </verse></sup>“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest,
asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’
Then you shall tell them, ‘ “What message?
I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:34">34 </verse></sup>As for the
prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The
message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man
and his household. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:35">35 </verse></sup>You will say everyone to
his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What
has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh
said?’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:36">36 </verse></sup>You will mention the message from Yahweh
no more, for every man’s own word has become
his message; for you have perverted the words
of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:37">37 </verse></sup>You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh
answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:38">38 </verse></sup>Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’
therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word,
“The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you,
telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh,”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:39">39 </verse></sup>therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and
I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you
and to your fathers, away from my presence. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 23:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 23:40">40 </verse></sup>I
will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a
perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets
of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away
captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to
Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:2">2 </verse></sup>One basket had very good figs, like the
figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very
bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see,
Jeremiah?”
<br>
I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the
bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:5">5 </verse></sup>“Yahweh,
the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will
regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out
of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:6">6 </verse></sup>For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will
bring them again to this land. I will build them, and
not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck
them up. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:7">7 </verse></sup>I will give them a heart to know me, that
I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will
be their God; for they will return to me with their
whole heart.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they
are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up
Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the
remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and
those who dwell in the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:9">9 </verse></sup>I will even
give them up to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach
and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places
where I will drive them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 24:10">10 </verse></sup>I will send the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence among them, until they
are consumed from off the land that I gave to them
and to their fathers.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all
the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first
year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:2">2 </verse></sup>which
Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:3">3 </verse></sup>From
the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king
of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years,
Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken
to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have
not listened.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them (but
you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:5">5 </verse></sup>saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the
land that Yahweh has given to you and to your
fathers, from of old and even forever more. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:6">6 </verse></sup>Don’t
go after other gods to serve them or worship them,
and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of
your hands; then I will do you no harm.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:7">7 </verse></sup>“Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh,
“that you may provoke me to anger with the work
of your hands to your own hurt.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh of Armies says: “Because you
have not heard my words, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:9">9 </verse></sup>behold, I will send and
take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh,
“and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against
this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all
these nations around. I will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and
perpetual desolations. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:10">10 </verse></sup>Moreover I will take from
them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of
the lamp. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:11">11 </verse></sup>This whole land will be a desolation,
and an astonishment; and these nations will serve
the king of Babylon seventy years.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:12">12 </verse></sup>“It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon and
that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will
make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:13">13 </verse></sup>I
will bring on that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in
this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against
all the nations. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:14">14 </verse></sup>For many nations and great kings
will make bondservants of them, even of them. I
will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the work of their hands.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:15">15 </verse></sup>For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take
this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and
cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:16">16 </verse></sup>They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be
insane, because of the sword that I will send among
them.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:17">17 </verse></sup>Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and
made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had
sent me: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:18">18 </verse></sup>Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with
its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation,
an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is
today; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:19">19 </verse></sup>Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants,
his princes, and all his people; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:20">20 </verse></sup>and all the mixed
people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the
kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and
the remnant of Ashdod; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:21">21 </verse></sup>Edom, Moab, and the
children of Ammon; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:22">22 </verse></sup>and all the kings of Tyre, all
the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which
is beyond the sea; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:23">23 </verse></sup>Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who
have the corners of their beard cut off; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:24">24 </verse></sup>and all the
kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people
who dwell in the wilderness; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:25">25 </verse></sup>and all the kings
of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of
the Medes; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:26">26 </verse></sup>and all the kings of the north, far and
near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the
world, which are on the surface of the earth. The
king of Sheshach will drink after them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:27">27 </verse></sup>“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will
send among you.” ’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:28">28 </verse></sup>It shall be, if they refuse to
take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall
tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely
drink. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:29">29 </verse></sup>For, behold, I begin to work evil at the
city which is called by my name; and should you be
utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished;
for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of
the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore prophesy against them all these
words, and tell them,
<br>
“ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high,
<br>
and utter his voice from his holy habitation.
He will mightily roar against his fold.
He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:31">31 </verse></sup>A noise will come even to the end of the earth;
for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations.
He will enter into judgment with all flesh.
As for the wicked, he will give them to the
sword,” ’ says Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:32">32 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says,
<br>
“Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation,
and a great storm will be raised up from the
uttermost parts of the earth.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:33">33 </verse></sup>The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one
end of the earth even to the other end of the earth.
They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered
or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the
ground.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:34">34 </verse></sup>Wail, you shepherds, and cry.
<br>
Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock;
for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions
have fully come,
<br>
and you will fall like fine pottery.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:35">35 </verse></sup>The shepherds will have no way to flee.
The leader of the flock will have no escape.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:36">36 </verse></sup>A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
and the wailing of the leader of the flock,
for Yahweh destroys their pasture.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:37">37 </verse></sup>The peaceful folds are brought to silence
because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 25:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 25:38">38 </verse></sup>He has left his covert, as the lion;
for their land has become an astonishment
because of the fierceness of the oppression,
and because of his fierce anger.

#BCV:Jeremiah 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:1">1 </verse></sup>In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from
Yahweh: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of
Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah
which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the
words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t
omit a word. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:3">3 </verse></sup>It may be they will listen, and every
man turn from his evil way, that I may relent from
the evil which I intend to do to them because of the
evil of their doings.’ ” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall tell them, “Yahweh
says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my
law which I have set before you, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:5">5 </verse></sup>to listen to the
words of my servants the prophets whom I send to
you, even rising up early and sending them —but
you have not listened— <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:6">6 </verse></sup>then I will make this house
like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the
nations of the earth.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:7">7 </verse></sup>The priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:8">8 </verse></sup>When Jeremiah had finished speaking all
that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all
the people, the priests and the prophets and all
the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely
die! <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:9">9 </verse></sup>Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name,
saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this
city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the
people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s
house.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:10">10 </verse></sup>When the princes of Judah heard these things,
they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s
house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate
of Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Then the priests and the
prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people,
saying, “This man is worthy of death, for he has
prophesied against this city, as you have heard with
your ears.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to
all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy
against this house and against this city all the words
that you have heard. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:13">13 </verse></sup>Now therefore amend your
ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s
voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that
he has pronounced against you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:14">14 </verse></sup>But as for me,
behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good
and right in your eyes. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:15">15 </verse></sup>Only know for certain that
if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood
on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants;
for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all
these words in your ears.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the princes and all the people said to
the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not
worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name
of Yahweh our God.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Then certain of the elders of the land rose up,
and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:18">18 </verse></sup>“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days
of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the
people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says:
“ ‘Zion will be plowed as a field,
<br>
and Jerusalem will become heaps,
<br>
and the mountain of the house as the high
places of a forest.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:19">19 </verse></sup>Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put
him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat
the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the
disaster which he had pronounced against them?
We would commit great evil against our own souls
that way!”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:20">20 </verse></sup>There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s
name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath
Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and
against this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:21">21 </verse></sup>When Jehoiakim the king, with all his
mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the
king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah
heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into
Egypt. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:22">22 </verse></sup>Then Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan the
son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:23">23 </verse></sup>They fetched Uriah out of Egypt and brought
him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the
sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the
common people.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 26:24">24 </verse></sup>But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was
with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the
hand of the people to put him to death.

#BCV:Jeremiah 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:1">1 </verse></sup>In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to
Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh says to me:
“Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:3">3 </verse></sup>Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king
of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to
the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the
hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to
Zedekiah king of Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Give them a command to
their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:5">5 </verse></sup>‘I have
made the earth, the men, and the animals that are
on the surface of the earth by my great power and
by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems
right to me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:6">6 </verse></sup>Now I have given all these lands into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant. I have also given the animals of the field
to him to serve him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:7">7 </verse></sup>All the nations will serve him,
his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own
land comes. Then many nations and great kings will
make him their bondservant.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation
and the kingdom which will not serve the same
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not
put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’
says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine,
and with pestilence, until I have consumed them
by his hand. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:9">9 </verse></sup>But as for you, don’t listen to your
prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your
soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you,
saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:10">10 </verse></sup>for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you
far from your land, so that I would drive you out,
and you would perish. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:11">11 </verse></sup>But the nation that brings
their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and
serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own
land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in
it.’ ” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:12">12 </verse></sup>I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according
to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under
the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and
his people, and live. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:13">13 </verse></sup>Why will you die, you and
your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning
the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who
speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of
Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:15">15 </verse></sup>For I have
not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy
falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and
that you may perish, you, and the prophets who
prophesy to you.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:16">16 </verse></sup>Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people,
saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words
of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying,
‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house will now
shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they
prophesy a lie to you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t listen to them. Serve
the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city
become a desolation? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:18">18 </verse></sup>But if they are prophets,
and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now
make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the
vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the
house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t
go to Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:19">19 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies says concerning
the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning
the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels
that are left in this city, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:20">20 </verse></sup>which Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away
captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of
Judah and Jerusalem— <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:21">21 </verse></sup>yes, Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are
left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king
of Judah, and at Jerusalem: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 27:22">22 </verse></sup>‘They will be carried to
Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I
visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up,
and restore them to this place.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:1">1 </verse></sup>That same year, in the beginning of the reign
of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in
the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the
prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in Yahweh’s
house, in the presence of the priests and of
all the people, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king
of Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:3">3 </verse></sup>Within two full years I will bring again
into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from
this place and carried to Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:4">4 </verse></sup>I will bring again
to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to
Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of
the king of Babylon.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet
Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the
presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s
house, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:6">6 </verse></sup>even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen!
May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your
words which you have prophesied, to bring again
the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are
captives, from Babylon to this place. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Nevertheless
listen now to this word that I speak in your ears,
and in the ears of all the people: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The prophets
who have been before me and before you of old
prophesied against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:9">9 </verse></sup>As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when
the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet
will be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from
off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people,
saying, “Yahweh says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from off the
neck of all the nations within two full years.’ ” Then
the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after
Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off
the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:13">13 </verse></sup>“Go,
and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “You have
broken the bars of wood, but you have made in
their place bars of iron.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:14">14 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel says, “I have put a yoke of iron
on the neck of all these nations, that they may
serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they
will serve him. I have also given him the animals
of the field.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah
the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! Yahweh has not
sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you
away from off the surface of the earth. This year you
will die, because you have spoken rebellion against
Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 28:17">17 </verse></sup>So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in
the seventh month.

#BCV:Jeremiah 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:1">1 </verse></sup>Now these are the words of the letter that
Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the
residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the
priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom
Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from
Jerusalem to Babylon, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:2">2 </verse></sup>(after Jeconiah the king, the
queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah
and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had
departed from Jerusalem), <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:3">3 </verse></sup>by the hand of Elasah
the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says
to all the captives whom I have caused to be
carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:5">5 </verse></sup>“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens
and eat their fruit. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:6">6 </verse></sup>Take wives and father sons
and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and
give your daughters to husbands, that they may
bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and
don’t be diminished. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:7">7 </verse></sup>Seek the peace of the
city where I have caused you to be carried away
captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace
you will have peace.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:8">8 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets
who are among you and your diviners deceive
you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause
to be dreamed. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:9">9 </verse></sup>For they prophesy falsely to
you in my name. I have not sent them,” says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:10">10 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says, “After seventy years
are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and
perform my good word toward you, in causing
you to return to this place. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:11">11 </verse></sup>For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh,
“thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you
hope and a future. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:12">12 </verse></sup>You shall call on me, and
you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to
you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:13">13 </verse></sup>You shall seek me and find me, when
you search for me with all your heart. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:14">14 </verse></sup>I will
be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn
again your captivity, and I will gather you from
all the nations, and from all the places where I
have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you
again to the place from where I caused you to be
carried away captive.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:15">15 </verse></sup>Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised
us up prophets in Babylon,” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh says concerning
the king who sits on David’s throne, and
concerning all the people who dwell in this city,
your brothers who haven’t gone with you into
captivity, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I
will send on them the sword, the famine, and
the pestilence, and will make them like rotten
figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:18">18 </verse></sup>I
will pursue after them with the sword, with
the famine, and with the pestilence, and will
deliver them to be tossed back and forth among
all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object
of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a
reproach among all the nations where I have
driven them, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:19">19 </verse></sup>because they have not listened to
my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to
them my servants the prophets, rising up early
and sending them; but you would not hear,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:20">20 </verse></sup>Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives
whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to
Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and
concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who
prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will
deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your
eyes. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:22">22 </verse></sup>A curse will be taken up about them
by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon,
saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like
Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
fire;’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:23">23 </verse></sup>because they have done foolish things in
Israel, and have committed adultery with their
neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my
name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am
he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:24">24 </verse></sup>Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall
speak, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:25">25 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your
own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem,
and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest,
and to all the priests, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:26">26 </verse></sup>“Yahweh has made
you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that
there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every
man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet,
that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:27">27 </verse></sup>Now therefore, why have you not rebuked
Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet
to you, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:28">28 </verse></sup>because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying,
The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell
in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:29">29 </verse></sup>Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:30">30 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s
word came to Jeremiah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:31">31 </verse></sup>“Send to all
of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has
prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has
caused you to trust in a lie,” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 29:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 29:32">32 </verse></sup>therefore Yahweh
says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite
and his offspring. He will not have a man
to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good
that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because
he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write
all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:3">3 </verse></sup>For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I
will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and
Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to
the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will
possess it.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:4">4 </verse></sup>These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning
Israel and concerning Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:5">5 </verse></sup>For Yahweh
says:
<br>
“We have heard a voice of trembling;
<br>
a voice of fear, and not of peace.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:6">6 </verse></sup>Ask now, and see whether a man travails with
child.
<br>
Why do I see every man with his hands on his
waist, as a woman in travail,
<br>
and all faces are turned pale?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:7">7 </verse></sup>Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it!
It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;
but he will be saved out of it.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:8">8 </verse></sup>It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of
Armies, that I will break his yoke from off
your neck,
<br>
and will burst your bonds.
<br>
Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:9">9 </verse></sup>but they will serve Yahweh their God,
and David their king,
<br>
whom I will raise up to them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,
says Yahweh.
<br>
Don’t be dismayed, Israel.
<br>
For, behold, I will save you from afar,
and save your offspring from the land of their
captivity.
<br>
Jacob will return,
<br>
and will be quiet and at ease.
<br>
No one will make him afraid.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:11">11 </verse></sup>For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you;
for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have scattered you,
<br>
but I will not make a full end of you;
but I will correct you in measure,
<br>
and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:12">12 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says,
<br>
“Your hurt is incurable.
<br>
Your wound is grievous.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:13">13 </verse></sup>There is no one to plead your cause,
that you may be bound up.
<br>
You have no healing medicines.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:14">14 </verse></sup>All your lovers have forgotten you.
They don’t seek you.
<br>
For I have wounded you with the wound of an
enemy,
<br>
with the chastisement of a cruel one,
for the greatness of your iniquity,
<br>
because your sins were increased.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:15">15 </verse></sup>Why do you cry over your injury?
<br>
Your pain is incurable.
<br>
For the greatness of your iniquity,
<br>
because your sins have increased,
<br>
I have done these things to you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured.
All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go
into captivity.
<br>
Those who plunder you will be plunder.
I will make all who prey on you become prey.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:17">17 </verse></sup>For I will restore health to you,
<br>
and I will heal you of your wounds,” says
Yahweh,
<br>
“because they have called you an outcast,
saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents,
and have compassion on his dwelling places.
The city will be built on its own hill,
and the palace will be inhabited in its own
place.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:19">19 </verse></sup>Thanksgiving will proceed out of them
with the voice of those who make merry.
I will multiply them,
<br>
and they will not be few;
<br>
I will also glorify them,
<br>
and they will not be small.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:20">20 </verse></sup>Their children also will be as before,
and their congregation will be established before
me.
<br>
I will punish all who oppress them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:21">21 </verse></sup>Their prince will be one of them,
<br>
and their ruler will proceed from among them.
I will cause him to draw near,
<br>
and he will approach me;
<br>
for who is he who has had boldness to approach
me?” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:22">22 </verse></sup>“You shall be my people,
<br>
and I will be your God.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:23">23 </verse></sup>Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out,
a sweeping storm;
<br>
it will burst on the head of the wicked.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 30:24">24 </verse></sup>The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until
he has accomplished,
<br>
and until he has performed the intentions of
his heart.
<br>
In the latter days you will understand it.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:1">1 </verse></sup>“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, “The people who survive the
sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel,
when I went to cause him to rest.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:4">4 </verse></sup>I will build you again,
<br>
and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
You will again be adorned with your tambourines,
and will go out in the dances of those who make
merry.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:5">5 </verse></sup>Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains
of Samaria.
<br>
The planters will plant,
<br>
and will enjoy its fruit.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:6">6 </verse></sup>For there will be a day that the watchmen on the
hills of Ephraim cry,
<br>
‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:7">7 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says,
<br>
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
<br>
and shout for the chief of the nations.
Publish, praise, and say,
<br>
‘Yahweh, save your people,
<br>
the remnant of Israel!’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the uttermost parts of
the earth,
<br>
along with the blind and the lame,
<br>
the woman with child and her who travails
with child together.
<br>
They will return as a great company.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:9">9 </verse></sup>They will come with weeping.
<br>
I will lead them with petitions.
<br>
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
in a straight way in which they won’t stumble;
for I am a father to Israel.
<br>
Ephraim is my firstborn.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:10">10 </verse></sup>“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations,
<br>
and declare it in the distant islands. Say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:11">11 </verse></sup>For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
<br>
and redeemed him from the hand of him who
was stronger than he.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:12">12 </verse></sup>They will come and sing in the height of Zion,
and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh,
to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil,
and to the young of the flock and of the herd.
Their soul will be as a watered garden.
They will not sorrow any more at all.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:13">13 </verse></sup>Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,
the young men and the old together;
<br>
for I will turn their mourning into joy,
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice
from their sorrow.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:14">14 </verse></sup>I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
<br>
lamentation and bitter weeping,
<br>
Rachel weeping for her children.
<br>
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Refrain your voice from weeping,
<br>
and your eyes from tears,
<br>
for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh.
“They will come again from the land of the
enemy.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:17">17 </verse></sup>There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh.
“Your children will come again to their own
territory.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:18">18 </verse></sup>“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,
‘You have chastised me,
<br>
and I was chastised, as an untrained calf.
Turn me, and I will be turned,
<br>
for you are Yahweh my God.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:19">19 </verse></sup>Surely after that I was turned.
<br>
I repented.
<br>
After that I was instructed.
<br>
I struck my thigh.
<br>
I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,
<br>
because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:20">20 </verse></sup>Is Ephraim my dear son?
<br>
Is he a darling child?
<br>
For as often as I speak against him,
<br>
I still earnestly remember him.
<br>
Therefore my heart yearns for him.
<br>
I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:21">21 </verse></sup>“Set up road signs.
<br>
Make guideposts.
<br>
Set your heart toward the highway,
<br>
even the way by which you went.
<br>
Turn again, virgin of Israel.
<br>
Turn again to these your cities.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:22">22 </verse></sup>How long will you go here and there,
you backsliding daughter?
<br>
For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth:
a woman will encompass a man.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet
again they will use this speech in the land of Judah
and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity:
‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness,
mountain of holiness.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:24">24 </verse></sup>Judah and all its cities will
dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who
go about with flocks. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:25">25 </verse></sup>For I have satiated the weary
soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:26">26 </verse></sup>On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was
sweet to me.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:27">27 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that
I will sow the house of Israel and the house of
Judah with the seed of man and with the seed
of animal. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:28">28 </verse></sup>It will happen that, like as I have
watched over them to pluck up and to break down
and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so
I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:29">29 </verse></sup>“In those days they will say no more,
“ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:30">30 </verse></sup>But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every
man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set
on edge.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:31">31 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:32">32 </verse></sup>not according to
the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
day that I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine
they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:33">33 </verse></sup>“But this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after those days,” says
Yahweh:
<br>
“I will put my law in their inward parts,
and I will write it in their heart.
<br>
I will be their God,
<br>
and they shall be my people.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:34">34 </verse></sup>They will no longer each teach his neighbor,
and every man teach his brother, saying,
‘Know Yahweh;’
<br>
for they will all know me,
<br>
from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh,
“for I will forgive their iniquity,
<br>
and I will remember their sin no more.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:35">35 </verse></sup>Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the
stars for a light by night,
<br>
who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar—
Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:36">36 </verse></sup>“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says
Yahweh,
<br>
“then the offspring of Israel also will cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:37">37 </verse></sup>Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath,
<br>
then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:38">38 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that
the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of
Hananel to the gate of the corner. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:39">39 </verse></sup>The measuring
line will go out further straight onward to the hill
Gareb, and will turn toward Goah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 31:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 31:40">40 </verse></sup>The whole
valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all
the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the
horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh.
It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more
forever.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:1">1 </verse></sup>This is the word that came to Jeremiah from
Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:2">2 </verse></sup>Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was
besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut
up in the court of the guard, which was in the king
of Judah’s house.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:3">3 </verse></sup>For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up,
saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh
says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he will take it; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:4">4 </verse></sup>and
Zedekiah king of Judah won’t escape out of the hand
of the Chaldeans, but will surely be delivered into
the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with
him mouth to mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes;
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:5">5 </verse></sup>and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will
be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh, “though you
fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:6">6 </verse></sup>Jeremiah said, “Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:7">7 </verse></sup>‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your
uncle will come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is
in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to
buy it.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:8">8 </verse></sup>“So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the
court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and
said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth,
which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of
inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours.
Buy it for yourself.’

“Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:9">9 </verse></sup>I
bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel
my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels<footnote:1>32:9 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote> of silver. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:10">10 </verse></sup>I signed the deed,
sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money
in the balances to him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:11">11 </verse></sup>So I took the deed of the
purchase, both that which was sealed, containing
the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:12">12 </verse></sup>and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the
presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the
presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of
the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the
court of the guard.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:13">13 </verse></sup>“I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Take
these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is
sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them
in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:15">15 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says:
‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be
bought in this land.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:16">16 </verse></sup>Now after I had delivered the deed of the
purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to
Yahweh, saying,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:17">17 </verse></sup>“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the
heavens and the earth by your great power and
by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too
hard for you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:18">18 </verse></sup>You show loving kindness to
thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them.
The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is
your name: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:19">19 </verse></sup>great in counsel, and mighty in
work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the
children of men, to give everyone according to
his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:20">20 </verse></sup>who performed signs and wonders in the land
of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and
among other men; and made yourself a name, as
it is today; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:21">21 </verse></sup>and brought your people Israel out
of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders,
with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm,
and with great terror; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:22">22 </verse></sup>and gave them this land,
which you swore to their fathers to give them, a
land flowing with milk and honey. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:23">23 </verse></sup>They came
in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your
voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done
nothing of all that you commanded them to do.
Therefore you have caused all this evil to come
upon them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:24">24 </verse></sup>“Behold, siege ramps have been built against
the city to take it. The city is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of
the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence.
What you have spoken has happened. Behold,
you see it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:25">25 </verse></sup>You have said to me, Lord Yahweh,
‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’
whereas the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:27">27 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there
anything too hard for me? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:28">28 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh
says: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of
the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, and he will take it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:29">29 </verse></sup>The
Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and
set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on
whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and
poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke
me to anger.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:30">30 </verse></sup>“For the children of Israel and the children of
Judah have done only that which was evil in my
sight from their youth; for the children of Israel
have only provoked me to anger with the work of
their hands, says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:31">31 </verse></sup>For this city has been to
me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from
the day that they built it even to this day, so that
I should remove it from before my face, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:32">32 </verse></sup>because
of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the
children of Judah, which they have done to provoke
me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their
priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:33">33 </verse></sup>They have turned their
backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught
them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they
have not listened to receive instruction. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:34">34 </verse></sup>But
they set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to defile it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:35">35 </verse></sup>They built
the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to pass through fire to Molech, which I
didn’t command them. It didn’t even come into
my mind, that they should do this abomination, to
cause Judah to sin.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:36">36 </verse></sup>Now therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says
concerning this city, about which you say, “It is
given into the hand of the king of Babylon by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:37">37 </verse></sup>“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries
where I have driven them in my anger, and in my
wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring
them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell
safely. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:38">38 </verse></sup>Then they will be my people, and I will be
their God. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:39">39 </verse></sup>I will give them one heart and one way,
that they may fear me forever, for their good and
the good of their children after them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:40">40 </verse></sup>I will make
an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not
turn away from following them, to do them good. I
will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:41><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:41">41 </verse></sup>Yes, I will rejoice over them to
do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole
soul.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:42><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:42">42 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this
great evil on this people, so I will bring on them
all the good that I have promised them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:43><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:43">43 </verse></sup>Fields
will be bought in this land, about which you say,
‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 32:44><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 32:44">44 </verse></sup>Men will buy
fields for money, sign the deeds, seal them, and
call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the
places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in
the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will
cause their captivity to be reversed,” says Yahweh.

#BCV:Jeremiah 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the
second time, while he was still locked up in the
court of the guard, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh who does it,
Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his
name, says: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:3">3 </verse></sup>‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and
will show you great and difficult things, which you
don’t know.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says
concerning the houses of this city and concerning
the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken
down to make a defense against the mounds and
against the sword: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:5">5 </verse></sup>‘While men come to fight with
the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies
of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my
wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden
my face from this city, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:6">6 </verse></sup>behold, I will bring it health
and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal
to them abundance of peace and truth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:7">7 </verse></sup>I will
restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel, and will
build them as at the first. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:8">8 </verse></sup>I will cleanse them from
all their iniquity by which they have sinned against
me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they
have sinned against me and by which they have
transgressed against me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:9">9 </verse></sup>This city will be to me
for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before
all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the
good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble
for all the good and for all the peace that I provide
to it.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh says: “Yet again there will be heard in
this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without
man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate,
without man and without inhabitant and without
animal,’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:11">11 </verse></sup>the voice of joy and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the
bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to
Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving
into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of
the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will
be in this place, which is waste, without man and
without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of
shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:13">13 </verse></sup>In the
cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland,
in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin,
in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of
him who counts them,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:14">14 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I
will perform that good word which I have spoken
concerning the house of Israel and concerning the
house of Judah.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:15">15 </verse></sup>“In those days and at that time,
<br>
I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow
up to David.
<br>
He will execute justice and righteousness in
the land.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:16">16 </verse></sup>In those days Judah will be saved,
and Jerusalem will dwell safely.
<br>
This is the name by which she will be called:
Yahweh our righteousness.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:17">17 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man
to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:18">18 </verse></sup>The
Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do
sacrifice continually.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:20">20 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant
of the day and my covenant of the night, so that
there will not be day and night in their time, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:21">21 </verse></sup>then
my covenant could also be broken with David my
servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his
throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:22">22 </verse></sup>As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the
sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply
the offspring of David my servant and the Levites
who minister to me.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:24">24 </verse></sup>“Don’t consider what this people has spoken,
saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which
he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they
should be no more a nation before them.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh
says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have
not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 33:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 33:26">26 </verse></sup>then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob,
and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his
offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to be
reversed and will have mercy on them.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:1">1 </verse></sup>The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his
army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under
his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting
against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying:
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Yahweh says,
“Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king
of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:3">3 </verse></sup>You won’t
escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and
delivered into his hand. Your eyes will see the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with you
mouth to mouth. You will go to Babylon.” ’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yet hear Yahweh’s word, O Zedekiah king of
Judah. Yahweh says concerning you, ‘You won’t die
by the sword. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:5">5 </verse></sup>You will die in peace; and with the
burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were
before you, so they will make a burning for you.
They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have
spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these
words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:7">7 </verse></sup>when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting
against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah
that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah;
for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as
fortified cities.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:8">8 </verse></sup>The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after
King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the
people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to
them, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:9">9 </verse></sup>that every man should let his male servant,
and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew
or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make
bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:10">10 </verse></sup>All
the princes and all the people obeyed who had
entered into the covenant, that everyone should let
his male servant and everyone his female servant
go free, that no one should make bondservants
of them any more. They obeyed and let them
go, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:11">11 </verse></sup>but afterwards they turned, and caused the
servants and the handmaids whom they had let go
free to return, and brought them into subjection for
servants and for handmaids.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:13">13 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, the God of Israel,
says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage, saying: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:14">14 </verse></sup>At the end
of seven years, every man of you shall release his
brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you,
and has served you six years. You shall let him go
free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me,
and didn’t incline their ear. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:15">15 </verse></sup>You had now turned,
and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every
man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had
made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:16">16 </verse></sup>but you turned and profaned
my name, and every man caused his servant and
every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free
at their pleasure, to return. You brought them
into subjection, to be to you for servants and for
handmaids.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened
to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother,
and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim
to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the
pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of
the earth. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:18">18 </verse></sup>I will give the men who have transgressed
my covenant, who have not performed the
words of the covenant which they made before me
when they cut the calf in two and passed between
its parts: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:19">19 </verse></sup>the princes of Judah, the princes of
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the
people of the land, who passed between the parts
of the calf. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:20">20 </verse></sup>I will even give them into the hand
of their enemies and into the hand of those who
seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for
the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:21">21 </verse></sup>“I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his
princes into the hands of their enemies, into the
hands of those who seek their life and into the
hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone
away from you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 34:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, I will command,” says
Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city.
They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with
fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:1">1 </verse></sup>The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh
in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:2">2 </verse></sup>“Go to the house of the Rechabites,
and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s
house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to
drink.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:3">3 </verse></sup>Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the
son of Habazziniah, with his brothers, all his sons,
and the whole house of the Rechabites; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:4">4 </verse></sup>and I
brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room
of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of
God, which was by the room of the princes, which
was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum,
the keeper of the threshold. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:5">5 </verse></sup>I set before the sons of
the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and
cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:6">6 </verse></sup>But they said, “We will drink no wine; for
Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded
us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you
nor your children, forever. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall not build
a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any;
but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you
may live many days in the land in which you live as
nomads.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:8">8 </verse></sup>We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the
son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded
us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our
sons, or our daughters; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:9">9 </verse></sup>and not to build houses for
ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or
seed; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:10">10 </verse></sup>but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed,
and done according to all that Jonadab our father
commanded us. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:11">11 </verse></sup>But when Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come!
Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the
Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians;
so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:13">13 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go
and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to
listen to my words?” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:14">14 </verse></sup>“The words of
Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his
sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this
day they drink none, for they obey their father’s
commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up
early and speaking, and you have not listened to
me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:15">15 </verse></sup>I have sent also to you all my servants the
prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying,
‘Every one of you must return now from his evil
way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other
gods to serve them. Then you will dwell in the
land which I have given to you and to your fathers;’
but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened
to me. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:16">16 </verse></sup>The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab
have performed the commandment of their father
which he commanded them, but this people has not
listened to me.” ’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:17">17 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God
of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and
on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that
I have pronounced against them, because I have
spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have
called to them, but they have not answered.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:18">18 </verse></sup>Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites,
“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because
you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab
your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according
to all that he commanded you,’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 35:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 35:19">19 </verse></sup>therefore
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab
the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before
me forever.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:1">1 </verse></sup>In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from
Yahweh, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:2">2 </verse></sup>“Take a scroll of a book, and write
in it all the words that I have spoken to you against
Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations,
from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah
even to this day. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:3">3 </verse></sup>It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them,
that they may each return from his evil way; that I
may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah;
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all
Yahweh’s words, which he had spoken to him, on
a scroll of a book. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:5">5 </verse></sup>Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s
house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore you go, and read from the scroll
which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s
words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house
on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears
of all Judah who come out of their cities. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:7">7 </verse></sup>It may be
they will present their supplication before Yahweh,
and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh
has pronounced great anger and wrath against this
people.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:8">8 </verse></sup>Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading
in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:9">9 </verse></sup>Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people
in Jerusalem and all the people who came from
the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast
before Yahweh. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Baruch read the words of
Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the
room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe,
in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of
Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:11">11 </verse></sup>When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had heard out of the book all Yahweh’s
words, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:12">12 </verse></sup>he went down into the king’s house, into
the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were
sitting there, Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son
of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah
the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah,
and all the princes. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Micaiah declared to
them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch
read the book in the ears of the people. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore
all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch,
saying, “Take in your hand the scroll in which you
have read in the ears of the people, and come.”
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his
hand, and came to them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:15">15 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Sit
down now, and read it in our hearing.”
So Baruch read it in their hearing.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:16">16 </verse></sup>Now when they had heard all the words, they
turned in fear one toward another, and said to
Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these
words.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:17">17 </verse></sup>They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now,
how did you write all these words at his mouth?”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all
these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them
with ink in the book.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and
Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you
are.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:20">20 </verse></sup>They went in to the king into the court, but
they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama
the scribe. Then they told all the words in the
hearing of the king. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:21">21 </verse></sup>So the king sent Jehudi to
get the scroll, and he took it out of the room of
Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing
of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes
who stood beside the king. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:22">22 </verse></sup>Now the king was
sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and
there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:23">23 </verse></sup>When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the
king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the
fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was
consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:24">24 </verse></sup>The
king and his servants who heard all these words
were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:25">25 </verse></sup>Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
had made intercession to the king that he would
not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:26">26 </verse></sup>The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son,
and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son
of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah
the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:27">27 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, after
the king had burned the scroll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:28">28 </verse></sup>“Take again another scroll, and write in it all
the former words that were in the first scroll,
which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:29">29 </verse></sup>Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall
say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll,
saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The
king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this
land, and will cause to cease from there man and
animal?’ ” ’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says concerning
Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to
sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast
out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the
frost. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:31">31 </verse></sup>I will punish him, his offspring, and his
servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them,
on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of
Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against
them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 36:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 36:32">32 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it
to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote
therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned
in the fire; and many similar words were added to
them.

#BCV:Jeremiah 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:1">1 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king
instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the
land of Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:2">2 </verse></sup>But neither he, nor his servants, nor
the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words,
which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:3">3 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now
to Yahweh our God for us.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:4">4 </verse></sup>Now Jeremiah came in and went out among
the people, for they had not put him into prison.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:5">5 </verse></sup>Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when
the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard
news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to the prophet
Jeremiah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:7">7 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says,
‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me
to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which
has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into
their own land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:8">8 </verse></sup>The Chaldeans will come again,
and fight against this city. They will take it and burn
it with fire.” ’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:9">9 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying,
“The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for
they will not depart. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:10">10 </verse></sup>For though you had struck
the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against
you, and only wounded men remained among them,
they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city
with fire.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:11">11 </verse></sup>When the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn
from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:12">12 </verse></sup>then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go
into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion
there, in the middle of the people. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:13">13 </verse></sup>When he
was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized
Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to
the Chaldeans!”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not
defecting to the Chaldeans.”
<br>
But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:15">15 </verse></sup>The
princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him,
and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the
scribe; for they had made that the prison.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:16">16 </verse></sup>When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon
house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained
there many days, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:17">17 </verse></sup>then Zedekiah the king
sent and had him brought out. The king asked
him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from
Yahweh?”
<br>
Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will
be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:18">18 </verse></sup>Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah,
“How have I sinned against you, against your servants,
or against this people, that you have put me
in prison? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:19">19 </verse></sup>Now where are your prophets who
prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon
will not come against you, nor against this land?’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:20">20 </verse></sup>Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my
supplication be presented before you, that you not
cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 37:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they
committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard.
They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’
street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus
Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

#BCV:Jeremiah 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:1">1 </verse></sup>Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son
of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur
the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah
spoke to all the people, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh says, ‘He
who remains in this city will die by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence, but he who goes
out to the Chaldeans will live. He will escape with
his life and he will live.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, ‘This city will
surely be given into the hand of the army of the king
of Babylon, and he will take it.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this
man be put to death, because he weakens the hands
of the men of war who remain in this city, and the
hands of all the people, in speaking such words to
them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this
people, but harm.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:5">5 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your
hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:6">6 </verse></sup>Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the
dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the
court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with
cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire;
and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:7">7 </verse></sup>Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch,
who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put
Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting
in Benjamin’s gate), <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:8">8 </verse></sup>Ebedmelech went out of the
king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:9">9 </verse></sup>“My
lord the king, these men have done evil in all that
they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they
have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the
place where he is, because of the famine; for there
is no more bread in the city.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:10">10 </verse></sup>Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with
you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the
dungeon, before he dies.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:11">11 </verse></sup>So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and
went into the house of the king under the treasury,
and took from there rags and worn-out garments,
and let them down by cords into the dungeon
to Jeremiah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:12">12 </verse></sup>Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said
to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out
garments under your armpits under the cords.”
Jeremiah did so. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:13">13 </verse></sup>So they lifted Jeremiah up with
the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and
Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah
the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in
Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I
will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it
to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give
you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:16">16 </verse></sup>So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to
Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made our
souls, I will not put you to death, neither will I give
you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the
God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will
go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your
soul will live, and this city will not be burned with
fire. You will live, along with your house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:18">18 </verse></sup>But if
you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes,
then this city will be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you
won’t escape out of their hand.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:19">19 </verse></sup>Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid
of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest
they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:20">20 </verse></sup>But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you.
Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I
speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your
soul will live. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:21">21 </verse></sup>But if you refuse to go out, this is
the word that Yahweh has shown me: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:22">22 </verse></sup>‘Behold, all
the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house
will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes,
and those women will say,
<br>
“Your familiar friends have turned on you,
and have prevailed over you.
<br>
Your feet are sunk in the mire,
<br>
they have turned away from you.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:23">23 </verse></sup>They will bring out all your wives and your
children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of
their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king
of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned
with fire.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man
know of these words, and you won’t die. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:25">25 </verse></sup>But if
the princes hear that I have talked with you, and
they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now
what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us,
and we will not put you to death; also tell us what
the king said to you;’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:26">26 </verse></sup>then you shall tell them, ‘I
presented my supplication before the king, that he
would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house,
to die there.’ ”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:27">27 </verse></sup>Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and
asked him; and he told them according to all these
words that the king had commanded. So they
stopped speaking with him, for the matter was not
perceived.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 38:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 38:28">28 </verse></sup>So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard
until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

#BCV:Jeremiah 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:1">1 </verse></sup>In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in
the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged
it. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:2">2 </verse></sup>In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in
the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a
breach was made in the city. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:3">3 </verse></sup>All the princes of
the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle
gate: Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim the
Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer the Rabmag, with all the
rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:4">4 </verse></sup>When
Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war
saw them, then they fled and went out of the city by
night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the
gate between the two walls; and he went out toward
the Arabah.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:5">5 </verse></sup>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them,
and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho.
When they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on
him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s
sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon
also killed all the nobles of Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:7">7 </verse></sup>Moreover he
put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:8">8 </verse></sup>The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the
people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls
of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard carried away captive into Babylon the
rest of the people who remained in the city, the
deserters also who fell away to him, and the rest of
the people who remained. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:10">10 </verse></sup>But Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,
who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave
them vineyards and fields at the same time.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:11">11 </verse></sup>Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning
Jeremiah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:12">12 </verse></sup>“Take him and take care
of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he
tells you.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:13">13 </verse></sup>So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban,
Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag,
and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:14">14 </verse></sup>sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should bring
him home. So he lived among the people.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:15">15 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah while he
was shut up in the court of the guard, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:16">16 </verse></sup>“Go,
and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold,
I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not
for good; and they will be accomplished before you
in that day. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:17">17 </verse></sup>But I will deliver you in that day,”
says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the
hand of the men of whom you are afraid. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 39:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 39:18">18 </verse></sup>For I
will surely save you. You won’t fall by the sword,
but you will escape with your life, because you have
put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’ ”
#BCV:Jeremiah 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:1">1 </verse></sup>The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him
being bound in chains among all the captives of
Jerusalem and Judah who were carried away captive
to Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:2">2 </verse></sup>The captain of the guard took Jeremiah
and said to him, “Yahweh your God pronounced
this evil on this place; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:3">3 </verse></sup>and Yahweh has brought
it, and done according as he spoke. Because you
have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed
his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:4">4 </verse></sup>Now, behold, I release you today from the chains
which are on your hand. If it seems good to you
to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will
take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come
with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land
is before you. Where it seems good and right to
you to go, go there.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:5">5 </verse></sup>Now while he had not yet
gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the
king of Babylon has made governor over the cities
of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or
go wherever it seems right to you to go.”
So the captain of the guard gave him food and a
present, and let him go. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah went to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived
with him among the people who were left in the
land.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:7">7 </verse></sup>Now when all the captains of the forces who
were in the fields, even they and their men, heard
that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed
to him men, women, children, and of the poorest
of the land, of those who were not carried away
captive to Babylon, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:8">8 </verse></sup>then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah,
and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of
Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the
Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah
to Mizpah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:9">9 </verse></sup>Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying,
“Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will
be well with you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:10">10 </verse></sup>As for me, behold, I will dwell
at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will
come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits
and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in
your cities that you have taken.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:11">11 </verse></sup>Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab,
and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom,
and who were in all the countries, heard that the
king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and
that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:12">12 </verse></sup>then all the Jews
returned out of all places where they were driven,
and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to
Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer
fruits.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:13">13 </verse></sup>Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces who were in the fields,
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:14">14 </verse></sup>and said to him, “Do
you know that Baalis the king of the children of
Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to
take your life?”
<br>
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe
them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:15">15 </verse></sup>Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to
Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me
go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
no man will know it. Why should he take your life,
that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be
scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 40:16">16 </verse></sup>But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan
the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for
you speak falsely of Ishmael.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal
offspring and one of the chief officers of the king,
and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread
together in Mizpah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with
him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son
of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, whom
the king of Babylon had made governor over the
land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:3">3 </verse></sup>Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were
with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean men of
war who were found there.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:4">4 </verse></sup>The second day after he had killed Gedaliah,
and no man knew it, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:5">5 </verse></sup>men came from Shechem,
from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men,
having their beards shaved and their clothes torn,
and having cut themselves, with meal offerings
and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to
Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:6">6 </verse></sup>Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all
along as he went, and as he met them, he said to
them, “Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:7">7 </verse></sup>It
was so, when they came into the middle of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and
cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the
men who were with him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:8">8 </verse></sup>But ten men were found
among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for
we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of
barley, and of oil, and of honey.”
<br>
So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their
brothers. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:9">9 </verse></sup>Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the
dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the
side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king
had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were
killed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the
people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s
daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah,
whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
captive, and departed to go over to the children of
Ammon.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:11">11 </verse></sup>But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces who were with him, heard
of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
had done, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:12">12 </verse></sup>then they took all the men, and went
to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when all the people who were with Ishmael
saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, then they were
glad. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:14">14 </verse></sup>So all the people who Ishmael had carried
away captive from Mizpah turned about and came
back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:15">15 </verse></sup>But
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the
captains of the forces who were with him took all
the remnant of the people whom he had recovered
from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah,
after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—the
men of war, with the women, the children, and the
eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:17">17 </verse></sup>They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 41:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 41:18">18 </verse></sup>because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid
of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had
killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king
of Babylon made governor over the land.

#BCV:Jeremiah 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:1">1 </verse></sup>Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan
the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah,
and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
came near, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:2">2 </verse></sup>and said to Jeremiah the prophet,
“Please let our supplication be presented before
you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for
all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as
your eyes see us, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:3">3 </verse></sup>that Yahweh your God may show
us the way in which we should walk, and the things
that we should do.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have
heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God
according to your words; and it will happen that
whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare
it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:5">5 </verse></sup>Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a
true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do
according to all the word with which Yahweh your
God sends you to tell us. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:6">6 </verse></sup>Whether it is good, or
whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh
our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our
God.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:7">7 </verse></sup>After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to
Jeremiah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:8">8 </verse></sup>Then he called Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were
with him, and all the people from the least even
to the greatest, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:9">9 </verse></sup>and said to them, “Yahweh, the
God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your
supplication before him, says: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:10">10 </verse></sup>‘If you will still live
in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you
down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for
I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom
you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh,
‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you
from his hand. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:12">12 </verse></sup>I will grant you mercy, that he
may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to
your own land.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land,”
so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:14">14 </verse></sup>saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt,
where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of
the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there
we will dwell;” ’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:15">15 </verse></sup>now therefore hear Yahweh’s
word, O remnant of Judah! Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to
enter into Egypt, and go to live there, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:16">16 </verse></sup>then it
will happen that the sword, which you fear, will
overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the
famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close
behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:17">17 </verse></sup>So will it be with all the men who set their faces
to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None
of them will remain or escape from the evil that I
will bring on them.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:18">18 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has
been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so
my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter
into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an
astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will
see this place no more.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:19">19 </verse></sup>“Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant
of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that
I have testified to you today. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:20">20 </verse></sup>For you have dealt
deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me
to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh
our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God
says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:21">21 </verse></sup>I have
declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed
Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he
has sent me to you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 42:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 42:22">22 </verse></sup>Now therefore know certainly
that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to
live.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 43:0
<P align="center"><h3>43</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the
people all the words of Yahweh their God, with
which Yahweh their God had sent him to them,
even all these words, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:2">2 </verse></sup>then Azariah the son of
Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak
falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say,
‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:3">3 </verse></sup>but
Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us,
to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that
they may put us to death or carry us away captive
to Babylon.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:4">4 </verse></sup>So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t
obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:5">5 </verse></sup>But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains
of the forces took all the remnant of Judah, who
had returned from all the nations where they had
been driven, to live in the land of Judah— <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:6">6 </verse></sup>the men,
the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and
every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and
Baruch the son of Neriah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:7">7 </verse></sup>They came into the land
of Egypt, for they didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice; and
they came to Tahpanhes.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:9">9 </verse></sup>“Take great stones in your hand
and hide them in mortar in the brick work which is
at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the
sight of the men of Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:10">10 </verse></sup>Tell them, Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send
and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne on these stones that
I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion
over them. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:11">11 </verse></sup>He will come, and will strike the land
of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death,
and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such
as are for the sword to the sword. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:12">12 </verse></sup>I will kindle
a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will
burn them, and carry them away captive. He will
array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
puts on his garment; and he will go out from there
in peace. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 43:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 43:13">13 </verse></sup>He will also break the pillars of Beth
Shemesh that is in the land of Egypt; and he will
burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’ ”
#BCV:Jeremiah 44:0
<P align="center"><h3>44</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that came to Jeremiah concerning
all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who
lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis,
and in the country of Pathros, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen
all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and
on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a
desolation, and no man dwells in them, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:3">3 </verse></sup>because
of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn
incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know,
neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:4">4 </verse></sup>However
I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising
up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do
this abominable thing that I hate.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:5">5 </verse></sup>But they didn’t
listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn
from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to
other gods. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore my wrath and my anger was
poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted
and desolate, as it is today.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:7">7 </verse></sup>“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the
God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil
against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves
man and woman, infant and nursing child out of
the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one
remaining, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:8">8 </verse></sup>in that you provoke me to anger with
the works of your hands, burning incense to other
gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to
live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be
a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the
earth? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:9">9 </verse></sup>Have you forgotten the wickedness of your
fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the
wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness,
and the wickedness of your wives which they committed
in the land of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:10">10 </verse></sup>They are not humbled even to this
day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law,
nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before
your fathers.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:11">11 </verse></sup>“Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil,
even to cut off all Judah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:12">12 </verse></sup>I will take the remnant of
Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of
Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed.
They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be
consumed by the sword and by the famine. They
will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the
sword and by the famine. They will be an object of
horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:13">13 </verse></sup>For I will punish those who dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence; <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:14">14 </verse></sup>so that none
of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the
land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to
return into the land of Judah, to which they have
a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will
return except those who will escape.’ ”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:15">15 </verse></sup>Then all the men who knew that their wives
burned incense to other gods, and all the women
who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people
who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:16">16 </verse></sup>“As for the word that you have
spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen
to you. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:17">17 </verse></sup>But we will certainly perform every word
that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to
the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings
to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our
kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of
food, and were well, and saw no evil. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:18">18 </verse></sup>But since
we stopped burning incense to the queen of the
sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have
lacked all things, and have been consumed by the
sword and by the famine.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:19">19 </verse></sup>The women said, “When we burned incense to
the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings
to her, did we make her cakes to worship her,
and pour out drink offerings to her, without our
husbands?”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the
men and to the women, even to all the people who
had given him an answer, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:21">21 </verse></sup>“The incense
that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your
kings and your princes, and the people of the land,
didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come
into his mind? <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:22">22 </verse></sup>Thus Yahweh could no longer bear
it, because of the evil of your doings and because
of the abominations which you have committed.
Therefore your land has become a desolation, an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as
it is today. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:23">23 </verse></sup>Because you have burned incense and
because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have
not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law,
nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore
this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:24">24 </verse></sup>Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including
all the women, “Hear Yahweh’s word, all
Judah who are in the land of Egypt! <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your
wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with
your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely
perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn
incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to her.”
<br>
“ ‘Establish then your vows, and perform your
vows.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:26">26 </verse></sup>“Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who
dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by
my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no
more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in
all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh
lives.” <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:27">27 </verse></sup>Behold, I watch over them for evil, and
not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in
the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword
and by the famine, until they are all gone. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:28">28 </verse></sup>Those
who escape the sword will return out of the land
of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All
the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land
of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will
stand, mine or theirs.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:29">29 </verse></sup>“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh,
‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may
know that my words will surely stand against you
for evil.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 44:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 44:30">30 </verse></sup>Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh
Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies
and into the hand of those who seek his life, just
as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his
enemy and sought his life.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 45:0
<P align="center"><h3>45</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 45:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 45:1">1 </verse></sup>The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke
to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these
words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 45:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 45:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says
to you, Baruch: <key:bcv=Jeremiah 45:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 45:3">3 </verse></sup>‘You said, “Woe is me now! For
Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary
with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 45:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 45:4">4 </verse></sup>“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that
which I have built, I will break down, and that which
I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole
land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 45:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 45:5">5 </verse></sup>Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t
seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’
says Yahweh, ‘but I will let you escape with your life
wherever you go.’ ”

#BCV:Jeremiah 46:0
<P align="center"><h3>46</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning the nations.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:2">2 </verse></sup>Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh
Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates
in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:3">3 </verse></sup>“Prepare the buckler and shield,
<br>
and draw near to battle!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:4">4 </verse></sup>Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen,
and stand up with your helmets.
<br>
Polish the spears,
<br>
put on the coats of mail.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:5">5 </verse></sup>Why have I seen it?
<br>
They are dismayed and are turned backward.
Their mighty ones are beaten down,
<br>
have fled in haste,
<br>
and don’t look back.
<br>
Terror is on every side,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:6">6 </verse></sup>“Don’t let the swift flee away,
<br>
nor the mighty man escape.
<br>
In the north by the river Euphrates
<br>
they have stumbled and fallen.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:7">7 </verse></sup>“Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:8">8 </verse></sup>Egypt rises up like the Nile,
<br>
like rivers whose waters surge.
<br>
He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth.
I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:9">9 </verse></sup>Go up, you horses!
<br>
Rage, you chariots!
<br>
Let the mighty men go out:
<br>
Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
<br>
and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:10">10 </verse></sup>For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
a day of vengeance,
<br>
that he may avenge himself of his adversaries.
The sword will devour and be satiated,
and will drink its fill of their blood;
for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:11">11 </verse></sup>Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter
of Egypt.
<br>
You use many medicines in vain.
<br>
There is no healing for you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:12">12 </verse></sup>The nations have heard of your shame,
and the earth is full of your cry;
<br>
for the mighty man has stumbled against the
mighty,
<br>
they both fall together.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:13">13 </verse></sup>The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the
prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
should come and strike the land of Egypt:
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:14">14 </verse></sup>“Declare in Egypt,
<br>
publish in Migdol,
<br>
and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes;
say, ‘Stand up, and prepare,
<br>
for the sword has devoured around you.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:15">15 </verse></sup>Why are your strong ones swept away?
They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed
them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:16">16 </verse></sup>He made many to stumble.
<br>
Yes, they fell on one another.
<br>
They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people,
and to the land of our birth,
<br>
from the oppressing sword.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:17">17 </verse></sup>They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a
noise;
<br>
he has let the appointed time pass by.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:18">18 </verse></sup>“As I live,” says the King,
whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
<br>
“surely like Tabor among the mountains,
and like Carmel by the sea,
<br>
so he will come.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:19">19 </verse></sup>You daughter who dwells in Egypt,
<br>
furnish yourself to go into captivity;
for Memphis will become a desolation,
and will be burned up,
<br>
without inhabitant.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:20">20 </verse></sup>“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
but destruction out of the north has come.
It has come.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:21">21 </verse></sup>Also her hired men in the middle of her are like
calves of the stall,
<br>
for they also are turned back.
<br>
They have fled away together.
<br>
They didn’t stand,
<br>
for the day of their calamity has come on them,
the time of their visitation.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:22">22 </verse></sup>Its sound will go like the serpent,
for they will march with an army,
<br>
and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:23">23 </verse></sup>They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh,
“though it can’t be searched;
<br>
because they are more than the locusts,
and are innumerable.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:24">24 </verse></sup>The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed;
she will be delivered into the hand of the
people of the north.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
“Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh,
and those who trust in him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:26">26 </verse></sup>I will deliver them
into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be
inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:27">27 </verse></sup>“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant.
Don’t be dismayed, Israel;
<br>
for, behold, I will save you from afar,
and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob will return,
<br>
and will be quiet and at ease.
<br>
No one will make him afraid.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 46:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 46:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh,
“for I am with you;
<br>
for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have driven you,
<br>
but I will not make a full end of you,
but I will correct you in measure,
<br>
and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 47:0
<P align="center"><h3>47</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh
struck Gaza.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
and will become an overflowing stream,
and will overflow the land and all that is therein,
the city and those who dwell therein.
The men will cry,
<br>
and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:3">3 </verse></sup>At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his
strong ones,
<br>
at the rushing of his chariots,
<br>
at the rumbling of his wheels,
<br>
the fathers don’t look back for their children
because their hands are so feeble,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:4">4 </verse></sup>because of the day that comes to destroy all the
Philistines,
<br>
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper
who remains;
<br>
for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:5">5 </verse></sup>Baldness has come on Gaza;
<br>
Ashkelon is brought to nothing.
<br>
You remnant of their valley,
<br>
how long will you cut yourself?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before
you are quiet?
<br>
Put yourself back into your scabbard;
rest, and be still.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 47:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 47:7">7 </verse></sup>“How can you be quiet,
<br>
since Yahweh has given you a command?
Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore,
there he has appointed it.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 48:0
<P align="center"><h3>48</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:1">1 </verse></sup>Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
says:
<br>
“Woe to Nebo!
<br>
For it is laid waste.
<br>
Kiriathaim is disappointed.
<br>
It is taken.

Misgab<footnote:1>48:1 or, The stronghold</footnote> is put to shame
<br>
and broken down.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:2">2 </verse></sup>The praise of Moab is no more.
<br>
In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’
You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.
The sword will pursue you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:3">3 </verse></sup>The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
<br>
desolation and great destruction!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:4">4 </verse></sup>Moab is destroyed.
<br>
Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:5">5 </verse></sup>For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with
continual weeping.
<br>
For at the descent of Horonaim they have
heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:6">6 </verse></sup>Flee! Save your lives!
<br>
Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:7">7 </verse></sup>For, because you have trusted in your works and in
your treasures,
<br>
you also will be taken.
<br>
Chemosh will go out into captivity,
<br>
his priests and his princes together.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:8">8 </verse></sup>The destroyer will come on every city,
and no city will escape;
<br>
the valley also will perish,
<br>
and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has
spoken.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:9">9 </verse></sup>Give wings to Moab,
<br>
that she may fly and get herself away:
and her cities will become a desolation,
without anyone to dwell in them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:10">10 </verse></sup>“Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh
negligently;
<br>
and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from
blood.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:11">11 </verse></sup>“Moab has been at ease from his youth,
and he has settled on his dregs,
<br>
and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither has he gone into captivity;
<br>
therefore his taste remains in him,
<br>
and his scent is not changed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will send to him those who pour off,
and they will pour him off;
<br>
and they will empty his vessels,
<br>
and break their containers in pieces.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:13">13 </verse></sup>Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
<br>
as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel,
their confidence.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:14">14 </verse></sup>“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,
and valiant men for the war’?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:15">15 </verse></sup>Moab is laid waste,
<br>
and they have gone up into his cities,
and his chosen young men have gone down to
the slaughter,”
<br>
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of
Armies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:16">16 </verse></sup>“The calamity of Moab is near to come,
and his affliction hurries fast.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:17">17 </verse></sup>All you who are around him, bemoan him;
and all you who know his name, say,
<br>
‘How the strong staff is broken,
<br>
the beautiful rod!’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:18">18 </verse></sup>“You daughter who dwells in Dibon,
come down from your glory,
<br>
and sit in thirst;
<br>
for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you.
He has destroyed your strongholds.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:19">19 </verse></sup>Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.
Ask him who flees, and her who escapes;
say, ‘What has been done?’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:20">20 </verse></sup>Moab is disappointed;
<br>
for it is broken down.
<br>
Wail and cry!
<br>
Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:21">21 </verse></sup>Judgment has come on the plain country—
on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:22">22 </verse></sup>on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:23">23 </verse></sup>on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth
Meon,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:24">24 </verse></sup>on Kerioth, on Bozrah,
<br>
and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or
near.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:25">25 </verse></sup>The horn of Moab is cut off,
<br>
and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:26">26 </verse></sup>“Make him drunk,
<br>
for he magnified himself against Yahweh.
Moab will wallow in his vomit,
<br>
and he also will be in derision.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:27">27 </verse></sup>For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
Was he found among thieves?
<br>
For as often as you speak of him,
<br>
you shake your head.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:28">28 </verse></sup>You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and
dwell in the rock.
<br>
Be like the dove that makes her nest over the
mouth of the abyss.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:29">29 </verse></sup>“We have heard of the pride of Moab.
He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,
his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:30">30 </verse></sup>I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing;
his boastings have done nothing.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore I will wail for Moab.
<br>
Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.
<br>
They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:32">32 </verse></sup>With more than the weeping of Jazer
I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.
<br>
Your branches passed over the sea.
<br>
They reached even to the sea of Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits
and on your vintage.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:33">33 </verse></sup>Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful
field
<br>
and from the land of Moab.
<br>
I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.
No one will tread with shouting.
<br>
The shouting will be no shouting.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:34">34 </verse></sup>From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,
even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice,
from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;
for the waters of Nimrim will also become
desolate.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:35">35 </verse></sup>Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says
Yahweh,
<br>
“him who offers in the high place,
<br>
and him who burns incense to his gods.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:36">36 </verse></sup>Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes,
and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of
Kir Heres.
<br>
Therefore the abundance that he has gotten
has perished.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:37">37 </verse></sup>For every head is bald,
<br>
and every beard clipped.
<br>
There are cuttings on all the hands,
<br>
and sackcloth on the waist.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:38">38 </verse></sup>On all the housetops of Moab,
<br>
and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;
for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which
no one delights,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:39">39 </verse></sup>“How it is broken down!
<br>
How they wail!
<br>
How Moab has turned the back with shame!
So will Moab become a derision
<br>
and a terror to all who are around him.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:40">40 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
and will spread out his wings against Moab.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:41><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:41">41 </verse></sup>Kerioth is taken,
<br>
and the strongholds are seized.
<br>
The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:42><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:42">42 </verse></sup>Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:43><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:43">43 </verse></sup>Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,
inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:44><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:44">44 </verse></sup>“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken
in the snare,
<br>
for I will bring on him, even on Moab,
the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:45><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:45">45 </verse></sup>“Those who fled stand without strength under the
shadow of Heshbon;
<br>
for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
<br>
and a flame from the middle of Sihon,
and has devoured the corner of Moab,
<br>
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous
ones.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:46><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:46">46 </verse></sup>Woe to you, O Moab!
<br>
The people of Chemosh are undone;
<br>
for your sons are taken away captive,
and your daughters into captivity.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 48:47><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 48:47">47 </verse></sup>“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the
latter days,”
<br>
says Yahweh.
<br>
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

#BCV:Jeremiah 49:0
<P align="center"><h3>49</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:1">1 </verse></sup>Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says:
“Has Israel no sons?
<br>
Has he no heir?
<br>
Why then does Malcam possess Gad,
<br>
and his people dwell in its cities?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore behold, the days come,”
<br>
says Yahweh,
<br>
“that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against
Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
<br>
and it will become a desolate heap,
<br>
and her daughters will be burned with fire;
then Israel will possess those who possessed him,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:3">3 </verse></sup>“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah!
<br>
Clothe yourself in sackcloth.
<br>
Lament, and run back and forth among the
fences;
<br>
for Malcam will go into captivity,
<br>
his priests and his princes together.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:4">4 </verse></sup>Why do you boast in the valleys,
<br>
your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?
You trusted in her treasures,
<br>
saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”
says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
<br>
“from all who are around you.
<br>
All of you will be driven completely out,
and there will be no one to gather together the
fugitives.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:6">6 </verse></sup>“But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the
children of Ammon,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:7">7 </verse></sup>Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says:
<br>
“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
<br>
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom vanished?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:8">8 </verse></sup>Flee! Turn back!
<br>
Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;
for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him
when I visit him.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:9">9 </verse></sup>If grape gatherers came to you,
<br>
would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves came by night,
<br>
wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:10">10 </verse></sup>But I have made Esau bare,
<br>
I have uncovered his secret places,
<br>
and he will not be able to hide himself.
His offspring is destroyed,
<br>
with his brothers and his neighbors;
<br>
and he is no more.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:11">11 </verse></sup>Leave your fatherless children.
<br>
I will preserve them alive.
<br>
Let your widows trust in me.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:12">12 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it
didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly
drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished?
You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely
drink. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:13">13 </verse></sup>For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh,
“that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a
reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be
perpetual wastes.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:14">14 </verse></sup>I have heard news from Yahweh,
<br>
and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
saying, “Gather yourselves together!
<br>
Come against her!
<br>
Rise up to the battle!”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:15">15 </verse></sup>“For, behold, I have made you small among the
nations,
<br>
and despised among men.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:16">16 </verse></sup>As for your terror,
<br>
the pride of your heart has deceived you,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
who hold the height of the hill,
<br>
though you should make your nest as high as the
eagle,
<br>
I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:17">17 </verse></sup>“Edom will become an astonishment.
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,
and will hiss at all its plagues.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:18">18 </verse></sup>As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and
its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
<br>
“no man will dwell there,
<br>
neither will any son of man live therein.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:19">19 </verse></sup>“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride
of the Jordan against the strong habitation;
for I will suddenly make them run away from
it,
<br>
and whoever is chosen,
<br>
I will appoint him over it.
<br>
For who is like me?
<br>
Who will appoint me a time?
<br>
Who is the shepherd who will stand before
me?”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has
taken against Edom,
<br>
and his purposes that he has purposed against
the inhabitants of Teman:
<br>
Surely they will drag them away,
<br>
the little ones of the flock.
<br>
Surely he will make their habitation desolate
over them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:21">21 </verse></sup>The earth trembles at the noise of their fall;
there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the
Red Sea.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,
and spread out his wings against Bozrah.
The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that
day will be as the heart of a woman in her
pangs.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:23">23 </verse></sup>Of Damascus:
<br>
“Hamath and Arpad are confounded,
<br>
for they have heard evil news.
<br>
They have melted away.
<br>
There is sorrow on the sea.
<br>
It can’t be quiet.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:24">24 </verse></sup>Damascus has grown feeble,
<br>
she turns herself to flee,
<br>
and trembling has seized her.
<br>
Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as of a woman in travail.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:25">25 </verse></sup>How is the city of praise not forsaken,
the city of my joy?

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
and all the men of war will be brought to
silence in that day,”
<br>
says Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:27">27 </verse></sup>“I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:28">28 </verse></sup>Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck,
Yahweh says:
<br>
“Arise, go up to Kedar,
<br>
and destroy the children of the east.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:29">29 </verse></sup>They will take their tents and their flocks.
they will carry away for themselves their curtains,
all their vessels, and their camels;
<br>
and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every
side!’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:30">30 </verse></sup>Flee!
<br>
Wander far off!
<br>
Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says
Yahweh;
<br>
“for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has
taken counsel against you,
<br>
and has conceived a purpose against you.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:31">31 </verse></sup>Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease,
that dwells without care,” says Yahweh;
“that has neither gates nor bars,
<br>
that dwells alone.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:32">32 </verse></sup>Their camels will be a booty,
<br>
and the multitude of their livestock a plunder.
I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners
of their beards cut off;
<br>
and I will bring their calamity from every side
of them,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:33">33 </verse></sup>Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals,
a desolation forever.
<br>
No man will dwell there,
<br>
neither will any son of man live therein.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:34">34 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the
prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:35">35 </verse></sup>“Yahweh
of Armies says:
<br>
‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
the chief of their might.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:36">36 </verse></sup>I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four
quarters of the sky,
<br>
and will scatter them toward all those winds.
There will be no nation where the outcasts of
Elam will not come.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:37">37 </verse></sup>I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their
enemies,
<br>
and before those who seek their life.
I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says
Yahweh;
<br>
‘and I will send the sword after them,
until I have consumed them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:38">38 </verse></sup>I will set my throne in Elam,
<br>
and will destroy from there king and princes,’
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 49:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 49:39">39 </verse></sup>‘But it will happen in the latter days
that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says
Yahweh.”

#BCV:Jeremiah 50:0
<P align="center"><h3>50</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:1">1 </verse></sup>The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon,
concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by
Jeremiah the prophet.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:2">2 </verse></sup>“Declare among the nations and publish,
and set up a standard;
<br>
publish, and don’t conceal;
<br>
say, ‘Babylon has been taken,
<br>
Bel is disappointed,
<br>
Merodach is dismayed!
<br>
Her images are disappointed.
<br>
Her idols are dismayed.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:3">3 </verse></sup>For a nation comes up out of the north against her,
which will make her land desolate,
<br>
and no one will dwell in it.
<br>
They have fled.
<br>
They are gone,
<br>
both man and animal.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:4">4 </verse></sup>“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh,
“the children of Israel will come,
<br>
they and the children of Judah together;
they will go on their way weeping,
<br>
and will seek Yahweh their God.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:5">5 </verse></sup>They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces
turned toward it,
<br>
saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh
in an everlasting covenant
<br>
that will not be forgotten.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:6">6 </verse></sup>My people have been lost sheep.
<br>
Their shepherds have caused them to go
astray.
<br>
They have turned them away on the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill.
They have forgotten their resting place.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:7">7 </verse></sup>All who found them have devoured them.
Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,
because they have sinned against Yahweh,
the habitation of righteousness,
<br>
even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:8">8 </verse></sup>“Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Go out of the land of the Chaldeans,
<br>
and be as the male goats before the flocks.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:9">9 </verse></sup>For, behold, I will stir up
<br>
and cause to come up against Babylon a company
of great nations from the north country;
and they will set themselves in array against
her.
<br>
She will be taken from there.
<br>
Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty
man.
<br>
None of them will return in vain.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:10">10 </verse></sup>Chaldea will be a prey.
<br>
All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:11">11 </verse></sup>“Because you are glad,
<br>
because you rejoice,
<br>
O you who plunder my heritage,
<br>
because you are wanton as a heifer that treads
out the grain,
<br>
and neigh as strong horses,

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:12">12 </verse></sup>your mother will be utterly disappointed.
She who bore you will be confounded.
<br>
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:13">13 </verse></sup>Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited,
but she will be wholly desolate.
<br>
Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished,
and hiss at all her plagues.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:14">14 </verse></sup>Set yourselves in array against Babylon all
around,
<br>
all you who bend the bow;
<br>
shoot at her.
<br>
Spare no arrows,
<br>
for she has sinned against Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:15">15 </verse></sup>Shout against her all around.
<br>
She has submitted herself.
<br>
Her bulwarks have fallen.
<br>
Her walls have been thrown down,
<br>
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh.
<br>
Take vengeance on her.
<br>
As she has done, do to her.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:16">16 </verse></sup>Cut off the sower from Babylon,
<br>
and him who handles the sickle in the time of
harvest.
<br>
For fear of the oppressing sword,
<br>
they will each return to their own people,
and they will each flee to their own land.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:17">17 </verse></sup>“Israel is a hunted sheep.
<br>
The lions have driven him away.
<br>
First, the king of Assyria devoured him,
and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has broken his bones.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
says:
<br>
“Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his
land,
<br>
as I have punished the king of Assyria.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:19">19 </verse></sup>I will bring Israel again to his pasture,
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan.
His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim
and in Gilead.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:20">20 </verse></sup>In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh,
“the iniquity of Israel will be sought for,
and there will be none,
<br>
also the sins of Judah,
<br>
and they won’t be found;
<br>
for I will pardon them whom I leave as a
remnant.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:21">21 </verse></sup>“Go up against the land of Merathaim,
even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod.
<br>
Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh,
“and do according to all that I have commanded
you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:22">22 </verse></sup>A sound of battle is in the land,
<br>
and of great destruction.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:23">23 </verse></sup>How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart
and broken!
<br>
How Babylon has become a desolation among
the nations!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:24">24 </verse></sup>I have laid a snare for you,
<br>
and you are also taken, Babylon,
<br>
and you weren’t aware.
<br>
You are found,
<br>
and also caught,
<br>
because you have fought against Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh has opened his armory,
<br>
and has brought out the weapons of his indignation;
for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to
do in the land of the Chaldeans.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:26">26 </verse></sup>Come against her from the farthest border.
Open her storehouses.
<br>
Cast her up as heaps.
<br>
Destroy her utterly.
<br>
Let nothing of her be left.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:27">27 </verse></sup>Kill all her bulls.
<br>
Let them go down to the slaughter.
<br>
Woe to them! For their day has come,
<br>
the time of their visitation.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:28">28 </verse></sup>Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land
of Babylon,
<br>
to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our
God,
<br>
the vengeance of his temple.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:29">29 </verse></sup>“Call together the archers against Babylon,
all those who bend the bow.
<br>
Encamp against her all around.
<br>
Let none of it escape.
<br>
Pay her back according to her work.
<br>
According to all that she has done, do to her;
for she has been proud against Yahweh,
against the Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore her young men will fall in her streets.
All her men of war will be brought to silence in
that day,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:31">31 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies;
<br>
“for your day has come,
<br>
the time that I will visit you.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:32">32 </verse></sup>The proud one will stumble and fall,
and no one will raise him up.
<br>
I will kindle a fire in his cities,
<br>
and it will devour all who are around him.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:33">33 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel
and the children of Judah are oppressed
together.
<br>
All who took them captive hold them fast.
They refuse to let them go.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:34">34 </verse></sup>Their Redeemer is strong.
<br>
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
<br>
He will thoroughly plead their cause,
that he may give rest to the earth,
<br>
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:35">35 </verse></sup>“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh,
“and on the inhabitants of Babylon,
<br>
on her princes,
<br>
and on her wise men.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:36">36 </verse></sup>A sword is on the boasters,
<br>
and they will become fools.
<br>
A sword is on her mighty men,
<br>
and they will be dismayed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:37">37 </verse></sup>A sword is on their horses,
<br>
on their chariots,
<br>
and on all the mixed people who are in the
middle of her;
<br>
and they will become as women.
<br>
A sword is on her treasures,
<br>
and they will be robbed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:38">38 </verse></sup>A drought is on her waters,
<br>
and they will be dried up;
<br>
for it is a land of engraved images,
<br>
and they are mad over idols.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:39">39 </verse></sup>Therefore the wild animals of the desert
with the wolves will dwell there.
<br>
The ostriches will dwell therein.
<br>
It will be inhabited no more forever,
neither will it be lived in from generation to
generation.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:40">40 </verse></sup>As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
“so no man will dwell there,
<br>
neither will any son of man live therein.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:41><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:41">41 </verse></sup>“Behold, a people comes from the north.
A great nation and many kings will be stirred
up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:42><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:42">42 </verse></sup>They take up bow and spear.
<br>
They are cruel, and have no mercy.
<br>
Their voice roars like the sea.
<br>
They ride on horses,
<br>
everyone set in array,
<br>
as a man to the battle,
<br>
against you, daughter of Babylon.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:43><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:43">43 </verse></sup>The king of Babylon has heard the news of them,
and his hands become feeble.
<br>
Anguish has taken hold of him,
<br>
pains as of a woman in labor.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:44><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:44">44 </verse></sup>Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion
from the thickets of the Jordan against the
strong habitation;
<br>
for I will suddenly make them run away from
it.
<br>
Whoever is chosen,
<br>
I will appoint him over it,
<br>
for who is like me?
<br>
Who will appoint me a time?
<br>
Who is the shepherd who can stand before
me?”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:45><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:45">45 </verse></sup>Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh
that he has taken against Babylon;
<br>
and his purposes
<br>
that he has purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans:
<br>
Surely they will drag them away,
<br>
even the little ones of the flock.
<br>
Surely he will make their habitation desolate
over them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 50:46><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 50:46">46 </verse></sup>The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of
Babylon.
<br>
The cry is heard among the nations.

#BCV:Jeremiah 51:0
<P align="center"><h3>51</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a
destroying wind.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:2">2 </verse></sup>I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow
her.
<br>
They will empty her land;
<br>
for in the day of trouble they will be against her
all around.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:3">3 </verse></sup>Against him who bends, let the archer bend his
bow,
<br>
also against him who lifts himself up in his coat
of mail.
<br>
Don’t spare her young men!
<br>
Utterly destroy all her army!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:4">4 </verse></sup>They will fall down slain in the land of the
Chaldeans,
<br>
and thrust through in her streets.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:5">5 </verse></sup>For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God,
by Yahweh of Armies;
<br>
though their land is full of guilt against the
Holy One of Israel.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:6">6 </verse></sup>“Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Everyone save his own life!
<br>
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity,
<br>
for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance.
He will render to her a recompense.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:7">7 </verse></sup>Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand,
who made all the earth drunk.
<br>
The nations have drunk of her wine;
<br>
therefore the nations have gone mad.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:8">8 </verse></sup>Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed!
Wail for her!
<br>
Take balm for her pain.
<br>
Perhaps she may be healed.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:9">9 </verse></sup>“We would have healed Babylon,
<br>
but she is not healed.
<br>
Forsake her,
<br>
and let’s each go into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven,
<br>
and is lifted up even to the skies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:10">10 </verse></sup>‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness.
Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of
Yahweh our God.’

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:11">11 </verse></sup>“Make the arrows sharp!
<br>
Hold the shields firmly!
<br>
Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes,
<br>
because his purpose is against Babylon, to
destroy it;
<br>
for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,
<br>
the vengeance of his temple.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:12">12 </verse></sup>Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!
Make the watch strong!
<br>
Set the watchmen,
<br>
and prepare the ambushes;
<br>
for Yahweh has both purposed and done
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants
of Babylon.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:13">13 </verse></sup>You who dwell on many waters, abundant in
treasures,
<br>
your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
‘Surely I will fill you with men,
<br>
as with locusts,
<br>
and they will lift up a shout against you.’
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:15">15 </verse></sup>“He has made the earth by his power.
He has established the world by his wisdom.
By his understanding he has stretched out the
heavens.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:16">16 </verse></sup>When he utters his voice,
<br>
there is a roar of waters in the heavens,
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the
ends of the earth.
<br>
He makes lightning for the rain,
<br>
and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:17">17 </verse></sup>“Every man has become stupid and without
knowledge.
<br>
Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image,
for his molten images are falsehood,
<br>
and there is no breath in them.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:18">18 </verse></sup>They are vanity,
<br>
a work of delusion.
<br>
In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:19">19 </verse></sup>The portion of Jacob is not like these,
for he formed all things,
<br>
including the tribe of his inheritance.
Yahweh of Armies is his name.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:20">20 </verse></sup>“You are my battle ax and weapons of war.
With you I will break the nations into pieces.
With you I will destroy kingdoms.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:21">21 </verse></sup>With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the horse and his rider.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:22">22 </verse></sup>With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the chariot and him who rides therein.
With you I will break in pieces
<br>
man and woman.
<br>
With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the old man and the youth.
<br>
With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the young man and the virgin.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:23">23 </verse></sup>With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the shepherd and his flock.
<br>
With you I will break in pieces
<br>
the farmer and his yoke.
<br>
With you I will break in pieces
<br>
governors and deputies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:24">24 </verse></sup>“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants
of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in
Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:25">25 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,”
says Yahweh,
<br>
“which destroys all the earth.
<br>
I will stretch out my hand on you,
<br>
roll you down from the rocks,
<br>
and will make you a burned mountain.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:26">26 </verse></sup>They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
nor a stone for foundations;
<br>
but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:27">27 </verse></sup>“Set up a standard in the land!
<br>
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
<br>
Prepare the nations against her!
<br>
Call together against her the kingdoms of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!
<br>
Appoint a marshal against her!
<br>
Cause the horses to come up as the swarming
locusts!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:28">28 </verse></sup>Prepare against her the nations,
<br>
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its
deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:29">29 </verse></sup>The land trembles and is in pain;
<br>
for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon
stand,
<br>
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:30">30 </verse></sup>The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,
they remain in their strongholds.
<br>
Their might has failed.
<br>
They have become as women.
<br>
Her dwelling places are set on fire.
<br>
Her bars are broken.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:31">31 </verse></sup>One runner will run to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
<br>
to show the king of Babylon that his city is
taken on every quarter.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:32">32 </verse></sup>So the passages are seized.
<br>
They have burned the reeds with fire.
The men of war are frightened.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:33">33 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at
the time when it is trodden.
<br>
Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes
for her.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:34">34 </verse></sup>“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured
me.
<br>
He has crushed me.
<br>
He has made me an empty vessel.
<br>
He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.
He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.
He has cast me out.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:35><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:35">35 </verse></sup>May the violence done to me and to my flesh be
on Babylon!”
<br>
the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
will Jerusalem say.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:36><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:36">36 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, I will plead your cause,
<br>
and take vengeance for you.
<br>
I will dry up her sea,
<br>
and make her fountain dry.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:37><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:37">37 </verse></sup>Babylon will become heaps,
<br>
a dwelling place for jackals,
<br>
an astonishment, and a hissing,
<br>
without inhabitant.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:38><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:38">38 </verse></sup>They will roar together like young lions.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:39><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:39">39 </verse></sup>When they are inflamed, I will make their feast,
and I will make them drunk,
<br>
that they may rejoice,
<br>
and sleep a perpetual sleep,
<br>
and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:40><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:40">40 </verse></sup>“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:41><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:41">41 </verse></sup>“How Sheshach is taken!
<br>
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among
the nations!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:42><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:42">42 </verse></sup>The sea has come up on Babylon.
<br>
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:43><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:43">43 </verse></sup>Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry land, and a desert,
<br>
a land in which no man dwells.
<br>
No son of man passes by it.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:44><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:44">44 </verse></sup>I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring out of his mouth that which he
has swallowed up.
<br>
The nations will not flow any more to him.
Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:45><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:45">45 </verse></sup>“My people, go away from the middle of her,
and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s
fierce anger.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:46><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:46">46 </verse></sup>Don’t let your heart faint.
<br>
Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the
land.
<br>
For news will come one year,
<br>
and after that in another year news will come,
and violence in the land,
<br>
ruler against ruler.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:47><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:47">47 </verse></sup>Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute
judgment on the engraved images of
<br>
Babylon;
<br>
and her whole land will be confounded.
All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:48><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:48">48 </verse></sup>Then the heavens and the earth,
<br>
and all that is therein,
<br>
will sing for joy over Babylon;
<br>
for the destroyers will come to her from the
north,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:49><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:49">49 </verse></sup>“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:50><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:50">50 </verse></sup>You who have escaped the sword, go!
Don’t stand still!
<br>
Remember Yahweh from afar,
<br>
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:51><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:51">51 </verse></sup>“We are confounded
<br>
because we have heard reproach.
<br>
Confusion has covered our faces,
<br>
for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of
Yahweh’s house.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:52><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:52">52 </verse></sup>“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will execute judgment on her engraved
images;
<br>
and through all her land the wounded will
groan.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:53><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:53">53 </verse></sup>Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,
and though she should fortify the height of her
strength,
<br>
yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:54><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:54">54 </verse></sup>“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
and of great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans!

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:55><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:55">55 </verse></sup>For Yahweh lays Babylon waste,
<br>
and destroys out of her the great voice!
Their waves roar like many waters.
<br>
The noise of their voice is uttered.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:56><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:56">56 </verse></sup>For the destroyer has come on her,
even on Babylon.
<br>
Her mighty men are taken.
<br>
Their bows are broken in pieces,
<br>
for Yahweh is a God of retribution.
<br>
He will surely repay.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:57><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:57">57 </verse></sup>I will make her princes, her wise men,
her governors, her deputies, and her mighty
men drunk.
<br>
They will sleep a perpetual sleep,
<br>
and not wake up,”
<br>
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of
Armies.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:58><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:58">58 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says:
<br>
“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.
Her high gates will be burned with fire.
The peoples will labor for vanity,
<br>
and the nations for the fire;
<br>
and they will be weary.”

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:59><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:59">59 </verse></sup>The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded
Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king
of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:60><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:60">60 </verse></sup>Jeremiah
wrote in a book all the evil that should come on
Babylon, even all these words that are written
concerning Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:61><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:61">61 </verse></sup>Jeremiah said to Seraiah,
“When you come to Babylon, then see that you
read all these words, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:62><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:62">62 </verse></sup>and say, ‘Yahweh, you have
spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no
one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but
that it will be desolate forever.’ <key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:63><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:63">63 </verse></sup>It will be, when
you have finished reading this book, that you shall
bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the
Euphrates. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 51:64><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 51:64">64 </verse></sup>Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon
sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that
I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

#BCV:Jeremiah 52:0
<P align="center"><h3>52</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:1><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:1">1 </verse></sup>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began
to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of
Jeremiah of Libnah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:2><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:2">2 </verse></sup>He did that which was evil in
Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:3><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:3">3 </verse></sup>For through Yahweh’s anger this happened
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out
from his presence.
<br>
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:4><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:4">4 </verse></sup>In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built
forts against it round about. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:5><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:5">5 </verse></sup>So the city was
besieged to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:6><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:6">6 </verse></sup>In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the
month, the famine was severe in the city, so that
there was no bread for the people of the land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:7><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:7">7 </verse></sup>Then
a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war
fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of
the gate between the two walls, which was by the
king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the
city all around. The men of war went toward the
Arabah, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:8><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:8">8 </verse></sup>but the army of the Chaldeans pursued
the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:9><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:9">9 </verse></sup>Then they took the king, and carried him up to
the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath;
and he pronounced judgment on him. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:10><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:10">10 </verse></sup>The king
of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:11><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:11">11 </verse></sup>He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to
Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his
death.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:12><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:12">12 </verse></sup>Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of
the month, which was the nineteenth year of King
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard, who stood before the king
of Babylon, came into Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:13><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:13">13 </verse></sup>He burned
Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he
burned with fire. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:14><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:14">14 </verse></sup>All the army of the Chaldeans,
who were with the captain of the guard, broke
down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:15><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:15">15 </verse></sup>Then
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of
the people who were left in the city, and those who
fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and
the rest of the multitude. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:16><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:16">16 </verse></sup>But Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land
to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:17><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:17">17 </verse></sup>The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that
were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the
bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces,
and carried all of their bronze to Babylon. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:18><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:18">18 </verse></sup>They
also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers,
the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze
with which they ministered. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:19><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:19">19 </verse></sup>The captain of the
guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins,
the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the
bowls; that which was of gold, as gold, and that
which was of silver, as silver.

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:20><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:20">20 </verse></sup>They took the two pillars, the one sea, and
the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases,
which King Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house.
The bronze of all these vessels was without weight.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:21><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:21">21 </verse></sup>As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits;<footnote:1>52:21 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> and a line of twelve cubits
encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers.
It was hollow. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:22><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:22">22 </verse></sup>A capital of bronze was on it;
and the height of the one capital was five cubits,<footnote:1>52:22 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
with network and pomegranates on the capital all
around, all of bronze. The second pillar also had the
same, with pomegranates. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:23><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:23">23 </verse></sup>There were ninety-six
pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates
were one hundred on the network all around.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:24><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:24">24 </verse></sup>The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the
three keepers of the threshold, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:25><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:25">25 </verse></sup>and out of the city
he took an officer who was set over the men of war;
and seven men of those who saw the king’s face,
who were found in the city; and the scribe of the
captain of the army, who mustered the people of the
land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who
were found in the middle of the city. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:26><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:26">26 </verse></sup>Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:27><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:27">27 </verse></sup>The king
of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at
Riblah in the land of Hamath.
<br>
So Judah was carried away captive out of his
land. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:28><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:28">28 </verse></sup>This is the number of the people whom
Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:
<br>
in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three
Jews;

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:29><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:29">29 </verse></sup>in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he
carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred
thirty-two persons;

<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:30><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:30">30 </verse></sup>in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away
captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people.
All the people numbered four thousand six hundred.
<key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:31><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:31">31 </verse></sup>In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in
the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach
king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign,
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
released him from prison. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:32><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:32">32 </verse></sup>He spoke kindly to
him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings who were with him in Babylon, <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:33><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:33">33 </verse></sup>and changed
his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before
him continually all the days of his life. <key:bcv=Jeremiah 52:34><sup><verse bcv="Jeremiah 52:34">34 </verse></sup>For his
allowance, there was a continual allowance given
him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion
until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

#OUTLINE:1,Lamentations
<h2>The Lamentations of Jeremiah</h2>

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:1">1 </verse></sup>How the city sits solitary,
<br>
that was full of people!
<br>
She has become as a widow,
<br>
who was great among the nations!
<br>
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave!

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:2">2 </verse></sup>She weeps bitterly in the night.
<br>
Her tears are on her cheeks.
<br>
Among all her lovers
<br>
she has no one to comfort her.
<br>
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
They have become her enemies.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction
and because of great servitude.
<br>
She dwells among the nations.
<br>
She finds no rest.
<br>
All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:4">4 </verse></sup>The roads to Zion mourn,
<br>
because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
<br>
Her priests sigh.
<br>
Her virgins are afflicted,
<br>
and she herself is in bitterness.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Her adversaries have become the head.
Her enemies prosper;

for Yahweh<footnote:1>1:5 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> has afflicted her for the multitude of
her transgressions.
<br>
Her young children have gone into captivity
before the adversary.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:6">6 </verse></sup>All majesty has departed from the daughter of
Zion.
<br>
Her princes have become like deer that find no
pasture.
<br>
They have gone without strength before the
pursuer.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction
and of her miseries
<br>
all her pleasant things that were from the days
of old;
<br>
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and no one helped her.
<br>
The adversaries saw her.
<br>
They mocked at her desolations.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
<br>
Therefore she has become unclean.
<br>
All who honored her despise her,
<br>
because they have seen her nakedness.
Yes, she sighs and turns backward.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Her filthiness was in her skirts.
<br>
She didn’t remember her latter end.
<br>
Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
She has no comforter.
<br>
“See, Yahweh, my affliction;
<br>
for the enemy has magnified himself.”
<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:10">10 </verse></sup>The adversary has spread out his hand on all her
pleasant things;
<br>
for she has seen that the nations have entered
into her sanctuary,
<br>
concerning whom you commanded that they
should not enter into your assembly.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:11">11 </verse></sup>All her people sigh.
<br>
They seek bread.
<br>
They have given their pleasant things for food
to refresh their soul.
<br>
“Look, Yahweh, and see,
<br>
for I have become despised.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:12">12 </verse></sup>“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my
sorrow,
<br>
which is brought on me,
<br>
with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:13">13 </verse></sup>“From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevails against them.
<br>
He has spread a net for my feet.
<br>
He has turned me back.
<br>
He has made me desolate and I faint all day
long.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:14">14 </verse></sup>“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his
hand.
<br>
They are knit together.
<br>
They have come up on my neck.
<br>
He made my strength fail.

The Lord<footnote:1>1:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> has delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:15">15 </verse></sup>“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men
within me.
<br>
He has called a solemn assembly against me to
crush my young men.
<br>
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of
Judah as in a wine press.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:16">16 </verse></sup>“For these things I weep.
<br>
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
<br>
because the comforter who should refresh my
soul is far from me.
<br>
My children are desolate,
<br>
because the enemy has prevailed.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Zion spreads out her hands.
<br>
There is no one to comfort her.
<br>
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
that those who are around him should be his
adversaries.
<br>
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:18">18 </verse></sup>“Yahweh is righteous,
<br>
for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
<br>
and see my sorrow.
<br>
My virgins and my young men have gone into
captivity.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:19">19 </verse></sup>“I called for my lovers,
<br>
but they deceived me.
<br>
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the
city,
<br>
while they sought food for themselves to refresh
their souls.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:20">20 </verse></sup>“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
My heart is troubled.
<br>
My heart turns over within me,
<br>
for I have grievously rebelled.
<br>
Abroad, the sword bereaves.
<br>
At home, it is like death.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:21">21 </verse></sup>“They have heard that I sigh.
<br>
There is no one to comfort me.
<br>
All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
They are glad that you have done it.
<br>
You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
and they will be like me.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 1:22">22 </verse></sup>“Let all their wickedness come before you.
Do to them as you have done to me for all my
transgressions.
<br>
For my sighs are many,
<br>
and my heart is faint.

#BCV:Lamentations 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:1">1 </verse></sup>How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger!
<br>
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from
heaven to the earth,
<br>
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day
of his anger.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of
Jacob
<br>
without pity.
<br>
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of
the daughter of Judah.
<br>
He has brought them down to the ground.
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:3">3 </verse></sup>He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
He has drawn back his right hand from before
the enemy.
<br>
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:4">4 </verse></sup>He has bent his bow like an enemy.
<br>
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has
poured out his wrath like fire.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The Lord has become as an enemy.
<br>
He has swallowed up Israel.
<br>
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
<br>
He has destroyed his strongholds.
<br>
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
in the daughter of Judah.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:6">6 </verse></sup>He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were a garden.
<br>
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath
to be forgotten in Zion.
<br>
In the indignation of his anger, he has despised
the king and the priest.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The Lord has cast off his altar.
<br>
He has abhorred his sanctuary.
<br>
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand
of the enemy.
<br>
They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
as in the day of a solemn assembly.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the
daughter of Zion.
<br>
He has stretched out the line.
<br>
He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
They languish together.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Her gates have sunk into the ground.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations
where the law is not.
<br>
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the
ground.
<br>
They keep silence.
<br>
They have cast up dust on their heads.
They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:11">11 </verse></sup>My eyes fail with tears.
<br>
My heart is troubled.
<br>
My bile is poured on the earth,
<br>
because of the destruction of the daughter of
my people,
<br>
because the young children and the infants
swoon in the streets of the city.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:12">12 </verse></sup>They ask their mothers,
<br>
“Where is grain and wine?”
<br>
when they swoon as the wounded in the streets
of the city,
<br>
when their soul is poured out into their mothers’
bosom.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:13">13 </verse></sup>What shall I testify to you?
<br>
What shall I liken to you, daughter of
Jerusalem?
<br>
What shall I compare to you,
<br>
that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of
Zion?
<br>
For your breach is as big as the sea.
Who can heal you?

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions
for you.
<br>
They have not uncovered your iniquity,
to reverse your captivity,
<br>
but have seen for you false revelations and
causes of banishment.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:15">15 </verse></sup>All that pass by clap their hands at you.
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter
of Jerusalem, saying,
<br>
“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of
beauty,
<br>
the joy of the whole earth’?”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:16">16 </verse></sup>All your enemies have opened their mouth wide
against you.
<br>
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
<br>
They say, “We have swallowed her up.
<br>
Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
We have found it.
<br>
We have seen it.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh has done that which he planned.
He has fulfilled his word that he commanded
in the days of old.
<br>
He has thrown down,
<br>
and has not pitied.
<br>
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Their heart cried to the Lord.
<br>
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
<br>
let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
<br>
Don’t let your eyes rest.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Arise, cry out in the night,
<br>
at the beginning of the watches!
<br>
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the
Lord.
<br>
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of
your young children,
<br>
who faint for hunger at the head of every
street.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:20">20 </verse></sup>“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done
thus!
<br>
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children that they held and bounced on
their knees?
<br>
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in
the sanctuary of the Lord?

<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:21">21 </verse></sup>“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in
the streets.
<br>
My virgins and my young men have fallen by
the sword.
<br>
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 2:22">22 </verse></sup>“You have called, as in the day of a solemn
assembly, my terrors on every side.
<br>
There was no one that escaped or remained in
the day of Yahweh’s anger.
<br>
My enemy has consumed those whom I have
cared for and brought up.

#BCV:Lamentations 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:1">1 </verse></sup>I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:2">2 </verse></sup>He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:4">4 </verse></sup>He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He has built against me,
<br>
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:6">6 </verse></sup>He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:9">9 </verse></sup>He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:10">10 </verse></sup>He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:11">11 </verse></sup>He has turned away my path,
<br>
and pulled me in pieces.
<br>
He has made me desolate.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:12">12 </verse></sup>He has bent his bow,
<br>
and set me as a mark for the arrow.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:13">13 </verse></sup>He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into
my kidneys.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:14">14 </verse></sup>I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:15">15 </verse></sup>He has filled me with bitterness.
<br>
He has stuffed me with wormwood.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:16">16 </verse></sup>He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:17">17 </verse></sup>You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:18">18 </verse></sup>I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:20">20 </verse></sup>My soul still remembers them,
<br>
and is bowed down within me.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:21">21 </verse></sup>This I recall to my mind;
<br>
therefore I have hope.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:22">22 </verse></sup>It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that
we are not consumed,
<br>
because his mercies don’t fail.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:23">23 </verse></sup>They are new every morning.
<br>
Great is your faithfulness.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:24">24 </verse></sup>“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:26">26 </verse></sup>It is good that a man should hope
<br>
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:27">27 </verse></sup>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in
his youth.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:28">28 </verse></sup>Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:29">29 </verse></sup>Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:30">30 </verse></sup>Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:31">31 </verse></sup>For the Lord will not cast off forever.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:32">32 </verse></sup>For though he causes grief,
<br>
yet he will have compassion according to the
multitude of his loving kindnesses.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:33><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:33">33 </verse></sup>For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:34><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:34">34 </verse></sup>To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:35><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:35">35 </verse></sup>to turn away the right of a man before the
face of the Most High,

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:36><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:36">36 </verse></sup>to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord
doesn’t approve.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:37><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:37">37 </verse></sup>Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:38><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:38">38 </verse></sup>Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of
the Most High?

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:39><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:39">39 </verse></sup>Why should a living man complain,
<br>
a man for the punishment of his sins?
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:40><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:40">40 </verse></sup>Let us search and try our ways,
<br>
and turn again to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:41><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:41">41 </verse></sup>Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God<footnote:1>3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> in
the heavens.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:42><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:42">42 </verse></sup>“We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:43><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:43">43 </verse></sup>“You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
<br>
You have not pitied.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:44><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:44">44 </verse></sup>You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:45><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:45">45 </verse></sup>You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:46><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:46">46 </verse></sup>“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide
against us.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:47><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:47">47 </verse></sup>Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:48><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:48">48 </verse></sup>My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my
people.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:49><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:49">49 </verse></sup>My eye pours down
<br>
and doesn’t cease,
<br>
without any intermission,

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:50><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:50">50 </verse></sup>until Yahweh looks down,
<br>
and sees from heaven.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:51><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:51">51 </verse></sup>My eye affects my soul,
<br>
because of all the daughters of my city.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:52><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:52">52 </verse></sup>They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:53><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:53">53 </verse></sup>They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:54><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:54">54 </verse></sup>Waters flowed over my head.
<br>
I said, “I am cut off.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:55><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:55">55 </verse></sup>I called on your name, Yahweh,
<br>
out of the lowest dungeon.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:56><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:56">56 </verse></sup>You heard my voice:
<br>
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:57><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:57">57 </verse></sup>You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:58><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:58">58 </verse></sup>Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:59><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:59">59 </verse></sup>Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
<br>
Judge my cause.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:60><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:60">60 </verse></sup>You have seen all their vengeance
<br>
and all their plans against me.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:61><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:61">61 </verse></sup>You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:62><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:62">62 </verse></sup>the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:63><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:63">63 </verse></sup>You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:64><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:64">64 </verse></sup>You will pay them back, Yahweh,
<br>
according to the work of their hands.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:65><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:65">65 </verse></sup>You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 3:66><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 3:66">66 </verse></sup>You will pursue them in anger,
<br>
and destroy them from under the heavens of
Yahweh.

#BCV:Lamentations 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:1">1 </verse></sup>How the gold has become dim!
<br>
The most pure gold has changed!
<br>
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out
at the head of every street.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:2">2 </verse></sup>The precious sons of Zion,
<br>
comparable to fine gold,
<br>
how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,
the work of the hands of the potter!

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Even the jackals offer their breast.
They nurse their young ones.
<br>
But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:4">4 </verse></sup>The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof
of his mouth for thirst.
<br>
The young children ask for bread,
<br>
and no one breaks it for them.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the
streets.
<br>
Those who were brought up in purple embrace
dunghills.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:6">6 </verse></sup>For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is
greater than the sin of Sodom,
<br>
which was overthrown as in a moment.
<br>
No hands were laid on her.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Her nobles were purer than snow.
<br>
They were whiter than milk.
<br>
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
<br>
Their polishing was like sapphire.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
They are not known in the streets.
<br>
Their skin clings to their bones.
<br>
It is withered.
<br>
It has become like wood.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Those who are killed with the sword are better
than those who are killed with hunger;
for these pine away, stricken through,
for lack of the fruits of the field.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:10">10 </verse></sup>The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their
own children.
<br>
They were their food in the destruction of the
daughter of my people.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
He has poured out his fierce anger.
<br>
He has kindled a fire in Zion,
<br>
which has devoured its foundations.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:12">12 </verse></sup>The kings of the earth didn’t believe,
neither did all the inhabitants of the world,
that the adversary and the enemy would enter
into the gates of Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:13">13 </verse></sup>It is because of the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
<br>
that have shed the blood of the just in the
middle of her.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:14">14 </verse></sup>They wander as blind men in the streets.
They are polluted with blood,
<br>
So that men can’t touch their garments.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:15">15 </verse></sup>“Go away!” they cried to them.
<br>
“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!
When they fled away and wandered, men said
among the nations,
<br>
“They can’t live here any more.”

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.
He will not pay attention to them any more.
They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.
They didn’t favor the elders.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Our eyes still fail,
<br>
looking in vain for our help.
<br>
In our watching we have watched for a nation
that could not save.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:18">18 </verse></sup>They hunt our steps,
<br>
so that we can’t go in our streets.
<br>
Our end is near.
<br>
Our days are fulfilled,
<br>
for our end has come.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the
sky.
<br>
They chased us on the mountains.
<br>
They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:20">20 </verse></sup>The breath of our nostrils,
<br>
the anointed of Yahweh,
<br>
was taken in their pits;
<br>
of whom we said,
<br>
under his shadow we will live among the nations.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
who dwells in the land of Uz.
<br>
The cup will pass through to you also.
You will be drunken,
<br>
and will make yourself naked.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 4:22">22 </verse></sup>The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished,
daughter of Zion.
<br>
He will no more carry you away into captivity.
He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.
He will uncover your sins.

#BCV:Lamentations 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to aliens.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:3">3 </verse></sup>We are orphans and fatherless.
<br>
Our mothers are as widows.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:4">4 </verse></sup>We must pay for water to drink.
<br>
Our wood is sold to us.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Our pursuers are on our necks.
<br>
We are weary, and have no rest.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:6">6 </verse></sup>We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Servants rule over us.
<br>
There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:9">9 </verse></sup>We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Our skin is black like an oven,
<br>
because of the burning heat of famine.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:11">11 </verse></sup>They ravished the women in Zion,
<br>
the virgins in the cities of Judah.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Princes were hanged up by their hands.
The faces of elders were not honored.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:13">13 </verse></sup>The young men carry millstones.
<br>
The children stumbled under loads of wood.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:14">14 </verse></sup>The elders have ceased from the gate,
and the young men from their music.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:15">15 </verse></sup>The joy of our heart has ceased.
<br>
Our dance is turned into mourning.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:16">16 </verse></sup>The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:17">17 </verse></sup>For this our heart is faint.
<br>
For these things our eyes are dim:

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:18">18 </verse></sup>for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
The foxes walk on it.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:19">19 </verse></sup>You, Yahweh, remain forever.
<br>
Your throne is from generation to generation.
<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Why do you forget us forever,
<br>
and forsake us for so long a time?

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be
turned.
<br>
Renew our days as of old.

<key:bcv=Lamentations 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Lamentations 5:22">22 </verse></sup>But you have utterly rejected us.
<br>
You are very angry against us.

#OUTLINE:1,Ezekiel
<h2>The Book of Ezekiel</h2>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month,
in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the
captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God.<footnote:1>1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:2">2 </verse></sup>In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth
year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:3 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote>
word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in
the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and
Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I looked, and behold,<footnote:1>1:4 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> a stormy wind came out
of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning,
and a brightness around it, and out of the middle
of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of
the fire. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Out of its center came the likeness of four
living creatures. This was their appearance: They
had the likeness of a man. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Everyone had four faces,
and each one of them had four wings. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Their feet
were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the
sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished
bronze. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:8">8 </verse></sup>They had the hands of a man under their
wings on their four sides. The four of them had
their faces and their wings like this: <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Their wings
were joined to one another. They didn’t turn when
they went. Each one went straight forward.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:10">10 </verse></sup>As for the likeness of their faces, they had the
face of a man. The four of them had the face of a
lion on the right side. The four of them had the
face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also
had the face of an eagle. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Such were their faces.
Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of
each one touched another, and two covered their
bodies. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Each one went straight forward. Where
the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn
when they went. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:13">13 </verse></sup>As for the likeness of the living
creatures, their appearance was like burning coals
of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went
up and down among the living creatures. The fire
was bright, and lightning went out of the fire. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:14">14 </verse></sup>The
living creatures ran and returned as the appearance
of a flash of lightning.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Now as I saw the living creatures, behold,
there was one wheel on the earth beside the living
creatures, for each of the four faces of it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:16">16 </verse></sup>The
appearance of the wheels and their work was like
a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel
within a wheel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:17">17 </verse></sup>When they went, they went in
their four directions. They didn’t turn when they
went. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:18">18 </verse></sup>As for their rims, they were high and
dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full
of eyes all around.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:19">19 </verse></sup>When the living creatures went, the wheels
went beside them. When the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The
spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up
beside them; for the spirit of the living creature
was in the wheels. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:21">21 </verse></sup>When those went, these went.
When those stood, these stood. When those were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up
beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was
in the wheels.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Over the head of the living creature there was
the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal
to look at, stretched out over their heads above.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one
toward the other. Each one had two which covered
on this side, and each one had two which covered
their bodies on that side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:24">24 </verse></sup>When they went, I
heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great
waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of
tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood,
they let down their wings.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:25">25 </verse></sup>There was a voice above the expanse that was
over their heads. When they stood, they let down
their wings. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:26">26 </verse></sup>Above the expanse that was over
their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire<footnote:1>1:26 or, lapis lazuli </footnote> stone. On the likeness
of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a
man on it above. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:27">27 </verse></sup>I saw as it were glowing metal,
as the appearance of fire within it all around, from
the appearance of his waist and upward; and from
the appearance of his waist and downward I saw
as it were the appearance of fire, and there was
brightness around him. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 1:28">28 </verse></sup>As the appearance of the
rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was
the appearance of the brightness all around.
This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s
glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spoke.

#BCV:Ezekiel 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:1">1 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet,
and I will speak with you.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The Spirit entered into
me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and
I heard him who spoke to me.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to
the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who
have rebelled against me. They and their fathers
have transgressed against me even to this very day.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:4">4 </verse></sup>The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am
sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is
what the Lord<footnote:1>2:4 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> Yahweh says.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:5">5 </verse></sup>They, whether they
will hear, or whether they will refuse—for they are
a rebellious house—yet they will know that there
has been a prophet among them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:6">6 </verse></sup>You, son of man,
don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns are with you, and
you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they
are a rebellious house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall speak my words
to them, whether they will hear or whether they
will refuse; for they are most rebellious. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:8">8 </verse></sup>But you,
son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious
like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and
eat that which I give you.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:9">9 </verse></sup>When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched
out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 2:10">10 </verse></sup>He spread it before me. It was written within
and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe
were written in it.

#BCV:Ezekiel 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:1">1 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find.
Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:2">2 </verse></sup>So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat
the scroll.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I
give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.”
Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my
mouth.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house
of Israel, and speak my words to them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:5">5 </verse></sup>For you
are not sent to a people of a strange speech and
of a hard language, but to the house of Israel —
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:6">6 </verse></sup>not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a
hard language, whose words you can’t understand.
Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to
you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:7">7 </verse></sup>But the house of Israel will not listen to you,
for they will not listen to me; for all the house of
Israel are obstinate<footnote:1>3:7 Literally, have a hard forehead </footnote> and hard-hearted. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, I
have made your face hard against their faces, and
your forehead hard against their foreheads. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:9">9 </verse></sup>I have
made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint.
Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their
looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive
in your heart and hear with your ears all my words
that I speak to you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Go to them of the captivity,
to the children of your people, and speak to
them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh
says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will
refuse.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind
me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed
be Yahweh’s glory from his place.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:13">13 </verse></sup>I heard the
noise of the wings of the living creatures as they
touched one another, and the noise of the wheels
beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:14">14 </verse></sup>So
the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went
in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s
hand was strong on me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Then I came to them
of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river
Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there
overwhelmed among them seven days.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:16">16 </verse></sup>At the end of seven days, Yahweh’s word came
to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:17">17 </verse></sup>“Son of man, I have made you a
watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear
the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:18">18 </verse></sup>When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and
you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the
wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that
wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require
his blood at your hand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet if you warn the wicked,
and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from
his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:20">20 </verse></sup>“Again, when a righteous man turns from his
righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a
stumbling block before him, he will die. Because
you have not given him warning, he will die in his
sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will
not be remembered; but I will require his blood
at your hand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Nevertheless if you warn the
righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he
does not sin, he will surely live, because he took
warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to
me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with
you there.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and
behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory
which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my
face.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:24">24 </verse></sup>Then the Spirit entered into me and set me on
my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go,
shut yourself inside your house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:25">25 </verse></sup>But you, son of
man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will
bind you with them, and you will not go out among
them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:26">26 </verse></sup>I will make your tongue stick to the roof of
your mouth so that you will be mute and will not
be able to correct them, for they are a rebellious
house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 3:27">27 </verse></sup>But when I speak with you, I will open
your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what
the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear;
and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a
rebellious house.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:1">1 </verse></sup>“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay
it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Lay siege against it, build forts against
it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps
against it and plant battering rams against it all
around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Take for yourself an iron pan and set it
for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then
set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you
shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the
iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to
the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you
shall bear their iniquity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:5">5 </verse></sup>For I have appointed the
years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days,
even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:6">6 </verse></sup>“Again, when you have accomplished these,
you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the
iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed
forty days, each day for a year, to you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:7">7 </verse></sup>You shall set
your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your
arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn
yourself from one side to the other, until you have
accomplished the days of your siege.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans,
lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel.
Make bread of it. According to the number of
the days that you will lie on your side, even three
hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Your
food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels<footnote:1>4:10 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> a day. From time to time you shall eat it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:11">11 </verse></sup>You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part
of a hin.<footnote:1>4:11 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.</footnote> From time to time you shall drink. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:12">12 </verse></sup>You
shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it
in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel
eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I
will drive them.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul
has not been polluted; for from my youth up even
until now I have not eaten of that which dies of
itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has
come into my mouth!”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you
cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare
your bread on it.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I
will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will
eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will
drink water by measure, and in dismay; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 4:17">17 </verse></sup>that they
may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with
another, and pine away in their iniquity.
#BCV:Ezekiel 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:1">1 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall
take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause
it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then
take balances to weigh and divide the hair. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:2">2 </verse></sup>A third
part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You
shall take a third part, and strike with the sword
around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind,
and I will draw out a sword after them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall
take a small number of these and bind them in the
folds of your robe. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Of these again you shall take,
and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn
them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all
the house of Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:5">5 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I
have set her in the middle of the nations, and
countries are around her. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:6">6 </verse></sup>She has rebelled against
my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the
nations, and against my statutes more than the
countries that are around her; for they have rejected
my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they
have not walked in them.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:7">7 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you
are more turbulent than the nations that are around
you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither
have kept my ordinances, neither have followed
the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:8">8 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I,
am against you; and I will execute judgments among
you in the sight of the nations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:9">9 </verse></sup>I will do in you
that which I have not done, and which I will not
do anything like it any more, because of all your
abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore the fathers will eat the
sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I
will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the
whole remnant of you to all the winds. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore
as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you
have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable
things, and with all your abominations, therefore
I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and
I will have no pity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:12">12 </verse></sup>A third part of you will die
with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with
famine within you. A third part will fall by the
sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all
the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I
will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will
be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have
spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my
wrath on them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a
reproach among the nations that are around you, in
the sight of all that pass by. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:15">15 </verse></sup>So it will be a reproach
and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment,
to the nations that are around you, when I execute
judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in
wrathful rebukes —I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:16">16 </verse></sup>when I send on them the evil arrows of famine
that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy
you. I will increase the famine on you and will break
your staff of bread. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 5:17">17 </verse></sup>I will send on you famine and
evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence
and blood will pass through you. I will bring the
sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel,
and prophesy to them, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:3">3 </verse></sup>and say, ‘You mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The
Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills,
to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I,
even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy
your high places. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Your altars will become desolate,
and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast
down your slain men before your idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:5">5 </verse></sup>I will lay
the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their
idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:6">6 </verse></sup>In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid
waste and the high places will be desolate, so that
your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
incense altars may be cut down, and your works
may be abolished. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The slain will fall among you,
and you will know that I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you
will have some that escape the sword among the
nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Those of you that escape will remember me
among the nations where they are carried captive,
how I have been broken with their lewd heart,
which has departed from me, and with their eyes,
which play the prostitute after their idols. Then
they will loathe themselves in their own sight for
the evils which they have committed in all their
abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:10">10 </verse></sup>They will know that I am Yahweh.
I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to
them.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:11">11 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand,
and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!”, because
of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel;
for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:12">12 </verse></sup>He who is far off will die of the
pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword.
He who remains and is besieged will die by the
famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:13">13 </verse></sup>You will know that I am Yahweh when their slain
men are among their idols around their altars, on
every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains,
under every green tree, and under every thick oak
—the places where they offered pleasant aroma
to all their idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 6:14">14 </verse></sup>I will stretch out my hand
on them and make the land desolate and waste,
from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all
their habitations. Then they will know that I am
Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:2">2 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the
land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the
four corners of the land. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Now the end is on you,
and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you
according to your ways. I will bring on you all your
abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:4">4 </verse></sup>My eye will not spare you, neither
will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you,
and your abominations will be among you. Then
you will know that I am Yahweh.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:5">5 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘A disaster! A unique
disaster! Behold, it comes. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:6">6 </verse></sup>An end has come. The
end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it
comes. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Your doom has come to you, inhabitant
of the land! The time has come! The day is near,
a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the
mountains. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Now I will shortly pour out my wrath
on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and
will judge you according to your ways. I will bring
on you all your abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:9">9 </verse></sup>My eye won’t spare,
neither will I have pity. I will punish you according
to your ways. Your abominations will be among
you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your
doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride
has budded. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Violence has risen up into a rod
of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of
their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be
nothing of value among them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:12">12 </verse></sup>The time has come!
The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor
the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:13">13 </verse></sup>For the seller won’t return to that which is sold,
although they are still alive; for the vision concerns
the whole multitude of it. None will return. None
will strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:14">14 </verse></sup>They have blown the trumpet, and have made all
ready; but no one goes to the battle, for my wrath is
on all its multitude.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and
the famine within. He who is in the field will die by
the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by
famine and pestilence. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:16">16 </verse></sup>But of those who escape,
they will escape and will be on the mountains like
doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone
in his iniquity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:17">17 </verse></sup>All hands will be feeble, and all
knees will be weak as water. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:18">18 </verse></sup>They will also clothe
themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover
them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on
all their heads. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:19">19 </verse></sup>They will cast their silver in the
streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing.
Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver
them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t
satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has
been the stumbling block of their iniquity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:20">20 </verse></sup>As for
the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but
they made the images of their abominations and
their detestable things therein. Therefore I have
made it to them as an unclean thing. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:21">21 </verse></sup>I will give
it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to
the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will
profane it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:22">22 </verse></sup>I will also turn my face from them,
and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will
enter into it, and profane it.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘Make chains, for the land is full of bloody
crimes, and the city is full of violence. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore
I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will
possess their houses. I will also make the pride
of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be
profaned. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Destruction comes! They will seek
peace, and there will be none. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Mischief will come
on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will
seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish
from the priest, and counsel from the elders. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 7:27">27 </verse></sup>The
king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with
desolation. The hands of the people of the land will
be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and
according to their own judgments I will judge them.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
#BCV:Ezekiel 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:1">1 </verse></sup>In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the
elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s
hand fell on me there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Then I saw, and behold,
a likeness as the appearance of fire —from the
appearance of his waist and downward, fire, and
from his waist and upward, as the appearance of
brightness, as it were glowing metal. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:3">3 </verse></sup>He stretched
out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of
my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth
and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God
to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner
court that looks toward the north, where there was
the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to
jealousy. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, according to the appearance that I saw in the
plain.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your
eyes now the way toward the north.”
<br>
So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north,
and saw, northward of the gate of the altar this
image of jealousy in the entry.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they
do? Even the great abominations that the house of
Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my
sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great
abominations.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:7">7 </verse></sup>He brought me to the door of the court; and
when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Then
he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.”
When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked
abominations that they do here.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:10">10 </verse></sup>So I went in and looked, and saw every form
of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the
idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on
the wall. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Seventy men of the elders of the house
of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with
his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of
incense went up.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark,
every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say,
‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the
land.’ ” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:13">13 </verse></sup>He said also to me, “You will again see
more of the great abominations which they do.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Then he brought me to the door of the gate of
Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and
I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of
man? You will again see yet greater abominations
than these.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:16">16 </verse></sup>He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s
house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple,
between the porch and the altar, there were about
twenty-five men with their backs toward Yahweh’s
temple and their faces toward the east. They were
worshiping the sun toward the east.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son
of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah
that they commit the abominations which they
commit here? For they have filled the land with
violence, and have turned again to provoke me to
anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t
spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in
my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice,
saying, “Cause those who are in charge of the city
to draw near, each man with his destroying weapon
in his hand.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, six men came from the way of
the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every
man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One
man in the middle of them was clothed in linen,
with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in,
and stood beside the bronze altar.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:3">3 </verse></sup>The glory of the God of Israel went up from the
cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the
house; and he called to the man clothed in linen,
who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh
said to him, “Go through the middle of the city,
through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on
the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over
all the abominations that are done within it.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:5">5 </verse></sup>To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through
the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye
spare, neither have pity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Kill utterly the old
man, the young man, the virgin, little children and
women; but don’t come near any man on whom is
the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.”
<br>
Then they began at the old men who were before
the house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the
courts with the slain. Go out!”
<br>
They went out, and struck in the city.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:8">8 </verse></sup>While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on
my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will
you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring
out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of
Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is
full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they
say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh
doesn’t see.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:10">10 </verse></sup>As for me also, my eye won’t spare,
neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on
their head.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the
inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, “I
have done as you have commanded me.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that
was over the head of the cherubim there appeared
above them as it were a sapphire<footnote:1>10:1 or, lapis lazuli</footnote> stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:2">2 </verse></sup>He spoke to
the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between
the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill
both your hands with coals of fire from between the
cherubim, and scatter them over the city.”
He went in as I watched. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Now the cherubim
stood on the right side of the house when the
man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and
stood over the threshold of the house; and the house
was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of
the brightness of Yahweh’s glory. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:5">5 </verse></sup>The sound of the
wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer
court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:6">6 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when he commanded the man
clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between
the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,”
that he went in and stood beside a wheel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:7">7 </verse></sup>The
cherub stretched out his hand from between the
cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim,
and took some of it, and put it into the hands of
him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went
out. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:8">8 </verse></sup>The form of a man’s hand appeared here in
the cherubim under their wings.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:9">9 </verse></sup>I looked, and behold, there were four wheels
beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub,
and another wheel beside another cherub. The
appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:10">10 </verse></sup>As for their appearance, the four of them had
one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:11">11 </verse></sup>When
they went, they went in their four directions. They
didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where
the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn
as they went. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Their whole body, including their
backs, their hands, their wings, and the wheels,
were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that
the four of them had. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:13">13 </verse></sup>As for the wheels, they
were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Every one them had four faces. The first face was
the face of the cherub. The second face was the face
of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The
fourth was the face of an eagle.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:15">15 </verse></sup>The cherubim mounted up. This is the living
creature that I saw by the river Chebar. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:16">16 </verse></sup>When
the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to
mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn’t
turn from beside them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:17">17 </verse></sup>When they stood, these
stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up
with them; for the spirit of the living creature was
in them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold
of the house and stood over the cherubim. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:19">19 </verse></sup>The
cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up
from the earth in my sight when they went out,
with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at
the door of the east gate of Yahweh’s house; and the
glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:20">20 </verse></sup>This is the living creature that I saw under
the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew
that they were cherubim. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Every one had four
faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of
the hands of a man was under their wings. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 10:22">22 </verse></sup>As
for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces
which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances
and themselves. They each went straight forward.

#BCV:Ezekiel 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought
me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks
eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door
of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son
of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of
the people. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, these are
the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked
counsel in this city; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:3">3 </verse></sup>who say, ‘The time is not
near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we
are the meat.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore prophesy against them.
Prophesy, son of man.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me,
“Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house
of Israel; for I know the things that come into your
mind. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:6">6 </verse></sup>You have multiplied your slain in this city,
and you have filled its streets with the slain.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain
whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are
the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be
brought out of the middle of it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:8">8 </verse></sup>You have feared the
sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the
Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:9">9 </verse></sup>“I will bring you out of the middle of
it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and
will execute judgments among you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:10">10 </verse></sup>You will fall
by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:11">11 </verse></sup>This will
not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat
in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border
of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:12">12 </verse></sup>You will know that I am Yahweh, for
you have not walked in my statutes. You have not
executed my ordinances, but have done after the
ordinances of the nations that are around you.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:13">13 </verse></sup>When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with
a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you
make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:15">15 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men
of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all
of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh.
This land has been given to us for a possession.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:16">16 </verse></sup>“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Whereas I have removed them far off among the
nations, and whereas I have scattered them among
the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary
for a little while in the countries where they have
come.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:17">17 </verse></sup>“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will
gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out
of the countries where you have been scattered, and
I will give you the land of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘They will come there, and they will take away
all its detestable things and all its abominations
from there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:19">19 </verse></sup>I will give them one heart, and I will
put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony
heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart
of flesh, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:20">20 </verse></sup>that they may walk in my statutes, and
keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my
people, and I will be their God. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:21">21 </verse></sup>But as for them
whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will bring their way
on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and
the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God
of Israel was over them above. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory
went up from the middle of the city, and stood
on the mountain which is on the east side of the
city. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:24">24 </verse></sup>The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in
the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the
captives.
<br>
So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Then I spoke to the captives all the things that
Yahweh had shown me.

#BCV:Ezekiel 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word also came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious
house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who
have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a
rebellious house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:3">3 </verse></sup>“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your baggage
for moving, and move by day in their sight.
You shall move from your place to another place in
their sight. It may be they will consider, though
they are a rebellious house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:4">4 </verse></sup>You shall bring out
your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for
moving. You shall go out yourself at evening in their
sight, as when men go out into exile. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Dig through
the wall in their sight, and carry your baggage out
that way. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:6">6 </verse></sup>In their sight you shall bear it on your
shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall
cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I
have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:7">7 </verse></sup>I did so as I was commanded. I brought out
my baggage by day, as baggage for moving, and in
the evening I dug through the wall with my hand.
I brought it out in the dark, and bore it on my
shoulder in their sight.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:8">8 </verse></sup>In the morning, Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:9">9 </verse></sup>“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the
rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:10">10 </verse></sup>“Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “This
burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all
the house of Israel among whom they are.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:11">11 </verse></sup>“Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be
done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘The prince who is among them will bear his
baggage on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out.
They will dig through the wall to carry things out
that way. He will cover his face, because he will not
see the land with his eyes. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:13">13 </verse></sup>I will also spread my
net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will
bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans;
yet he will not see it, though he will die there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:14">14 </verse></sup>I
will scatter toward every wind all who are around
him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out
the sword after them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I
disperse them among the nations and scatter them
through the countries. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:16">16 </verse></sup>But I will leave a few
men of them from the sword, from the famine, and
from the pestilence, that they may declare all their
abominations among the nations where they come.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:18">18 </verse></sup>“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking,
and drink your water with trembling and with
fearfulness. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Tell the people of the land, ‘The
Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of
Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat
their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in
dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that
is therein, because of the violence of all those who
dwell therein. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:20">20 </verse></sup>The cities that are inhabited will be
laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then
you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:22">22 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, what is this proverb that you have in the
land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and
every vision fails?’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Tell them therefore, ‘The
Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to
cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in
Israel;” ’ but tell them, ‘ “The days are at hand, and
the fulfillment of every vision. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:24">24 </verse></sup>For there will be
no more any false vision nor flattering divination
within the house of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:25">25 </verse></sup>For I am Yahweh.
I will speak, and the word that I speak will be
performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your
days, rebellious house, I will speak the word and will
perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:26">26 </verse></sup>Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:27">27 </verse></sup>“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel
say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to
come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 12:28">28 </verse></sup>“Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“None of my words will be deferred any more, but
the word which I speak will be performed,” says the
Lord Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who
prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of
their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:3">3 </verse></sup>The Lord
Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who
follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the
waste places. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:5">5 </verse></sup>You have not gone up into the
gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel,
to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:6">6 </verse></sup>They
have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say,
‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They
have made men to hope that the word would be
confirmed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Haven’t you seen a false vision, and
haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you
say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because
you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore,
behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:9">9 </verse></sup>“My hand will be against the prophets who see
false visions and who utter lying divinations. They
will not be in the council of my people, neither will
they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then
you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced
my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace.
When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster
it with whitewash. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Tell those who plaster it
with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an
overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will
fall. A stormy wind will tear it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Behold, when the
wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the
plaster with which you have plastered it?”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even
tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There
will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and
great hailstones in wrath to consume it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:14">14 </verse></sup>So I
will break down the wall that you have plastered
with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground,
so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will
fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Thus I
will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those
who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell
you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered
it— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:16">16 </verse></sup>to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace
for her, and there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord
Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:17">17 </verse></sup>You, son of man, set your face against the
daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their
own heart; and prophesy against them, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:18">18 </verse></sup>and say,
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who
sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for
the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls!
Will you hunt the souls of my people and save
souls alive for yourselves? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:19">19 </verse></sup>You have profaned
me among my people for handfuls of barley and for
pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die
and to save the souls alive who should not live, by
your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:20">20 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I
am against your magic bands, with which you hunt
the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them
from your arms. I will let the souls fly free, even
the souls whom you ensnare like birds. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:21">21 </verse></sup>I will
also tear your veils and deliver my people out of
your hand; and they will no longer be in your hand
to be ensnared. Then you will know that I am
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:22">22 </verse></sup>Because with lies you have grieved the
heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad;
and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that
he should not return from his wicked way, and be
saved alive. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 13:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall no more see false
visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my
people out of your hand. Then you will know that
I am Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Then some of the elders of Israel came to me
and sat before me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:3">3 </verse></sup>“Son of man, these men have taken their
idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of
their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired
of at all by them? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore speak to them and
tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of
the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart
and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before
his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will
answer him there according to the multitude of his
idols, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:5">5 </verse></sup>that I may take the house of Israel in their
own heart, because they are all estranged from me
through their idols.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:6">6 </verse></sup>“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from
your idols! Turn away your faces from all your
abominations.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself
from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts
the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face,
and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of
me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:8">8 </verse></sup>I will
set my face against that man and will make him an
astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will
cut him off from among my people. Then you will
know that I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word,
I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him
from among my people Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:10">10 </verse></sup>They will bear
their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be
even as the iniquity of him who seeks him, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:11">11 </verse></sup>that
the house of Israel may no more go astray from me,
neither defile themselves any more with all their
transgressions; but that they may be my people, and
I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:13">13 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, when a land sins against me by committing a
trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break
the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut
off from it man and animal— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:14">14 </verse></sup>though these three
men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would
deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,”
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:15">15 </verse></sup>“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land,
and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that
no man may pass through because of the animals—
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:16">16 </verse></sup>though these three men were in it, as I live,” says
the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons
nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but
the land would be desolate.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:17">17 </verse></sup>“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say,
‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it
man and animal’— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:18">18 </verse></sup>though these three men were
in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would
deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only
would be delivered themselves.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:19">19 </verse></sup>“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and
pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it
man and animal— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:20">20 </verse></sup>though Noah, Daniel, and Job,
were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they
would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would
deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:21">21 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more
when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem
—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the
pestilence —to cut off from it man and animal!
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it
that will be carried out, both sons and daughters.
Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see
their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought on
Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought
on it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 14:23">23 </verse></sup>They will comfort you, when you see their
way and their doings; then you will know that I have
not done all that I have done in it without cause,”
says the Lord Yahweh.

#BCV:Ezekiel 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, what is the vine tree more than any tree,
the vine branch which is among the trees of the
forest? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:3">3 </verse></sup>Will wood be taken of it to make anything?
Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire
has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it
is burned. Is it profitable for any work? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold,
when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How
much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has
been burned, will it yet be suitable for any work?”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine
wood among the trees of the forest, which I have
given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:7">7 </verse></sup>I will set my face against
them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire
will still devour them. Then you will know that I am
Yahweh, when I set my face against them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 15:8">8 </verse></sup>I will
make the land desolate, because they have acted
unfaithfully,” says the Lord Yahweh.

#BCV:Ezekiel 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:3">3 </verse></sup>and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem:
“Your origin and your birth is of the land of the
Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your
mother was a Hittite. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:4">4 </verse></sup>As for your birth, in the day
you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t
washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted
at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:5">5 </verse></sup>No eye
pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have
compassion on you; but you were cast out in the
open field, because you were abhorred in the day
that you were born.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing
in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in
your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are
in your blood, live!’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:7">7 </verse></sup>I caused you to multiply as
that which grows in the field, and you increased and
grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty.
Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet
you were naked and bare.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at
you, behold, your time was the time of love; and
I spread my garment over you and covered your
nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered
into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“and you became mine.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Then I washed you with water. Yes, I
thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and
I anointed you with oil. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:10">10 </verse></sup>I clothed you also
with embroidered work and put leather sandals on
you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered
you with silk. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:11">11 </verse></sup>I decked you with ornaments,
put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on
your neck. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:12">12 </verse></sup>I put a ring on your nose, earrings
in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your
clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered
work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You
were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to
royal estate. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Your renown went out among the
nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through
my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty, and played
the prostitute because of your renown, and poured
out your prostitution on everyone who passed by.
It was his. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:16">16 </verse></sup>You took some of your garments,
and made for yourselves high places decked with
various colors, and played the prostitute on them.
This shouldn’t happen, neither shall it be. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:17">17 </verse></sup>You
also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself
images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:18">18 </verse></sup>You took your embroidered garments, covered
them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:19">19 </verse></sup>My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and
honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before
them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” says the
Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and
your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and
you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured.
Was your prostitution a small matter, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:21">21 </verse></sup>that you
have slain my children and delivered them up, in
causing them to pass through the fire to them? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:22">22 </verse></sup>In
all your abominations and your prostitution you
have not remembered the days of your youth, when
you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in
your blood.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “It has happened after all your wickedness—
woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:24">24 </verse></sup>“that
you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and
have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:25">25 </verse></sup>You have built your lofty place at the head of
every way, and have made your beauty an abomination,
and have opened your feet to everyone
who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:26">26 </verse></sup>You have also committed sexual immorality with
the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and
have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me
to anger. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:27">27 </verse></sup>See therefore, I have stretched out
my hand over you, and have diminished your portion,
and delivered you to the will of those who
hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are
ashamed of your lewd way. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:28">28 </verse></sup>You have played
the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you
were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute
with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:29">29 </verse></sup>You
have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the
land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t
satisfied with this.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:30">30 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord
Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work
of an impudent prostitute; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:31">31 </verse></sup>in that you build your
vaulted place at the head of every way, and make
your lofty place in every street, and have not been
as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead
of her husband! <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:33">33 </verse></sup>People give gifts to all
prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers,
and bribe them, that they may come to you on every
side for your prostitution. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:34">34 </verse></sup>You are different from
other women in your prostitution, in that no one
follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you
give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you
are different.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:35">35 </verse></sup>“Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:36">36 </verse></sup>‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness
was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered
through your prostitution with your lovers; and
because of all the idols of your abominations, and
for the blood of your children, that you gave to
them; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:37">37 </verse></sup>therefore see, I will gather all your lovers,
with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those
whom you have loved, with all those whom you have
hated. I will even gather them against you on every
side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that
they may see all your nakedness. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:38">38 </verse></sup>I will judge you
as women who break wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath
and jealousy. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:39">39 </verse></sup>I will also give you into their hand,
and they will throw down your vaulted place, and
break down your lofty places. They will strip you of
your clothes and take your beautiful jewels. They
will leave you naked and bare. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:40">40 </verse></sup>They will also
bring up a company against you, and they will stone
you with stones, and thrust you through with their
swords. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:41">41 </verse></sup>They will burn your houses with fire,
and execute judgments on you in the sight of many
women. I will cause you to cease from playing the
prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:42">42 </verse></sup>So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and
my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet,
and will not be angry any more.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:43">43 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days
of your youth, but have raged against me in all these
things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your
way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and
you shall not commit this lewdness with all your
abominations.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:44">44 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will
use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the
mother, so is her daughter.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:45><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:45">45 </verse></sup>You are the daughter
of your mother, who loathes her husband and her
children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who
loathed their husbands and their children. Your
mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:46><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:46">46 </verse></sup>Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your
left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger
sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with
her daughters. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:47><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:47">47 </verse></sup>Yet you have not walked in their
ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you
were more corrupt than they in all your ways. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:48><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:48">48 </verse></sup>As I
live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has
not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done,
you and your daughters.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:49><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:49">49 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister
Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous
ease was in her and in her daughters. She also
didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:50><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:50">50 </verse></sup>They were arrogant and committed abomination
before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw
it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:51><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:51">51 </verse></sup>Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins;
but you have multiplied your abominations more
than they, and have justified your sisters by all your
abominations which you have done. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:52><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:52">52 </verse></sup>You also bear
your own shame yourself, in that you have given
judgment for your sisters; through your sins that
you have committed more abominable than they,
they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also
confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have
justified your sisters.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:53><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:53">53 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “I will reverse their captivity, the captivity
of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of
Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of
your captives among them; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:54><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:54">54 </verse></sup>that you may bear
your own shame, and may be ashamed because of
all that you have done, in that you are a comfort
to them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:55><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:55">55 </verse></sup>Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
will return to their former estate; and Samaria and
her daughters will return to their former estate;
and you and your daughters will return to your
former estate. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:56><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:56">56 </verse></sup>For your sister Sodom was not
mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:57><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:57">57 </verse></sup>before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the
time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and
of all who are around her, the daughters of the
Philistines, who despise you all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:58><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:58">58 </verse></sup>You have
borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:59><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:59">59 </verse></sup>“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal
with you as you have done, who have despised the
oath in breaking the covenant. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:60><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:60">60 </verse></sup>Nevertheless I will
remember my covenant with you in the days of your
youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant
with you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:61><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:61">61 </verse></sup>Then you will remember your ways
and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, your
elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them
to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:62><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:62">62 </verse></sup>I
will establish my covenant with you. Then you will
know that I am Yahweh; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 16:63><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 16:63">63 </verse></sup>that you may remember,
and be confounded, and never open your mouth any
more because of your shame, when I have forgiven
you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house
of Israel; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:3">3 </verse></sup>and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great
eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of
feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon
and took the top of the cedar. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:4">4 </verse></sup>He cropped off the
topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land
of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “He also took some of the seed of the land
and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside
many waters. He set it as a willow tree. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:6">6 </verse></sup>It grew
and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
branches turned toward him, and its roots were
under him. So it became a vine, produced branches,
and shot out sprigs.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “There was also another great eagle with
great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine
bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches
toward him, from the ground where it was planted,
that he might water it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:8">8 </verse></sup>It was planted in a good
soil by many waters, that it might produce branches
and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good
vine.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:9">9 </verse></sup>“Say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Will it prosper?
Won’t he pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it
may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may
wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong
arm or many people. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Yes, behold, being planted,
will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the
east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground
where it grew.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:12">12 </verse></sup>“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know
what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the
king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its
king, and its princes, and brought them to him to
Babylon. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:13">13 </verse></sup>He took one of the royal offspring,<footnote:1>17:13 or, seed</footnote> and
made a covenant with him. He also brought him
under an oath, and took away the mighty of the
land, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:14">14 </verse></sup>that the kingdom might be brought low, that
it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his
covenant it might stand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:15">15 </verse></sup>But he rebelled against
him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that
they might give him horses and many people. Will
he prosper? Will he who does such things escape?
Will he break the covenant, and still escape?
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the
place where the king dwells who made him king,
whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he
broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he
will die. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Pharaoh with his mighty army and great
company won’t help him in the war, when they cast
up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:18">18 </verse></sup>For he has despised the oath by breaking the
covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and
yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:19">19 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I
will surely bring on his own head my oath that he
has despised and my covenant that he has broken.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:20">20 </verse></sup>I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken
in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will
enter into judgment with him there for his trespass
that he has trespassed against me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:21">21 </verse></sup>All his fugitives
in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who
remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then
you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:22">22 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some
of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I
will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a
tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty
mountain. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:23">23 </verse></sup>I will plant it in the mountain of the
height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and
bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind
will dwell in the shade of its branches. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 17:24">24 </verse></sup>All the
trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low
tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made
the dry tree flourish.
<br>
“ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”
#BCV:Ezekiel 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:2">2 </verse></sup>“What do you mean, that you use this proverb
concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
<br>
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:3">3 </verse></sup>“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not
use this proverb any more in Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, all
souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall
die.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:5">5 </verse></sup>“But if a man is just,
<br>
and does that which is lawful and right,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:6">6 </verse></sup>and has not eaten on the mountains,
hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel,
<br>
hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
<br>
hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:7">7 </verse></sup>and has not wronged any,
<br>
but has restored to the debtor his pledge,
has taken nothing by robbery,
<br>
has given his bread to the hungry,
<br>
and has covered the naked with a garment;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:8">8 </verse></sup>he who hasn’t lent to them with interest,
hasn’t taken any increase from them,
<br>
who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
has executed true justice between man and
man,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:9">9 </verse></sup>has walked in my statutes,
<br>
and has kept my ordinances,
<br>
to deal truly;
<br>
he is just,
<br>
he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:10">10 </verse></sup>“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds
blood, and who does any one of these things, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:11">11 </verse></sup>or
who does not do any of those things
<br>
but has eaten at the mountain shrines
and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:12">12 </verse></sup>has wronged the poor and needy,
<br>
has taken by robbery,
<br>
has not restored the pledge,
<br>
and has lifted up his eyes to the idols,
has committed abomination,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:13">13 </verse></sup>has lent with interest,
<br>
and has taken increase from the poor,
shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all
these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood
will be on him.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:14">14 </verse></sup>“Now, behold, if he fathers a son who sees all
his father’s sins which he has done, and fears, and
doesn’t do likewise,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:15">15 </verse></sup>who hasn’t eaten on the mountains,
hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the
house of Israel,
<br>
hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:16">16 </verse></sup>hasn’t wronged any,
<br>
hasn’t taken anything to pledge,
<br>
hasn’t taken by robbery,
<br>
but has given his bread to the hungry,
and has covered the naked with a garment;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:17">17 </verse></sup>who has withdrawn his hand from the poor,
who hasn’t received interest or increase,
has executed my ordinances,
<br>
has walked in my statutes;
<br>
he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He
shall surely live. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:18">18 </verse></sup>As for his father, because he
cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that
which is not good among his people, behold, he will
die in his iniquity.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:19">19 </verse></sup>“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the
iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done
that which is lawful and right, and has kept all
my statutes, and has done them, he will surely
live. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:20">20 </verse></sup>The soul who sins, he shall die. The son
shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither
shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The
righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:21">21 </verse></sup>“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that
he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and
does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely
live. He shall not die. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:22">22 </verse></sup>None of his transgressions
that he has committed will be remembered against
him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall
live. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Have I any pleasure in the death of the
wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather
that he should return from his way, and live?
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:24">24 </verse></sup>“But when the righteous turns away from
his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does
according to all the abominations that the wicked
man does, should he live? None of his righteous
deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his
trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that
he has sinned, in them he shall die.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:25">25 </verse></sup>“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’
Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal?
Aren’t your ways unequal? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:26">26 </verse></sup>When the righteous
man turns away from his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and dies in it, then he dies in his
iniquity that he has done. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Again, when the wicked
man turns away from his wickedness that he has
committed, and does that which is lawful and right,
he will save his soul alive. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Because he considers,
and turns away from all his transgressions that he
has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:29">29 </verse></sup>Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is
not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t
your ways unfair?

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel,
everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord
Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your
transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:31">31 </verse></sup>Cast away from you all your transgressions in
which you have transgressed; and make yourself
a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you
die, house of Israel? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 18:32">32 </verse></sup>For I have no pleasure in
the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

#BCV:Ezekiel 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:1">1 </verse></sup>“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the
princes of Israel, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:2">2 </verse></sup>and say,
<br>
‘What was your mother?
<br>
A lioness.
<br>
She couched among lions,
<br>
in the middle of the young lions she nourished
her cubs.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:3">3 </verse></sup>She brought up one of her cubs.
<br>
He became a young lion.
<br>
He learned to catch the prey.
<br>
He devoured men.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:4">4 </verse></sup>The nations also heard of him.
<br>
He was taken in their pit;
<br>
and they brought him with hooks to the land
of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘Now when she saw that she had waited,
and her hope was lost,
<br>
then she took another of her cubs,
<br>
and made him a young lion.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:6">6 </verse></sup>He went up and down among the lions.
He became a young lion.
<br>
He learned to catch the prey.
<br>
He devoured men.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:7">7 </verse></sup>He knew their palaces,
<br>
and laid waste their cities.
<br>
The land was desolate with its fullness,
because of the noise of his roaring.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the nations attacked him on every side from
the provinces.
<br>
They spread their net over him.
<br>
He was taken in their pit.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:9">9 </verse></sup>They put him in a cage with hooks,
<br>
and brought him to the king of Babylon.
They brought him into strongholds,
<br>
so that his voice should no more be heard on
the mountains of Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood,
planted by the waters.
<br>
It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of
many waters.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:11">11 </verse></sup>It had strong branches for the scepters of those
who ruled.
<br>
Their stature was exalted among the thick
boughs.
<br>
They were seen in their height
<br>
with the multitude of their branches.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:12">12 </verse></sup>But it was plucked up in fury.
<br>
It was cast down to the ground,
<br>
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were broken off and withered.
The fire consumed them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Fire has gone out of its branches.
It has devoured its fruit,
<br>
so that there is in it no strong branch to be a
scepter to rule.’
<br>
This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:1">1 </verse></sup>In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came
to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:3">3 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them,
‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that
you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I
will not be inquired of by you.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:4">4 </verse></sup>“Will you judge them, son of man? Will you
judge them? Cause them to know the abominations
of their fathers. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the
offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore
to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:6">6 </verse></sup>in that
day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of
Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them,
flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory
of all lands. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:7">7 </verse></sup>I said to them, ‘Each of you throw
away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile
yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh
your God.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t
listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations
of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the
idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my
wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against
them in the middle of the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:9">9 </verse></sup>But I
worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations among which
they were, in whose sight I made myself known to
them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:10">10 </verse></sup>So
I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt and
brought them into the wilderness. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:11">11 </verse></sup>I gave them my
statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if
a man does, he will live in them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:12">12 </verse></sup>Moreover also
I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me
in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes
and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man
keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned
my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath
on them in the wilderness, to consume them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:14">14 </verse></sup>But
I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not
be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose
sight I brought them out. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Moreover also I swore
to them in the wilderness that I would not bring
them into the land which I had given them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:16">16 </verse></sup>because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t
walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for
their heart went after their idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:17">17 </verse></sup>Nevertheless
my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I
didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:18">18 </verse></sup>I
said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk
in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their
ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:19">19 </verse></sup>I
am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep
my ordinances, and do them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Make my Sabbaths
holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that
you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They
didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my
ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he
shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Nevertheless I withdrew my hand and
worked for my name’s sake, that it should not
be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose
sight I brought them out. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:23">23 </verse></sup>Moreover I swore to
them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them
among the nations and disperse them through the
countries, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:24">24 </verse></sup>because they had not executed my
ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had
profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after
their fathers’ idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:25">25 </verse></sup>Moreover also I gave them
statutes that were not good, and ordinances in
which they couldn’t live. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:26">26 </verse></sup>I polluted them in their
own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the
womb to pass through the fire, that I might make
them desolate, to the end that they might know that
I am Yahweh.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:27">27 </verse></sup>“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house
of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed
me, in that they have committed a trespass against
me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:28">28 </verse></sup>For when I had brought them into the land
which I swore to give to them, then they saw every
high hill and every thick tree, and they offered
there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering. There they also made
their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out
their drink offerings. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:29">29 </verse></sup>Then I said to them, ‘What
does the high place where you go mean?’ So its
name is called Bamah<footnote:1>20:29 “Bamah” means “High Place”.</footnote> to this day.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:30">30 </verse></sup>“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way
of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after
their abominations? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:31">31 </verse></sup>When you offer your gifts,
when you make your sons pass through the fire, do
you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this
day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel?
As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired
of by you!

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:32">32 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “That which comes into your mind will not
be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations,
as the families of the countries, to serve wood and
stone.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:33">33 </verse></sup>As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely
with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and
with wrath poured out, I will be king over you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:34">34 </verse></sup>I
will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather
you out of the countries in which you are scattered
with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and
with wrath poured out. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:35">35 </verse></sup>I will bring you into the
wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into
judgment with you face to face. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:36">36 </verse></sup>Just as I entered
into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness
of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment
with you,” says the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:37">37 </verse></sup>“I will cause
you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into
the bond of the covenant. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:38">38 </verse></sup>I will purge out from
among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I
will bring them out of the land where they live, but
they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you
will know that I am Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:39">39 </verse></sup>“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh
says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter
also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no
more profane my holy name with your gifts and
with your idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:40">40 </verse></sup>For in my holy mountain, in
the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord
Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them,
shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them,
and there I will require your offerings and the first
fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:41">41 </verse></sup>I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of
the countries in which you have been scattered. I
will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:42">42 </verse></sup>You will know that I am Yahweh when I bring
you into the land of Israel, into the country which
I swore to give to your fathers. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:43">43 </verse></sup>There you will
remember your ways, and all your deeds in which
you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe
yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that
you have committed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:44">44 </verse></sup>You will know that I am
Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s
sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according
to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the
Lord Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:45><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:45">45 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:46><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:46">46 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, set your face toward the south, and preach
toward the south, and prophesy against the forest
of the field in the south. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:47><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:47">47 </verse></sup>Tell the forest of the
south, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says,
“Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour
every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The
burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces
from the south to the north will be burned by it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:48><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:48">48 </verse></sup>All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it.
It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 20:49><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 20:49">49 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me,
‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach
toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the
land of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh
says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my
sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you
the righteous and the wicked. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Seeing then that I
will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked,
therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against
all flesh from the south to the north. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:5">5 </verse></sup>All flesh will
know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of
its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:6">6 </verse></sup>“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh
before their eyes with a broken heart<footnote:1>21:6 literally, the breaking of your thighs </footnote> and with
bitterness. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:7">7 </verse></sup>It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do
you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news,
for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will
be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will
be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be
done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:9">9 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:
“A sword! A sword!
<br>
It is sharpened,
<br>
and also polished.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:10">10 </verse></sup>It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.
It is polished that it may be as lightning.
Should we then make mirth?
<br>
The rod of my son condemns every tree.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:11">11 </verse></sup>It is given to be polished,
<br>
that it may be handled.
<br>
The sword is sharpened.
<br>
Yes, it is polished
<br>
to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:12">12 </verse></sup>Cry and wail, son of man;
<br>
for it is on my people.
<br>
It is on all the princes of Israel.
<br>
They are delivered over to the sword with my
people.
<br>
Therefore beat your thigh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:13">13 </verse></sup>“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that
condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:14">14 </verse></sup>“You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
and strike your hands together.
<br>
Let the sword be doubled the third time,
the sword of the fatally wounded.
<br>
It is the sword of the great one who is fatally
wounded,
<br>
which enters into their rooms.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:15">15 </verse></sup>I have set the threatening sword against all their
gates,
<br>
that their heart may melt,
<br>
and their stumblings be multiplied.
<br>
Ah! It is made as lightning.
<br>
It is pointed for slaughter.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Gather yourselves together.
<br>
Go to the right.
<br>
Set yourselves in array.
<br>
Go to the left,
<br>
wherever your face is set.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:17">17 </verse></sup>I will also strike my hands together,
and I will cause my wrath to rest.
<br>
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:19">19 </verse></sup>“Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the
sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both
will come out of one land, and mark out a place.
Mark it out at the head of the way to the city. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:20">20 </verse></sup>You
shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah
of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem
the fortified. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:21">21 </verse></sup>For the king of Babylon stood at the
parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to
use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth.
He consulted the teraphim.<footnote:1>21:21 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> He looked in the liver.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:22">22 </verse></sup>In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set
battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter,
to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering
rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to
build forts. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:23">23 </verse></sup>It will be to them as a false divination
in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he
brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:24">24 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you
have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in
that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in
all your doings your sins appear; because you have
come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince
of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity
of the end, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:26">26 </verse></sup>the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove
the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be
as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that
which is high. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:27">27 </verse></sup>I will overturn, overturn, overturn
it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose
right it is; and I will give it.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:28">28 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘The
Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of
Ammon, and concerning their reproach:
“A sword! A sword is drawn!
<br>
It is polished for the slaughter,
<br>
to cause it to devour,
<br>
that it may be as lightning;

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:29">29 </verse></sup>while they see for you false visions,
while they divine lies to you,
<br>
to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly
wounded,
<br>
whose day has come in the time of the iniquity
of the end.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:30">30 </verse></sup>Cause it to return into its sheath.
In the place where you were created,
<br>
in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:31">31 </verse></sup>I will pour out my indignation on you.
I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.
I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,
skillful to destroy.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 21:32">32 </verse></sup>You will be for fuel to the fire.
<br>
Your blood will be in the middle of the land.
You will be remembered no more;
<br>
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:2">2 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge
<br>
the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her
abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that
her time may come, and that makes idols against
herself to defile her! <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:4">4 </verse></sup>You have become guilty in
your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in
your idols which you have made! You have caused
your days to draw near, and have come to the end of
your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach
to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:5">5 </verse></sup>Those who are near and those who are far from you
will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according
to his power, have been in you to shed
blood. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:7">7 </verse></sup>In you have they treated father and mother
with contempt.<footnote:1>22:7 Literally, made light of father and mother.</footnote> Among you they have oppressed
the foreigner. In you they have wronged the
fatherless and the widow. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:8">8 </verse></sup>You have despised
my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood.
In you they have eaten on the mountains. They
have committed lewdness among you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:10">10 </verse></sup>In you
have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In
you have they humbled her who was unclean in her
impurity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:11">11 </verse></sup>One has committed abomination with
his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled
his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled
his sister, his father’s daughter. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:12">12 </verse></sup>In you have they
taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest
and increase, and you have greedily gained of your
neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,”
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at
your dishonest gain which you have made, and at
the blood which has been shed within you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Can
your heart endure, or can your hands be strong,
in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh,
have spoken it, and will do it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:15">15 </verse></sup>I will scatter you
among the nations, and disperse you through the
countries. I will purge your filthiness out of you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:16">16 </verse></sup>You will be profaned in yourself in the sight of the
nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:18">18 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, the house of Israel has become dross to
me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in
the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of
silver. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because
you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will
gather you into the middle of Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:20">20 </verse></sup>As they
gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the
middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt
it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath,
and I will lay you there and melt you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:21">21 </verse></sup>Yes, I will
gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my
wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:22">22 </verse></sup>As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so
you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will
know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on
you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:24">24 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed
nor rained on in the day of indignation.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:25">25 </verse></sup>There is
a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring
lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls.
They take treasure and precious things. They have
made many widows within it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:26">26 </verse></sup>Her priests have
done violence to my law and have profaned my holy
things. They have made no distinction between the
holy and the common, neither have they caused
men to discern between the unclean and the clean,
and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So
I am profaned among them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:27">27 </verse></sup>Her princes within
it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood
and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest
gain. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:28">28 </verse></sup>Her prophets have plastered for them with
whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to
them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh
has not spoken. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:29">29 </verse></sup>The people of the land have used
oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have
troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed
the foreigner wrongfully.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:30">30 </verse></sup>“I sought for a man among them who would
build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for
the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no
one. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 22:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore I have poured out my indignation
on them. I have consumed them with the fire of
my wrath. I have brought their own way on their
heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

#BCV:Ezekiel 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, there were two women, the daughters
of one mother. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:3">3 </verse></sup>They played the prostitute in
Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth.
Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful
nipples were caressed there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Their names were
Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They
became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As
for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem
Oholibah.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:5">5 </verse></sup>“Oholah played the prostitute when she was
mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians
her neighbors, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:6">6 </verse></sup>who were clothed with blue —
governors and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding on horses. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:7">7 </verse></sup>She gave herself
as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest
men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols
of whoever she lusted after. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:8">8 </verse></sup>She hasn’t left her
prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth
they lay with her. They caressed her youthful
nipples and they poured out their prostitution on
her.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:9">9 </verse></sup>“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her
lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she
doted. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:10">10 </verse></sup>These uncovered her nakedness. They
took her sons and her daughters, and they killed
her with the sword. She became a byword among
women; for they executed judgments on her.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:11">11 </verse></sup>“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more
corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution
which was more depraved than the prostitution
of her sister. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:12">12 </verse></sup>She lusted after the Assyrians,
governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them
desirable young men. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:13">13 </verse></sup>I saw that she was defiled.
They both went the same way.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:14">14 </verse></sup>“She increased her prostitution; for she saw
men portrayed on the wall, the images of the
Chaldeans portrayed with red, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:15">15 </verse></sup>dressed with belts
on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads,
all of them looking like princes, after the likeness
of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their
birth. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:16">16 </verse></sup>As soon as she saw them, she lusted after
them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:17">17 </verse></sup>The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love,
and they defiled her with their prostitution. She
was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated
from them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:18">18 </verse></sup>So she uncovered her prostitution
and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was
alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated
from her sister. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet she multiplied her prostitution,
remembering the days of her youth, in which
she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:20">20 </verse></sup>She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the
flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of
horses. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:21">21 </verse></sup>Thus you called to memory the lewdness
of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by
the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:22">22 </verse></sup>“Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says:
‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from
whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them
against you on every side: <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:23">23 </verse></sup>the Babylonians and
all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young
men, governors and rulers, princes and men of
renown, all of them riding on horses. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:24">24 </verse></sup>They
will come against you with weapons, chariots, and
wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will
set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and
helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to
them, and they will judge you according to their
judgments. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:25">25 </verse></sup>I will set my jealousy against you,
and they will deal with you in fury. They will take
away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will
fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your
daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by
the fire. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:26">26 </verse></sup>They will also strip you of your clothes
and take away your beautiful jewels. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:27">27 </verse></sup>Thus I will
make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove
your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you
will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
Egypt any more.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:28">28 </verse></sup>“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will
deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate,
into the hand of them from whom your soul is
alienated. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:29">29 </verse></sup>They will deal with you in hatred, and
will take away all your labor, and will leave you
naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution
will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your
prostitution. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:30">30 </verse></sup>These things will be done to you
because you have played the prostitute after the
nations, and because you are polluted with their
idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:31">31 </verse></sup>You have walked in the way of your sister;
therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:32">32 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,
which is deep and large.
<br>
You will be ridiculed and held in derision.
It contains much.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:33">33 </verse></sup>You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with the cup of your sister Samaria.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:34">34 </verse></sup>You will even drink it and drain it out.
You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,
and will tear your breasts;
<br>
for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:35">35 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you
have forgotten me and cast me behind your back,
therefore you also bear your lewdness and your
prostitution.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:36">36 </verse></sup>Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man,
will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare
to them their abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:37">37 </verse></sup>For they have committed
adultery, and blood is in their hands. They
have committed adultery with their idols. They
have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me,
to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:38">38 </verse></sup>Moreover this they have done to me: they have
defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have
profaned my Sabbaths. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:39">39 </verse></sup>For when they had slain
their children to their idols, then they came the
same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and
behold, they have done this in the middle of my
house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:40">40 </verse></sup>“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men
who come from far away, to whom a messenger was
sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed
yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with
ornaments, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:41">41 </verse></sup>and sat on a stately bed, with a table
prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense
and my oil.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:42">42 </verse></sup>“The voice of a multitude being at ease was
with her. With men of the common sort were
brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they
put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns
on their heads. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:43">43 </verse></sup>Then I said of her who was old in
adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with
her, and she with them.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:44">44 </verse></sup>They went in to her, as
they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah
and to Oholibah, the lewd women. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:45><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:45">45 </verse></sup>Righteous men
will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses
and with the judgment of women who shed blood,
because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
hands.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:46><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:46">46 </verse></sup>“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a
mob against them, and will give them to be tossed
back and forth and robbed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:47><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:47">47 </verse></sup>The company will
stone them with stones and dispatch them with
their swords. They will kill their sons and their
daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:48><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:48">48 </verse></sup>“ ‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the
land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd
like you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 23:49><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 23:49">49 </verse></sup>They will recompense your lewdness on
you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then
you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came
to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of man, write the name of the
day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close
to Jerusalem this same day. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:3">3 </verse></sup>Utter a parable to the
rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says,
<br>
“Put the cauldron on the fire.
<br>
Put it on,
<br>
and also pour water into it.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:4">4 </verse></sup>Gather its pieces into it,
<br>
even every good piece:
<br>
the thigh and the shoulder.
<br>
Fill it with the choice bones.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Take the choice of the flock,
<br>
and also a pile of wood for the bones under the
cauldron.
<br>
Make it boil well.
<br>
Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“Woe to the bloody city,
<br>
to the cauldron whose rust is in it,
<br>
and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it!
Take out of it piece after piece
<br>
without casting lots for it.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “For the blood she shed is in the middle of her.
She set it on the bare rock.
<br>
She didn’t pour it on the ground,
<br>
to cover it with dust.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:8">8 </verse></sup>That it may cause wrath to come up to take
vengeance,
<br>
I have set her blood on the bare rock,
that it should not be covered.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“Woe to the bloody city!
<br>
I also will make the pile great.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Heap on the wood.
<br>
Make the fire hot.
<br>
Boil the meat well.
<br>
Make the broth thick,
<br>
and let the bones be burned.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Then set it empty on its coals,
<br>
that it may be hot,
<br>
and its bronze may burn,
<br>
and that its filthiness may be molten in it,
that its rust may be consumed.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:12">12 </verse></sup>She is weary with toil;
<br>
yet her great rust,
<br>
rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I
have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you
won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more,
until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen,
and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t
repent. According to your ways and according to
your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord
Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:15">15 </verse></sup>Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:16">16 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire
of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither
mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the
dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your
sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and
don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:18">18 </verse></sup>So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at
evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I
was commanded.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:19">19 </verse></sup>The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what
these things mean to us, that you act like this?”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came
to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:21">21 </verse></sup>‘Speak to the house of Israel,
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my
sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of
your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your
sons and your daughters whom you have left behind
will fall by the sword. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:22">22 </verse></sup>You will do as I have done.
You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:23">23 </verse></sup>Your turbans will be on your heads, and your
sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but
you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one
toward another. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:24">24 </verse></sup>Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you;
according to all that he has done, you will do. When
this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord
Yahweh.’ ” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:25">25 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day
when I take from them their strength, the joy
of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their heart —their sons and
their daughters— <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:26">26 </verse></sup>that in that day he who escapes
will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your
ears? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 24:27">27 </verse></sup>In that day your mouth will be opened to
him who has escaped, and you will speak and be no
more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they
will know that I am Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, set your face toward the children of Ammon,
and prophesy against them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Tell the children of
Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The
Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against
my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against
the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and
against the house of Judah when they went into
captivity, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:4">4 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I will deliver you to
the children of the east for a possession. They
will set their encampments in you and make their
dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they
will drink your milk. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:5">5 </verse></sup>I will make Rabbah a stable
for camels and the children of Ammon a resting
place for flocks. Then you will know that I am
Yahweh.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:6">6 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because
you have clapped your hands, stamped with the
feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul
against the land of Israel, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:7">7 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I have
stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you
for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from
the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the
countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know
that I am Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and
Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the
nations,’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:9">9 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I will open the side of
Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on its
frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth,
Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:10">10 </verse></sup>to the children of the
east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I
will give them for a possession, that the children
of Ammon may not be remembered among the
nations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:11">11 </verse></sup>I will execute judgments on Moab. Then
they will know that I am Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom
has dealt against the house of Judah by taking
vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken
revenge on them,” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:13">13 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord Yahweh
says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will
cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword
even to Dedan. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:14">14 </verse></sup>I will lay my vengeance on Edom
by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in
Edom according to my anger and according to my
wrath. Then they will know my vengeance,” says
the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the
Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken
vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with
perpetual hostility,” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:16">16 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord Yahweh
says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and
destroy the remnant of the sea coast. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 25:17">17 </verse></sup>I will
execute great vengeance on them with wrathful
rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh,
when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”
#BCV:Ezekiel 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:1">1 </verse></sup>In the eleventh year, in the first of the month,
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of man,
because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She
is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples
has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now
that she is laid waste;’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:3">3 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord Yahweh
says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause
many nations to come up against you, as the sea
causes its waves to come up. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:4">4 </verse></sup>They will destroy
the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will
also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare
rock. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:5">5 </verse></sup>She will be a place for the spreading of nets
in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says
the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the
nations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Her daughters who are in the field will be
slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am
Yahweh.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:7">7 </verse></sup>“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring
on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of
kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots,
with horsemen, and an army with many people.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:8">8 </verse></sup>He will kill your daughters in the field with the
sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a
mound against you, and raise up the buckler against
you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:9">9 </verse></sup>He will set his battering engines against your
walls, and with his axes he will break down your
towers. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:10">10 </verse></sup>By reason of the abundance of his horses,
their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at
the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of
the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men
enter into a city which is broken open. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:11">11 </verse></sup>He will
tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his
horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The
pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:12">12 </verse></sup>They will make a plunder of your riches and make
a prey of your merchandise. They will break down
your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. They
will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in
the middle of the waters. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:13">13 </verse></sup>I will cause the noise of
your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t
be heard any more. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:14">14 </verse></sup>I will make you a bare rock.
You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You
will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:15">15 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the
islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the
wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within
you? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:16">16 </verse></sup>Then all the princes of the sea will come
down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes,
and strip off their embroidered garments. They
will clothe themselves with trembling. They will
sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment,
and be astonished at you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:17">17 </verse></sup>They will take up a
lamentation over you, and tell you,
<br>
“How you are destroyed,
<br>
who were inhabited by seafaring men,
<br>
the renowned city,
<br>
who was strong in the sea,
<br>
she and her inhabitants,
<br>
who caused their terror to be on all who lived
there!”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the islands will tremble in the day of your
fall.
<br>
Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be
dismayed at your departure.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:19">19 </verse></sup>“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited,
when I bring up the deep on you, and the great
waters cover you, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:20">20 </verse></sup>then I will bring you down with
those who descend into the pit, to the people of old
time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts
of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not
inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the
living. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 26:21">21 </verse></sup>I will make you a terror, and you will no
more have any being. Though you are sought for,
yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord
Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:2">2 </verse></sup>“You,
son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:3">3 </verse></sup>and
tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who
are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the
Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“You, Tyre, have said,
<br>
‘I am perfect in beauty.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Your borders are in the heart of the seas.
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:5">5 </verse></sup>They have made all your planks of cypress trees
from Senir.
<br>
They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make
a mast for you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:6">6 </verse></sup>They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan.
They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in
cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:7">7 </verse></sup>Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work
from Egypt,
<br>
that it might be to you for a banner.
Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was
your awning.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:8">8 </verse></sup>The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your
rowers.
<br>
Your wise men, Tyre, were in you.
<br>
They were your pilots.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:9">9 </verse></sup>The old men of Gebal
<br>
and its wise men were your repairers of ship
seams in you.
<br>
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in
you
<br>
to deal in your merchandise.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army,
your men of war.
<br>
They hung the shield and helmet in you.
They showed your beauty.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:11">11 </verse></sup>The men of Arvad with your army were on your
walls all around,
<br>
and valiant men were in your towers.
<br>
They hung their shields on your walls all around.
They have perfected your beauty.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Tarshish was your merchant by reason of
the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for
your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your
traders. They traded the persons of men and vessels
of bronze for your merchandise.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “They of the house of Togarmah traded for
your wares with horses, war horses, and mules.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “The men of Dedan traded with you. Many
islands were the market of your hand. They brought
you horns of ivory and ebony in exchange.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Syria was your merchant by reason of the
multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your
wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work,
fine linen, coral, and rubies.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your
traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections,
honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Damascus was your merchant for the multitude
of your handiworks by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and
white wool.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:19">19 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your
wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were
among your merchandise.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Dedan was your merchant in precious saddle
blankets for riding.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were
your favorite dealers in lambs, rams, and goats. In
these, they were your merchants.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:22">22 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your
traders. They traded for your wares with the best of
all spices, all precious stones, and gold.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:23">23 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba,
Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:24">24 </verse></sup>These
were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of
blue and embroidered work, and in cedar chests
of rich clothing bound with cords, among your
merchandise.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for
your merchandise.
<br>
You were replenished
<br>
and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:26">26 </verse></sup>Your rowers have brought you into great waters.
The east wind has broken you in the heart of
the seas.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:27">27 </verse></sup>Your riches, your wares, your merchandise,
your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of
ship seams,
<br>
the dealers in your merchandise,
<br>
and all your men of war who are in you,
with all your company which is among you,
will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of
your ruin.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:28">28 </verse></sup>At the sound of the cry of your pilots,
the pasture lands will shake.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:29">29 </verse></sup>All who handle the oars,
<br>
the mariners and all the pilots of the sea,
will come down from their ships.
<br>
They will stand on the land,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:30">30 </verse></sup>and will cause their voice to be heard over
you,
<br>
and will cry bitterly.
<br>
They will cast up dust on their heads.
They will wallow in the ashes.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:31">31 </verse></sup>They will make themselves bald for you,
and clothe themselves with sackcloth.
They will weep for you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:32">32 </verse></sup>In their wailing they will take up a lamentation
for you,
<br>
and lament over you, saying,
<br>
‘Who is there like Tyre,
<br>
like her who is brought to silence in the middle
of the sea?’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:33">33 </verse></sup>When your wares came from the seas,
you filled many peoples.
<br>
You enriched the kings of the earth
<br>
with the multitude of your riches and of your
merchandise.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:34">34 </verse></sup>In the time that you were broken by the seas,
in the depths of the waters,
<br>
your merchandise and all your company fell
within you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:35">35 </verse></sup>All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished
at you,
<br>
and their kings are horribly afraid.
<br>
They are troubled in their face.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 27:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 27:36">36 </verse></sup>The merchants among the peoples hiss at you.
You have come to a terrible end,
<br>
and you will be no more.” ’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says:
<br>
“Because your heart is lifted up,
<br>
and you have said, ‘I am a god,
<br>
I sit in the seat of God,
<br>
in the middle of the seas;’
<br>
yet you are man,
<br>
and no god,
<br>
though you set your heart as the heart of a god—

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:3">3 </verse></sup>behold, you are wiser than Daniel.
<br>
There is no secret that is hidden from you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:4">4 </verse></sup>By your wisdom and by your understanding you
have gotten yourself riches,
<br>
and have gotten gold and silver into your
treasuries.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:5">5 </verse></sup>By your great wisdom
<br>
and by your trading you have increased your
riches,
<br>
and your heart is lifted up because of your
riches—”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“Because you have set your heart as the heart of
God,

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:7">7 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on
you,
<br>
the terrible of the nations.
<br>
They will draw their swords against the beauty of
your wisdom.
<br>
They will defile your brightness.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:8">8 </verse></sup>They will bring you down to the pit.
You will die the death of those who are slain
in the heart of the seas.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:9">9 </verse></sup>Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am
God’?
<br>
But you are man, and not God,
<br>
in the hand of him who wounds you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:10">10 </verse></sup>You will die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers;
<br>
for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:12">12 </verse></sup>“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king
of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“You were the seal of full measure,
<br>
full of wisdom,
<br>
and perfect in beauty.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:13">13 </verse></sup>You were in Eden,
<br>
the garden of God.
<br>
Every precious stone adorned you:
<br>
ruby, topaz, emerald,
<br>
chrysolite, onyx, jasper,

sapphire,<footnote:1>28:13 or, lapis lazuli</footnote> turquoise, and beryl.
<br>
Gold work of tambourines
<br>
and of pipes was in you.
<br>
They were prepared in the day that you were
created.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:14">14 </verse></sup>You were the anointed cherub who covers.
Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God.
You have walked up and down in the middle of
the stones of fire.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:15">15 </verse></sup>You were perfect in your ways from the day that
you were created,
<br>
until unrighteousness was found in you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:16">16 </verse></sup>By the abundance of your commerce, your insides
were filled with violence,
<br>
and you have sinned.
<br>
Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s
mountain.
<br>
I have destroyed you, covering cherub,
from the middle of the stones of fire.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:17">17 </verse></sup>Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of
your splendor.
<br>
I have cast you to the ground.
<br>
I have laid you before kings,
<br>
that they may see you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:18">18 </verse></sup>By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your commerce,
you have profaned your sanctuaries.
<br>
Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle
of you.
<br>
It has devoured you.
<br>
I have turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:19">19 </verse></sup>All those who know you among the peoples will
be astonished at you.
<br>
You have become a terror,
<br>
and you will exist no more.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:21">21 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy
against it, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:22">22 </verse></sup>and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I am against you, Sidon.
<br>
I will be glorified among you.
<br>
Then they will know that I am Yahweh,
when I have executed judgments in her,
and am sanctified in her.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:23">23 </verse></sup>For I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets.
<br>
The wounded will fall within her,
<br>
with the sword on her on every side.
<br>
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “There will no longer be a pricking brier to
the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that
are around them that scorned them. Then they will
know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered
the house of Israel from the peoples among
whom they are scattered, and am shown as holy
among them in the sight of the nations, then they
will dwell in their own land which I gave to my
servant Jacob. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 28:26">26 </verse></sup>They will dwell in it securely. Yes,
they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will
dwell securely when I have executed judgments on
all those around them who have treated them with
contempt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh
their God.” ’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 29:0
<P align="center"><h3>29</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:1">1 </verse></sup>In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the
twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to
me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of man, set your face against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him
and against all Egypt. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:3">3 </verse></sup>Speak and say, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster that lies in the middle of his
rivers,
<br>
that has said, ‘My river is my own,
<br>
and I have made it for myself.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:4">4 </verse></sup>I will put hooks in your jaws,
<br>
and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to
your scales.
<br>
I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers,
with all the fish of your rivers which stick to
your scales.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:5">5 </verse></sup>I’ll cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your rivers.
<br>
You’ll fall on the open field.
<br>
You won’t be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the animals of the earth
and to the birds of the sky.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I
am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed
to the house of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:7">7 </verse></sup>When they took hold of you
by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders.
When they leaned on you, you broke and paralyzed
all of their thighs.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I
will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man
and animal from you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:9">9 </verse></sup>The land of Egypt will be
a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that
I am Yahweh.
<br>
“ ‘ “Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and
I have made it,’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:10">10 </verse></sup>therefore, behold, I am against
you and against your rivers. I will make the land of
Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower
of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:11">11 </verse></sup>No
foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal
foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty
years. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:12">12 </verse></sup>I will make the land of Egypt a desolation
in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her
cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a
desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of
forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the
peoples where they were scattered. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:14">14 </verse></sup>I will reverse
the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return
into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth.
There they will be a lowly kingdom. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:15">15 </verse></sup>It will be
the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up
above the nations any more. I will diminish them
so that they will no longer rule over the nations.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:16">16 </verse></sup>It will no longer be the confidence of the house
of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they
turn to look after them. Then they will know that I
am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:17">17 </verse></sup>It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year,
in the first month, in the first day of the month,
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:18">18 </verse></sup>“Son of man,
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army
to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head
was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he
had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the
service that he had served against it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore
the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of
Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will
carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take
her prey. That will be the wages for his army. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:20">20 </verse></sup>I
have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for
which he served, because they worked for me,’ says
the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 29:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 29:21">21 </verse></sup>“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the
house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among
them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 30:0
<P align="center"><h3>30</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:3">3 </verse></sup>For the day is near,
<br>
even Yahweh’s day is near.
<br>
It will be a day of clouds,
<br>
a time of the nations.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:4">4 </verse></sup>A sword will come on Egypt,
<br>
and anguish will be in Ethiopia,
<br>
when the slain fall in Egypt.
<br>
They take away her multitude,
<br>
and her foundations are broken down.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub,
and the children of the land that is allied with them,
will fall with them by the sword.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘Yahweh says:
<br>
“They also who uphold Egypt will fall.
The pride of her power will come down.
They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of
Seveneh,”
<br>
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:7">7 </verse></sup>“They will be desolate in the middle of the countries
that are desolate.
<br>
Her cities will be among the cities that are
wasted.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:8">8 </verse></sup>They will know that I am Yahweh
<br>
when I have set a fire in Egypt,
<br>
and all her helpers are destroyed.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In that day messengers will go out from
before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians
afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day
of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease,
by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:11">11 </verse></sup>He and his people with him,
<br>
the terrible of the nations,
<br>
will be brought in to destroy the land.
They will draw their swords against Egypt,
and fill the land with the slain.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:12">12 </verse></sup>I will make the rivers dry,
<br>
and will sell the land into the hand of evil men.
I will make the land desolate,
<br>
and all that is therein,
<br>
by the hand of foreigners.
<br>
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“I will also destroy the idols,
<br>
and I will cause the images to cease from
Memphis.
<br>
There will be no more a prince from the land of
Egypt.
<br>
I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:14">14 </verse></sup>I will make Pathros desolate,
<br>
and will set a fire in Zoan,
<br>
and will execute judgments on No.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:15">15 </verse></sup>I will pour my wrath on Sin,
<br>
the stronghold of Egypt.
<br>
I will cut off the multitude of No.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:16">16 </verse></sup>I will set a fire in Egypt
<br>
Sin will be in great anguish.
<br>
No will be broken up.
<br>
Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:17">17 </verse></sup>The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall
by the sword.
<br>
They will go into captivity.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:18">18 </verse></sup>At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself,
when I break the yokes of Egypt there.
The pride of her power will cease in her.
As for her, a cloud will cover her,
<br>
and her daughters will go into captivity.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:19">19 </verse></sup>Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:20">20 </verse></sup>In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the
seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to
me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:21">21 </verse></sup>“Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been
bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to
bind it, that it may become strong to hold the sword.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his
arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken.
I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:23">23 </verse></sup>I
will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:24">24 </verse></sup>I will
strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms
of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of
Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded
man. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:25">25 </verse></sup>I will hold up the arms of the king of
Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall down.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh when I put
my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 30:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 30:26">26 </verse></sup>I
will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and
disperse them through the countries. Then they
will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 31:0
<P align="center"><h3>31</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:1">1 </verse></sup>In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the
first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and
his multitude:
<br>
‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with beautiful branches,
<br>
and with a forest-like shade,
<br>
of high stature;
<br>
and its top was among the thick boughs.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:4">4 </verse></sup>The waters nourished it.
<br>
The deep made it to grow.
<br>
Its rivers ran all around its plantation.
It sent out its channels to all the trees of the
field.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore its stature was exalted above all the
trees of the field;
<br>
and its boughs were multiplied.
<br>
Its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it spread them out.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:6">6 </verse></sup>All the birds of the sky made their nests in its
boughs.
<br>
Under its branches, all the animals of the field
gave birth to their young.
<br>
All great nations lived under its shadow.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:7">7 </verse></sup>Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches;
<br>
for its root was by many waters.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:8">8 </verse></sup>The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.
The cypress trees were not like its branches.
The pine trees were not like its branches;
nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in
its beauty.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:9">9 </verse></sup>I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
so that all the trees of Eden,
<br>
that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:10">10 </verse></sup>“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because
he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top
among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up
in his height, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:11">11 </verse></sup>I will deliver him into the hand of
the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal
with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:12">12 </verse></sup>Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut
him off and have left him. His branches have fallen
on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his
boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the
land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down
from his shadow and have left him. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:13">13 </verse></sup>All the birds
of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals
of the field will be on his branches, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:14">14 </verse></sup>to the end that
none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
in their stature, and don’t set their top among the
thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up
on their height, even all who drink water; for they
are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the
earth, among the children of men, with those who
go down to the pit.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:15">15 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when
he went down to Sheol,<footnote:1>31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead. </footnote> I caused a mourning. I
covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers.
The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to
mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted
for him. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:16">16 </verse></sup>I made the nations to shake at the sound
of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol<footnote:1>31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> with
those who descend into the pit. All the trees of
Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, were comforted in the lower parts of the
earth. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:17">17 </verse></sup>They also went down into Sheol with him
to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who
were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the
middle of the nations.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 31:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 31:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in
greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be
brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower
parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of
the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the
sword.
<br>
“ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the
Lord Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 32:0
<P align="center"><h3>32</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:1">1 </verse></sup>In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day of the month, “Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:2">2 </verse></sup>‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him,
<br>
“You were likened to a young lion of the nations;
yet you are as a monster in the seas.
You broke out with your rivers,
<br>
and troubled the waters with your feet,
and fouled their rivers.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:3">3 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“I will spread out my net on you with a company
of many peoples.
<br>
They will bring you up in my net.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:4">4 </verse></sup>I will leave you on the land.
<br>
I will cast you out on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on
you.
<br>
I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth
with you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:5">5 </verse></sup>I will lay your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your height.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:6">6 </verse></sup>I will also water the land in which you swim with
your blood,
<br>
even to the mountains.
<br>
The watercourses will be full of you.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:7">7 </verse></sup>When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens
and make its stars dark.
<br>
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
<br>
and the moon won’t give its light.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:8">8 </verse></sup>I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over
you,
<br>
and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:9">9 </verse></sup>“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples,
when I bring your destruction among the nations,
into the countries which you have not known.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:10">10 </verse></sup>Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you,
and their kings will be horribly afraid for you,
when I brandish my sword before them.
They will tremble at every moment,
<br>
every man for his own life,
<br>
in the day of your fall.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:11">11 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“The sword of the king of Babylon will come on
you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:12">12 </verse></sup>I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of
the mighty.
<br>
They are all the ruthless of the nations.
They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing,
and all its multitude will be destroyed.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:13">13 </verse></sup>I will destroy also all its animals from beside many
waters.
<br>
The foot of man won’t trouble them any more,
nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:14">14 </verse></sup>Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,”
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:15">15 </verse></sup>“When I make the land of Egypt desolate and
waste,
<br>
a land destitute of that of which it was full,
when I strike all those who dwell therein,
then they will know that I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they
will lament. The daughters of the nations will
lament with this. They will lament with it over
Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord
Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:17">17 </verse></sup>Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:18">18 </verse></sup>“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt,
and cast them down, even her and the daughters of
the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth,
with those who go down into the pit. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:19">19 </verse></sup>Whom do
you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with
the uncircumcised. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:20">20 </verse></sup>They will fall among those
who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to
the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:21">21 </verse></sup>The strong among the mighty will speak to him
out of the middle of Sheol<footnote:1>32:21 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> with those who help
him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie
still, slain by the sword.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:22">22 </verse></sup>“Asshur is there with all her company. Her
graves are all around her. All of them are slain,
fallen by the sword, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:23">23 </verse></sup>whose graves are set in the
uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is
around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:24">24 </verse></sup>“There is Elam and all her multitude around her
grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who
have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts
of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of
the living, and have borne their shame with those
who go down to the pit. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:25">25 </verse></sup>They have made Elam
a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her
graves are around her, all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the
land of the living, and they have borne their shame
with those who go down to the pit. He is put among
those who are slain.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:26">26 </verse></sup>“There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude.
Their graves are around them, all of them
uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused
their terror in the land of the living. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:27">27 </verse></sup>They
will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the
uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with
their weapons of war and have laid their swords
under their heads. Their iniquities are on their
bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the
land of the living.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:28">28 </verse></sup>“But you will be broken among the uncircumcised,
and will lie with those who are slain by the
sword.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:29">29 </verse></sup>“There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes,
who in their might are laid with those who are slain
by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised,
and with those who go down to the pit.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:30">30 </verse></sup>“There are the princes of the north, all of them,
and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the
slain. They are put to shame in the terror which
they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised
with those who are slain by the sword, and bear
their shame with those who go down to the pit.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:31">31 </verse></sup>“Pharaoh will see them and will be comforted
over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his
army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 32:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 32:32">32 </verse></sup>“For I have put his terror in the land of the living.
He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those
who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.

#BCV:Ezekiel 33:0
<P align="center"><h3>33</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, speak to the children of your people, and tell
them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the
people of the land take a man from among them,
and set him for their watchman, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:3">3 </verse></sup>if, when he sees
the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet
and warns the people, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:4">4 </verse></sup>then whoever hears the
sound of the trumpet and doesn’t heed the warning,
if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood
will be on his own head. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:5">5 </verse></sup>He heard the sound of the
trumpet and didn’t take warning. His blood will be
on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he
would have delivered his soul. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:6">6 </verse></sup>But if the watchman
sees the sword come and doesn’t blow the trumpet,
and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes
and takes any person from among them, he is taken
away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at
the watchman’s hand.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:7">7 </verse></sup>“So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman
to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word
from my mouth, and give them warnings from
me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:8">8 </verse></sup>When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you
will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the
wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his
iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:9">9 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to
turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he
will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your
soul.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:10">10 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You
say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us,
and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:11">11 </verse></sup>Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I
have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that
the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn
from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of
Israel?” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:12">12 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, tell the children of your
people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not
deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as
for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall
by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness;
neither will he who is righteous be able to live
by it in the day that he sins. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:13">13 </verse></sup>When I tell the
righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in
his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his
righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will
die in his iniquity that he has committed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:14">14 </verse></sup>Again,
when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” if
he turns from his sin and does that which is lawful
and right, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:15">15 </verse></sup>if the wicked restore the pledge, give
again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in
the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he will
surely live. He will not die. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:16">16 </verse></sup>None of his sins that
he has committed will be remembered against him.
He has done that which is lawful and right. He will
surely live.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way
of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way
is not fair. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:18">18 </verse></sup>When the righteous turns from his
righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even
die therein. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:19">19 </verse></sup>When the wicked turns from his
wickedness and does that which is lawful and right,
he will live by it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:20">20 </verse></sup>Yet you say, “The way of the Lord
is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of
you after his ways.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:21">21 </verse></sup>In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had
escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The
city has been defeated!” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:22">22 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh’s hand
had been on me in the evening, before he who had
escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until
he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was
opened, and I was no longer mute.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:24">24 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land
of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he
inherited the land; but we are many. The land is
given us for inheritance.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore tell them,
‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and
lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So
should you possess the land? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:26">26 </verse></sup>You stand on your
sword, you work abomination, and every one of you
defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess
the land?” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:27">27 </verse></sup>“You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“As I live, surely those who are in the waste places
will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the
open field to the animals to be devoured, and those
who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die
of the pestilence. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:28">28 </verse></sup>I will make the land a desolation
and an astonishment. The pride of her power will
cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so
that no one will pass through. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:29">29 </verse></sup>Then they will
know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land
a desolation and an astonishment because of all
their abominations which they have committed.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:30">30 </verse></sup>“As for you, son of man, the children of your
people talk about you by the walls and in the doors
of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone
to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what
the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:31">31 </verse></sup>They
come to you as the people come, and they sit before
you as my people, and they hear your words, but
don’t do them; for with their mouth they show
much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:32">32 </verse></sup>Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of
one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on
an instrument; for they hear your words, but they
don’t do them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 33:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 33:33">33 </verse></sup>“When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—
then they will know that a prophet has been among
them.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 34:0
<P align="center"><h3>34</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son
of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel.
Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The
Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel
who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds
feed the sheep? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:3">3 </verse></sup>You eat the fat. You clothe
yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you
don’t feed the sheep. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:4">4 </verse></sup>You haven’t strengthened
the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was
sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken.
You haven’t brought back that which was driven
away. You haven’t sought that which was lost,
but you have ruled over them with force and with
rigor. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:5">5 </verse></sup>They were scattered, because there was no
shepherd. They became food to all the animals of
the field, and were scattered. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:6">6 </verse></sup>My sheep wandered
through all the mountains and on every high hill.
Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface
of the earth. There was no one who searched or
sought.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s
word: <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:8">8 </verse></sup>“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely
because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep
became food to all the animals of the field, because
there was no shepherd, and my shepherds
didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:9">9 </verse></sup>therefore,
you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word!” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:10">10 </verse></sup>The Lord
Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I
will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them
to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds
won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my
sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food
for them.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself,
even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek
them out. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:12">12 </verse></sup>As a shepherd seeks out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep that are
scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will
deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:13">13 </verse></sup>I will bring
them out from the peoples, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them into their own
land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by
the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of
the country. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:14">14 </verse></sup>I will feed them with good pasture,
and their fold will be on the mountains of the height
of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold.
They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of
Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:15">15 </verse></sup>I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep,
and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:16">16 </verse></sup>“I will seek that which was lost, and
will bring back that which was driven away, and will
bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen
that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and
the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:17">17 </verse></sup>“As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says:
‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams
and the male goats. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:18">18 </verse></sup>Does it seem a small thing
to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you
must tread down with your feet the residue of your
pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but
must you foul the residue with your feet? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:19">19 </verse></sup>As for
my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden
with your feet, and they drink that which you have
fouled with your feet.’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:20">20 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them:
‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep
and the lean sheep. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:21">21 </verse></sup>Because you thrust with side
and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with
your horns, until you have scattered them abroad,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:22">22 </verse></sup>therefore I will save my flock, and they will no
more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and
sheep. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:23">23 </verse></sup>I will set up one shepherd over them,
and he will feed them, even my servant David. He
will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:24">24 </verse></sup>I,
Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David
prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace,
and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land.
They will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep
in the woods. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:26">26 </verse></sup>I will make them and the places
around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower
to come down in its season. There will be showers
of blessing. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:27">27 </verse></sup>The tree of the field will yield its fruit,
and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be
secure in their land. Then they will know that I am
Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke,
and have delivered them out of the hand of those
who made slaves of them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:28">28 </verse></sup>They will no more be
a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of
the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely,
and no one will make them afraid. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:29">29 </verse></sup>I will raise up
to them a plantation for renown, and they will no
more be consumed with famine in the land, and not
bear the shame of the nations any more. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:30">30 </verse></sup>They will
know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and
that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says
the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 34:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 34:31">31 </verse></sup>You my sheep, the sheep of my
pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord
Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 35:0
<P align="center"><h3>35</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and
prophesy against it, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:3">3 </verse></sup>and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I
will stretch out my hand against you. I will make
you a desolation and an astonishment. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:4">4 </verse></sup>I will lay
your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you
will know that I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:5">5 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Because you have had a perpetual hostility,
and have given over the children of Israel to the
power of the sword in the time of their calamity,
in the time of the iniquity of the end, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:6">6 </verse></sup>therefore,
as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you
for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you
have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue
you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:7">7 </verse></sup>Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment
and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who
passes through and him who returns. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:8">8 </verse></sup>I will fill its
mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword
will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all
your watercourses. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:9">9 </verse></sup>I will make you a perpetual
desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations
and these two countries will be mine, and we will
possess it,’ although Yahweh was there, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:11">11 </verse></sup>therefore,
as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according
to your anger, and according to your envy which
you have shown out of your hatred against them;
and I will make myself known among them when
I judge you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:12">12 </verse></sup>You will know that I, Yahweh,
have heard all your insults which you have spoken
against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have
been laid desolate. They have been given to us to
devour.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:13">13 </verse></sup>You have magnified yourselves against
me with your mouth, and have multiplied your
words against me. I have heard it.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:14">14 </verse></sup>The Lord
Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I
will make you desolate. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 35:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 35:15">15 </verse></sup>As you rejoiced over the
inheritance of the house of Israel because it was
desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate,
Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they
will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 36:0
<P align="center"><h3>36</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:1">1 </verse></sup>You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear
Yahweh’s word. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:2">2 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because
the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and,
“The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:3">3 </verse></sup>therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “Because, even because they have made you
desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that
you might be a possession to the residue of the
nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers,
and the evil report of the people;” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:4">4 </verse></sup>therefore, you
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the
valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities
that are forsaken, which have become a prey and
derision to the residue of the nations that are all
around; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:5">5 </verse></sup>therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely
in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against
the residue of the nations, and against all Edom,
that have appointed my land to themselves for a
possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore
prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell
the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the
valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have
spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you
have borne the shame of the nations.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore
the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the
nations that are around you will bear their shame.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:8">8 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot
out your branches and yield your fruit to my people
Israel; for they are at hand to come. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:9">9 </verse></sup>For, behold, I
am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be
tilled and sown. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:10">10 </verse></sup>I will multiply men on you, all
the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be
inhabited and the waste places will be built. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:11">11 </verse></sup>I will
multiply man and animal on you. They will increase
and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as
you were before, and you will do better than at your
beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:12">12 </verse></sup>Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my
people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be
their inheritance, and you will never again bereave
them of their children.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say
to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been
a bereaver of your nation;’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:14">14 </verse></sup>therefore you shall
devour men no more, and not bereave your nation
any more,” says the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:15">15 </verse></sup>“I won’t let you
hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t
bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you
won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says
the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:16">16 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:17">17 </verse></sup>“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived
in their own land, they defiled it by their ways
and by their deeds. Their way before me was
as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for
the blood which they had poured out on the land,
and because they had defiled it with their idols. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:19">19 </verse></sup>I
scattered them among the nations, and they were
dispersed through the countries. I judged them
according to their way and according to their deeds.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:20">20 </verse></sup>When they came to the nations where they went,
they profaned my holy name, in that men said of
them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his
land.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:21">21 </verse></sup>But I had respect for my holy name, which
the house of Israel had profaned among the nations
where they went.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:22">22 </verse></sup>“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house
of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have
profaned among the nations where you went. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:23">23 </verse></sup>I
will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned
among the nations, which you have profaned
among them. Then the nations will know that I am
Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven
holy in you before their eyes.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “For I will take you from among the nations
and gather you out of all the countries, and will
bring you into your own land. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:25">25 </verse></sup>I will sprinkle clean
water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse
you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:26">26 </verse></sup>I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a
new spirit within you. I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart
of flesh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:27">27 </verse></sup>I will put my Spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my
ordinances and do them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:28">28 </verse></sup>You will dwell in the
land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my
people, and I will be your God. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:29">29 </verse></sup>I will save you from
all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and
will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:30">30 </verse></sup>I will
multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the
field, that you may receive no more the reproach of
famine among the nations.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:31">31 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Then you will remember your evil ways,
and your deeds that were not good; and you will
loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities
and for your abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:32">32 </verse></sup>I don’t do this for
your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known
to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:33">33 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I
cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the
cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be
built. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:34">34 </verse></sup>The land that was desolate will be tilled
instead of being a desolation in the sight of all
who passed by. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:35">35 </verse></sup>They will say, ‘This land that
was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.
The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified
and inhabited.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:36">36 </verse></sup>Then the nations that are left
around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the
ruined places and planted that which was desolate.
I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:37">37 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover,
I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it
for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 36:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 36:38">38 </verse></sup>As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem
in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be
filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that
I am Yahweh.’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 37:0
<P align="center"><h3>37</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought
me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in
the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:2">2 </verse></sup>He caused me to pass by them all around; and
behold, there were very many in the open valley,
and behold, they were very dry. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to me,
“Son of man, can these bones live?”
<br>
I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:4">4 </verse></sup>Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these
bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s
word. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:5">5 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh says to these bones:
“Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and
you will live. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:6">6 </verse></sup>I will lay sinews on you, and will bring
up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know
that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:7">7 </verse></sup>So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold, there was an
earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone
to its bone. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:8">8 </verse></sup>I saw, and, behold, there were sinews
on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them
above; but there was no breath in them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:9">9 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath,
and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:10">10 </verse></sup>So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up
on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:11">11 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our
bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are
completely cut off.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore prophesy, and tell
them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open
your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land
of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:13">13 </verse></sup>You will know that I am Yahweh, when
I have opened your graves and caused you to come
up out of your graves, my people. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:14">14 </verse></sup>I will put my
Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you
in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh,
have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:16">16 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, take one stick and write on
it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his
companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on
it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the
house of Israel his companions.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:17">17 </verse></sup>Then join them
for yourself to one another into one stick, that they
may become one in your hand.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:18">18 </verse></sup>“When the children of your people speak to
you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean
by these?’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:19">19 </verse></sup>tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in
the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
companions; and I will put them with it, with the
stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
will be one in my hand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:20">20 </verse></sup>The sticks on which you
write will be in your hand before their eyes.” ’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:21">21 </verse></sup>Say
to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the nations where
they have gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:22">22 </verse></sup>I will make
them one nation in the land, on the mountains of
Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will
no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:23">23 </verse></sup>They won’t
defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their
transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will
be their God.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them.
They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk
in my ordinances and observe my statutes, and do
them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:25">25 </verse></sup>They will dwell in the land that I have given
to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived.
They will dwell therein, they, and their children,
and their children’s children, forever. David my
servant will be their prince forever. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:26">26 </verse></sup>Moreover I
will make a covenant of peace with them. It will
be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place
them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary
among them forever more. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:27">27 </verse></sup>My tent also will be
with them. I will be their God, and they will be my
people. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 37:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 37:28">28 </verse></sup>The nations will know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among
them forever more.” ’ ”

#BCV:Ezekiel 38:0
<P align="center"><h3>38</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:2">2 </verse></sup>“Son of
man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of
Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and
prophesy against him, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:3">3 </verse></sup>and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh
says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:4">4 </verse></sup>I will turn you around, and
put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out,
with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of
them clothed in full armor, a great company with
buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:5">5 </verse></sup>Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with
shield and helmet; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:6">6 </verse></sup>Gomer, and all his hordes; the
house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the
north, and all his hordes—even many peoples with
you.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and
all your companies who are assembled to you, and
be a guard to them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:8">8 </verse></sup>After many days you will be
visited. In the latter years you will come into the
land that is brought back from the sword, that is
gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains
of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but
it is brought out of the peoples and they will dwell
securely, all of them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:9">9 </verse></sup>You will ascend. You will
come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover
the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples
with you.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in
that day that things will come into your mind, and
you will devise an evil plan. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:11">11 </verse></sup>You will say, ‘I will
go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go
to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of
them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:12">12 </verse></sup>to take the plunder and to take
prey; to turn your hand against the waste places
that are inhabited, and against the people who
are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten
livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of
the earth.’ <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:13">13 </verse></sup>Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of
Tarshish, with all its young lions, will ask you, ‘Have
you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled
your company to take the prey, to carry away silver
and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take
great plunder?’ ” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:14">14 </verse></sup>“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell
Gog, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In that day when
my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know
it? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:15">15 </verse></sup>You will come from your place out of the
uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples
with you, all of them riding on horses, a great
company and a mighty army. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:16">16 </verse></sup>You will come up
against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land.
It will happen in the latter days that I will bring
you against my land, that the nations may know me
when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom
I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of
Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that
I would bring you against them? <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:18">18 </verse></sup>It will happen
in that day, when Gog comes against the land of
Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will
come up into my nostrils. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:19">19 </verse></sup>For in my jealousy and
in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in
that day there will be a great shaking in the land
of Israel, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:20">20 </verse></sup>so that the fish of the sea, the birds of
the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things
who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on
the surface of the earth will shake at my presence.
Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep
places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:21">21 </verse></sup>I will call for a sword against him to all my
mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s
sword will be against his brother. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:22">22 </verse></sup>I will enter into
judgment with him with pestilence and with blood.
I will rain on him, on his hordes, and on the many
peoples who are with him, torrential rains with
great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 38:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 38:23">23 </verse></sup>I will magnify
myself and sanctify myself, and I will make myself
known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will
know that I am Yahweh.” ’

#BCV:Ezekiel 39:0
<P align="center"><h3>39</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:1">1 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and
say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against
you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:2">2 </verse></sup>I
will turn you around, will lead you on, and will cause
you to come up from the uttermost parts of the
north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of
Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:3">3 </verse></sup>I will strike your bow out of your left hand,
and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right
hand. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:4">4 </verse></sup>You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you,
and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with
you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every
sort and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:5">5 </verse></sup>You will fall on the open field, for I have spoken it,”
says the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:6">6 </verse></sup>“I will send a fire on Magog
and on those who dwell securely in the islands.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my
people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be
profaned any more. Then the nations will know that
I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, it
comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“This is the day about which I have spoken.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will
go out and will make fires of the weapons and
burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the
bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the
spears, and they will make fires with them for seven
years; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:10">10 </verse></sup>so that they will take no wood out of the
field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for
they will make fires with the weapons. They will
plunder those who plundered them, and rob those
who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “It will happen in that day, that I will give to
Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those
who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will
stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog
and all his multitude there, and they will call it ‘The
valley of Hamon Gog’.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:12">12 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “The house of Israel will be burying them
for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:13">13 </verse></sup>Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and
they will become famous in the day that I will be
glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:14">14 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “They will set apart men of continual employment
who will pass through the land. Those
who pass through will go with those who bury those
who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse
it. After the end of seven months they will search.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:15">15 </verse></sup>Those who search through the land will pass
through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then
he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have
buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:16">16 </verse></sup>Hamonah
will also be the name of a city. Thus they will
cleanse the land.” ’

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:17">17 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak
to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of
the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice
for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains
of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:18">18 </verse></sup>You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the
blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs,
and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood
until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall be filled at my table
with horses and charioteers, with mighty men, and
with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:21">21 </verse></sup>“I will set my glory among the nations. Then
all the nations will see my judgment that I have
executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:22">22 </verse></sup>So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh
their God, from that day and forward. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:23">23 </verse></sup>The
nations will know that the house of Israel went into
captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed
against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave
them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all
fell by the sword. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:24">24 </verse></sup>I did to them according to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions.
I hid my face from them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:25">25 </verse></sup>“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will
reverse the captivity of Jacob and have mercy on the
whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy
name. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:26">26 </verse></sup>They will forget their shame and all their
trespasses by which they have trespassed against
me, when they dwell securely in their land. No one
will make them afraid <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:27">27 </verse></sup>when I have brought them
back from the peoples, gathered them out of their
enemies’ lands, and am shown holy among them
in the sight of many nations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:28">28 </verse></sup>They will know
that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them
to go into captivity among the nations, and have
gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave
none of them captive any more. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 39:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 39:29">29 </verse></sup>I won’t hide my
face from them any more, for I have poured out my
Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 40:0
<P align="center"><h3>40</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:1">1 </verse></sup>In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month,
in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in
the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he
brought me there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:2">2 </verse></sup>In the visions of God he brought
me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very
high mountain, on which was something like the
frame of a city to the south. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:3">3 </verse></sup>He brought me there;
and, behold, there was a man whose appearance
was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax
in his hand and a measuring reed; and he stood in
the gate. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:4">4 </verse></sup>The man said to me, “Son of man, see
with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set
your heart on all that I will show you; for you have
been brought here so that I may show them to you.
Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, there was a wall on the outside of
the house all around, and in the man’s hand a
measuring reed six cubits<footnote:1>40:5 A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimeters, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimeters long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 meters long.</footnote> long, of a cubit and a
hand width each. So he measured the thickness of
the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he came to the gate which looks toward
the east, and went up its steps. He measured the
threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other
threshold, one reed wide. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:7">7 </verse></sup>Every lodge was one
reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges
was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the
porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:8">8 </verse></sup>He measured also the porch of the gate toward
the house, one reed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:9">9 </verse></sup>Then he measured the porch
of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits;
and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:10">10 </verse></sup>The side rooms of the gate eastward were
three on this side, and three on that side. The
three of them were of one measure. The posts had
one measure on this side and on that side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:11">11 </verse></sup>He
measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten
cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:12">12 </verse></sup>and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this
side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the
side rooms, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:13">13 </verse></sup>He measured the gate from the roof of
the one side room to the roof of the other, a width
of twenty-five cubits, door against door. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:14">14 </verse></sup>He also
made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to
the posts, around the gate. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:15">15 </verse></sup>From the forefront
of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the
inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:16">16 </verse></sup>There
were closed windows to the side rooms, and to their
posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the
arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees
were on each post.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:17">17 </verse></sup>Then he brought me into the outer court.
Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made
for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on
the pavement. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:18">18 </verse></sup>The pavement was by the side of
the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates,
even the lower pavement. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:19">19 </verse></sup>Then he measured the
width from the forefront of the lower gate to the
forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred
cubits, both on the east and on the north.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:20">20 </verse></sup>He measured the length and width of the gate
of the outer court which faces toward the north.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:21">21 </verse></sup>The lodges of it were three on this side and three
on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same
as the measure of the first gate: its length was
fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:22">22 </verse></sup>Its
windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the
same as the measure of the gate which faces toward
the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its
arches were before them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:23">23 </verse></sup>There was a gate to the
inner court facing the other gate, on the north and
on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from
gate to gate.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:24">24 </verse></sup>He led me toward the south; and behold, there
was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts
and its arches according to these measurements.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:25">25 </verse></sup>There were windows in it and in its arches all
around, like the other windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:26">26 </verse></sup>There
were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were
before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and
another on that side, on its posts. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:27">27 </verse></sup>There was a gate
to the inner court toward the south. He measured
one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the
south.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:28">28 </verse></sup>Then he brought me to the inner court by the
south gate. He measured the south gate according
to these measurements; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:29">29 </verse></sup>with its lodges, its posts,
and its arches, according to these measurements.
There were windows in it and in its arches all
around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits
wide. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:30">30 </verse></sup>There were arches all around, twentyfive
cubits long and five cubits wide. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:31">31 </verse></sup>Its arches
were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its
posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:32">32 </verse></sup>He brought me into the inner court toward
the east. He measured the gate according to these
measurements; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:33">33 </verse></sup>with its lodges, its posts, and its
arches, according to these measurements. There
were windows in it and in its arches all around. It
was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:34">34 </verse></sup>Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees
were on its posts on this side and on that side. The
ascent to it had eight steps.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:35">35 </verse></sup>He brought me to the north gate, and he
measured it according to these measurements —
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:36><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:36">36 </verse></sup>its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were
windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits
and the width twenty-five cubits. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:37><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:37">37 </verse></sup>Its posts were
toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts
on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had
eight steps.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:38><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:38">38 </verse></sup>A room with its door was by the posts at the
gates. They washed the burnt offering there. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:39><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:39">39 </verse></sup>In
the porch of the gate were two tables on this side
and two tables on that side, on which to kill the
burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass
offering. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:40><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:40">40 </verse></sup>On the one side outside, as one goes
up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were
two tables; and on the other side, which belonged
to the porch of the gate, were two tables. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:41><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:41">41 </verse></sup>Four
tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they
killed the sacrifices. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:42><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:42">42 </verse></sup>There were four cut stone
tables for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long,
a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid
the instruments with which they killed the burnt
offering and the sacrifice on them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:43><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:43">43 </verse></sup>The hooks, a
hand width long, were fastened within all around.
The meat of the offering was on the tables.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:44><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:44">44 </verse></sup>Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the
singers in the inner court, which was at the side of
the north gate. They faced toward the south. One
at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:45><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:45">45 </verse></sup>He said to me, “This room, which faces toward
the south, is for the priests who perform the duty
of the house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:46><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:46">46 </verse></sup>The room which faces toward the
north is for the priests who perform the duty of the
altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among
the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to
him.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:47><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:47">47 </verse></sup>He measured the court, one hundred cubits
long and one hundred cubits wide, square. The altar
was before the house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:48><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:48">48 </verse></sup>Then he brought me to the porch of the house,
and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on
this side, and five cubits on that side. The width
of the gate was three cubits on this side and three
cubits on that side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 40:49><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 40:49">49 </verse></sup>The length of the porch was
twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits, even by
the steps by which they went up to it. There were
pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on
that side.

#BCV:Ezekiel 41:0
<P align="center"><h3>41</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:1">1 </verse></sup>He brought me to the nave and measured the
posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits
wide on the other side, which was the width of the
tent. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:2">2 </verse></sup>The width of the entrance was ten cubits,<footnote:1>41:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on
the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He
measured its length, forty cubits, and the width,
twenty cubits.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:3">3 </verse></sup>Then he went inward and measured each post
of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six
cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:4">4 </verse></sup>He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the
width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to
me, “This is the most holy place.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:5">5 </verse></sup>Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits;
and the width of every side room, four cubits,
all around the house on every side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:6">6 </verse></sup>The side rooms
were in three stories, one over another, and thirty
in each story. They entered into the wall which
belonged to the house for the side rooms all around,
that they might be supported and not penetrate the
wall of the house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:7">7 </verse></sup>The side rooms were wider on
the higher levels, because the walls were narrower
at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the
house increased upward; and so one went up from
the lowest level to the highest through the middle
level.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:8">8 </verse></sup>I saw also that the house had a raised base all
around. The foundations of the side rooms were a
full reed of six great cubits. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:9">9 </verse></sup>The thickness of the
outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That
which was left was the place of the side rooms that
belonged to the house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:10">10 </verse></sup>Between the rooms was a
width of twenty cubits around the house on every
side. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:11">11 </verse></sup>The doors of the side rooms were toward an
open area that was left, one door toward the north,
and another door toward the south. The width of
the open area was five cubits all around.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:12">12 </verse></sup>The building that was before the separate place
at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide;
and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all
around, and its length ninety cubits.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:13">13 </verse></sup>So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits
long; and the separate place, and the building, with
its walls, one hundred cubits long; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:14">14 </verse></sup>also the width
of the face of the temple, and of the separate place
toward the east, one hundred cubits.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:15">15 </verse></sup>He measured the length of the building before
the separate place which was at its back, and its
galleries on the one side and on the other side,
one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the
porches of the court, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:16">16 </verse></sup>the thresholds, and the
closed windows, and the galleries around on their
three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood
ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the
windows, (now the windows were covered), <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:17">17 </verse></sup>to the
space above the door, even to the inner house, and
outside, and by all the wall all around inside and
outside, by measure. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:18">18 </verse></sup>It was made with cherubim
and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub
and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:19">19 </verse></sup>so
that there was the face of a man toward the palm
tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion
toward the palm tree on the other side. It was
made like this through all the house all around.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:20">20 </verse></sup>Cherubim and palm trees were made from the
ground to above the door. The wall of the temple
was like this.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:21">21 </verse></sup>The door posts of the nave were squared. As
for the face of the nave, its appearance was as
the appearance of the temple. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:22">22 </verse></sup>The altar was of
wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits.
Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood.
He said to me, “This is the table that is before
Yahweh.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:23">23 </verse></sup>The temple and the sanctuary had two
doors. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:24">24 </verse></sup>The doors had two leaves each, two turning
leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the
other. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:25">25 </verse></sup>There were made on them, on the doors of
the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made
on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on
the face of the porch outside. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 41:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 41:26">26 </verse></sup>There were closed
windows and palm trees on the one side and on the
other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the
side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were
arranged.

#BCV:Ezekiel 42:0
<P align="center"><h3>42</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:1">1 </verse></sup>Then he brought me out into the outer court,
the way toward the north. Then he brought me
into the room that was opposite the separate place,
and which was opposite the building toward the
north. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:2">2 </verse></sup>Facing the length of one hundred cubits<footnote:1>42:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote>
was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:3">3 </verse></sup>Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to
the inner court, and opposite the pavement which
belonged to the outer court, was gallery against
gallery in the three stories. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:4">4 </verse></sup>Before the rooms was
a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one
cubit; and their doors were toward the north. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:5">5 </verse></sup>Now
the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took
away from these more than from the lower and the
middle in the building. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:6">6 </verse></sup>For they were in three
stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars
of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set
back more than the lowest and the middle from the
ground. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:7">7 </verse></sup>The wall that was outside by the side of
the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms,
was fifty cubits long. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:8">8 </verse></sup>For the length of the rooms
that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold,
those facing the temple were one hundred cubits.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:9">9 </verse></sup>From under these rooms was the entry on the east
side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:10">10 </verse></sup>In the thickness of the wall of the court toward
the east, before the separate place, and before the
building, there were rooms. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:11">11 </verse></sup>The way before them
was like the appearance of the rooms which were
toward the north. Their length and width were the
same. All their exits had the same arrangement
and doors. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:12">12 </verse></sup>Like the doors of the rooms that were
toward the south was a door at the head of the way,
even the way directly before the wall toward the
east, as one enters into them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:13">13 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the
south rooms, which are opposite the separate place,
are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near
to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There
they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal
offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering;
for the place is holy. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:14">14 </verse></sup>When the priests enter in,
then they shall not go out of the holy place into the
outer court until they lay their garments in which
they minister there; for they are holy. Then they
shall put on other garments, and shall approach
that which is for the people.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:15">15 </verse></sup>Now when he had finished measuring the inner
house, he brought me out by the way of the gate
which faces toward the east, and measured it all
around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:16">16 </verse></sup>He measured on the east side with
the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:17">17 </verse></sup>He measured on the
north side five hundred reeds with the measuring
reed all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:18">18 </verse></sup>He measured on the south side
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:19">19 </verse></sup>He
turned about to the west side, and measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 42:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 42:20">20 </verse></sup>He
measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around
it, the length five hundred cubits, and the width five
hundred cubits, to make a separation between that
which was holy and that which was common.

#BCV:Ezekiel 43:0
<P align="center"><h3>43</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:1">1 </verse></sup>Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the
gate that looks toward the east. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, the glory
of the God of Israel came from the way of the east.
His voice was like the sound of many waters; and
the earth was illuminated with his glory. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:3">3 </verse></sup>It was
like the appearance of the vision which I saw, even
according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of
the gate which faces toward the east. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:5">5 </verse></sup>The Spirit
took me up and brought me into the inner court;
and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:6">6 </verse></sup>I heard one speaking to me out of the house,
and a man stood by me. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of
man, this is the place of my throne and the place
of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among
the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel
will no more defile my holy name, neither they nor
their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead
bodies of their kings in their high places; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:8">8 </verse></sup>in their
setting of their threshold by my threshold and their
door post beside my door post. There was a wall
between me and them; and they have defiled my
holy name by their abominations which they have
committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my
anger. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:9">9 </verse></sup>Now let them put away their prostitution,
and the dead bodies of their kings far from me. Then
I will dwell among them forever.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:10">10 </verse></sup>“You, son of man, show the house to the
house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their
iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:11">11 </verse></sup>If
they are ashamed of all that they have done, make
known to them the form of the house, its fashion, its
exits, its entrances, its structure, all its ordinances,
all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their
sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and
all its ordinances, and do them.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:12">12 </verse></sup>“This is the law of the house. On the top of the
mountain the whole limit around it shall be most
holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:13">13 </verse></sup>“These are the measurements of the altar by
cubits (the cubit<footnote:1>43:13 A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. A hand width is about 4.3 inches or 11 cm. </footnote> is a cubit and a hand width): the
bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and
its border around its edge a span;<footnote:1>43:13 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)</footnote> and this shall
be the base of the altar. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:14">14 </verse></sup>From the bottom on the
ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and
the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to
the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width
a cubit. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:15">15 </verse></sup>The upper altar shall be four cubits; and
from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four
horns. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:16">16 </verse></sup>The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long
by twelve wide, square in its four sides. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:17">17 </verse></sup>The ledge
shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its
four sides; and the border about it shall be half a
cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its
steps shall look toward the east.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord Yahweh
says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the
day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on
it, and to sprinkle blood on it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:19">19 </verse></sup>You shall give to the
Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok,
who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord
Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:20">20 </verse></sup>You shall
take of its blood and put it on its four horns, and on
the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all
around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement
for it that way. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:21">21 </verse></sup>You shall also take the bull of the
sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed
place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:22">22 </verse></sup>“On the second day you shall offer a male goat
without defect for a sin offering; and they shall
cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:23">23 </verse></sup>When you have finished cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without defect and a ram out of
the flock without defect. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:24">24 </verse></sup>You shall bring them
near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on
them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt
offering to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:25">25 </verse></sup>“Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat
for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young
bull and a ram out of the flock, without defect.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:26">26 </verse></sup>Seven days shall they make atonement for the
altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 43:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 43:27">27 </verse></sup>When they have accomplished the days, it shall
be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests
shall make your burnt offerings on the altar and
your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says
the Lord Yahweh.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 44:0
<P align="center"><h3>44</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:1">1 </verse></sup>Then he brought me back by the way of the
outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the
east; and it was shut. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “This
gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man
shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel,
has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:3">3 </verse></sup>As
for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread
before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the
porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:4">4 </verse></sup>Then he brought me by the way of the north
gate before the house; and I looked, and behold,
Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my
face.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and
see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that
I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s
house and all its laws; and mark well the entrance
of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:6">6 </verse></sup>You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of
Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel,
let that be enough of all your abominations, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:7">7 </verse></sup>in
that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised
in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when
you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and
they have broken my covenant, to add to all your
abominations. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:8">8 </verse></sup>You have not performed the duty
of my holy things; but you have set performers of
my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.” <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:9">9 </verse></sup>The
Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in
heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into
my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the
children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:10">10 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me when
Israel went astray, who went astray from me after
their idols, they will bear their iniquity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:11">11 </verse></sup>Yet
they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having
oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering
in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and
the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand
before them to minister to them. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:12">12 </verse></sup>Because they
ministered to them before their idols, and became
a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel,
therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,”
says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their
iniquity. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:13">13 </verse></sup>They shall not come near to me, to
execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near
to any of my holy things, to the things that are
most holy; but they will bear their shame and their
abominations which they have committed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:14">14 </verse></sup>Yet
I will make them performers of the duty of the
house, for all its service and for all that will be done
therein.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:15">15 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok,
who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, shall come
near to me to minister to me. They shall stand
before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,”
says the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:16">16 </verse></sup>“They shall enter into my
sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to
minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “It will be that when they enter in at the
gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments. No wool shall come on them while
they minister in the gates of the inner court, and
within. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:18">18 </verse></sup>They shall have linen turbans on their
heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists.
They shall not clothe themselves with anything that
makes them sweat. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:19">19 </verse></sup>When they go out into the
outer court, even into the outer court to the people,
they shall put off their garments in which they
minister and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall
put on other garments, that they not sanctify the
people with their garments.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:20">20 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “They shall not shave their heads, or allow
their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off
the hair of their heads. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:21">21 </verse></sup>None of the priests shall
drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:22">22 </verse></sup>They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her
who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the
offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is
the widow of a priest. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:23">23 </verse></sup>They shall teach my people
the difference between the holy and the common,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and
the clean.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:24">24 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In a controversy they shall stand to judge.
They shall judge it according to my ordinances.
They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my
appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths
holy.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “They shall go in to no dead person to defile
themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for
son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who
has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:26">26 </verse></sup>After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him
seven days. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:27">27 </verse></sup>In the day that he goes into the
sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the
Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:28">28 </verse></sup>“ ‘They shall have an inheritance: I am their
inheritance; and you shall give them no possession
in Israel. I am their possession. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:29">29 </verse></sup>They shall eat the
meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be
theirs. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:30">30 </verse></sup>The first of all the first fruits of every
thing, and every offering of everything, of all your
offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give
to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a
blessing to rest on your house. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 44:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 44:31">31 </verse></sup>The priests shall
not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn,
whether it is bird or animal.

#BCV:Ezekiel 45:0
<P align="center"><h3>45</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “Moreover, when you divide by lot the land
for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh,
a holy portion of the land. The length shall be
the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the
width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all
its border all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:2">2 </verse></sup>Of this there shall be a five
hundred by five hundred square for the holy place,
and fifty cubits<footnote:1>45:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> for its pasture lands all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:3">3 </verse></sup>Of
this measure you shall measure a length of twentyfive
thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it
shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:4">4 </verse></sup>It is a
holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests,
the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to
minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their
houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:5">5 </verse></sup>Twentyfive
thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in
width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the
house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty
rooms.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:6">6 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “You shall appoint the possession of the city
five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand
long, side by side with the offering of the holy
portion. It shall be for the whole house of Israel.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:7">7 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “What is for the prince shall be on the one
side and on the other side of the holy allotment
and of the possession of the city, in front of the
holy allotment and in front of the possession of the
city, on the west side westward, and on the east side
eastward, and in length corresponding to one of the
portions, from the west border to the east border.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:8">8 </verse></sup>In the land it shall be to him for a possession in
Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people,
but they shall give the land to the house of Israel
according to their tribes.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough you, princes
of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute
justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing
my people!” says the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:10">10 </verse></sup>“You shall
have just balances, a just ephah,<footnote:1>45:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> and a just bath.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:11">11 </verse></sup>The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,
that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,<footnote:1>45:11 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels </footnote>
and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure
shall be the same as the homer. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:12">12 </verse></sup>The shekel<footnote:1>45:12 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> shall
be twenty gerahs.<footnote:1>45:12 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains </footnote> Twenty shekels plus twenty-five
shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<footnote:1>45:12 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “This is the offering that you shall offer: the
sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and
you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a
homer of barley, <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:14">14 </verse></sup>and the set portion of oil, of
the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor,
which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are
a homer),<footnote:1>45:14 1 cor is the same as 1 homer in volume, and is about 211 liters, 55.9 gallons, or 6 bushels. 1 bath is about 21.1 liters, 5.59 gallons, or 2.4 pecks.</footnote> <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:15">15 </verse></sup>and one lamb of the flock out of two
hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel
—for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for
peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says
the Lord Yahweh. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:16">16 </verse></sup>“All the people of the land shall
give to this offering for the prince in Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:17">17 </verse></sup>It
shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings,
the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the
feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths,
in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel.
He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering,
the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
atonement for the house of Israel.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:18">18 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month,
on the first day of the month, you shall take a
young bull without defect, and you shall cleanse the
sanctuary. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:19">19 </verse></sup>The priest shall take of the blood of
the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the
house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the
altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:20">20 </verse></sup>So you shall do on the seventh day of the month
for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple.
So you shall make atonement for the house.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:21">21 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In the first month, on the fourteenth day
of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of
seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:22">22 </verse></sup>On
that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for
all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:23">23 </verse></sup>The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven
rams without defect daily the seven days; and a
male goat daily for a sin offering. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:24">24 </verse></sup>He shall prepare
a meal offering, an ephah<footnote:1>45:24 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> for a bull, an ephah for a
ram, and a hin<footnote:1>45:24 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote> of oil to an ephah.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 45:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 45:25">25 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day
of the month, during the feast, he shall do like that
for seven days. He shall make the same provision for
sin offering, the burnt offering, the meal offering,
and the oil.”

#BCV:Ezekiel 46:0
<P align="center"><h3>46</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:1">1 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of the inner
court that looks toward the east shall be shut the
six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be
opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall
be opened. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:2">2 </verse></sup>The prince shall enter by the way of
the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by
the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare
his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he
shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he
shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:3">3 </verse></sup>The people of the land shall worship at
the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths
and on the new moons. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:4">4 </verse></sup>The burnt offering that the
prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath
day, six lambs without defect and a ram without
defect; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:5">5 </verse></sup>and the meal offering shall be an ephah for
the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is
able to give, and a hin<footnote:1>46:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons. </footnote> of oil to an ephah.<footnote:1>46:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:6">6 </verse></sup>On the
day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without
defect, six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without
defect. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:7">7 </verse></sup>He shall prepare a meal offering: an ephah
for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the
lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an
ephah. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:8">8 </verse></sup>When the prince enters, he shall go in by
the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out
by its way.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:9">9 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “But when the people of the land come before
Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by
the way of the north gate to worship shall go out
by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by
the way of the south gate shall go out by the way
of the north gate. He shall not return by the way
of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out
straight before him. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:10">10 </verse></sup>The prince shall go in with
them when they go in. When they go out, he shall
go out.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:11">11 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “In the feasts and in the appointed holidays,
the meal offering shall be an ephah<footnote:1>46:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> for a bull, and
an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able
to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:12">12 </verse></sup>When the
prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering
or peace offerings as a free will offering to Yahweh,
one shall open for him the gate that looks toward
the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and
his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day.
Then he shall go out; and after his going out one
shall shut the gate.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:13">13 </verse></sup>“ ‘ “You shall prepare a lamb a year old without
defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily.
Morning by morning you shall prepare it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:14">14 </verse></sup>You
shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by
morning, the sixth part of an ephah,<footnote:1>46:14 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> and the third
part of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour; a
meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual
ordinance. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:15">15 </verse></sup>Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the
meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for
a continual burnt offering.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:16">16 </verse></sup>“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “If the prince gives
a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It
shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by
inheritance. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:17">17 </verse></sup>But if he gives of his inheritance
a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the
year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince;
but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:18">18 </verse></sup>Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s
inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession.
He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own
possession, that my people not each be scattered
from his possession.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:19">19 </verse></sup>Then he brought me through the entry, which
was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for
the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold,
there was a place on the back part westward. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:20">20 </verse></sup>He
said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall
boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and
where they shall bake the meal offering, that they
not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify
the people.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:21">21 </verse></sup>Then he brought me out into the outer court
and caused me to pass by the four corners of the
court; and behold, in every corner of the court there
was a court. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:22">22 </verse></sup>In the four corners of the court there
were courts enclosed, forty cubits<footnote:1>46:22 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> long and thirty
wide. These four in the corners were the same
size. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:23">23 </verse></sup>There was a wall around in them, around
the four, and boiling places were made under the
walls all around. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 46:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 46:24">24 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “These are
the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house
shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”
#BCV:Ezekiel 47:0
<P align="center"><h3>47</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:1">1 </verse></sup>He brought me back to the door of the temple;
and behold, waters flowed out from under the
threshold of the temple eastward, for the front of
the temple faced toward the east. The waters came
down from underneath, from the right side of the
temple, on the south of the altar. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:2">2 </verse></sup>Then he brought
me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me
around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the
way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold,
waters ran out on the right side.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:3">3 </verse></sup>When the man went out eastward with the line
in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits,<footnote:1>47:3 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> and
he caused me to pass through the waters, waters
that were to the ankles. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:4">4 </verse></sup>Again he measured
one thousand, and caused me to pass through the
waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he
measured one thousand, and caused me to pass
through waters that were to the waist. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:5">5 </verse></sup>Afterward
he measured one thousand; and it was a river that
I could not pass through, for the waters had risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked
through.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”
Then he brought me and caused me to return to
the bank of the river. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:7">7 </verse></sup>Now when I had returned,
behold, on the bank of the river were very many
trees on the one side and on the other. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:8">8 </verse></sup>Then
he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the
eastern region and will go down into the Arabah.
Then they will go toward the sea and flow into the
sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters
will be healed. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:9">9 </verse></sup>It will happen that every living
creature which swarms, in every place where the
rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very
great multitude of fish; for these waters have come
there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and
everything will live wherever the river comes. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:10">10 </verse></sup>It
will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From
En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the
spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:11">11 </verse></sup>But its swamps marshes will not be healed. They
will be given up to salt. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:12">12 </verse></sup>By the river banks, on both
sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t
wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new
fruit every month, because its waters issue out of
the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf
for healing.”

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:13">13 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh says: “This shall be the
border by which you shall divide the land for inheritance
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Joseph shall have two portions. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall inherit
it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it
to your fathers. This land will fall to you for
inheritance.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:15">15 </verse></sup>“This shall be the border of the land:
“On the north side, from the great sea, by the way
of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:16">16 </verse></sup>Hamath,
Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the border
of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazer
Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:17">17 </verse></sup>The
border from the sea shall be Hazar Enon at the
border of Damascus; and on the north northward
is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:18">18 </verse></sup>“The east side, between Hauran, Damascus,
Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan;
from the north border to the east sea you shall
measure. This is the east side.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:19">19 </verse></sup>“The south side southward shall be from Tamar
as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the
brook, to the great sea. This is the south side
southward.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:20">20 </verse></sup>“The west side shall be the great sea, from
the south border as far as opposite the entrance of
Hamath. This is the west side.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:21">21 </verse></sup>“So you shall divide this land to yourselves
according to the tribes of Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:22">22 </verse></sup>You shall
divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to
the aliens who live among you, who will father
children among you. Then they shall be to you as
the native-born among the children of Israel. They
shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of
Israel. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 47:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 47:23">23 </verse></sup>In whatever tribe the stranger lives, there
you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord
Yahweh.

#BCV:Ezekiel 48:0
<P align="center"><h3>48</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:1><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:1">1 </verse></sup>“Now these are the names of the tribes: From
the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the
entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border
of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they
shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one
portion.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:2><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:2">2 </verse></sup>“By the border of Dan, from the east side to the
west side, Asher, one portion.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:3><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:3">3 </verse></sup>“By the border of Asher, from the east side even
to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:4><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:4">4 </verse></sup>“By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to
the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:5><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:5">5 </verse></sup>“By the border of Manasseh, from the east side
to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:6><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:6">6 </verse></sup>“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side
even to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:7><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:7">7 </verse></sup>“By the border of Reuben, from the east side to
the west side, Judah, one portion.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:8><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:8">8 </verse></sup>“By the border of Judah, from the east side to the
west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer,
twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length
as one of the portions, from the east side to the west
side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:9><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:9">9 </verse></sup>“The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh
shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and
ten thousand in width. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:10><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:10">10 </verse></sup>For these, even for
the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the
north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward
the west ten thousand in width, and toward the
east ten thousand in width, and toward the south
twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary
of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:11><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:11">11 </verse></sup>It shall
be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of
Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t
go astray when the children of Israel went astray,
as the Levites went astray. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:12><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:12">12 </verse></sup>It shall be to them an
offering from the offering of the land, a most holy
thing, by the border of the Levites.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:13><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:13">13 </verse></sup>“Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites
shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length
and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be
twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:14><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:14">14 </verse></sup>They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor
shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it
is holy to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:15><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:15">15 </verse></sup>“The five thousand cubits that are left in the
width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be
for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for
pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle
of it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:16><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:16">16 </verse></sup>These shall be its measurements: the north
side four thousand and five hundred, and the south
side four thousand and five hundred, and on the
east side four thousand and five hundred, and the
west side four thousand and five hundred. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:17><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:17">17 </verse></sup>The
city shall have pasture lands: toward the north two
hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred
fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward
the west two hundred fifty. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:18><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:18">18 </verse></sup>The remainder
of the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be
ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward;
and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its
increase shall be for food to those who labor in the
city. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:19><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:19">19 </verse></sup>Those who labor in the city, out of all the
tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. <key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:20><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:20">20 </verse></sup>All the offering
shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twentyfive
thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering,
with the possession of the city.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:21><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:21">21 </verse></sup>“The remainder shall be for the prince, on the
one side and on the other of the holy offering and of
the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five
thousand of the offering toward the east border,
and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand
toward the west border, alongside the portions, it
shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the
sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:22><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:22">22 </verse></sup>Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and
from the possession of the city, being in the middle
of that which is the prince’s, between the border of
Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the
prince.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:23><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:23">23 </verse></sup>“As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side
to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:24><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:24">24 </verse></sup>“By the border of Benjamin, from the east side
to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:25><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:25">25 </verse></sup>“By the border of Simeon, from the east side to
the west side, Issachar, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:26><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:26">26 </verse></sup>“By the border of Issachar, from the east side
to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:27><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:27">27 </verse></sup>“By the border of Zebulun, from the east side
to the west side, Gad, one portion.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:28><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:28">28 </verse></sup>“By the border of Gad, at the south side southward,
the border shall be even from Tamar to the
waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the
great sea.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:29><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:29">29 </verse></sup>“This is the land which you shall divide by lot
to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are
their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:30><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:30">30 </verse></sup>“These are the exits of the city: On the north
side four thousand five hundred reeds by measure;
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:31><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:31">31 </verse></sup>and the gates of the city shall be named after the
tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of
Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi,
one.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:32><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:32">32 </verse></sup>“At the east side four thousand five hundred
reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one;
the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:33><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:33">33 </verse></sup>“At the south side four thousand five hundred
reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of
Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of
Zebulun, one.

<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:34><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:34">34 </verse></sup>“At the west side four thousand five hundred
reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one;
the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
<key:bcv=Ezekiel 48:35><sup><verse bcv="Ezekiel 48:35">35 </verse></sup>“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference;
and the name of the city from that day shall
be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

#OUTLINE:1,Daniel
<h2>The Book of Daniel</h2>

<key:bcv=Daniel 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king
of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
to Jerusalem and besieged it. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:2">2 </verse></sup>The Lord<footnote:1>1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> gave
Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some
of the vessels of the house of God;<footnote:1>1:2 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> and he carried
them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god.
He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his
god.

<key:bcv=Daniel 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:3">3 </verse></sup>The king spoke to Ashpenaz, the master of
his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the
children of Israel, even of the royal offspring<footnote:1>1:3 or, seed</footnote> and
of the nobles: <key:bcv=Daniel 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:4">4 </verse></sup>youths in whom was no defect, but
well-favored, skillful in all wisdom, endowed with
knowledge, understanding science, and who had
the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that
he should teach them the learning and the language
of the Chaldeans. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:5">5 </verse></sup>The king appointed for them a
daily portion of the king’s delicacies and of the wine
which he drank, and that they should be nourished
three years, that at its end they should stand before
the king.

<key:bcv=Daniel 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Now among these of the children of Judah were
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The
prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to
Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah,
Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah,
Abednego.

<key:bcv=Daniel 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would
not defile himself with the king’s delicacies, nor
with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested
of the prince of the eunuchs that he might
not defile himself. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Now God made Daniel find
kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince
of the eunuchs. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:10">10 </verse></sup>The prince of the eunuchs said to
Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed
your food and your drink. For why should he see
your faces worse looking than the youths who are of
your own age? Then you would endanger my head
with the king.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Then Daniel said to the steward whom the
prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: <key:bcv=Daniel 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:12">12 </verse></sup>“Test your servants,
I beg you, ten days; and let them give us
vegetables to eat and water to drink. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Then let our
faces be examined before you, and the face of the
youths who eat of the king’s delicacies; and as you
see, deal with your servants.” <key:bcv=Daniel 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:14">14 </verse></sup>So he listened to
them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:15">15 </verse></sup>At the end of ten days, their faces appeared
fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the
youths who ate of the king’s delicacies. <key:bcv=Daniel 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:16">16 </verse></sup>So the
steward took away their delicacies and the wine
that they were given to drink, and gave them vegetables.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Now as for these four youths, God gave them
knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and
Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:18">18 </verse></sup>At the end of the days which the king had
appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the
eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:19">19 </verse></sup>The king talked with them; and among them all
was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:20">20 </verse></sup>In every matter of wisdom and understanding
concerning which the king inquired of them, he
found them ten times better than all the magicians
and enchanters who were in all his realm.
<key:bcv=Daniel 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Daniel continued even to the first year of King
Cyrus.

#BCV:Daniel 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:1">1 </verse></sup>In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar,
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his
spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Then the king commanded that the magicians,
the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be
called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in
and stood before the king. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:3">3 </verse></sup>The king said to them,
“I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled
to know the dream.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the
Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your
servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing
has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me
the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut
in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But if you show the dream and its interpretation,
you will receive from me gifts, rewards, and great
honor. Therefore show me the dream and its
interpretation.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:7">7 </verse></sup>They answered the second time and said, “Let
the king tell his servants the dream, and we will
show the interpretation.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The king answered, “I know of a certainty that
you are trying to gain time, because you see the
thing has gone from me. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But if you don’t make
known to me the dream, there is but one law for
you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words
to speak before me, until the situation changes.
Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that
you can show me its interpretation.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The Chaldeans answered the king and said,
“There is not a man on the earth who can show the
king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler has
asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or
Chaldean. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:11">11 </verse></sup>It is a rare thing that the king requires,
and there is no other who can show it before the
king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with
flesh.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Because of this, the king was angry and very
furious, and commanded that all the wise men of
Babylon be destroyed. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:13">13 </verse></sup>So the decree went out,
and the wise men were to be slain. They sought
Daniel and his companions to be slain.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and
prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard,
who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:15">15 </verse></sup>He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why
is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then
Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Daniel
went in, and desired of the king that he would
appoint him a time, and he would show the king the
interpretation.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Daniel went to his house and made the
thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
his companions: <key:bcv=Daniel 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:18">18 </verse></sup>that they would desire mercies
of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that
Daniel and his companions would not perish with
the rest of the wise men of Babylon. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the
secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night.
Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Daniel
answered,
<br>
“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
for wisdom and might are his.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:21">21 </verse></sup>He changes the times and the seasons.
He removes kings and sets up kings.
<br>
He gives wisdom to the wise,
<br>
and knowledge to those who have understanding.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:22">22 </verse></sup>He reveals the deep and secret things.
He knows what is in the darkness,
<br>
and the light dwells with him.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:23">23 </verse></sup>I thank you and praise you,
<br>
O God of my fathers,
<br>
who have given me wisdom and might,
<br>
and have now made known to me what we
desired of you;
<br>
for you have made known to us the king’s
matter.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the
king had appointed to destroy the wise men of
Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t
destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in
before the king, and I will show to the king the
interpretation.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:25">25 </verse></sup>Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king
in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of
the children of the captivity of Judah who will make
known to the king the interpretation.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:26">26 </verse></sup>The king answered Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me
the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:27">27 </verse></sup>Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The
secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown
to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or
soothsayers; <key:bcv=Daniel 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:28">28 </verse></sup>but there is a God in heaven who
reveals secrets, and he has made known to King
Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
Your dream and the visions of your head on your
bed are these:

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:29">29 </verse></sup>“As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your
bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who
reveals secrets has made known to you what will
happen. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:30">30 </verse></sup>But as for me, this secret is not revealed
to me for any wisdom that I have more than any
living, but to the intent that the interpretation may
be made known to the king, and that you may know
the thoughts of your heart.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:31">31 </verse></sup>“You, O king, saw, and behold,<footnote:1>2:31 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> a great image.
This image, which was mighty, and whose
brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its
appearance was terrifying. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:32">32 </verse></sup>As for this image, its
head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of
silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, <key:bcv=Daniel 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:33">33 </verse></sup>its legs
of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:34">34 </verse></sup>You
saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which
struck the image on its feet that were of iron and
clay, and broke them in pieces. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:35">35 </verse></sup>Then the iron,
the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were
broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff
of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried
them away, so that no place was found for them.
The stone that struck the image became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:36">36 </verse></sup>“This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation
before the king. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:37">37 </verse></sup>You, O king, are king
of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the
kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:38><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:38">38 </verse></sup>Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given
the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into
your hand, and has made you rule over them all.
You are the head of gold.

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:39><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:39">39 </verse></sup>“After you, another kingdom will arise that
is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of
bronze, which will rule over all the earth. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:40><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:40">40 </verse></sup>The
fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron
breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron
that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and
crush. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:41><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:41">41 </verse></sup>Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part
of potters’ clay and part of iron, it will be a divided
kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of
the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry
clay. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:42><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:42">42 </verse></sup>As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and
part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong
and partly brittle. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:43><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:43">43 </verse></sup>Whereas you saw the iron
mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves
with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one
another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:44><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:44">44 </verse></sup>“In the days of those kings the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed,
nor will its sovereignty be left to another people;
but it will break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it will stand forever. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:45><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:45">45 </verse></sup>Because
you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron,
the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the
great God has made known to the king what will
happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its
interpretation sure.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:46><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:46">46 </verse></sup>Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face,
worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they
should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 2:47><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:47">47 </verse></sup>The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth
your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings,
and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able
to reveal this secret.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 2:48><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:48">48 </verse></sup>Then the king made Daniel great and gave him
many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole
province of Babylon and to be chief governor over
all the wise men of Babylon. <key:bcv=Daniel 2:49><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 2:49">49 </verse></sup>Daniel requested
<br>
of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego over the affairs of the province of
Babylon, but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

#BCV:Daniel 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of
gold, whose height was sixty cubits<footnote:1>3:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> and its width
six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the
province of Babylon. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Then Nebuchadnezzar the
king sent to gather together the local governors,
the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the
treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the
rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication
of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had
set up. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Then the local governors, the deputies,
and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the
counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the
provinces were gathered together to the dedication
of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set
up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar
had set up.

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is
commanded, peoples, nations, and languages, <key:bcv=Daniel 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:5">5 </verse></sup>that
whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute,
zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music,
you fall down and worship the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Whoever
doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the
middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore at that time, when all the peoples
heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp,
pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the
nations, and the languages fell down and worshiped
the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had
set up.

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came
near and brought accusation against the Jews.
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:9">9 </verse></sup>They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king,
live for ever! <key:bcv=Daniel 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:10">10 </verse></sup>You, O king, have made a decree
that every man who hears the sound of the horn,
flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music
shall fall down and worship the golden image; <key:bcv=Daniel 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:11">11 </verse></sup>and
whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast
into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:12">12 </verse></sup>There
are certain Jews whom you have appointed over
the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have
not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and
don’t worship the golden image which you have set
up.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded
that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be
brought. Then these men were brought before the
king. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it true,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t
serve my gods and you don’t worship the golden
image which I have set up? <key:bcv=Daniel 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Now if you are ready
whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute,
zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall
down and worship the image which I have made,
good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast
the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery
furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out
of my hands?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered
the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to
answer you in this matter. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:17">17 </verse></sup>If it happens, our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of
your hand, O king. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:18">18 </verse></sup>But if not, let it be known
to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or
worship the golden image which you have set up.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and
the form of his appearance was changed against
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke,
and commanded that they should heat the furnace
seven times more than it was usually heated. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:20">20 </verse></sup>He
commanded certain mighty men who were in his
army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Then these men were bound in their pants, their
tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes,
and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery
furnace. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore because the king’s commandment
was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot,
the flame of the fire killed those men who took up
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:23">23 </verse></sup>These three
men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down
bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished
and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his
counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into
the middle of the fire?”
<br>
They answered the king, “True, O king.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:25">25 </verse></sup>He answered, “Look, I see four men loose,
walking in the middle of the fire, and they are
unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a
son of the gods.<footnote:1>3:25 Or, the Son of God.</footnote>”

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth
of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said,
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants
of the Most High God, come out, and come here!”
Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came
out of the middle of the fire. <key:bcv=Daniel 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:27">27 </verse></sup>The local governors,
the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s
counselors, being gathered together, saw these
men, that the fire had no power on their bodies.
The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants
weren’t changed. The smell of fire wasn’t even on
them.

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:28">28 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who
has sent his angel and delivered his servants who
trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word,
and have yielded their bodies, that they might not
serve nor worship any god except their own God.
<key:bcv=Daniel 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:29">29 </verse></sup>Therefore I make a decree that every people,
nation, and language which speak anything evil
against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall
be made a dunghill, because there is no other god
who is able to deliver like this.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 3:30">30 </verse></sup>Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

#BCV:Daniel 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Nebuchadnezzar the king,
<br>
to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who
dwell in all the earth:
<br>
Peace be multiplied to you.

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:2">2 </verse></sup>It has seemed good to me to show the signs
and wonders that the Most High God has worked
toward me.

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:3">3 </verse></sup>How great are his signs!
<br>
How mighty are his wonders!
<br>
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
His dominion is from generation to generation.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:4">4 </verse></sup>I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house,
and flourishing in my palace. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:5">5 </verse></sup>I saw a dream
which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my
bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the
wise men of Babylon before me, that they might
make known to me the interpretation of the
dream. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Then the magicians, the enchanters, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I
told them the dream, but they didn’t make known
to me its interpretation. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:8">8 </verse></sup>But at last, Daniel
came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar
according to the name of my god, and in whom is
the spirit of the holy gods. I told the dream before
him, saying,

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because
I know that the spirit of the holy gods
is in you and no secret troubles you, tell me
the visions of my dream that I have seen, and
its interpretation. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:10">10 </verse></sup>These were the visions of
my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree
in the middle of the earth; and its height was
great. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:11">11 </verse></sup>The tree grew and was strong. Its height
reached to the sky and its sight to the end of all
the earth. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Its leaves were beautiful, and it had
much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals
of the field had shade under it, and the birds of
the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed
from it.

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:13">13 </verse></sup>“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed,
and behold, a holy watcher came down from the
sky. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:14">14 </verse></sup>He cried aloud and said this: ‘Cut down the
tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves
and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away
from under it and the birds from its branches.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the
earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the
tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with
the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the
animals in the grass of the earth. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Let his heart
be changed from man’s, and let an animal’s heart
be given to him. Then let seven times pass over
him.

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:17">17 </verse></sup>“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers
and the demand by the word of the holy ones,
to the intent that the living may know that the
Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives
it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the
lowest of men.’

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:18">18 </verse></sup>“This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have
seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation,
because all the wise men of my kingdom
are not able to make known to me the interpretation;
but you are able, for the spirit of the holy
gods is in you.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar,
was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts
troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar,
don’t let the dream or the interpretation, trouble
you.”
<br>
Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the
dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation
to your adversaries. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:20">20 </verse></sup>The tree
<br>
that you saw, which grew and was strong, whose
height reached to the sky and its sight to all
the earth; <key:bcv=Daniel 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:21">21 </verse></sup>whose leaves were beautiful and its
fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under
which the animals of the field lived, and on whose
branches the birds of the sky had their habitation
— <key:bcv=Daniel 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:22">22 </verse></sup>it is you, O king, that have grown and become
strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches
to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the
earth.

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:23">23 </verse></sup>“Whereas the king saw a holy watcher coming
down from the sky and saying, ‘Cut down the
tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump
of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron
and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and
let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his
portion be with the animals of the field, until
seven times pass over him.’

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:24">24 </verse></sup>“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is
the decree of the Most High, which has come on
my lord the king: <key:bcv=Daniel 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:25">25 </verse></sup>You will be driven from men
and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the
field. You will be made to eat grass as oxen, and
will be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven
times shall pass over you, until you know that
the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and
gives it to whomever he will. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Whereas it was
commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the
tree, your kingdom shall be sure to you after you
know that Heavens rules. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore, O king, let
my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off
your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may
be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:28">28 </verse></sup>All this came on the King Nebuchadnezzar.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:29">29 </verse></sup>At the end of twelve months he was walking in
the royal palace of Babylon. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:30">30 </verse></sup>The king spoke and
said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built
for the royal dwelling place by the might of my
power and for the glory of my majesty?”
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:31">31 </verse></sup>While the word was in the king’s mouth, a
voice came from the sky, saying, “O King Nebuchadnezzar,
to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom

has departed from you. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:32">32 </verse></sup>You shall be driven
from men, and your dwelling shall be with the
animals of the field. You shall be made to eat
grass like oxen. Seven times shall pass over you,
until you know that the Most High rules in the
kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he
will.’ ”

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:33">33 </verse></sup>This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar.
He was driven from men and ate
grass like oxen; and his body was wet with the
dew of the sky until his hair had grown like
eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:34">34 </verse></sup>At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding
returned to me; and I blessed the Most High,
and I praised and honored him who lives forever,
for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
and his kingdom from generation to generation.
<key:bcv=Daniel 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:35">35 </verse></sup>All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing;
<br>
and he does according to his will in the army
of heaven,
<br>
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
and no one can stop his hand,
<br>
or ask him, “What are you doing?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:36">36 </verse></sup>At the same time my understanding returned
to me; and for the glory of my kingdom,
my majesty and brightness returned to me. My
counselors and my lords sought me; and I was
established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness
was added to me. <key:bcv=Daniel 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 4:37">37 </verse></sup>Now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
praise and extol and honor the King of heaven;
for all his works are truth, and his ways justice;
and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

#BCV:Daniel 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the
thousand. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine,
commanded that the golden and silver vessels
which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out
of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought
to him, that the king and his lords, his wives and
his concubines, might drink from them. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Then
they brought the golden vessels that were taken
out of the temple of God’s house which was at
Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives
and his concubines, drank from them. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:4">4 </verse></sup>They drank
wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of
bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:5">5 </verse></sup>In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand
came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the
plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw
the part of the hand that wrote. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Then the king’s
face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled
him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and
his knees struck one against another.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters,
the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke
and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever
reads this writing and shows me its interpretation
shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of
gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in
the kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Then all the king’s wise men came in; but
they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make
known to the king the interpretation. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Then King
Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was
changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:10">10 </verse></sup>The queen by reason of the words of the king
and his lords came into the banquet house. The
queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t
let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face
be changed. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:11">11 </verse></sup>There is a man in your kingdom
in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the
days of your father, light and understanding and
wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found
in him. The king, Nebuchadnezzar, your father—
yes, the king, your father —made him master of
the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers,
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:12">12 </verse></sup>because an excellent spirit, knowledge,
understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing
of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were
found in the same Daniel, whom the king named
Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will
show the interpretation.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Daniel was brought in before the king.
The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that
Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah,
whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:14">14 </verse></sup>I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is
in you and that light, understanding, and excellent
wisdom are found in you. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Now the wise men, the
enchanters, have been brought in before me, that
they should read this writing, and make known to
me its interpretation; but they could not show the
interpretation of the thing. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:16">16 </verse></sup>But I have heard of
you, that you can give interpretations and dissolve
doubts. Now if you can read the writing and make
known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed
with purple, and have a chain of gold around your
neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let
your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to
another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the
king, and make known to him the interpretation.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:18">18 </verse></sup>“To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar
your father the kingdom, and greatness,
and glory, and majesty. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Because of the
greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations,
and languages trembled and feared before him. He
killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom
he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to,
and he put down whom he wanted to. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:20">20 </verse></sup>But when
his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened
so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his
kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:21">21 </verse></sup>He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart
was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was
with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the
sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules
in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it
whomever he will.

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:22">22 </verse></sup>“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled
your heart, though you knew all this, <key:bcv=Daniel 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:23">23 </verse></sup>but have
lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and
they have brought the vessels of his house before
you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your
concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have
praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron,
wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know;
and you have not glorified the God in whose hand
your breath is, and whose are all your ways. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Then
the part of the hand was sent from before him, and
this writing was inscribed.

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:25">25 </verse></sup>“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE,
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:26">26 </verse></sup>“This is the interpretation of the thing:
MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought
it to an end.

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:27">27 </verse></sup>TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are
found wanting.

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:28">28 </verse></sup>PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the
Medes and Persians.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed
Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his
neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that
he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
<key:bcv=Daniel 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:30">30 </verse></sup>In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was
slain. <key:bcv=Daniel 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 5:31">31 </verse></sup>Darius the Mede received the kingdom,
being about sixty-two years old.

#BCV:Daniel 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:1">1 </verse></sup>It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one
hundred twenty local governors, who should be
throughout the whole kingdom; <key:bcv=Daniel 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:2">2 </verse></sup>and over them
three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, that
these local governors might give account to them,
and that the king should suffer no loss. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Then this
Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and
the local governors, because an excellent spirit was
in him; and the king thought to set him over the
whole realm.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the presidents and the local governors
sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching
the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or
fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any
error or fault found in him. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Then these men said,
“We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel,
unless we find it against him concerning the law of
his God.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:6">6 </verse></sup>Then these presidents and local governors assembled
together to the king, and said this to him,
“King Darius, live forever! <key:bcv=Daniel 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:7">7 </verse></sup>All the presidents of
the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors,
the counselors and the governors, have consulted
together to establish a royal statute and to make a
strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any
god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he
shall be cast into the den of lions. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Now, O king,
establish the decree and sign the writing, that it
not be changed, according to the law of the Medes
and Persians, which doesn’t alter.” <key:bcv=Daniel 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore King
Darius signed the writing and the decree.
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:10">10 </verse></sup>When Daniel knew that the writing was signed,
he went into his house (now his windows were open
in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on
his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave
thanks before his God, as he did before. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Then
these men assembled together, and found Daniel
making petition and supplication before his God.
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they came near, and spoke before the king
concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a
decree that every man who makes a petition to any
god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king,
shall be cast into the den of lions?”
The king answered, “This thing is true, according
to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t
alter.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Then they answered and said before the king,
“That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity
of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree
that you have signed, but makes his petition three
times a day.” <key:bcv=Daniel 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Then the king, when he heard these
words, was very displeased, and set his heart on
Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going
down of the sun to rescue him.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Then these men assembled together to the
king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is
a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor
statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the king commanded, and they brought
Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. The king
spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve
continually, he will deliver you.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:17">17 </verse></sup>A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of
the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet,
and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might
be changed concerning Daniel. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Then the king
went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No
musical instruments were brought before him; and
his sleep fled from him.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the king arose very early in the morning,
and went in haste to the den of lions. <key:bcv=Daniel 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:20">20 </verse></sup>When he
came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a
troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel,
“Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God,
whom you serve continually, able to deliver you
from the lions?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live
forever! <key:bcv=Daniel 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:22">22 </verse></sup>My God has sent his angel, and has
shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me,
because innocence was found in me before him; and
also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded
that they should take Daniel up out of the
den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and
no kind of harm was found on him, because he had
trusted in his God.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:24">24 </verse></sup>The king commanded, and they brought those
men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them
into the den of lions —them, their children, and
their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke
all their bones in pieces before they came to the
bottom of the den.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples,
nations, and languages who dwell in all the earth:
“Peace be multiplied to you.

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:26">26 </verse></sup>“I make a decree that in all the dominion of
my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God
of Daniel.
<br>
“For he is the living God,
<br>
and steadfast forever.
<br>
His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed.
His dominion will be even to the end.
<key:bcv=Daniel 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:27">27 </verse></sup>He delivers and rescues.
<br>
He works signs and wonders in heaven and in
earth,
<br>
who has delivered Daniel from the power of the
lions.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 6:28">28 </verse></sup>So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius
and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

#BCV:Daniel 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:1">1 </verse></sup>In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon,
Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on
his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum
of the matters.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by
night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke
out on the great sea. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Four great animals came up
from the sea, different from one another.
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:4">4 </verse></sup>“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings.
I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was
lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two
feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:5">5 </verse></sup>“Behold, there was another animal, a second,
like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three
ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said
this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:6">6 </verse></sup>“After this I saw, and behold, another, like a
leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird.
The animal also had four heads; and dominion was
given to it.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:7">7 </verse></sup>“After this I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome, powerful,
and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth.
It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the
residue with its feet. It was different from all the
animals that were before it. It had ten horns.
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:8">8 </verse></sup>“I considered the horns, and behold, there came
up among them another horn, a little one, before
which three of the first horns were plucked up by
the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the
eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking arrogantly.
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:9">9 </verse></sup>“I watched until thrones were placed,
and one who was ancient of days sat.
<br>
His clothing was white as snow,
<br>
and the hair of his head like pure wool.
His throne was fiery flames,
<br>
and its wheels burning fire.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:10">10 </verse></sup>A fiery stream issued and came out from before
him.
<br>
Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before
him.
<br>
The judgment was set.
<br>
The books were opened.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:11">11 </verse></sup>“I watched at that time because of the voice
of the arrogant words which the horn spoke. I
watched even until the animal was slain, and its
body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with
fire. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:12">12 </verse></sup>As for the rest of the animals, their dominion
was taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a
season and a time.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:13">13 </verse></sup>“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there
came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of
man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and
they brought him near before him. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Dominion was
given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the
peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will
not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be
destroyed.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:15">15 </verse></sup>“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within
my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:16">16 </verse></sup>I came near to one of those who stood by, and
asked him the truth concerning all this.
“So he told me, and made me know the interpretation
of the things. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:17">17 </verse></sup>‘These great animals,
which are four, are four kings, who will arise out
of the earth. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:18">18 </verse></sup>But the saints of the Most High
will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
forever, even forever and ever.’

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:19">19 </verse></sup>“Then I desired to know the truth concerning
the fourth animal, which was different from all
of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were
of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured,
broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its
feet; <key:bcv=Daniel 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:20">20 </verse></sup>and concerning the ten horns that were on
its head and the other horn which came up, and
before which three fell, even that horn that had
eyes and a mouth that spoke arrogantly, whose look
was more stout than its fellows. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:21">21 </verse></sup>I saw, and the
same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
against them, <key:bcv=Daniel 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:22">22 </verse></sup>until the ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the Most High,
and the time came that the saints possessed the
kingdom.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:23">23 </verse></sup>“So he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth
kingdom on earth, which will be different from all
the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and
will tread it down and break it in pieces. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:24">24 </verse></sup>As
for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this
kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will
be different from the former, and he will put down
three kings. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:25">25 </verse></sup>He will speak words against the Most
High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High.
He will plan to change the times and the law; and
they will be given into his hand until a time and
times and half a time.

<key:bcv=Daniel 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:26">26 </verse></sup>“ ‘But the judgment will be set, and they will
take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy
it to the end. <key:bcv=Daniel 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:27">27 </verse></sup>The kingdom and the dominion, and
the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky,
will be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
all dominions will serve and obey him.’
<key:bcv=Daniel 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 7:28">28 </verse></sup>“Here is the end of the matter. As for me,
Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my
face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my
heart.”

#BCV:Daniel 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:1">1 </verse></sup>In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar,
a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after
that which appeared to me at the first. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw the
vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the
citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I
saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Then
I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram which
had two horns stood before the river. The two horns
were high, but one was higher than the other, and
the higher came up last. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:4">4 </verse></sup>I saw the ram pushing
westward, northward, and southward. No animals
could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could
deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his
will, and magnified himself.

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:5">5 </verse></sup>As I was considering, behold, a male goat came
from the west over the surface of the whole earth,
and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable
horn between his eyes. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:6">6 </verse></sup>He came to the ram that
had the two horns, which I saw standing before the
river, and ran on him in the fury of his power. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:7">7 </verse></sup>I
saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved
with anger against him, and struck the ram, and
broke his two horns. There was no power in the
ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to
the ground and trampled on him. There was no one
who could deliver the ram out of his hand. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:8">8 </verse></sup>The
male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he
was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead
of it there came up four notable horns toward the
four winds of the sky.

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Out of one of them came out a little horn which
grew exceedingly great —toward the south, and
toward the east, and toward the glorious land. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:10">10 </verse></sup>It
grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it
cast down some of the army and of the stars to the
ground and trampled on them. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, it magnified
itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took
away from him the continual burnt offering, and
the place of his sanctuary was cast down. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:12">12 </verse></sup>The
army was given over to it together with the continual
burnt offering through disobedience. It cast
down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and
prospered.

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another
holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How
long will the vision about the continual burnt offering,
and the disobedience that makes desolate, to
give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden
under foot be?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:14">14 </verse></sup>He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred
evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary
will be cleansed.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:15">15 </verse></sup>When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I
sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood
before me someone with the appearance of a man.
<key:bcv=Daniel 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:16">16 </verse></sup>I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the
Ulai, which called and said, “Gabriel, make this man
understand the vision.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:17">17 </verse></sup>So he came near where I stood; and when he
came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he
said to me, “Understand, son of man, for the vision
belongs to the time of the end.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a
deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he
touched me and set me upright.

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:19">19 </verse></sup>He said, “Behold, I will make you know what
will be in the latter time of the indignation, for it
belongs to the appointed time of the end. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:20">20 </verse></sup>The
ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they
are the kings of Media and Persia. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:21">21 </verse></sup>The rough
male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that
is between his eyes is the first king. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:22">22 </verse></sup>As for that
which was broken, in the place where four stood up,
four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but
not with his power.

<key:bcv=Daniel 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:23">23 </verse></sup>“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce
face, and understanding riddles, will stand up. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:24">24 </verse></sup>His
power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He
will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he
does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy
people. <key:bcv=Daniel 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Through his policy he will cause deceit to
prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his
heart, and he will destroy many in their security.
He will also stand up against the prince of princes,
but he will be broken without human hands.
<key:bcv=Daniel 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:26">26 </verse></sup>“The vision of the evenings and mornings
which has been told is true; but seal up the vision,
for it belongs to many days to come.”
<key:bcv=Daniel 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 8:27">27 </verse></sup>I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days.
Then I rose up and did the king’s business. I
wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
#BCV:Daniel 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Daniel 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:1">1 </verse></sup>In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus,
of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king
over the realm of the Chaldeans— <key:bcv=Daniel 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:2">2 </verse></sup>in the first year
of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the
number of the years about which Yahweh’s<footnote:1>9:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</footnote> word
came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing
of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy
years. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:3">3 </verse></sup>I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by
prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and
ashes.

<key:bcv=Daniel 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:4">4 </verse></sup>I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession,
and said,
<br>
“Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who
keeps covenant and loving kindness with those
who love him and keep his commandments, <key:bcv=Daniel 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:5">5 </verse></sup>we
have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have
done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning
aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:6">6 </verse></sup>We haven’t listened to your servants the
prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings,
our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people
of the land.

<key:bcv=Daniel 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:7">7 </verse></sup>“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to
us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men
of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to all Israel, who are near and who are far
off, through all the countries where you have
driven them, because of their trespass that they
have trespassed against you. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Lord, to us belongs
confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and
to our fathers, because we have sinned against
you. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:9">9 </verse></sup>To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:10">10 </verse></sup>We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice,
to walk in his laws, which he set before us by
his servants the prophets. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, all Israel have
transgressed your law, turning aside, that they
should not obey your voice.
<br>
“Therefore the curse and the oath written in
the law of Moses the servant of God has been
poured out on us, for we have sinned against him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:12">12 </verse></sup>He has confirmed his words, which he spoke
against us and against our judges who judged
us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the
whole sky, such has not been done as has been
done to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:13">13 </verse></sup>As it is written in the law
of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we
have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God,
that we should turn from our iniquities and have
discernment in your truth. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh
has watched over the evil, and brought it on us;
for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works
which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:15">15 </verse></sup>“Now, Lord our God, who has brought your
people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty
hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is
today, we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Lord, according to all your righteousness,
please let your anger and your wrath be turned
away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain;
because for our sins and for the iniquities
of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have
become a reproach to all who are around us.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:17">17 </verse></sup>“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer
of your servant and to his petitions, and cause
your face to shine on your sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord’s sake. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:18">18 </verse></sup>My God, turn
your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our
desolations, and the city which is called by your
name; for we do not present our petitions before
you for our righteousness, but for your great
mercies’ sake. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord,
listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my
God, because your city and your people are called
by your name.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:20">20 </verse></sup>While I was speaking, praying, and confessing
my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting
my supplication before Yahweh my God for
the holy mountain of my God— <key:bcv=Daniel 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:21">21 </verse></sup>yes, while I was
speaking in prayer—the man Gabriel, whom I had
seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused
to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the
evening offering. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:22">22 </verse></sup>He instructed me and talked
with me, and said, “Daniel, I have now come to give
you wisdom and understanding. <key:bcv=Daniel 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:23">23 </verse></sup>At the beginning
of your petitions the commandment went out, and
I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved.
Therefore consider the matter and understand the
vision.

<key:bcv=Daniel 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:24">24 </verse></sup>“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and
on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an
end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to
bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision
and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:25">25 </verse></sup>“Know therefore and discern that from the
going out of the commandment to restore and build
Jerusalem to the Anointed One,<footnote:1>9:25 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”). </footnote> the prince, will be
seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built
again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:26">26 </verse></sup>After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One<footnote:1>9:26 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”). </footnote> will
be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of
the prince who come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will
be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
<key:bcv=Daniel 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 9:27">27 </verse></sup>He will make a firm covenant with many for one
week. In the middle of the week he will cause the
sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of
abominations will come one who makes desolate;
and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be
poured out on the desolate.”

#BCV:Daniel 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:1">1 </verse></sup>In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a
message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was
called Belteshazzar; and the message was true, even
a great warfare. He understood the message, and
had understanding of the vision.

<key:bcv=Daniel 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:2">2 </verse></sup>In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three
whole weeks. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:3">3 </verse></sup>I ate no pleasant food. No meat or
wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at
all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:4">4 </verse></sup>In the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as
I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,<footnote:1>10:4 or, Tigris River</footnote>
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:5">5 </verse></sup>I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold,
there was a man clothed in linen, whose waist was
adorned with pure gold of Uphaz. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:6">6 </verse></sup>His body also
was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of
lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms
and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice
of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:7">7 </verse></sup>I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men
who were with me didn’t see the vision, but a
great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide
themselves. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:8">8 </verse></sup>So I was left alone and saw this great
vision. No strength remained in me; for my face
grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Yet I
heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice
of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face,
with my face toward the ground.

<key:bcv=Daniel 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on
my knees and on the palms of my hands. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He
said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand
the words that I speak to you, and stand
upright, for I have been sent to you, now.” When he
had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel;
for from the first day that you set your heart to
understand, and to humble yourself before your
God, your words were heard. I have come for your
words’ sake. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:13">13 </verse></sup>But the prince of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold,
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me
because I remained there with the kings of Persia.
<key:bcv=Daniel 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Now I have come to make you understand what
will happen to your people in the latter days, for the
vision is yet for many days.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:15">15 </verse></sup>When he had spoken these words to me, I set
my face toward the ground and was mute. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold,
one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my
lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said
to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason
of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and
I retain no strength. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:17">17 </verse></sup>For how can the servant
of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for
me, immediately there remained no strength in me.
There was no breath left in me.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Then one like the appearance of a man touched
me again, and he strengthened me. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:19">19 </verse></sup>He said,
<br>
“Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to
you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.”
<br>
When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and
said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened
me.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Then he said, “Do you know why I have come
to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince
of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of
Greece will come. <key:bcv=Daniel 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 10:21">21 </verse></sup>But I will tell you that which
is inscribed in the writing of truth. There is no one
who holds with me against these but Michael your
prince.

#BCV:Daniel 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:1">1 </verse></sup>“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede,
I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
<key:bcv=Daniel 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:2">2 </verse></sup>“Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three
more kings will stand up in Persia. The fourth
will be far richer than all of them. When he has
grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all
against the realm of Greece. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:3">3 </verse></sup>A mighty king will
stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and
do according to his will. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:4">4 </verse></sup>When he stands up, his
kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward
the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity,
nor according to his dominion with which he ruled;
for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others
besides these.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:5">5 </verse></sup>“The king of the south will be strong. One of his
princes will become stronger than him, and have
dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion.
<key:bcv=Daniel 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:6">6 </verse></sup>At the end of years they will join themselves
together; and the daughter of the king of the south
will come to the king of the north to make an
agreement, but she will not retain the strength of
her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm;
but she will be given up, with those who brought
her, and he who became the father of her, and he
who strengthened her in those times.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:7">7 </verse></sup>“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand
up in his place, who will come to the army and will
enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and
will deal against them and will prevail. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:8">8 </verse></sup>He will also
carry their gods with their molten images, and with
their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, captive
into Egypt. He will refrain some years from the king
of the north. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:9">9 </verse></sup>He will come into the realm of the
king of the south, but he will return into his own
land. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:10">10 </verse></sup>His sons will wage war, and will assemble a
multitude of great forces which will come on, and
overflow, and pass through. They will return and
wage war, even to his fortress.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:11">11 </verse></sup>“The king of the south will be moved with anger
and will come out and fight with him, even with
the king of the north. He will send out a great
multitude, and the multitude will be given into his
hand. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:12">12 </verse></sup>The multitude will be carried off, and his
heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of
thousands, but he won’t prevail. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:13">13 </verse></sup>The king of the
north will return, and will send out a multitude
greater than the former. He will come on at the end
of the times, even of years, with a great army and
with abundant supplies.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:14">14 </verse></sup>“In those times many will stand up against
the king of the south. Also the children of the
violent among your people will lift themselves up
to establish the vision, but they will fall. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:15">15 </verse></sup>So the
king of the north will come and cast up a mound,
and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the
south won’t stand, neither will his select troops,
neither will there be any strength to stand. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:16">16 </verse></sup>But
he who comes against him will do according to his
own will, and no one will stand before him. He will
stand in the glorious land, and destruction will be
in his hand. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:17">17 </verse></sup>He will set his face to come with
the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him
equitable conditions. He will perform them. He
will give him the daughter of women, to destroy the
kingdom, but she will not stand, and won’t be for
him. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:18">18 </verse></sup>After this he will turn his face to the islands,
and will take many, but a prince will cause the
reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover,
he will cause his reproach to turn on him. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Then
he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his
own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t
be found.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:20">20 </verse></sup>“Then one who will cause a tax collector to
pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will
stand up in his place; but within few days he shall
be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.
<key:bcv=Daniel 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:21">21 </verse></sup>“In his place a contemptible person will stand
up, to whom they had not given the honor of the
kingdom; but he will come in time of security,
and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:22">22 </verse></sup>The
overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from
before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince
of the covenant. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:23">23 </verse></sup>After the treaty made with him
he will work deceitfully; for he will come up and
will become strong with few people. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:24">24 </verse></sup>In time of
security he will come even on the fattest places of
the province. He will do that which his fathers have
not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter
among them prey, plunder, and wealth. Yes, he will
devise his plans against the strongholds, but only
for a time.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:25">25 </verse></sup>“He will stir up his power and his courage
against the king of the south with a great army; and
the king of the south will wage war in battle with
an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he won’t
stand; for they will devise plans against him. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Yes,
those who eat of his delicacies will destroy him, and
his army will be swept away. Many will fall down
slain. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:27">27 </verse></sup>As for both these kings, their hearts will
be to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table;
but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the
appointed time. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Then he will return into his land
with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy
covenant. He will take action, and return to his own
land.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:29">29 </verse></sup>“He will return at the appointed time and come
into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time
as it was in the former. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:30">30 </verse></sup>For ships of Kittim will
come against him. Therefore he will be grieved,
and will return, and have indignation against the
holy covenant, and will take action. He will even
return, and have regard to those who forsake the
holy covenant.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:31">31 </verse></sup>“Forces from him will profane the sanctuary,
even the fortress, and will take away the continual
burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination
that makes desolate. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:32">32 </verse></sup>He will corrupt those
who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries;
but the people who know their God will be strong
and take action.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:33">33 </verse></sup>“Those who are wise among the people will
instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and
by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
<key:bcv=Daniel 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:34">34 </verse></sup>Now when they fall, they will be helped with a
little help; but many will join themselves to them
with flatteries. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Some of those who are wise will
fall —to refine them, and to purify, and to make
them white, even to the time of the end, because
it is yet for the time appointed.

<key:bcv=Daniel 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:36">36 </verse></sup>“The king will do according to his will. He will
exalt himself and magnify himself above every god,
and will speak marvelous things against the God
of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is
accomplished, for that which is determined will be
done. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:37><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:37">37 </verse></sup>He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or
the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will
magnify himself above all. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:38><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:38">38 </verse></sup>But in their place, he
will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god
whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and
with precious stones and pleasant things. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:39><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:39">39 </verse></sup>He will
deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a
foreign god. He will increase with glory whoever
acknowledges him. He will cause them to rule over
many, and will divide the land for a price.
<key:bcv=Daniel 11:40><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:40">40 </verse></sup>“At the time of the end the king of the south
will contend with him; and the king of the north will
come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots,
with horsemen, and with many ships. He will
enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass
through. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:41><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:41">41 </verse></sup>He will enter also into the glorious land,
and many countries will be overthrown; but these
will be delivered out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and
the chief of the children of Ammon. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:42><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:42">42 </verse></sup>He will also
stretch out his hand on the countries. The land
of Egypt won’t escape. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:43><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:43">43 </verse></sup>But he will have power
over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all
the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the
Ethiopians will follow his steps. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:44><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:44">44 </verse></sup>But news out of
the east and out of the north will trouble him; and
he will go out with great fury to destroy and utterly
to sweep away many. <key:bcv=Daniel 11:45><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 11:45">45 </verse></sup>He will plant the tents of
his palace between the sea and the glorious holy
mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one
will help him.

#BCV:Daniel 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:1">1 </verse></sup>“At that time Michael will stand up, the great
prince who stands for the children of your people;
and there will be a time of trouble, such as never
was since there was a nation even to that same
time. At that time your people will be delivered,
everyone who is found written in the book. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Many
of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Those who are wise
will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those
who turn many to righteousness will shine as the
stars forever and ever. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:4">4 </verse></sup>But you, Daniel, shut up
the words and seal the book, even to the time of the
end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge
will be increased.”

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others
stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the
other on the river bank on that side. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:6">6 </verse></sup>One said to
the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters
of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these
wonders?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:7">7 </verse></sup>I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above
the waters of the river, when he held up his right
hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him
who lives forever that it will be for a time, times,
and a half; and when they have finished breaking in
pieces the power of the holy people, all these things
will be finished.

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:8">8 </verse></sup>I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I
said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these
things?”

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:9">9 </verse></sup>He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are
shut up and sealed until the time of the end. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Many
will purify themselves, and make themselves white,
and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and
none of the wicked will understand, but those who
are wise will understand.

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:11">11 </verse></sup>“From the time that the continual burnt offering
is taken away and the abomination that makes
desolate set up, there will be one thousand two
hundred ninety days. <key:bcv=Daniel 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Blessed is he who waits, and
comes to the one thousand three hundred thirtyfive
days.

<key:bcv=Daniel 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Daniel 12:13">13 </verse></sup>“But go your way until the end; for you will rest,
and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the
days.”

#OUTLINE:1,Hosea
<h2>The Book of Hosea</h2>

<key:bcv=Hosea 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word that came to Hosea the son
of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam
the son of Joash, king of Israel.

<key:bcv=Hosea 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:2">2 </verse></sup>When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh
said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of
prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the
land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Hosea 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:3">3 </verse></sup>So he went and took Gomer the daughter of
Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
<key:bcv=Hosea 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for
yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of
Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the
kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. <key:bcv=Hosea 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:5">5 </verse></sup>It will
happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel
in the valley of Jezreel.”

<key:bcv=Hosea 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:6">6 </verse></sup>She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-
Ruhamah,<footnote:1>1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”. </footnote> for I will no longer have mercy on the
house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon
them. <key:bcv=Hosea 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:7">7 </verse></sup>But I will have mercy on the house of Judah,
and will save them by Yahweh their God,<footnote:1>1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> and will
not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or
horsemen.”

<key:bcv=Hosea 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she
conceived, and bore a son.

<key:bcv=Hosea 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:9">9 </verse></sup>He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi,<footnote:1>1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”. </footnote> for you are
not my people, and I will not be yours. <key:bcv=Hosea 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Yet the
number of the children of Israel will be as the sand
of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and
it will come to pass that, in the place where it was
said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be
called ‘sons of the living God.’ <key:bcv=Hosea 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 1:11">11 </verse></sup>The children of
Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered
together, and they will appoint themselves one
head, and will go up from the land; for great will
be the day of Jezreel.

#BCV:Hosea 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:1">1 </verse></sup>“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’<footnote:1>2:1 ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew </footnote>
and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’<footnote:1>2:1 ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Contend with your mother!
<br>
Contend, for she is not my wife,
<br>
neither am I her husband;
<br>
and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
and her adulteries from between her breasts;
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:3">3 </verse></sup>lest I strip her naked,
<br>
and make her bare as in the day that she was
born,
<br>
and make her like a wilderness,
<br>
and set her like a dry land,
<br>
and kill her with thirst.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,
for they are children of unfaithfulness.
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For their mother has played the prostitute.
She who conceived them has done shamefully;
for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who give me my bread and my water,
<br>
my wool and my flax,
<br>
my oil and my drink.’

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore behold,<footnote:1>2:6 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> I will hedge up your way with
thorns,
<br>
and I will build a wall against her,
<br>
that she can’t find her way.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:7">7 </verse></sup>She will follow after her lovers,
<br>
but she won’t overtake them;
<br>
and she will seek them,
<br>
but won’t find them.
<br>
Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first
husband,
<br>
for then it was better with me than now.’
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:8">8 </verse></sup>For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the
new wine, and the oil,
<br>
and multiplied to her silver and gold, which
they used for Baal.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
and my new wine in its season,
<br>
and will pluck away my wool and my flax which
should have covered her nakedness.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of
her lovers,
<br>
and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:11">11 </verse></sup>I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and
all her solemn assemblies.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:12">12 </verse></sup>I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
about which she has said, ‘These are my wages
that my lovers have given me,’
<br>
and I will make them a forest,
<br>
and the animals of the field shall eat them.
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:13">13 </verse></sup>I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
to which she burned incense
<br>
when she decked herself with her earrings and her
jewels,
<br>
and went after her lovers
<br>
and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:14">14 </verse></sup>“Therefore behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
<br>
and speak tenderly to her.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:15">15 </verse></sup>I will give her vineyards from there,
and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
and she will respond there
<br>
as in the days of her youth,
<br>
and as in the day when she came up out of the
land of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:16">16 </verse></sup>It will be in that day,” says Yahweh,
“that you will call me ‘my husband,’
<br>
and no longer call me ‘my master.’

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:17">17 </verse></sup>For I will take away the names of the Baals out of
her mouth,
<br>
and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:18">18 </verse></sup>In that day I will make a covenant for them with
the animals of the field,
<br>
and with the birds of the sky,
<br>
and with the creeping things of the ground.
I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out
of the land,
<br>
and will make them lie down safely.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:19">19 </verse></sup>I will betroth you to me forever.
<br>
Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness,
in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
<key:bcv=Hosea 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:20">20 </verse></sup>I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
and you shall know Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:21">21 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day, that I will respond,”
says Yahweh.
<br>
“I will respond to the heavens,
<br>
and they will respond to the earth;

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:22">22 </verse></sup>and the earth will respond to the grain, and
the new wine, and the oil;
<br>
and they will respond to Jezreel.

<key:bcv=Hosea 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 2:23">23 </verse></sup>I will sow her to me in the earth;
and I will have mercy on her who had not
obtained mercy;
<br>
and I will tell those who were not my people,
‘You are my people;’
<br>
and they will say, ‘You are My God!’ ”

#BCV:Hosea 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman
loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh
loves the children of Israel, though they turn
to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
<key:bcv=Hosea 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 3:2">2 </verse></sup>So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of
silver and a homer<footnote:1>3:2 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels</footnote> and a half of barley. <key:bcv=Hosea 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 3:3">3 </verse></sup>I said to
her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall
not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with
any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
<key:bcv=Hosea 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 3:4">4 </verse></sup>For the children of Israel shall live many days
without king, without prince, without sacrifice,
without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
<key:bcv=Hosea 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Afterward the children of Israel shall return and
seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and
shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his
blessings in the last days.

#BCV:Hosea 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel,
for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants
of the land:
<br>
“Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness,
nor knowledge of God in the land.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:2">2 </verse></sup>There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and
committing adultery;
<br>
they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes
bloodshed.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore the land will mourn,
<br>
and everyone who dwells in it will waste away,
with all living things in her,
<br>
even the animals of the field and the birds of
the sky;
<br>
yes, the fish of the sea also die.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man
accuse;
<br>
for your people are like those who bring
charges against a priest.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:5">5 </verse></sup>You will stumble in the day,
<br>
and the prophet will also stumble with you in
the night;
<br>
and I will destroy your mother.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:6">6 </verse></sup>My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you,
<br>
that you may be no priest to me.
<br>
Because you have forgotten your God’s law,
I will also forget your children.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:7">7 </verse></sup>As they were multiplied, so they sinned against
me.
<br>
I will change their glory into shame.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:8">8 </verse></sup>They feed on the sin of my people,
<br>
and set their heart on their iniquity.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:9">9 </verse></sup>It will be like people, like priest;
and I will punish them for their ways,
and will repay them for their deeds.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:10">10 </verse></sup>They will eat, and not have enough.
They will play the prostitute, and will not
increase;
<br>
because they have abandoned listening to Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:12">12 </verse></sup>My people consult with their wooden idol,
and answer to a stick of wood.
<br>
Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
and they have been unfaithful to their God.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:13">13 </verse></sup>They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains,
and burn incense on the hills, under oaks,
poplars, and terebinths,
<br>
because its shade is good.
<br>
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
and your brides commit adultery.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:14">14 </verse></sup>I will not punish your daughters when they play
the prostitute,
<br>
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
because the men consort with prostitutes,
and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes;
so the people without understanding will come
to ruin.

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:15">15 </verse></sup>“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute,
yet don’t let Judah offend;
<br>
and don’t come to Gilgal,
<br>
neither go up to Beth Aven,
<br>
nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:16">16 </verse></sup>For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like
a stubborn heifer.
<br>
Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in
a meadow?

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Ephraim is joined to idols.
<br>
Leave him alone!

<key:bcv=Hosea 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Their drink has become sour.
<br>
They play the prostitute continually.
Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
<key:bcv=Hosea 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 4:19">19 </verse></sup>The wind has wrapped her up in its wings;
and they shall be disappointed because of their
sacrifices.

#BCV:Hosea 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:1">1 </verse></sup>“Listen to this, you priests!
<br>
Listen, house of Israel,
<br>
and give ear, house of the king!
<br>
For the judgment is against you;
<br>
for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
<br>
and a net spread on Tabor.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:2">2 </verse></sup>The rebels are deep in slaughter,
<br>
but I discipline all of them.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:3">3 </verse></sup>I know Ephraim,
<br>
and Israel is not hidden from me;
<br>
for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
Israel is defiled.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God,
for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
and they don’t know Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:5">5 </verse></sup>The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in
their iniquity.
<br>
Judah also will stumble with them.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:6">6 </verse></sup>They will go with their flocks and with their herds
to seek Yahweh,
<br>
but they won’t find him.
<br>
He has withdrawn himself from them.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:7">7 </verse></sup>They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
<br>
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with
their fields.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:8">8 </verse></sup>“Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
<br>
and the trumpet in Ramah!
<br>
Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you,
Benjamin!

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of
rebuke.
<br>
Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known
that which will surely be.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:10">10 </verse></sup>The princes of Judah are like those who remove a
landmark.
<br>
I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
<key:bcv=Hosea 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Ephraim is oppressed,
<br>
he is crushed in judgment,
<br>
because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
<key:bcv=Hosea 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
<key:bcv=Hosea 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:13">13 </verse></sup>“When Ephraim saw his sickness,
<br>
and Judah his wound,
<br>
then Ephraim went to Assyria,
<br>
and sent to King Jareb:
<br>
but he is not able to heal you,
<br>
neither will he cure you of your wound.
<key:bcv=Hosea 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:14">14 </verse></sup>For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
I will carry off, and there will be no one to
deliver.

<key:bcv=Hosea 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 5:15">15 </verse></sup>I will go and return to my place,
<br>
until they acknowledge their offense,
and seek my face.
<br>
In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

#BCV:Hosea 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:1">1 </verse></sup>“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh;
<br>
for he has torn us to pieces,
<br>
and he will heal us;
<br>
he has injured us,
<br>
and he will bind up our wounds.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:2">2 </verse></sup>After two days he will revive us.
<br>
On the third day he will raise us up,
and we will live before him.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Let’s acknowledge Yahweh.
<br>
Let’s press on to know Yahweh.
<br>
As surely as the sun rises,
<br>
Yahweh will appear.
<br>
He will come to us like the rain,
<br>
like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
<key:bcv=Hosea 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:4">4 </verse></sup>“Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
<br>
Judah, what shall I do to you?
<br>
For your love is like a morning cloud,
and like the dew that disappears early.
<key:bcv=Hosea 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the
prophets;
<br>
I killed them with the words of my mouth.
Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
<key:bcv=Hosea 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:6">6 </verse></sup>For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt
offerings.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:7">7 </verse></sup>But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.
They were unfaithful to me there.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
it is stained with blood.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:9">9 </verse></sup>As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
so the company of priests murder on the path
toward Shechem,
<br>
committing shameful crimes.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:10">10 </verse></sup>In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
There is prostitution in Ephraim.
<br>
Israel is defiled.

<key:bcv=Hosea 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 6:11">11 </verse></sup>“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
when I restore the fortunes of my people.

#BCV:Hosea 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:1">1 </verse></sup>When I would heal Israel,
<br>
then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
also the wickedness of Samaria;
<br>
for they commit falsehood,
<br>
and the thief enters in,
<br>
and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
<key:bcv=Hosea 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:2">2 </verse></sup>They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember
all their wickedness.
<br>
Now their own deeds have engulfed them.
They are before my face.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:3">3 </verse></sup>They make the king glad with their wickedness,
and the princes with their lies.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:4">4 </verse></sup>They are all adulterers.
<br>
They are burning like an oven that the baker
stops stirring,
<br>
from the kneading of the dough, until it is
leavened.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:5">5 </verse></sup>On the day of our king, the princes made themselves
sick with the heat of wine.
<br>
He joined his hand with mockers.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For they have prepared their heart like an oven,
while they lie in wait.
<br>
Their anger smolders all night.
<br>
In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:7">7 </verse></sup>They are all hot as an oven,
<br>
and devour their judges.
<br>
All their kings have fallen.
<br>
There is no one among them who calls to me.
<key:bcv=Hosea 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Ephraim mixes himself among the nations.
Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
<key:bcv=Hosea 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Strangers have devoured his strength,
and he doesn’t realize it.
<br>
Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,
and he doesn’t realize it.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God,
nor sought him, for all this.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:11">11 </verse></sup>“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without
understanding.
<br>
They call to Egypt.
<br>
They go to Assyria.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:12">12 </verse></sup>When they go, I will spread my net on them.
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them, as their congregation has
heard.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Woe to them!
<br>
For they have wandered from me.
<br>
Destruction to them!
<br>
For they have trespassed against me.
<br>
Though I would redeem them,
<br>
yet they have spoken lies against me.
<key:bcv=Hosea 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:14">14 </verse></sup>They haven’t cried to me with their heart,
but they howl on their beds.
<br>
They assemble themselves for grain and new wine.
They turn away from me.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Though I have taught and strengthened their
arms,
<br>
yet they plot evil against me.

<key:bcv=Hosea 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 7:16">16 </verse></sup>They return, but not to the Most High.
They are like a faulty bow.
<br>
Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage
of their tongue.
<br>
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

#BCV:Hosea 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:1">1 </verse></sup>“Put the trumpet to your lips!
<br>
Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s
house,
<br>
because they have broken my covenant
<br>
and rebelled against my law.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:2">2 </verse></sup>They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge
you!’

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Israel has cast off that which is good.
The enemy will pursue him.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:4">4 </verse></sup>They have set up kings, but not by me.
They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
Of their silver and their gold they have made
themselves idols,
<br>
that they may be cut off.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
My anger burns against them!
<br>
How long will it be until they are capable of
purity?

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:6">6 </verse></sup>For this is even from Israel!
<br>
The workman made it, and it is no God;
indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in
pieces.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For they sow the wind,
<br>
and they will reap the whirlwind.
<br>
He has no standing grain.
<br>
The stalk will yield no head.
<br>
If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Israel is swallowed up.
<br>
Now they are among the nations like a worthless
thing.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:9">9 </verse></sup>For they have gone up to Assyria,
<br>
like a wild donkey wandering alone.
<br>
Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:10">10 </verse></sup>But although they sold themselves among the
nations,
<br>
I will now gather them;
<br>
and they begin to waste away because of the
oppression of the king of mighty ones.
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
they became for him altars for sinning.
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:12">12 </verse></sup>I wrote for him the many things of my law,
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
<key:bcv=Hosea 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:13">13 </verse></sup>As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
they sacrifice meat and eat it,
<br>
but Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
<br>
Now he will remember their iniquity,
<br>
and punish their sins.
<br>
They will return to Egypt.

<key:bcv=Hosea 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 8:14">14 </verse></sup>For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built
palaces;
<br>
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
but I will send a fire on his cities,
and it will devour its fortresses.”

#BCV:Hosea 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;
for you were unfaithful to your God.
<br>
You love the wages of a prostitute at every
grain threshing floor.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:2">2 </verse></sup>The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed
them,
<br>
and the new wine will fail her.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:3">3 </verse></sup>They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
<br>
but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
<br>
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
<key:bcv=Hosea 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:4">4 </verse></sup>They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,
neither will they be pleasing to him.
Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread
of mourners;
<br>
all who eat of it will be polluted;
<br>
for their bread will be for their appetite.
It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
<key:bcv=Hosea 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:5">5 </verse></sup>What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,
and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
<key:bcv=Hosea 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:6">6 </verse></sup>For, behold, when they flee destruction,
Egypt will gather them up.
<br>
Memphis will bury them.
<br>
Nettles will possess their pleasant things of
silver.
<br>
Thorns will be in their tents.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:7">7 </verse></sup>The days of visitation have come.
<br>
The days of reckoning have come.
<br>
Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
and the man who is inspired to be insane,
because of the abundance of your sins,
and because your hostility is great.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:8">8 </verse></sup>A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
and hostility in the house of his God.
<key:bcv=Hosea 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:9">9 </verse></sup>They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the days of Gibeah.
<br>
He will remember their iniquity.
<br>
He will punish them for their sins.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:10">10 </verse></sup>I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree
at its first season;
<br>
but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated
themselves to the shameful thing,
<br>
and became abominable like that which they
loved.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:11">11 </verse></sup>As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a
bird.
<br>
There will be no birth, no one with child, and
no conception.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Though they bring up their children,
yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall
be left.
<br>
Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from
them!

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:13">13 </verse></sup>I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a
pleasant place;
<br>
but Ephraim will bring out his children to the
murderer.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Give them—Yahweh what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry
<br>
breasts.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:15">15 </verse></sup>“All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
for there I hated them.
<br>
Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will
drive them out of my house!
<br>
I will love them no more.
<br>
All their princes are rebels.

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Ephraim is struck.
<br>
Their root has dried up.
<br>
They will bear no fruit.
<br>
Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the
beloved ones of their womb.”

<key:bcv=Hosea 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 9:17">17 </verse></sup>My God will cast them away, because they didn’t
listen to him;
<br>
and they will be wanderers among the nations.

#BCV:Hosea 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit.
According to the abundance of his fruit he has
multiplied his altars.
<br>
As their land has prospered, they have adorned
their sacred stones.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Their heart is divided.
<br>
Now they will be found guilty.
<br>
He will demolish their altars.
<br>
He will destroy their sacred stones.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we
don’t fear Yahweh;
<br>
and the king, what can he do for us?”
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:4">4 </verse></sup>They make promises, swearing falsely in making
covenants.
<br>
Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous
weeds in the furrows of the field.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:5">5 </verse></sup>The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the
calves of Beth Aven,
<br>
for its people will mourn over it,
<br>
along with its priests who rejoiced over it,
for its glory, because it has departed from it.
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:6">6 </verse></sup>It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a
great king.
<br>
Ephraim will receive shame,
<br>
and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Samaria and her king float away
<br>
like a twig on the water.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:8">8 </verse></sup>The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will
be destroyed.
<br>
The thorn and the thistle will come up on their
altars.
<br>
They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and
the hills, “Fall on us!”

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:9">9 </verse></sup>“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah.
There they remained.
<br>
The battle against the children of iniquity
doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:10">10 </verse></sup>When it is my desire, I will chastise them;
and the nations will be gathered against them
when they are bound to their two transgressions.
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck.
I will set a rider on Ephraim.
<br>
Judah will plow.
<br>
Jacob will break his clods.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Sow to yourselves in righteousness,
reap according to kindness.
<br>
Break up your fallow ground,
<br>
for it is time to seek Yahweh,
<br>
until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
<key:bcv=Hosea 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:13">13 </verse></sup>You have plowed wickedness.
<br>
You have reaped iniquity.
<br>
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
<br>
for you trusted in your way, in the multitude
of your mighty men.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore a battle roar will arise among your
people,
<br>
and all your fortresses will be destroyed,
as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of
battle.
<br>
The mother was dashed in pieces with her
children.

<key:bcv=Hosea 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 10:15">15 </verse></sup>So Bethel will do to you because of your great
wickedness.
<br>
At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

#BCV:Hosea 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:1">1 </verse></sup>“When Israel was a child, then I loved him,
and called my son out of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:2">2 </verse></sup>They called to them, so they went from them.
They sacrificed to the Baals,
<br>
and burned incense to engraved images.
<key:bcv=Hosea 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Yet I taught Ephraim to walk.
<br>
I took them by their arms,
<br>
but they didn’t know that I healed them.
<key:bcv=Hosea 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:4">4 </verse></sup>I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love;
and I was to them like those who lift up the
yoke on their necks;
<br>
and I bent down to him and I fed him.
<key:bcv=Hosea 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:5">5 </verse></sup>“They won’t return into the land of Egypt;
but the Assyrian will be their king,
<br>
because they refused to repent.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:6">6 </verse></sup>The sword will fall on their cities,
and will destroy the bars of their gates,
and will put an end to their plans.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:7">7 </verse></sup>My people are determined to turn from me.
Though they call to the Most High,
<br>
he certainly won’t exalt them.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:8">8 </verse></sup>“How can I give you up, Ephraim?
<br>
How can I hand you over, Israel?
<br>
How can I make you like Admah?
<br>
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
<br>
My heart is turned within me,
<br>
my compassion is aroused.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:9">9 </verse></sup>I will not execute the fierceness of my anger.
I will not return to destroy Ephraim,
for I am God, and not man —the Holy One
among you.
<br>
I will not come in wrath.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:10">10 </verse></sup>They will walk after Yahweh,
<br>
who will roar like a lion;
<br>
for he will roar, and the children will come
trembling from the west.

<key:bcv=Hosea 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:11">11 </verse></sup>They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Hosea 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
and the house of Israel with deceit.
<br>
Judah still strays from God,
<br>
and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

#BCV:Hosea 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Ephraim feeds on wind,
<br>
and chases the east wind.
<br>
He continually multiplies lies and desolation.
They make a covenant with Assyria,
<br>
and oil is carried into Egypt.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah,
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
according to his deeds he will repay him.
<key:bcv=Hosea 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:3">3 </verse></sup>In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
and in his manhood he contended with God.
<key:bcv=Hosea 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;
he wept, and made supplication to him.
He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke
with us—

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:5">5 </verse></sup>even Yahweh, the God of Armies.
<br>
Yahweh is his name of renown!

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore turn to your God.
<br>
Keep kindness and justice,
<br>
and wait continually for your God.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:7">7 </verse></sup>A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.
He loves to defraud.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich.
I have found myself wealth.
<br>
In all my wealth they won’t find in me any
iniquity that is sin.”

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:9">9 </verse></sup>“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.
I will yet again make you dwell in tents,
as in the days of the solemn feast.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:10">10 </verse></sup>I have also spoken to the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions;
<br>
and by the ministry of the prophets I have used
parables.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:11">11 </verse></sup>If Gilead is wicked,
<br>
surely they are worthless.
<br>
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.
<br>
Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows
of the field.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Jacob fled into the country of Aram.
Israel served to get a wife.
<br>
For a wife he tended flocks and herds.
<key:bcv=Hosea 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:13">13 </verse></sup>By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of
Egypt,
<br>
and by a prophet he was preserved.

<key:bcv=Hosea 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.
Therefore his blood will be left on him,
and his Lord<footnote:1>12:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> will repay his contempt.

#BCV:Hosea 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:1">1 </verse></sup>When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
<br>
but when he became guilty through Baal, he
died.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Now they sin more and more,
<br>
and have made themselves molten images of
their silver,
<br>
even idols according to their own understanding,
all of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice
and kiss the calves.’

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
like the dew that passes away early,
<br>
like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind
out of the threshing floor,
<br>
and like the smoke out of the chimney.
<key:bcv=Hosea 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt;
and you shall acknowledge no god but me,
and besides me there is no savior.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:5">5 </verse></sup>I knew you in the wilderness,
<br>
in the land of great drought.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:6">6 </verse></sup>According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
Therefore they have forgotten me.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore I am like a lion to them.
Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
<key:bcv=Hosea 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:8">8 </verse></sup>I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her
cubs,
<br>
and will tear the covering of their heart.
There I will devour them like a lioness.
The wild animal will tear them.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:9">9 </verse></sup>You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against
me,
<br>
against your helper.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Where is your king now, that he may save you in
all your cities?
<br>
And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a
king and princes’?

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:11">11 </verse></sup>I have given you a king in my anger,
and have taken him away in my wrath.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:12">12 </verse></sup>The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.
His sin is stored up.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:13">13 </verse></sup>The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on
him.
<br>
He is an unwise son,
<br>
for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the
opening of the womb.

<key:bcv=Hosea 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:14">14 </verse></sup>I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.<footnote:1>13:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote>
I will redeem them from death!
<br>
Death, where are your plagues?
<br>
Sheol, where is your destruction?
<br>
“Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
<key:bcv=Hosea 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an
east wind will come,
<br>
the breath of Yahweh coming up from the
wilderness;
<br>
and his spring will become dry,
<br>
and his fountain will be dried up.
<br>
He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
<key:bcv=Hosea 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Samaria will bear her guilt,
<br>
for she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword.
<br>
Their infants will be dashed in pieces,
and their pregnant women will be ripped
open.”

#BCV:Hosea 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Israel, return to Yahweh your God;
for you have fallen because of your sin.
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Take words with you, and return to Yahweh.
Tell him, “Forgive all our sins,
<br>
and accept that which is good;
<br>
so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Assyria can’t save us.
<br>
We won’t ride on horses;
<br>
neither will we say any more to the work of our
hands, ‘Our gods!’
<br>
for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:4">4 </verse></sup>“I will heal their waywardness.
<br>
I will love them freely;
<br>
for my anger is turned away from them.
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:5">5 </verse></sup>I will be like the dew to Israel.
<br>
He will blossom like the lily,
<br>
and send down his roots like Lebanon.
<key:bcv=Hosea 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:6">6 </verse></sup>His branches will spread,
<br>
and his beauty will be like the olive tree,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.

<key:bcv=Hosea 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Men will dwell in his shade.
<br>
They will revive like the grain,
<br>
and blossom like the vine.
<br>
Their fragrance will be like the wine of
Lebanon.

<key:bcv=Hosea 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols?
I answer, and will take care of him.
<br>
I am like a green cypress tree;
<br>
from me your fruit is found.”

<key:bcv=Hosea 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Hosea 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
<br>
and the righteous walk in them,
<br>
but the rebellious stumble in them.

#OUTLINE:1,Joel
<h2>The Book of Joel</h2>

<key:bcv=Joel 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word that came to Joel, the son of
Pethuel.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear this, you elders,
<br>
and listen, all you inhabitants of the land!
Has this ever happened in your days,
<br>
or in the days of your fathers?

<key:bcv=Joel 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Tell your children about it,
<br>
and have your children tell their children,
and their children, another generation.
<key:bcv=Joel 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:4">4 </verse></sup>What the swarming locust has left, the great locust
has eaten.
<br>
What the great locust has left, the grasshopper
has eaten.
<br>
What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar
has eaten.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
<br>
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the
sweet wine,
<br>
for it is cut off from your mouth.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:6">6 </verse></sup>For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and
without number.
<br>
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
<br>
and he has the fangs of a lioness.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:7">7 </verse></sup>He has laid my vine waste,
<br>
and stripped my fig tree.
<br>
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
Its branches are made white.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth
for the husband of her youth!

<key:bcv=Joel 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:9">9 </verse></sup>The meal offering and the drink offering are cut
off from Yahweh’s house.
<br>
The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
<key:bcv=Joel 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:10">10 </verse></sup>The field is laid waste.
<br>
The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
The new wine has dried up,
<br>
and the oil languishes.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Be confounded, you farmers!
<br>
Wail, you vineyard keepers,
<br>
for the wheat and for the barley;
<br>
for the harvest of the field has perished.
<key:bcv=Joel 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:12">12 </verse></sup>The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered—
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and
the apple tree,
<br>
even all of the trees of the field are withered;
for joy has withered away from the sons of
men.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
Wail, you ministers of the altar.
<br>
Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my
God,<footnote:1>1:13 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>
<br>
for the meal offering and the drink offering are
withheld from your God’s house.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Sanctify a fast.
<br>
Call a solemn assembly.
<br>
Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the
land to the house of Yahweh, your God,
and cry to Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Alas for the day!
<br>
For the day of Yahweh is at hand,
<br>
and it will come as destruction from the
Almighty.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes,
joy and gladness from the house of our God?
<key:bcv=Joel 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:17">17 </verse></sup>The seeds rot under their clods.
<br>
The granaries are laid desolate.
<br>
The barns are broken down, for the grain has
withered.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:18">18 </verse></sup>How the animals groan!
<br>
The herds of livestock are perplexed, because
they have no pasture.
<br>
Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
<key:bcv=Joel 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I cry to you,
<br>
for the fire has devoured the pastures of the
wilderness,
<br>
and the flame has burned all the trees of the
field.

<key:bcv=Joel 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Joel 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,
for the water brooks have dried up,
<br>
and the fire has devoured the pastures of the
wilderness.

#BCV:Joel 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joel 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Blow the trumpet in Zion,
<br>
and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of Yahweh comes,
<br>
for it is close at hand:

<key:bcv=Joel 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:2">2 </verse></sup>A day of darkness and gloominess,
<br>
a day of clouds and thick darkness.
<br>
As the dawn spreading on the mountains,
a great and strong people;
<br>
there has never been the like,
<br>
neither will there be any more after them,
even to the years of many generations.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:3">3 </verse></sup>A fire devours before them,
<br>
and behind them, a flame burns.
<br>
The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
and behind them, a desolate wilderness.
Yes, and no one has escaped them.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Their appearance is as the appearance of horses,
and they run as horsemen.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the
mountains, they leap,
<br>
like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the
stubble,
<br>
like a strong people set in battle array.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:6">6 </verse></sup>At their presence the peoples are in anguish.
All faces have grown pale.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:7">7 </verse></sup>They run like mighty men.
<br>
They climb the wall like warriors.
<br>
They each march in his line, and they don’t
swerve off course.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:8">8 </verse></sup>One doesn’t jostle another.
<br>
They each march in their own path.
<br>
They burst through the defenses
<br>
and don’t break ranks.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:9">9 </verse></sup>They rush on the city.
<br>
They run on the wall.
<br>
They climb up into the houses.
<br>
They enter in at the windows like thieves.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The earth quakes before them.
<br>
The heavens tremble.
<br>
The sun and the moon are darkened,
<br>
and the stars withdraw their shining.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh thunders his voice before his army,
for his forces are very great;
<br>
for he is strong who obeys his command;
for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome,
and who can endure it?

<key:bcv=Joel 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:12">12 </verse></sup>“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all
your heart,
<br>
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning.”

<key:bcv=Joel 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Tear your heart and not your garments,
and turn to Yahweh, your God;
<br>
for he is gracious and merciful,
<br>
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Who knows? He may turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
<br>
even a meal offering and a drink offering to
Yahweh, your God.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Blow the trumpet in Zion!
<br>
Sanctify a fast.
<br>
Call a solemn assembly.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Gather the people.
<br>
Sanctify the assembly.
<br>
Assemble the elders.
<br>
Gather the children, and those who nurse from
breasts.
<br>
Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
and the bride out of her chamber.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep
between the porch and the altar,
<br>
and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh,
and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
that the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”

<key:bcv=Joel 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
and had pity on his people.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh answered his people,

“Behold,<footnote:1>2:19 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> I will send you grain, new wine, and
oil,
<br>
and you will be satisfied with them;
<br>
and I will no more make you a reproach among
the nations.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:20">20 </verse></sup>But I will remove the northern army far away
from you,
<br>
and will drive it into a barren and desolate
land,
<br>
its front into the eastern sea,
<br>
and its back into the western sea;
<br>
and its stench will come up,
<br>
and its bad smell will rise.”
<br>
Surely he has done great things.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Land, don’t be afraid.
<br>
Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great
things.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
for the tree bears its fruit.
<br>
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:23">23 </verse></sup>“Be glad then, you children of Zion,
and rejoice in Yahweh, your God;
<br>
for he gives you the early rain in just measure,
and he causes the rain to come down for you,
the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:24">24 </verse></sup>The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
and the vats will overflow with new wine and
oil.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:25">25 </verse></sup>I will restore to you the years that the swarming
locust has eaten,
<br>
the great locust, the grasshopper, and the
caterpillar,
<br>
my great army, which I sent among you.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:26">26 </verse></sup>You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied,
and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you;
<br>
and my people will never again be disappointed.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:27">27 </verse></sup>You will know that I am among Israel,
and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is
no one else;
<br>
and my people will never again be disappointed.
<key:bcv=Joel 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:28">28 </verse></sup>“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my
Spirit on all flesh;
<br>
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams.
<br>
Your young men will see visions.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:29">29 </verse></sup>And also on the servants and on the handmaids in
those days,
<br>
I will pour out my Spirit.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:30">30 </verse></sup>I will show wonders in the heavens and in the
earth:
<br>
blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:31">31 </verse></sup>The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
<br>
before the great and terrible day of Yahweh
comes.

<key:bcv=Joel 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Joel 2:32">32 </verse></sup>It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s
name shall be saved;
<br>
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will
be those who escape,
<br>
as Yahweh has said,
<br>
and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh
calls.

#BCV:Joel 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Joel 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:1">1 </verse></sup>“For, behold, in those days,
<br>
and in that time,
<br>
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and
Jerusalem,

<key:bcv=Joel 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:2">2 </verse></sup>I will gather all nations,
<br>
and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat;
<br>
and I will execute judgment on them there for
my people,
<br>
and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations.
<br>
They have divided my land,

<key:bcv=Joel 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:3">3 </verse></sup>and have cast lots for my people,
<br>
and have given a boy for a prostitute,
and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:4">4 </verse></sup>“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon,
and all the regions of Philistia?
<br>
Will you repay me?
<br>
And if you repay me,
<br>
I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment
on your own head.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried my finest treasures into your
temples,

<key:bcv=Joel 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:6">6 </verse></sup>and have sold the children of Judah and the
children of Jerusalem to the sons of the
Greeks,
<br>
that you may remove them far from their
border.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where
you have sold them,
<br>
and will return your repayment on your own
head;

<key:bcv=Joel 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:8">8 </verse></sup>and I will sell your sons and your daughters into
the hands of the children of Judah,
<br>
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
<br>
for Yahweh has spoken it.”

<key:bcv=Joel 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Proclaim this among the nations:
<br>
“Prepare for war!
<br>
Stir up the mighty men.
<br>
Let all the warriors draw near.

Let them come up. <key:bcv=Joel 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Beat your plowshares
into swords,
<br>
and your pruning hooks into spears.
<br>
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’

<key:bcv=Joel 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves together.”
<br>
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:12">12 </verse></sup>“Let the nations arouse themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding
nations.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Put in the sickle;
<br>
for the harvest is ripe.
<br>
Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is
great.”

<key:bcv=Joel 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of
decision.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:15">15 </verse></sup>The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh will roar from Zion,
<br>
and thunder from Jerusalem;
<br>
and the heavens and the earth will shake;
but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:17">17 </verse></sup>“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
<br>
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
<br>
and no strangers will pass through her any
more.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:18">18 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day,
<br>
that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
the hills will flow with milk,
<br>
all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters;
and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s
house,
<br>
and will water the valley of Shittim.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Egypt will be a desolation
<br>
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their
land.

<key:bcv=Joel 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:20">20 </verse></sup>But Judah will be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
<key:bcv=Joel 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Joel 3:21">21 </verse></sup>I will cleanse their blood
<br>
that I have not cleansed,
<br>
for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”

#OUTLINE:1,Amos
<h2>The Book of Amos</h2>

<key:bcv=Amos 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen
of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in
the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years
before the earthquake. <key:bcv=Amos 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:2">2 </verse></sup>He said:

“Yahweh<footnote:1>1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> will roar from Zion,
<br>
and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
<br>
and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn,
and the top of Carmel will wither.”

<key:bcv=Amos 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because they have threshed Gilead with
threshing instruments of iron;

<key:bcv=Amos 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:4">4 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
<key:bcv=Amos 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:5">5 </verse></sup>I will break the bar of Damascus,
<br>
and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of
Aven,
<br>
and him who holds the scepter from the house
of Eden;
<br>
and the people of Syria shall go into captivity
to Kir,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because they carried away captive the whole
community,
<br>
to deliver them up to Edom;

<key:bcv=Amos 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:7">7 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
and it will devour its palaces.

<key:bcv=Amos 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:8">8 </verse></sup>I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
and I will turn my hand against Ekron;
and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”
says the Lord<footnote:1>1:8 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
<br>
because they delivered up the whole community
to Edom,
<br>
and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;
<key:bcv=Amos 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:10">10 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
and it will devour its palaces.”

<key:bcv=Amos 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because he pursued his brother with the sword
and cast off all pity,
<br>
and his anger raged continually,
<br>
and he kept his wrath forever;

<key:bcv=Amos 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:12">12 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire on Teman,
<br>
and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
<key:bcv=Amos 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of the children of Ammon,
yes, for four,
<br>
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because they have ripped open the pregnant
women of Gilead,
<br>
that they may enlarge their border.

<key:bcv=Amos 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:14">14 </verse></sup>But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,
and it will devour its palaces,
<br>
with shouting in the day of battle,
<br>
with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
<key:bcv=Amos 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 1:15">15 </verse></sup>and their king will go into captivity,
he and his princes together,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

#BCV:Amos 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because he burned the bones of the king of
Edom into lime;

<key:bcv=Amos 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:2">2 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire on Moab,
<br>
and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet;

<key:bcv=Amos 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:3">3 </verse></sup>and I will cut off the judge from among them,
and will kill all its princes with him,”
says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because they have rejected Yahweh’s law,
and have not kept his statutes,
<br>
and their lies have led them astray,
<br>
after which their fathers walked;

<key:bcv=Amos 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:5">5 </verse></sup>but I will send a fire on Judah,
<br>
and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
<key:bcv=Amos 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
<br>
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals;

<key:bcv=Amos 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:7">7 </verse></sup>They trample the heads of the poor into the
dust of the earth
<br>
and deny justice to the oppressed.
<br>
A man and his father use the same maiden, to
profane my holy name.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:8">8 </verse></sup>They lay themselves down beside every altar
on clothes taken in pledge.

In the house of their God<footnote:1>2:8 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> they drink the wine
of those who have been fined.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and he was strong as the oaks;
<br>
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:11">11 </verse></sup>I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
and some of your young men for Nazirites.
Isn’t this true,
<br>
you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:12">12 </verse></sup>“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t
prophesy!’

<key:bcv=Amos 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>2:13 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> I will crush you in your place,
as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
<key:bcv=Amos 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Flight will perish from the swift.
The strong won’t strengthen his force.
The mighty won’t deliver himself.

<key:bcv=Amos 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:15">15 </verse></sup>He who handles the bow won’t stand.
He who is swift of foot won’t escape.
He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself.
<key:bcv=Amos 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Amos 2:16">16 </verse></sup>He who is courageous among the mighty
will flee away naked on that day,”
<br>
says Yahweh.

#BCV:Amos 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against
you, children of Israel, against the whole family
which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
<key:bcv=Amos 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:2">2 </verse></sup>“I have only chosen you of all the families of the
earth.
<br>
Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
<key:bcv=Amos 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Do two walk together,
<br>
unless they have agreed?

<key:bcv=Amos 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Will a lion roar in the thicket,
<br>
when he has no prey?
<br>
Does a young lion cry out of his den,
if he has caught nothing?

<key:bcv=Amos 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
where no snare is set for him?
<br>
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
when there is nothing to catch?

<key:bcv=Amos 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
without the people being afraid?
<br>
Does evil happen to a city,
<br>
and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

<key:bcv=Amos 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,
unless he reveals his secret to his servants the
prophets.

<key:bcv=Amos 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:8">8 </verse></sup>The lion has roared.
<br>
Who will not fear?
<br>
The Lord Yahweh has spoken.
<br>
Who can but prophesy?

<key:bcv=Amos 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
<br>
and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of
Samaria,
<br>
and see what unrest is in her,
<br>
and what oppression is among them.”

<key:bcv=Amos 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:10">10 </verse></sup>“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh,
“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
<key:bcv=Amos 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“An adversary will overrun the land;
<br>
and he will pull down your strongholds,
and your fortresses will be plundered.”
<key:bcv=Amos 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh says:
<br>
“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the
lion two legs,
<br>
or a piece of an ear,
<br>
so shall the children of Israel be rescued who
sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,
and on the silken cushions of a bed.”
<key:bcv=Amos 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:13">13 </verse></sup>“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,”
says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
<key:bcv=Amos 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:14">14 </verse></sup>“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of
Israel on him,
<br>
I will also visit the altars of Bethel;
and the horns of the altar will be cut off,
and fall to the ground.

<key:bcv=Amos 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 3:15">15 </verse></sup>I will strike the winter house with the summer
house;
<br>
and the houses of ivory will perish,
<br>
and the great houses will have an end,”
says Yahweh.

#BCV:Amos 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who
are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the
poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands,
“Bring us drinks!”

<key:bcv=Amos 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:2">2 </verse></sup>The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness,
“Behold, the days shall come on you that they
will take you away with hooks,
<br>
and the last of you with fish hooks.

<key:bcv=Amos 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:3">3 </verse></sup>You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
everyone straight before her;
<br>
and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“Go to Bethel, and sin;
<br>
to Gilgal, and sin more.
<br>
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
<br>
your tithes every three days,

<key:bcv=Amos 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:5">5 </verse></sup>offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which
is leavened,
<br>
and proclaim free will offerings and brag about
them;
<br>
for this pleases you, you children of Israel,”
says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:6">6 </verse></sup>“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
cities,
<br>
and lack of bread in every town;
<br>
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:7">7 </verse></sup>“I also have withheld the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to the
harvest;
<br>
and I caused it to rain on one city,
<br>
and caused it not to rain on another city.
One field was rained on,
<br>
and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:8">8 </verse></sup>So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink
water,
<br>
and were not satisfied;
<br>
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“I struck you with blight and mildew many times
in your gardens and your vineyards,
<br>
and the swarming locusts have devoured your
fig trees and your olive trees;
<br>
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:10">10 </verse></sup>“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
I have slain your young men with the sword,
and have carried away your horses.
<br>
I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:11">11 </verse></sup>“I have overthrown some of you,
<br>
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a burning stick plucked out
of the fire;
<br>
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Amos 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:12">12 </verse></sup>“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel;
because I will do this to you,
<br>
prepare to meet your God, Israel.

<key:bcv=Amos 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 4:13">13 </verse></sup>For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates
the wind, declares to man what is his
thought,
<br>
who makes the morning darkness, and treads
on the high places of the earth:
<br>
Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

#BCV:Amos 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation
over you, O house of Israel:

<key:bcv=Amos 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:2">2 </verse></sup>“The virgin of Israel has fallen;
<br>
She shall rise no more.
<br>
She is cast down on her land;
<br>
there is no one to raise her up.”

<key:bcv=Amos 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For the Lord Yahweh says:
<br>
“The city that went out a thousand shall have a
hundred left,
<br>
and that which went out one hundred shall
have ten left to the house of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Amos 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:4">4 </verse></sup>For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
“Seek me, and you will live;

<key:bcv=Amos 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:5">5 </verse></sup>but don’t seek Bethel,
<br>
nor enter into Gilgal,
<br>
and don’t pass to Beersheba;
<br>
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Bethel shall come to nothing.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Seek Yahweh, and you will live,
<br>
lest he break out like fire in the house of
Joseph,
<br>
and it devour, and there be no one to quench it
in Bethel.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:7">7 </verse></sup>You who turn justice to wormwood,
<br>
and cast down righteousness to the earth!
<key:bcv=Amos 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
and makes the day dark with night;
<br>
who calls for the waters of the sea,
<br>
and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
Yahweh is his name,

<key:bcv=Amos 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:9">9 </verse></sup>who brings sudden destruction on the strong,
so that destruction comes on the fortress.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:10">10 </verse></sup>They hate him who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore, because you trample on the poor and
take taxes from him of wheat,
<br>
you have built houses of cut stone, but you will
not dwell in them.
<br>
You have planted pleasant vineyards,
<br>
but you shall not drink their wine.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For I know how many are your offenses,
and how great are your sins—
<br>
you who afflict the just,
<br>
who take a bribe,
<br>
and who turn away the needy in the courts.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a
time,
<br>
for it is an evil time.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Seek good, and not evil,
<br>
that you may live;
<br>
and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with
you,
<br>
as you say.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Hate evil, love good,
<br>
and establish justice in the courts.
<br>
It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will
be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
<key:bcv=Amos 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord,
says:
<br>
“Wailing will be in all the wide ways.
They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to
wailing.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:17">17 </verse></sup>In all vineyards there will be wailing,
for I will pass through the middle of you,” says
Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:18">18 </verse></sup>“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!
Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
It is darkness,
<br>
and not light.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:19">19 </verse></sup>As if a man fled from a lion,
<br>
and a bear met him;
<br>
or he went into the house and leaned his hand on
the wall,
<br>
and a snake bit him.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not
light?
<br>
Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
<key:bcv=Amos 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:21">21 </verse></sup>I hate, I despise your feasts,
<br>
and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and
meal offerings,
<br>
I will not accept them;
<br>
neither will I regard the peace offerings of your
fat animals.

<key:bcv=Amos 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:23">23 </verse></sup>Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:24">24 </verse></sup>But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
<key:bcv=Amos 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:25">25 </verse></sup>“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in
the wilderness forty years, house of Israel? <key:bcv=Amos 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:26">26 </verse></sup>You
also carried the tent of your king and the shrine
of your images, the star of your god, which you
made for yourselves. <key:bcv=Amos 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Amos 5:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore I will cause you to
go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh,
whose name is the God of Armies.

#BCV:Amos 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
and to those who are secure on the mountain
of Samaria,
<br>
the notable men of the chief of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel come!

<key:bcv=Amos 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Go to Calneh, and see.
<br>
From there go to Hamath the great.
<br>
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are they better than these kingdoms?
<br>
Is their border greater than your border?
<key:bcv=Amos 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Alas for you who put far away the evil day,
and cause the seat of violence to come near,
<key:bcv=Amos 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:4">4 </verse></sup>who lie on beds of ivory,
<br>
and stretch themselves on their couches,
and eat the lambs out of the flock,
<br>
and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
<key:bcv=Amos 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:5">5 </verse></sup>who strum on the strings of a harp,
who invent for themselves instruments of music,
like David;

<key:bcv=Amos 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:6">6 </verse></sup>who drink wine in bowls,
<br>
and anoint themselves with the best oils,
but they are not grieved for the affliction of
Joseph.

<key:bcv=Amos 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore they will now go captive with the first
who go captive.
<br>
The feasting and lounging will end.

<key:bcv=Amos 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:8">8 </verse></sup>“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says
Yahweh, the God of Armies:
<br>
“I abhor the pride of Jacob,
<br>
and detest his fortresses.
<br>
Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that
is in it.

<key:bcv=Amos 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:9">9 </verse></sup>It will happen that if ten men remain in one house,
they will die.

<key:bcv=Amos 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:10">10 </verse></sup>“When a man’s relative carries him, even he
who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house,
and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the
house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says,
‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not
mention Yahweh’s name.’

<key:bcv=Amos 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:11">11 </verse></sup>“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great
house will be smashed to pieces,
<br>
and the little house into bits.

<key:bcv=Amos 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Do horses run on the rocky crags?
<br>
Does one plow there with oxen?
<br>
But you have turned justice into poison,
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
<key:bcv=Amos 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:13">13 </verse></sup>you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say,
‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our
own strength?’

<key:bcv=Amos 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 6:14">14 </verse></sup>For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation,
house of Israel,”
<br>
says Yahweh, the God of Armies;
<br>
“and they will afflict you from the entrance of
Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”

#BCV:Amos 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, he
formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting
up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the
latter growth after the king’s harvest. <key:bcv=Amos 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:2">2 </verse></sup>When they
finished eating the grass of the land, then I said,
“Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob
stand? For he is small.”

<key:bcv=Amos 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not
be,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the
Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it
dried up the great deep, and would have devoured
the land. <key:bcv=Amos 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg
you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
<key:bcv=Amos 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also
shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Amos 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood
beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb
line in his hand. <key:bcv=Amos 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what
do you see?”
<br>
I said, “A plumb line.”
<br>
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb
line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not
again pass by them any more. <key:bcv=Amos 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:9">9 </verse></sup>The high places of
Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will
be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of
Jeroboam with the sword.”

<key:bcv=Amos 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam
king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired
against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The
land is not able to bear all his words. <key:bcv=Amos 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:11">11 </verse></sup>For Amos
says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel
shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”
<key:bcv=Amos 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee
away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread,
and prophesy there, <key:bcv=Amos 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:13">13 </verse></sup>but don’t prophesy again any
more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it
is a royal house!”

<key:bcv=Amos 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no
prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was
a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; <key:bcv=Amos 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:15">15 </verse></sup>and
Yahweh took me from following the flock, and
Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people
Israel.’ <key:bcv=Amos 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word:
‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t
preach against the house of Isaac.’ <key:bcv=Amos 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Amos 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore
Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the
city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by
the sword, and your land shall be divided by line;
and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean,
and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his
land.’ ”

#BCV:Amos 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a
basket of summer fruit.

<key:bcv=Amos 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:2">2 </verse></sup>He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
<br>
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
<br>
Then Yahweh said to me,
<br>
“The end has come on my people Israel.
I will not again pass by them any more.
<key:bcv=Amos 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:3">3 </verse></sup>The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,”
says the Lord Yahweh.
<br>
“The dead bodies will be many. In every place
they will throw them out with silence.
<key:bcv=Amos 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
<key:bcv=Amos 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:5">5 </verse></sup>saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone,
that we may sell grain?
<br>
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah<footnote:1>8:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel </footnote> small, and the shekel<footnote:1>8:5 a normal shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.</footnote>
large,
<br>
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
<key:bcv=Amos 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:6">6 </verse></sup>that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
<br>
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

<key:bcv=Amos 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
<key:bcv=Amos 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Won’t the land tremble for this,
<br>
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
<br>
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the
River of Egypt.

<key:bcv=Amos 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:9">9 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
<key:bcv=Amos 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:10">10 </verse></sup>I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
<br>
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your
bodies,
<br>
and baldness on every head.
<br>
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.

<key:bcv=Amos 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
<br>
nor a thirst for water,
<br>
but of hearing Yahweh’s words.

<key:bcv=Amos 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:12">12 </verse></sup>They will wander from sea to sea,
<br>
and from the north even to the east;
<br>
they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s
word,
<br>
and will not find it.

<key:bcv=Amos 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:13">13 </verse></sup>In that day the beautiful virgins
<br>
and the young men will faint for thirst.
<key:bcv=Amos 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’
<br>
and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’
they will fall, and never rise up again.”

#BCV:Amos 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Amos 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and
he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the
thresholds may shake. Break them in pieces on the
head of all of them. I will kill the last of them with
the sword. Not one of them will flee away. Not
one of them will escape. <key:bcv=Amos 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Though they dig into
Sheol,<footnote:1>9:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> there my hand will take them; and though
they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them
down. <key:bcv=Amos 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Though they hide themselves in the top
of Carmel, I will search and take them out from
there; and though they be hidden from my sight
in the bottom of the sea, there I will command
the serpent, and it will bite them. <key:bcv=Amos 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Though they
go into captivity before their enemies, there I will
command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set
my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. <key:bcv=Amos 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:5">5 </verse></sup>For
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the
land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn;
and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will
sink again, like the River of Egypt. <key:bcv=Amos 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:6">6 </verse></sup>It is he who
builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded
his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters
of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the
earth—Yahweh is his name. <key:bcv=Amos 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Are you not like the
children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?”
says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of
the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor,
and the Syrians from Kir? <key:bcv=Amos 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Behold, the eyes of the
Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will
destroy it from off the surface of the earth, except
that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Amos 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:9">9 </verse></sup>“For behold, I will command, and
I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations
as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel
will fall on the earth. <key:bcv=Amos 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:10">10 </verse></sup>All the sinners of my people
will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake
nor meet us.’ <key:bcv=Amos 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:11">11 </verse></sup>In that day I will raise up the tent
of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and
I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the
days of old, <key:bcv=Amos 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:12">12 </verse></sup>that they may possess the remnant
of Edom and all the nations who are called by my
name,” says Yahweh who does this.

<key:bcv=Amos 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:13">13 </verse></sup>“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows
seed;
<br>
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.

<key:bcv=Amos 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:14">14 </verse></sup>I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and
inhabit them;
<br>
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine
from them.
<br>
They shall also make gardens,
<br>
and eat their fruit.

<key:bcv=Amos 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Amos 9:15">15 </verse></sup>I will plant them on their land,
<br>
and they will no more be plucked up out of
their land which I have given them,”
<br>
says Yahweh your God.

#OUTLINE:1,Obadiah
<h2>The Book of Obadiah</h2>

<key:bcv=Obadiah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord<footnote:1>1:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote>
Yahweh<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> says about Edom. We have heard news
from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the
nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her
in battle. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:2 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> I have made you small among
the nations. You are greatly despised. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>The pride
of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in
the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who
says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the
ground?’ <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Though you mount on high as the eagle,
and though your nest is set among the stars, I will
bring you down from there,” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>“If
thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what
disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until
they had enough? If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes? <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>How
Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures
are sought out! <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>All the men of your alliance have
brought you on your way, even to the border. The
men who were at peace with you have deceived
you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat
your bread lay a snare under you. There is no
understanding in him.”

<key:bcv=Obadiah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>“Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the
wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the
mountain of Esau? <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Your mighty men, Teman, will
be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut
off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>For
the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will
cover you, and you will be cut off forever. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>In the
day that you stood on the other side, in the day that
strangers carried away his substance and foreigners
entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem,
even you were like one of them. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>But don’t look
down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and
don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of
their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of
distress. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t enter into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their
affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize
their wealth on the day of their calamity. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t
stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who
escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in
the day of distress. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>For the day of Yahweh is near
all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to
you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
<key:bcv=Obadiah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so
all the nations will drink continually. Yes, they
will drink, swallow down, and will be as though
they had not been. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>But in Mount Zion, there
will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The
house of Jacob will possess their possessions. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:18">18 </verse></sup>The
house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph
a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They
will burn among them and devour them. There will
not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed,
Yahweh has spoken.

<key:bcv=Obadiah 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Those of the South will possess the mountain
of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines.
They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the
field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
<key:bcv=Obadiah 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:20">20 </verse></sup>The captives of this army of the children of
Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess
even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem,
who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the
Negev. <key:bcv=Obadiah 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Obadiah 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge
the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be
Yahweh’s.

#OUTLINE:1,Jonah
<h2>The Book of Jonah</h2>

<key:bcv=Jonah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Now Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word came to Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying, <key:bcv=Jonah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great
city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has
come up before me.”

<key:bcv=Jonah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the
presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and
found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare,
and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish
from the presence of Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Jonah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea,
and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that
the ship was likely to break up. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the mariners
were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They
threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea
to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into
the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying
down, and was fast asleep. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>So the ship master
came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean,
sleeper? Arise, call on your God!<footnote:1>1:6 or, gods </footnote> Maybe your God<footnote:1>1:6 or, gods </footnote>
will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
<key:bcv=Jonah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast
lots, that we may know who is responsible for this
evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell
on Jonah. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Then they asked him, “Tell us, please,
for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your
occupation? Where do you come from? What is
your country? Of what people are you?”
<key:bcv=Jonah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear
Yahweh, the God<footnote:1>1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> of heaven, who has made the sea
and the dry land.”

<key:bcv=Jonah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said
to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew
that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh,
because he had told them. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Then they said to him,
“What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm
to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
<key:bcv=Jonah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me
into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I
know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
<key:bcv=Jonah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them
back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew
more and more stormy against them. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore
they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh,
we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s
life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you,
Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.” <key:bcv=Jonah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>So they
took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and
the sea ceased its raging. <key:bcv=Jonah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Then the men feared
Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to
Yahweh and made vows.

<key:bcv=Jonah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh prepared a huge fish to swallow up
Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three
days and three nights.

#BCV:Jonah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jonah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of
the fish’s belly. <key:bcv=Jonah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>He said,
<br>
“I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
He answered me.

Out of the belly of Sheol<footnote:1>2:2 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> I cried.
<br>
You heard my voice.

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>For you threw me into the depths,
<br>
in the heart of the seas.
<br>
The flood was all around me.
<br>
All your waves and your billows passed over
me.

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
<key:bcv=Jonah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>The waters surrounded me,
<br>
even to the soul.
<br>
The deep was around me.
<br>
The weeds were wrapped around my head.
<key:bcv=Jonah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
The earth barred me in forever;
<br>
yet you have brought my life up from the pit,
Yahweh my God.

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered
Yahweh.
<br>
My prayer came in to you, into your holy
temple.

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Those who regard vain idols forsake their own
mercy.

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of
thanksgiving.
<br>
I will pay that which I have vowed.
<br>
Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

<key:bcv=Jonah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited
out Jonah on the dry land.

#BCV:Jonah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jonah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time,
saying, <key:bcv=Jonah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and
preach to it the message that I give you.”
<key:bcv=Jonah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according
to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly
great city, three days’ journey across. <key:bcv=Jonah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Jonah
began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he
cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be
overthrown!”

<key:bcv=Jonah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>The people of Nineveh believed God; and they
proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their
greatest even to their least. <key:bcv=Jonah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>The news reached the
king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took
off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes. <key:bcv=Jonah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He made a proclamation and
published through Nineveh by the decree of the
king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor
animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not
feed, nor drink water; <key:bcv=Jonah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>but let them be covered
with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them
cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone
from his evil way and from the violence that is in
his hands. <key:bcv=Jonah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Who knows whether God will not turn
and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so
that we might not perish?”

<key:bcv=Jonah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>God saw their works, that they turned from
their evil way. God relented of the disaster which
he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

#BCV:Jonah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Jonah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was
angry. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please,
Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in
my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to
Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God
and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving
kindness, and you relent of doing harm. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore
now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for
it is better for me to die than to live.”
<key:bcv=Jonah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
<key:bcv=Jonah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on
the east side of the city, and there made himself a
booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might
see what would become of the city. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh God
prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah,
that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him
from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad
because of the vine. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But God prepared a worm at
dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that
it withered. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:8">8 </verse></sup>When the sun arose, God prepared a
sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head,
so that he was faint and requested for himself that
he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than
to live.”

<key:bcv=Jonah 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:9">9 </verse></sup>God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry
about the vine?”
<br>
He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
<key:bcv=Jonah 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the
vine, for which you have not labored, neither made
it grow; which came up in a night and perished in
a night. <key:bcv=Jonah 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Jonah 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh,
that great city, in which are more than one hundred
twenty thousand persons who can’t discern
between their right hand and their left hand, and
also many animals?”

#OUTLINE:1,Micah
<h2>The Book of Micah</h2>

<key:bcv=Micah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word that came to Micah of
Morasheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning
Samaria and Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear, you peoples, all of you!
<br>
Listen, O earth, and all that is therein.
Let the Lord<footnote:1>1:2 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh be witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>For behold,<footnote:1>1:3 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> Yahweh comes out of his place,
and will come down and tread on the high
places of the earth.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>The mountains melt under him,
<br>
and the valleys split apart like wax before the
fire,
<br>
like waters that are poured down a steep place.
<key:bcv=Micah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob,
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the disobedience of Jacob?
<br>
Isn’t it Samaria?
<br>
And what are the high places of Judah?
Aren’t they Jerusalem?

<key:bcv=Micah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of
the field,
<br>
like places for planting vineyards;
<br>
and I will pour down its stones into the valley,
and I will uncover its foundations.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>All her idols will be beaten to pieces,
all her temple gifts will be burned with fire,
and I will destroy all her images;
<br>
for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them,
and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”
<key:bcv=Micah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>For this I will lament and wail.
<br>
I will go stripped and naked.
<br>
I will howl like the jackals
<br>
and mourn like the ostriches.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>For her wounds are incurable;
<br>
for it has come even to Judah.
<br>
It reaches to the gate of my people,
<br>
even to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t tell it in Gath.
<br>
Don’t weep at all.

At Beth Ophrah<footnote:1>1:10 Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”</footnote> I have rolled myself in the
dust.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and
shame.
<br>
The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his
protection.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for
good,
<br>
because evil has come down from Yahweh to
the gate of Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant
of Lachish.
<br>
She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of
Zion;
<br>
for the transgressions of Israel were found in
you.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth
Gath.
<br>
The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing
to the kings of Israel.

<key:bcv=Micah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of
Mareshah.
<br>
The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
<key:bcv=Micah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Micah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Shave your heads,
<br>
and cut off your hair for the children of your
delight.
<br>
Enlarge your baldness like the vulture,
for they have gone into captivity from you!

#BCV:Micah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to those who devise iniquity
<br>
and work evil on their beds!
<br>
When the morning is light, they practice it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
<key:bcv=Micah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>They covet fields and seize them,
<br>
and houses, then take them away.
<br>
They oppress a man and his house,
<br>
even a man and his heritage.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says:
<br>
“Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,
from which you will not remove your necks,
neither will you walk haughtily,
<br>
for it is an evil time.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>In that day they will take up a parable against you,
and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,
‘We are utterly ruined!
<br>
My people’s possession is divided up.
Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our
fields to traitors!’ ”

<key:bcv=Micah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore you will have no one who divides the
land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>“Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy—
<br>
“Don’t prophesy about these things.
<br>
Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

<key:bcv=Micah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Shall it be said, O house of Jacob,
“Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry?
<br>
Are these his doings?
<br>
Don’t my words do good to him who walks
blamelessly?”

<key:bcv=Micah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>But lately my people have risen up as an enemy.
You strip the robe and clothing from those
who pass by without a care, returning from
battle.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>You drive the women of my people out from their
pleasant houses;
<br>
from their young children you take away my
blessing forever.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Arise, and depart!
<br>
For this is not your resting place,
<br>
because of uncleanness that destroys,
even with a grievous destruction.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies,
saying,
<br>
“I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong
drink,”
<br>
he would be the prophet of this people.
<key:bcv=Micah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob.
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
as a flock in the middle of their pasture.
They will swarm with people.

<key:bcv=Micah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>He who breaks open the way goes up before them.
They break through the gate, and go out.
Their king passes on before them,
<br>
with Yahweh at their head.

#BCV:Micah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>I said,
<br>
“Please listen, you heads of Jacob,
<br>
and rulers of the house of Israel:
<br>
Isn’t it for you to know justice?

<key:bcv=Micah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>You who hate the good,
<br>
and love the evil;
<br>
who tear off their skin,
<br>
and their flesh from off their bones;
<key:bcv=Micah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>who also eat the flesh of my people,
and peel their skin from off them,
<br>
and break their bones,
<br>
and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
and as meat within the cauldron.

<key:bcv=Micah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Then they will cry to Yahweh,
<br>
but he will not answer them.
<br>
Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they made their deeds evil.”

<key:bcv=Micah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead
my people astray—for those who feed their teeth,
they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide
for their mouths, they prepare war against
him:

<key:bcv=Micah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>“Therefore night is over you, with no vision,
and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;
and the sun will go down on the prophets,
and the day will be black over them.

<key:bcv=Micah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>The seers shall be disappointed,
<br>
and the diviners confounded.
<br>
Yes, they shall all cover their lips,
for there is no answer from God.”<footnote:1>3:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>

<key:bcv=Micah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,
and of judgment, and of might,
<br>
to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
and to Israel his sin.

<key:bcv=Micah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Please listen to this, you heads of the house of
Jacob,
<br>
and rulers of the house of Israel,
<br>
who abhor justice,
<br>
and pervert all equity,

<key:bcv=Micah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>who build up Zion with blood,
<br>
and Jerusalem with iniquity.

<key:bcv=Micah 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Her leaders judge for bribes,
<br>
and her priests teach for a price,
<br>
and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money;
yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
<br>
“Isn’t Yahweh among us?
<br>
No disaster will come on us.”

<key:bcv=Micah 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a
field,
<br>
and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,
and the mountain of the temple like the high
places of a forest.

#BCV:Micah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>But in the latter days,
<br>
it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s
temple will be established on the top of the
mountains,
<br>
and it will be exalted above the hills;
and peoples will stream to it.

<key:bcv=Micah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Many nations will go and say,
<br>
“Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
and to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways,
<br>
and we will walk in his paths.”
<br>
For the law will go out of Zion,
<br>
and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

<key:bcv=Micah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>and he will judge between many peoples,
and will decide concerning strong nations afar
off.
<br>
They will beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
<br>
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
neither will they learn war any more.
<key:bcv=Micah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>But every man will sit under his vine and under his
fig tree.
<br>
No one will make them afraid,
<br>
for the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
<key:bcv=Micah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Indeed all the nations may walk in the
name of their gods,
<br>
but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our
God forever and ever.

<key:bcv=Micah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>“In that day,” says Yahweh,
<br>
“I will assemble that which is lame,
<br>
and I will gather that which is driven away,
and that which I have afflicted;

<key:bcv=Micah 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:7">7 </verse></sup>and I will make that which was lame a remnant,
and that which was cast far off a strong nation:
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount
Zion from then on, even forever.”

<key:bcv=Micah 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:8">8 </verse></sup>You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of
Zion,
<br>
to you it will come.
<br>
Yes, the former dominion will come,
<br>
the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Micah 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Now why do you cry out aloud?
<br>
Is there no king in you?
<br>
Has your counselor perished,
<br>
that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman
in travail?

<key:bcv=Micah 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of
Zion,
<br>
like a woman in travail;
<br>
for now you will go out of the city,
<br>
and will dwell in the field,
and will come even to Babylon.
<br>
There you will be rescued.
<br>
There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand
of your enemies.

<key:bcv=Micah 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Now many nations have assembled against you,
that say,
<br>
“Let her be defiled,
<br>
and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

<key:bcv=Micah 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:12">12 </verse></sup>But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh,
neither do they understand his counsel;
for he has gathered them like the sheaves to
the threshing floor.

<key:bcv=Micah 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
<br>
and I will make your hoofs bronze.
<br>
You will beat in pieces many peoples.
I will devote their gain to Yahweh,
<br>
and their substance to the Lord of the whole
earth.

#BCV:Micah 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now you shall gather yourself in troops,
daughter of troops.
<br>
He has laid siege against us.
<br>
They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod
on the cheek.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:2">2 </verse></sup>But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
<br>
being small among the clans of Judah,
out of you one will come out to me who is to be
ruler in Israel;
<br>
whose goings out are from of old, from ancient
times.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore he will abandon them until the time that
she who is in labor gives birth.
<br>
Then the rest of his brothers will return to the
children of Israel.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:4">4 </verse></sup>He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength
of Yahweh,
<br>
in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God.
They will live, for then he will be great to the
ends of the earth.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:5">5 </verse></sup>He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land
and when he marches through our fortresses,
then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
and eight leaders of men.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:6">6 </verse></sup>They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
<br>
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he invades our land,
<br>
and when he marches within our border.
<key:bcv=Micah 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples
like dew from Yahweh,
<br>
like showers on the grass,
<br>
that don’t wait for man
<br>
nor wait for the sons of men.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:8">8 </verse></sup>The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
among many peoples,
<br>
like a lion among the animals of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
who, if he goes through, treads down and tears
in pieces,
<br>
and there is no one to deliver.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries,
and let all of your enemies be cut off.
<key:bcv=Micah 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:10">10 </verse></sup>“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh,
“that I will cut off your horses from among you
and will destroy your chariots.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:11">11 </verse></sup>I will cut off the cities of your land
and will tear down all your strongholds.
<key:bcv=Micah 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:12">12 </verse></sup>I will destroy witchcraft from your hand.
You shall have no soothsayers.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:13">13 </verse></sup>I will cut off your engraved images and your
pillars from among you;
<br>
and you shall no more worship the work of
your hands.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:14">14 </verse></sup>I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you;
and I will destroy your cities.

<key:bcv=Micah 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Micah 5:15">15 </verse></sup>I will execute vengeance in anger
<br>
and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”

#BCV:Micah 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Listen now to what Yahweh says:
<br>
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
<key:bcv=Micah 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s indictment,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for Yahweh has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.

<key:bcv=Micah 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:3">3 </verse></sup>My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
<br>
Answer me!

<key:bcv=Micah 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:4">4 </verse></sup>For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
<key:bcv=Micah 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:5">5 </verse></sup>My people, remember now what Balak king of
Moab devised,
<br>
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him
from Shittim to Gilgal,
<br>
that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”
<key:bcv=Micah 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:6">6 </verse></sup>How shall I come before Yahweh,
<br>
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?

<key:bcv=Micah 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
<key:bcv=Micah 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:8">8 </verse></sup>He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does Yahweh require of you, but to act
justly,
<br>
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your
God?

<key:bcv=Micah 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s voice calls to the city—
<br>
and wisdom fears your name—
<br>
“Listen to the rod,
<br>
and he who appointed it.

<key:bcv=Micah 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house
of the wicked,
<br>
the purpose of cheating customers.

and a short ephah<footnote:1>6:10 An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for</footnote> that is accursed?

<key:bcv=Micah 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Shall I tolerate dishonest scales,
and a bag of deceitful weights?

<key:bcv=Micah 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Her rich men are full of violence,
her inhabitants speak lies,
<br>
and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
<key:bcv=Micah 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous
wound.
<br>
I have made you desolate because of your sins.
<key:bcv=Micah 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:14">14 </verse></sup>You shall eat, but not be satisfied.
Your hunger will be within you.
<br>
You will store up, but not save,
<br>
and that which you save I will give up to the
sword.

<key:bcv=Micah 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:15">15 </verse></sup>You will sow, but won’t reap.
<br>
You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint
yourself with oil;
<br>
and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
<key:bcv=Micah 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Micah 6:16">16 </verse></sup>For the statutes of Omri are kept,
and all the works of Ahab’s house.
<br>
You walk in their counsels,
<br>
that I may make you a ruin,
<br>
and your inhabitants a hissing.
<br>
You will bear the reproach of my people.”

#BCV:Micah 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Micah 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Misery is mine!
<br>
Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer
fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard.
There is no cluster of grapes to eat.
My soul desires to eat the early fig.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:2">2 </verse></sup>The godly man has perished out of the earth,
and there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
<br>
every man hunts his brother with a net.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Their hands are on that which is evil to do it
diligently.
<br>
The ruler and judge ask for a bribe.
<br>
The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul.
Thus they conspire together.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:4">4 </verse></sup>The best of them is like a brier.
<br>
The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen,
<br>
even your visitation, has come;
<br>
now is the time of their confusion.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t trust in a neighbor.
<br>
Don’t put confidence in a friend.
<br>
With the woman lying in your embrace,
be careful of the words of your mouth!
<key:bcv=Micah 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:6">6 </verse></sup>For the son dishonors the father,
<br>
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-inlaw;
a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:7">7 </verse></sup>But as for me, I will look to Yahweh.
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
When I fall, I will arise.
<br>
When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light
to me.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:9">9 </verse></sup>I will bear the indignation of Yahweh,
because I have sinned against him,
<br>
until he pleads my case and executes judgment
for me.
<br>
He will bring me out to the light.
<br>
I will see his righteousness.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Then my enemy will see it,
<br>
and shame will cover her who said to me,
“Where is Yahweh your God?”
<br>
My eyes will see her.
<br>
Now she will be trodden down like the mire of
the streets.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:11">11 </verse></sup>A day to build your walls!
<br>
In that day, he will extend your boundary.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:12">12 </verse></sup>In that day they will come to you from Assyria and
the cities of Egypt,
<br>
and from Egypt even to the River,
<br>
and from sea to sea,
<br>
and mountain to mountain.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet the land will be desolate because of those who
dwell therein,
<br>
for the fruit of their doings.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your heritage,
<br>
who dwell by themselves in a forest.
<br>
Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land,
in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:15">15 </verse></sup>“As in the days of your coming out of the land of
Egypt,
<br>
I will show them marvelous things.”

<key:bcv=Micah 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:16">16 </verse></sup>The nations will see and be ashamed of all their
might.
<br>
They will lay their hand on their mouth.
Their ears will be deaf.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:17">17 </verse></sup>They will lick the dust like a serpent.
Like crawling things of the earth, they will
come trembling out of their dens.
<br>
They will come with fear to Yahweh our God,
and will be afraid because of you.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:18">18 </verse></sup>Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant
of his heritage?
<br>
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
<br>
because he delights in loving kindness.
<key:bcv=Micah 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:19">19 </verse></sup>He will again have compassion on us.
He will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all their sins into the depths of the
sea.

<key:bcv=Micah 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Micah 7:20">20 </verse></sup>You will give truth to Jacob,
<br>
and mercy to Abraham,
<br>
as you have sworn to our fathers from the days
of old.

#OUTLINE:1,Nahum
<h2>The Book of Nahum</h2>

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

<key:bcv=Nahum 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:15 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> on the mountains the feet of him who
brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your
feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked
one will no more pass through you. He is utterly
cut off.

#BCV:Nahum 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Nahum 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:1">1 </verse></sup>He who dashes in pieces has come up against
you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen
your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
<key:bcv=Nahum 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:2">2 </verse></sup>For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob as
the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have
destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.
<key:bcv=Nahum 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:3">3 </verse></sup>The shield of his mighty men is made red. The
valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with
steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine
spears are brandished. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:4">4 </verse></sup>The chariots rage in the
streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways.
Their appearance is like torches. They run like the
lightnings. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:5">5 </verse></sup>He summons his picked troops. They
stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the
protective shield is put in place. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The gates of the
rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:7">7 </verse></sup>It
is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away;
and her servants moan as with the voice of doves,
beating on their breasts. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:8">8 </verse></sup>But Nineveh has been
from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Take
the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for
there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every
precious thing. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:10">10 </verse></sup>She is empty, void, and waste. The
heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies
and faces have grown pale. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Where is the den of
the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions,
where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s
cubs, and no one made them afraid? <key:bcv=Nahum 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:12">12 </verse></sup>The lion tore
in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for
his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and
his dens with prey. <key:bcv=Nahum 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 2:13">13 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am against you,”
says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots
in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young
lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth,
and the voice of your messengers will no longer be
heard.”

#BCV:Nahum 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Nahum 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and
robbery —no end to the prey. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:2">2 </verse></sup>The noise of the
whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing
horses, and bounding chariots, <key:bcv=Nahum 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:3">3 </verse></sup>the horseman
charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering
spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap
of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies.
They stumble on their bodies <key:bcv=Nahum 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:4">4 </verse></sup>because of the
multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute,
the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations
through her prostitution, and families through her
witchcraft. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:5">5 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh
of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your
face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and
the kingdoms your shame. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:6">6 </verse></sup>I will throw abominable
filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a
spectacle. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:7">7 </verse></sup>It will happen that all those who look
at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid
waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek
comforters for you?”

<key:bcv=Nahum 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Are you better than No-Amon,<footnote:1>3:8 or, Thebes </footnote> who was situated
among the rivers,<footnote:1>3:8 or, Nile</footnote> who had the waters around
her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was
of the sea? <key:bcv=Nahum 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Cush and Egypt were her boundless
strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Yet
was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her
young children also were dashed in pieces at the
head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her
honorable men, and all her great men were bound
in chains. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:11">11 </verse></sup>You also will be drunken. You will
be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because
of the enemy. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:12">12 </verse></sup>All your fortresses will be like fig
trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they
fall into the mouth of the eater. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, your
troops among you are women. The gates of your
land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire
has devoured your bars.

<key:bcv=Nahum 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your
fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar.
Make the brick kiln strong. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:15">15 </verse></sup>There the fire will
devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will
devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like
grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. <key:bcv=Nahum 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:16">16 </verse></sup>You have
increased your merchants more than the stars of
the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
<key:bcv=Nahum 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials
like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls
on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee
away, and their place is not known where they are.
<key:bcv=Nahum 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your
nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the
mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
<key:bcv=Nahum 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Nahum 3:19">19 </verse></sup>There is no healing your wound, for your injury is
fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands
over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

#OUTLINE:1,Habakkuk
<h2>The Book of Habakkuk</h2>

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet
saw. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh,<footnote:1>1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> how long will I cry, and you will
not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will
you not save? <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Why do you show me iniquity, and
look at perversity? For destruction and violence are
before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never
prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous;
therefore justice comes out perverted.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:5">5 </verse></sup>“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder
marvelously; for I am working a work in your days
which you will not believe though it is told you.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:6">6 </verse></sup>For, behold,<footnote:1>1:6 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I am raising up the Chaldeans, that
bitter and hasty nation who march through the
width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that
are not theirs. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:7">7 </verse></sup>They are feared and dreaded.
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from
themselves. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Their horses also are swifter than
leopards, and are more fierce than the evening
wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes,
their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an
eagle that hurries to devour. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:9">9 </verse></sup>All of them come for
violence. Their hordes face forward. They gather
prisoners like sand. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Yes, they scoff at kings, and
princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every
stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and
take it. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Then they sweep by like the wind and go
on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their
god.”

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God,<footnote:1>1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>?????????<english>”, (Elohim). </footnote>
my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have
appointed them for judgment. You, Rock, have established
him to punish. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:13">13 </verse></sup>You who have purer eyes
than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity,
why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously
and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the
man who is more righteous than he, <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:14">14 </verse></sup>and make
men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things
that have no ruler over them? <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:15">15 </verse></sup>He takes up all of
them with the hook. He catches them in his net and
gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices
and is glad. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them
his life is luxurious and his food is good. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Will
he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the
nations without mercy?

#BCV:Habakkuk 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:1">1 </verse></sup>I will stand at my watch and set myself on the
ramparts, and will look out to see what he will
say to me, and what I will answer concerning my
complaint.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and
make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may
read it. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:3">3 </verse></sup>For the vision is yet for the appointed
time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove
false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because
it will surely come. It won’t delay. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, his
soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the
righteous will live by his faith. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Yes, moreover, wine
is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at
home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol;<footnote:1>2:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.</footnote> he is like
death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself
all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Won’t all these take up a parable against him,
and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe
to him who increases that which is not his, and who
enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Won’t
your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those
who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Because you have plundered many nations, all the
remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of
men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land,
to the city and to all who dwell in it.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house,
that he may set his nest on high, that he may be
delivered from the hand of evil! <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:10">10 </verse></sup>You have devised
shame to your house by cutting off many peoples,
and have sinned against your soul. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For the stone
will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
woodwork will answer it.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and
establishes a city by iniquity! <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, isn’t it from
Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the
fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:14">14 </verse></sup>For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of
Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:15">15 </verse></sup>“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink,
pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk,
so that you may gaze at their naked bodies! <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:16">16 </verse></sup>You
are filled with shame, and not glory. You will
also drink and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s
right hand will come around to you, and disgrace
will cover your glory. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:17">17 </verse></sup>For the violence done to
Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of
the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood
and for the violence done to the land, to every city
and to those who dwell in them.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:18">18 </verse></sup>“What value does the engraved image have,
that its maker has engraved it; the molten image,
even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its
form trusts in it, to make mute idols? <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Woe to him
who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone,
‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with
gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within
it. <key:bcv=Habakkuk 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 2:20">20 </verse></sup>But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the
earth be silent before him!”

#BCV:Habakkuk 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:1">1 </verse></sup>A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious
music.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh, I have heard of your fame.
<br>
I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh.
Renew your work in the middle of the years.
In the middle of the years make it known.
In wrath, you remember mercy.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:3">3 </verse></sup>God came from Teman,
<br>
the Holy One from Mount Paran.
<br>
Selah.
<br>
His glory covered the heavens,
<br>
and his praise filled the earth.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:4">4 </verse></sup>His splendor is like the sunrise.
<br>
Rays shine from his hand, where his power is
hidden.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Plague went before him,
<br>
and pestilence followed his feet.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:6">6 </verse></sup>He stood, and shook the earth.
<br>
He looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains were crumbled.
<br>
The age-old hills collapsed.
<br>
His ways are eternal.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:7">7 </verse></sup>I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction.
The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers?
Was your anger against the rivers,
<br>
or your wrath against the sea,
<br>
that you rode on your horses,
<br>
on your chariots of salvation?

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:9">9 </verse></sup>You uncovered your bow.
<br>
You called for your sworn arrows.
<br>
Selah.
<br>
You split the earth with rivers.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:10">10 </verse></sup>The mountains saw you, and were afraid.
The storm of waters passed by.
<br>
The deep roared and lifted up its hands on
high.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The sun and moon stood still in the sky
at the light of your arrows as they went,
at the shining of your glittering spear.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:12">12 </verse></sup>You marched through the land in wrath.
You threshed the nations in anger.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:13">13 </verse></sup>You went out for the salvation of your people,
for the salvation of your anointed.
<br>
You crushed the head of the land of wickedness.
You stripped them head to foot.
<br>
Selah.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:14">14 </verse></sup>You pierced the heads of his warriors with their
own spears.
<br>
They came as a whirlwind to scatter me,
gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:15">15 </verse></sup>You trampled the sea with your horses,
churning mighty waters.

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:16">16 </verse></sup>I heard, and my body trembled.
<br>
My lips quivered at the voice.
<br>
Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in
my place
<br>
because I must wait quietly for the day of
trouble,
<br>
for the coming up of the people who invade us.
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:17">17 </verse></sup>For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish,
nor fruit be in the vines,
<br>
the labor of the olive fails,
<br>
the fields yield no food,
<br>
the flocks are cut off from the fold,
and there is no herd in the stalls,

<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:18">18 </verse></sup>yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.
<br>
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
<key:bcv=Habakkuk 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Habakkuk 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh, the Lord,<footnote:1>3:19 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</footnote> is my strength.
He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
<br>
and enables me to go in high places.
<br>
For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

#OUTLINE:1,Zephaniah
<h2>The Book of Zephaniah</h2>

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word which came to Zephaniah,
the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of
Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah,
the son of Amon, king of Judah.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>I will utterly sweep away everything from the
surface of the earth, says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>I will sweep
away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of
the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble
with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface
of the earth, says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I will stretch out my
hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from
this place—the name of the idolatrous and pagan
priests, <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>those who worship the army of the sky
on the housetops, those who worship and swear by
Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>those who have
turned back from following Yahweh, and those who
haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Be silent at the presence of the Lord<footnote:1>1:7 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> Yahweh,
for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has
prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice
that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and
all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>In that day, I will punish all those who leap over
the threshold, who fill their master’s house with
violence and deceit.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise
of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second
quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Wail,
you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of
Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with
silver are cut off. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>It will happen at that time, that
I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish
the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in
their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will
he do evil.” <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Their wealth will become a plunder,
and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build
houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant
vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near and
hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The
mighty man cries there bitterly. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>That day is a
day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day
of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a
day of clouds and blackness, <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>a day of the trumpet
and alarm against the fortified cities and against
the high battlements. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>I will bring such distress
on men that they will walk like blind men because
they have sinned against Yahweh. Their blood will
be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Neither their silver nor their gold will be able
to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but
the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his
jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end,
of all those who dwell in the land.

#BCV:Zephaniah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together,
you nation that has no shame, <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>before the
appointed time when the day passes as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you,
before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who
have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek
humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the
day of Yahweh’s anger. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>For Gaza will be forsaken,
and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out
Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation
of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you,
Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy
you until there is no inhabitant. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The sea coast
will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and
folds for flocks. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>The coast will be for the remnant
of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In
the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the
evening, for Yahweh, their God,<footnote:1>2:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> will visit them and
restore them. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>I have heard the reproach of Moab
and the insults of the children of Ammon, with
which they have reproached my people and magnified
themselves against their border. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore,
as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of
Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and
salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant
of my people will plunder them, and the survivors
of my nation will inherit them. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>This they will have
for their pride, because they have reproached and
magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh
of Armies. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Yahweh will be awesome to them, for
he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will
worship him, everyone from his place, even all the
shores of the nations.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>You Cushites also, you will be killed by my
sword.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>He will stretch out his hand against the north,
destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation,
as dry as the wilderness. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Herds will lie
down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals.
Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its
capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows.
Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid
bare the cedar beams. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 2:15">15 </verse></sup>This is the joyous city that
lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and
there is no one besides me.” How she has become
a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in!
Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake
their fists.

#BCV:Zephaniah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
the oppressing city! <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>She didn’t obey the voice.
She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in
Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her
judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until
the next day. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Her prophets are arrogant and
treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the
sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no
wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light.
He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>I have cut off nations. Their battlements are
desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that
no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that
there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>I
said, “Just fear me. Receive correction,” so that her
dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have
appointed concerning her. But they rose early and
corrupted all their doings.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the
day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination
is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the
kingdoms to pour on them my indignation, even all
my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured
with the fire of my jealousy.

<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>For then I will purify the lips of the peoples,
that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve
him shoulder to shoulder. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>From beyond the rivers
of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my
dispersed people, will bring my offering. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:11">11 </verse></sup>In that
day you will not be disappointed for all your doings
in which you have transgressed against me; for then
I will take away out from among you your proudly
exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in
my holy mountain. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:12">12 </verse></sup>But I will leave among you an
afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge
in Yahweh’s name. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:13">13 </verse></sup>The remnant of Israel will not
do iniquity nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful
tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed
and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be
glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of
Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh has taken away your judgments.
He has thrown out your enemy. The King
of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be
afraid of evil any more. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:16">16 </verse></sup>In that day, it will be said
to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your
hands be weak.” <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Yahweh, your God, is among you,
a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you
with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice
over you with singing. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:18">18 </verse></sup>I will remove those who
grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They
are a burden and a reproach to you. <key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>3:19 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote>
at that time I will deal with all those who afflict
you; and I will save those who are lame and gather
those who were driven away. I will give them praise
and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
<key:bcv=Zephaniah 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Zephaniah 3:20">20 </verse></sup>At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I
will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise
among all the peoples of the earth when I restore
your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

#OUTLINE:1,Haggai
<h2>The Book of Haggai</h2>

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth
month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote>
word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to
Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
<key:bcv=Haggai 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These
people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for
Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the
prophet, saying, <key:bcv=Haggai 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:4">4 </verse></sup>“Is it a time for you yourselves
to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house
lies waste? <key:bcv=Haggai 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Now therefore this is what Yahweh of
Armies says: ‘Consider your ways. <key:bcv=Haggai 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:6">6 </verse></sup>You have sown
much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t
have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with
drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
and he who earns wages earns wages to put them
into a bag with holes in it.’

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:7">7 </verse></sup>“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider
your ways. <key:bcv=Haggai 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Go up to the mountain, bring wood,
and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and
I will be glorified,” says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Haggai 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:9">9 </verse></sup>“You looked for
much, and, behold,<footnote:1>1:9 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> it came to little; and when
you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says
Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies
waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
<key:bcv=Haggai 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the
dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. <key:bcv=Haggai 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:11">11 </verse></sup>I called
for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the
grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which
the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on
all the labor of the hands.”

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and
Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with
all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh their
God’s<footnote:1>1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote> voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet,
as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people
feared Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s
message to the people, saying, “I am with
you,” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Haggai 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the
son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit
of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and
the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and
they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of
Armies, their God, <key:bcv=Haggai 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 1:15">15 </verse></sup>in the twenty-fourth day of the
month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.

#BCV:Haggai 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:1">1 </verse></sup>In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day
of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the
prophet, saying, <key:bcv=Haggai 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“Speak now to Zerubbabel the
son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua
the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the
remnant of the people, saying, <key:bcv=Haggai 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:3">3 </verse></sup>‘Who is left among
you who saw this house in its former glory? How
do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be
strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be
strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and
work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:5">5 </verse></sup>This is the word that I covenanted with you when
you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among
you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’ <key:bcv=Haggai 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:6">6 </verse></sup>For this is what Yahweh of
Armies says: ‘Yet once more, it is a little while, and
I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the
dry land; <key:bcv=Haggai 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:7">7 </verse></sup>and I will shake all nations. The treasure
of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with
glory, says Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:8">8 </verse></sup>The silver is mine,
and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:9">9 </verse></sup>‘The
latter glory of this house will be greater than the
former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I
will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:10">10 </verse></sup>In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in
the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by
Haggai the prophet, saying, <key:bcv=Haggai 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:11">11 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies
says: Ask now the priests concerning the law,
saying, <key:bcv=Haggai 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:12">12 </verse></sup>‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of
his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew,
wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’ ”
The priests answered, “No.”

<key:bcv=Haggai 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by
reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be
unclean?”
<br>
The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and
so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so
is every work of their hands. That which they
offer there is unclean. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Now, please consider from
this day and backward, before a stone was laid on
a stone in Yahweh’s temple. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Through all that
time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures,
there were only ten. When one came to the wine
vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:17">17 </verse></sup>I
struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the
work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’
says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:18">18 </verse></sup>‘Consider, please, from this day
and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the
ninth month, since the day that the foundation of
Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Is the seed
yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the
pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced.
From today I will bless you.’ ”

<key:bcv=Haggai 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came the second time to Haggai
in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
<key:bcv=Haggai 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:21">21 </verse></sup>“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying,
‘I will shake the heavens and the earth. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:22">22 </verse></sup>I will
overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy
the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I
will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in
them. The horses and their riders will come down,
everyone by the sword of his brother. <key:bcv=Haggai 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Haggai 2:23">23 </verse></sup>In that day,
says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel
my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and
will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen
you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

#OUTLINE:1,Zechariah
<h2>The Book of Zechariah</h2>

<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius,
Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word came to the prophet Zechariah
the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return
to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will
return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Don’t you
be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets
proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return
now from your evil ways and from your evil
doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Your fathers, where are they? And the
prophets, do they live forever? <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:6">6 </verse></sup>But my words and
my decrees, which I commanded my servants the
prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?
“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh
of Armies determined to do to us, according to our
ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt
with us.’ ”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:7">7 </verse></sup>On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Shebat, in the second
year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet
Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,
saying, <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:8">8 </verse></sup>“I had a vision in the night, and behold,<footnote:1>1:8 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> a
man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the
myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him
there were red, brown, and white horses. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Then I
asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’ ”
<br>
The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will
show you what these are.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:10">10 </verse></sup>The man who stood among the myrtle trees
answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to
go back and forth through the earth.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:11">11 </verse></sup>They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood
among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked
back and forth through the earth, and behold, all
the earth is at rest and in peace.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of
Armies, how long will you not have mercy on
Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which
you have had indignation these seventy years?”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh answered the angel who talked with
me with kind and comforting words. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:14">14 </verse></sup>So the
angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim,
saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:15">15 </verse></sup>I
am very angry with the nations that are at ease;
for I was but a little displeased, but they added to
the calamity.” <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore Yahweh says: “I have
returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall
be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line
shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:17">17 </verse></sup>“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies
says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity,
and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again
choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:18">18 </verse></sup>I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four
horns. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:19">19 </verse></sup>I asked the angel who talked with me,
“What are these?”
<br>
He answered me, “These are the horns which
have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh showed me four craftsmen. <key:bcv=Zechariah 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Then I
asked, “What are these coming to do?”
He said, “These are the horns which scattered
Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these
have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns
of the nations that lifted up their horn against the
land of Judah to scatter it.”

#BCV:Zechariah 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:1">1 </verse></sup>I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man
with a measuring line in his hand. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Then I asked,
“Where are you going?”
<br>
He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what
is its width and what is its length.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, the angel who talked with me went out,
and another angel went out to meet him, <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:4">4 </verse></sup>and
said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying,
‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without
walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock
in it. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of
fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle
of her.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’
says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the
four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:7">7 </verse></sup>‘Come,
Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of
Babylon.’ <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:8">8 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor
he has sent me to the nations which plundered you;
for he who touches you touches the apple of his
eye. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:9">9 </verse></sup>For, behold, I will shake my hand over them,
and they will be a plunder to those who served
them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies
has sent me. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion!
For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says
Yahweh. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Many nations shall join themselves to
Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and
I will dwell among you, and you shall know that
Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Yahweh
will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land,
and will again choose Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Zechariah 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Be silent, all
flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself
from his holy habitation!”

#BCV:Zechariah 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:1">1 </verse></sup>He showed me Joshua the high priest standing
before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his
right hand to be his adversary. <key:bcv=Zechariah 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to
Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh
who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a
burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments,
and was standing before the angel. <key:bcv=Zechariah 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:4">4 </verse></sup>He answered
and spoke to those who stood before him, saying,
“Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said,
“Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from
you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:5">5 </verse></sup>I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.”
<br>
So they set a clean turban on his head, and
clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s angel solomnly assured Joshua, saying,
<key:bcv=Zechariah 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:7">7 </verse></sup>“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in
my ways, and if you will follow my instructions,
then you also shall judge my house, and shall also
keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access
among these who stand by. <key:bcv=Zechariah 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Hear now, Joshua the
high priest, you and your fellows who sit before
you, for they are men who are a sign; for, behold,
I will bring out my servant, the Branch. <key:bcv=Zechariah 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:9">9 </verse></sup>For,
behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua: on
one stone are seven eyes; behold, I will engrave
its inscription,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will
remove the iniquity of that land in one day. <key:bcv=Zechariah 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 3:10">10 </verse></sup>In
that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite
every man his neighbor under the vine and under
the fig tree.’ ”

#BCV:Zechariah 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:1">1 </verse></sup>The angel who talked with me came again and
wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his
sleep. <key:bcv=Zechariah 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to me, “What do you see?”
I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all
of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven
lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the
lamps which are on the top of it; <key:bcv=Zechariah 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:3">3 </verse></sup>and two olive trees
by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other
on the left side of it.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:4">4 </verse></sup>I answered and spoke to the angel who talked
with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the angel who talked with me answered
me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
<br>
I said, “No, my lord.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he answered and spoke to me, saying,
“This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not
by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says
Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Zechariah 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Who are you, great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring
out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to
it!’ ”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:9">9 </verse></sup>“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation
of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you
will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For
these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb
line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s
eyes, which run back and forth through the whole
earth.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Then I asked him, “What are these two olive
trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the
left side of it?”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:12">12 </verse></sup>I asked him the second time, “What are these
two olive branches, which are beside the two golden
spouts that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:13">13 </verse></sup>He answered me, “Don’t you know what these
are?”
<br>
I said, “No, my lord.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones
who stand by the Lord<footnote:1>4:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> of the whole earth.”

#BCV:Zechariah 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and
behold, a flying scroll. <key:bcv=Zechariah 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to me, “What do
you see?”
<br>
I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is
twenty cubits,<footnote:1>5:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. </footnote> and its width ten cubits.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes
out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone
who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one
side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut
off according to it on the other side. <key:bcv=Zechariah 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:4">4 </verse></sup>I will cause it
to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter
into the house of the thief, and into the house of him
who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain
in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with
its timber and its stones.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the angel who talked with me came forward
and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see
what this is that is appearing.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:6">6 </verse></sup>I said, “What is it?”

He said, “This is the ephah<footnote:1>5:6 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel. </footnote> basket that is appearing.”
He said moreover, “This is their appearance in
all the land— <key:bcv=Zechariah 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:7">7 </verse></sup>and behold, a lead cover weighing
one talent<footnote:1>5:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds. </footnote> was lifted up—and there was a woman
sitting in the middle of the ephah<footnote:1>5:7 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel</footnote> basket.” <key:bcv=Zechariah 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:8">8 </verse></sup>He
said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down
into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw
the lead weight on its mouth.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold,
there were two women; and the wind was in their
wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a
stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between
earth and the sky. <key:bcv=Zechariah 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Then I said to the angel
who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the
ephah basket?”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 5:11">11 </verse></sup>He said to me, “To build her a house in the land
of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there
in her own place.”

#BCV:Zechariah 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
four chariots came out from between two
mountains; and the mountains were mountains of
bronze. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:2">2 </verse></sup>In the first chariot were red horses. In
the second chariot were black horses. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:3">3 </verse></sup>In the third
chariot were white horses. In the fourth chariot
were dappled horses, all of them powerful. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Then
I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are
these, my lord?”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:5">5 </verse></sup>The angel answered me, “These are the four
winds of the sky, which go out from standing before
the Lord of all the earth. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:6">6 </verse></sup>The one with the black
horses goes out toward the north country; and the
white went out after them; and the dappled went
out toward the south country.” <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The strong went
out, and sought to go that they might walk back and
forth through the earth. He said, “Go around and
through the earth!” So they walked back and forth
through the earth.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying,
“Behold, those who go toward the north country
have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:10">10 </verse></sup>“Take of
them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where
they have come from Babylon. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Yes, take silver
and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the
head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:12">12 </verse></sup>and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says,
“Behold, the man whose name is the Branch! He will
grow up out of his place; and he will build Yahweh’s
temple. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:13">13 </verse></sup>He will build Yahweh’s temple. He will
bear the glory, and will sit and rule on his throne.
He will be a priest on his throne. The counsel of
peace will be between them both. <key:bcv=Zechariah 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:14">14 </verse></sup>The crowns
shall be to Helem, to Tobijah, to Jedaiah, and to Hen
the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh’s
temple.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Those who are far off shall come and build in
Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh
of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen,
if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s
voice.” ’ ”<footnote:1>6:15 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim).</footnote>

#BCV:Zechariah 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 7:1">1 </verse></sup>In the fourth year of King Darius, Yahweh’s word
came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth
month, the month of Chislev. <key:bcv=Zechariah 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 7:2">2 </verse></sup>The people of Bethel
sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men
to entreat Yahweh’s favor, <key:bcv=Zechariah 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 7:3">3 </verse></sup>and to speak to the
priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the
prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these so many
years?”

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

#BCV:Zechariah 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:1">1 </verse></sup>The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great
wrath.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will
dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall
be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of
Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’ ”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old
women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem,
every man with his staff in his hand because of their
old age. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:5">5 </verse></sup>The streets of the city will be full of boys
and girls playing in its streets.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in
the eyes of the remnant of this people in those
days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says
Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my
people from the east country and from the west
country. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:8">8 </verse></sup>I will bring them, and they will dwell
within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will
be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be
strong, you who hear in these days these words
from the mouth of the prophets who were in the
day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of
Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be
built. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:10">10 </verse></sup>For before those days there was no wages
for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was
there any peace to him who went out or came in,
because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone
against his neighbor. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:11">11 </verse></sup>But now I will not be to the
remnant of this people as in the former days,” says
Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:12">12 </verse></sup>“For the seed of peace and
the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give
its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I
will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all
these things. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:13">13 </verse></sup>It shall come to pass that, as you
were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and
house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a
blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:14">14 </verse></sup>For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to
do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to
wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent,
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:15">15 </verse></sup>so again I have thought in these days to do good
to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t
be afraid. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:16">16 </verse></sup>These are the things that you shall
do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor.
Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your
gates, <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:17">17 </verse></sup>and let none of you devise evil in your
hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath;
for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:18">18 </verse></sup>The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth,
fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the
house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts.
Therefore love truth and peace.”

<key:bcv=Zechariah 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples and
the inhabitants of many cities will yet come. <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:21">21 </verse></sup>The
inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s
go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and
to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’ <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Yes,
many peoples and strong nations will come to seek
Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the
favor of Yahweh.” <key:bcv=Zechariah 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 8:23">23 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies says: “In
those days, ten men out of all the languages of the
nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a
Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard
that God is with you.’ ”

#BCV:Zechariah 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:1">1 </verse></sup>A revelation.
<br>
Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach,
and will rest upon Damascus—
<br>
for the eye of man
<br>
and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh—

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:2">2 </verse></sup>and Hamath, also, which borders on it,
Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Tyre built herself a stronghold,
<br>
and heaped up silver like the dust,
<br>
and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
and he will strike her power in the sea;
and she will be devoured with fire.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
<br>
Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
<br>
as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
and the king will perish from Gaza,
<br>
and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
<br>
and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:7">7 </verse></sup>I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
and his abominations from between his teeth;
and he also will be a remnant for our God;
and he will be as a chieftain in Judah,
and Ekron as a Jebusite.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:8">8 </verse></sup>I will encamp around my house against the army,
that no one pass through or return;
<br>
and no oppressor will pass through them any
more:
<br>
for now I have seen with my eyes.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
<br>
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
<br>
Behold, your King comes to you!
<br>
He is righteous, and having salvation;
lowly, and riding on a donkey,
<br>
even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:10">10 </verse></sup>I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the horse from Jerusalem.
<br>
The battle bow will be cut off;
<br>
and he will speak peace to the nations.
His dominion will be from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:11">11 </verse></sup>As for you also,
<br>
because of the blood of your covenant,
I have set free your prisoners from the pit in
which is no water.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
Even today I declare that I will restore double
to you.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:13">13 </verse></sup>For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
I have loaded the bow with Ephraim.
<br>
I will stir up your sons, Zion,
<br>
against your sons, Greece,
<br>
and will make you like the sword of a mighty
man.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Yahweh will be seen over them.
<br>
His arrow will flash like lightning.
<br>
The Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh of Armies will defend them.
They will destroy and overcome with sling
stones.
<br>
They will drink, and roar as through wine.
They will be filled like bowls,
<br>
like the corners of the altar.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Yahweh their God will save them in that day as
the flock of his people;
<br>
for they are like the jewels of a crown,
lifted on high over his land.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 9:17">17 </verse></sup>For how great is his goodness,
<br>
and how great is his beauty!
<br>
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine the virgins.

#BCV:Zechariah 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time,
Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
<br>
and he gives rain showers to everyone for the
plants in the field.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:2">2 </verse></sup>For the teraphim<footnote:1>10:2 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.</footnote> have spoken vanity,
and the diviners have seen a lie;
<br>
and they have told false dreams.
<br>
They comfort in vain.
<br>
Therefore they go their way like sheep.
They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:3">3 </verse></sup>My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
and I will punish the male goats,
<br>
for Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the
house of Judah,
<br>
and will make them as his majestic horse in the
battle.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:4">4 </verse></sup>From him will come the cornerstone,
from him the tent peg,
<br>
from him the battle bow,
<br>
from him every ruler together.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:5">5 </verse></sup>They will be as mighty men,
<br>
treading down muddy streets in the battle.
They will fight, because Yahweh is with them.
The riders on horses will be confounded.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:6">6 </verse></sup>“I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
<br>
I will bring them back,
<br>
for I have mercy on them.
<br>
They will be as though I had not cast them off,
for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear
them.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
<br>
and their heart will rejoice as through wine.
Yes, their children will see it and rejoice.
Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:8">8 </verse></sup>I will signal for them and gather them,
for I have redeemed them.
<br>
They will increase as they were before.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:9">9 </verse></sup>I will sow them among the peoples.
<br>
They will remember me in far countries.
They will live with their children and will
return.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:10">10 </verse></sup>I will bring them again also out of the land of
Egypt,
<br>
and gather them out of Assyria.
<br>
I will bring them into the land of Gilead and
Lebanon;
<br>
and there won’t be room enough for them.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He will pass through the sea of affliction,
and will strike the waves in the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 10:12">12 </verse></sup>I will strengthen them in Yahweh.
<br>
They will walk up and down in his name,” says
Yahweh.

#BCV:Zechariah 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Open your doors, Lebanon,
<br>
that the fire may devour your cedars.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,
because the stately ones are destroyed.
Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
<br>
for the strong forest has come down.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:3">3 </verse></sup>A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
For their glory is destroyed —a voice of the
roaring of young lions!
<br>
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished.
Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh,
for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity
them. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:6">6 </verse></sup>For I will no more pity the inhabitants of
the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver
every one of the men into his neighbor’s hand and
into the hand of his king. They will strike the land,
and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:7">7 </verse></sup>So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially
the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two
staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called
“Union”, and I fed the flock. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:8">8 </verse></sup>I cut off the three
shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of
them, and their soul also loathed me. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Then I said,
“I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and
that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let
those who are left eat each other’s flesh.” <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:10">10 </verse></sup>I took
my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break
my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:11">11 </verse></sup>It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the
flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s
word. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:12">12 </verse></sup>I said to them, “If you think it best, give me
my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed
for my wages thirty pieces of silver. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Yahweh said
to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price
that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty
pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in
Yahweh’s house. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Then I cut apart my other staff,
Union, that I might break the brotherhood between
Judah and Israel.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:15">15 </verse></sup>Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again
the equipment of a foolish shepherd. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:16">16 </verse></sup>For, behold,
I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not
visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those
who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken,
nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the
meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in
pieces. <key:bcv=Zechariah 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 11:17">17 </verse></sup>Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves
the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right
eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his
right eye will be totally blinded!”

#BCV:Zechariah 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:1">1 </verse></sup>A revelation of Yahweh’s word concerning Israel:
Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens and
lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the
spirit of man within him says: <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:2">2 </verse></sup>“Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding
peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege
against Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:3">3 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that I
will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the
peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be
severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth
will be gathered together against it. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:4">4 </verse></sup>In that day,”
says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror
and his rider with madness. I will open my eyes on
the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of
the peoples with blindness. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:5">5 </verse></sup>The chieftains of Judah
will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem
are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
<key:bcv=Zechariah 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:6">6 </verse></sup>In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah
like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming
torch among sheaves. They will devour all the
surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own
place, even in Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:7">7 </verse></sup>Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first,
that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above
Judah. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:8">8 </verse></sup>In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at
that day will be like David, and David’s house will be
like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:9">9 </verse></sup>It will
happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:10">10 </verse></sup>I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants
of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of
supplication. They will look to me<footnote:1>12:10 After “me”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.</footnote> whom they
have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one
mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly
for him as one grieves for his firstborn. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:11">11 </verse></sup>In that
day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley
of Megiddo. <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:12">12 </verse></sup>The land will mourn, every family
apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their
wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart,
and their wives apart; <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:13">13 </verse></sup>the family of the house
of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of
the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; <key:bcv=Zechariah 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 12:14">14 </verse></sup>all the
families who remain, every family apart, and their
wives apart.

#BCV:Zechariah 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:1">1 </verse></sup>“In that day there will be a fountain opened to
David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
for sin and for uncleanness.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:2">2 </verse></sup>It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh
of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols
out of the land, and they will be remembered no
more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of
impurity to pass out of the land. <key:bcv=Zechariah 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:3">3 </verse></sup>It will happen that
when anyone still prophesies, then his father and
his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must
die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and
his father and his mother who bore him will stab
him when he prophesies. <key:bcv=Zechariah 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:4">4 </verse></sup>It will happen in that
day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his
vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy
mantle to deceive, <key:bcv=Zechariah 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:5">5 </verse></sup>but he will say, ‘I am no prophet,
I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a
bondservant from my youth.’ <key:bcv=Zechariah 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:6">6 </verse></sup>One will say to him,
‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then
he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in
the house of my friends.’

<key:bcv=Zechariah 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:7">7 </verse></sup>“Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man who is close to me,” says
Yahweh of Armies.
<br>
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:8">8 </verse></sup>It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
“two parts in it will be cut off and die;
but the third will be left in it.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 13:9">9 </verse></sup>I will bring the third part into the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, ‘It is my people;’
<br>
and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

#BCV:Zechariah 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your
plunder will be divided within you. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:2">2 </verse></sup>For I will
gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and
the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the
women ravished. Half of the city will go out into
captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut
off from the city. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Yahweh will go out and
fight against those nations, as when he fought in
the day of battle. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:4">4 </verse></sup>His feet will stand in that day
on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem
on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in
two from east to west, making a very great valley.
Half of the mountain will move toward the north,
and half of it toward the south. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:5">5 </verse></sup>You shall flee by
the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the
mountains shall reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee,
just like you fled from before the earthquake in the
days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will
come, and all the holy ones with you.<footnote:1>14:5 Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:6">6 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that there will not be
light, cold, or frost. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:7">7 </verse></sup>It will be a unique day which
is known to Yahweh—not day, and not night; but it
will come to pass that at evening time there will be
light.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:8">8 </verse></sup>It will happen in that day that living waters
will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the
eastern sea, and half of them toward the western
sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that
day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:10">10 </verse></sup>All the land will be made like the Arabah,
from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she
will be lifted up and will dwell in her place, from
Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the
corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the
king’s wine presses. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:11">11 </verse></sup>Men will dwell therein, and
there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell
safely.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:12">12 </verse></sup>This will be the plague with which Yahweh
will strike all the peoples who have fought against
Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they
stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume
away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume
away in their mouth. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:13">13 </verse></sup>It will happen in
that day that a great panic from Yahweh will be
among them; and they will each seize the hand of
his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the
hand of his neighbor. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Judah also will fight at
Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding
nations will be gathered together: gold, silver, and
clothing, in great abundance.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:15">15 </verse></sup>A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the
mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the
animals that will be in those camps.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:16">16 </verse></sup>It will happen that everyone who is left of all
the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up
from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of
Armies, and to keep the feast of booths. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:17">17 </verse></sup>It will be
that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t
go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh
of Armies, on them there will be no rain. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:18">18 </verse></sup>If the
family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come,
neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague
with which Yahweh will strike the nations that
don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:19">19 </verse></sup>This will
be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of
all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of
booths.

<key:bcv=Zechariah 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:20">20 </verse></sup>In that day there will be inscribed on the bells
of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots
in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the
altar. <key:bcv=Zechariah 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Zechariah 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah
will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those
who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook
in them. In that day there will no longer be a
Canaanite<footnote:1>14:21 or, merchant</footnote> in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

#OUTLINE:1,Malachi
<h2>The Book of Malachi</h2>

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:1">1 </verse></sup>A revelation, Yahweh’s<footnote:1>1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. </footnote> word to Israel by
Malachi.

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:2">2 </verse></sup>“I have loved you,” says Yahweh.
<br>
Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh,
“Yet I loved Jacob; <key:bcv=Malachi 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:3">3 </verse></sup>but Esau I hated, and made his
mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the
jackals of the wilderness.” <key:bcv=Malachi 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Whereas Edom says,
“We are beaten down, but we will return and build
the waste places,” Yahweh of Armies says, “They
shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call
them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against
whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is
great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
<key:bcv=Malachi 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:6">6 </verse></sup>“A son honors his father, and a servant his
master. If I am a father, then where is my honor?
And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?”
says Yahweh of Armies to you priests who despise
my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your
name?’ <key:bcv=Malachi 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:7">7 </verse></sup>You offer polluted bread on my altar. You
say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say,
‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’ <key:bcv=Malachi 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:8">8 </verse></sup>When you offer
the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when
you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present
it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with
you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh
of Armies.

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:9">9 </verse></sup>“Now, please entreat the favor of God,<footnote:1>1:9 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “<hebrew>אֱלֹהִ֑ים<english>” (Elohim). </footnote> that he
may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any
of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:10">10 </verse></sup>“Oh that there were one among you who would
shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on
my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says
Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering
at your hand. <key:bcv=Malachi 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For from the rising of the sun
even to its going down, my name is great among
the nations, and in every place incense will be
offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my
name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh
of Armies. <key:bcv=Malachi 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:12">12 </verse></sup>“But you profane it when you say,
‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its
food, is contemptible.’ <key:bcv=Malachi 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:13">13 </verse></sup>You say also, ‘Behold,<footnote:1>1:13 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”,
says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that
which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick;
thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at
your hand?” says Yahweh.

<key:bcv=Malachi 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 1:14">14 </verse></sup>“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his
flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord<footnote:1>1:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” </footnote> a
defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh
of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the
nations.”

#BCV:Malachi 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

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

#BCV:Malachi 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Malachi 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:1">1 </verse></sup>“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will
prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you
seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold,
the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire,
is coming!” says Yahweh of Armies. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:2">2 </verse></sup>“But who can
endure the day of his coming? And who will stand
when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and
like launderers’ soap; <key:bcv=Malachi 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:3">3 </verse></sup>and he will sit as a refiner
and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of
Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they
shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
<key:bcv=Malachi 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be
pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in
ancient years.

<key:bcv=Malachi 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:5">5 </verse></sup>I will come near to you to judgment. I will be
a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the
adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those
who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow,
and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of
justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Malachi 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:6">6 </verse></sup>“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you,
sons of Jacob, are not consumed. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:7">7 </verse></sup>From the days
of your fathers you have turned away from my
ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me,
and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

<key:bcv=Malachi 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But
you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and
offerings. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:9">9 </verse></sup>You are cursed with the curse; for you
rob me, even this whole nation. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in
my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh
of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
will not be enough room for. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:11">11 </verse></sup>I will rebuke the
devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the
fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast
its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of
Armies. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:12">12 </verse></sup>“All nations shall call you blessed, for you
will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
<key:bcv=Malachi 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:13">13 </verse></sup>“Your words have been harsh against me,”
says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken
against you?’ <key:bcv=Malachi 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:14">14 </verse></sup>You have said, ‘It is vain to serve
God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his
instructions and that we have walked mournfully
before Yahweh of Armies? <key:bcv=Malachi 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Now we call the proud
happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up;
yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

<key:bcv=Malachi 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with
another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book
of memory was written before him for those who
feared Yahweh and who honored his name. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:17">17 </verse></sup>They
shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own
possession in the day that I make. I will spare them,
as a man spares his own son who serves him. <key:bcv=Malachi 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Then
you shall return and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him who serves God and
him who doesn’t serve him.

#BCV:Malachi 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Malachi 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:1">1 </verse></sup>“For behold, the day comes, burning like a
furnace, when all the proud and all who work
wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will
burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it
will leave them neither root nor branch. <key:bcv=Malachi 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:2">2 </verse></sup>But to you
who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness
arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and
leap like calves of the stall. <key:bcv=Malachi 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:3">3 </verse></sup>You shall tread down
the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles
of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of
Armies.

<key:bcv=Malachi 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:4">4 </verse></sup>“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which
I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even
statutes and ordinances.

<key:bcv=Malachi 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. <key:bcv=Malachi 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Malachi 4:6">6 </verse></sup>He
will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children
and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I
come and strike the earth with a curse.”

#OUTLINE:1,Matthew
<h2>The Good News According to
<br>
Matthew</h2>

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) both mean “Anointed One” </footnote> the
son of David, the son of Abraham.

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac
became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father
of Judah and his brothers. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Judah became the father
of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the
father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab
became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon
became the father of Salmon. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Salmon became the
father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father
of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesse became the father of King David. David the
king<footnote:1>1:6 NU omits “the king”. </footnote> became the father of Solomon by her who had
been Uriah’s wife. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Solomon became the father of
Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah.
Abijah became the father of Asa. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Asa became
the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became
the father of Joram. Joram became the father of
Uzziah. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Uzziah became the father of Jotham.
Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the
father of Hezekiah. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Hezekiah became the father of
Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon.
Amon became the father of Josiah. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Josiah became
the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time
of the exile to Babylon.

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:12">12 </verse></sup>After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became
the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father
of Zerubbabel. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Zerubbabel became the father of
Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim
became the father of Azor. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Azor became the
father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim.
Achim became the father of Eliud. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Eliud became
the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father
of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband
of Mary, from whom was born Jesus,<footnote:1>1:16 “Jesus” means “Salvation”. </footnote> who is called
Christ.

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:17">17 </verse></sup>So all the generations from Abraham to David
are fourteen generations; from David to the exile
to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the
carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen
generations.

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this:
After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph,
before they came together, she was found pregnant
by the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Joseph, her husband, being
a righteous man, and not willing to make her a
public example, intended to put her away secretly.
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:20">20 </verse></sup>But when he thought about these things, behold,<footnote:1>1:20 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,
saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to
take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which
is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Matthew 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:21">21 </verse></sup>She shall
give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus,<footnote:1>1:21 “Jesus” means “Salvation”. </footnote> for
it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Now all this has happened that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the
prophet, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:23">23 </verse></sup>“Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and shall give birth to a son.
<br>
They shall call his name Immanuel,”

which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”<footnote:1>1:23 Isaiah 7:14 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the
angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife
to himself; <key:bcv=Matthew 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 1:25">25 </verse></sup>and didn’t know her sexually until she
had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him
Jesus.

#BCV:Matthew 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea
in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men<footnote:1>2:1 The word for “wise men” (magoi) can also mean teachers, scientists, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers. </footnote> from
the east came to Jerusalem, saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“Where is he
who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his
star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:3">3 </verse></sup>When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and
all Jerusalem with him. <key:bcv=Matthew 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Gathering together all
the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked
them where the Christ would be born. <key:bcv=Matthew 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:5">5 </verse></sup>They said
to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written
through the prophet,

<key:bcv=Matthew 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:6">6 </verse></sup>‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah,
<br>
are in no way least among the princes of Judah;
for out of you shall come a governor

who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”<footnote:1>2:6 Micah 5:2 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and
learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:8">8 </verse></sup>He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go
and search diligently for the young child. When you
have found him, bring me word, so that I also may
come and worship him.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:9">9 </verse></sup>They, having heard the king, went their way;
and behold, the star, which they saw in the east,
went before them until it came and stood over
where the young child was. <key:bcv=Matthew 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:10">10 </verse></sup>When they saw
the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:11">11 </verse></sup>They came into the house and saw the young
child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down
and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they
offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod,
they went back to their own country another way.
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when they had departed, behold, an angel
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying,
“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and
flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for
Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:14">14 </verse></sup>He arose and took the young child and his
mother by night and departed into Egypt, <key:bcv=Matthew 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:15">15 </verse></sup>and
was there until the death of Herod, that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the
prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”<footnote:1>2:15 Hosea 11:1</footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked
by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent
out and killed all the male children who were in
Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside,
from two years old and under, according to the
exact time which he had learned from the wise
men. <key:bcv=Matthew 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah
the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:18">18 </verse></sup>“A voice was heard in Ramah,
<br>
lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
<br>
she wouldn’t be comforted,

because they are no more.”<footnote:1>2:18 Jeremiah 31:15 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:19">19 </verse></sup>But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of
the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:20">20 </verse></sup>“Arise and take the young child and his
mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who
sought the young child’s life are dead.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:21">21 </verse></sup>He arose and took the young child and his
mother, and came into the land of Israel. <key:bcv=Matthew 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:22">22 </verse></sup>But
when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over
Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid
to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew
into the region of Galilee, <key:bcv=Matthew 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 2:23">23 </verse></sup>and came and lived in a
city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the prophets that he will be
called a Nazarene.

#BCV:Matthew 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching
in the wilderness of Judea, saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:2">2 </verse></sup>“Repent, for
the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” <key:bcv=Matthew 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For this is he
who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
make the way of the Lord ready!

Make his paths straight!”<footnote:1>3:3 Isaiah 40:3 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s
hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food
was locusts and wild honey. <key:bcv=Matthew 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Then people from
Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around
the Jordan went out to him. <key:bcv=Matthew 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:6">6 </verse></sup>They were baptized
by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
<key:bcv=Matthew 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:7">7 </verse></sup>But when he saw many of the Pharisees and
Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them,
“You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee
from the wrath to come? <key:bcv=Matthew 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore produce fruit
worthy of repentance! <key:bcv=Matthew 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t think to yourselves,
‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that
God is able to raise up children to Abraham from
these stones. <key:bcv=Matthew 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Even now the ax lies at the root of
the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce
good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
<key:bcv=Matthew 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:11">11 </verse></sup>“I indeed baptize you in water for repentance,
but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose
sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize
you in the Holy Spirit.<footnote:1>3:11 TR and NU add “and with fire” </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:12">12 </verse></sup>His winnowing fork is in
his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing
floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but
the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan<footnote:1>3:13 i.e., the Jordan River </footnote> to
John, to be baptized by him. <key:bcv=Matthew 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But John would have
hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you,
and you come to me?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:15">15 </verse></sup>But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it
now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all
righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly
from the water: and behold, the heavens were
opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending
as a dove, and coming on him. <key:bcv=Matthew 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Behold, a voice out
of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with
whom I am well pleased.”

#BCV:Matthew 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted by the devil. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:2">2 </verse></sup>When
he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
hungry afterward. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:3">3 </verse></sup>The tempter came and said to
him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these
stones become bread.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:4">4 </verse></sup>But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds
out of God’s mouth.’ ”<footnote:1>4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Then the devil took him into the holy city. He
set him on the pinnacle of the temple, <key:bcv=Matthew 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:6">6 </verse></sup>and said
to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself
down, for it is written,
<br>
‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and,
‘On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you don’t dash your foot against a
stone.’ ”<footnote:1>4:6 Psalm 91:11-12 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall
not test the Lord, your God.’ ”<footnote:1>4:7 Deuteronomy 6:16 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high
mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the
world and their glory. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to him, “I will give
you all of these things, if you will fall down and
worship me.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,<footnote:1>4:10 TR and NU read “Go away” instead of “Get behind me” </footnote> Satan!
For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your
God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” <footnote:1>4:10 Deuteronomy 6:13 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Then the devil left him, and behold, angels
came and served him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered
up, he withdrew into Galilee. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Leaving Nazareth,
he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the
sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, <key:bcv=Matthew 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:14">14 </verse></sup>that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah
the prophet, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:15">15 </verse></sup>“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
<br>
Galilee of the Gentiles,

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:16">16 </verse></sup>the people who sat in darkness saw a great light;
to those who sat in the region and shadow of
death,

to them light has dawned.”<footnote:1>4:16 Isaiah 9:1-2 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:17">17 </verse></sup>From that time, Jesus began to preach, and
to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Walking by the sea of Galilee, he<footnote:1>4:18 TR reads “Jesus” instead of “he”</footnote> saw two
brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew,
his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were
fishermen. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Come after me, and
I will make you fishers for men.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:20">20 </verse></sup>They immediately left their nets and followed
him. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Going on from there, he saw two other
brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father,
mending their nets. He called them. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:22">22 </verse></sup>They
immediately left the boat and their father, and
followed him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the
Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness
among the people. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:24">24 </verse></sup>The report about him
went out into all Syria. They brought to him all
who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and
torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and
paralytics; and he healed them. <key:bcv=Matthew 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Great multitudes
from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from
beyond the Jordan followed him.

#BCV:Matthew 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the
mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples
came to him. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:2">2 </verse></sup>He opened his mouth and taught
them, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:3">3 </verse></sup>“Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.<footnote:1>5:3 Isaiah 57:15; 66:2 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who mourn,

for they shall be comforted.<footnote:1>5:4 Isaiah 61:2; 66:10,13 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Blessed are the gentle,

for they shall inherit the earth.<footnote:1>5:5 or, land. </footnote><footnote:1>5:5 Psalm 37:11 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness,
<br>
for they shall be filled.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Blessed are the merciful,
<br>
for they shall obtain mercy.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Blessed are the pure in heart,
<br>
for they shall see God.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Blessed are the peacemakers,
<br>
for they shall be called children of God.
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Blessed are those who have been persecuted for
righteousness’ sake,
<br>
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:11">11 </verse></sup>“Blessed are you when people reproach you,
persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you
falsely, for my sake. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Rejoice, and be exceedingly
glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is
how they persecuted the prophets who were before
you.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:13">13 </verse></sup>“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has
lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then
good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden
under the feet of men.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:14">14 </verse></sup>You are the light of the world. A city located
on a hill can’t be hidden. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Neither do you light a
lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a
stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:16">16 </verse></sup>
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they
may see your good works and glorify your Father
who is in heaven.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:17">17 </verse></sup>“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or
the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:18">18 </verse></sup>For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and
earth pass away, not even one smallest letter<footnote:1>5:18 literally, iota </footnote> or
one tiny pen stroke<footnote:1>5:18 or, serif </footnote> shall in any way pass away
from the law, until all things are accomplished. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:19">19 </verse></sup>
Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least
commandments and teach others to do so, shall be
called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever
shall do and teach them shall be called great in the
Kingdom of Heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:20">20 </verse></sup>For I tell you that unless
your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the
Kingdom of Heaven.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:21">21 </verse></sup>“You have heard that it was said to the ancient
ones, ‘You shall not murder;’<footnote:1>5:21 Exodus 20:13 </footnote> and ‘Whoever
murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:22">22 </verse></sup>
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his
brother without a cause <footnote:1>5:22 NU omits “without a cause”. </footnote> will be in danger of the
judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ <footnote:1>5:22 “Raca” is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for “empty” and conveying the idea of empty-headedness. </footnote>
will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You
fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.<footnote:1>5:22 or, Hell </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:23">23 </verse></sup>“If therefore you are offering your gift at the
altar, and there remember that your brother has
anything against you, <key:bcv=Matthew 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:24">24 </verse></sup>leave your gift there before
the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to
your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Agree with your adversary quickly while you are
with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor
deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you
to the officer, and you be cast into prison. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Most
certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of
there until you have paid the last penny.<footnote:1>5:26 literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:27">27 </verse></sup>“You have heard that it was said, <footnote:1>5:27 TR adds “to the ancients”. </footnote> ‘You shall
not commit adultery;’<footnote:1>5:27 Exodus 20:14 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:28">28 </verse></sup>but I tell you that everyone
who gazes at a woman to lust after her has
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:29">29 </verse></sup>If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck
it out and throw it away from you. For it is more
profitable for you that one of your members should
perish than for your whole body to be cast into
Gehenna.<footnote:1>5:29 or, Hell </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:30">30 </verse></sup>If your right hand causes you to
stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you.
For it is more profitable for you that one of your
members should perish, than for your whole body
to be cast into Gehenna.<footnote:1>5:30 or, Hell </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:31">31 </verse></sup>“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his
wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’<footnote:1>5:31 Deuteronomy 24:1</footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:32">32 </verse></sup>but
I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except
for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an
adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is
put away commits adultery.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:33">33 </verse></sup>“Again you have heard that it was said to the
ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but
shall perform to the Lord your vows,’<footnote:1>5:33 Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:34">34 </verse></sup>but I tell
you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is
the throne of God; <key:bcv=Matthew 5:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:35">35 </verse></sup>nor by the earth, for it is the
footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the
city of the great King. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:36">36 </verse></sup>Neither shall you swear
by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or
black. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:37">37 </verse></sup>But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be
‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:38">38 </verse></sup>“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for
an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’<footnote:1>5:38 Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:39">39 </verse></sup>But I tell you,
don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you
on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:40">40 </verse></sup>
If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him
have your cloak also. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:41">41 </verse></sup>Whoever compels you to
go one mile, go with him two. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:42">42 </verse></sup>Give to him who
asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to
borrow from you.

<key:bcv=Matthew 5:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:43">43 </verse></sup>“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love
your neighbor <footnote:1>5:43 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote> and hate your enemy.’<footnote:1>5:43 not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 5:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:44">44 </verse></sup>But I tell
you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you, and pray for those
who mistreat you and persecute you, <key:bcv=Matthew 5:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:45">45 </verse></sup>that you
may be children of your Father who is in heaven.
For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the just and the unjust. <key:bcv=Matthew 5:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:46">46 </verse></sup>For if
you love those who love you, what reward do you
have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
<key:bcv=Matthew 5:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:47">47 </verse></sup>If you only greet your friends, what more do you
do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors<footnote:1>5:47 NU reads “Gentiles” instead of “tax collectors”. </footnote> do
the same? <key:bcv=Matthew 5:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 5:48">48 </verse></sup>Therefore you shall be perfect, just as
your Father in heaven is perfect.

#BCV:Matthew 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:1">1 </verse></sup>“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable
giving<footnote:1>6:1 NU reads “acts of righteousness” instead of “charitable giving” </footnote> before men, to be seen by them, or else you
have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t
sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites
do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they
may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you,
they have received their reward. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:3">3 </verse></sup>But when you
do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know
what your right hand does, <key:bcv=Matthew 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:4">4 </verse></sup>so that your merciful
deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees
in secret will reward you openly.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:5">5 </verse></sup>“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites,
for they love to stand and pray in the
synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that
they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you,
they have received their reward. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:6">6 </verse></sup>But you, when
you pray, enter into your inner room, and having
shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret;
and your Father who sees in secret will reward you
openly. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:7">7 </verse></sup>In praying, don’t use vain repetitions
as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be
heard for their much speaking. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t
be like them, for your Father knows what things you
need before you ask him. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Pray like this:
“ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept
holy.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Let your Kingdom come.
<br>
Let your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Give us today our daily bread.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Forgive us our debts,
<br>
as we also forgive our debtors.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Bring us not into temptation,
<br>
but deliver us from the evil one.
<br>
For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory
forever. Amen.’<footnote:1>6:13 NU omits “For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.” </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:14">14 </verse></sup>“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:15">15 </verse></sup>But if you
don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:16">16 </verse></sup>“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the
hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their
faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting.
Most certainly I tell you, they have received their
reward. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:17">17 </verse></sup>But you, when you fast, anoint your
head and wash your face, <key:bcv=Matthew 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:18">18 </verse></sup>so that you are not
seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who
is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will
reward you.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:19">19 </verse></sup>“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the
earth, where moth and rust consume, and where
thieves break through and steal; <key:bcv=Matthew 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:20">20 </verse></sup>but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break
through and steal; <key:bcv=Matthew 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:21">21 </verse></sup>for where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.

<key:bcv=Matthew 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:22">22 </verse></sup>“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore
your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of
light. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:23">23 </verse></sup>But if your eye is evil, your whole body
will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:24">24 </verse></sup>“No one can serve two masters, for either he
will hate the one and love the other, or else he will
be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t
serve both God and Mammon. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore I tell
you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will
eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body,
what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and
the body more than clothing? <key:bcv=Matthew 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:26">26 </verse></sup>See the birds of
the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap,
nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds
them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:27">27 </verse></sup>“Which of you by being anxious, can add one
moment<footnote:1>6:27 literally, cubit</footnote> to his lifespan? <key:bcv=Matthew 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:28">28 </verse></sup>Why are you anxious
about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:29">29 </verse></sup>yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory
was not dressed like one of these. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:30">30 </verse></sup>But if God so
clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and
tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much
more clothe you, you of little faith?
<key:bcv=Matthew 6:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:31">31 </verse></sup>“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will
we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will
we be clothed?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 6:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:32">32 </verse></sup>For the Gentiles seek after all
these things; for your heavenly Father knows that
you need all these things. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:33">33 </verse></sup>But seek first God’s
Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things
will be given to you as well. <key:bcv=Matthew 6:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 6:34">34 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t be
anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious
for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

#BCV:Matthew 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:1">1 </verse></sup>“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:2">2 </verse></sup>
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be
judged; and with whatever measure you measure,
it will be measured to you. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Why do you see
the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t
consider the beam that is in your own eye? <key:bcv=Matthew 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:4">4 </verse></sup>
Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove
the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is
in your own eye? <key:bcv=Matthew 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:5">5 </verse></sup>You hypocrite! First remove
the beam out of your own eye, and then you can
see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s
eye.

<key:bcv=Matthew 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:6">6 </verse></sup>“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither
throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps
they trample them under their feet, and turn and
tear you to pieces.

<key:bcv=Matthew 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:7">7 </verse></sup>“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will
find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:8">8 </verse></sup>For
everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To
him who knocks it will be opened. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Or who is there
among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will
give him a stone? <key:bcv=Matthew 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Or if he asks for a fish, who
will give him a serpent? <key:bcv=Matthew 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:11">11 </verse></sup>If you then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father who is in heaven give
good things to those who ask him! <key:bcv=Matthew 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore,
whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall
also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:13">13 </verse></sup>“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is
wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction,
and there are many who enter in by it. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:14">14 </verse></sup>How<footnote:1>7:14 TR reads “Because” instead of “How” </footnote>
narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that
leads to life! There are few who find it.
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:15">15 </verse></sup>“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:16">16 </verse></sup>By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather
grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? <key:bcv=Matthew 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Even
so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the
corrupt tree produces evil fruit. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:18">18 </verse></sup>A good tree
can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
produce good fruit. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Every tree that doesn’t grow
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:20">20 </verse></sup>
Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:21">21 </verse></sup>“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does
the will of my Father who is in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Many will
tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy
in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in
your name do many mighty works?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Then I will
tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you
who work iniquity.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:24">24 </verse></sup>“Everyone therefore who hears these words of
mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man
who built his house on a rock. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:25">25 </verse></sup>The rain came
down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded
on the rock. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Everyone who hears these words of
mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man
who built his house on the sand. <key:bcv=Matthew 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:27">27 </verse></sup>The rain came
down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:28">28 </verse></sup>When Jesus had finished saying these things,
the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
<key:bcv=Matthew 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 7:29">29 </verse></sup>for he taught them with authority, and not like
the scribes.

#BCV:Matthew 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:1">1 </verse></sup>When he came down from the mountain, great
multitudes followed him. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, a leper came to
him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want
to, you can make me clean.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him,
saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately
his leprosy was cleansed. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “See
that you tell nobody; but go, show yourself to the
priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as
a testimony to them.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:5">5 </verse></sup>When he came into Capernaum, a centurion
came to him, asking him for help, <key:bcv=Matthew 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:6">6 </verse></sup>saying, “Lord,
my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously
tormented.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:8">8 </verse></sup>The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy
for you to come under my roof. Just say the word,
and my servant will be healed. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:9">9 </verse></sup>For I am also a man
under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell
this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’
and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he
does it.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:10">10 </verse></sup>When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to
those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I
haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:11">11 </verse></sup>I tell you that many will come from the east and
the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, <key:bcv=Matthew 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:12">12 </verse></sup>but the children
of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer
darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.” <key:bcv=Matthew 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way.
Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His
servant was healed in that hour.

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:14">14 </verse></sup>When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his
wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He touched
her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and
served him.<footnote:1>8:15 TR reads “them” instead of “him” ? 8:17 Isaiah 53:4</footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:16">16 </verse></sup>When evening came, they brought
to him many possessed with demons. He cast out
the spirits with a word, and healed all who were
sick, <key:bcv=Matthew 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:17">17 </verse></sup>that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our
infirmities and bore our diseases.”?

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around
him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:19">19 </verse></sup>A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will
follow you wherever you go.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the
birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has
nowhere to lay his head.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord,
allow me first to go and bury my father.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:22">22 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the
dead to bury their own dead.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:23">23 </verse></sup>When he got into a boat, his disciples followed
him. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea,
so much that the boat was covered with the waves;
but he was asleep. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:25">25 </verse></sup>The disciples came to him and
woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:26">26 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of
little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and
the sea, and there was a great calm.

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:27">27 </verse></sup>The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man
is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:28">28 </verse></sup>When he came to the other side, into the
country of the Gergesenes,<footnote:1>8:28 NU reads “Gadarenes” </footnote> two people possessed
by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs,
exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that
way. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:29">29 </verse></sup>Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we
have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you
come here to torment us before the time?” <key:bcv=Matthew 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Now
there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:31">31 </verse></sup>The demons begged him, saying, “If you
cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of
pigs.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:32">32 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Go!”
<br>
They came out and went into the herd of pigs;
and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the
cliff into the sea and died in the water. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:33">33 </verse></sup>Those who
fed them fled and went away into the city and told
everything, including what happened to those who
were possessed with demons. <key:bcv=Matthew 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Behold, all the city
came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they
begged that he would depart from their borders.

#BCV:Matthew 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:1">1 </verse></sup>He entered into a boat and crossed over, and
came into his own city. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, they brought to
him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus,
seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer
up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves,
“This man blasphemes.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do
you think evil in your hearts? <key:bcv=Matthew 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:5">5 </verse></sup>For which is easier,
to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up,
and walk?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:6">6 </verse></sup>But that you may know that the Son of
Man has authority on earth to forgive sins—” (then
he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your
mat, and go to your house.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:7">7 </verse></sup>He arose and departed to his house. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:8">8 </verse></sup>But when
the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified
God, who had given such authority to men.
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:9">9 </verse></sup>As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man
called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office.
He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed
him. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:10">10 </verse></sup>As he sat in the house, behold, many tax
collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus
and his disciples. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:11">11 </verse></sup>When the Pharisees saw it, they
said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat
with tax collectors and sinners?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:12">12 </verse></sup>When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those
who are healthy have no need for a physician, but
those who are sick do. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:13">13 </verse></sup>But you go and learn what
this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’<footnote:1>9:13 Hosea 6:6 </footnote>
for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.”<footnote:1>9:13 NU omits “to repentance”. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Then John’s disciples came to him, saying,
“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your
disciples don’t fast?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the
bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is
with them? But the days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then
they will fast. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:16">16 </verse></sup>No one puts a piece of unshrunk
cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear
away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Neither do people put new wine into old wine
skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be
spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine
into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:18">18 </verse></sup>While he told these things to them, behold, a
ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter
has just died, but come and lay your hand on her,
and she will live.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:19">19 </verse></sup>Jesus got up and followed him, as did his
disciples. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Behold, a woman who had a discharge
of blood for twelve years came behind him, and
touched the fringe<footnote:1>9:20 or, tassel</footnote> of his garment; <key:bcv=Matthew 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:21">21 </verse></sup>for she said
within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be
made well.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:22">22 </verse></sup>But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said,
“Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.”
And the woman was made well from that hour.
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:23">23 </verse></sup>When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw
the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder,
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:24">24 </verse></sup>he said to them, “Make room, because the girl
isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

They were ridiculing him. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:25">25 </verse></sup>But when the crowd
was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand,
and the girl arose. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:26">26 </verse></sup>The report of this went out
into all that land.

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:27">27 </verse></sup>As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men
followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy
on us, son of David!” <key:bcv=Matthew 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:28">28 </verse></sup>When he had come into
the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said
to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:29">29 </verse></sup>Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According
to your faith be it done to you.” <key:bcv=Matthew 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:30">30 </verse></sup>Then their
eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them,
saying, “See that no one knows about this.” <key:bcv=Matthew 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:31">31 </verse></sup>But
they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that
land.

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:32">32 </verse></sup>As they went out, behold, a mute man who
was demon possessed was brought to him. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:33">33 </verse></sup>When
the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The
multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has
ever been seen in Israel!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:34">34 </verse></sup>But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the
demons, he casts out demons.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus went about all the cities and the villages,
teaching in their synagogues and preaching
the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing
every disease and every sickness among the people.
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:36">36 </verse></sup>But when he saw the multitudes, he was
moved with compassion for them because they
were harassed<footnote:1>9:36 TR reads “weary” instead of “harassed” </footnote> and scattered, like sheep without
a shepherd. <key:bcv=Matthew 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:37">37 </verse></sup>Then he said to his disciples, “The
harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
<key:bcv=Matthew 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 9:38">38 </verse></sup>Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will
send out laborers into his harvest.”

#BCV:Matthew 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:1">1 </verse></sup>He called to himself his twelve disciples, and
gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast
them out, and to heal every disease and every
sickness. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Now the names of the twelve apostles are
these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew,
his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his
brother; <key:bcv=Matthew 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew
the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus,
who was also called<footnote:1>10:3 NU omits “Lebbaeus, who was also called” </footnote> Thaddaeus; <key:bcv=Matthew 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Simon the
Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
<key:bcv=Matthew 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus sent these twelve out and commanded
them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and
don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:6">6 </verse></sup>
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:7">7 </verse></sup>
As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand!’ <key:bcv=Matthew 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,<footnote:1>10:8 TR adds “raise the dead,” </footnote>
and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely
give. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in
your money belts. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Take no bag for your journey,
neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the
laborer is worthy of his food. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Into whatever city
or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy,
and stay there until you go on. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:12">12 </verse></sup>As you enter
into the household, greet it. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:13">13 </verse></sup>If the household
is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t
worthy, let your peace return to you. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Whoever
doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go
out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your
feet. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, it will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the
day of judgment than for that city.

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:16">16 </verse></sup>“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as
doves. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:17">17 </verse></sup>But beware of men, for they will deliver
you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will
scourge you. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Yes, and you will be brought before
governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to
them and to the nations. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:19">19 </verse></sup>But when they deliver
you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say,
for it will be given you in that hour what you will
say. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:20">20 </verse></sup>For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of
your Father who speaks in you.

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:21">21 </verse></sup>“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and
the father his child. Children will rise up against
parents and cause them to be put to death. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:22">22 </verse></sup>You
will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he
who endures to the end will be saved. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:23">23 </verse></sup>But when
they persecute you in this city, flee into the next,
for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone
through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has
come.

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:24">24 </verse></sup>“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a
servant above his lord. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:25">25 </verse></sup>It is enough for the
disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant
like his lord. If they have called the master of
the house Beelzebul,<footnote:1>10:25 Literally, Lord of the Flies, or the devil </footnote> how much more those of
his household! <key:bcv=Matthew 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t be afraid of
them, for there is nothing covered that will not be
revealed, or hidden that will not be known. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:27">27 </verse></sup>
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light;
and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim
on the housetops. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid of those who
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather,
fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body
in Gehenna.<footnote:1>10:28 or, Hell. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:29">29 </verse></sup>“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion
coin?<footnote:1>10:29 An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor. </footnote> Not one of them falls to the ground apart
from your Father’s will. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:30">30 </verse></sup>But the very hairs
of your head are all numbered. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore
don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many
sparrows. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Everyone therefore who confesses me
before men, I will also confess him before my Father
who is in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:33">33 </verse></sup>But whoever denies me before
men, I will also deny him before my Father who is
in heaven.

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:34">34 </verse></sup>“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the
earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:35">35 </verse></sup>
For I came to set a man at odds against his father,
and a daughter against her mother, and a daughterin-
law against her mother-in-law. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:36">36 </verse></sup>A man’s foes
will be those of his own household.<footnote:1>10:36 Micah 7:6</footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:37">37 </verse></sup>He who
loves father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than
me isn’t worthy of me. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:38">38 </verse></sup>He who doesn’t take his
cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:39">39 </verse></sup>He
who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his
life for my sake will find it.

<key:bcv=Matthew 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:40">40 </verse></sup>“He who receives you receives me, and he who
receives me receives him who sent me. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:41">41 </verse></sup>He
who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a
righteous man in the name of a righteous man will
receive a righteous man’s reward. <key:bcv=Matthew 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 10:42">42 </verse></sup>Whoever gives
one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to
drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell
you, he will in no way lose his reward.”

#BCV:Matthew 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jesus had finished directing his twelve
disciples, he departed from there to teach and
preach in their cities.

<key:bcv=Matthew 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Now when John heard in the prison the works
of Christ, he sent two of his disciples <key:bcv=Matthew 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:3">3 </verse></sup>and said to
him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for
another?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the
things which you hear and see: <key:bcv=Matthew 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:5">5 </verse></sup>the blind receive
their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
the deaf hear,<footnote:1>11:5 Isaiah 35:5 </footnote> the dead are raised up, and the poor
have good news preached to them.<footnote:1>11:5 Isaiah 61:1-4 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessed is he
who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:7">7 </verse></sup>As these went their way, Jesus began to say to
the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go
out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by
the wind? <key:bcv=Matthew 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:8">8 </verse></sup>But what did you go out to see?
A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear
soft clothing are in kings’ houses. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:9">9 </verse></sup>But why did
you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and
much more than a prophet. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:10">10 </verse></sup>For this is he, of
whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger
before your face, who will prepare your way before
you.’<footnote:1>11:10 Malachi 3:1 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, among those
who are born of women there has not arisen anyone
greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least
in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:12">12 </verse></sup>
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the
Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent
take it by force.<footnote:1>11:12 or, plunder it. </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:13">13 </verse></sup>For all the prophets and the
law prophesied until John. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:14">14 </verse></sup>If you are willing to
receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:15">15 </verse></sup>He who
has ears to hear, let him hear.

<key:bcv=Matthew 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:16">16 </verse></sup>“But to what shall I compare this generation? It
is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call
to their companions <key:bcv=Matthew 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:17">17 </verse></sup>and say, ‘We played the flute
for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you,
and you didn’t lament.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:18">18 </verse></sup>For John came neither
eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
<key:bcv=Matthew 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:19">19 </verse></sup>The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and
they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard,
a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom
is justified by her children.”<footnote:1>11:19 NU reads “actions” instead of “children” </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:20">20 </verse></sup>Then he began to denounce the cities in which
most of his mighty works had been done, because
they didn’t repent. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:21">21 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe
to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been
done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and
ashes. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:22">22 </verse></sup>But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
<key:bcv=Matthew 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:23">23 </verse></sup>You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you
will go down to Hades. <footnote:1>11:23 or, Hell </footnote> For if the mighty works
had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it
would have remained until today. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:24">24 </verse></sup>But I tell you
that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom
on the day of judgment, than for you.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:25">25 </verse></sup>At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid
these things from the wise and understanding, and
revealed them to infants. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Yes, Father, for so it
was well-pleasing in your sight. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:27">27 </verse></sup>All things have
been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows
the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone
know the Father, except the Son and he to whom
the Son desires to reveal him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:28">28 </verse></sup>“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily
burdened, and I will give you rest. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Take my
yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your
souls. <key:bcv=Matthew 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 11:30">30 </verse></sup>For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.”

#BCV:Matthew 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day
through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry
and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:2">2 </verse></sup>But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him,
“Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do
on the Sabbath.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:3">3 </verse></sup>But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what
David did when he was hungry, and those who were
with him: <key:bcv=Matthew 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:4">4 </verse></sup>how he entered into God’s house and
ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him
to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only
for the priests?<footnote:1>12:4 1 Samuel 21:3-6 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Or have you not read in the law
that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple
profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? <key:bcv=Matthew 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:6">6 </verse></sup>But I tell
you that one greater than the temple is here. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:7">7 </verse></sup>But
if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy,
and not sacrifice,’<footnote:1>12:7 Hosea 6:6 </footnote> you wouldn’t have condemned
the guiltless. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:8">8 </verse></sup>For the Son of Man is Lord of the
Sabbath.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:9">9 </verse></sup>He departed from there and went into their
synagogue. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:10">10 </verse></sup>And behold, there was a man with
a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath day?” so that they might accuse
him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:11">11 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What man is there among
you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a
pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it and
lift it out? <key:bcv=Matthew 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Of how much more value then is
a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do
good on the Sabbath day.” <key:bcv=Matthew 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:13">13 </verse></sup>Then he told the man,
“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it
was restored whole, just like the other. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:14">14 </verse></sup>But the
Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how
they might destroy him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there.
Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them
all, <key:bcv=Matthew 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:16">16 </verse></sup>and commanded them that they should not
make him known, <key:bcv=Matthew 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:17">17 </verse></sup>that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:18">18 </verse></sup>“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit on him.
<br>
He will proclaim justice to the nations.
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:19">19 </verse></sup>He will not strive, nor shout,
<br>
neither will anyone hear his voice in the
streets.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:20">20 </verse></sup>He won’t break a bruised reed.
<br>
He won’t quench a smoking flax,
<br>
until he leads justice to victory.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:21">21 </verse></sup>In his name, the nations will hope.”<footnote:1>12:21 Isaiah 42:1-4</footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:22">22 </verse></sup>Then one possessed by a demon, blind and
mute, was brought to him; and he healed him,
so that the blind and mute man both spoke and
saw. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:23">23 </verse></sup>All the multitudes were amazed, and said,
“Can this be the son of David?” <key:bcv=Matthew 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:24">24 </verse></sup>But when the
Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not
cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of
the demons.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation, and every city or house divided against
itself will not stand. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:26">26 </verse></sup>If Satan casts out Satan, he is
divided against himself. How then will his kingdom
stand? <key:bcv=Matthew 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:27">27 </verse></sup>If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by
whom do your children cast them out? Therefore
they will be your judges. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:28">28 </verse></sup>But if I by the Spirit of
God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come
upon you. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:29">29 </verse></sup>Or how can one enter into the house
of the strong man and plunder his goods, unless he
first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his
house.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:30">30 </verse></sup>“He who is not with me is against me, and he
who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore
I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven
men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not
be forgiven men. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:32">32 </verse></sup>Whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever
speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven
him, either in this age, or in that which is to come.
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:33">33 </verse></sup>“Either make the tree good and its fruit good,
or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for
the tree is known by its fruit. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:34">34 </verse></sup>You offspring of
vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth
speaks. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:35">35 </verse></sup>The good man out of his good treasure<footnote:1>12:35 TR adds “of the heart” ? 13:15 Isaiah 6:9-10</footnote>
brings out good things, and the evil man out of his
evil treasure brings out evil things. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:36">36 </verse></sup>I tell you
that every idle word that men speak, they will give
account of it in the day of judgment. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:37">37 </verse></sup>For by your
words you will be justified, and by your words you
will be condemned.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:38">38 </verse></sup>Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 12:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:39">39 </verse></sup>But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be
given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:40">40 </verse></sup>
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in
the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man
be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:41">41 </verse></sup>The men of Nineveh will stand up in the
judgment with this generation and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and
behold, someone greater than Jonah is here. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:42">42 </verse></sup>
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment
with this generation and will condemn it, for she
came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than
Solomon is here.

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:43">43 </verse></sup>“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man,
he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and
doesn’t find it. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:44">44 </verse></sup>Then he says, ‘I will return
into my house from which I came;’ and when he
has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put
in order. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:45">45 </verse></sup>Then he goes and takes with himself
seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they
enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man
becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also
to this evil generation.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:46">46 </verse></sup>While he was yet speaking to the multitudes,
behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside,
seeking to speak to him. <key:bcv=Matthew 12:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:47">47 </verse></sup>One said to him, “Behold,
your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking
to speak to you.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 12:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:48">48 </verse></sup>But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who
is my mother? Who are my brothers?” <key:bcv=Matthew 12:49><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:49">49 </verse></sup>He
stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and
said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! <key:bcv=Matthew 12:50><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 12:50">50 </verse></sup>
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in
heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

#BCV:Matthew 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:1">1 </verse></sup>On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat
by the seaside. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Great multitudes gathered to him,
so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the
multitude stood on the beach. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:3">3 </verse></sup>He spoke to them
many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer
went out to sow. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:4">4 </verse></sup>As he sowed, some seeds fell
by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Others fell on rocky ground, where they
didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang
up, because they had no depth of earth. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:6">6 </verse></sup>When
the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because
they had no root, they withered away. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Others
fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit:
some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and
some thirty. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:9">9 </verse></sup>He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:10">10 </verse></sup>The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do
you speak to them in parables?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:11">11 </verse></sup>He answered them, “To you it is given to know
the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it
is not given to them. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:12">12 </verse></sup>For whoever has, to
him will be given, and he will have abundance;
but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken
away even that which he has. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I
speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t
see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they
understand. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:14">14 </verse></sup>In them the prophecy of Isaiah is
fulfilled, which says,
<br>
‘By hearing you will hear,
<br>
and will in no way understand;
<br>
Seeing you will see,
<br>
and will in no way perceive;

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:15">15 </verse></sup>for this people’s heart has grown callous,
their ears are dull of hearing,
<br>
and they have closed their eyes;
<br>
or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
<br>
understand with their heart,
<br>
and would turn again,
<br>
and I would heal them.’?

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:16">16 </verse></sup>“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and
your ears, for they hear. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:17">17 </verse></sup>For most certainly I tell
you that many prophets and righteous men desired
to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them;
and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t
hear them.

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:18">18 </verse></sup>“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:19">19 </verse></sup>
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and
doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and
snatches away that which has been sown in his
heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:20">20 </verse></sup>
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who
hears the word and immediately with joy receives
it; <key:bcv=Matthew 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:21">21 </verse></sup>yet he has no root in himself, but endures
for a while. When oppression or persecution arises
because of the word, immediately he stumbles. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:22">22 </verse></sup>
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who
hears the word, but the cares of this age and the
deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he
becomes unfruitful. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:23">23 </verse></sup>What was sown on the
good ground, this is he who hears the word and
understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and
produces, some one hundred times as much, some
sixty, and some thirty.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:24">24 </verse></sup>He set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed
good seed in his field, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:25">25 </verse></sup>but while people slept,
his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds<footnote:1>13:25 darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent. </footnote> also
among the wheat, and went away. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:26">26 </verse></sup>But when
the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the
darnel weeds appeared also. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:27">27 </verse></sup>The servants of the
householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you
sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel
weeds come from?’

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:28">28 </verse></sup>“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go
and gather them up?’

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:29">29 </verse></sup>“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather
up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Let both grow together until the harvest,
and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them
in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into
my barn.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:31">31 </verse></sup>He set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard
seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:32">32 </verse></sup>
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it
is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a
tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in
its branches.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:33">33 </verse></sup>He spoke another parable to them. “The
Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman
took and hid in three measures<footnote:1>13:33 literally, three sata. Three sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel </footnote> of meal, until it
was all leavened.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the
multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak
to them, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:35">35 </verse></sup>that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through the prophet, saying,
<br>
“I will open my mouth in parables;
<br>
I will utter things hidden from the foundation
of the world.”<footnote:1>13:35 Psalm 78:2 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:36">36 </verse></sup>Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went
into the house. His disciples came to him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the
field.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:37">37 </verse></sup>He answered them, “He who sows the good
seed is the Son of Man, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:38">38 </verse></sup>the field is the world,
the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom,
and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil
one. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:39">39 </verse></sup>The enemy who sowed them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers
are angels. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:40">40 </verse></sup>As therefore the darnel weeds are
gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at
the end of this age. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:41">41 </verse></sup>The Son of Man will send out
his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom
all things that cause stumbling and those who do
iniquity, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:42">42 </verse></sup>and will cast them into the furnace of
fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
<key:bcv=Matthew 13:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:43">43 </verse></sup>Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the
Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear,
let him hear.

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:44">44 </verse></sup>“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure
hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In
his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys
that field.

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:45">45 </verse></sup>“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:46">46 </verse></sup>who
having found one pearl of great price, he went and
sold all that he had and bought it.

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:47">47 </verse></sup>“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet
that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of
every kind, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:48">48 </verse></sup>which, when it was filled, fishermen
drew up on the beach. They sat down and gathered
the good into containers, but the bad they threw
away. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:49><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:49">49 </verse></sup>So it will be in the end of the world.<footnote:1>13:49 or, end of the age. </footnote>
The angels will come and separate the wicked from
among the righteous, <key:bcv=Matthew 13:50><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:50">50 </verse></sup>and will cast them into
the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.” <key:bcv=Matthew 13:51><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:51">51 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Have you
understood all these things?”
<br>
They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:52><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:52">52 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who
has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven
is like a man who is a householder, who brings out
of his treasure new and old things.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 13:53><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:53">53 </verse></sup>When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed
from there. <key:bcv=Matthew 13:54><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:54">54 </verse></sup>Coming into his own country,
he taught them in their synagogue, so that they
were astonished and said, “Where did this man get
this wisdom and these mighty works? <key:bcv=Matthew 13:55><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:55">55 </verse></sup>Isn’t this
the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary,
and his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?<footnote:1>13:55 or, Judah</footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 13:56><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:56">56 </verse></sup>Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did
this man get all of these things?” <key:bcv=Matthew 13:57><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:57">57 </verse></sup>They were
offended by him.
<br>
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without
honor, except in his own country and in his own
house.” <key:bcv=Matthew 13:58><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 13:58">58 </verse></sup>He didn’t do many mighty works there
because of their unbelief.

#BCV:Matthew 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:1">1 </verse></sup>At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the
report concerning Jesus, <key:bcv=Matthew 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:2">2 </verse></sup>and said to his servants,
“This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the
dead. That is why these powers work in him.” <key:bcv=Matthew 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:3">3 </verse></sup>For
Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in
prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s
wife. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:4">4 </verse></sup>For John said to him, “It is not lawful for
you to have her.” <key:bcv=Matthew 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:5">5 </verse></sup>When he would have put him
to death, he feared the multitude, because they
counted him as a prophet. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:6">6 </verse></sup>But when Herod’s
birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced
among them and pleased Herod. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore he
promised with an oath to give her whatever she
should ask. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:8">8 </verse></sup>She, being prompted by her mother,
said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John
the Baptizer.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:9">9 </verse></sup>The king was grieved, but for the sake of his
oaths and of those who sat at the table with him,
he commanded it to be given, <key:bcv=Matthew 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:10">10 </verse></sup>and he sent and
beheaded John in the prison. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:11">11 </verse></sup>His head was
brought on a platter and given to the young lady;
and she brought it to her mother. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:12">12 </verse></sup>His disciples
came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went
and told Jesus. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus heard this, he
withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place
apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed
him on foot from the cities.

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:14">14 </verse></sup>Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude.
He had compassion on them and healed their sick.
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:15">15 </verse></sup>When evening had come, his disciples came to
him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour
is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they
may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:16">16 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go
away. You give them something to eat.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:17">17 </verse></sup>They told him, “We only have here five loaves
and two fish.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “Bring them here to me.” <key:bcv=Matthew 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:19">19 </verse></sup>He commanded
the multitudes to sit down on the grass;
and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave
the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to
the multitudes. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:20">20 </verse></sup>They all ate and were filled. They
took up twelve baskets full of that which remained
left over from the broken pieces. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:21">21 </verse></sup>Those who
ate were about five thousand men, in addition to
women and children.

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into
the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while
he sent the multitudes away. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:23">23 </verse></sup>After he had sent
the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain
by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was
there alone. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:24">24 </verse></sup>But the boat was now in the middle
of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind
was contrary. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:25">25 </verse></sup>In the fourth watch of the night,<footnote:1>14:25 The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 a.m. to sunrise. </footnote>
Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.<footnote:1>14:25 See Job 9:8 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:26">26 </verse></sup>When
the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were
troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out
for fear. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:27">27 </verse></sup>But immediately Jesus spoke to them,
saying, “Cheer up! It is I! <footnote:1>14:27 or, I AM! </footnote> Don’t be afraid.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:28">28 </verse></sup>Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you,
command me to come to you on the waters.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:29">29 </verse></sup>He said, “Come!”
<br>
Peter stepped down from the boat and walked on
the waters to come to Jesus. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:30">30 </verse></sup>But when he saw that
the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning
to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took
hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith,
why did you doubt?” <key:bcv=Matthew 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:32">32 </verse></sup>When they got up into the
boat, the wind ceased. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:33">33 </verse></sup>Those who were in the boat
came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the
Son of God!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:34">34 </verse></sup>When they had crossed over, they came to the
land of Gennesaret. <key:bcv=Matthew 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:35">35 </verse></sup>When the people of that place
recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding
region and brought to him all who were sick; <key:bcv=Matthew 14:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 14:36">36 </verse></sup>and
they begged him that they might just touch the
fringe<footnote:1>14:36 or, tassel </footnote> of his garment. As many as touched it were
made whole.

#BCV:Matthew 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from
Jerusalem, saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:2">2 </verse></sup>“Why do your disciples disobey
the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash
their hands when they eat bread.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:3">3 </verse></sup>He answered them, “Why do you also disobey
the commandment of God because of your tradition?
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:4">4 </verse></sup>For God commanded, ‘Honor your father
and your mother,’<footnote:1>15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 </footnote> and, ‘He who speaks evil of
father or mother, let him be put to death.’<footnote:1>15:4 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:5">5 </verse></sup>
But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his
mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have
gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” <key:bcv=Matthew 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:6">6 </verse></sup>he
shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have
made the commandment of God void because of
your tradition. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:7">7 </verse></sup>You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:8">8 </verse></sup>‘These people draw near to me with their mouth,
and honor me with their lips;
<br>
but their heart is far from me.

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:9">9 </verse></sup>And they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”<footnote:1>15:9 Isaiah 29:13</footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:10">10 </verse></sup>He summoned the multitude, and said to them,
“Hear, and understand. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:11">11 </verse></sup>That which enters into
the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which
proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do
you know that the Pharisees were offended when
they heard this saying?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:13">13 </verse></sup>But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly
Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Leave
them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If
the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to
us.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:16">16 </verse></sup>So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:17">17 </verse></sup>Don’t you understand that whatever goes into
the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the
body? <key:bcv=Matthew 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:18">18 </verse></sup>But the things which proceed out of
the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile
the man. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:19">19 </verse></sup>For out of the heart come evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts,
false testimony, and blasphemies. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:20">20 </verse></sup>These are
the things which defile the man; but to eat with
unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus went out from there and withdrew into
the region of Tyre and Sidon. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, a Canaanite
woman came out from those borders and cried,
saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David!
My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:23">23 </verse></sup>But he answered her not a word.
<br>
His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send
her away; for she cries after us.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:24">24 </verse></sup>But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but
the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:25">25 </verse></sup>But she came and worshiped him, saying,
“Lord, help me.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:26">26 </verse></sup>But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take
the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:27">27 </verse></sup>But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat
the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:28">28 </verse></sup>Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is
your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.”
And her daughter was healed from that hour.
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus departed from there and came near to
the sea of Galilee; and he went up on the mountain
and sat there. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Great multitudes came to him,
having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed,
and many others, and they put them down at his
feet. He healed them, <key:bcv=Matthew 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:31">31 </verse></sup>so that the multitude
wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the
injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind
seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel.
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:32">32 </verse></sup>Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have
compassion on the multitude, because they have
continued with me now three days and have nothing
to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting,
or they might faint on the way.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:33">33 </verse></sup>The disciples said to him, “Where could we get
so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so
great a multitude?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you
have?”
<br>
They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:35">35 </verse></sup>He commanded the multitude to sit down on
the ground; <key:bcv=Matthew 15:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:36">36 </verse></sup>and he took the seven loaves and the
fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to
the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
<key:bcv=Matthew 15:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:37">37 </verse></sup>They all ate and were filled. They took up seven
baskets full of the broken pieces that were left
over. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:38">38 </verse></sup>Those who ate were four thousand men, in
addition to women and children. <key:bcv=Matthew 15:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 15:39">39 </verse></sup>Then he sent
away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came
into the borders of Magdala.

#BCV:Matthew 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:1">1 </verse></sup>The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing
him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:2">2 </verse></sup>But he answered them, “When it is evening, you
say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:3">3 </verse></sup>In
the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the
sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know
how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you
can’t discern the signs of the times! <key:bcv=Matthew 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:4">4 </verse></sup>An evil and
adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there
will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the
prophet Jonah.”

He left them and departed. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:5">5 </verse></sup>The disciples came
to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the
yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:7">7 </verse></sup>They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We
brought no bread.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason
among yourselves, you of little faith, because you
have brought no bread? <key:bcv=Matthew 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t you yet perceive
or remember the five loaves for the five thousand,
and how many baskets you took up, <key:bcv=Matthew 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:10">10 </verse></sup>or the
seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many
baskets you took up? <key:bcv=Matthew 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:11">11 </verse></sup>How is it that you
don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning
bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
Sadducees.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they understood that he didn’t tell them
to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do
men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:14">14 </verse></sup>They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some,
Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to them, “But who do you say that I
am?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon
Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this
to you, but my Father who is in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:18">18 </verse></sup>I also
tell you that you are Peter,<footnote:1>16:18 Peter’s name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone. </footnote> and on this rock <footnote:1>16:18 Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock. </footnote>
I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades<footnote:1>16:18 or, Hell</footnote>
will not prevail against it. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:19">19 </verse></sup>I will give to you
the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever
you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven;
and whatever you release on earth will have been
released in heaven.” <key:bcv=Matthew 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Then he commanded the
disciples that they should tell no one that he was
Jesus the Christ.

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:21">21 </verse></sup>From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples
that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many
things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes,
and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
<key:bcv=Matthew 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:22">22 </verse></sup>Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him,
saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be
done to you.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:23">23 </verse></sup>But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind
me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you
are not setting your mind on the things of God, but
on the things of men.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone
desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take
up his cross, and follow me. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:25">25 </verse></sup>For whoever desires
to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his
life for my sake will find it. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:26">26 </verse></sup>For what will it profit
a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his
life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his
life? <key:bcv=Matthew 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:27">27 </verse></sup>For the Son of Man will come in the glory of
his Father with his angels, and then he will render to
everyone according to his deeds. <key:bcv=Matthew 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 16:28">28 </verse></sup>Most certainly
I tell you, there are some standing here who will in
no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man
coming in his Kingdom.”

#BCV:Matthew 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:1">1 </verse></sup>After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James,
and John his brother, and brought them up into a
high mountain by themselves. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:2">2 </verse></sup>He was changed<footnote:1>17:2 or, transfigured </footnote>
before them. His face shone like the sun, and his
garments became as white as the light. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Behold,
Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with
him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:4">4 </verse></sup>Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is
good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three
tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:5">5 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, behold, a bright
cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came
out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:6">6 </verse></sup>When the disciples heard it, they fell on their
faces, and were very afraid. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus came and
touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be
afraid.” <key:bcv=Matthew 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one,
except Jesus alone.

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:9">9 </verse></sup>As they were coming down from the mountain,
Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone
what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from
the dead.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:10">10 </verse></sup>His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do
the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes
first, and will restore all things; <key:bcv=Matthew 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:12">12 </verse></sup>but I tell you that
Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize
him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even
so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.” <key:bcv=Matthew 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:13">13 </verse></sup>Then
the disciples understood that he spoke to them of
John the Baptizer.

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:14">14 </verse></sup>When they came to the multitude, a man came
to him, kneeling down to him and saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:15">15 </verse></sup>“Lord,
have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers
grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often
into the water. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:16">16 </verse></sup>So I brought him to your disciples,
and they could not cure him.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation!
How long will I be with you? How long will
I bear with you? Bring him here to me.” <key:bcv=Matthew 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Jesus
rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the
boy was cured from that hour.

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and
said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For
most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain
of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move
from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing
will be impossible for you. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:21">21 </verse></sup>But this kind doesn’t
go out except by prayer and fasting.” <footnote:1>17:21 NU omits verse 21. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:22">22 </verse></sup>While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to
them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up
into the hands of men, <key:bcv=Matthew 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:23">23 </verse></sup>and they will kill him, and
the third day he will be raised up.”
<br>
They were exceedingly sorry.

<key:bcv=Matthew 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:24">24 </verse></sup>When they had come to Capernaum, those who
collected the didrachma coins<footnote:1>17:24 A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days’ wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. </footnote> came to Peter, and
said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:25">25 </verse></sup>He said, “Yes.”
<br>
When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated
him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From
whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or
tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:26">26 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “From strangers.”
Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are
exempt. <key:bcv=Matthew 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 17:27">27 </verse></sup>But, lest we cause them to stumble,
go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish
that comes up. When you have opened its mouth,
you will find a stater coin.<footnote:1>17:27 A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two people. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, usually in the form of a silver coin. </footnote> Take that, and give it
to them for me and you.”

#BCV:Matthew 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:1">1 </verse></sup>In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying,
“Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him
in the middle of them <key:bcv=Matthew 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:3">3 </verse></sup>and said, “Most certainly
I tell you, unless you turn and become as little
children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom
of Heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Whoever therefore humbles himself
as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of
Heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:5">5 </verse></sup>Whoever receives one such little child
in my name receives me, <key:bcv=Matthew 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:6">6 </verse></sup>but whoever causes one
of these little ones who believe in me to stumble,
it would be better for him if a huge millstone were
hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the
depths of the sea.

<key:bcv=Matthew 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:7">7 </verse></sup>“Woe to the world because of occasions of
stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come,
but woe to that person through whom the occasion
comes! <key:bcv=Matthew 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:8">8 </verse></sup>If your hand or your foot causes you to
stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better
for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather
than having two hands or two feet to be cast into
the eternal fire. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:9">9 </verse></sup>If your eye causes you to stumble,
pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you
to enter into life with one eye, rather than having
two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna<footnote:1>18:9 or, Hell </footnote> of fire. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:10">10 </verse></sup>
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones,
for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see
the face of my Father who is in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:11">11 </verse></sup>For the
Son of Man came to save that which was lost.<footnote:1>18:11 NU omits verse 11.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:12">12 </verse></sup>“What do you think? If a man has one hundred
sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave
the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that
which has gone astray? <key:bcv=Matthew 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:13">13 </verse></sup>If he finds it, most
certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than
over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in
heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:15">15 </verse></sup>“If your brother sins against you, go, show him
his fault between you and him alone. If he listens
to you, you have gained back your brother. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:16">16 </verse></sup>But
if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you,
that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every
word may be established.<footnote:1>18:16 Deuteronomy 19:15 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:17">17 </verse></sup>If he refuses to listen
to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear
the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile
or a tax collector. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you,
whatever things you bind on earth will have been
bound in heaven, and whatever things you release
on earth will have been released in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:19">19 </verse></sup>
Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will
agree on earth concerning anything that they will
ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in
heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:20">20 </verse></sup>For where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there I am in the middle of
them.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how
often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive
him? Until seven times?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:22">22 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven
times, but, until seventy times seven. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who
wanted to settle accounts with his servants. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:24">24 </verse></sup>
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to
him who owed him ten thousand talents.<footnote:1>18:24 Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor. </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:25">25 </verse></sup>But
because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him
to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that
he had, and payment to be made. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:26">26 </verse></sup>The servant
therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying,
‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you
all!’ <key:bcv=Matthew 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:27">27 </verse></sup>The lord of that servant, being moved with
compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:28">28 </verse></sup>“But that servant went out and found one of
his fellow servants who owed him one hundred
denarii,<footnote:1>18:28 100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent, or about 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of silver. </footnote> and he grabbed him and took him by the
throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
<key:bcv=Matthew 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:29">29 </verse></sup>“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and
begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I
will repay you!’ <key:bcv=Matthew 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:30">30 </verse></sup>He would not, but went and
cast him into prison until he should pay back that
which was due. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:31">31 </verse></sup>So when his fellow servants
saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry,
and came and told their lord all that was done. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:32">32 </verse></sup>
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You
wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because
you begged me. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:33">33 </verse></sup>Shouldn’t you also have had
mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy
on you?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 18:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:34">34 </verse></sup>His lord was angry, and delivered him
to the tormentors until he should pay all that was
due to him. <key:bcv=Matthew 18:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 18:35">35 </verse></sup>So my heavenly Father will also do
to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from
your hearts for his misdeeds.”

#BCV:Matthew 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jesus had finished these words, he departed
from Galilee and came into the borders
of Judea beyond the Jordan. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:2">2 </verse></sup>Great multitudes
followed him, and he healed them there.
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:3">3 </verse></sup>Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying,
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any
reason?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:4">4 </verse></sup>He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who
made them from the beginning made them male
and female,<footnote:1>19:4 Genesis 1:27 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:5">5 </verse></sup>and said, ‘For this cause a man shall
leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to
his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’<footnote:1>19:5 Genesis 2:24 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:6">6 </verse></sup>
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What
therefore God has joined together, don’t let man
tear apart.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:7">7 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Why then did Moses command
us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce
her?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness
of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your
wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:9">9 </verse></sup>
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for
sexual immorality, and marries another, commits
adultery; and he who marries her when she is
divorced commits adultery.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:10">10 </verse></sup>His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of
the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:11">11 </verse></sup>But he said to them, “Not all men can receive
this saying, but those to whom it is given. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:12">12 </verse></sup>For
there are eunuchs who were born that way from
their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who
were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs
who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of
Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him
receive it.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:13">13 </verse></sup>Then little children were brought to him that
he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the
disciples rebuked them. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:14">14 </verse></sup>But Jesus said, “Allow
the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to
me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like
these.” <key:bcv=Matthew 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:15">15 </verse></sup>He laid his hands on them, and departed
from there.

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:16">16 </verse></sup>Behold, one came to him and said, “Good
teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have
eternal life?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Why do you call me good?<footnote:1>19:17 So MT and TR. NU reads “Why do you ask me about what is good?”</footnote> No
one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to
enter into life, keep the commandments.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Which ones?”
<br>
Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not
commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall
not offer false testimony.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:19">19 </verse></sup>‘Honor your father and
your mother.’<footnote:1>19:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20 </footnote> And, ‘You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.’ ”<footnote:1>19:19 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:20">20 </verse></sup>The young man said to him, “All these things I
have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go,
sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:22">22 </verse></sup>But when the young man heard this, he went away
sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say
to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven with difficulty. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Again I tell you, it is
easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than
for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:25">25 </verse></sup>When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly
astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:26">26 </verse></sup>Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is
impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:27">27 </verse></sup>Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left
everything and followed you. What then will we
have?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:28">28 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you
that you who have followed me, in the regeneration
when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his
glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:29">29 </verse></sup>Everyone who has left
houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother,
or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake,
will receive one hundred times, and will inherit
eternal life. <key:bcv=Matthew 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 19:30">30 </verse></sup>But many will be last who are first,
and first who are last.

#BCV:Matthew 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:1">1 </verse></sup>“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who
was the master of a household, who went out early
in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:2">2 </verse></sup>When he had agreed with the laborers for a
denarius<footnote:1>20:2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor. </footnote> a day, he sent them into his vineyard. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:3">3 </verse></sup>
He went out about the third hour,<footnote:1>20:3 Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 a.m. </footnote> and saw others
standing idle in the marketplace. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to them,
‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right
I will give you.’ So they went their way. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Again he
went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,<footnote:1>20:5 noon and 3:00 p.m. </footnote> and
did likewise. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:6">6 </verse></sup>About the eleventh hour<footnote:1>20:6 5:00 p.m. </footnote> he went
out and found others standing idle. He said to them,
‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:7">7 </verse></sup>“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’
“He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard,
and you will receive whatever is right.’
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:8">8 </verse></sup>“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard
said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay
them their wages, beginning from the last to the
first.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:9">9 </verse></sup>“When those who were hired at about the
eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:10">10 </verse></sup>When the first came, they supposed that
they would receive more; and they likewise each
received a denarius. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:11">11 </verse></sup>When they received it, they
murmured against the master of the household, <key:bcv=Matthew 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:12">12 </verse></sup>
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you
have made them equal to us who have borne the
burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:13">13 </verse></sup>“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am
doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a
denarius? <key:bcv=Matthew 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Take that which is yours, and go your
way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much
as to you. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want
to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I
am good?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:16">16 </verse></sup>So the last will be first, and the first
last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:17">17 </verse></sup>As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the
twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to
them, <key:bcv=Matthew 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:18">18 </verse></sup>“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and
the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests
and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, <key:bcv=Matthew 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:19">19 </verse></sup>
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to
scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be
raised up.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:20">20 </verse></sup>Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came
to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain
thing of him. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:21">21 </verse></sup>He said to her, “What do you want?”
She said to him, “Command that these, my two
sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on
your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:22">22 </verse></sup>But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you
are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am
about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism
that I am baptized with?”
<br>
They said to him, “We are able.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup,
and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized
with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left
hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has
been prepared by my Father.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:24">24 </verse></sup>When the ten heard it, they were indignant
with the two brothers.

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:25">25 </verse></sup>But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You
know that the rulers of the nations lord it over
them, and their great ones exercise authority over
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:26">26 </verse></sup>It shall not be so among you; but whoever
desires to become great among you shall be<footnote:1>20:26 TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be”</footnote> your
servant. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:27">27 </verse></sup>Whoever desires to be first among you
shall be your bondservant, <key:bcv=Matthew 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:28">28 </verse></sup>even as the Son of
Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:29">29 </verse></sup>As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude
followed him. <key:bcv=Matthew 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:30">30 </verse></sup>Behold, two blind men sitting
by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing
by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son
of David!” <key:bcv=Matthew 20:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:31">31 </verse></sup>The multitude rebuked them, telling
them that they should be quiet, but they cried out
even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of
David!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:32">32 </verse></sup>Jesus stood still and called them, and asked,
“What do you want me to do for you?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:33">33 </verse></sup>They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be
opened.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 20:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 20:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched
their eyes; and immediately their eyes received
their sight, and they followed him.

#BCV:Matthew 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:1">1 </verse></sup>When they came near to Jerusalem and came to
Bethsphage,<footnote:1>21:1 TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage” </footnote> to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent
two disciples, <key:bcv=Matthew 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:2">2 </verse></sup>saying to them, “Go into the village
that is opposite you, and immediately you will find
a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and
bring them to me. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:3">3 </verse></sup>If anyone says anything
to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and
immediately he will send them.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:4">4 </verse></sup>All this was done that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the prophet, saying,
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:5">5 </verse></sup>“Tell the daughter of Zion,
<br>
behold, your King comes to you,
<br>
humble, and riding on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”<footnote:1>21:5 Zechariah 9:9 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:6">6 </verse></sup>The disciples went and did just as Jesus commanded
them, <key:bcv=Matthew 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:7">7 </verse></sup>and brought the donkey and the
colt and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:8">8 </verse></sup>A very great multitude spread their clothes
on the road. Others cut branches from the trees
and spread them on the road. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:9">9 </verse></sup>The multitudes who
went in front of him, and those who followed, kept
shouting, “Hosanna<footnote:1>21:9 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”. </footnote> to the son of David! Blessed is
he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in
the highest!” <footnote:1>21:9 Psalm 118:26 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:10">10 </verse></sup>When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city
was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:11">11 </verse></sup>The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus,
from Nazareth of Galilee.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:12">12 </verse></sup>Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove
out all of those who sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the
seats of those who sold the doves. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to them,
“It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of
prayer,’<footnote:1>21:13 Isaiah 56:7 </footnote> but you have made it a den of robbers!”<footnote:1>21:13 Jeremiah 7:11 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:14">14 </verse></sup>The lame and the blind came to him in the
temple, and he healed them. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:15">15 </verse></sup>But when the chief
priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children who were crying in the
temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!”
they were indignant, <key:bcv=Matthew 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:16">16 </verse></sup>and said to him, “Do you
hear what these are saying?”
<br>
Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out
of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you
have perfected praise?’ ”<footnote:1>21:16 Psalm 8:2 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:17">17 </verse></sup>He left them and went out of the city to
Bethany, and camped there.

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Now in the morning, as he returned to the city,
he was hungry. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:19">19 </verse></sup>Seeing a fig tree by the road, he
came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He
said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!”
Immediately the fig tree withered away.
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:20">20 </verse></sup>When the disciples saw it, they marveled,
saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither
away?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you,
if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only
do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told
this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it
would be done. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:22">22 </verse></sup>All things, whatever you ask in
prayer, believing, you will receive.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:23">23 </verse></sup>When he had come into the temple, the chief
priests and the elders of the people came to him as
he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do
you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:24">24 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one
question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you
by what authority I do these things. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:25">25 </verse></sup>The baptism
of John, where was it from? From heaven or from
men?”
<br>
They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we
say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you
not believe him?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:26">26 </verse></sup>But if we say, ‘From men,’ we
fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:27">27 </verse></sup>They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.”
He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by
what authority I do these things. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:28">28 </verse></sup>But what
do you think? A man had two sons, and he came
to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my
vineyard.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:29">29 </verse></sup>He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward
he changed his mind, and went. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:30">30 </verse></sup>He came to the
second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m
going, sir,’ but he didn’t go. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Which of the two did
the will of his father?”
<br>
They said to him, “The first.”
<br>
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that
the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering
into God’s Kingdom before you. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:32">32 </verse></sup>For John came
to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t
believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes
believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t
even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:33">33 </verse></sup>“Hear another parable. There was a man
who was a master of a household who planted a
vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it,
built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into
another country. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:34">34 </verse></sup>When the season for the fruit
came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to
receive his fruit. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:35">35 </verse></sup>The farmers took his servants,
beat one, killed another, and stoned another. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:36">36 </verse></sup>
Again, he sent other servants more than the first;
and they treated them the same way. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:37">37 </verse></sup>But
afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will
respect my son.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 21:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:38">38 </verse></sup>But the farmers, when they saw
the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir.
Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 21:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:39">39 </verse></sup>So
they took him and threw him out of the vineyard,
then killed him. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:40">40 </verse></sup>When therefore the lord of the
vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 21:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:41">41 </verse></sup>They told him, “He will miserably destroy those
miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to
other farmers who will give him the fruit in its
season.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:42">42 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the
Scriptures,
<br>
‘The stone which the builders rejected
was made the head of the corner.
<br>
This was from the Lord.

It is marvelous in our eyes’?<footnote:1>21:42 Psalm 118:22-23</footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:43">43 </verse></sup>“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be
taken away from you and will be given to a nation
producing its fruit. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:44">44 </verse></sup>He who falls on this stone
will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will
fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 21:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:45">45 </verse></sup>When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard
his parables, they perceived that he spoke about
them. <key:bcv=Matthew 21:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 21:46">46 </verse></sup>When they sought to seize him, they feared
the multitudes, because they considered him to be
a prophet.

#BCV:Matthew 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Jesus answered and spoke to them again in
parables, saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:2">2 </verse></sup>“The Kingdom of Heaven is like
a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his
son, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:3">3 </verse></sup>and sent out his servants to call those who
were invited to the wedding feast, but they would
not come. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:4">4 </verse></sup>Again he sent out other servants,
saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have
prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings
are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the
wedding feast!” ’ <key:bcv=Matthew 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:5">5 </verse></sup>But they made light of it, and
went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his
merchandise; <key:bcv=Matthew 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:6">6 </verse></sup>and the rest grabbed his servants,
treated them shamefully, and killed them. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:7">7 </verse></sup>
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent
his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned
their city.

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:8">8 </verse></sup>“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is
ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.
<key:bcv=Matthew 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:9">9 </verse></sup>Go therefore to the intersections of the highways,
and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding
feast.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:10">10 </verse></sup>Those servants went out into the
highways and gathered together as many as they
found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled
with guests.

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:11">11 </verse></sup>“But when the king came in to see the guests,
he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding
clothing, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:12">12 </verse></sup>and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did
you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’
He was speechless. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:13">13 </verse></sup>Then the king said to the
servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away,
and throw him into the outer darkness. That is
where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:14">14 </verse></sup>
For many are called, but few chosen.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how
they might entrap him in his talk. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:16">16 </verse></sup>They sent their
disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying,
“Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach
the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach;
for you aren’t partial to anyone. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:17">17 </verse></sup>Tell us therefore,
what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to
Caesar, or not?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:18">18 </verse></sup>But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said,
“Why do you test me, you hypocrites? <key:bcv=Matthew 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:19">19 </verse></sup>Show me
the tax money.”
<br>
They brought to him a denarius.

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:20">20 </verse></sup>He asked them, “Whose is this image and
inscription?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:21">21 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
<br>
Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar
the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things
that are God’s.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:22">22 </verse></sup>When they heard it, they marveled, and left
him and went away.

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:23">23 </verse></sup>On that day Sadducees (those who say that
there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked
him, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:24">24 </verse></sup>saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies,
having no children, his brother shall marry his wife
and raise up offspring<footnote:1>22:24 or, seed </footnote> for his brother.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:25">25 </verse></sup>Now there
were with us seven brothers. The first married and
died, and having no offspring left his wife to his
brother. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:26">26 </verse></sup>In the same way, the second also, and the
third, to the seventh. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:27">27 </verse></sup>After them all, the woman
died. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:28">28 </verse></sup>In the resurrection therefore, whose wife
will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:29">29 </verse></sup>But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken,
not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
<key:bcv=Matthew 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:30">30 </verse></sup>For in the resurrection they neither marry nor
are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in
heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:31">31 </verse></sup>But concerning the resurrection of the
dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you
by God, saying, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:32">32 </verse></sup>‘I am the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’<footnote:1>22:32 Exodus 3:6 </footnote> God is not the
God of the dead, but of the living.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:33">33 </verse></sup>When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished
at his teaching.

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:34">34 </verse></sup>But the Pharisees, when they heard that he
had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves
together. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:35">35 </verse></sup>One of them, a lawyer, asked him a
question, testing him. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:36">36 </verse></sup>“Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the law?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:37">37 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.’<footnote:1>22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 22:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:38">38 </verse></sup>This is the first and
great commandment. <key:bcv=Matthew 22:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:39">39 </verse></sup>A second likewise is this,
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’<footnote:1>22:39 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 22:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:40">40 </verse></sup>The
whole law and the prophets depend on these two
commandments.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:41">41 </verse></sup>Now while the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them a question, <key:bcv=Matthew 22:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:42">42 </verse></sup>saying,
“What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is
he?”
<br>
They said to him, “Of David.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:43">43 </verse></sup>He said to them, “How then does David in the
Spirit call him Lord, saying,

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:44">44 </verse></sup>‘The Lord said to my Lord,
<br>
sit on my right hand,
<br>
until I make your enemies a footstool for your
feet’?<footnote:1>22:44 Psalm 110:1</footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:45">45 </verse></sup>“If then David calls him Lord, how is he his
son?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 22:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 22:46">46 </verse></sup>No one was able to answer him a word, neither
did any man dare ask him any more questions from
that day forward.

#BCV:Matthew 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his
disciples, <key:bcv=Matthew 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:2">2 </verse></sup>saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees
sit on Moses’ seat. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:3">3 </verse></sup>All things therefore whatever
they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t
do their works; for they say, and don’t do. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:4">4 </verse></sup>
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to
be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but
they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:5">5 </verse></sup>But they do all their works to be seen by men.
They make their phylacteries<footnote:1>23:5 phylacteries (<transhebrew>tefillin<english> in Hebrew) are small leather pouches that some Jewish men wear on their forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to carry a small scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8. </footnote> broad and enlarge
the fringes<footnote:1>23:5 or, tassels </footnote> of their garments, <key:bcv=Matthew 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:6">6 </verse></sup>and love the place
of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:7">7 </verse></sup>the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be
called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’<footnote:1>23:7 NU omits the second “Rabbi”. </footnote> by men. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:8">8 </verse></sup>But you are
not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher,
the Christ, and all of you are brothers. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:9">9 </verse></sup>Call
no man on the earth your father, for one is your
Father, he who is in heaven. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:10">10 </verse></sup>Neither be called
masters, for one is your master, the Christ. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:11">11 </verse></sup>But
he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and
whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:13">13 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense
you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive
greater condemnation.

<key:bcv=Matthew 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:14">14 </verse></sup>“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
Because you shut up the Kingdom of
<br>
Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves,
neither do you allow those who are entering
in to enter.<footnote:1>23:14 Some Greek texts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13. NU omits verse 14. </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land
to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one,
you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna<footnote:1>23:15 or, Hell </footnote> as
yourselves.

<key:bcv=Matthew 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:16">16 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say,
‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but
whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is
obligated.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:17">17 </verse></sup>You blind fools! For which is greater,
the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? <key:bcv=Matthew 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:18">18 </verse></sup>
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing;
but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is
obligated?’ <key:bcv=Matthew 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:19">19 </verse></sup>You blind fools! For which is greater,
the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? <key:bcv=Matthew 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:20">20 </verse></sup>
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it
and by everything on it. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:21">21 </verse></sup>He who swears by
the temple, swears by it and by him who has been
living<footnote:1>23:21 NU reads “lives” </footnote> in it. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:22">22 </verse></sup>He who swears by heaven, swears
by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:23">23 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,<footnote:1>23:23 cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice. </footnote> and have left
undone the weightier matters of the law: justice,
mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these,
and not to have left the other undone. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:24">24 </verse></sup>You blind
guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:25">25 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you clean the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full of extortion and
unrighteousness.<footnote:1>23:25 TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness” </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:26">26 </verse></sup>You blind Pharisee, first clean
the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its
outside may become clean also.

<key:bcv=Matthew 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:27">27 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly
appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s
bones and of all uncleanness. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Even so you also
outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly
you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:29">29 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate
the tombs of the righteous, <key:bcv=Matthew 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:30">30 </verse></sup>and say,
‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we
wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore you testify to
yourselves that you are children of those who killed
the prophets. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:32">32 </verse></sup>Fill up, then, the measure of your
fathers. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:33">33 </verse></sup>You serpents, you offspring of vipers,
how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?<footnote:1>23:33 or, Hell </footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:34">34 </verse></sup>Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise
men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and
crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your
synagogues and persecute from city to city, <key:bcv=Matthew 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:35">35 </verse></sup>
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed
on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to
the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you
killed between the sanctuary and the altar. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:36">36 </verse></sup>Most
certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon
this generation.

<key:bcv=Matthew 23:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:37">37 </verse></sup>“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets
and stones those who are sent to her! How often I
would have gathered your children together, even
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and
you would not! <key:bcv=Matthew 23:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:38">38 </verse></sup>Behold, your house is left to you
desolate. <key:bcv=Matthew 23:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 23:39">39 </verse></sup>For I tell you, you will not see me from
now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord!’ ”<footnote:1>23:39 Psalm 118:26</footnote>

#BCV:Matthew 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:1">1 </verse></sup>Jesus went out from the temple, and was going
on his way. His disciples came to him to show
him the buildings of the temple. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:2">2 </verse></sup>But he answered
them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most
certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one
stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:3">3 </verse></sup>As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples
came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will
these things be? What is the sign of your coming,
and of the end of the age?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one
leads you astray. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:5">5 </verse></sup>For many will come in my name,
saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:6">6 </verse></sup>You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that
you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but
the end is not yet. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:7">7 </verse></sup>For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there
will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various
places. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:8">8 </verse></sup>But all these things are the beginning of
birth pains.

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:9">9 </verse></sup>“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and
will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations
for my name’s sake. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Then many will stumble,
and will deliver up one another, and will hate one
another. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:11">11 </verse></sup>Many false prophets will arise and
will lead many astray. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:12">12 </verse></sup>Because iniquity will be
multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:13">13 </verse></sup>But
he who endures to the end will be saved. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:14">14 </verse></sup>This
Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the
whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and
then the end will come.

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:15">15 </verse></sup>“When, therefore, you see the abomination of
desolation,<footnote:1>24:15 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 </footnote> which was spoken of through Daniel
the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the
reader understand), <key:bcv=Matthew 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:16">16 </verse></sup>then let those who are in
Judea flee to the mountains. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Let him who is on
the housetop not go down to take out the things
that are in his house. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:18">18 </verse></sup>Let him who is in the field
not return back to get his clothes. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:19">19 </verse></sup>But woe to
those who are with child and to nursing mothers in
those days! <key:bcv=Matthew 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Pray that your flight will not be in
the winter nor on a Sabbath, <key:bcv=Matthew 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:21">21 </verse></sup>for then there will
be great suffering,<footnote:1>24:21 or, oppression </footnote> such as has not been from the
beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will
be. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Unless those days had been shortened, no
flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the
chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:23">23 </verse></sup>“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the
Christ!’ or, ‘There!’ don’t believe it. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:24">24 </verse></sup>For false
christs and false prophets will arise, and they will
show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray,
if possible, even the chosen ones.

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:25">25 </verse></sup>“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:26">26 </verse></sup>“If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in
the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in
the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:27">27 </verse></sup>For as the
lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to
the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:28">28 </verse></sup>For wherever the carcass is, that is where the
vultures<footnote:1>24:28 or, eagles </footnote> gather together.

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:29">29 </verse></sup>“But immediately after the suffering<footnote:1>24:29 or, oppression </footnote> of those
days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not
give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the
powers of the heavens will be shaken;<footnote:1>24:29 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4 </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 24:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:30">30 </verse></sup>and then
the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky.
Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they
will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the
sky with power and great glory. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:31">31 </verse></sup>He will send out
his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
will gather together his chosen ones from the four
winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:32">32 </verse></sup>“Now from the fig tree learn this parable: When
its branch has now become tender and produces its
leaves, you know that the summer is near. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:33">33 </verse></sup>Even
so you also, when you see all these things, know that
he is near, even at the doors. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:34">34 </verse></sup>Most certainly I
tell you, this generation<footnote:1>24:34 The word for “generation” (genea) can also be translated as “race.” </footnote> will not pass away until
all these things are accomplished. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:35">35 </verse></sup>Heaven and
earth will pass away, but my words will not pass
away.

<key:bcv=Matthew 24:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:36">36 </verse></sup>“But no one knows of that day and hour, not
even the angels of heaven,<footnote:1>24:36 NU adds “nor the son” </footnote> but my Father only.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:37">37 </verse></sup>As the days of Noah were, so will the coming
of the Son of Man be. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:38">38 </verse></sup>For as in those days
which were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the
day that Noah entered into the ship, <key:bcv=Matthew 24:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:39">39 </verse></sup>and they
didn’t know until the flood came and took them all
away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:40">40 </verse></sup>
Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken
and one will be left. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:41">41 </verse></sup>Two women will be grinding
at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:42">42 </verse></sup>
Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour
your Lord comes. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:43">43 </verse></sup>But know this, that if the
master of the house had known in what watch of the
night the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and would not have allowed his house to be broken
into. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:44">44 </verse></sup>Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that
you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
<key:bcv=Matthew 24:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:45">45 </verse></sup>“Who then is the faithful and wise servant,
whom his lord has set over his household, to give
them their food in due season? <key:bcv=Matthew 24:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:46">46 </verse></sup>Blessed is
that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he
comes. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:47">47 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you that he will set
him over all that he has. <key:bcv=Matthew 24:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:48">48 </verse></sup>But if that evil servant
should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his
coming,’ <key:bcv=Matthew 24:49><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:49">49 </verse></sup>and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with the drunkards, <key:bcv=Matthew 24:50><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:50">50 </verse></sup>the lord
of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t
expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it, <key:bcv=Matthew 24:51><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 24:51">51 </verse></sup>
and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion
with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and
grinding of teeth will be.

#BCV:Matthew 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:1">1 </verse></sup>“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten
virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet
the bridegroom. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:2">2 </verse></sup>Five of them were foolish,
and five were wise. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:3">3 </verse></sup>Those who were foolish,
when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
<key:bcv=Matthew 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:4">4 </verse></sup>but the wise took oil in their vessels with their
lamps. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:5">5 </verse></sup>Now while the bridegroom delayed,
they all slumbered and slept. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:6">6 </verse></sup>But at midnight
there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming!
Come out to meet him!’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:7">7 </verse></sup>Then all those virgins
arose, and trimmed their lamps.<footnote:1>25:7 The end of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits. The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.</footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:8">8 </verse></sup>The foolish said
to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps
are going out.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:9">9 </verse></sup>But the wise answered, saying,
‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go
rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:10">10 </verse></sup>
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came,
and those who were ready went in with him to the
wedding feast, and the door was shut. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:11">11 </verse></sup>Afterward
the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord,
open to us.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:12">12 </verse></sup>But he answered, ‘Most certainly
I tell you, I don’t know you.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:13">13 </verse></sup>Watch therefore, for
you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the
Son of Man is coming.

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:14">14 </verse></sup>“For it is like a man going into another country,
who called his own servants and entrusted his
goods to them. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:15">15 </verse></sup>To one he gave five talents,<footnote:1>25:15 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds (usually used to weigh silver unless otherwise specified) </footnote>
to another two, to another one, to each according
to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
<key:bcv=Matthew 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:16">16 </verse></sup>Immediately he who received the five talents
went and traded with them, and made another five
talents. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:17">17 </verse></sup>In the same way, he also who got the
two gained another two. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:18">18 </verse></sup>But he who received
the one talent went away and dug in the earth and
hid his lord’s money.

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:19">19 </verse></sup>“Now after a long time the lord of those servants
came, and settled accounts with them. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:20">20 </verse></sup>
He who received the five talents came and brought
another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to
me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five
talents in addition to them.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:21">21 </verse></sup>“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and
faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few
things, I will set you over many things. Enter into
the joy of your lord.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:22">22 </verse></sup>“He also who got the two talents came and
said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold,
I have gained another two talents in addition to
them.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:23">23 </verse></sup>“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and
faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few
things. I will set you over many things. Enter into
the joy of your lord.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:24">24 </verse></sup>“He also who had received the one talent came
and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man,
reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where
you didn’t scatter. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:25">25 </verse></sup>I was afraid, and went away
and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have
what is yours.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:26">26 </verse></sup>“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and
slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I
didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:27">27 </verse></sup>
You ought therefore to have deposited my money
with the bankers, and at my coming I should have
received back my own with interest. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:28">28 </verse></sup>Take away
therefore the talent from him and give it to him
who has the ten talents. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:29">29 </verse></sup>For to everyone who
has will be given, and he will have abundance, but
from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has
will be taken away. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:30">30 </verse></sup>Throw out the unprofitable
servant into the outer darkness, where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:31">31 </verse></sup>“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory,
and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit
on the throne of his glory. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:32">32 </verse></sup>Before him all
the nations will be gathered, and he will separate
them one from another, as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:33">33 </verse></sup>He will set the sheep on
his right hand, but the goats on the left. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:34">34 </verse></sup>Then
the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come,
blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world; <key:bcv=Matthew 25:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:35">35 </verse></sup>for
I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was
thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and
you took me in. <key:bcv=Matthew 25:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:36">36 </verse></sup>I was naked and you clothed me.
I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and
you came to me.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:37">37 </verse></sup>“Then the righteous will answer him, saying,
‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you,
or thirsty and give you a drink? <key:bcv=Matthew 25:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:38">38 </verse></sup>When did we
see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and
clothe you? <key:bcv=Matthew 25:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:39">39 </verse></sup>When did we see you sick or in
prison and come to you?’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:40">40 </verse></sup>“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I
tell you, because you did it to one of the least of
these my brothers,<footnote:1>25:40 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”</footnote> you did it to me.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:41">41 </verse></sup>Then
he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart
from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which
is prepared for the devil and his angels; <key:bcv=Matthew 25:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:42">42 </verse></sup>for I
was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I
was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; <key:bcv=Matthew 25:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:43">43 </verse></sup>I was a
stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you
didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t
visit me.’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:44">44 </verse></sup>“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord,
when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t
help you?’

<key:bcv=Matthew 25:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:45">45 </verse></sup>“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most
certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one
of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 25:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 25:46">46 </verse></sup>
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the
righteous into eternal life.”

#BCV:Matthew 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jesus had finished all these words, he said
to his disciples, <key:bcv=Matthew 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“You know that after two days
the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be
delivered up to be crucified.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:3">3 </verse></sup>Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the
elders of the people were gathered together in the
court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:4">4 </verse></sup>They took counsel together that they might take
Jesus by deceit and kill him. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:5">5 </verse></sup>But they said, “Not
during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of
Simon the leper, <key:bcv=Matthew 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:7">7 </verse></sup>a woman came to him having an
alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she
poured it on his head as he sat at the table. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:8">8 </verse></sup>But
when his disciples saw this, they were indignant,
saying, “Why this waste? <key:bcv=Matthew 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:9">9 </verse></sup>For this ointment might
have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:10">10 </verse></sup>However, knowing this, Jesus said to them,
“Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a
good work for me. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:11">11 </verse></sup>For you always have the
poor with you, but you don’t always have me. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:12">12 </verse></sup>
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it
to prepare me for burial. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:13">13 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell
you, wherever this Good News is preached in the
whole world, what this woman has done will also
be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:14">14 </verse></sup>Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas
Iscariot, went to the chief priests <key:bcv=Matthew 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:15">15 </verse></sup>and said, “What
are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?”
So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:16">16 </verse></sup>From that time he sought opportunity to betray
him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:17">17 </verse></sup>Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the
disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do
you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “Go into the city to a certain person,
and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand.
I will keep the Passover at your house with my
disciples.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:19">19 </verse></sup>The disciples did as Jesus commanded them,
and they prepared the Passover.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:20">20 </verse></sup>Now when evening had come, he was reclining
at the table with the twelve disciples. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:21">21 </verse></sup>As they
were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that
one of you will betray me.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:22">22 </verse></sup>They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each
began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:23">23 </verse></sup>He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me
in the dish will betray me. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:24">24 </verse></sup>The Son of Man goes
even as it is written of him, but woe to that man
through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would
be better for that man if he had not been born.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:25">25 </verse></sup>Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t
me, is it, Rabbi?”
<br>
He said to him, “You said it.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:26">26 </verse></sup>As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave
thanks for<footnote:1>26:26 TR reads “blessed” instead of “gave thanks for” ? 26:31 Zechariah 13:7</footnote> it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples
and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” <key:bcv=Matthew 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:27">27 </verse></sup>He took
the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying,
“All of you drink it, <key:bcv=Matthew 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:28">28 </verse></sup>for this is my blood of the
new covenant, which is poured out for many for the
remission of sins. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:29">29 </verse></sup>But I tell you that I will not
drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that
day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s
Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:30">30 </verse></sup>When they had sung a hymn, they went out to
the Mount of Olives.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:31">31 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be
made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is
written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of
the flock will be scattered.’? <key:bcv=Matthew 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:32">32 </verse></sup>But after I am raised
up, I will go before you into Galilee.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:33">33 </verse></sup>But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be
made to stumble because of you, I will never be
made to stumble.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that
tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me
three times.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:35">35 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you,
I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said
likewise.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:36">36 </verse></sup>Then Jesus came with them to a place called
Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here,
while I go there and pray.” <key:bcv=Matthew 26:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:37">37 </verse></sup>He took with him
Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to
be sorrowful and severely troubled. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:38">38 </verse></sup>Then he said
to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to
death. Stay here and watch with me.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:39">39 </verse></sup>He went forward a little, fell on his face, and
prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this
cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I
desire, but what you desire.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:40">40 </verse></sup>He came to the disciples and found them sleeping,
and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch
with me for one hour? <key:bcv=Matthew 26:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:41">41 </verse></sup>Watch and pray, that
you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:42">42 </verse></sup>Again, a second time he went away and prayed,
saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from
me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:43">43 </verse></sup>He came again and found them sleeping, for
their eyes were heavy. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:44">44 </verse></sup>He left them again, went
away, and prayed a third time, saying the same
words. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:45">45 </verse></sup>Then he came to his disciples and said to
them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold,
the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed
into the hands of sinners. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:46">46 </verse></sup>Arise, let’s be going.
Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:47">47 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one
of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude
with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and
elders of the people. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:48">48 </verse></sup>Now he who betrayed him
had given them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he
is the one. Seize him.” <key:bcv=Matthew 26:49><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:49">49 </verse></sup>Immediately he came to
Jesus, and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:50><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:50">50 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?”
Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took
him. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:51><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:51">51 </verse></sup>Behold, one of those who were with Jesus
stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and
struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his
ear.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:52><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:52">52 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back
into its place, for all those who take the sword will
die by the sword. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:53><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:53">53 </verse></sup>Or do you think that I couldn’t
ask my Father, and he would even now send me
more than twelve legions of angels? <key:bcv=Matthew 26:54><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:54">54 </verse></sup>How then
would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be
so?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:55><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:55">55 </verse></sup>In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have
you come out as against a robber with swords and
clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching,
and you didn’t arrest me. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:56><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:56">56 </verse></sup>But all this has
happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might
be fulfilled.”
<br>
Then all the disciples left him and fled.
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:57><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:57">57 </verse></sup>Those who had taken Jesus led him away to
Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the
elders were gathered together. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:58><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:58">58 </verse></sup>But Peter followed
him from a distance to the court of the high priest,
and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the
end.

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:59><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:59">59 </verse></sup>Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole
council sought false testimony against Jesus, that
they might put him to death, <key:bcv=Matthew 26:60><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:60">60 </verse></sup>and they found
none. Even though many false witnesses came
forward, they found none. But at last two false
witnesses came forward <key:bcv=Matthew 26:61><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:61">61 </verse></sup>and said, “This man said,
‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build
it in three days.’ ”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:62><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:62">62 </verse></sup>The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have
you no answer? What is this that these testify
against you?” <key:bcv=Matthew 26:63><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:63">63 </verse></sup>But Jesus stayed silent. The high
priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God
that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son
of God.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:64><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:64">64 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “You have said so. Nevertheless,
I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man
sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on
the clouds of the sky.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:65><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:65">65 </verse></sup>Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying,
“He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any
more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his
blasphemy. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:66><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:66">66 </verse></sup>What do you think?”

They answered, “He is worthy of death!” <key:bcv=Matthew 26:67><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:67">67 </verse></sup>Then
they spat in his face and beat him with their fists,
and some slapped him, <key:bcv=Matthew 26:68><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:68">68 </verse></sup>saying, “Prophesy to us,
you Christ! Who hit you?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:69><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:69">69 </verse></sup>Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and
a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with
Jesus, the Galilean!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:70><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:70">70 </verse></sup>But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t
know what you are talking about.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:71><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:71">71 </verse></sup>When he had gone out onto the porch, someone
else saw him and said to those who were there, “This
man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 26:72><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:72">72 </verse></sup>Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know
the man.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:73><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:73">73 </verse></sup>After a little while those who stood by came and
said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for
your speech makes you known.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 26:74><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:74">74 </verse></sup>Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t
know the man!”

Immediately the rooster crowed. <key:bcv=Matthew 26:75><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 26:75">75 </verse></sup>Peter remembered
the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before
the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
Then he went out and wept bitterly.

#BCV:Matthew 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when morning had come, all the chief
priests and the elders of the people took counsel
against Jesus to put him to death. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:2">2 </verse></sup>They bound
him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius
Pilate, the governor.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he
saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and
brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief
priests and elders, <key:bcv=Matthew 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:4">4 </verse></sup>saying, “I have sinned in that I
betrayed innocent blood.”
<br>
But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:5">5 </verse></sup>He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary
and departed. Then he went away and hanged
himself.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:6">6 </verse></sup>The chief priests took the pieces of silver and
said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury,
since it is the price of blood.” <key:bcv=Matthew 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:7">7 </verse></sup>They took counsel,
and bought the potter’s field with them to bury
strangers in. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore that field has been called
“The Field of Blood” to this day. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:9">9 </verse></sup>Then that which
was spoken through Jeremiah<footnote:1>27:9 some manuscripts omit “Jeremiah” </footnote> the prophet was
fulfilled, saying,
<br>
“They took the thirty pieces of silver,
the price of him upon whom a price had been
set,
<br>
whom some of the children of Israel priced,
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:10">10 </verse></sup>and they gave them for the potter’s field,
as the Lord commanded me.”<footnote:1>27:10 Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:11">11 </verse></sup>Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the
governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of
the Jews?”
<br>
Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:12">12 </verse></sup>When he was accused by the chief priests and
elders, he answered nothing. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Pilate said to
him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify
against you?”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:14">14 </verse></sup>He gave him no answer, not even one word, so
that the governor marveled greatly.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:15">15 </verse></sup>Now at the feast the governor was accustomed
to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they
desired. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:16">16 </verse></sup>They had then a notable prisoner called
Barabbas. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:17">17 </verse></sup>When therefore they were gathered
together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want
me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is
called Christ?” <key:bcv=Matthew 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:18">18 </verse></sup>For he knew that because of envy
they had delivered him up.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:19">19 </verse></sup>While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his
wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with
that righteous man, for I have suffered many things
today in a dream because of him.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:20">20 </verse></sup>Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded
the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy
Jesus. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:21">21 </verse></sup>But the governor answered them, “Which
of the two do you want me to release to you?”
They said, “Barabbas!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:22">22 </verse></sup>Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to
Jesus who is called Christ?”
<br>
They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:23">23 </verse></sup>But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he
done?”
<br>
But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him
be crucified!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:24">24 </verse></sup>So when Pilate saw that nothing was being
gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting,
he took water and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of
this righteous person. You see to it.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:25">25 </verse></sup>All the people answered, “May his blood be on
us and on our children!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:26">26 </verse></sup>Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus
he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:27">27 </verse></sup>Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into
the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison
together against him. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:28><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:28">28 </verse></sup>They stripped him and
put a scarlet robe on him. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:29><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:29">29 </verse></sup>They braided a crown
of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in
his right hand; and they kneeled down before him
and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:30><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:30">30 </verse></sup>They spat on him, and took the reed and struck
him on the head. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:31><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:31">31 </verse></sup>When they had mocked him,
they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on
him, and led him away to crucify him.
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:32><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:32">32 </verse></sup>As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene,
Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with
them, that he might carry his cross. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:33><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:33">33 </verse></sup>When they
came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say,
“The place of a skull,” <key:bcv=Matthew 27:34><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:34">34 </verse></sup>they gave him sour wine<footnote:1>27:34 or, vinegar </footnote>
to drink mixed with gall.<footnote:1>27:34 Gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green oil from a wormwood plant that is alcoholic in its effect. </footnote> When he had tasted it,
he would not drink. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:35><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:35">35 </verse></sup>When they had crucified him,
they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,<footnote:1>27:35 TR adds “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: ‘They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots;’ ” [see Psalm 22:18 and John 19:24]</footnote>
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:36><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:36">36 </verse></sup>and they sat and watched him there. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:37><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:37">37 </verse></sup>They set
up over his head the accusation against him written,
“THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:38><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:38">38 </verse></sup>Then there were two robbers crucified with
him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:39><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:39">39 </verse></sup>Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging
their heads <key:bcv=Matthew 27:40><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:40">40 </verse></sup>and saying, “You who destroy the
temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If
you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:41><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:41">41 </verse></sup>Likewise the chief priests also mocking with the
scribes, the Pharisees,<footnote:1>27:41 TR omits “the Pharisees” </footnote> and the elders, said, <key:bcv=Matthew 27:42><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:42">42 </verse></sup>“He
saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the
King of Israel, let him come down from the cross
now, and we will believe in him. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:43><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:43">43 </verse></sup>He trusts in
God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for
he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” <key:bcv=Matthew 27:44><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:44">44 </verse></sup>The robbers also
who were crucified with him cast on him the same
reproach.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:45><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:45">45 </verse></sup>Now from the sixth hour<footnote:1>27:45 noon </footnote> there was darkness
over all the land until the ninth hour.<footnote:1>27:45 3:00 p.m. </footnote> <key:bcv=Matthew 27:46><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:46">46 </verse></sup>About the
ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli,
Eli, lima<footnote:1>27:46 TR reads “lama” instead of “lima” </footnote> sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?”<footnote:1>27:46 Psalm 22:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:47><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:47">47 </verse></sup>Some of them who stood there, when they
heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:48><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:48">48 </verse></sup>Immediately one of them ran and took a
sponge, filled it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and
gave him a drink. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:49><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:49">49 </verse></sup>The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s
see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:50><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:50">50 </verse></sup>Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded
up his spirit.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:51><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:51">51 </verse></sup>Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two
from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and
the rocks were split. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:52><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:52">52 </verse></sup>The tombs were opened,
and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep
were raised; <key:bcv=Matthew 27:53><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:53">53 </verse></sup>and coming out of the tombs after
his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and
appeared to many.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:54><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:54">54 </verse></sup>Now the centurion and those who were with
him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake
and the things that were done, were terrified, saying,
“Truly this was the Son of God!”

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:55><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:55">55 </verse></sup>Many women were there watching from afar,
who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:56><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:56">56 </verse></sup>Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the
sons of Zebedee.

<key:bcv=Matthew 27:57><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:57">57 </verse></sup>When evening had come, a rich man from
Arimathaea named Joseph, who himself was also
Jesus’ disciple, came. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:58><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:58">58 </verse></sup>This man went to Pilate and
asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate commanded the
body to be given up. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:59><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:59">59 </verse></sup>Joseph took the body and
wrapped it in a clean linen cloth <key:bcv=Matthew 27:60><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:60">60 </verse></sup>and laid it in his
own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock.
Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the
tomb, and departed. <key:bcv=Matthew 27:61><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:61">61 </verse></sup>Mary Magdalene was there,
and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:62><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:62">62 </verse></sup>Now on the next day, which was the day
after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and
the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:63><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:63">63 </verse></sup>saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver
said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will
rise again.’ <key:bcv=Matthew 27:64><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:64">64 </verse></sup>Command therefore that the tomb be
made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his
disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell
the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last
deception will be worse than the first.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 27:65><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:65">65 </verse></sup>Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go,
make it as secure as you can.” <key:bcv=Matthew 27:66><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 27:66">66 </verse></sup>So they went with
the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the
stone.

#BCV:Matthew 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Matthew 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:1">1 </verse></sup>Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and
the other Mary came to see the tomb. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold,
there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the
Lord descended from the sky and came and rolled
away the stone from the door and sat on it. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:3">3 </verse></sup>His
appearance was like lightning, and his clothing
white as snow. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:4">4 </verse></sup>For fear of him, the guards shook,
and became like dead men. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:5">5 </verse></sup>The angel answered
the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you
seek Jesus, who has been crucified. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:6">6 </verse></sup>He is not here,
for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the
place where the Lord was lying. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Go quickly and
tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and
behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you
will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”
<key:bcv=Matthew 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:8">8 </verse></sup>They departed quickly from the tomb with fear
and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
<key:bcv=Matthew 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:9">9 </verse></sup>As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met
them, saying, “Rejoice!”
<br>
They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped
him.

<key:bcv=Matthew 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:10">10 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go
tell my brothers <footnote:1>28:10 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> that they should go into Galilee,
and there they will see me.”

<key:bcv=Matthew 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:11">11 </verse></sup>Now while they were going, behold, some of the
guards came into the city and told the chief priests
all the things that had happened. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:12">12 </verse></sup>When they were
assembled with the elders and had taken counsel,
they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,
<key:bcv=Matthew 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:13">13 </verse></sup>saying, “Say that his disciples came by night and
stole him away while we slept. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:14">14 </verse></sup>If this comes to
the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make
you free of worry.” <key:bcv=Matthew 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:15">15 </verse></sup>So they took the money and
did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad
among the Jews, and continues until today.
<key:bcv=Matthew 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:16">16 </verse></sup>But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to
the mountain where Jesus had sent them. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:17">17 </verse></sup>When
they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some
doubted. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:18">18 </verse></sup>Jesus came to them and spoke to them,
saying, “All authority has been given to me in
heaven and on earth. <key:bcv=Matthew 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:19">19 </verse></sup>Go<footnote:1>28:19 TR and NU add “therefore”</footnote> and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, <key:bcv=Matthew 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Matthew 28:20">20 </verse></sup>
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded
you. Behold, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age.” Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Mark
<h2>The Good News According to
<br>
Mark</h2>

<key:bcv=Mark 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:2">2 </verse></sup>As it is written in the prophets,

“Behold,<footnote:1>1:2 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you:<footnote:1>1:2 Malachi 3:1 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:3">3 </verse></sup>the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord!

Make his paths straight!’ ”<footnote:1>1:3 Isaiah 40:3 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:4">4 </verse></sup>John came baptizing<footnote:1>1:4 or, immersing </footnote> in the wilderness and
preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness
of sins. <key:bcv=Mark 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:5">5 </verse></sup>All the country of Judea and all those
of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized
by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
<key:bcv=Mark 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:6">6 </verse></sup>John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather
belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
<key:bcv=Mark 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:7">7 </verse></sup>He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is
mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not
worthy to stoop down and loosen. <key:bcv=Mark 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:8">8 </verse></sup>I baptized you
in<footnote:1>1:8 The Greek word (<transgreek>en<english>) translated here as “in” could also be translated as “with” in some contexts. </footnote> water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
<key:bcv=Mark 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:9">9 </verse></sup>In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of
Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
<key:bcv=Mark 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Immediately coming up from the water, he saw
the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on
him like a dove. <key:bcv=Mark 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:11">11 </verse></sup>A voice came out of the sky, “You
are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
<key:bcv=Mark 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the
wilderness. <key:bcv=Mark 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:13">13 </verse></sup>He was there in the wilderness forty
days, tempted by Satan. He was with the wild
animals; and the angels were serving him.
<key:bcv=Mark 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s
Kingdom, <key:bcv=Mark 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:15">15 </verse></sup>and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and
God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in
the Good News.”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw
Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting
a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. <key:bcv=Mark 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus
said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you
into fishers for men.”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Immediately they left their nets, and followed
him.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Going on a little further from there, he saw
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
who were also in the boat mending the nets.
<key:bcv=Mark 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Immediately he called them, and they left their
father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants,
and went after him.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:21">21 </verse></sup>They went into Capernaum, and immediately
on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue
and taught. <key:bcv=Mark 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:22">22 </verse></sup>They were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as having authority, and not
as the scribes. <key:bcv=Mark 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Immediately there was in their
synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he
cried out, <key:bcv=Mark 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:24">24 </verse></sup>saying, “Ha! What do we have to do
with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to
destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of
God!”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:25">25 </verse></sup>Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come
out of him!”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:26">26 </verse></sup>The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying
with a loud voice, came out of him. <key:bcv=Mark 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:27">27 </verse></sup>They were all
amazed, so that they questioned among themselves,
saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with
authority he commands even the unclean spirits,
and they obey him!” <key:bcv=Mark 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:28">28 </verse></sup>The report of him went
out immediately everywhere into all the region of
Galilee and its surrounding area.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:29">29 </verse></sup>Immediately, when they had come out of the
synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and
Andrew, with James and John. <key:bcv=Mark 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Now Simon’s wife’s
mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they
told him about her. <key:bcv=Mark 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:31">31 </verse></sup>He came and took her by
the hand and raised her up. The fever left her
immediately,<footnote:1>1:31 NU omits “immediately”.</footnote> and she served them.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:32">32 </verse></sup>At evening, when the sun had set, they brought
to him all who were sick and those who were
possessed by demons. <key:bcv=Mark 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:33">33 </verse></sup>All the city was gathered
together at the door. <key:bcv=Mark 1:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:34">34 </verse></sup>He healed many who
were sick with various diseases and cast out many
demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak,
because they knew him.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:35">35 </verse></sup>Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he
rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted
place, and prayed there. <key:bcv=Mark 1:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:36">36 </verse></sup>Simon and those who
were with him searched for him. <key:bcv=Mark 1:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:37">37 </verse></sup>They found him
and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
<key:bcv=Mark 1:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:38">38 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the
next towns, that I may preach there also, because
I came out for this reason.” <key:bcv=Mark 1:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:39">39 </verse></sup>He went into their
synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and
casting out demons.

<key:bcv=Mark 1:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:40">40 </verse></sup>A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling
down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you
can make me clean.”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:41">41 </verse></sup>Being moved with compassion, he stretched
out his hand, and touched him, and said to him,
“I want to. Be made clean.” <key:bcv=Mark 1:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:42">42 </verse></sup>When he had
said this, immediately the leprosy departed from
him and he was made clean. <key:bcv=Mark 1:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:43">43 </verse></sup>He strictly warned
him and immediately sent him out, <key:bcv=Mark 1:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:44">44 </verse></sup>and said to
him, “See that you say nothing to anybody, but
go show yourself to the priest and offer for your
cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for
a testimony to them.”

<key:bcv=Mark 1:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 1:45">45 </verse></sup>But he went out, and began to proclaim it
much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus
could no more openly enter into a city, but was
outside in desert places. People came to him from
everywhere.

#BCV:Mark 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:1">1 </verse></sup>When he entered again into Capernaum after
some days, it was heard that he was at home.
<key:bcv=Mark 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Immediately many were gathered together, so that
there was no more room, not even around the door;
and he spoke the word to them. <key:bcv=Mark 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Four people came,
carrying a paralytic to him. <key:bcv=Mark 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:4">4 </verse></sup>When they could not
come near to him for the crowd, they removed the
roof where he was. When they had broken it up,
they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying
on. <key:bcv=Mark 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic,
“Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But there were some of the scribes sitting there
and reasoning in their hearts, <key:bcv=Mark 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:7">7 </verse></sup>“Why does this man
speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins
but God alone?”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that
they so reasoned within themselves, said to them,
“Why do you reason these things in your hearts? <key:bcv=Mark 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:9">9 </verse></sup>
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, ‘Your sins are
forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up your bed, and
walk?’ <key:bcv=Mark 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:10">10 </verse></sup>But that you may know that the Son of
Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said
to the paralytic— <key:bcv=Mark 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:11">11 </verse></sup>“I tell you, arise, take up your
mat, and go to your house.”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:12">12 </verse></sup>He arose, and immediately took up the mat and
went out in front of them all, so that they were all
amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw
anything like this!”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:13">13 </verse></sup>He went out again by the seaside. All the
multitude came to him, and he taught them. <key:bcv=Mark 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:14">14 </verse></sup>As
he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting
at the tax office. He said to him, “Follow me.” And
he arose and followed him.

<key:bcv=Mark 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:15">15 </verse></sup>He was reclining at the table in his house, and
many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus
and his disciples, for there were many, and they
followed him. <key:bcv=Mark 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:16">16 </verse></sup>The scribes and the Pharisees,
when they saw that he was eating with the sinners
and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is
it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and
sinners?”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:17">17 </verse></sup>When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those
who are healthy have no need for a physician, but
those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:18">18 </verse></sup>John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting,
and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s
disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but
your disciples don’t fast?”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast
while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they
have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. <key:bcv=Mark 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:20">20 </verse></sup>
But the days will come when the bridegroom will
be taken away from them, and then they will fast in
that day. <key:bcv=Mark 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:21">21 </verse></sup>No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth
on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the
new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is
made. <key:bcv=Mark 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:22">22 </verse></sup>No one puts new wine into old wineskins;
or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the
wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but
they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
<key:bcv=Mark 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:23">23 </verse></sup>He was going on the Sabbath day through the
grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to
pluck the ears of grain. <key:bcv=Mark 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:24">24 </verse></sup>The Pharisees said to him,
“Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on
the Sabbath day?”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:25">25 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Did you never read what
David did when he had need and was hungry—he,
and those who were with him? <key:bcv=Mark 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:26">26 </verse></sup>How he entered
into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high
priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful
to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those
who were with him?”

<key:bcv=Mark 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:27">27 </verse></sup>He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath. <key:bcv=Mark 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 2:28">28 </verse></sup>Therefore the
Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

#BCV:Mark 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:1">1 </verse></sup>He entered again into the synagogue, and there
was a man there whose hand was withered. <key:bcv=Mark 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:2">2 </verse></sup>They
watched him, whether he would heal him on the
Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:3">3 </verse></sup>He
said to the man whose hand was withered, “Stand
up.” <key:bcv=Mark 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:4">4 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath
day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or
to kill?” But they were silent. <key:bcv=Mark 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:5">5 </verse></sup>When he had
looked around at them with anger, being grieved
at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the
man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it
out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the
other. <key:bcv=Mark 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:6">6 </verse></sup>The Pharisees went out, and immediately
conspired with the Herodians against him, how
they might destroy him.

<key:bcv=Mark 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and
a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from
Judea, <key:bcv=Mark 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:8">8 </verse></sup>from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the
Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon.
A great multitude, hearing what great things he
did, came to him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:9">9 </verse></sup>He spoke to his disciples that
a little boat should stay near him because of the
crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:10">10 </verse></sup>For he
had healed many, so that as many as had diseases
pressed on him that they might touch him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:11">11 </verse></sup>The
unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down
before him and cried, “You are the Son of God!”
<key:bcv=Mark 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:12">12 </verse></sup>He sternly warned them that they should not
make him known.

<key:bcv=Mark 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:13">13 </verse></sup>He went up into the mountain and called to
himself those whom he wanted, and they went to
him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:14">14 </verse></sup>He appointed twelve, that they might be
with him, and that he might send them out to
preach <key:bcv=Mark 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:15">15 </verse></sup>and to have authority to heal sicknesses
and to cast out demons: <key:bcv=Mark 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Simon (to whom he gave
the name Peter); <key:bcv=Mark 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:17">17 </verse></sup>James the son of Zebedee; and
John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges,
which means, Sons of Thunder); <key:bcv=Mark 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Andrew;
Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James,
the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
<key:bcv=Mark 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:19">19 </verse></sup>and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Then he came into a house. <key:bcv=Mark 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:20">20 </verse></sup>The multitude
came together again, so that they could not so much
as eat bread. <key:bcv=Mark 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:21">21 </verse></sup>When his friends heard it, they went
out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.” <key:bcv=Mark 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:22">22 </verse></sup>The
scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He
has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons
he casts out the demons.”

<key:bcv=Mark 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:23">23 </verse></sup>He summoned them and said to them in parables,
“How can Satan cast out Satan? <key:bcv=Mark 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:24">24 </verse></sup>If
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a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand. <key:bcv=Mark 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:25">25 </verse></sup>If a house is divided against itself,
that house cannot stand. <key:bcv=Mark 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:26">26 </verse></sup>If Satan has risen up
against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but
has an end. <key:bcv=Mark 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:27">27 </verse></sup>But no one can enter into the house
of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds
the strong man; then he will plunder his house.
<key:bcv=Mark 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:28">28 </verse></sup>“Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants
of man will be forgiven, including their
blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; <key:bcv=Mark 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:29">29 </verse></sup>
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit
never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal
condemnation.”<footnote:1>3:29 NU reads, guilty of an eternal sin. </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:30">30 </verse></sup>—because they said, “He has an
unclean spirit.”

<key:bcv=Mark 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:31">31 </verse></sup>His mother and his brothers came, and standing
outside, they sent to him, calling him. <key:bcv=Mark 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:32">32 </verse></sup>A
multitude was sitting around him, and they told
him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your
sisters<footnote:1>3:32 TR omits “your sisters” </footnote> are outside looking for you.”
<key:bcv=Mark 3:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:33">33 </verse></sup>He answered them, “Who are my mother and
my brothers?” <key:bcv=Mark 3:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:34">34 </verse></sup>Looking around at those who sat
around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my
brothers! <key:bcv=Mark 3:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 3:35">35 </verse></sup>For whoever does the will of God is my
brother, my sister, and mother.”

#BCV:Mark 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Again he began to teach by the seaside. A
great multitude was gathered to him, so that he
entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the
multitude were on the land by the sea. <key:bcv=Mark 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:2">2 </verse></sup>He taught
them many things in parables, and told them in his
teaching, <key:bcv=Mark 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:3">3 </verse></sup>“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to
sow. <key:bcv=Mark 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:4">4 </verse></sup>As he sowed, some seed fell by the road,
and the birds<footnote:1>4:4 TR adds “of the air” </footnote> came and devoured it. <key:bcv=Mark 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Others
fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and
immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of
soil. <key:bcv=Mark 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:6">6 </verse></sup>When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and
because it had no root, it withered away. <key:bcv=Mark 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Others
fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and
choked it, and it yielded no fruit. <key:bcv=Mark 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Others fell into
the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and
increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty
times, and some one hundred times as much.” <key:bcv=Mark 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:9">9 </verse></sup>He
said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
<key:bcv=Mark 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:10">10 </verse></sup>When he was alone, those who were around
him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
<key:bcv=Mark 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:11">11 </verse></sup>He said to them, “To you is given the mystery
of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside,
all things are done in parables, <key:bcv=Mark 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:12">12 </verse></sup>that ‘seeing
they may see and not perceive, and hearing they
may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they
should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven
them.’ ”<footnote:1>4:12 Isaiah 6:9-10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Don’t you understand this
parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
<key:bcv=Mark 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:14">14 </verse></sup>The farmer sows the word. <key:bcv=Mark 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:15">15 </verse></sup>The ones by
the road are the ones where the word is sown; and
when they have heard, immediately Satan comes
and takes away the word which has been sown
in them. <key:bcv=Mark 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:16">16 </verse></sup>These in the same way are those
who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they
have heard the word, immediately receive it with
joy. <key:bcv=Mark 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:17">17 </verse></sup>They have no root in themselves, but are
short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises
because of the word, immediately they stumble. <key:bcv=Mark 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:18">18 </verse></sup>
Others are those who are sown among the thorns.
These are those who have heard the word, <key:bcv=Mark 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:19">19 </verse></sup>and
the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lusts of other things entering in choke the
word, and it becomes unfruitful. <key:bcv=Mark 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Those which
were sown on the good ground are those who hear
the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty
times, some sixty times, and some one hundred
times.”

<key:bcv=Mark 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:21">21 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put
under a basket <footnote:1>4:21 literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 liters)</footnote> or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a
stand? <key:bcv=Mark 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:22">22 </verse></sup>For there is nothing hidden except that it
should be made known, neither was anything made
secret but that it should come to light. <key:bcv=Mark 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:23">23 </verse></sup>If any
man has ears to hear, let him hear.”

<key:bcv=Mark 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:24">24 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Take heed what you hear.
With whatever measure you measure, it will be
measured to you; and more will be given to you who
hear. <key:bcv=Mark 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:25">25 </verse></sup>For whoever has, to him more will be given;
and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has
will be taken away from him.”

<key:bcv=Mark 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:26">26 </verse></sup>He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should
cast seed on the earth, <key:bcv=Mark 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:27">27 </verse></sup>and should sleep and rise
night and day, and the seed should spring up and
grow, though he doesn’t know how. <key:bcv=Mark 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:28">28 </verse></sup>For the
earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the
ear, then the full grain in the ear. <key:bcv=Mark 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:29">29 </verse></sup>But when
the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.”

<key:bcv=Mark 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:30">30 </verse></sup>He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or
with what parable will we illustrate it? <key:bcv=Mark 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:31">31 </verse></sup>It’s like
a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in
the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that
are on the earth, <key:bcv=Mark 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:32">32 </verse></sup>yet when it is sown, grows up
and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts
out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can
lodge under its shadow.”

<key:bcv=Mark 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:33">33 </verse></sup>With many such parables he spoke the word
to them, as they were able to hear it. <key:bcv=Mark 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:34">34 </verse></sup>Without a
parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his
own disciples he explained everything.
<key:bcv=Mark 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:35">35 </verse></sup>On that day, when evening had come, he said
to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.” <key:bcv=Mark 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Leaving
the multitude, they took him with them, even as he
was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with
him. <key:bcv=Mark 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:37">37 </verse></sup>A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat
into the boat, so much that the boat was already
filled. <key:bcv=Mark 4:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:38">38 </verse></sup>He himself was in the stern, asleep on
the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him,
“Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
<key:bcv=Mark 4:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:39">39 </verse></sup>He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the
sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there
was a great calm. <key:bcv=Mark 4:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:40">40 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why are you
so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
<key:bcv=Mark 4:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 4:41">41 </verse></sup>They were greatly afraid and said to one another,
“Who then is this, that even the wind and the
sea obey him?”

#BCV:Mark 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:1">1 </verse></sup>They came to the other side of the sea, into the
country of the Gadarenes. <key:bcv=Mark 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:2">2 </verse></sup>When he had come out
of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean
spirit met him out of the tombs. <key:bcv=Mark 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:3">3 </verse></sup>He lived in the
tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even
with chains, <key:bcv=Mark 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:4">4 </verse></sup>because he had been often bound
with fetters and chains, and the chains had been
torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces.
Nobody had the strength to tame him. <key:bcv=Mark 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Always,
night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains,
he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
<key:bcv=Mark 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:6">6 </verse></sup>When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed
down to him, <key:bcv=Mark 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:7">7 </verse></sup>and crying out with a loud voice, he
said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son
of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t
torment me.” <key:bcv=Mark 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:8">8 </verse></sup>For he said to him, “Come out of the
man, you unclean spirit!”

<key:bcv=Mark 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:9">9 </verse></sup>He asked him, “What is your name?”
<br>
He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are
many.” <key:bcv=Mark 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:10">10 </verse></sup>He begged him much that he would not
send them away out of the country. <key:bcv=Mark 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Now on the
mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
<key:bcv=Mark 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:12">12 </verse></sup>All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into
the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:13">13 </verse></sup>At once Jesus gave them permission. The
unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs.
The herd of about two thousand rushed down the
steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in
the sea. <key:bcv=Mark 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in
the city and in the country.
<br>
The people came to see what it was that had
happened. <key:bcv=Mark 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:15">15 </verse></sup>They came to Jesus, and saw him who
had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and
in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and
they were afraid. <key:bcv=Mark 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Those who saw it declared to
them what happened to him who was possessed by
demons, and about the pigs. <key:bcv=Mark 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:17">17 </verse></sup>They began to beg
him to depart from their region.

<key:bcv=Mark 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:18">18 </verse></sup>As he was entering into the boat, he who
had been possessed by demons begged him that he
might be with him. <key:bcv=Mark 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:19">19 </verse></sup>He didn’t allow him, but said
to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell
them what great things the Lord has done for you
and how he had mercy on you.”

<key:bcv=Mark 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:20">20 </verse></sup>He went his way, and began to proclaim in
Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him,
and everyone marveled.

<key:bcv=Mark 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:21">21 </verse></sup>When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat
to the other side, a great multitude was gathered
to him; and he was by the sea. <key:bcv=Mark 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, one of
the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came;
and seeing him, he fell at his feet <key:bcv=Mark 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:23">23 </verse></sup>and begged him
much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of
death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that
she may be made healthy, and live.”

<key:bcv=Mark 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:24">24 </verse></sup>He went with him, and a great multitude followed
him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.
<key:bcv=Mark 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:25">25 </verse></sup>A certain woman who had a discharge of blood
for twelve years, <key:bcv=Mark 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:26">26 </verse></sup>and had suffered many things
by many physicians, and had spent all that she had,
and was no better, but rather grew worse, <key:bcv=Mark 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:27">27 </verse></sup>having
heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind
him in the crowd and touched his clothes. <key:bcv=Mark 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:28">28 </verse></sup>For she
said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up,
and she felt in her body that she was healed of her
affliction.

<key:bcv=Mark 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:30">30 </verse></sup>Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that
the power had gone out from him, turned around in
the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:31">31 </verse></sup>His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude
pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who
touched me?’ ”

<key:bcv=Mark 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:32">32 </verse></sup>He looked around to see her who had done this
thing. <key:bcv=Mark 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:33">33 </verse></sup>But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had been done to her, came and fell
down before him, and told him all the truth.
<key:bcv=Mark 5:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:34">34 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made
you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:35">35 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, people came from
the synagogue ruler’s house, saying, “Your daughter
is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:36">36 </verse></sup>But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken,
immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue,
“Don’t be afraid, only believe.” <key:bcv=Mark 5:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:37">37 </verse></sup>He allowed no
one to follow him except Peter, James, and John
the brother of James. <key:bcv=Mark 5:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:38">38 </verse></sup>He came to the synagogue
ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and
great wailing. <key:bcv=Mark 5:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:39">39 </verse></sup>When he had entered in, he said to
them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The
child is not dead, but is asleep.”

<key:bcv=Mark 5:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:40">40 </verse></sup>They ridiculed him. But he, having put them
all out, took the father of the child, her mother,
and those who were with him, and went in where
the child was lying. <key:bcv=Mark 5:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:41">41 </verse></sup>Taking the child by the
hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which
means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
<key:bcv=Mark 5:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:42">42 </verse></sup>Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she
was twelve years old. They were amazed with great
amazement. <key:bcv=Mark 5:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 5:43">43 </verse></sup>He strictly ordered them that no one
should know this, and commanded that something
should be given to her to eat.

#BCV:Mark 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:1">1 </verse></sup>He went out from there. He came into his own
country, and his disciples followed him. <key:bcv=Mark 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:2">2 </verse></sup>When
the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the
synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished,
saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and,
“What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that
such mighty works come about by his hands? <key:bcv=Mark 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Isn’t
this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of
James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters
here with us?” So they were offended at him.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without
honor, except in his own country, and among his
own relatives, and in his own house.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:5">5 </verse></sup>He could do
no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands
on a few sick people and healed them. <key:bcv=Mark 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:6">6 </verse></sup>He marveled
because of their unbelief.

He went around the villages teaching. <key:bcv=Mark 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:7">7 </verse></sup>He called
to himself the twelve, and began to send them out
two by two; and he gave them authority over the
unclean spirits. <key:bcv=Mark 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:8">8 </verse></sup>He commanded them that they
should take nothing for their journey, except a staff
only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
<key:bcv=Mark 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:9">9 </verse></sup>but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:10">10 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a
house, stay there until you depart from there. <key:bcv=Mark 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:11">11 </verse></sup>
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you
depart from there, shake off the dust that is under
your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly,
I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and
Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that
city!”

<key:bcv=Mark 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:12">12 </verse></sup>They went out and preached that people
should repent. <key:bcv=Mark 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:13">13 </verse></sup>They cast out many demons, and
anointed many with oil who were sick and healed
them. <key:bcv=Mark 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:14">14 </verse></sup>King Herod heard this, for his name had
become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has
risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are
at work in him.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:15">15 </verse></sup>But others said, “He is Elijah.”
Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the
prophets.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:16">16 </verse></sup>But Herod, when he heard this, said,
“This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from
the dead.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:17">17 </verse></sup>For Herod himself had sent out and
arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake
of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had
married her. <key:bcv=Mark 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:18">18 </verse></sup>For John had said to Herod, “It
is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
<key:bcv=Mark 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Herodias set herself against him and desired to
kill him, but she couldn’t, <key:bcv=Mark 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:20">20 </verse></sup>for Herod feared John,
knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and
kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many
things, and he heard him gladly.

<key:bcv=Mark 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Then a convenient day came when Herod on
his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high
officers, and the chief men of Galilee. <key:bcv=Mark 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:22">22 </verse></sup>When the
daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced,
she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The
king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you
want, and I will give it to you.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:23">23 </verse></sup>He swore to her,
“Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half
of my kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Mark 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:24">24 </verse></sup>She went out and said to her mother, “What
shall I ask?”
<br>
She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
<key:bcv=Mark 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:25">25 </verse></sup>She came in immediately with haste to the king
and requested, “I want you to give me right now the
head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”
<key:bcv=Mark 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:26">26 </verse></sup>The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the
sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn’t
wish to refuse her. <key:bcv=Mark 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Immediately the king sent
out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring
John’s head; and he went and beheaded him in the
prison, <key:bcv=Mark 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:28">28 </verse></sup>and brought his head on a platter, and
gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave
it to her mother.

<key:bcv=Mark 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:29">29 </verse></sup>When his disciples heard this, they came and
took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:30">30 </verse></sup>The apostles gathered themselves together to
Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they
had done, and whatever they had taught. <key:bcv=Mark 6:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:31">31 </verse></sup>He
said to them, “Come away into a deserted place,
and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and
going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:32">32 </verse></sup>They went away in the boat to a deserted place
by themselves. <key:bcv=Mark 6:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:33">33 </verse></sup>They<footnote:1>6:33 TR reads “The multitudes” instead of “They” </footnote> saw them going, and many
recognized him and ran there on foot from all the
cities. They arrived before them and came together
to him. <key:bcv=Mark 6:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus came out, saw a great multitude,
and he had compassion on them because they were
like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to
teach them many things. <key:bcv=Mark 6:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:35">35 </verse></sup>When it was late in
the day, his disciples came to him and said, “This
place is deserted, and it is late in the day. <key:bcv=Mark 6:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:36">36 </verse></sup>Send
them away, that they may go into the surrounding
country and villages and buy themselves bread, for
they have nothing to eat.”

<key:bcv=Mark 6:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:37">37 </verse></sup>But he answered them, “You give them something
to eat.”
<br>
They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two
hundred denarii<footnote:1>6:37 200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> worth of bread and give them
something to eat?”

<key:bcv=Mark 6:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:38">38 </verse></sup>He said to them, “How many loaves do you
have? Go see.”
<br>
When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
<key:bcv=Mark 6:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:39">39 </verse></sup>He commanded them that everyone should sit
down in groups on the green grass. <key:bcv=Mark 6:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:40">40 </verse></sup>They sat
down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. <key:bcv=Mark 6:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:41">41 </verse></sup>He
took the five loaves and the two fish; and looking
up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and
he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he
divided the two fish among them all. <key:bcv=Mark 6:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:42">42 </verse></sup>They all ate
and were filled. <key:bcv=Mark 6:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:43">43 </verse></sup>They took up twelve baskets full
of broken pieces and also of the fish. <key:bcv=Mark 6:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:44">44 </verse></sup>Those who
ate the loaves were<footnote:1>6:44 TR adds “about” </footnote> five thousand men.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:45">45 </verse></sup>Immediately he made his disciples get into the
boat and go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida,
while he himself sent the multitude away. <key:bcv=Mark 6:46><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:46">46 </verse></sup>After
he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain
to pray.

<key:bcv=Mark 6:47><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:47">47 </verse></sup>When evening had come, the boat was in the
middle of the sea, and he was alone on the land.
<key:bcv=Mark 6:48><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:48">48 </verse></sup>Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind
was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the
night he came to them, walking on the sea; <footnote:1>6:48 See Job 9:8 </footnote> and
he would have passed by them, <key:bcv=Mark 6:49><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:49">49 </verse></sup>but they, when
they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that
it was a ghost, and cried out; <key:bcv=Mark 6:50><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:50">50 </verse></sup>for they all saw
him and were troubled. But he immediately spoke
with them and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I!<footnote:1>6:50 or, “I AM!” </footnote>
Don’t be afraid.” <key:bcv=Mark 6:51><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:51">51 </verse></sup>He got into the boat with them;
and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed
among themselves, and marveled; <key:bcv=Mark 6:52><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:52">52 </verse></sup>for they hadn’t
understood about the loaves, but their hearts were
hardened.

<key:bcv=Mark 6:53><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:53">53 </verse></sup>When they had crossed over, they came to land
at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. <key:bcv=Mark 6:54><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:54">54 </verse></sup>When
they had come out of the boat, immediately the people
recognized him, <key:bcv=Mark 6:55><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:55">55 </verse></sup>and ran around that whole
region, and began to bring those who were sick on
their mats to where they heard he was. <key:bcv=Mark 6:56><sup><verse bcv="Mark 6:56">56 </verse></sup>Wherever
he entered—into villages, or into cities, or into the
country—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and
begged him that they might just touch the fringe<footnote:1>6:56 or, tassel</footnote>
of his garment; and as many as touched him were
made well.

#BCV:Mark 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered
together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Mark 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Now when they saw some of his disciples eating
bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they
found fault. <key:bcv=Mark 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:3">3 </verse></sup>(For the Pharisees and all the Jews
don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms,
holding to the tradition of the elders. <key:bcv=Mark 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:4">4 </verse></sup>They
don’t eat when they come from the marketplace
unless they bathe themselves, and there are many
other things which they have received to hold to:
washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and
couches.) <key:bcv=Mark 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:5">5 </verse></sup>The Pharisees and the scribes asked
him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to
the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with
unwashed hands?”

<key:bcv=Mark 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:6">6 </verse></sup>He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of
you hypocrites, as it is written,
<br>
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.

<key:bcv=Mark 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:7">7 </verse></sup>They worship me in vain,
<br>
teaching as doctrines the commandments of
men.’<footnote:1>7:7 Isaiah 29:13 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:8">8 </verse></sup>“For you set aside the commandment of God,
and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing
of pitchers and cups, and you do many other
such things.” <key:bcv=Mark 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Full well do you
reject the commandment of God, that you may keep
your tradition. <key:bcv=Mark 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:10">10 </verse></sup>For Moses said, ‘Honor your
father and your mother;’<footnote:1>7:10 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 </footnote> and, ‘He who speaks
evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’<footnote:1>7:10 Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:11">11 </verse></sup>But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his
mother, “Whatever profit you might have received
from me is Corban,” ’ ”<footnote:1>7:11 Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God. </footnote> that is to say, given to God,
<key:bcv=Mark 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:12">12 </verse></sup>“then you no longer allow him to do anything for
his father or his mother, <key:bcv=Mark 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:13">13 </verse></sup>making void the word of
God by your tradition which you have handed down.
You do many things like this.”

<key:bcv=Mark 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:14">14 </verse></sup>He called all the multitude to himself and said
to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
<key:bcv=Mark 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:15">15 </verse></sup>There is nothing from outside of the man that
going into him can defile him; but the things which
proceed out of the man are those that defile the
man. <key:bcv=Mark 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:16">16 </verse></sup>If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”<footnote:1>7:16 NU omits verse 16. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:17">17 </verse></sup>When he had entered into a house away from
the multitude, his disciples asked him about the
parable. <key:bcv=Mark 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Are you also without
understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever
goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
<key:bcv=Mark 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:19">19 </verse></sup>because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into
his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods
clean?”<footnote:1>7:19 NU ends Jesus’ direct quote and question after “latrine”, ending the verse with “Thus he declared all foods clean. </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “That which proceeds out of
the man, that defiles the man. <key:bcv=Mark 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:21">21 </verse></sup>For from
within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
<key:bcv=Mark 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:22">22 </verse></sup>covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an
evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. <key:bcv=Mark 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:23">23 </verse></sup>All
these evil things come from within and defile the
man.”

<key:bcv=Mark 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:24">24 </verse></sup>From there he arose and went away into the
borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house
and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t
escape notice. <key:bcv=Mark 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:25">25 </verse></sup>For a woman whose little daughter
had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came
and fell down at his feet. <key:bcv=Mark 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Now the woman was a
Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him
that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
<key:bcv=Mark 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:27">27 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled
first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s
bread and throw it to the dogs.”

<key:bcv=Mark 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:28">28 </verse></sup>But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the
dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
<key:bcv=Mark 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:29">29 </verse></sup>He said to her, “For this saying, go your way.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
<key:bcv=Mark 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:30">30 </verse></sup>She went away to her house, and found the
child having been laid on the bed, with the demon
gone out.

<key:bcv=Mark 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:31">31 </verse></sup>Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and
Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee through the
middle of the region of Decapolis. <key:bcv=Mark 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:32">32 </verse></sup>They brought
to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in
his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
<key:bcv=Mark 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:33">33 </verse></sup>He took him aside from the multitude privately
and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and
touched his tongue. <key:bcv=Mark 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:34">34 </verse></sup>Looking up to heaven, he
sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be
opened!” <key:bcv=Mark 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:35">35 </verse></sup>Immediately his ears were opened, and
the impediment of his tongue was released, and he
spoke clearly. <key:bcv=Mark 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:36">36 </verse></sup>He commanded them that they
should tell no one, but the more he commanded
them, so much the more widely they proclaimed
it. <key:bcv=Mark 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 7:37">37 </verse></sup>They were astonished beyond measure, saying,
“He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf
hear and the mute speak!”

#BCV:Mark 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:1">1 </verse></sup>In those days, when there was a very great
multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called
his disciples to himself and said to them, <key:bcv=Mark 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:2">2 </verse></sup>“I have
compassion on the multitude, because they have
stayed with me now three days and have nothing
to eat. <key:bcv=Mark 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:3">3 </verse></sup>If I send them away fasting to their home,
they will faint on the way, for some of them have
come a long way.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:4">4 </verse></sup>His disciples answered him, “From where could
one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted
place?”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:5">5 </verse></sup>He asked them, “How many loaves do you
have?”
<br>
They said, “Seven.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:6">6 </verse></sup>He commanded the multitude to sit down on
the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having
given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his
disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
<key:bcv=Mark 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:7">7 </verse></sup>They also had a few small fish. Having blessed
them, he said to serve these also. <key:bcv=Mark 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:8">8 </verse></sup>They ate and
were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken
pieces that were left over. <key:bcv=Mark 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Those who had eaten
were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
<key:bcv=Mark 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Immediately he entered into the boat with his
disciples and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
<key:bcv=Mark 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:11">11 </verse></sup>The Pharisees came out and began to question
him, seeking from him a sign from heaven and
testing him. <key:bcv=Mark 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:12">12 </verse></sup>He sighed deeply in his spirit and
said, “Why does this generation<footnote:1>8:12 The word translated “generation” here (genea) could also be translated “people”, “race”, or “family”.</footnote> seek a sign? Most
certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this
generation.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:13">13 </verse></sup>He left them, and again entering into the boat,
departed to the other side. <key:bcv=Mark 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:14">14 </verse></sup>They forgot to take
bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in
the boat with them. <key:bcv=Mark 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:15">15 </verse></sup>He warned them, saying,
“Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and
the yeast of Herod.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:16">16 </verse></sup>They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s
because we have no bread.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do
you reason that it’s because you have no bread?
Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart
still hardened? <key:bcv=Mark 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Having eyes, don’t you see?
Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
<key:bcv=Mark 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:19">19 </verse></sup>When I broke the five loaves among the five
thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces
did you take up?”
<br>
They told him, “Twelve.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:20">20 </verse></sup>“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take
up?”
<br>
They told him, “Seven.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:21">21 </verse></sup>He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
<key:bcv=Mark 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:22">22 </verse></sup>He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind
man to him and begged him to touch him. <key:bcv=Mark 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:23">23 </verse></sup>He took
hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him
out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes,
and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw
anything.

<key:bcv=Mark 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:24">24 </verse></sup>He looked up, and said, “I see men, but I see
them like walking trees.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:25">25 </verse></sup>Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He
looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone
clearly. <key:bcv=Mark 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:26">26 </verse></sup>He sent him away to his house,
saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone
in the village.”

<key:bcv=Mark 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:27">27 </verse></sup>Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the
villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked
his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
<key:bcv=Mark 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:28">28 </verse></sup>They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others
say Elijah, but others, one of the prophets.”
<key:bcv=Mark 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:29">29 </verse></sup>He said to them, “But who do you say that I
am?”
<br>
Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
<key:bcv=Mark 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:30">30 </verse></sup>He commanded them that they should tell no
one about him. <key:bcv=Mark 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:31">31 </verse></sup>He began to teach them that
the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be
rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the
scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise
again. <key:bcv=Mark 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:32">32 </verse></sup>He spoke to them openly. Peter took him
and began to rebuke him. <key:bcv=Mark 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:33">33 </verse></sup>But he, turning around
and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said,
“Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not
the things of God, but the things of men.”
<key:bcv=Mark 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:34">34 </verse></sup>He called the multitude to himself with his
disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow me. <key:bcv=Mark 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:35">35 </verse></sup>For whoever wants to save his life
will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake
and the sake of the Good News will save it. <key:bcv=Mark 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:36">36 </verse></sup>For
what does it profit a man to gain the whole world
and forfeit his life? <key:bcv=Mark 8:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:37">37 </verse></sup>For what will a man give
in exchange for his life? <key:bcv=Mark 8:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 8:38">38 </verse></sup>For whoever will be
ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be
ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory
with the holy angels.”

#BCV:Mark 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Mark 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:1">1 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you,
there are some standing here who will in no way
taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with
power.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:2">2 </verse></sup>After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James,
and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain
privately by themselves, and he was changed
into another form in front of them. <key:bcv=Mark 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:3">3 </verse></sup>His clothing
became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow,
such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
<key:bcv=Mark 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were
talking with Jesus.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us
to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one
for Moses, and one for Elijah.” <key:bcv=Mark 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:6">6 </verse></sup>For he didn’t know
what to say, for they were very afraid.
<key:bcv=Mark 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:7">7 </verse></sup>A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice
came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son.
Listen to him.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with
them any more, except Jesus only.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:9">9 </verse></sup>As they were coming down from the mountain,
he commanded them that they should tell no one
what things they had seen, until after the Son of
Man had risen from the dead. <key:bcv=Mark 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:10">10 </verse></sup>They kept this
saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising
from the dead” meant.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:11">11 </verse></sup>They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes
say that Elijah must come first?”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:12">12 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and
restores all things. How is it written about the Son
of Man, that he should suffer many things and be
despised? <key:bcv=Mark 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:13">13 </verse></sup>But I tell you that Elijah has come, and
they have also done to him whatever they wanted
to, even as it is written about him.”
<key:bcv=Mark 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude
around them, and scribes questioning them.
<key:bcv=Mark 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Immediately all the multitude, when they saw
him, were greatly amazed, and running to him,
greeted him. <key:bcv=Mark 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:16">16 </verse></sup>He asked the scribes, “What are you
asking them?”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:17">17 </verse></sup>One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I
brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; <key:bcv=Mark 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:18">18 </verse></sup>and
wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he
foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes
rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they
weren’t able.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:19">19 </verse></sup>He answered him, “Unbelieving generation,
how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear
with you? Bring him to me.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:20">20 </verse></sup>They brought him to him, and when he saw
him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he
fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the
mouth.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:21">21 </verse></sup>He asked his father, “How long has it been since
this has been happening to him?”

He said, “From childhood. <key:bcv=Mark 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:22">22 </verse></sup>Often it has cast him
both into the fire and into the water to destroy him.
But if you can do anything, have compassion on us
and help us.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things
are possible to him who believes.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:24">24 </verse></sup>Immediately the father of the child cried out
with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
<key:bcv=Mark 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:25">25 </verse></sup>When Jesus saw that a multitude came running
together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to
him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you,
come out of him, and never enter him again!”
<key:bcv=Mark 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:26">26 </verse></sup>After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it
came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so
much that most of them said, “He is dead.” <key:bcv=Mark 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:27">27 </verse></sup>But
Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and
he arose.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:28">28 </verse></sup>When he had come into the house, his disciples
asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
<key:bcv=Mark 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:29">29 </verse></sup>He said to them, “This kind can come out by
nothing but by prayer and fasting.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:30">30 </verse></sup>They went out from there and passed through
Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it, <key:bcv=Mark 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:31">31 </verse></sup>for he
was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The
Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of
men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed,
on the third day he will rise again.”
<key:bcv=Mark 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:32">32 </verse></sup>But they didn’t understand the saying, and
were afraid to ask him.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:33">33 </verse></sup>He came to Capernaum, and when he was in
the house he asked them, “What were you arguing
among yourselves on the way?”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:34">34 </verse></sup>But they were silent, for they had disputed with
one another on the way about who was the greatest.
<key:bcv=Mark 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:35">35 </verse></sup>He sat down and called the twelve; and he said
to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be
last of all, and servant of all.” <key:bcv=Mark 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:36">36 </verse></sup>He took a little
child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him
in his arms, he said to them, <key:bcv=Mark 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:37">37 </verse></sup>“Whoever receives
one such little child in my name receives me; and
whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him
who sent me.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:38">38 </verse></sup>John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone
who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your
name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t
follow us.”

<key:bcv=Mark 9:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:39">39 </verse></sup>But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no
one who will do a mighty work in my name and be
able quickly to speak evil of me. <key:bcv=Mark 9:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:40">40 </verse></sup>For whoever is
not against us is on our side. <key:bcv=Mark 9:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:41">41 </verse></sup>For whoever will
give you a cup of water to drink in my name because
you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in
no way lose his reward.

<key:bcv=Mark 9:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:42">42 </verse></sup>“Whoever will cause one of these little ones
who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for
him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone
hung around his neck. <key:bcv=Mark 9:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:43">43 </verse></sup>If your hand causes
you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to
enter into life maimed, rather than having your two
hands to go into Gehenna, <footnote:1>9:43 or, Hell </footnote> into the unquenchable
fire, <key:bcv=Mark 9:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:44">44 </verse></sup>‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire
is not quenched.’ <footnote:1>9:44 Isaiah 66:24 </footnote><footnote:1>9:44 NU omits verse 44. </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 9:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:45">45 </verse></sup>If your foot causes you to
stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into
life lame, rather than having your two feet to be
cast into Gehenna, <footnote:1>9:45 or, Hell </footnote> into the fire that will never be
quenched— <key:bcv=Mark 9:46><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:46">46 </verse></sup>‘where their worm doesn’t die, and
the fire is not quenched.’ <footnote:1>9:46 NU omits verse 46. </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 9:47><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:47">47 </verse></sup>If your eye causes
you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you
to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather
than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna<footnote:1>9:47 or, Hell </footnote>
of fire, <key:bcv=Mark 9:48><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:48">48 </verse></sup>‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the
fire is not quenched.’ <footnote:1>9:48 Isaiah 66:24 </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 9:49><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:49">49 </verse></sup>For everyone will be
salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned
with salt. <key:bcv=Mark 9:50><sup><verse bcv="Mark 9:50">50 </verse></sup>Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its
saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in
yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
#BCV:Mark 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Mark 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:1">1 </verse></sup>He arose from there and came into the borders
of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came
together to him again. As he usually did, he was
again teaching them.

<key:bcv=Mark 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked
him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
<key:bcv=Mark 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:3">3 </verse></sup>He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
<key:bcv=Mark 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:4">4 </verse></sup>They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce
to be written, and to divorce her.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:5">5 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of
heart, he wrote you this commandment. <key:bcv=Mark 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:6">6 </verse></sup>But from
the beginning of the creation, God made them male
and female.<footnote:1>10:6 Genesis 1:27 </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:7">7 </verse></sup>For this cause a man will leave his
father and mother, and will join to his wife, <key:bcv=Mark 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:8">8 </verse></sup>and
the two will become one flesh,<footnote:1>10:8 Genesis 2:24 </footnote> so that they are no
longer two, but one flesh. <key:bcv=Mark 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:9">9 </verse></sup>What therefore God
has joined together, let no man separate.”
<key:bcv=Mark 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:10">10 </verse></sup>In the house, his disciples asked him again
about the same matter. <key:bcv=Mark 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Whoever
divorces his wife and marries another commits
adultery against her. <key:bcv=Mark 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:12">12 </verse></sup>If a woman herself divorces
her husband and marries another, she commits
adultery.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:13">13 </verse></sup>They were bringing to him little children, that
he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked
those who were bringing them. <key:bcv=Mark 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:14">14 </verse></sup>But when Jesus
saw it, he was moved with indignation and said
to them, “Allow the little children to come to me!
Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to
such as these. <key:bcv=Mark 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:15">15 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, whoever
will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he
will in no way enter into it.” <key:bcv=Mark 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:16">16 </verse></sup>He took them in his
arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
<key:bcv=Mark 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:17">17 </verse></sup>As he was going out into the way, one ran
to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good
Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal
life?”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good?
No one is good except one—God. <key:bcv=Mark 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:19">19 </verse></sup>You know the
commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit
adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’
‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”<footnote:1>10:19 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20</footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all
these things from my youth.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him,
“One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have
and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
<key:bcv=Mark 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:22">22 </verse></sup>But his face fell at that saying, and he went
away sorrowful, for he was one who had great
possessions.

<key:bcv=Mark 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
“How difficult it is for those who have riches to
enter into God’s Kingdom!”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:24">24 </verse></sup>The disciples were amazed at his words. But
Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is
for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s
Kingdom! <key:bcv=Mark 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:25">25 </verse></sup>It is easier for a camel to go through a
needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s
Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:26">26 </verse></sup>They were exceedingly astonished, saying to
him, “Then who can be saved?”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:27">27 </verse></sup>Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is
impossible, but not with God, for all things are
possible with God.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:28">28 </verse></sup>Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left
all and have followed you.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no
one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for
my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, <key:bcv=Mark 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:30">30 </verse></sup>but
he will receive one hundred times more now in this
time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children,
and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come
eternal life. <key:bcv=Mark 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:31">31 </verse></sup>But many who are first will be last,
and the last first.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:32">32 </verse></sup>They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem;
and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were
amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He
again took the twelve, and began to tell them the
things that were going to happen to him. <key:bcv=Mark 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:33">33 </verse></sup>“Behold,
we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will
be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes.
They will condemn him to death, and will deliver
him to the Gentiles. <key:bcv=Mark 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:34">34 </verse></sup>They will mock him, spit on
him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he
will rise again.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:35">35 </verse></sup>James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near
to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us
whatever we will ask.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:36">36 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What do you want me to do
for you?”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:37">37 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit,
one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in
your glory.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:38">38 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what
you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I
drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am
baptized with?”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:39">39 </verse></sup>They said to him, “We are able.”
<br>
Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the
cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with; <key:bcv=Mark 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:40">40 </verse></sup>but to sit at my
right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give,
but for whom it has been prepared.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:41">41 </verse></sup>When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant
toward James and John.

<key:bcv=Mark 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:42">42 </verse></sup>Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You
know that they who are recognized as rulers over
the nations lord it over them, and their great ones
exercise authority over them. <key:bcv=Mark 10:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:43">43 </verse></sup>But it shall not be
so among you, but whoever wants to become great
among you shall be your servant. <key:bcv=Mark 10:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:44">44 </verse></sup>Whoever
of you wants to become first among you shall be
bondservant of all. <key:bcv=Mark 10:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:45">45 </verse></sup>For the Son of Man also came
not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as
a ransom for many.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:46><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:46">46 </verse></sup>They came to Jericho. As he went out from
Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude,
the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar,
was sitting by the road. <key:bcv=Mark 10:47><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:47">47 </verse></sup>When he heard that it
was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and
say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”
<key:bcv=Mark 10:48><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:48">48 </verse></sup>Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but
he cried out much more, “You son of David, have
mercy on me!”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:49><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:49">49 </verse></sup>Jesus stood still and said, “Call him.”
They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer
up! Get up. He is calling you!”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:50><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:50">50 </verse></sup>He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came
to Jesus.

<key:bcv=Mark 10:51><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:51">51 </verse></sup>Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do
for you?”

The blind man said to him, “Rabboni,<footnote:1>10:51 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.” </footnote> that I may
see again.”

<key:bcv=Mark 10:52><sup><verse bcv="Mark 10:52">52 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has
made you well.” Immediately he received his sight
and followed Jesus on the way.

#BCV:Mark 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:1">1 </verse></sup>When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage<footnote:1>11:1 TR & NU read “Bethphage” instead of “Bethsphage” </footnote>
and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he
sent two of his disciples <key:bcv=Mark 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:2">2 </verse></sup>and said to them, “Go
your way into the village that is opposite you.
Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a
young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie
him and bring him. <key:bcv=Mark 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:3">3 </verse></sup>If anyone asks you, ‘Why
are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and
immediately he will send him back here.”
<key:bcv=Mark 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:4">4 </verse></sup>They went away, and found a young donkey tied
at the door outside in the open street, and they
untied him. <key:bcv=Mark 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Some of those who stood there asked
them, “What are you doing, untying the young
donkey?” <key:bcv=Mark 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:6">6 </verse></sup>They said to them just as Jesus had said,
and they let them go.

<key:bcv=Mark 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:7">7 </verse></sup>They brought the young donkey to Jesus and
threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
<key:bcv=Mark 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Many spread their garments on the way, and
others were cutting down branches from the trees
and spreading them on the road. <key:bcv=Mark 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Those who
went in front and those who followed cried out,
“Hosanna!<footnote:1>11:9 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”. </footnote> Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!<footnote:1>11:9 Psalm 118:25-26</footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Blessed is the kingdom of our
father David that is coming in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!”

<key:bcv=Mark 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem.
When he had looked around at everything, it being
now evening, he went out to Bethany with the
twelve.

<key:bcv=Mark 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:12">12 </verse></sup>The next day, when they had come out from
Bethany, he was hungry. <key:bcv=Mark 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Seeing a fig tree afar off
having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might
find anything on it. When he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
<key:bcv=Mark 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you
again!” and his disciples heard it.

<key:bcv=Mark 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:15">15 </verse></sup>They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into
the temple and began to throw out those who sold
and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew
the money changers’ tables and the seats of those
who sold the doves. <key:bcv=Mark 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:16">16 </verse></sup>He would not allow anyone to
carry a container through the temple. <key:bcv=Mark 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:17">17 </verse></sup>He taught,
saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be
called a house of prayer for all the nations?’<footnote:1>11:17 Isaiah 56:7 </footnote> But
you have made it a den of robbers!”<footnote:1>11:17 Jeremiah 7:11 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:18">18 </verse></sup>The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and
sought how they might destroy him. For they feared
him, because all the multitude was astonished at his
teaching.

<key:bcv=Mark 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:19">19 </verse></sup>When evening came, he went out of the city.
<key:bcv=Mark 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:20">20 </verse></sup>As they passed by in the morning, they saw the
fig tree withered away from the roots. <key:bcv=Mark 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Peter,
remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree
which you cursed has withered away.”

<key:bcv=Mark 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. <key:bcv=Mark 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:23">23 </verse></sup>
For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this
mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and
doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what
he says is happening, he shall have whatever he
says. <key:bcv=Mark 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore I tell you, all things whatever
you pray and ask for, believe that you have received
them, and you shall have them. <key:bcv=Mark 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Whenever you
stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against
anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may
also forgive you your transgressions. <key:bcv=Mark 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:26">26 </verse></sup>But if you
do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven
forgive your transgressions.”<footnote:1>11:26 NU omits verse 26. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:27">27 </verse></sup>They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was
walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes,
and the elders came to him, <key:bcv=Mark 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:28">28 </verse></sup>and they began saying
to him, “By what authority do you do these things?
Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”
<key:bcv=Mark 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question.
Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things. <key:bcv=Mark 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:30">30 </verse></sup>The baptism of John—was it from
heaven, or from men? Answer me.”

<key:bcv=Mark 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:31">31 </verse></sup>They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we
should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then
did you not believe him?’ <key:bcv=Mark 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:32">32 </verse></sup>If we should say, ‘From
men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to
really be a prophet. <key:bcv=Mark 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 11:33">33 </verse></sup>They answered Jesus, “We
don’t know.”
<br>
Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what
authority I do these things.”

#BCV:Mark 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:1">1 </verse></sup>He began to speak to them in parables. “A man
planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit
for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a
farmer, and went into another country. <key:bcv=Mark 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:2">2 </verse></sup>When it
was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from
the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. <key:bcv=Mark 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:3">3 </verse></sup>
They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
<key:bcv=Mark 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Again, he sent another servant to them; and they
threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and
sent him away shamefully treated. <key:bcv=Mark 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Again he
sent another, and they killed him, and many others,
beating some, and killing some. <key:bcv=Mark 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore still
having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to
them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ <key:bcv=Mark 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:7">7 </verse></sup>But
those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the
heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will
be ours.’ <key:bcv=Mark 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:8">8 </verse></sup>They took him, killed him, and cast him
out of the vineyard. <key:bcv=Mark 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:9">9 </verse></sup>What therefore will the lord
of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. <key:bcv=Mark 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:10">10 </verse></sup>
Haven’t you even read this Scripture:
‘The stone which the builders rejected
was made the head of the corner.

<key:bcv=Mark 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:11">11 </verse></sup>This was from the Lord.

It is marvelous in our eyes’?”<footnote:1>12:11 Psalm 118:22-23</footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:12">12 </verse></sup>They tried to seize him, but they feared the
multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the
parable against them. They left him and went
away. <key:bcv=Mark 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:13">13 </verse></sup>They sent some of the Pharisees and the
Herodians to him, that they might trap him with
words. <key:bcv=Mark 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:14">14 </verse></sup>When they had come, they asked him,
“Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t
defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone,
but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay
taxes to Caesar, or not? <key:bcv=Mark 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Shall we give, or shall we
not give?”
<br>
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them,
“Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I
may see it.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:16">16 </verse></sup>They brought it.
<br>
He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”
They said to him, “Caesar’s.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that
are God’s.”
<br>
They marveled greatly at him.

<key:bcv=Mark 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Some Sadducees, who say that there is no
resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,
<key:bcv=Mark 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:19">19 </verse></sup>“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother
dies and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no
children, that his brother should take his wife and
raise up offspring for his brother.’ <key:bcv=Mark 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:20">20 </verse></sup>There were
seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying
left no offspring. <key:bcv=Mark 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:21">21 </verse></sup>The second took her, and died,
leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
<key:bcv=Mark 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:22">22 </verse></sup>and the seven took her and left no children. Last
of all the woman also died. <key:bcv=Mark 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:23">23 </verse></sup>In the resurrection,
when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For
the seven had her as a wife.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:24">24 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you
are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the
power of God? <key:bcv=Mark 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:25">25 </verse></sup>For when they will rise from the
dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but are like angels in heaven. <key:bcv=Mark 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:26">26 </verse></sup>But about the
dead, that they are raised, haven’t you read in the
book of Moses about the Bush, how God spoke to
him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?<footnote:1>12:26 Exodus 3:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:27">27 </verse></sup>He is not the God of
the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly
mistaken.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:28">28 </verse></sup>One of the scribes came and heard them questioning
together, and knowing that he had answered
them well, asked him, “Which commandment
is the greatest of all?”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel,
the Lord our God, the Lord is one. <key:bcv=Mark 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:30">30 </verse></sup>You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.’<footnote:1>12:30 Deuteronomy 6:4-5 </footnote> This is the first commandment. <key:bcv=Mark 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:31">31 </verse></sup>
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.’<footnote:1>12:31 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote> There is no other commandment
greater than these.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:32">32 </verse></sup>The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you
have said well that he is one, and there is none
other but he; <key:bcv=Mark 12:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:33">33 </verse></sup>and to love him with all the heart,
with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all
the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is
more important than all whole burnt offerings and
sacrifices.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:34">34 </verse></sup>When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he
said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.”
No one dared ask him any question after that.
<key:bcv=Mark 12:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How
is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of
David? <key:bcv=Mark 12:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:36">36 </verse></sup>For David himself said in the Holy Spirit,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
<br>
“Sit at my right hand,
<br>
until I make your enemies the footstool of your
feet.” ’<footnote:1>12:36 Psalm 110:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 12:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:37">37 </verse></sup>Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how
can he be his son?”

The common people heard him gladly. <key:bcv=Mark 12:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:38">38 </verse></sup>In his
teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes,
who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings
in the marketplaces, <key:bcv=Mark 12:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:39">39 </verse></sup>and to get the best seats
in the synagogues and the best places at feasts,
<key:bcv=Mark 12:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:40">40 </verse></sup>those who devour widows’ houses, and for a
pretense make long prayers. These will receive
greater condemnation.”

<key:bcv=Mark 12:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:41">41 </verse></sup>Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw
how the multitude cast money into the treasury.
Many who were rich cast in much. <key:bcv=Mark 12:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:42">42 </verse></sup>A poor widow
came and she cast in two small brass coins,<footnote:1>12:42 literally, lepta (or widow’s mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages. </footnote> which
equal a quadrans coin.<footnote:1>12:42 A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 12:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:43">43 </verse></sup>He called his disciples to
himself and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you,
this poor widow gave more than all those who are
giving into the treasury, <key:bcv=Mark 12:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 12:44">44 </verse></sup>for they all gave out of
their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave
all that she had to live on.”

#BCV:Mark 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:1">1 </verse></sup>As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples
said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and
what kind of buildings!”

<key:bcv=Mark 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great
buildings? There will not be left here one stone on
another, which will not be thrown down.”
<key:bcv=Mark 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:3">3 </verse></sup>As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the
temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him
privately, <key:bcv=Mark 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:4">4 </verse></sup>“Tell us, when will these things be?
What is the sign that these things are all about to
be fulfilled?”

<key:bcv=Mark 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful
that no one leads you astray. <key:bcv=Mark 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:6">6 </verse></sup>For many will come
in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’<footnote:1>13:6 or, “I AM!” </footnote> and will lead many
astray.

<key:bcv=Mark 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:7">7 </verse></sup>“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars,
don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the
end is not yet. <key:bcv=Mark 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:8">8 </verse></sup>For nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes
in various places. There will be famines and
troubles. These things are the beginning of birth
pains.

<key:bcv=Mark 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:9">9 </verse></sup>“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you
up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues.
You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake,
for a testimony to them. <key:bcv=Mark 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:10">10 </verse></sup>The Good News must
first be preached to all the nations. <key:bcv=Mark 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:11">11 </verse></sup>When they
lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious
beforehand or premeditate what you will say, but
say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it
is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
<key:bcv=Mark 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:12">12 </verse></sup>“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and
the father his child. Children will rise up against
parents and cause them to be put to death. <key:bcv=Mark 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:13">13 </verse></sup>You
will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he
who endures to the end will be saved.
<key:bcv=Mark 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:14">14 </verse></sup>“But when you see the abomination of desolation,<footnote:1>13:14 Daniel 9:17; 11:31; 12:11</footnote>
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing
where it ought not” (let the reader understand),
“then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
<key:bcv=Mark 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:15">15 </verse></sup>and let him who is on the housetop not
go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his
house. <key:bcv=Mark 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Let him who is in the field not return back
to take his cloak. <key:bcv=Mark 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:17">17 </verse></sup>But woe to those who are with
child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
<key:bcv=Mark 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter. <key:bcv=Mark 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:19">19 </verse></sup>
For in those days there will be oppression, such
as there has not been the like from the beginning
of the creation which God created until now, and
never will be. <key:bcv=Mark 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Unless the Lord had shortened
the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for
the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out,
he shortened the days. <key:bcv=Mark 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:21">21 </verse></sup>Then if anyone tells you,
‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t
believe it. <key:bcv=Mark 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:22">22 </verse></sup>For false christs and false prophets will
arise and will show signs and wonders, that they
may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
<key:bcv=Mark 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:23">23 </verse></sup>But you watch.

“Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. <key:bcv=Mark 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:24">24 </verse></sup>
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will
be darkened, the moon will not give its light, <key:bcv=Mark 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:25">25 </verse></sup>the
stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers
that are in the heavens will be shaken.<footnote:1>13:25 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4 </footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Then
they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with
great power and glory. <key:bcv=Mark 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:27">27 </verse></sup>Then he will send out
his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones
from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to
the ends of the sky.

<key:bcv=Mark 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:28">28 </verse></sup>“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable.
When the branch has now become tender and produces
its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
<key:bcv=Mark 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:29">29 </verse></sup>even so you also, when you see these things
coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
<key:bcv=Mark 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Most certainly I say to you, this generation<footnote:1>13:30 The word translated “generation” (genea) could also be translated “race”, “family”, or “people”. </footnote> will
not pass away until all these things happen. <key:bcv=Mark 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:31">31 </verse></sup>
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will
not pass away.

<key:bcv=Mark 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:32">32 </verse></sup>“But of that day or that hour no one knows—
not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only
the Father. <key:bcv=Mark 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:33">33 </verse></sup>Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you
don’t know when the time is.

<key:bcv=Mark 13:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:34">34 </verse></sup>“It is like a man traveling to another country,
having left his house and given authority to
his servants, and to each one his work, and also
commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. <key:bcv=Mark 13:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:35">35 </verse></sup>
Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord
of the house is coming —whether at evening, or
at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the
morning; <key:bcv=Mark 13:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:36">36 </verse></sup>lest, coming suddenly, he might find
you sleeping. <key:bcv=Mark 13:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 13:37">37 </verse></sup>What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”

#BCV:Mark 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:1">1 </verse></sup>It was now two days before the Passover and
the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests
and the scribes sought how they might seize him by
deception and kill him. <key:bcv=Mark 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:2">2 </verse></sup>For they said, “Not during
the feast, because there might be a riot among the
people.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:3">3 </verse></sup>While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon
the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came
having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—
very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his
head. <key:bcv=Mark 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:4">4 </verse></sup>But there were some who were indignant
among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment
been wasted? <key:bcv=Mark 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:5">5 </verse></sup>For this might have been sold for
more than three hundred denarii<footnote:1>14:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> and given to the
poor.” So they grumbled against her.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:6">6 </verse></sup>But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you
trouble her? She has done a good work for me. <key:bcv=Mark 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:7">7 </verse></sup>
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever
you want to, you can do them good; but you
will not always have me. <key:bcv=Mark 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:8">8 </verse></sup>She has done what she
could. She has anointed my body beforehand for
the burying. <key:bcv=Mark 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, wherever
this Good News may be preached throughout the
whole world, that which this woman has done will
also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:10">10 </verse></sup>Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went
away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him
to them. <key:bcv=Mark 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:11">11 </verse></sup>They, when they heard it, were glad,
and promised to give him money. He sought how
he might conveniently deliver him.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:12">12 </verse></sup>On the first day of unleavened bread, when
they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him,
“Where do you want us to go and prepare that you
may eat the Passover?”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:13">13 </verse></sup>He sent two of his disciples and said to them,
“Go into the city, and there a man carrying a pitcher
of water will meet you. Follow him, <key:bcv=Mark 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:14">14 </verse></sup>and wherever
he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The
Teacher says, “Where is the guest room, where I
may eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’ <key:bcv=Mark 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:15">15 </verse></sup>He
will himself show you a large upper room furnished
and ready. Get ready for us there.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:16">16 </verse></sup>His disciples went out, and came into the city,
and found things as he had said to them, and they
prepared the Passover.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:17">17 </verse></sup>When it was evening he came with the twelve.
<key:bcv=Mark 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:18">18 </verse></sup>As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most
certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he
who eats with me.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:19">19 </verse></sup>They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one
by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely
not I?”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:20">20 </verse></sup>He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he
who dips with me in the dish. <key:bcv=Mark 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:21">21 </verse></sup>For the Son of Man
goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man
by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be
better for that man if he had not been born.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:22">22 </verse></sup>As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
when he had blessed it, he broke it and gave to them,
and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:23">23 </verse></sup>He took the cup, and when he had given thanks,
he gave to them. They all drank of it. <key:bcv=Mark 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:24">24 </verse></sup>He said to
them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which
is poured out for many. <key:bcv=Mark 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:25">25 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you,
I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine until
that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:26">26 </verse></sup>When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the
Mount of Olives.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made
to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be
scattered.’<footnote:1>14:27 Zechariah 13:7</footnote> <key:bcv=Mark 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:28">28 </verse></sup>However, after I am raised up, I will
go before you into Galilee.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:29">29 </verse></sup>But Peter said to him, “Although all will be
offended, yet I will not.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:30">30 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that
you today, even this night, before the rooster crows
twice, you will deny me three times.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:31">31 </verse></sup>But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with
you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same
thing.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:32">32 </verse></sup>They came to a place which was named Gethsemane.
He said to his disciples, “Sit here while I
pray.” <key:bcv=Mark 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:33">33 </verse></sup>He took with him Peter, James, and John,
and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
<key:bcv=Mark 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:34">34 </verse></sup>He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even to death. Stay here and watch.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:35">35 </verse></sup>He went forward a little, and fell on the ground,
and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might
pass away from him. <key:bcv=Mark 14:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:36">36 </verse></sup>He said, “Abba,<footnote:1>14:36 Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.</footnote> Father, all
things are possible to you. Please remove this cup
from me. However, not what I desire, but what you
desire.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:37">37 </verse></sup>He came and found them sleeping, and said
to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you
watch one hour? <key:bcv=Mark 14:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:38">38 </verse></sup>Watch and pray, that you
may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:39">39 </verse></sup>Again he went away and prayed, saying the
same words. <key:bcv=Mark 14:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:40">40 </verse></sup>Again he returned and found them
sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they
didn’t know what to answer him. <key:bcv=Mark 14:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:41">41 </verse></sup>He came the
third time and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take
your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold,
the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
<key:bcv=Mark 14:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:42">42 </verse></sup>Arise! Let’s get going. Behold, he who betrays me
is at hand.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:43">43 </verse></sup>Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas,
one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude
with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the
scribes, and the elders. <key:bcv=Mark 14:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:44">44 </verse></sup>Now he who betrayed him
had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will
kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:45">45 </verse></sup>When he had come, immediately he came to him
and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him. <key:bcv=Mark 14:46><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:46">46 </verse></sup>They
laid their hands on him and seized him. <key:bcv=Mark 14:47><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:47">47 </verse></sup>But a
certain one of those who stood by drew his sword
and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut
off his ear.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:48><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:48">48 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as
against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize
me? <key:bcv=Mark 14:49><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:49">49 </verse></sup>I was daily with you in the temple teaching,
and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the
Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:50><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:50">50 </verse></sup>They all left him, and fled. <key:bcv=Mark 14:51><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:51">51 </verse></sup>A certain young
man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown
around himself over his naked body. The young
men grabbed him, <key:bcv=Mark 14:52><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:52">52 </verse></sup>but he left the linen cloth and
fled from them naked. <key:bcv=Mark 14:53><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:53">53 </verse></sup>They led Jesus away to the
high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the
scribes came together with him.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:54><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:54">54 </verse></sup>Peter had followed him from a distance, until
he came into the court of the high priest. He was
sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the
light of the fire. <key:bcv=Mark 14:55><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:55">55 </verse></sup>Now the chief priests and the
whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put
him to death, and found none. <key:bcv=Mark 14:56><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:56">56 </verse></sup>For many gave
false testimony against him, and their testimony
didn’t agree with each other. <key:bcv=Mark 14:57><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:57">57 </verse></sup>Some stood up and
gave false testimony against him, saying, <key:bcv=Mark 14:58><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:58">58 </verse></sup>“We
heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is
made with hands, and in three days I will build
another made without hands.’ ” <key:bcv=Mark 14:59><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:59">59 </verse></sup>Even so, their
testimony didn’t agree.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:60><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:60">60 </verse></sup>The high priest stood up in the middle, and
asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which
these testify against you?” <key:bcv=Mark 14:61><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:61">61 </verse></sup>But he stayed quiet,
and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked
him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
<key:bcv=Mark 14:62><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:62">62 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man
sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with
the clouds of the sky.”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:63><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:63">63 </verse></sup>The high priest tore his clothes and said, “What
further need have we of witnesses? <key:bcv=Mark 14:64><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:64">64 </verse></sup>You have
heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They
all condemned him to be worthy of death. <key:bcv=Mark 14:65><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:65">65 </verse></sup>Some
began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to
beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The
officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
<key:bcv=Mark 14:66><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:66">66 </verse></sup>As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the
maids of the high priest came, <key:bcv=Mark 14:67><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:67">67 </verse></sup>and seeing Peter
warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You
were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:68><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:68">68 </verse></sup>But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor
understand what you are saying.” He went out on
the porch, and the rooster crowed.

<key:bcv=Mark 14:69><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:69">69 </verse></sup>The maid saw him and began again to tell those
who stood by, “This is one of them.” <key:bcv=Mark 14:70><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:70">70 </verse></sup>But he again
denied it. After a little while again those who stood
by said to Peter, “You truly are one of them, for you
are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.” <key:bcv=Mark 14:71><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:71">71 </verse></sup>But he
began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know this man
of whom you speak!”

<key:bcv=Mark 14:72><sup><verse bcv="Mark 14:72">72 </verse></sup>The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered
the words that Jesus said to him, “Before
the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three
times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

#BCV:Mark 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Immediately in the morning the chief priests,
with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held
a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and
delivered him up to Pilate. <key:bcv=Mark 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Pilate asked him, “Are
you the King of the Jews?”
<br>
He answered, “So you say.”

<key:bcv=Mark 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:3">3 </verse></sup>The chief priests accused him of many things.
<key:bcv=Mark 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See
how many things they testify against you!”
<key:bcv=Mark 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:5">5 </verse></sup>But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate
marveled.

<key:bcv=Mark 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Now at the feast he used to release to them one
prisoner, whomever they asked of him. <key:bcv=Mark 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:7">7 </verse></sup>There was
one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents,
men who in the insurrection had committed
murder. <key:bcv=Mark 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:8">8 </verse></sup>The multitude, crying aloud, began to
ask him to do as he always did for them. <key:bcv=Mark 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:9">9 </verse></sup>Pilate
answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release
to you the King of the Jews?” <key:bcv=Mark 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:10">10 </verse></sup>For he perceived
that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
<key:bcv=Mark 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:11">11 </verse></sup>But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that
he should release Barabbas to them instead. <key:bcv=Mark 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Pilate
again asked them, “What then should I do to him
whom you call the King of the Jews?”

<key:bcv=Mark 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:13">13 </verse></sup>They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
<key:bcv=Mark 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he
done?”
<br>
But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
<key:bcv=Mark 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released
Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus,
when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
<key:bcv=Mark 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:16">16 </verse></sup>The soldiers led him away within the court,
which is the Praetorium; and they called together
the whole cohort. <key:bcv=Mark 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:17">17 </verse></sup>They clothed him with purple;
and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
<key:bcv=Mark 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:18">18 </verse></sup>They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
<key:bcv=Mark 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:19">19 </verse></sup>They struck his head with a reed and spat on
him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
<key:bcv=Mark 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:20">20 </verse></sup>When they had mocked him, they took the purple
cloak off him, and put his own garments on him.
They led him out to crucify him.

<key:bcv=Mark 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:21">21 </verse></sup>They compelled one passing by, coming from
the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander
and Rufus, to go with them that he might bear
his cross. <key:bcv=Mark 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:22">22 </verse></sup>They brought him to the place called
Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of
a skull.” <key:bcv=Mark 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:23">23 </verse></sup>They offered him wine mixed with myrrh
to drink, but he didn’t take it.

<key:bcv=Mark 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Crucifying him, they parted his garments
among them, casting lots on them, what each
should take. <key:bcv=Mark 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:25">25 </verse></sup>It was the third hour<footnote:1>15:25 9:00 a.m. </footnote> when they
crucified him. <key:bcv=Mark 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:26">26 </verse></sup>The superscription of his accusation
was written over him: “THE KING OF THE
JEWS.” <key:bcv=Mark 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:27">27 </verse></sup>With him they crucified two robbers, one
on his right hand, and one on his left. <key:bcv=Mark 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:28">28 </verse></sup>The
Scripture was fulfilled which says, “He was counted
with transgressors.”<footnote:1>15:28 NU omits verse 28. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging
their heads and saying, “Ha! You who destroy
the temple and build it in three days, <key:bcv=Mark 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:30">30 </verse></sup>save yourself,
and come down from the cross!”

<key:bcv=Mark 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:31">31 </verse></sup>Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among
themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others.
He can’t save himself. <key:bcv=Mark 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:32">32 </verse></sup>Let the Christ, the King of
Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may
see and believe him.”<footnote:1>15:32 TR omits “him” </footnote> Those who were crucified
with him also insulted him.

<key:bcv=Mark 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:33">33 </verse></sup>When the sixth hour<footnote:1>15:33 or, noon </footnote> had come, there was
darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.<footnote:1>15:33 3:00 p.m. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:34">34 </verse></sup>At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is,
being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?” <footnote:1>15:34 Psalm 22:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Mark 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:35">35 </verse></sup>Some of those who stood by, when they heard
it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
<key:bcv=Mark 15:36><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:36">36 </verse></sup>One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put
it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let
him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him
down.”

<key:bcv=Mark 15:37><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:37">37 </verse></sup>Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up
the spirit. <key:bcv=Mark 15:38><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:38">38 </verse></sup>The veil of the temple was torn in two
from the top to the bottom. <key:bcv=Mark 15:39><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:39">39 </verse></sup>When the centurion,
who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out
like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this
man was the Son of God!”

<key:bcv=Mark 15:40><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:40">40 </verse></sup>There were also women watching from afar,
among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of James the less and of Joses, and
Salome; <key:bcv=Mark 15:41><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:41">41 </verse></sup>who, when he was in Galilee, followed
him and served him; and many other women who
came up with him to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Mark 15:42><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:42">42 </verse></sup>When evening had now come, because it was
the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
<key:bcv=Mark 15:43><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:43">43 </verse></sup>Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council
member who also himself was looking for God’s
Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and
asked for Jesus’ body. <key:bcv=Mark 15:44><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:44">44 </verse></sup>Pilate was surprised to
hear that he was already dead; and summoning the
centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead
long. <key:bcv=Mark 15:45><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:45">45 </verse></sup>When he found out from the centurion, he
granted the body to Joseph. <key:bcv=Mark 15:46><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:46">46 </verse></sup>He bought a linen
cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen
cloth and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out
of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the
tomb. <key:bcv=Mark 15:47><sup><verse bcv="Mark 15:47">47 </verse></sup>Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of
Joses, saw where he was laid.

#BCV:Mark 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Mark 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:1">1 </verse></sup>When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought
spices, that they might come and anoint him. <key:bcv=Mark 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:2">2 </verse></sup>Very
early on the first day of the week, they came to the
tomb when the sun had risen. <key:bcv=Mark 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:3">3 </verse></sup>They were saying
among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone
from the door of the tomb for us?” <key:bcv=Mark 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:4">4 </verse></sup>for it was very
big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled
back.

<key:bcv=Mark 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe;
and they were amazed. <key:bcv=Mark 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Don’t
be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has
been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the
place where they laid him! <key:bcv=Mark 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:7">7 </verse></sup>But go, tell his disciples
and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There
you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”
<key:bcv=Mark 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:8">8 </verse></sup>They went out,<footnote:1>16:8 TR adds “quickly” </footnote> and fled from the tomb, for
trembling and astonishment had come on them.
They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.<footnote:1>16:8 One isolated manuscript omits verses 9-20 but adds this “short ending of Mark” to the end of verse 8: They told all that had been commanded them briefly to those around Peter. After that, Jesus himself sent them out, from east to west, with the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Mark 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:9">9 </verse></sup><footnote:1>16:9 NU includes the text of verses 9-20, but mentions in a footnote that a few manuscripts omitted it. The translators of the World English Bible regard Mark 16:9-20 as reliable based on an overwhelming majority of textual evidence, including not only the authoritative Greek Majority Text New Testament, but also the TR and many of the manuscripts cited in the NU text.</footnote>Now when he had risen early on the first day
of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,
from whom he had cast out seven demons. <key:bcv=Mark 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:10">10 </verse></sup>She
went and told those who had been with him, as they
mourned and wept. <key:bcv=Mark 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:11">11 </verse></sup>When they heard that he was
alive and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.
<key:bcv=Mark 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:12">12 </verse></sup>After these things he was revealed in another
form to two of them as they walked, on their way
into the country. <key:bcv=Mark 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:13">13 </verse></sup>They went away and told it to
the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

<key:bcv=Mark 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves
as they sat at the table; and he rebuked them
for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because
they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he
had risen. <key:bcv=Mark 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Go into all the world
and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
<key:bcv=Mark 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:16">16 </verse></sup>He who believes and is baptized will be saved;
but he who disbelieves will be condemned. <key:bcv=Mark 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:17">17 </verse></sup>
These signs will accompany those who believe: in
my name they will cast out demons; they will speak
with new languages; <key:bcv=Mark 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:18">18 </verse></sup>they will take up serpents;
and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way
hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they
will recover.”

<key:bcv=Mark 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:19">19 </verse></sup>So then the Lord,<footnote:1>16:19 NU adds “Jesus”</footnote> after he had spoken to
them, was received up into heaven and sat down
at the right hand of God. <key:bcv=Mark 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Mark 16:20">20 </verse></sup>They went out and
preached everywhere, the Lord working with them
and confirming the word by the signs that followed.
Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Luke
<h2>The Good News According to
<br>
Luke</h2>

<key:bcv=Luke 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Since many have undertaken to set in order
a narrative concerning those matters which have
been fulfilled among us, <key:bcv=Luke 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:2">2 </verse></sup>even as those who from
the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of
the word delivered them to us, <key:bcv=Luke 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:3">3 </verse></sup>it seemed good
to me also, having traced the course of all things
accurately from the first, to write to you in order,
most excellent Theophilus; <key:bcv=Luke 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:4">4 </verse></sup>that you might know
the certainty concerning the things in which you
were instructed.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:5">5 </verse></sup>There was in the days of Herod, the king of
Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the
priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
<key:bcv=Luke 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:6">6 </verse></sup>They were both righteous before God, walking
blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances
of the Lord. <key:bcv=Luke 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:7">7 </verse></sup>But they had no child, because
Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well
advanced in years.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Now while he executed the priest’s office before
God in the order of his division <key:bcv=Luke 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:9">9 </verse></sup>according to the
custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter
into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. <key:bcv=Luke 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:10">10 </verse></sup>The
whole multitude of the people were praying outside
at the hour of incense.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:11">11 </verse></sup>An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing
on the right side of the altar of incense. <key:bcv=Luke 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Zacharias
was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon
him. <key:bcv=Luke 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:13">13 </verse></sup>But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid,
Zacharias, because your request has been heard.
Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you
shall call his name John. <key:bcv=Luke 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:14">14 </verse></sup>You will have joy and
gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. <key:bcv=Luke 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:15">15 </verse></sup>For
he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he
will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be
filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s
womb. <key:bcv=Luke 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:16">16 </verse></sup>He will turn many of the children of Israel
to the Lord their God. <key:bcv=Luke 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:17">17 </verse></sup>He will go before him in the
spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children,’<footnote:1>1:17 Malachi 4:6 </footnote> and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for
the Lord.”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure
of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well
advanced in years.”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:19">19 </verse></sup>The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who
stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak
to you and to bring you this good news. <key:bcv=Luke 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:20 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
you will be silent and not able to speak until the day
that these things will happen, because you didn’t
believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their
proper time.”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:21">21 </verse></sup>The people were waiting for Zacharias, and
they marveled that he delayed in the temple.
<key:bcv=Luke 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:22">22 </verse></sup>When he came out, he could not speak to them.
They perceived that he had seen a vision in the
temple. He continued making signs to them, and
remained mute. <key:bcv=Luke 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:23">23 </verse></sup>When the days of his service
were fulfilled, he departed to his house. <key:bcv=Luke 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:24">24 </verse></sup>After
these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid
herself five months, saying, <key:bcv=Luke 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:25">25 </verse></sup>“Thus has the Lord
done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to
take away my reproach among men.”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:26">26 </verse></sup>Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was
sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
<key:bcv=Luke 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:27">27 </verse></sup>to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose
name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s
name was Mary. <key:bcv=Luke 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Having come in, the angel said
to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord
is with you. Blessed are you among women!”
<key:bcv=Luke 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:29">29 </verse></sup>But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled
at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation
this might be. <key:bcv=Luke 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:30">30 </verse></sup>The angel said to her, “Don’t
be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
<key:bcv=Luke 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:31">31 </verse></sup>Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give
birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ <key:bcv=Luke 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:32">32 </verse></sup>He will
be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of his father
David, <key:bcv=Luke 1:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:33">33 </verse></sup>and he will reign over the house of Jacob
forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
<key:bcv=Luke 1:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:34">34 </verse></sup>Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing
I am a virgin?”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:35">35 </verse></sup>The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will
come on you, and the power of the Most High will
overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who
is born from you will be called the Son of God.
<key:bcv=Luke 1:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:36">36 </verse></sup>Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived
a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with
her who was called barren. <key:bcv=Luke 1:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:37">37 </verse></sup>For nothing spoken by
God is impossible.”<footnote:1>1:37 or, “For everything spoken by God is possible.”</footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 1:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:38">38 </verse></sup>Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let
it be done to me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:39">39 </verse></sup>Mary arose in those days and went into the
hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, <key:bcv=Luke 1:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:40">40 </verse></sup>and
entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted
Elizabeth. <key:bcv=Luke 1:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:41">41 </verse></sup>When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was
filled with the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Luke 1:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:42">42 </verse></sup>She called out with a
loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb! <key:bcv=Luke 1:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:43">43 </verse></sup>Why am I so
favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to
me? <key:bcv=Luke 1:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:44">44 </verse></sup>For behold, when the voice of your greeting
came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for
joy! <key:bcv=Luke 1:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:45">45 </verse></sup>Blessed is she who believed, for there will be
a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken
to her from the Lord!”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:46">46 </verse></sup>Mary said,
<br>
“My soul magnifies the Lord.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:47">47 </verse></sup>My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
<key:bcv=Luke 1:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:48">48 </verse></sup>for he has looked at the humble state of his
servant.
<br>
For behold, from now on, all generations will call me
blessed.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:49">49 </verse></sup>For he who is mighty has done great things
for me.
<br>
Holy is his name.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:50">50 </verse></sup>His mercy is for generations and generations
on those who fear him.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:51">51 </verse></sup>He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud in the imagination
of their hearts.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:52">52 </verse></sup>He has put down princes from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:53">53 </verse></sup>He has filled the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:54">54 </verse></sup>He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he
might remember mercy,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:55">55 </verse></sup>as he spoke to our fathers,

to Abraham and his offspring<footnote:1>1:55 or, seed </footnote> forever.”
<key:bcv=Luke 1:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:56">56 </verse></sup>Mary stayed with her about three months, and
then returned to her house.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:57><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:57">57 </verse></sup>Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth
was fulfilled, and she gave birth to a son. <key:bcv=Luke 1:58><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:58">58 </verse></sup>Her
neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had
magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced
with her. <key:bcv=Luke 1:59><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:59">59 </verse></sup>On the eighth day, they came to
circumcise the child; and they would have called
him Zacharias, after the name of his father. <key:bcv=Luke 1:60><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:60">60 </verse></sup>His
mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called
John.”

<key:bcv=Luke 1:61><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:61">61 </verse></sup>They said to her, “There is no one among your
relatives who is called by this name.” <key:bcv=Luke 1:62><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:62">62 </verse></sup>They made
signs to his father, what he would have him called.
<key:bcv=Luke 1:63><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:63">63 </verse></sup>He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His
name is John.”

They all marveled. <key:bcv=Luke 1:64><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:64">64 </verse></sup>His mouth was opened
immediately and his tongue freed, and he spoke,
blessing God. <key:bcv=Luke 1:65><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:65">65 </verse></sup>Fear came on all who lived around
them, and all these sayings were talked about
throughout all the hill country of Judea. <key:bcv=Luke 1:66><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:66">66 </verse></sup>All who
heard them laid them up in their heart, saying,
“What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord
was with him.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:67><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:67">67 </verse></sup>His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy
Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:68><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:68">68 </verse></sup>“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people;
<key:bcv=Luke 1:69><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:69">69 </verse></sup>and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the
house of his servant David

<key:bcv=Luke 1:70><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:70">70 </verse></sup>(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy
prophets who have been from of old),

<key:bcv=Luke 1:71><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:71">71 </verse></sup>salvation from our enemies and from the
hand of all who hate us;

<key:bcv=Luke 1:72><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:72">72 </verse></sup>to show mercy toward our fathers,
<br>
to remember his holy covenant,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:73><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:73">73 </verse></sup>the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
<key:bcv=Luke 1:74><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:74">74 </verse></sup>to grant to us that we, being delivered out of
the hand of our enemies,
<br>
should serve him without fear,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:75><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:75">75 </verse></sup>in holiness and righteousness before him all
the days of our life.

<key:bcv=Luke 1:76><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:76">76 </verse></sup>And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most
High;
<br>
for you will go before the face of the Lord to
prepare his ways,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:77><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:77">77 </verse></sup>to give knowledge of salvation to his people
by the remission of their sins,

<key:bcv=Luke 1:78><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:78">78 </verse></sup>because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
<key:bcv=Luke 1:79><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:79">79 </verse></sup>to shine on those who sit in darkness and the
shadow of death;
<br>
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
<key:bcv=Luke 1:80><sup><verse bcv="Luke 1:80">80 </verse></sup>The child was growing and becoming strong
in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his
public appearance to Israel.

#BCV:Luke 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar
Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
<key:bcv=Luke 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:2">2 </verse></sup>This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius
was governor of Syria. <key:bcv=Luke 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:3">3 </verse></sup>All went to enroll themselves,
everyone to his own city. <key:bcv=Luke 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Joseph also went
up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into
Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and family of David,
<key:bcv=Luke 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:5">5 </verse></sup>to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to
be married to him as wife, being pregnant.
<key:bcv=Luke 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:6">6 </verse></sup>While they were there, the day had come for her
to give birth. <key:bcv=Luke 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:7">7 </verse></sup>She gave birth to her firstborn son.
She wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a
feeding trough, because there was no room for them
in the inn.

<key:bcv=Luke 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:8">8 </verse></sup>There were shepherds in the same country
staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over
their flock. <key:bcv=Luke 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by
them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were terrified. <key:bcv=Luke 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:10">10 </verse></sup>The angel said to them,
“Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news
of great joy which will be to all the people. <key:bcv=Luke 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For
there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior,
who is Christ<footnote:1>2:11 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> the Lord. <key:bcv=Luke 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:12">12 </verse></sup>This is the sign to you:
you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying
in a feeding trough.” <key:bcv=Luke 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Suddenly, there was with
the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising
God and saying,

<key:bcv=Luke 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:14">14 </verse></sup>“Glory to God in the highest,
<br>
on earth peace, good will toward men.”
<key:bcv=Luke 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:15">15 </verse></sup>When the angels went away from them into
the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s
go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that
has happened, which the Lord has made known to
us.” <key:bcv=Luke 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:16">16 </verse></sup>They came with haste and found both Mary
and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding
trough. <key:bcv=Luke 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:17">17 </verse></sup>When they saw it, they publicized widely
the saying which was spoken to them about this
child. <key:bcv=Luke 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:18">18 </verse></sup>All who heard it wondered at the things
which were spoken to them by the shepherds. <key:bcv=Luke 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:19">19 </verse></sup>But
Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her
heart. <key:bcv=Luke 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:20">20 </verse></sup>The shepherds returned, glorifying and
praising God for all the things that they had heard
and seen, just as it was told them.

<key:bcv=Luke 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:21">21 </verse></sup>When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision
of the child, his name was called Jesus, which
was given by the angel before he was conceived in
the womb.

<key:bcv=Luke 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:22">22 </verse></sup>When the days of their purification according
to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him
up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord <key:bcv=Luke 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:23">23 </verse></sup>(as it
is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who
opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),<footnote:1>2:23 Exodus 13:2,12 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:24">24 </verse></sup>and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is
said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or
two young pigeons.”<footnote:1>2:24 Leviticus 12:8</footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:25">25 </verse></sup>Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose
name was Simeon. This man was righteous and
devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the
Holy Spirit was on him. <key:bcv=Luke 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:26">26 </verse></sup>It had been revealed to
him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death
before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.<footnote:1>2:26 “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew) both mean “Anointed One” </footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:27">27 </verse></sup>He came
in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents
brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do
concerning him according to the custom of the law,
<key:bcv=Luke 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:28">28 </verse></sup>then he received him into his arms and blessed
God, and said,

<key:bcv=Luke 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:29">29 </verse></sup>“Now you are releasing your servant, Master,
according to your word, in peace;

<key:bcv=Luke 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:30">30 </verse></sup>for my eyes have seen your salvation,
<key:bcv=Luke 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:31">31 </verse></sup>which you have prepared before the face of
all peoples;

<key:bcv=Luke 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:32">32 </verse></sup>a light for revelation to the nations,
and the glory of your people Israel.”
<key:bcv=Luke 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:33">33 </verse></sup>Joseph and his mother were marveling at
the things which were spoken concerning him.
<key:bcv=Luke 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:34">34 </verse></sup>Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his
mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the
falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign
which is spoken against. <key:bcv=Luke 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:35">35 </verse></sup>Yes, a sword will pierce
through your own soul, that the thoughts of many
hearts may be revealed.”

<key:bcv=Luke 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:36">36 </verse></sup>There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter
of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a
great age, having lived with a husband seven years
from her virginity, <key:bcv=Luke 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:37">37 </verse></sup>and she had been a widow for
about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from
the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions
night and day. <key:bcv=Luke 2:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:38">38 </verse></sup>Coming up at that very hour,
she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him
to all those who were looking for redemption in
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Luke 2:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:39">39 </verse></sup>When they had accomplished all things that
were according to the law of the Lord, they returned
into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. <key:bcv=Luke 2:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:40">40 </verse></sup>The child
was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit,
being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was
upon him.

<key:bcv=Luke 2:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:41">41 </verse></sup>His parents went every year to Jerusalem at
the feast of the Passover. <key:bcv=Luke 2:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:42">42 </verse></sup>When he was twelve
years old, they went up to Jerusalem according
to the custom of the feast; <key:bcv=Luke 2:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:43">43 </verse></sup>and when they had
fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy
Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his
mother didn’t know it, <key:bcv=Luke 2:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:44">44 </verse></sup>but supposing him to be in
the company, they went a day’s journey; and they
looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
<key:bcv=Luke 2:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:45">45 </verse></sup>When they didn’t find him, they returned
to Jerusalem, looking for him. <key:bcv=Luke 2:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:46">46 </verse></sup>After three days
they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle
of the teachers, both listening to them and asking
them questions. <key:bcv=Luke 2:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:47">47 </verse></sup>All who heard him were amazed
at his understanding and his answers. <key:bcv=Luke 2:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:48">48 </verse></sup>When they
saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said
to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way?
Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for
you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 2:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:49">49 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why were you looking for
me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s
house?” <key:bcv=Luke 2:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:50">50 </verse></sup>They didn’t understand the saying which
he spoke to them. <key:bcv=Luke 2:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:51">51 </verse></sup>And he went down with them
and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them,
and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
<key:bcv=Luke 2:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 2:52">52 </verse></sup>And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in
favor with God and men.

#BCV:Luke 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius
Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother
Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis,
and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, <key:bcv=Luke 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:2">2 </verse></sup>during
the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the
word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in
the wilderness. <key:bcv=Luke 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:3">3 </verse></sup>He came into all the region around
the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for
remission of sins. <key:bcv=Luke 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:4">4 </verse></sup>As it is written in the book of the
words of Isaiah the prophet,
<br>
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord.
<br>
Make his paths straight.

<key:bcv=Luke 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Every valley will be filled.
<br>
Every mountain and hill will be brought low.
The crooked will become straight,
<br>
and the rough ways smooth.

<key:bcv=Luke 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:6">6 </verse></sup>All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ”<footnote:1>3:6 Isaiah 40:3-5</footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He said therefore to the multitudes who went
out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers,
who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
<key:bcv=Luke 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance,
and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have
Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is
able to raise up children to Abraham from these
stones! <key:bcv=Luke 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Even now the ax also lies at the root of
the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
<key:bcv=Luke 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:10">10 </verse></sup>The multitudes asked him, “What then must we
do?”

<key:bcv=Luke 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:11">11 </verse></sup>He answered them, “He who has two coats, let
him give to him who has none. He who has food, let
him do likewise.”

<key:bcv=Luke 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and
they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
<key:bcv=Luke 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:13">13 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Collect no more than that
which is appointed to you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about
us? What must we do?”
<br>
He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence,
neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with
your wages.”

<key:bcv=Luke 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:15">15 </verse></sup>As the people were in expectation, and all men
reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether
perhaps he was the Christ, <key:bcv=Luke 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:16">16 </verse></sup>John answered them
all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes
who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I
am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the
Holy Spirit and fire. <key:bcv=Luke 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:17">17 </verse></sup>His winnowing fan is in his
hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing
floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but
he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
<key:bcv=Luke 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Then with many other exhortations he
preached good news to the people, <key:bcv=Luke 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:19">19 </verse></sup>but Herod
the tetrarch,<footnote:1>3:19 a tetrarch is one of four governors of a province </footnote> being reproved by him for Herodias,
his brother’s<footnote:1>3:19 TR reads “brother Philip’s” instead of “brother’s” </footnote> wife, and for all the evil things which
Herod had done, <key:bcv=Luke 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:20">20 </verse></sup>added this also to them all, that
he shut up John in prison.

<key:bcv=Luke 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus
also had been baptized and was praying. The sky
was opened, <key:bcv=Luke 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:22">22 </verse></sup>and the Holy Spirit descended in a
bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came
out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In
you I am well pleased.”

<key:bcv=Luke 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was
about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed)
of Joseph, the son of Heli, <key:bcv=Luke 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:24">24 </verse></sup>the son of
Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son
of Jannai, the son of Joseph, <key:bcv=Luke 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:25">25 </verse></sup>the son of Mattathias,
the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,
the son of Naggai, <key:bcv=Luke 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:26">26 </verse></sup>the son of Maath, the son of
Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the
son of Judah, <key:bcv=Luke 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:27">27 </verse></sup>the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,
the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son
of Neri, <key:bcv=Luke 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:28">28 </verse></sup>the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son
of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, <key:bcv=Luke 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:29">29 </verse></sup>the
son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the
son of Matthat, the son of Levi, <key:bcv=Luke 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:30">30 </verse></sup>the son of Simeon,
the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan,
the son of Eliakim, <key:bcv=Luke 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:31">31 </verse></sup>the son of Melea, the son of
Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the
son of David, <key:bcv=Luke 3:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:32">32 </verse></sup>the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the
son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
<key:bcv=Luke 3:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:33">33 </verse></sup>the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,<footnote:1>3:33 NU reads “Admin, the son of Arni” instead of “Aram” </footnote> the son
of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, <key:bcv=Luke 3:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:34">34 </verse></sup>the
son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, <key:bcv=Luke 3:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:35">35 </verse></sup>the son of
Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of
Eber, the son of Shelah, <key:bcv=Luke 3:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:36">36 </verse></sup>the son of Cainan, the son
of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the
son of Lamech, <key:bcv=Luke 3:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:37">37 </verse></sup>the son of Methuselah, the son of
Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the
son of Cainan, <key:bcv=Luke 3:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 3:38">38 </verse></sup>the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the
son of Adam, the son of God.

#BCV:Luke 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the
Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
<key:bcv=Luke 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:2">2 </verse></sup>for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate
nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were
completed, he was hungry.

<key:bcv=Luke 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:3">3 </verse></sup>The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,
command this stone to become bread.”

<key:bcv=Luke 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of
God.’ ”<footnote:1>4:4 Deuteronomy 8:3 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:5">5 </verse></sup>The devil, leading him up on a high mountain,
showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a
moment of time. <key:bcv=Luke 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:6">6 </verse></sup>The devil said to him, “I will give
you all this authority and their glory, for it has been
delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.
<key:bcv=Luke 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:7">7 </verse></sup>If you therefore will worship before me, it will all
be yours.”

<key:bcv=Luke 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For
it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and you shall serve him only.’ ”<footnote:1>4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:9">9 </verse></sup>He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the
pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are
the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, <key:bcv=Luke 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:10">10 </verse></sup>for
it is written,
<br>
‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard
you;’

<key:bcv=Luke 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:11">11 </verse></sup>and,
<br>
‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest perhaps you dash your foot against a
stone.’ ”<footnote:1>4:11 Psalm 91:11-12 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said,
‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”<footnote:1>4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:13">13 </verse></sup>When the devil had completed every temptation,
he departed from him until another time.
<key:bcv=Luke 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
Galilee, and news about him spread through all the
surrounding area. <key:bcv=Luke 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:15">15 </verse></sup>He taught in their synagogues,
being glorified by all.

<key:bcv=Luke 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:16">16 </verse></sup>He came to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to
read. <key:bcv=Luke 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed
to him. He opened the book, and found the place
where it was written,

<key:bcv=Luke 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:18">18 </verse></sup>“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
<br>
because he has anointed me to preach good
news to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,<footnote:1>4:18 NU omits “to heal the broken hearted” </footnote>
to proclaim release to the captives,
<br>
recovering of sight to the blind,
<br>
to deliver those who are crushed,

<key:bcv=Luke 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:19">19 </verse></sup>and to proclaim the acceptable year of the
Lord.”<footnote:1>4:19 Isaiah 61:1-2</footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:20">20 </verse></sup>He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant,
and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue
were fastened on him. <key:bcv=Luke 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:21">21 </verse></sup>He began to tell them,
“Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing.”

<key:bcv=Luke 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:22">22 </verse></sup>All testified about him and wondered at the
gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth;
and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
<key:bcv=Luke 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me
this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever
we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here
in your hometown.’ ” <key:bcv=Luke 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:24">24 </verse></sup>He said, “Most certainly I
tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
<key:bcv=Luke 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:25">25 </verse></sup>But truly I tell you, there were many widows in
Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut
up three years and six months, when a great famine
came over all the land. <key:bcv=Luke 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Elijah was sent to none
of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon,
to a woman who was a widow. <key:bcv=Luke 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:27">27 </verse></sup>There were many
lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet
not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the
Syrian.”

<key:bcv=Luke 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:28">28 </verse></sup>They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue
as they heard these things. <key:bcv=Luke 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:29">29 </verse></sup>They rose up,
threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of
the hill that their city was built on, that they might
throw him off the cliff. <key:bcv=Luke 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:30">30 </verse></sup>But he, passing through
the middle of them, went his way.

<key:bcv=Luke 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:31">31 </verse></sup>He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee.
He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, <key:bcv=Luke 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:32">32 </verse></sup>and
they were astonished at his teaching, for his word
was with authority. <key:bcv=Luke 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:33">33 </verse></sup>In the synagogue there was
a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and
he cried out with a loud voice, <key:bcv=Luke 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:34">34 </verse></sup>saying, “Ah! what
have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you
come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy
One of God!”

<key:bcv=Luke 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come
out of him!” When the demon had thrown him
down in the middle of them, he came out of him,
having done him no harm.

<key:bcv=Luke 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Amazement came on all and they spoke together,
one with another, saying, “What is this
word? For with authority and power he commands
the unclean spirits, and they come out!” <key:bcv=Luke 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:37">37 </verse></sup>News
about him went out into every place of the surrounding
region.

<key:bcv=Luke 4:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:38">38 </verse></sup>He rose up from the synagogue and entered
into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was
afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to
help her. <key:bcv=Luke 4:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:39">39 </verse></sup>He stood over her and rebuked the fever,
and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served
them. <key:bcv=Luke 4:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:40">40 </verse></sup>When the sun was setting, all those who
had any sick with various diseases brought them to
him; and he laid his hands on every one of them,
and healed them. <key:bcv=Luke 4:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:41">41 </verse></sup>Demons also came out of many,
crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son
of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to
speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
<key:bcv=Luke 4:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:42">42 </verse></sup>When it was day, he departed and went into
an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for
him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he
wouldn’t go away from them. <key:bcv=Luke 4:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:43">43 </verse></sup>But he said to them,
“I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to
the other cities also. For this reason I have been
sent.” <key:bcv=Luke 4:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 4:44">44 </verse></sup>He was preaching in the synagogues of
Galilee.

#BCV:Luke 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Now while the multitude pressed on him and
heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake
of Gennesaret. <key:bcv=Luke 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:2">2 </verse></sup>He saw two boats standing by the
lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and
were washing their nets. <key:bcv=Luke 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:3">3 </verse></sup>He entered into one of
the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put
out a little from the land. He sat down and taught
the multitudes from the boat.

<key:bcv=Luke 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:4">4 </verse></sup>When he had finished speaking, he said to
Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your
nets for a catch.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all
night and caught nothing; but at your word I will
let down the net.” <key:bcv=Luke 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:6">6 </verse></sup>When they had done this, they
caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was
breaking. <key:bcv=Luke 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:7">7 </verse></sup>They beckoned to their partners in the
other boat, that they should come and help them.
They came and filled both boats, so that they began
to sink. <key:bcv=Luke 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:8">8 </verse></sup>But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down
at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a
sinful man, Lord.” <key:bcv=Luke 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:9">9 </verse></sup>For he was amazed, and all who
were with him, at the catch of fish which they had
caught; <key:bcv=Luke 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:10">10 </verse></sup>and so also were James and John, sons of
Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now
on you will be catching people alive.”
<key:bcv=Luke 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:11">11 </verse></sup>When they had brought their boats to land,
they left everything, and followed him.
<key:bcv=Luke 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:12">12 </verse></sup>While he was in one of the cities, behold, there
was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he
fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you
want to, you can make me clean.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:13">13 </verse></sup>He stretched out his hand and touched him,
saying, “I want to. Be made clean.”

Immediately the leprosy left him. <key:bcv=Luke 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:14">14 </verse></sup>He commanded
him to tell no one, “But go your way and
show yourself to the priest, and offer for your
cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for
a testimony to them.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:15">15 </verse></sup>But the report concerning him spread much
more, and great multitudes came together to hear
and to be healed by him of their infirmities. <key:bcv=Luke 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:16">16 </verse></sup>But
he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
<key:bcv=Luke 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:17">17 </verse></sup>On one of those days, he was teaching; and
there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting
by who had come out of every village of Galilee,
Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was
with him to heal them. <key:bcv=Luke 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Behold, men brought a
paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring
him in to lay before Jesus. <key:bcv=Luke 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Not finding a way to
bring him in because of the multitude, they went up
to the housetop and let him down through the tiles
with his cot into the middle before Jesus. <key:bcv=Luke 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Seeing
their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are
forgiven you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:21">21 </verse></sup>The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason,
saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who
can forgive sins, but God alone?”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:22">22 </verse></sup>But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered
them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts? <key:bcv=Luke 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:23">23 </verse></sup>
Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’
or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’ <key:bcv=Luke 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:24">24 </verse></sup>But that you may
know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins,” he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell
you, arise, take up your cot, and go to your house.”
<key:bcv=Luke 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Immediately he rose up before them, and took
up that which he was laying on, and departed to his
house, glorifying God. <key:bcv=Luke 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Amazement took hold on
all, and they glorified God. They were filled with
fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
<key:bcv=Luke 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:27">27 </verse></sup>After these things he went out and saw a tax
collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and
said to him, “Follow me!”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:28">28 </verse></sup>He left everything, and rose up and followed
him. <key:bcv=Luke 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:29">29 </verse></sup>Levi made a great feast for him in his house.
There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others
who were reclining with them. <key:bcv=Luke 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:30">30 </verse></sup>Their scribes
and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples,
saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax
collectors and sinners?”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:31">31 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy
have no need for a physician, but those who are sick
do. <key:bcv=Luke 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:32">32 </verse></sup>I have not come to call the righteous, but
sinners, to repentance.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:33">33 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples
often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the
Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:34">34 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Can you make the friends of
the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with
them? <key:bcv=Luke 5:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:35">35 </verse></sup>But the days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then
they will fast in those days.”

<key:bcv=Luke 5:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:36">36 </verse></sup>He also told a parable to them. “No one puts
a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or
else he will tear the new, and also the piece from
the new will not match the old. <key:bcv=Luke 5:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:37">37 </verse></sup>No one puts new
wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will
burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins
will be destroyed. <key:bcv=Luke 5:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:38">38 </verse></sup>But new wine must be put
into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved. <key:bcv=Luke 5:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 5:39">39 </verse></sup>
No man having drunk old wine immediately desires
new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

#BCV:Luke 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he
was going through the grain fields. His disciples
plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them
in their hands. <key:bcv=Luke 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:2">2 </verse></sup>But some of the Pharisees said to
them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to
do on the Sabbath day?”

<key:bcv=Luke 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read
what David did when he was hungry, he and those
who were with him, <key:bcv=Luke 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:4">4 </verse></sup>how he entered into God’s
house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave
also to those who were with him, which is not lawful
to eat except for the priests alone?” <key:bcv=Luke 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to
them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
<key:bcv=Luke 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:6">6 </verse></sup>It also happened on another Sabbath that he
entered into the synagogue and taught. There was
a man there, and his right hand was withered.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see
whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they
might find an accusation against him. <key:bcv=Luke 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:8">8 </verse></sup>But he knew
their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the
withered hand, “Rise up and stand in the middle.”
He arose and stood. <key:bcv=Luke 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said to them, “I
will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath
to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”
<key:bcv=Luke 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:10">10 </verse></sup>He looked around at them all, and said to the man,
“Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was
restored as sound as the other. <key:bcv=Luke 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:11">11 </verse></sup>But they were
filled with rage, and talked with one another about
what they might do to Jesus.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:12">12 </verse></sup>In these days, he went out to the mountain
to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to
God. <key:bcv=Luke 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:13">13 </verse></sup>When it was day, he called his disciples,
and from them he chose twelve, whom he also
named apostles: <key:bcv=Luke 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Simon, whom he also named
Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip;
Bartholomew; <key:bcv=Luke 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Matthew; Thomas; James the son
of Alphaeus; Simon who was called the Zealot;
<key:bcv=Luke 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who
also became a traitor.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:17">17 </verse></sup>He came down with them and stood on a level
place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great
number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem
and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to
hear him and to be healed of their diseases, <key:bcv=Luke 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:18">18 </verse></sup>as well
as those who were troubled by unclean spirits; and
they were being healed. <key:bcv=Luke 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:19">19 </verse></sup>All the multitude sought
to touch him, for power came out of him and healed
them all.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:20">20 </verse></sup>He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
<br>
for God’s Kingdom is yours.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:21">21 </verse></sup>Blessed are you who hunger now,
<br>
for you will be filled.
<br>
Blessed are you who weep now,
<br>
for you will laugh.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:22">22 </verse></sup>Blessed are you when men hate you, and when
they exclude and mock you, and throw out
your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for
behold, your reward is great in heaven,
for their fathers did the same thing to the
prophets.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:24">24 </verse></sup>“But woe to you who are rich!
<br>
For you have received your consolation.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:25">25 </verse></sup>Woe to you, you who are full now,
<br>
for you will be hungry.
<br>
Woe to you who laugh now,
<br>
for you will mourn and weep.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Woe,<footnote:1>6:26 TR adds “to you” </footnote> when<footnote:1>6:26 TR adds “all”</footnote> men speak well of you,
for their fathers did the same thing to the false
prophets.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:27">27 </verse></sup>“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you, <key:bcv=Luke 6:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:28">28 </verse></sup>bless those who
curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. <key:bcv=Luke 6:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:29">29 </verse></sup>
To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the
other; and from him who takes away your cloak,
don’t withhold your coat also. <key:bcv=Luke 6:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:30">30 </verse></sup>Give to everyone
who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away
your goods to give them back again.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:31">31 </verse></sup>“As you would like people to do to you, do
exactly so to them.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:32">32 </verse></sup>“If you love those who love you, what credit is
that to you? For even sinners love those who love
them. <key:bcv=Luke 6:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:33">33 </verse></sup>If you do good to those who do good to
you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do
the same. <key:bcv=Luke 6:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:34">34 </verse></sup>If you lend to those from whom you
hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even
sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:35">35 </verse></sup>But love your enemies, and do good, and lend,
expecting nothing back; and your reward will be
great, and you will be children of the Most High; for
he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:36">36 </verse></sup>“Therefore be merciful,
<br>
even as your Father is also merciful.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:37">37 </verse></sup>Don’t judge,
<br>
and you won’t be judged.
<br>
Don’t condemn,
<br>
and you won’t be condemned.
<br>
Set free,
<br>
and you will be set free.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:38">38 </verse></sup>“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure,
pressed down, shaken together, and running over,
will be given to you.<footnote:1>6:38 literally, into your bosom. </footnote> For with the same measure
you measure it will be measured back to you.”
<key:bcv=Luke 6:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:39">39 </verse></sup>He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind
guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
<key:bcv=Luke 6:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:40">40 </verse></sup>A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone
when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. <key:bcv=Luke 6:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:41">41 </verse></sup>
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your
brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in
your own eye? <key:bcv=Luke 6:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:42">42 </verse></sup>Or how can you tell your brother,
‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in
your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that
is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove
the beam from your own eye, and then you can see
clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your
brother’s eye.

<key:bcv=Luke 6:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:43">43 </verse></sup>“For there is no good tree that produces rotten
fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good
fruit. <key:bcv=Luke 6:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:44">44 </verse></sup>For each tree is known by its own fruit. For
people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they
gather grapes from a bramble bush. <key:bcv=Luke 6:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:45">45 </verse></sup>The good
man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out
that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil
treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for
out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
<key:bcv=Luke 6:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:46">46 </verse></sup>“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do
the things which I say? <key:bcv=Luke 6:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:47">47 </verse></sup>Everyone who comes to
me, and hears my words and does them, I will show
you who he is like. <key:bcv=Luke 6:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:48">48 </verse></sup>He is like a man building a
house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation
on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke
against that house, and could not shake it, because
it was founded on the rock. <key:bcv=Luke 6:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 6:49">49 </verse></sup>But he who hears
and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on
the earth without a foundation, against which the
stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin
of that house was great.”

#BCV:Luke 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:1">1 </verse></sup>After he had finished speaking in the hearing of
the people, he entered into Capernaum. <key:bcv=Luke 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:2">2 </verse></sup>A certain
centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick
and at the point of death. <key:bcv=Luke 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:3">3 </verse></sup>When he heard about
Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him
to come and save his servant. <key:bcv=Luke 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:4">4 </verse></sup>When they came
to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is
worthy for you to do this for him, <key:bcv=Luke 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:5">5 </verse></sup>for he loves our
nation, and he built our synagogue for us.” <key:bcv=Luke 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesus
went with them. When he was now not far from
the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying
to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not
worthy for you to come under my roof. <key:bcv=Luke 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore I
didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but
say the word, and my servant will be healed. <key:bcv=Luke 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:8">8 </verse></sup>For I
also am a man placed under authority, having under
myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes;
and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my
servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:9">9 </verse></sup>When Jesus heard these things, he marveled
at him, and turned and said to the multitude who
followed him, “I tell you, I have not found such great
faith, no, not in Israel.” <key:bcv=Luke 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:10">10 </verse></sup>Those who were sent,
returning to the house, found that the servant who
had been sick was well.

<key:bcv=Luke 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain.
Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude,
went with him. <key:bcv=Luke 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Now when he came near to the
gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was
carried out, the only born<footnote:1>7:12 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> son of his mother, and
she was a widow. Many people of the city were with
her. <key:bcv=Luke 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:13">13 </verse></sup>When the Lord saw her, he had compassion
on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.” <key:bcv=Luke 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:14">14 </verse></sup>He came near
and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still.
He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!” <key:bcv=Luke 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:15">15 </verse></sup>He who
was dead sat up and began to speak. Then he gave
him to his mother.

<key:bcv=Luke 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God,
saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and,
“God has visited his people!” <key:bcv=Luke 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:17">17 </verse></sup>This report went out
concerning him in the whole of Judea and in all the
surrounding region.

<key:bcv=Luke 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:18">18 </verse></sup>The disciples of John told him about all these
things. <key:bcv=Luke 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:19">19 </verse></sup>John, calling to himself two of his disciples,
sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you the one
who is coming, or should we look for another?”
<key:bcv=Luke 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:20">20 </verse></sup>When the men had come to him, they said, “John
the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he
who comes, or should we look for another?’ ”
<key:bcv=Luke 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:21">21 </verse></sup>In that hour he cured many of diseases and
plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind
he gave sight. <key:bcv=Luke 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Go and tell
John the things which you have seen and heard:
that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are
raised up, and the poor have good news preached
to them. <key:bcv=Luke 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Blessed is he who finds no occasion for
stumbling in me.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:24">24 </verse></sup>When John’s messengers had departed, he
began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did
you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken
by the wind? <key:bcv=Luke 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:25">25 </verse></sup>But what did you go out to see? A
man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are
gorgeously dressed and live delicately are in kings’
courts. <key:bcv=Luke 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:26">26 </verse></sup>But what did you go out to see? A
prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a
prophet. <key:bcv=Luke 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:27">27 </verse></sup>This is he of whom it is written,
‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you.’<footnote:1>7:27 Malachi 3:1 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:28">28 </verse></sup>“For I tell you, among those who are born of
women there is not a greater prophet than John the
Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is
greater than he.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:29">29 </verse></sup>When all the people and the tax collectors
heard this, they declared God to be just, having been
baptized with John’s baptism. <key:bcv=Luke 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:30">30 </verse></sup>But the Pharisees
and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not
being baptized by him themselves.

<key:bcv=Luke 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:31">31 </verse></sup><footnote:1>7:31 TR adds “But the Lord said,”</footnote> “To what then should I compare the people
of this generation? What are they like? <key:bcv=Luke 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:32">32 </verse></sup>They
\are like children who sit in the marketplace and call
to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you
didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’
<key:bcv=Luke 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:33">33 </verse></sup>For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread
nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
<key:bcv=Luke 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:34">34 </verse></sup>The Son of Man has come eating and drinking,
and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a
friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ <key:bcv=Luke 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:35">35 </verse></sup>Wisdom is
justified by all her children.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:36">36 </verse></sup>One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with
him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house and sat
at the table. <key:bcv=Luke 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:37">37 </verse></sup>Behold, a woman in the city who
was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining
in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of
ointment. <key:bcv=Luke 7:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:38">38 </verse></sup>Standing behind at his feet weeping,
she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she
wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his
feet, and anointed them with the ointment. <key:bcv=Luke 7:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:39">39 </verse></sup>Now
when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he
said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet,
would have perceived who and what kind of woman
this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
<key:bcv=Luke 7:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:40">40 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something
to tell you.”
<br>
He said, “Teacher, say on.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:41">41 </verse></sup>“A certain lender had two debtors. The one
owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. <key:bcv=Luke 7:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:42">42 </verse></sup>
When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both.
Which of them therefore will love him most?”
<key:bcv=Luke 7:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:43">43 </verse></sup>Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he
forgave the most.”
<br>
He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”
<key:bcv=Luke 7:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:44">44 </verse></sup>Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you
see this woman? I entered into your house, and
you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet
my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the
hair of her head. <key:bcv=Luke 7:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:45">45 </verse></sup>You gave me no kiss, but
she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss
my feet. <key:bcv=Luke 7:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:46">46 </verse></sup>You didn’t anoint my head with oil,
but she has anointed my feet with ointment. <key:bcv=Luke 7:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:47">47 </verse></sup>
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are
forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little
is forgiven, loves little.” <key:bcv=Luke 7:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:48">48 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Your sins
are forgiven.”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:49">49 </verse></sup>Those who sat at the table with him began to
say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives
sins?”

<key:bcv=Luke 7:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 7:50">50 </verse></sup>He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved
you. Go in peace.”

#BCV:Luke 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Soon afterwards, he went about through cities
and villages, preaching and bringing the good news
of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve, <key:bcv=Luke 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:2">2 </verse></sup>and
certain women who had been healed of evil spirits
and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene,
from whom seven demons had gone out; <key:bcv=Luke 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:3">3 </verse></sup>and
Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna;
and many others who served them<footnote:1>8:3 TR reads “him” instead of “them” </footnote> from
their possessions. <key:bcv=Luke 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:4">4 </verse></sup>When a great multitude came
together and people from every city were coming to
him, he spoke by a parable: <key:bcv=Luke 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:5">5 </verse></sup>“The farmer went out
to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the
road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds
of the sky devoured it. <key:bcv=Luke 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:6">6 </verse></sup>Other seed fell on the rock,
and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because
it had no moisture. <key:bcv=Luke 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:7">7 </verse></sup>Other fell amid the thorns,
and the thorns grew with it and choked it. <key:bcv=Luke 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Other
fell into the good ground and grew and produced
one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these
things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let
him hear!”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:9">9 </verse></sup>Then his disciples asked him, “What does this
parable mean?”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:10">10 </verse></sup>He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries
of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in
parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing
they may not understand.’<footnote:1>8:10 Isaiah 6:9 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:11">11 </verse></sup>“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word
of God. <key:bcv=Luke 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Those along the road are those who
hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word
from their heart, that they may not believe and be
saved. <key:bcv=Luke 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Those on the rock are they who, when
they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have
no root. They believe for a while, then fall away
in time of temptation. <key:bcv=Luke 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:14">14 </verse></sup>What fell among the
thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they
go on their way they are choked with cares, riches,
and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to
maturity. <key:bcv=Luke 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:15">15 </verse></sup>Those in the good ground, these are
those who with an honest and good heart, having
heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit
with perseverance.

<key:bcv=Luke 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:16">16 </verse></sup>“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with
a container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a
stand, that those who enter in may see the light. <key:bcv=Luke 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:17">17 </verse></sup>
For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, nor
anything secret that will not be known and come
to light. <key:bcv=Luke 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Be careful therefore how you hear.
For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever
doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that
which he thinks he has.”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:19">19 </verse></sup>His mother and brothers came to him, and they
could not come near him for the crowd. <key:bcv=Luke 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Some
people told him, “Your mother and your brothers
stand outside, desiring to see you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:21">21 </verse></sup>But he answered them, “My mother and my
brothers are these who hear the word of God and
do it.”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Now on one of those days, he entered into
a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to
them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.”
So they launched out. <key:bcv=Luke 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:23">23 </verse></sup>But as they sailed, he
fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake,
and they were taking on dangerous amounts of
water. <key:bcv=Luke 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:24">24 </verse></sup>They came to him and awoke him, saying,
“Master, Master, we are dying!” He awoke and
rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; then
they ceased, and it was calm.<footnote:1>8:24 See Psalm 107:29</footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:25">25 </verse></sup>He said to them,
“Where is your faith?” Being afraid, they marveled,
saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he
commands even the winds and the water, and they
obey him?”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:26">26 </verse></sup>Then they arrived at the country of the
Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. <key:bcv=Luke 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:27">27 </verse></sup>When Jesus
stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who
had demons for a long time met him. He wore no
clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:28">28 </verse></sup>When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down
before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do
I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most
High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!” <key:bcv=Luke 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:29">29 </verse></sup>For Jesus
was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of
the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized
the man. He was kept under guard and bound with
chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was
driven by the demon into the desert.

<key:bcv=Luke 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered
into him. <key:bcv=Luke 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:31">31 </verse></sup>They begged him that he would not
command them to go into the abyss.

<key:bcv=Luke 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:32">32 </verse></sup>Now there was there a herd of many pigs
feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that
he would allow them to enter into those. Then he
allowed them. <key:bcv=Luke 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:33">33 </verse></sup>The demons came out of the man
and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down
the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:34">34 </verse></sup>When those who fed them saw what had happened,
they fled and told it in the city and in the
country.

<key:bcv=Luke 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:35">35 </verse></sup>People went out to see what had happened.
They came to Jesus and found the man from whom
the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet,
clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:36">36 </verse></sup>Those who saw it told them how he who had been
possessed by demons was healed. <key:bcv=Luke 8:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:37">37 </verse></sup>All the people
of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked
him to depart from them, for they were very much
afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:38">38 </verse></sup>But the man from whom the demons had gone out
begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus
sent him away, saying, <key:bcv=Luke 8:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:39">39 </verse></sup>“Return to your house, and
declare what great things God has done for you.”
He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole
city what great things Jesus had done for him.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:40">40 </verse></sup>When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed
him, for they were all waiting for him. <key:bcv=Luke 8:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:41">41 </verse></sup>Behold,
a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the
synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged
him to come into his house, <key:bcv=Luke 8:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:42">42 </verse></sup>for he had an only
born<footnote:1>8:42 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> daughter, about twelve years of age, and she
was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed
against him. <key:bcv=Luke 8:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:43">43 </verse></sup>A woman who had a flow of blood
for twelve years, who had spent all her living on
physicians and could not be healed by any, <key:bcv=Luke 8:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:44">44 </verse></sup>came
behind him and touched the fringe<footnote:1>8:44 or, tassel </footnote> of his cloak.
Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
<key:bcv=Luke 8:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:45">45 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “Who touched me?”
<br>
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said,
“Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and
you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:46">46 </verse></sup>But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I
perceived that power has gone out of me.” <key:bcv=Luke 8:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:47">47 </verse></sup>When
the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came
trembling; and falling down before him declared to
him in the presence of all the people the reason
why she had touched him, and how she was healed
immediately. <key:bcv=Luke 8:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:48">48 </verse></sup>He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up.
Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
<key:bcv=Luke 8:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:49">49 </verse></sup>While he still spoke, one from the ruler of
the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your
daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”
<key:bcv=Luke 8:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:50">50 </verse></sup>But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be
afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”
<key:bcv=Luke 8:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:51">51 </verse></sup>When he came to the house, he didn’t allow
anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the
father of the child, and her mother. <key:bcv=Luke 8:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:52">52 </verse></sup>All were
weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t
weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

<key:bcv=Luke 8:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:53">53 </verse></sup>They were ridiculing him, knowing that she
was dead. <key:bcv=Luke 8:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:54">54 </verse></sup>But he put them all outside, and
taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child,
arise!” <key:bcv=Luke 8:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:55">55 </verse></sup>Her spirit returned, and she rose up
immediately. He commanded that something be
given to her to eat. <key:bcv=Luke 8:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 8:56">56 </verse></sup>Her parents were amazed, but
he commanded them to tell no one what had been
done.

#BCV:Luke 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:1">1 </verse></sup>He called the twelve<footnote:1>9:1 TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve” </footnote> together and gave them
power and authority over all demons, and to cure
diseases. <key:bcv=Luke 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:2">2 </verse></sup>He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom
and to heal the sick. <key:bcv=Luke 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:3">3 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Take
nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor
bread, nor money. Don’t have two tunics each.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and
depart from there. <key:bcv=Luke 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:5">5 </verse></sup>As many as don’t receive you,
when you depart from that city, shake off even the
dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
<key:bcv=Luke 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:6">6 </verse></sup>They departed and went throughout the villages,
preaching the Good News and healing everywhere.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was
done by him; and he was very perplexed, because
it was said by some that John had risen from the
dead, <key:bcv=Luke 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:8">8 </verse></sup>and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by
others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about
whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:10">10 </verse></sup>The apostles, when they had returned, told him
what things they had done.
<br>
He took them and withdrew apart to a desert
region of<footnote:1>9:10 NU omits “a desert region of”.</footnote> a city called Bethsaida. <key:bcv=Luke 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:11">11 </verse></sup>But the multitudes,
perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed
them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he
cured those who needed healing. <key:bcv=Luke 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:12">12 </verse></sup>The day began
to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him,
“Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
surrounding villages and farms and lodge and get
food, for we are here in a deserted place.”
<key:bcv=Luke 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:13">13 </verse></sup>But he said to them, “You give them something
to eat.”
<br>
They said, “We have no more than five loaves and
two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all
these people.” <key:bcv=Luke 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:14">14 </verse></sup>For they were about five thousand
men.
<br>
He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in
groups of about fifty each.” <key:bcv=Luke 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:15">15 </verse></sup>They did so, and made
them all sit down. <key:bcv=Luke 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:16">16 </verse></sup>He took the five loaves and the
two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them,
broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set
before the multitude. <key:bcv=Luke 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:17">17 </verse></sup>They ate and were all filled.
They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces
that were left over.

<key:bcv=Luke 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:18">18 </verse></sup>As he was praying alone, the disciples were
near him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes
say that I am?”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:19">19 </verse></sup>They answered, “ ‘John the Baptizer,’ but others
say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets
has risen again.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:20">20 </verse></sup>He said to them, “But who do you say that I
am?”
<br>
Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:21">21 </verse></sup>But he warned them and commanded them to
tell this to no one, <key:bcv=Luke 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:22">22 </verse></sup>saying, “The Son of Man must
suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders,
chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the
third day be raised up.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after
me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,<footnote:1>9:23 TR, NU add “daily” </footnote> and
follow me. <key:bcv=Luke 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:24">24 </verse></sup>For whoever desires to save his life
will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake
will save it. <key:bcv=Luke 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:25">25 </verse></sup>For what does it profit a man if he
gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own
self? <key:bcv=Luke 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:26">26 </verse></sup>For whoever will be ashamed of me and of
my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed
when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the
Father, and of the holy angels. <key:bcv=Luke 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:27">27 </verse></sup>But I tell you the
truth: There are some of those who stand here who
will in no way taste of death until they see God’s
Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:28">28 </verse></sup>About eight days after these sayings, he took
with him Peter, John, and James, and went up
onto the mountain to pray. <key:bcv=Luke 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:29">29 </verse></sup>As he was praying,
the appearance of his face was altered, and his
clothing became white and dazzling. <key:bcv=Luke 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:30">30 </verse></sup>Behold, two
men were talking with him, who were Moses and
Elijah, <key:bcv=Luke 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:31">31 </verse></sup>who appeared in glory and spoke of his
departure,<footnote:1>9:31 literally, “exodus” </footnote> which he was about to accomplish at
Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Luke 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Now Peter and those who were with him were
heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake,
they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with
him. <key:bcv=Luke 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:33">33 </verse></sup>As they were parting from him, Peter said
to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s
make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and
one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:34">34 </verse></sup>While he said these things, a cloud came and
overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they
entered into the cloud. <key:bcv=Luke 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:35">35 </verse></sup>A voice came out of the
cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to
him!” <key:bcv=Luke 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:36">36 </verse></sup>When the voice came, Jesus was found
alone. They were silent, and told no one in those
days any of the things which they had seen.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:37">37 </verse></sup>On the next day, when they had come down
from the mountain, a great multitude met him.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:38">38 </verse></sup>Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying,
“Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my
only born<footnote:1>9:38 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>“μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.</footnote> child. <key:bcv=Luke 9:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:39">39 </verse></sup>Behold, a spirit takes him, he
suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he
foams; and it hardly departs from him, bruising him
severely. <key:bcv=Luke 9:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:40">40 </verse></sup>I begged your disciples to cast it out, and
they couldn’t.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:41">41 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation,
how long shall I be with you and bear with
you? Bring your son here.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:42">42 </verse></sup>While he was still coming, the demon threw
him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus
rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave
him back to his father. <key:bcv=Luke 9:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:43">43 </verse></sup>They were all astonished
at the majesty of God.
<br>
But while all were marveling at all the things
which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, <key:bcv=Luke 9:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:44">44 </verse></sup>“Let these
words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will
be delivered up into the hands of men.” <key:bcv=Luke 9:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:45">45 </verse></sup>But they
didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed
from them, that they should not perceive it, and
they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
<key:bcv=Luke 9:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:46">46 </verse></sup>An argument arose among them about which
of them was the greatest. <key:bcv=Luke 9:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:47">47 </verse></sup>Jesus, perceiving the
reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and
set him by his side, <key:bcv=Luke 9:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:48">48 </verse></sup>and said to them, “Whoever
receives this little child in my name receives me.
Whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
For whoever is least among you all, this one will be
great.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:49">49 </verse></sup>John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting
out demons in your name, and we forbade him,
because he doesn’t follow with us.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:50">50 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who
is not against us is for us.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:51">51 </verse></sup>It came to pass, when the days were near that
he should be taken up, he intently set his face to
go to Jerusalem <key:bcv=Luke 9:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:52">52 </verse></sup>and sent messengers before his
face. They went and entered into a village of the
Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. <key:bcv=Luke 9:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:53">53 </verse></sup>They didn’t
receive him, because he was traveling with his face
set toward Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Luke 9:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:54">54 </verse></sup>When his disciples, James
and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want
us to command fire to come down from the sky and
destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:55">55 </verse></sup>But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t
know of what kind of spirit you are. <key:bcv=Luke 9:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:56">56 </verse></sup>For the Son
of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to
save them.”

They went to another village. <key:bcv=Luke 9:57><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:57">57 </verse></sup>As they went on
the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow
you wherever you go, Lord.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:58><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:58">58 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the
birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has
no place to lay his head.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:59><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:59">59 </verse></sup>He said to another, “Follow me!”
<br>
But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury
my father.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:60><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:60">60 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury
their own dead, but you go and announce God’s
Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:61><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:61">61 </verse></sup>Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord,
but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are
at my house.”

<key:bcv=Luke 9:62><sup><verse bcv="Luke 9:62">62 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his
hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for God’s
Kingdom.”

#BCV:Luke 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now after these things, the Lord also appointed
seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of
him<footnote:1>10:1 literally, “before his face” </footnote> into every city and place where he was about
to come. <key:bcv=Luke 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Then he said to them, “The harvest is
indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray
therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may
send out laborers into his harvest. <key:bcv=Luke 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:3">3 </verse></sup>Go your ways.
Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. <key:bcv=Luke 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:4">4 </verse></sup>
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no
one on the way. <key:bcv=Luke 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Into whatever house you enter,
first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ <key:bcv=Luke 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:6">6 </verse></sup>If a son of peace
is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will
return to you. <key:bcv=Luke 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Remain in that same house, eating
and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is
worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.
<key:bcv=Luke 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Into whatever city you enter and they receive you,
eat the things that are set before you. <key:bcv=Luke 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Heal the
sick who are there and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom
has come near to you.’ <key:bcv=Luke 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:10">10 </verse></sup>But into whatever city
you enter and they don’t receive you, go out into its
streets and say, <key:bcv=Luke 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:11">11 </verse></sup>‘Even the dust from your city that
clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless
know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to
you.’ <key:bcv=Luke 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:12">12 </verse></sup>I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that
day for Sodom than for that city.

<key:bcv=Luke 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:13">13 </verse></sup>“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and
Sidon which were done in you, they would have
repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
<key:bcv=Luke 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:14">14 </verse></sup>But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
in the judgment than for you. <key:bcv=Luke 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:15">15 </verse></sup>You, Capernaum,
who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down
to Hades. <footnote:1>10:15 Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell. </footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:16">16 </verse></sup>Whoever listens to you listens to
me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever
rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:17">17 </verse></sup>The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord,
even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
<key:bcv=Luke 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:18">18 </verse></sup>He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen
like lightning from heaven. <key:bcv=Luke 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Behold, I give you
authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and
over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any
way hurt you. <key:bcv=Luke 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this,
that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that
your names are written in heaven.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:21">21 </verse></sup>In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy
Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, that you have hidden these
things from the wise and understanding, and revealed
them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it
was well-pleasing in your sight.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things
have been delivered to me by my Father. No one
knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who
the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever
the Son desires to reveal him.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:23">23 </verse></sup>Turning to the disciples, he said privately,
“Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you
see, <key:bcv=Luke 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:24">24 </verse></sup>for I tell you that many prophets and kings
desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t
see them, and to hear the things which you hear,
and didn’t hear them.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested
him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life?”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:26">26 </verse></sup>He said to him, “What is written in the law?
How do you read it?”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:27">27 </verse></sup>He answered, “You shall love the Lord your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
your strength, and with all your mind;<footnote:1>10:27 Deuteronomy 6:5 </footnote> and your
neighbor as yourself.”<footnote:1>10:27 Leviticus 19:18</footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:28">28 </verse></sup>He said to him, “You have answered correctly.
Do this, and you will live.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:29">29 </verse></sup>But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus,
“Who is my neighbor?”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “A certain man was going
down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among
robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and
departed, leaving him half dead. <key:bcv=Luke 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:31">31 </verse></sup>By chance a
certain priest was going down that way. When he
saw him, he passed by on the other side. <key:bcv=Luke 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:32">32 </verse></sup>In
the same way a Levite also, when he came to the
place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
<key:bcv=Luke 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:33">33 </verse></sup>But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came
where he was. When he saw him, he was moved
with compassion, <key:bcv=Luke 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:34">34 </verse></sup>came to him, and bound up his
wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his
own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of
him. <key:bcv=Luke 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:35">35 </verse></sup>On the next day, when he departed, he took
out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to
him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond
that, I will repay you when I return.’ <key:bcv=Luke 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:36">36 </verse></sup>Now which
of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor
to him who fell among the robbers?”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:37">37 </verse></sup>He said, “He who showed mercy on him.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
<key:bcv=Luke 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:38">38 </verse></sup>As they went on their way, he entered into a
certain village, and a certain woman named Martha
received him into her house. <key:bcv=Luke 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:39">39 </verse></sup>She had a sister
called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard
his word. <key:bcv=Luke 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:40">40 </verse></sup>But Martha was distracted with much
serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord,
don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone?
Ask her therefore to help me.”

<key:bcv=Luke 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:41">41 </verse></sup>Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are
anxious and troubled about many things, <key:bcv=Luke 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 10:42">42 </verse></sup>but one
thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part,
which will not be taken away from her.”

#BCV:Luke 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:1">1 </verse></sup>When he finished praying in a certain place, one
of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray,
just as John also taught his disciples.”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to them, “When you pray, say,
‘Our Father in heaven,
<br>
may your name be kept holy.
<br>
May your Kingdom come.
<br>
May your will be done on earth, as it is in
heaven.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:3">3 </verse></sup>Give us day by day our daily bread.
<key:bcv=Luke 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Forgive us our sins,
<br>
for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is
indebted to us.
<br>
Bring us not into temptation,
<br>
but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:5">5 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a
friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me
three loaves of bread, <key:bcv=Luke 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:6">6 </verse></sup>for a friend of mine has
come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to
set before him,’ <key:bcv=Luke 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:7">7 </verse></sup>and he from within will answer
and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut,
and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up
and give it to you’? <key:bcv=Luke 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:8">8 </verse></sup>I tell you, although he will not
rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet
because of his persistence, he will get up and give
him as many as he needs.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:9">9 </verse></sup>“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you.
Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and
it will be opened to you. <key:bcv=Luke 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:10">10 </verse></sup>For everyone who asks
receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it
will be opened.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:11">11 </verse></sup>“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for
bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a
fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will
he? <key:bcv=Luke 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a
scorpion, will he? <key:bcv=Luke 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:13">13 </verse></sup>If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much
more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him?”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:14">14 </verse></sup>He was casting out a demon, and it was mute.
When the demon had gone out, the mute man
spoke; and the multitudes marveled. <key:bcv=Luke 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:15">15 </verse></sup>But some
of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul,
the prince of the demons.” <key:bcv=Luke 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Others, testing him,
sought from him a sign from heaven. <key:bcv=Luke 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:17">17 </verse></sup>But he,
knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation.
A house divided against itself falls. <key:bcv=Luke 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:18">18 </verse></sup>If Satan
also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom
stand? For you say that I cast out demons by
Beelzebul. <key:bcv=Luke 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:19">19 </verse></sup>But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul,
by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore
they will be your judges. <key:bcv=Luke 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:20">20 </verse></sup>But if I by God’s finger
cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to
you.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:21">21 </verse></sup>“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his
own dwelling, his goods are safe. <key:bcv=Luke 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:22">22 </verse></sup>But when
someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him,
he takes from him his whole armor in which he
trusted, and divides his plunder.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:23">23 </verse></sup>“He who is not with me is against me. He who
doesn’t gather with me scatters.

<key:bcv=Luke 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:24">24 </verse></sup>The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of
the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest;
and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my
house from which I came out.’ <key:bcv=Luke 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:25">25 </verse></sup>When he returns,
he finds it swept and put in order. <key:bcv=Luke 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Then he goes
and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself,
and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of
that man becomes worse than the first.”
<key:bcv=Luke 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:27">27 </verse></sup>It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain
woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and
said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and
the breasts which nursed you!”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:28">28 </verse></sup>But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those
who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
<key:bcv=Luke 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:29">29 </verse></sup>When the multitudes were gathering together
to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation.
It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but
the sign of Jonah the prophet. <key:bcv=Luke 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:30">30 </verse></sup>For even as Jonah
became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man
will also be to this generation. <key:bcv=Luke 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:31">31 </verse></sup>The Queen of
the South will rise up in the judgment with the men
of this generation and will condemn them, for she
came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon
is here. <key:bcv=Luke 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:32">32 </verse></sup>The men of Nineveh will stand up in the
judgment with this generation, and will condemn
it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and
behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
<key:bcv=Luke 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:33">33 </verse></sup>“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a
cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those
who come in may see the light. <key:bcv=Luke 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:34">34 </verse></sup>The lamp of
the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is
good, your whole body is also full of light; but when
it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. <key:bcv=Luke 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:35">35 </verse></sup>
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t
darkness. <key:bcv=Luke 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:36">36 </verse></sup>If therefore your whole body is full
of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of
light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives
you light.”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:37">37 </verse></sup>Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him
to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.
<key:bcv=Luke 11:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:38">38 </verse></sup>When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he
had not first washed himself before dinner. <key:bcv=Luke 11:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:39">39 </verse></sup>The
Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the
outside of the cup and of the platter, but your
inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. <key:bcv=Luke 11:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:40">40 </verse></sup>
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside
make the inside also? <key:bcv=Luke 11:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:41">41 </verse></sup>But give for gifts to the
needy those things which are within, and behold,
all things will be clean to you. <key:bcv=Luke 11:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:42">42 </verse></sup>But woe to you
Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every
herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You
ought to have done these, and not to have left the
other undone. <key:bcv=Luke 11:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:43">43 </verse></sup>Woe to you Pharisees! For
you love the best seats in the synagogues and the
greetings in the marketplaces. <key:bcv=Luke 11:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:44">44 </verse></sup>Woe to you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
hidden graves, and the men who walk over them
don’t know it.”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:45">45 </verse></sup>One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in
saying this you insult us also.”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:46">46 </verse></sup>He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load
men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and
you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help
carry those burdens. <key:bcv=Luke 11:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:47">47 </verse></sup>Woe to you! For you build
the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed
them. <key:bcv=Luke 11:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:48">48 </verse></sup>So you testify and consent to the works
of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build
their tombs. <key:bcv=Luke 11:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:49">49 </verse></sup>Therefore also the wisdom of God
said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and
some of them they will kill and persecute, <key:bcv=Luke 11:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:50">50 </verse></sup>that
the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from
the foundation of the world, may be required of this
generation, <key:bcv=Luke 11:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:51">51 </verse></sup>from the blood of Abel to the blood
of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and
the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of
this generation. <key:bcv=Luke 11:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:52">52 </verse></sup>Woe to you lawyers! For you
took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter
in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you
hindered.”

<key:bcv=Luke 11:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:53">53 </verse></sup>As he said these things to them, the scribes
and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and
to draw many things out of him, <key:bcv=Luke 11:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 11:54">54 </verse></sup>lying in wait
for him, and seeking to catch him in something he
might say, that they might accuse him.

#BCV:Luke 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands
had gathered together, so much so that they
trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples
first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees,
which is hypocrisy. <key:bcv=Luke 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:2">2 </verse></sup>But there is nothing
covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden
that will not be known. <key:bcv=Luke 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore whatever you
have said in the darkness will be heard in the light.
What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms
will be proclaimed on the housetops.

<key:bcv=Luke 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:4">4 </verse></sup>“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those
who kill the body, and after that have no more that
they can do. <key:bcv=Luke 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:5">5 </verse></sup>But I will warn you whom you should
fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to
cast into Gehenna.<footnote:1>12:5 or, Hell </footnote> Yes, I tell you, fear him.
<key:bcv=Luke 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:6">6 </verse></sup>“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria
coins<footnote:1>12:6 An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour’s wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote>? Not one of them is forgotten by God. <key:bcv=Luke 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:7">7 </verse></sup>
But the very hairs of your head are all counted.
Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value
than many sparrows.

<key:bcv=Luke 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:8">8 </verse></sup>“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before
men, the Son of Man will also confess before the
angels of God; <key:bcv=Luke 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:9">9 </verse></sup>but he who denies me in the
presence of men will be denied in the presence of
God’s angels. <key:bcv=Luke 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Everyone who speaks a word
against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those
who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven. <key:bcv=Luke 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:11">11 </verse></sup>When they bring you before the
synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be
anxious how or what you will answer or what you
will say; <key:bcv=Luke 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:12">12 </verse></sup>for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that
same hour what you must say.”

<key:bcv=Luke 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:13">13 </verse></sup>One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell
my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
<key:bcv=Luke 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:14">14 </verse></sup>But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge
or an arbitrator over you?” <key:bcv=Luke 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to them,
“Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for
a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the
things which he possesses.”

<key:bcv=Luke 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:16">16 </verse></sup>He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The
ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
<key:bcv=Luke 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:17">17 </verse></sup>He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I
do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
<key:bcv=Luke 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down
my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store
all my grain and my goods. <key:bcv=Luke 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:19">19 </verse></sup>I will tell my soul,
“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.
Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
<key:bcv=Luke 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:20">20 </verse></sup>“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight
your soul is required of you. The things which you
have prepared—whose will they be?’ <key:bcv=Luke 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:21">21 </verse></sup>So is he
who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God.”

<key:bcv=Luke 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:22">22 </verse></sup>He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you,
don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat,
nor yet for your body, what you will wear. <key:bcv=Luke 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:23">23 </verse></sup>
Life is more than food, and the body is more than
clothing. <key:bcv=Luke 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:24">24 </verse></sup>Consider the ravens: they don’t sow,
they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn,
and God feeds them. How much more valuable are
you than birds! <key:bcv=Luke 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Which of you by being anxious
can add a cubit<footnote:1>12:25 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.</footnote> to his height? <key:bcv=Luke 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:26">26 </verse></sup>If then you
aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you
anxious about the rest? <key:bcv=Luke 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:27">27 </verse></sup>Consider the lilies, how
they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin;
yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. <key:bcv=Luke 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:28">28 </verse></sup>But if this is how God
clothes the grass in the field, which today exists and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will
he clothe you, O you of little faith?
<key:bcv=Luke 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:29">29 </verse></sup>“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will
drink; neither be anxious. <key:bcv=Luke 12:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:30">30 </verse></sup>For the nations of the
world seek after all of these things, but your Father
knows that you need these things. <key:bcv=Luke 12:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:31">31 </verse></sup>But seek God’s
Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
<key:bcv=Luke 12:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:32">32 </verse></sup>“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your
Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
<key:bcv=Luke 12:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:33">33 </verse></sup>Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy.
Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old,
a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where
no thief approaches and no moth destroys. <key:bcv=Luke 12:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:34">34 </verse></sup>
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.

<key:bcv=Luke 12:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:35">35 </verse></sup>“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps
burning. <key:bcv=Luke 12:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:36">36 </verse></sup>Be like men watching for their lord
when he returns from the wedding feast, that when
he comes and knocks, they may immediately open
to him. <key:bcv=Luke 12:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:37">37 </verse></sup>Blessed are those servants whom the lord
will find watching when he comes. Most certainly
I tell you that he will dress himself, make them
recline, and will come and serve them. <key:bcv=Luke 12:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:38">38 </verse></sup>They will
be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch
and finds them so. <key:bcv=Luke 12:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:39">39 </verse></sup>But know this, that if the
master of the house had known in what hour the
thief was coming, he would have watched and not
allowed his house to be broken into. <key:bcv=Luke 12:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:40">40 </verse></sup>Therefore
be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an
hour that you don’t expect him.”

<key:bcv=Luke 12:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:41">41 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this
parable to us, or to everybody?”

<key:bcv=Luke 12:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:42">42 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and
wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household,
to give them their portion of food at the right
times? <key:bcv=Luke 12:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:43">43 </verse></sup>Blessed is that servant whom his lord
will find doing so when he comes. <key:bcv=Luke 12:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:44">44 </verse></sup>Truly I tell
you that he will set him over all that he has. <key:bcv=Luke 12:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:45">45 </verse></sup>
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays
his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and
the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be
drunken, <key:bcv=Luke 12:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:46">46 </verse></sup>then the lord of that servant will come
in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour
that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and
place his portion with the unfaithful. <key:bcv=Luke 12:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:47">47 </verse></sup>That
servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare
nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many
stripes, <key:bcv=Luke 12:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:48">48 </verse></sup>but he who didn’t know, and did things
worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes.
To whomever much is given, of him will much be
required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him
more will be asked.

<key:bcv=Luke 12:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:49">49 </verse></sup>“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it
were already kindled. <key:bcv=Luke 12:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:50">50 </verse></sup>But I have a baptism
to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until
it is accomplished! <key:bcv=Luke 12:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:51">51 </verse></sup>Do you think that I have
come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no,
but rather division. <key:bcv=Luke 12:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:52">52 </verse></sup>For from now on, there
will be five in one house divided, three against
two, and two against three. <key:bcv=Luke 12:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:53">53 </verse></sup>They will be
divided, father against son, and son against father;
mother against daughter, and daughter against her
mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-inlaw,
and daughter-in-law against her mother-inlaw.”
<footnote:1>12:53 Micah 7:6 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 12:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:54">54 </verse></sup>He said to the multitudes also, “When you
see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you
say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. <key:bcv=Luke 12:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:55">55 </verse></sup>
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a
scorching heat,’ and it happens. <key:bcv=Luke 12:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:56">56 </verse></sup>You hypocrites!
You know how to interpret the appearance of the
earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t
interpret this time?

<key:bcv=Luke 12:57><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:57">57 </verse></sup>“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is
right? <key:bcv=Luke 12:58><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:58">58 </verse></sup>For when you are going with your
adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on
the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he
drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to
the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
<key:bcv=Luke 12:59><sup><verse bcv="Luke 12:59">59 </verse></sup>I tell you, you will by no means get out of there
until you have paid the very last penny.<footnote:1>12:59 literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages. </footnote>”
#BCV:Luke 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there were some present at the same time
who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate
had mixed with their sacrifices. <key:bcv=Luke 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Jesus answered
them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse
sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered such things? <key:bcv=Luke 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:3">3 </verse></sup>I tell you, no, but unless
you repent, you will all perish in the same way. <key:bcv=Luke 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:4">4 </verse></sup>
Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell
and killed them—do you think that they were worse
offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
<key:bcv=Luke 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:5">5 </verse></sup>I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all
perish in the same way.”

<key:bcv=Luke 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:6">6 </verse></sup>He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig
tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking
fruit on it and found none. <key:bcv=Luke 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to the
vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come
looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none.
Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’ <key:bcv=Luke 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:8">8 </verse></sup>He
answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I
dig around it and fertilize it. <key:bcv=Luke 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:9">9 </verse></sup>If it bears fruit, fine;
but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”
<key:bcv=Luke 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:10">10 </verse></sup>He was teaching in one of the synagogues on
the Sabbath day. <key:bcv=Luke 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, there was a woman who
had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was
bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.
<key:bcv=Luke 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:12">12 </verse></sup>When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her,
“Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” <key:bcv=Luke 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:13">13 </verse></sup>He
laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up
straight and glorified God.

<key:bcv=Luke 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:14">14 </verse></sup>The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant
because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to
the multitude, “There are six days in which men
ought to work. Therefore come on those days and
be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
<key:bcv=Luke 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites!
Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his
donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him
away to water? <key:bcv=Luke 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Ought not this woman, being
a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound
eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on
the Sabbath day?”

<key:bcv=Luke 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:17">17 </verse></sup>As he said these things, all his adversaries were
disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all
the glorious things that were done by him.
<key:bcv=Luke 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:18">18 </verse></sup>He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what
shall I compare it? <key:bcv=Luke 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:19">19 </verse></sup>It is like a grain of mustard
seed which a man took and put in his own garden.
It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the
sky live in its branches.”

<key:bcv=Luke 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s
Kingdom? <key:bcv=Luke 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:21">21 </verse></sup>It is like yeast, which a woman took
and hid in three measures <footnote:1>13:21 literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 liters or a bit more than a bushel.</footnote> of flour, until it was all
leavened.”

<key:bcv=Luke 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:22">22 </verse></sup>He went on his way through cities and villages,
teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Luke 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:23">23 </verse></sup>One said
to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?”
He said to them, <key:bcv=Luke 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:24">24 </verse></sup>“Strive to enter in by the
narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter
in and will not be able. <key:bcv=Luke 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:25">25 </verse></sup>When once the master
of the house has risen up and has shut the door,
and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the
door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will
answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you
come from.’ <key:bcv=Luke 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Then you will begin to say, ‘We
ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in
our streets.’ <key:bcv=Luke 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:27">27 </verse></sup>He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t
know where you come from. Depart from me, all
you workers of iniquity.’ <key:bcv=Luke 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:28">28 </verse></sup>There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and
yourselves being thrown outside. <key:bcv=Luke 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:29">29 </verse></sup>They will
come from the east, west, north, and south, and will
sit down in God’s Kingdom. <key:bcv=Luke 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Behold, there are
some who are last who will be first, and there are
some who are first who will be last.”
<key:bcv=Luke 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:31">31 </verse></sup>On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying
to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod
wants to kill you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:32">32 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold,
I cast out demons and perform cures today and
tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
<key:bcv=Luke 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:33">33 </verse></sup>Nevertheless I must go on my way today and
tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a
prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’
<key:bcv=Luke 13:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:34">34 </verse></sup>“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the
prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How
often I wanted to gather your children together, like
a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and
you refused! <key:bcv=Luke 13:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 13:35">35 </verse></sup>Behold, your house is left to you
desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say,
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
<footnote:1>13:35 Psalm 118:26 </footnote>

#BCV:Luke 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:1">1 </verse></sup>When he went into the house of one of the rulers
of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were
watching him. <key:bcv=Luke 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, a certain man who had
dropsy was in front of him. <key:bcv=Luke 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus, answering, spoke
to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath?”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:4">4 </verse></sup>But they were silent.

He took him, and healed him, and let him go. <key:bcv=Luke 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:5">5 </verse></sup>He
answered them, “Which of you, if your son<footnote:1>14:5 TR reads “donkey” instead of “son” </footnote> or an
ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him
out on a Sabbath day?”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:6">6 </verse></sup>They couldn’t answer him regarding these
things.

<key:bcv=Luke 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:7">7 </verse></sup>He spoke a parable to those who were invited,
when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and
said to them, <key:bcv=Luke 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:8">8 </verse></sup>“When you are invited by anyone
to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since
perhaps someone more honorable than you might
be invited by him, <key:bcv=Luke 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:9">9 </verse></sup>and he who invited both of
you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this
person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take
the lowest place. <key:bcv=Luke 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:10">10 </verse></sup>But when you are invited, go
and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who
invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up
higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of
all who sit at the table with you. <key:bcv=Luke 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:11">11 </verse></sup>For everyone
who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted.”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:12">12 </verse></sup>He also said to the one who had invited him,
“When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call
your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen,
nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also
return the favor, and pay you back. <key:bcv=Luke 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:13">13 </verse></sup>But when
you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the
lame, or the blind; <key:bcv=Luke 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:14">14 </verse></sup>and you will be blessed,
because they don’t have the resources to repay you.
For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the
righteous.”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:15">15 </verse></sup>When one of those who sat at the table with
him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is
he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:16">16 </verse></sup>But he said to him, “A certain man made a great
supper, and he invited many people. <key:bcv=Luke 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:17">17 </verse></sup>He sent out
his servant at supper time to tell those who were
invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ <key:bcv=Luke 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:18">18 </verse></sup>
They all as one began to make excuses.
“The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and
I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
<key:bcv=Luke 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:19">19 </verse></sup>“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen,
and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
<key:bcv=Luke 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:20">20 </verse></sup>“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and
therefore I can’t come.’

<key:bcv=Luke 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:21">21 </verse></sup>“That servant came, and told his lord these
things. Then the master of the house, being angry,
said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed,
blind, and lame.’

<key:bcv=Luke 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:22">22 </verse></sup>“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you
commanded, and there is still room.’

<key:bcv=Luke 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:23">23 </verse></sup>“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in,
that my house may be filled. <key:bcv=Luke 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:24">24 </verse></sup>For I tell you that
none of those men who were invited will taste of my
supper.’ ”

<key:bcv=Luke 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:25">25 </verse></sup>Now great multitudes were going with him. He
turned and said to them, <key:bcv=Luke 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:26">26 </verse></sup>“If anyone comes to
me, and doesn’t disregard<footnote:1>14:26 or, hate</footnote> his own father, mother,
wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his
own life also, he can’t be my disciple. <key:bcv=Luke 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Whoever
doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t
be my disciple. <key:bcv=Luke 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:28">28 </verse></sup>For which of you, desiring
to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count
the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
<key:bcv=Luke 14:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and
isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to
mock him, <key:bcv=Luke 14:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:30">30 </verse></sup>saying, ‘This man began to build
and wasn’t able to finish.’ <key:bcv=Luke 14:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:31">31 </verse></sup>Or what king, as he
goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit
down first and consider whether he is able with ten
thousand to meet him who comes against him with
twenty thousand? <key:bcv=Luke 14:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:32">32 </verse></sup>Or else, while the other is
yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for
conditions of peace. <key:bcv=Luke 14:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:33">33 </verse></sup>So therefore, whoever of
you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t
be my disciple.

<key:bcv=Luke 14:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:34">34 </verse></sup>“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and
tasteless, with what do you season it? <key:bcv=Luke 14:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 14:35">35 </verse></sup>It is fit
neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is
thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

#BCV:Luke 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming
close to him to hear him. <key:bcv=Luke 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:2">2 </verse></sup>The Pharisees and
the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes
sinners, and eats with them.”

<key:bcv=Luke 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:3">3 </verse></sup>He told them this parable: <key:bcv=Luke 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:4">4 </verse></sup>“Which of you men,
if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them,
wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness
and go after the one that was lost, until he found
it? <key:bcv=Luke 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:5">5 </verse></sup>When he has found it, he carries it on his
shoulders, rejoicing. <key:bcv=Luke 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:6">6 </verse></sup>When he comes home, he
calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying
to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep
which was lost!’ <key:bcv=Luke 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:7">7 </verse></sup>I tell you that even so there will
be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents,
than over ninety-nine righteous people who need
no repentance.

<key:bcv=Luke 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:8">8 </verse></sup>“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma<footnote:1>15:8 A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> coins,
if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp,
sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found
it? <key:bcv=Luke 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:9">9 </verse></sup>When she has found it, she calls together her
friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for
I have found the drachma which I had lost!’ <key:bcv=Luke 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Even
so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
<key:bcv=Luke 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:11">11 </verse></sup>He said, “A certain man had two sons. <key:bcv=Luke 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:12">12 </verse></sup>
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give
me my share of your property.’ So he divided his
livelihood between them. <key:bcv=Luke 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:13">13 </verse></sup>Not many days after,
the younger son gathered all of this together and
traveled into a far country. There he wasted his
property with riotous living. <key:bcv=Luke 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:14">14 </verse></sup>When he had spent
all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country,
and he began to be in need. <key:bcv=Luke 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:15">15 </verse></sup>He went and joined
himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he
sent him into his fields to feed pigs. <key:bcv=Luke 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:16">16 </verse></sup>He wanted to
fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no
one gave him any. <key:bcv=Luke 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:17">17 </verse></sup>But when he came to himself,
he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s
have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with
hunger! <key:bcv=Luke 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:18">18 </verse></sup>I will get up and go to my father, and will
tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and
in your sight. <key:bcv=Luke 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:19">19 </verse></sup>I am no more worthy to be called
your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’
<key:bcv=Luke 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:20">20 </verse></sup>“He arose and came to his father. But while he
was still far off, his father saw him and was moved
with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and
kissed him. <key:bcv=Luke 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:21">21 </verse></sup>The son said to him, ‘Father, I have
sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no
longer worthy to be called your son.’
<key:bcv=Luke 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:22">22 </verse></sup>“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out
the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his
hand and sandals on his feet. <key:bcv=Luke 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:23">23 </verse></sup>Bring the fattened
calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate; <key:bcv=Luke 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:24">24 </verse></sup>for this,
my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and
is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
<key:bcv=Luke 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:25">25 </verse></sup>“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came
near to the house, he heard music and dancing. <key:bcv=Luke 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:26">26 </verse></sup>
He called one of the servants to him and asked what
was going on. <key:bcv=Luke 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:27">27 </verse></sup>He said to him, ‘Your brother
has come, and your father has killed the fattened
calf, because he has received him back safe and
healthy.’ <key:bcv=Luke 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:28">28 </verse></sup>But he was angry and would not go
in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
<key:bcv=Luke 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:29">29 </verse></sup>But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many
years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a
commandment of yours, but you never gave me a
goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. <key:bcv=Luke 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:30">30 </verse></sup>But
when this your son came, who has devoured your
living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf
for him.’

<key:bcv=Luke 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:31">31 </verse></sup>“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with
me, and all that is mine is yours. <key:bcv=Luke 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 15:32">32 </verse></sup>But it was
appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your
brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost,
and is found.’ ”

#BCV:Luke 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:1">1 </verse></sup>He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain
rich man who had a manager. An accusation was
made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:2">2 </verse></sup>He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this
that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your
management, for you can no longer be manager.’
<key:bcv=Luke 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:3">3 </verse></sup>“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I
do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management
position from me? I don’t have strength to
dig. I am ashamed to beg. <key:bcv=Luke 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:4">4 </verse></sup>I know what I will
do, so that when I am removed from management,
they may receive me into their houses.’ <key:bcv=Luke 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Calling
each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the
first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ <key:bcv=Luke 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:6">6 </verse></sup>He said,
‘A hundred batos<footnote:1>16:6 100 batos is about 395 liters or 104 U. S. gallons. </footnote> of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your
bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ <key:bcv=Luke 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Then he
said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A
hundred cors<footnote:1>16:7 100 cors = about 2,110 liters or 600 bushels. </footnote> of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your
bill, and write eighty.’

<key:bcv=Luke 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:8">8 </verse></sup>“His lord commended the dishonest manager
because he had done wisely, for the children of
this world are, in their own generation, wiser than
the children of the light. <key:bcv=Luke 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:9">9 </verse></sup>I tell you, make
for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous
mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive
you into the eternal tents. <key:bcv=Luke 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:10">10 </verse></sup>He who is faithful
in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is
dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:11">11 </verse></sup>If therefore you have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
trust the true riches? <key:bcv=Luke 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:12">12 </verse></sup>If you have not been
faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you
that which is your own? <key:bcv=Luke 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:13">13 </verse></sup>No servant can serve
two masters, for either he will hate the one and love
the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the
other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”<footnote:1>16:13 “Mammon” refers to riches or a false god of wealth.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:14">14 </verse></sup>The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also
heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. <key:bcv=Luke 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:15">15 </verse></sup>He
said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves
in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For
that which is exalted among men is an abomination
in the sight of God.

<key:bcv=Luke 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:16">16 </verse></sup>“The law and the prophets were until John.
From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is
preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:17">17 </verse></sup>But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away
than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:18">18 </verse></sup>“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries
another commits adultery. He who marries one
who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:19">19 </verse></sup>“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was
clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury
every day. <key:bcv=Luke 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:20">20 </verse></sup>A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was
taken to his gate, full of sores, <key:bcv=Luke 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:21">21 </verse></sup>and desiring to be
fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s
table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
<key:bcv=Luke 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:22">22 </verse></sup>The beggar died, and he was carried away by the
angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died
and was buried. <key:bcv=Luke 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:23">23 </verse></sup>In Hades,<footnote:1>16:23 or, Hell </footnote> he lifted up his eyes,
being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and
Lazarus at his bosom. <key:bcv=Luke 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:24">24 </verse></sup>He cried and said, ‘Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that
he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my
tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
<key:bcv=Luke 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:25">25 </verse></sup>“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you,
in your lifetime, received your good things, and
Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is
now comforted and you are in anguish. <key:bcv=Luke 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:26">26 </verse></sup>Besides
all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you
are not able, and that no one may cross over from
there to us.’

<key:bcv=Luke 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:27">27 </verse></sup>“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you
would send him to my father’s house— <key:bcv=Luke 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:28">28 </verse></sup>for I have
five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they
won’t also come into this place of torment.’
<key:bcv=Luke 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:29">29 </verse></sup>“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses
and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
<key:bcv=Luke 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:30">30 </verse></sup>“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes
to them from the dead, they will repent.’
<key:bcv=Luke 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 16:31">31 </verse></sup>“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses
and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if
one rises from the dead.’ ”

#BCV:Luke 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:1">1 </verse></sup>He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no
occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him
through whom they come! <key:bcv=Luke 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:2">2 </verse></sup>It would be better
for him if a millstone were hung around his neck,
and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that
he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
<key:bcv=Luke 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:3">3 </verse></sup>Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke
him. If he repents, forgive him. <key:bcv=Luke 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:4">4 </verse></sup>If he sins against
you seven times in the day, and seven times returns,
saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
<key:bcv=Luke 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:5">5 </verse></sup>The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our
faith.”

<key:bcv=Luke 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:6">6 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of
mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree,
‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it
would obey you. <key:bcv=Luke 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:7">7 </verse></sup>But who is there among you,
having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that
will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come
immediately and sit down at the table’? <key:bcv=Luke 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:8">8 </verse></sup>Wouldn’t
he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself
properly, and serve me while I eat and drink.
Afterward you shall eat and drink’? <key:bcv=Luke 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Does he thank
that servant because he did the things that were
commanded? I think not. <key:bcv=Luke 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:10">10 </verse></sup>Even so you also, when
you have done all the things that are commanded
you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done
our duty.’ ”

<key:bcv=Luke 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:11">11 </verse></sup>As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was
passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
<key:bcv=Luke 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:12">12 </verse></sup>As he entered into a certain village, ten men
who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
<key:bcv=Luke 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:13">13 </verse></sup>They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us!”

<key:bcv=Luke 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:14">14 </verse></sup>When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and
show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they
were cleansed. <key:bcv=Luke 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:15">15 </verse></sup>One of them, when he saw that he
was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud
voice. <key:bcv=Luke 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:16">16 </verse></sup>He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him
thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

<key:bcv=Luke 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed?
But where are the nine? <key:bcv=Luke 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Were there none
found who returned to give glory to God, except this
foreigner?” <key:bcv=Luke 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:19">19 </verse></sup>Then he said to him, “Get up, and go
your way. Your faith has healed you.”
<key:bcv=Luke 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:20">20 </verse></sup>Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom
would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom
doesn’t come with observation; <key:bcv=Luke 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:21">21 </verse></sup>neither will
they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold,
God’s Kingdom is within you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:22">22 </verse></sup>He said to the disciples, “The days will come
when you will desire to see one of the days of the
Son of Man, and you will not see it. <key:bcv=Luke 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:23">23 </verse></sup>They will tell
you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away
or follow after them, <key:bcv=Luke 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:24">24 </verse></sup>for as the lightning, when
it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to
another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man
be in his day. <key:bcv=Luke 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:25">25 </verse></sup>But first, he must suffer many
things and be rejected by this generation. <key:bcv=Luke 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:26">26 </verse></sup>As
it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in
the days of the Son of Man. <key:bcv=Luke 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:27">27 </verse></sup>They ate, they drank,
they married, and they were given in marriage until
the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the
flood came and destroyed them all. <key:bcv=Luke 17:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:28">28 </verse></sup>Likewise,
even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they
drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they
built; <key:bcv=Luke 17:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:29">29 </verse></sup>but in the day that Lot went out from
Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and
destroyed them all. <key:bcv=Luke 17:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:30">30 </verse></sup>It will be the same way in
the day that the Son of Man is revealed. <key:bcv=Luke 17:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:31">31 </verse></sup>In that
day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in
the house, let him not go down to take them away.
Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. <key:bcv=Luke 17:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:32">32 </verse></sup>
Remember Lot’s wife! <key:bcv=Luke 17:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:33">33 </verse></sup>Whoever seeks to save his
life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
<key:bcv=Luke 17:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:34">34 </verse></sup>I tell you, in that night there will be two people
in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be
left. <key:bcv=Luke 17:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:35">35 </verse></sup>There will be two grinding grain together.
One will be taken and the other will be left.” <key:bcv=Luke 17:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:36">36 </verse></sup><footnote:1>17:36 Some Greek manuscripts add: “Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left.”</footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 17:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 17:37">37 </verse></sup>They, answering, asked him, “Where, Lord?”
He said to them, “Where the body is, there the
vultures will also be gathered together.”

#BCV:Luke 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:1">1 </verse></sup>He also spoke a parable to them that they must
always pray and not give up, <key:bcv=Luke 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:2">2 </verse></sup>saying, “There was
a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and
didn’t respect man. <key:bcv=Luke 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:3">3 </verse></sup>A widow was in that city,
and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from
my adversary!’ <key:bcv=Luke 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:4">4 </verse></sup>He wouldn’t for a while; but
afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear
God nor respect man, <key:bcv=Luke 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:5">5 </verse></sup>yet because this widow
bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear
me out by her continual coming.’ ”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:6">6 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous
judge says. <key:bcv=Luke 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Won’t God avenge his chosen ones
who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he
exercises patience with them? <key:bcv=Luke 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:8">8 </verse></sup>I tell you that he
will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the
Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:9">9 </verse></sup>He also spoke this parable to certain people who
were convinced of their own righteousness, and
who despised all others: <key:bcv=Luke 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:10">10 </verse></sup>“Two men went up into
the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the
other was a tax collector. <key:bcv=Luke 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The Pharisee stood
and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you
that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists,
unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
<key:bcv=Luke 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:12">12 </verse></sup>I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all
that I get.’ <key:bcv=Luke 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:13">13 </verse></sup>But the tax collector, standing far
away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but
beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a
sinner!’ <key:bcv=Luke 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:14">14 </verse></sup>I tell you, this man went down to his
house justified rather than the other; for everyone
who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who
humbles himself will be exalted.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:15">15 </verse></sup>They were also bringing their babies to him,
that he might touch them. But when the disciples
saw it, they rebuked them. <key:bcv=Luke 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:16">16 </verse></sup>Jesus summoned
them, saying, “Allow the little children to come
to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom
belongs to such as these. <key:bcv=Luke 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Most certainly, I tell
you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a
little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:18">18 </verse></sup>A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good
Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:19">19 </verse></sup>Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No
one is good, except one: God. <key:bcv=Luke 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:20">20 </verse></sup>You know the
commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t
murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”<footnote:1>18:20 Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:21">21 </verse></sup>He said, “I have observed all these things from
my youth up.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:22">22 </verse></sup>When Jesus heard these things, he said to him,
“You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have
and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have
treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:23">23 </verse></sup>But when he heard these things, he became
very sad, for he was very rich.

<key:bcv=Luke 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said,
“How hard it is for those who have riches to enter
into God’s Kingdom! <key:bcv=Luke 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:25">25 </verse></sup>For it is easier for a camel to
enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man
to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:26">26 </verse></sup>Those who heard it said, “Then who can be
saved?”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:27">27 </verse></sup>But he said, “The things which are impossible
with men are possible with God.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:28">28 </verse></sup>Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and
followed you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:29">29 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there
is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or
parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake, <key:bcv=Luke 18:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:30">30 </verse></sup>
who will not receive many times more in this time,
and in the world to come, eternal life.”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:31">31 </verse></sup>He took the twelve aside and said to them,
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all
the things that are written through the prophets
concerning the Son of Man will be completed. <key:bcv=Luke 18:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:32">32 </verse></sup>
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be
mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. <key:bcv=Luke 18:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:33">33 </verse></sup>They
will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will
rise again.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:34">34 </verse></sup>They understood none of these things. This
saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t
understand the things that were said.
<key:bcv=Luke 18:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:35">35 </verse></sup>As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man
sat by the road, begging. <key:bcv=Luke 18:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:36">36 </verse></sup>Hearing a multitude
going by, he asked what this meant. <key:bcv=Luke 18:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:37">37 </verse></sup>They told
him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. <key:bcv=Luke 18:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:38">38 </verse></sup>He
cried out, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on
me!” <key:bcv=Luke 18:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:39">39 </verse></sup>Those who led the way rebuked him, that
he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more,
“You son of David, have mercy on me!”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:40">40 </verse></sup>Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be
brought to him. When he had come near, he asked
him, <key:bcv=Luke 18:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:41">41 </verse></sup>“What do you want me to do?”
<br>
He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”
<key:bcv=Luke 18:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:42">42 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your
faith has healed you.”

<key:bcv=Luke 18:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 18:43">43 </verse></sup>Immediately he received his sight and followed
him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw
it, praised God.

#BCV:Luke 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:1">1 </verse></sup>He entered and was passing through Jericho.
<key:bcv=Luke 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:2">2 </verse></sup>There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a
chief tax collector, and he was rich. <key:bcv=Luke 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:3">3 </verse></sup>He was trying
to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the
crowd, because he was short. <key:bcv=Luke 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:4">4 </verse></sup>He ran on ahead and
climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he
was going to pass that way. <key:bcv=Luke 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:5">5 </verse></sup>When Jesus came to
the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to
him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I
must stay at your house.” <key:bcv=Luke 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:6">6 </verse></sup>He hurried, came down,
and received him joyfully. <key:bcv=Luke 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:7">7 </verse></sup>When they saw it, they
all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with
a man who is a sinner.”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:8">8 </verse></sup>Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold,
Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have
wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore
four times as much.”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:9">9 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to
this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. <key:bcv=Luke 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:10">10 </verse></sup>
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that
which was lost.”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:11">11 </verse></sup>As they heard these things, he went on and told
a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they
supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed
immediately. <key:bcv=Luke 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:12">12 </verse></sup>He said therefore, “A certain nobleman
went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom and to return. <key:bcv=Luke 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:13">13 </verse></sup>He called ten servants of
his and gave them ten mina coins, <footnote:1>19:13 10 minas was more than 3 years’ wages for an agricultural laborer.</footnote> and told them,
‘Conduct business until I come.’ <key:bcv=Luke 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:14">14 </verse></sup>But his citizens
hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We
don’t want this man to reign over us.’

<key:bcv=Luke 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:15">15 </verse></sup>“When he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, he commanded these servants,
to whom he had given the money, to be called to
him, that he might know what they had gained by
conducting business. <key:bcv=Luke 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:16">16 </verse></sup>The first came before him,
saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
<key:bcv=Luke 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:17">17 </verse></sup>“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant!
Because you were found faithful with very little, you
shall have authority over ten cities.’
<key:bcv=Luke 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:18">18 </verse></sup>“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord,
has made five minas.’

<key:bcv=Luke 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:19">19 </verse></sup>“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five
cities.’

<key:bcv=Luke 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your
mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, <key:bcv=Luke 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:21">21 </verse></sup>
for I feared you, because you are an exacting man.
You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and
reap that which you didn’t sow.’

<key:bcv=Luke 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:22">22 </verse></sup>“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will
judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am
an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay
down and reaping that which I didn’t sow. <key:bcv=Luke 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:23">23 </verse></sup>Then
why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and
at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
<key:bcv=Luke 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:24">24 </verse></sup>He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina
away from him and give it to him who has the ten
minas.’

<key:bcv=Luke 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:25">25 </verse></sup>“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
<key:bcv=Luke 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:26">26 </verse></sup>‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more
be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that
which he has will be taken away from him. <key:bcv=Luke 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:27">27 </verse></sup>But
bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me
to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
<key:bcv=Luke 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:28">28 </verse></sup>Having said these things, he went on ahead, going
up to Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=Luke 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:29">29 </verse></sup>When he came near to Bethsphage<footnote:1>19:29 TR, NU read “Bethpage” instead of “Bethsphage” </footnote> and
Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he
sent two of his disciples, <key:bcv=Luke 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:30">30 </verse></sup>saying, “Go your way
into the village on the other side, in which, as you
enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has
ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it. <key:bcv=Luke 19:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:31">31 </verse></sup>If anyone
asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The
Lord needs it.’ ”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:32">32 </verse></sup>Those who were sent went away and found
things just as he had told them. <key:bcv=Luke 19:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:33">33 </verse></sup>As they were
untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are
you untying the colt?” <key:bcv=Luke 19:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:34">34 </verse></sup>They said, “The Lord needs
it.” <key:bcv=Luke 19:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:35">35 </verse></sup>Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw
their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them. <key:bcv=Luke 19:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:36">36 </verse></sup>As
he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
<key:bcv=Luke 19:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:37">37 </verse></sup>As he was now getting near, at the descent of
the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the
disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud
voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
<key:bcv=Luke 19:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:38">38 </verse></sup>saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the
name of the Lord!<footnote:1>19:38 Psalm 118:26 </footnote> Peace in heaven, and glory in
the highest!”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:39">39 </verse></sup>Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said
to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
<key:bcv=Luke 19:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:40">40 </verse></sup>He answered them, “I tell you that if these were
silent, the stones would cry out.”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:41">41 </verse></sup>When he came near, he saw the city and wept
over it, <key:bcv=Luke 19:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:42">42 </verse></sup>saying, “If you, even you, had known today
the things which belong to your peace! But now,
they are hidden from your eyes. <key:bcv=Luke 19:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:43">43 </verse></sup>For the days
will come on you when your enemies will throw up a
barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on
every side, <key:bcv=Luke 19:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:44">44 </verse></sup>and will dash you and your children
within you to the ground. They will not leave in you
one stone on another, because you didn’t know the
time of your visitation.”

<key:bcv=Luke 19:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:45">45 </verse></sup>He entered into the temple and began to drive
out those who bought and sold in it, <key:bcv=Luke 19:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:46">46 </verse></sup>saying to
them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’<footnote:1>19:46 Isaiah 56:7 </footnote>
but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”<footnote:1>19:46 Jeremiah 7:11 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 19:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:47">47 </verse></sup>He was teaching daily in the temple, but the
chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men
among the people sought to destroy him. <key:bcv=Luke 19:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 19:48">48 </verse></sup>They
couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people
hung on to every word that he said.

#BCV:Luke 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Luke 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:1">1 </verse></sup>On one of those days, as he was teaching the
people in the temple and preaching the Good News,
the<footnote:1>20:1 TR adds “chief” </footnote> priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
<key:bcv=Luke 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:2">2 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do
you do these things? Or who is giving you this
authority?”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:3">3 </verse></sup>He answered them, “I also will ask you one
question. Tell me: <key:bcv=Luke 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:4">4 </verse></sup>the baptism of John, was it
from heaven, or from men?”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:5">5 </verse></sup>They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we
say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you
believe him?’ <key:bcv=Luke 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:6">6 </verse></sup>But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the
people will stone us, for they are persuaded that
John was a prophet.” <key:bcv=Luke 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:7">7 </verse></sup>They answered that they
didn’t know where it was from.

<key:bcv=Luke 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by
what authority I do these things.”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:9">9 </verse></sup>He began to tell the people this parable: “A <footnote:1>20:9 NU (in brackets) and TR add “certain”</footnote>
man planted a vineyard and rented it out to some
farmers, and went into another country for a long
time. <key:bcv=Luke 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:10">10 </verse></sup>At the proper season, he sent a servant
to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the
vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him
away empty. <key:bcv=Luke 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:11">11 </verse></sup>He sent yet another servant, and
they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and
sent him away empty. <key:bcv=Luke 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:12">12 </verse></sup>He sent yet a third, and
they also wounded him and threw him out. <key:bcv=Luke 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:13">13 </verse></sup>The
lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will
send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him,
they will respect him.’

<key:bcv=Luke 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:14">14 </verse></sup>“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned
among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come,
let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ <key:bcv=Luke 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:15">15 </verse></sup>
Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed
him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard
do to them? <key:bcv=Luke 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:16">16 </verse></sup>He will come and destroy these
farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.”
When they heard that, they said, “May that never
be!”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:17">17 </verse></sup>But he looked at them and said, “Then what is
this that is written,
<br>
‘The stone which the builders rejected
was made the chief cornerstone?’<footnote:1>20:17 Psalm 118:22 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken
to pieces,
<br>
but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
<key:bcv=Luke 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:19">19 </verse></sup>The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay
hands on him that very hour, but they feared the
people—for they knew he had spoken this parable
against them. <key:bcv=Luke 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:20">20 </verse></sup>They watched him and sent out
spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they
might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver
him up to the power and authority of the governor.
<key:bcv=Luke 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:21">21 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say
and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone,
but truly teach the way of God. <key:bcv=Luke 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Is it lawful for us
to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:23">23 </verse></sup>But he perceived their craftiness, and said to
them, “Why do you test me? <key:bcv=Luke 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:24">24 </verse></sup>Show me a
denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”
They answered, “Caesar’s.”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:25">25 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are
God’s.”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:26">26 </verse></sup>They weren’t able to trap him in his words
before the people. They marveled at his answer
and were silent. <key:bcv=Luke 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:27">27 </verse></sup>Some of the Sadducees came to
him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
<key:bcv=Luke 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:28">28 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that
if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is
childless, his brother should take the wife and raise
up children for his brother. <key:bcv=Luke 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:29">29 </verse></sup>There were therefore
seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died
childless. <key:bcv=Luke 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:30">30 </verse></sup>The second took her as wife, and he died
childless. <key:bcv=Luke 20:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:31">31 </verse></sup>The third took her, and likewise the
seven all left no children, and died. <key:bcv=Luke 20:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:32">32 </verse></sup>Afterward the
woman also died. <key:bcv=Luke 20:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:33">33 </verse></sup>Therefore in the resurrection
whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had
her as a wife.”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “The children of this age
marry and are given in marriage. <key:bcv=Luke 20:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:35">35 </verse></sup>But those
who are considered worthy to attain to that age and
the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor
are given in marriage. <key:bcv=Luke 20:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:36">36 </verse></sup>For they can’t die any
more, for they are like the angels and are children
of God, being children of the resurrection. <key:bcv=Luke 20:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:37">37 </verse></sup>But
that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the
bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’<footnote:1>20:37 Exodus 3:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 20:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:38">38 </verse></sup>Now he
is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all
are alive to him.”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:39">39 </verse></sup>Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you
speak well.” <key:bcv=Luke 20:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:40">40 </verse></sup>They didn’t dare to ask him any more
questions.

<key:bcv=Luke 20:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:41">41 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why do they say that the
Christ is David’s son? <key:bcv=Luke 20:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:42">42 </verse></sup>David himself says in the
book of Psalms,
<br>
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
<br>
“Sit at my right hand,

<key:bcv=Luke 20:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:43">43 </verse></sup>until I make your enemies the footstool of
your feet.” ’<footnote:1>20:43 Psalm 110:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 20:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:44">44 </verse></sup>“David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he
his son?”

<key:bcv=Luke 20:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:45">45 </verse></sup>In the hearing of all the people, he said to
his disciples, <key:bcv=Luke 20:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:46">46 </verse></sup>“Beware of those scribes who like
to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the
marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and
the best places at feasts; <key:bcv=Luke 20:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 20:47">47 </verse></sup>who devour widows’
houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These
will receive greater condemnation.”

#BCV:Luke 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:1">1 </verse></sup>He looked up and saw the rich people who
were putting their gifts into the treasury. <key:bcv=Luke 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:2">2 </verse></sup>He saw
a certain poor widow casting in two small brass
coins.<footnote:1>21:2 literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:3">3 </verse></sup>He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow
put in more than all of them, <key:bcv=Luke 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:4">4 </verse></sup>for all these put in
gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of
her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
<key:bcv=Luke 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:5">5 </verse></sup>As some were talking about the temple and how
it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he
said, <key:bcv=Luke 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:6">6 </verse></sup>“As for these things which you see, the days
will come in which there will not be left here one
stone on another that will not be thrown down.”
<key:bcv=Luke 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:7">7 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these
things be? What is the sign that these things are
about to happen?”

<key:bcv=Luke 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:8">8 </verse></sup>He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray,
for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he<footnote:1>21:8 or, I AM</footnote>,’
and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow
them. <key:bcv=Luke 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:9">9 </verse></sup>When you hear of wars and disturbances,
don’t be terrified, for these things must happen
first, but the end won’t come immediately.”
<key:bcv=Luke 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. <key:bcv=Luke 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:11">11 </verse></sup>There
will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in
various places. There will be terrors and great signs
from heaven. <key:bcv=Luke 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:12">12 </verse></sup>But before all these things,
they will lay their hands on you and will persecute
you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons,
bringing you before kings and governors for my
name’s sake. <key:bcv=Luke 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:13">13 </verse></sup>It will turn out as a testimony
for you. <key:bcv=Luke 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:14">14 </verse></sup>Settle it therefore in your hearts
not to meditate beforehand how to answer, <key:bcv=Luke 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:15">15 </verse></sup>
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all
your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to
contradict. <key:bcv=Luke 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:16">16 </verse></sup>You will be handed over even by
parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will
cause some of you to be put to death. <key:bcv=Luke 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:17">17 </verse></sup>You will be
hated by all men for my name’s sake. <key:bcv=Luke 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:18">18 </verse></sup>And not a
hair of your head will perish.

<key:bcv=Luke 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:19">19 </verse></sup>“By your endurance you will win your lives.
<key:bcv=Luke 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:20">20 </verse></sup>“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by
armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
<key:bcv=Luke 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Then let those who are in Judea flee to the
mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her
depart. Let those who are in the country not enter
therein. <key:bcv=Luke 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:22">22 </verse></sup>For these are days of vengeance, that
all things which are written may be fulfilled. <key:bcv=Luke 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:23">23 </verse></sup>
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who
nurse infants in those days! For there will be great
distress in the land and wrath to this people. <key:bcv=Luke 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:24">24 </verse></sup>
They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be
led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be
trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the
Gentiles are fulfilled.

<key:bcv=Luke 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:25">25 </verse></sup>“There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars;
and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity
for the roaring of the sea and the waves; <key:bcv=Luke 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:26">26 </verse></sup>men
fainting for fear and for expectation of the things
which are coming on the world, for the powers of
the heavens will be shaken. <key:bcv=Luke 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:27">27 </verse></sup>Then they will
see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power
and great glory. <key:bcv=Luke 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:28">28 </verse></sup>But when these things begin
to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because
your redemption is near.”

<key:bcv=Luke 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:29">29 </verse></sup>He told them a parable. “See the fig tree and all
the trees. <key:bcv=Luke 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:30">30 </verse></sup>When they are already budding, you
see it and know by your own selves that the summer
is already near. <key:bcv=Luke 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:31">31 </verse></sup>Even so you also, when you see
these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom
is near. <key:bcv=Luke 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:32">32 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, this generation
will not pass away until all things are accomplished.
<key:bcv=Luke 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:33">33 </verse></sup>Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words
will by no means pass away.

<key:bcv=Luke 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:34">34 </verse></sup>“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded
down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of
this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
<key:bcv=Luke 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:35">35 </verse></sup>For it will come like a snare on all those who
dwell on the surface of all the earth. <key:bcv=Luke 21:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:36">36 </verse></sup>Therefore
be watchful all the time, praying that you may be
counted worthy to escape all these things that will
happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
<key:bcv=Luke 21:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:37">37 </verse></sup>Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and
every night he would go out and spend the night on
the mountain that is called Olivet. <key:bcv=Luke 21:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 21:38">38 </verse></sup>All the people
came early in the morning to him in the temple to
hear him.

#BCV:Luke 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is
called the Passover, was approaching. <key:bcv=Luke 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:2">2 </verse></sup>The chief
priests and the scribes sought how they might put
him to death, for they feared the people.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:3">3 </verse></sup>Satan entered into Judas, who was also called
Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve. <key:bcv=Luke 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:4">4 </verse></sup>He
went away and talked with the chief priests and
captains about how he might deliver him to them.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:5">5 </verse></sup>They were glad, and agreed to give him money.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:6">6 </verse></sup>He consented and sought an opportunity to deliver
him to them in the absence of the multitude.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:7">7 </verse></sup>The day of unleavened bread came, on which the
Passover must be sacrificed. <key:bcv=Luke 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus sent Peter and
John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us,
that we may eat.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:9">9 </verse></sup>They said to him, “Where do you want us to
prepare?”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:10">10 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Behold, when you have
entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of
water will meet you. Follow him into the house
which he enters. <key:bcv=Luke 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:11">11 </verse></sup>Tell the master of the house,
‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’
<key:bcv=Luke 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:12">12 </verse></sup>He will show you a large, furnished upper room.
Make preparations there.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:13">13 </verse></sup>They went, found things as Jesus had told them,
and they prepared the Passover.

<key:bcv=Luke 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:14">14 </verse></sup>When the hour had come, he sat down with the
twelve apostles. <key:bcv=Luke 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to them, “I have earnestly
desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
<key:bcv=Luke 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:16">16 </verse></sup>for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it
until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.” <key:bcv=Luke 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:17">17 </verse></sup>He received
a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take
this and share it among yourselves, <key:bcv=Luke 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:18">18 </verse></sup>for I tell you,
I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine,
until God’s Kingdom comes.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:19">19 </verse></sup>He took bread, and when he had given thanks,
he broke and gave it to them, saying, “This is my
body which is given for you. Do this in memory
of me.” <key:bcv=Luke 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:20">20 </verse></sup>Likewise, he took the cup after supper,
saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood,
which is poured out for you. <key:bcv=Luke 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:21">21 </verse></sup>But behold, the
hand of him who betrays me is with me on the
table. <key:bcv=Luke 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:22">22 </verse></sup>The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been
determined, but woe to that man through whom he
is betrayed!”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:23">23 </verse></sup>They began to question among themselves
which of them it was who would do this thing.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:24">24 </verse></sup>A dispute also arose among them, which of
them was considered to be greatest. <key:bcv=Luke 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:25">25 </verse></sup>He said to
them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them,
and those who have authority over them are called
‘benefactors.’ <key:bcv=Luke 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:26">26 </verse></sup>But not so with you. Rather, the
one who is greater among you, let him become as
the younger, and one who is governing, as one who
serves. <key:bcv=Luke 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:27">27 </verse></sup>For who is greater, one who sits at the
table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the
table? But I am among you as one who serves.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:28">28 </verse></sup>“But you are those who have continued with
me in my trials. <key:bcv=Luke 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:29">29 </verse></sup>I confer on you a kingdom, even
as my Father conferred on me, <key:bcv=Luke 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:30">30 </verse></sup>that you may eat
and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit
on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:31">31 </verse></sup>The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan
asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as
wheat, <key:bcv=Luke 22:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:32">32 </verse></sup>but I prayed for you, that your faith
wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned
again, establish your brothers.”<footnote:1>22:32 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” ? 22:37 Isaiah 53:12</footnote>

<key:bcv=Luke 22:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:33">33 </verse></sup>He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you
both to prison and to death!”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:34">34 </verse></sup>He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no
means crow today until you deny that you know me
three times.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:35">35 </verse></sup>He said to them, “When I sent you out without
purse, bag, and sandals, did you lack anything?”
They said, “Nothing.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:36">36 </verse></sup>Then he said to them, “But now, whoever
has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a bag.
Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy
a sword. <key:bcv=Luke 22:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:37">37 </verse></sup>For I tell you that this which is written
must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with
transgressors.’? For that which concerns me is
being fulfilled.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:38">38 </verse></sup>They said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.”
<br>
He said to them, “That is enough.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:39">39 </verse></sup>He came out and went, as his custom was, to
the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:40">40 </verse></sup>When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray
that you don’t enter into temptation.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:41">41 </verse></sup>He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s
throw, and he knelt down and prayed, <key:bcv=Luke 22:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:42">42 </verse></sup>saying,
“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:43">43 </verse></sup>An angel from heaven appeared to him,
strengthening him. <key:bcv=Luke 22:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:44">44 </verse></sup>Being in agony, he prayed
more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops
of blood falling down on the ground.

<key:bcv=Luke 22:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:45">45 </verse></sup>When he rose up from his prayer, he came to
the disciples and found them sleeping because of
grief, <key:bcv=Luke 22:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:46">46 </verse></sup>and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise
and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:47">47 </verse></sup>While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared.
He who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was
leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
<key:bcv=Luke 22:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:48">48 </verse></sup>But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the
Son of Man with a kiss?”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:49">49 </verse></sup>When those who were around him saw what
was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall
we strike with the sword?” <key:bcv=Luke 22:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:50">50 </verse></sup>A certain one of them
struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his
right ear.

<key:bcv=Luke 22:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:51">51 </verse></sup>But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—
and he touched his ear and healed him. <key:bcv=Luke 22:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:52">52 </verse></sup>Jesus
said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and
elders, who had come against him, “Have you come
out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? <key:bcv=Luke 22:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:53">53 </verse></sup>
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t
stretch out your hands against me. But this is your
hour, and the power of darkness.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:54">54 </verse></sup>They seized him and led him away, and brought
him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed
from a distance. <key:bcv=Luke 22:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:55">55 </verse></sup>When they had kindled a fire
in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down
together, Peter sat among them. <key:bcv=Luke 22:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:56">56 </verse></sup>A certain servant
girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking
intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:57><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:57">57 </verse></sup>He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know
him.”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:58><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:58">58 </verse></sup>After a little while someone else saw him and
said, “You also are one of them!”
<br>
But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:59><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:59">59 </verse></sup>After about one hour passed, another confidently
affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was
with him, for he is a Galilean!”

<key:bcv=Luke 22:60><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:60">60 </verse></sup>But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you
are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still
speaking, a rooster crowed. <key:bcv=Luke 22:61><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:61">61 </verse></sup>The Lord turned and
looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s
word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows
you will deny me three times.” <key:bcv=Luke 22:62><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:62">62 </verse></sup>He went out, and
wept bitterly.

<key:bcv=Luke 22:63><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:63">63 </verse></sup>The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat
him. <key:bcv=Luke 22:64><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:64">64 </verse></sup>Having blindfolded him, they struck him on
the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one
who struck you?” <key:bcv=Luke 22:65><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:65">65 </verse></sup>They spoke many other things
against him, insulting him.

<key:bcv=Luke 22:66><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:66">66 </verse></sup>As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders
of the people were gathered together, both chief
priests and scribes, and they led him away into their
council, saying, <key:bcv=Luke 22:67><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:67">67 </verse></sup>“If you are the Christ, tell us.”
But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t
believe, <key:bcv=Luke 22:68><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:68">68 </verse></sup>and if I ask, you will in no way answer
me or let me go. <key:bcv=Luke 22:69><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:69">69 </verse></sup>From now on, the Son of Man
will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:70><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:70">70 </verse></sup>They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?”
He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”
<key:bcv=Luke 22:71><sup><verse bcv="Luke 22:71">71 </verse></sup>They said, “Why do we need any more witness?
For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”

#BCV:Luke 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:1">1 </verse></sup>The whole company of them rose up and
brought him before Pilate. <key:bcv=Luke 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:2">2 </verse></sup>They began to accuse
him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation,
forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying
that he himself is Christ, a king.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered him, “So you say.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes,
“I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
<key:bcv=Luke 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:5">5 </verse></sup>But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people,
teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from
Galilee even to this place.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:6">6 </verse></sup>But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he
asked if the man was a Galilean. <key:bcv=Luke 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:7">7 </verse></sup>When he found
out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him
to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those
days.

<key:bcv=Luke 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:8">8 </verse></sup>Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly
glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time,
because he had heard many things about him. He
hoped to see some miracle done by him. <key:bcv=Luke 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:9">9 </verse></sup>He
questioned him with many words, but he gave no
answers. <key:bcv=Luke 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:10">10 </verse></sup>The chief priests and the scribes stood,
vehemently accusing him. <key:bcv=Luke 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:11">11 </verse></sup>Herod with his soldiers
humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in
luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:12">12 </verse></sup>Herod and Pilate became friends with each other
that very day, for before that they were enemies
with each other.

<key:bcv=Luke 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:13">13 </verse></sup>Pilate called together the chief priests, the
rulers, and the people, <key:bcv=Luke 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:14">14 </verse></sup>and said to them, “You
brought this man to me as one that perverts the
people, and behold, having examined him before
you, I found no basis for a charge against this man
concerning those things of which you accuse him.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see,
nothing worthy of death has been done by him. <key:bcv=Luke 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:16">16 </verse></sup>I
will therefore chastise him and release him.”
<key:bcv=Luke 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Now he had to release one prisoner to them at
the feast.<footnote:1>23:17 NU omits verse 17.</footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:18">18 </verse></sup>But they all cried out together, saying,
“Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—
<key:bcv=Luke 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:19">19 </verse></sup>one who was thrown into prison for a certain
revolt in the city, and for murder.

<key:bcv=Luke 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to
release Jesus, <key:bcv=Luke 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:21">21 </verse></sup>but they shouted, saying, “Crucify!
Crucify him!”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:22">22 </verse></sup>He said to them the third time, “Why? What
evil has this man done? I have found no capital
crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and
release him.” <key:bcv=Luke 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:23">23 </verse></sup>But they were urgent with loud
voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their
voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:24">24 </verse></sup>Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be
done. <key:bcv=Luke 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:25">25 </verse></sup>He released him who had been thrown into
prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they
asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:26">26 </verse></sup>When they led him away, they grabbed one
Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and
laid the cross on him to carry it after Jesus. <key:bcv=Luke 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:27">27 </verse></sup>A
great multitude of the people followed him, including
women who also mourned and lamented

him. <key:bcv=Luke 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:28">28 </verse></sup>But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters
of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for
yourselves and for your children. <key:bcv=Luke 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:29">29 </verse></sup>For behold,
the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed
are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the
breasts that never nursed.’ <key:bcv=Luke 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:30">30 </verse></sup>Then they will begin
to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills,
‘Cover us.’<footnote:1>23:30 Hosea 10:8 </footnote> <key:bcv=Luke 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:31">31 </verse></sup>For if they do these things in the
green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
<key:bcv=Luke 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:32">32 </verse></sup>There were also others, two criminals, led with
him to be put to death. <key:bcv=Luke 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:33">33 </verse></sup>When they came to the
place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him
there with the criminals, one on the right and the
other on the left.

<key:bcv=Luke 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t
know what they are doing.”
<br>
Dividing his garments among them, they cast
lots. <key:bcv=Luke 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:35">35 </verse></sup>The people stood watching. The rulers with
them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others.
Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his
chosen one!”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:36">36 </verse></sup>The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him
and offering him vinegar, <key:bcv=Luke 23:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:37">37 </verse></sup>and saying, “If you are
the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
<key:bcv=Luke 23:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:38">38 </verse></sup>An inscription was also written over him in
letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE
KING OF THE JEWS.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:39">39 </verse></sup>One of the criminals who was hanged insulted
him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and
us!”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:40">40 </verse></sup>But the other answered, and rebuking him said,
“Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under
the same condemnation? <key:bcv=Luke 23:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:41">41 </verse></sup>And we indeed justly,
for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but
this man has done nothing wrong.” <key:bcv=Luke 23:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:42">42 </verse></sup>He said to
Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into
your Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:43">43 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today
you will be with me in Paradise.”

<key:bcv=Luke 23:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:44">44 </verse></sup>It was now about the sixth hour,<footnote:1>23:44 Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon. </footnote> and darkness
came over the whole land until the ninth hour.<footnote:1>23:44 3:00 p.m. </footnote>
<key:bcv=Luke 23:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:45">45 </verse></sup>The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple
was torn in two. <key:bcv=Luke 23:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:46">46 </verse></sup>Jesus, crying with a loud voice,
said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”
Having said this, he breathed his last.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:47">47 </verse></sup>When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified
God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous
man.” <key:bcv=Luke 23:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:48">48 </verse></sup>All the multitudes that came together
to see this, when they saw the things that were
done, returned home beating their breasts. <key:bcv=Luke 23:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:49">49 </verse></sup>All his
acquaintances and the women who followed with
him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these
things.

<key:bcv=Luke 23:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:50">50 </verse></sup>Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who
was a member of the council, a good and righteous
man <key:bcv=Luke 23:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:51">51 </verse></sup>(he had not consented to their counsel and
deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who
was also waiting for God’s Kingdom. <key:bcv=Luke 23:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:52">52 </verse></sup>This man
went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. <key:bcv=Luke 23:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:53">53 </verse></sup>He
took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and
laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where
no one had ever been laid. <key:bcv=Luke 23:54><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:54">54 </verse></sup>It was the day of
the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
<key:bcv=Luke 23:55><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:55">55 </verse></sup>The women who had come with him out of Galilee
followed after, and saw the tomb and how his body
was laid. <key:bcv=Luke 23:56><sup><verse bcv="Luke 23:56">56 </verse></sup>They returned and prepared spices and
ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to
the commandment.

#BCV:Luke 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Luke 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:1">1 </verse></sup>But on the first day of the week, at early dawn,
they and some others came to the tomb, bringing
the spices which they had prepared. <key:bcv=Luke 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:2">2 </verse></sup>They found
the stone rolled away from the tomb. <key:bcv=Luke 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:3">3 </verse></sup>They entered
in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. <key:bcv=Luke 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:4">4 </verse></sup>While
they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two
men stood by them in dazzling clothing. <key:bcv=Luke 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:5">5 </verse></sup>Becoming
terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
The men said to them, “Why do you seek the
living among the dead? <key:bcv=Luke 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:6">6 </verse></sup>He isn’t here, but is
risen. Remember what he told you when he was
still in Galilee, <key:bcv=Luke 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:7">7 </verse></sup>saying that the Son of Man must
be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be
crucified, and the third day rise again?”
<key:bcv=Luke 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:8">8 </verse></sup>They remembered his words, <key:bcv=Luke 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:9">9 </verse></sup>returned from
the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and
to all the rest. <key:bcv=Luke 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:10">10 </verse></sup>Now they were Mary Magdalene,
Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other
women with them told these things to the apostles.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:11">11 </verse></sup>These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and
they didn’t believe them. <key:bcv=Luke 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:12">12 </verse></sup>But Peter got up and ran
to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the
strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed
to his home, wondering what had happened.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:13">13 </verse></sup>Behold, two of them were going that very
day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty
stadia<footnote:1>24:13 60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.</footnote> from Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Luke 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:14">14 </verse></sup>They talked with each
other about all of these things which had happened.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:15">15 </verse></sup>While they talked and questioned together, Jesus
himself came near, and went with them. <key:bcv=Luke 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:16">16 </verse></sup>But their
eyes were kept from recognizing him. <key:bcv=Luke 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to
them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and
are sad?”

<key:bcv=Luke 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:18">18 </verse></sup>One of them, named Cleopas, answered him,
“Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t
know the things which have happened there in
these days?”

<key:bcv=Luke 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:19">19 </verse></sup>He said to them, “What things?”
<br>
They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus
the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed
and word before God and all the people; <key:bcv=Luke 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:20">20 </verse></sup>and how
the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to
be condemned to death, and crucified him. <key:bcv=Luke 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:21">21 </verse></sup>But
we were hoping that it was he who would redeem
Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third
day since these things happened. <key:bcv=Luke 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:22">22 </verse></sup>Also, certain
women of our company amazed us, having arrived
early at the tomb; <key:bcv=Luke 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:23">23 </verse></sup>and when they didn’t find his
body, they came saying that they had also seen a
vision of angels, who said that he was alive. <key:bcv=Luke 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:24">24 </verse></sup>Some
of us went to the tomb and found it just like the
women had said, but they didn’t see him.”
<key:bcv=Luke 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:25">25 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow
of heart to believe in all that the prophets have
spoken! <key:bcv=Luke 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:26">26 </verse></sup>Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these
things and to enter into his glory?” <key:bcv=Luke 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:27">27 </verse></sup>Beginning
from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained
to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning
himself.

<key:bcv=Luke 24:28><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:28">28 </verse></sup>They came near to the village where they were
going, and he acted like he would go further.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:29><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:29">29 </verse></sup>They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is
almost evening, and the day is almost over.”
He went in to stay with them. <key:bcv=Luke 24:30><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:30">30 </verse></sup>When he had
sat down at the table with them, he took the bread
and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:31><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:31">31 </verse></sup>Their eyes were opened and they recognized him;
then he vanished out of their sight. <key:bcv=Luke 24:32><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:32">32 </verse></sup>They said
to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within
us while he spoke to us along the way, and while
he opened the Scriptures to us?” <key:bcv=Luke 24:33><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:33">33 </verse></sup>They rose up
that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found
the eleven gathered together, and those who were
with them, <key:bcv=Luke 24:34><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:34">34 </verse></sup>saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and
has appeared to Simon!” <key:bcv=Luke 24:35><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:35">35 </verse></sup>They related the things
that happened along the way, and how he was
recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:36><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:36">36 </verse></sup>As they said these things, Jesus himself stood
among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
<key:bcv=Luke 24:37><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:37">37 </verse></sup>But they were terrified and filled with fear, and
supposed that they had seen a spirit.
<key:bcv=Luke 24:38><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:38">38 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why
do doubts arise in your hearts? <key:bcv=Luke 24:39><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:39">39 </verse></sup>See my hands
and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see,
for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see
that I have.” <key:bcv=Luke 24:40><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:40">40 </verse></sup>When he had said this, he showed
them his hands and his feet. <key:bcv=Luke 24:41><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:41">41 </verse></sup>While they still didn’t
believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do
you have anything here to eat?”

<key:bcv=Luke 24:42><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:42">42 </verse></sup>They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some
honeycomb. <key:bcv=Luke 24:43><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:43">43 </verse></sup>He took them, and ate in front of
them. <key:bcv=Luke 24:44><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:44">44 </verse></sup>He said to them, “This is what I told you
while I was still with you, that all things which are
written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the
psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
<key:bcv=Luke 24:45><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:45">45 </verse></sup>Then he opened their minds, that they might
understand the Scriptures. <key:bcv=Luke 24:46><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:46">46 </verse></sup>He said to them,
“Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the
Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third
day, <key:bcv=Luke 24:47><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:47">47 </verse></sup>and that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name to all the nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Luke 24:48><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:48">48 </verse></sup>You are witnesses of
these things. <key:bcv=Luke 24:49><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:49">49 </verse></sup>Behold, I send out the promise of
my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem
until you are clothed with power from on high.”
<key:bcv=Luke 24:50><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:50">50 </verse></sup>He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted
up his hands and blessed them. <key:bcv=Luke 24:51><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:51">51 </verse></sup>While he blessed
them, he withdrew from them and was carried up
into heaven. <key:bcv=Luke 24:52><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:52">52 </verse></sup>They worshiped him and returned
to Jerusalem with great joy, <key:bcv=Luke 24:53><sup><verse bcv="Luke 24:53">53 </verse></sup>and were continually
in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,John
<h2>The Good News According to
<br>
John</h2>

<key:bcv=John 1:1><sup><verse bcv="John 1:1">1 </verse></sup>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. <key:bcv=John 1:2><sup><verse bcv="John 1:2">2 </verse></sup>The same
was in the beginning with God. <key:bcv=John 1:3><sup><verse bcv="John 1:3">3 </verse></sup>All things were
made through him. Without him, nothing was
made that has been made. <key:bcv=John 1:4><sup><verse bcv="John 1:4">4 </verse></sup>In him was life, and the
life was the light of men. <key:bcv=John 1:5><sup><verse bcv="John 1:5">5 </verse></sup>The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome<footnote:1>1:5 The word translated “overcome” (<greek>κατέλαβεν<english>) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him. </footnote> it.
<key:bcv=John 1:6><sup><verse bcv="John 1:6">6 </verse></sup>There came a man sent from God, whose name
was John. <key:bcv=John 1:7><sup><verse bcv="John 1:7">7 </verse></sup>The same came as a witness, that he
might testify about the light, that all might believe
through him. <key:bcv=John 1:8><sup><verse bcv="John 1:8">8 </verse></sup>He was not the light, but was sent
that he might testify about the light. <key:bcv=John 1:9><sup><verse bcv="John 1:9">9 </verse></sup>The true
light that enlightens everyone was coming into the
world.

<key:bcv=John 1:10><sup><verse bcv="John 1:10">10 </verse></sup>He was in the world, and the world was made
through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
<key:bcv=John 1:11><sup><verse bcv="John 1:11">11 </verse></sup>He came to his own, and those who were his own
didn’t receive him. <key:bcv=John 1:12><sup><verse bcv="John 1:12">12 </verse></sup>But as many as received him,
to them he gave the right to become God’s children,
to those who believe in his name: <key:bcv=John 1:13><sup><verse bcv="John 1:13">13 </verse></sup>who were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.

<key:bcv=John 1:14><sup><verse bcv="John 1:14">14 </verse></sup>The Word became flesh and lived among us. We
saw his glory, such glory as of the only born<footnote:1>1:14 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> Son of
the Father, full of grace and truth. <key:bcv=John 1:15><sup><verse bcv="John 1:15">15 </verse></sup>John testified
about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of
whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed
me, for he was before me.’ ” <key:bcv=John 1:16><sup><verse bcv="John 1:16">16 </verse></sup>From his fullness we
all received grace upon grace. <key:bcv=John 1:17><sup><verse bcv="John 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For the law was
given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized
through Jesus Christ.<footnote:1>1:17 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> <key:bcv=John 1:18><sup><verse bcv="John 1:18">18 </verse></sup>No one has seen God at any
time. The only born<footnote:1>1:18 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> Son,<footnote:1>1:18 NU reads “God” </footnote> who is in the bosom of
the Father, has declared him.

<key:bcv=John 1:19><sup><verse bcv="John 1:19">19 </verse></sup>This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent
priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who
are you?”

<key:bcv=John 1:20><sup><verse bcv="John 1:20">20 </verse></sup>He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared,
“I am not the Christ.”

<key:bcv=John 1:21><sup><verse bcv="John 1:21">21 </verse></sup>They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
<br>
“Are you the prophet?”
<br>
He answered, “No.”

<key:bcv=John 1:22><sup><verse bcv="John 1:22">22 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give
us an answer to take back to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?”

<key:bcv=John 1:23><sup><verse bcv="John 1:23">23 </verse></sup>He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’<footnote:1>1:23 Isaiah 40:3 </footnote> as
Isaiah the prophet said.”

<key:bcv=John 1:24><sup><verse bcv="John 1:24">24 </verse></sup>The ones who had been sent were from the
Pharisees. <key:bcv=John 1:25><sup><verse bcv="John 1:25">25 </verse></sup>They asked him, “Why then do you
baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the
prophet?”

<key:bcv=John 1:26><sup><verse bcv="John 1:26">26 </verse></sup>John answered them, “I baptize in water, but
among you stands one whom you don’t know. <key:bcv=John 1:27><sup><verse bcv="John 1:27">27 </verse></sup>He
is the one who comes after me, who is preferred
before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to
loosen.” <key:bcv=John 1:28><sup><verse bcv="John 1:28">28 </verse></sup>These things were done in Bethany
beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
<key:bcv=John 1:29><sup><verse bcv="John 1:29">29 </verse></sup>The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and
said, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:29 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> the Lamb of God, who takes away the
sin of the world! <key:bcv=John 1:30><sup><verse bcv="John 1:30">30 </verse></sup>This is he of whom I said, ‘After
me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he
was before me.’ <key:bcv=John 1:31><sup><verse bcv="John 1:31">31 </verse></sup>I didn’t know him, but for this
reason I came baptizing in water, that he would be
revealed to Israel.” <key:bcv=John 1:32><sup><verse bcv="John 1:32">32 </verse></sup>John testified, saying, “I have
seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven,
and it remained on him. <key:bcv=John 1:33><sup><verse bcv="John 1:33">33 </verse></sup>I didn’t recognize him,
but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me,
‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending
and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy
Spirit.’ <key:bcv=John 1:34><sup><verse bcv="John 1:34">34 </verse></sup>I have seen and have testified that this is
the Son of God.”

<key:bcv=John 1:35><sup><verse bcv="John 1:35">35 </verse></sup>Again, the next day, John was standing with
two of his disciples, <key:bcv=John 1:36><sup><verse bcv="John 1:36">36 </verse></sup>and he looked at Jesus as he
walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” <key:bcv=John 1:37><sup><verse bcv="John 1:37">37 </verse></sup>The
two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
Jesus. <key:bcv=John 1:38><sup><verse bcv="John 1:38">38 </verse></sup>Jesus turned and saw them following, and
said to them, “What are you looking for?”
They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being
interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”
<key:bcv=John 1:39><sup><verse bcv="John 1:39">39 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Come and see.”
<br>
They came and saw where he was staying, and
they stayed with him that day. It was about the
tenth hour.<footnote:1>1:39 4:00 p.m. </footnote> <key:bcv=John 1:40><sup><verse bcv="John 1:40">40 </verse></sup>One of the two who heard John and
followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
<key:bcv=John 1:41><sup><verse bcv="John 1:41">41 </verse></sup>He first found his own brother, Simon, and said
to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is,
being interpreted, Christ<footnote:1>1:41 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”. </footnote>). <key:bcv=John 1:42><sup><verse bcv="John 1:42">42 </verse></sup>He brought him to
Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon
the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which
is by interpretation, Peter).<footnote:1>1:42 “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”.</footnote>

<key:bcv=John 1:43><sup><verse bcv="John 1:43">43 </verse></sup>On the next day, he was determined to go out
into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him,
“Follow me.” <key:bcv=John 1:44><sup><verse bcv="John 1:44">44 </verse></sup>Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter. <key:bcv=John 1:45><sup><verse bcv="John 1:45">45 </verse></sup>Philip found Nathanael,
and said to him, “We have found him of whom
Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

<key:bcv=John 1:46><sup><verse bcv="John 1:46">46 </verse></sup>Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing
come out of Nazareth?”
<br>
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

<key:bcv=John 1:47><sup><verse bcv="John 1:47">47 </verse></sup>Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said
about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is
no deceit!”

<key:bcv=John 1:48><sup><verse bcv="John 1:48">48 </verse></sup>Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
<br>
Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you,
when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
<key:bcv=John 1:49><sup><verse bcv="John 1:49">49 </verse></sup>Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the
Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

<key:bcv=John 1:50><sup><verse bcv="John 1:50">50 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw
you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You
will see greater things than these!” <key:bcv=John 1:51><sup><verse bcv="John 1:51">51 </verse></sup>He said to
him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will
see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man.”

#BCV:John 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 2:1><sup><verse bcv="John 2:1">1 </verse></sup>The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of
Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. <key:bcv=John 2:2><sup><verse bcv="John 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Jesus also was
invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. <key:bcv=John 2:3><sup><verse bcv="John 2:3">3 </verse></sup>When
the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They
have no wine.”

<key:bcv=John 2:4><sup><verse bcv="John 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have
to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
<key:bcv=John 2:5><sup><verse bcv="John 2:5">5 </verse></sup>His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he
says to you, do it.”

<key:bcv=John 2:6><sup><verse bcv="John 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Now there were six water pots of stone set there
after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or
three metretes<footnote:1>2:6 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 liters. </footnote> apiece. <key:bcv=John 2:7><sup><verse bcv="John 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Fill
the water pots with water.” So they filled them up
to the brim. <key:bcv=John 2:8><sup><verse bcv="John 2:8">8 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Now draw some out,
and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took
it. <key:bcv=John 2:9><sup><verse bcv="John 2:9">9 </verse></sup>When the ruler of the feast tasted the water
now become wine, and didn’t know where it came
from (but the servants who had drawn the water
knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom
<key:bcv=John 2:10><sup><verse bcv="John 2:10">10 </verse></sup>and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine
first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then
that which is worse. You have kept the good wine
until now!” <key:bcv=John 2:11><sup><verse bcv="John 2:11">11 </verse></sup>This beginning of his signs Jesus did
in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his
disciples believed in him.

<key:bcv=John 2:12><sup><verse bcv="John 2:12">12 </verse></sup>After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and
his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they
stayed there a few days.

<key:bcv=John 2:13><sup><verse bcv="John 2:13">13 </verse></sup>The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=John 2:14><sup><verse bcv="John 2:14">14 </verse></sup>He found in the
temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
and the changers of money sitting. <key:bcv=John 2:15><sup><verse bcv="John 2:15">15 </verse></sup>He made
a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple,
both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out
the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.
<key:bcv=John 2:16><sup><verse bcv="John 2:16">16 </verse></sup>To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these
things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house
a marketplace!” <key:bcv=John 2:17><sup><verse bcv="John 2:17">17 </verse></sup>His disciples remembered that it
was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”<footnote:1>2:17 Psalm 69:9 </footnote>
<key:bcv=John 2:18><sup><verse bcv="John 2:18">18 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign
do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
<key:bcv=John 2:19><sup><verse bcv="John 2:19">19 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and
in three days I will raise it up.”

<key:bcv=John 2:20><sup><verse bcv="John 2:20">20 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years
to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three
days?” <key:bcv=John 2:21><sup><verse bcv="John 2:21">21 </verse></sup>But he spoke of the temple of his body.
<key:bcv=John 2:22><sup><verse bcv="John 2:22">22 </verse></sup>When therefore he was raised from the dead, his
disciples remembered that he said this, and they
believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had
said.

<key:bcv=John 2:23><sup><verse bcv="John 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover,
during the feast, many believed in his name, observing
his signs which he did. <key:bcv=John 2:24><sup><verse bcv="John 2:24">24 </verse></sup>But Jesus didn’t
entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
<key:bcv=John 2:25><sup><verse bcv="John 2:25">25 </verse></sup>and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify
concerning man; for he himself knew what was in
man.

#BCV:John 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=John 3:1><sup><verse bcv="John 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. <key:bcv=John 3:2><sup><verse bcv="John 3:2">2 </verse></sup>He came to Jesus by
night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are
a teacher come from God, for no one can do these
signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
<key:bcv=John 3:3><sup><verse bcv="John 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you,
unless one is born anew, <footnote:1>3:3 The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (<greek>ἄνωθεν<english>) also means “again” and “from above”. </footnote> he can’t see God’s
Kingdom.”

<key:bcv=John 3:4><sup><verse bcv="John 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born
when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his
mother’s womb and be born?”

<key:bcv=John 3:5><sup><verse bcv="John 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless
one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into
God’s Kingdom. <key:bcv=John 3:6><sup><verse bcv="John 3:6">6 </verse></sup>That which is born of the flesh is
flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. <key:bcv=John 3:7><sup><verse bcv="John 3:7">7 </verse></sup>
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born
anew.’ <key:bcv=John 3:8><sup><verse bcv="John 3:8">8 </verse></sup>The wind<footnote:1>3:8 The same Greek word (<greek>πνεῦμα<english>) means wind, breath, and spirit. </footnote> blows where it wants to, and
you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes
from and where it is going. So is everyone who is
born of the Spirit.”

<key:bcv=John 3:9><sup><verse bcv="John 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Nicodemus answered him, “How can these
things be?”

<key:bcv=John 3:10><sup><verse bcv="John 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of
Israel, and don’t understand these things? <key:bcv=John 3:11><sup><verse bcv="John 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Most
certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know
and testify of that which we have seen, and you
don’t receive our witness. <key:bcv=John 3:12><sup><verse bcv="John 3:12">12 </verse></sup>If I told you earthly
things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if
I tell you heavenly things? <key:bcv=John 3:13><sup><verse bcv="John 3:13">13 </verse></sup>No one has ascended
into heaven but he who descended out of heaven,
the Son of Man, who is in heaven. <key:bcv=John 3:14><sup><verse bcv="John 3:14">14 </verse></sup>As Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up, <key:bcv=John 3:15><sup><verse bcv="John 3:15">15 </verse></sup>that whoever believes
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. <key:bcv=John 3:16><sup><verse bcv="John 3:16">16 </verse></sup>
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
born<footnote:1>3:16 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”.</footnote> Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish, but have eternal life. <key:bcv=John 3:17><sup><verse bcv="John 3:17">17 </verse></sup>For God didn’t
send his Son into the world to judge the world, but
that the world should be saved through him. <key:bcv=John 3:18><sup><verse bcv="John 3:18">18 </verse></sup>He
who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t
believe has been judged already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
<key:bcv=John 3:19><sup><verse bcv="John 3:19">19 </verse></sup>This is the judgment, that the light has come into
the world, and men loved the darkness rather than
the light, for their works were evil. <key:bcv=John 3:20><sup><verse bcv="John 3:20">20 </verse></sup>For everyone
who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to
the light, lest his works would be exposed. <key:bcv=John 3:21><sup><verse bcv="John 3:21">21 </verse></sup>But
he who does the truth comes to the light, that his
works may be revealed, that they have been done in
God.”

<key:bcv=John 3:22><sup><verse bcv="John 3:22">22 </verse></sup>After these things, Jesus came with his disciples
into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them
and baptized. <key:bcv=John 3:23><sup><verse bcv="John 3:23">23 </verse></sup>John also was baptizing in Enon
near Salim, because there was much water there.
They came and were baptized; <key:bcv=John 3:24><sup><verse bcv="John 3:24">24 </verse></sup>for John was not
yet thrown into prison. <key:bcv=John 3:25><sup><verse bcv="John 3:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore a dispute arose
on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about
purification. <key:bcv=John 3:26><sup><verse bcv="John 3:26">26 </verse></sup>They came to John and said to him,
“Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to
whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and
everyone is coming to him.”

<key:bcv=John 3:27><sup><verse bcv="John 3:27">27 </verse></sup>John answered, “A man can receive nothing
unless it has been given him from heaven. <key:bcv=John 3:28><sup><verse bcv="John 3:28">28 </verse></sup>You
yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’
but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ <key:bcv=John 3:29><sup><verse bcv="John 3:29">29 </verse></sup>He who has the
bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom,
who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly
because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my
joy is made full. <key:bcv=John 3:30><sup><verse bcv="John 3:30">30 </verse></sup>He must increase, but I must
decrease.

<key:bcv=John 3:31><sup><verse bcv="John 3:31">31 </verse></sup>“He who comes from above is above all. He who
is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of
the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
<key:bcv=John 3:32><sup><verse bcv="John 3:32">32 </verse></sup>What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies;
and no one receives his witness. <key:bcv=John 3:33><sup><verse bcv="John 3:33">33 </verse></sup>He who has
received his witness has set his seal to this, that
God is true. <key:bcv=John 3:34><sup><verse bcv="John 3:34">34 </verse></sup>For he whom God has sent speaks
the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without
measure. <key:bcv=John 3:35><sup><verse bcv="John 3:35">35 </verse></sup>The Father loves the Son, and has given
all things into his hand. <key:bcv=John 3:36><sup><verse bcv="John 3:36">36 </verse></sup>One who believes in the
Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys<footnote:1>3:36 The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context. </footnote> the Son
won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

#BCV:John 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 4:1><sup><verse bcv="John 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees
had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing
more disciples than John <key:bcv=John 4:2><sup><verse bcv="John 4:2">2 </verse></sup>(although Jesus himself
didn’t baptize, but his disciples), <key:bcv=John 4:3><sup><verse bcv="John 4:3">3 </verse></sup>he left Judea and
departed into Galilee. <key:bcv=John 4:4><sup><verse bcv="John 4:4">4 </verse></sup>He needed to pass through
Samaria. <key:bcv=John 4:5><sup><verse bcv="John 4:5">5 </verse></sup>So he came to a city of Samaria called
Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph. <key:bcv=John 4:6><sup><verse bcv="John 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Jacob’s well was there. Jesus
therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour.<footnote:1>4:6 noon </footnote>
<key:bcv=John 4:7><sup><verse bcv="John 4:7">7 </verse></sup>A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus
said to her, “Give me a drink.” <key:bcv=John 4:8><sup><verse bcv="John 4:8">8 </verse></sup>For his disciples had
gone away into the city to buy food.

<key:bcv=John 4:9><sup><verse bcv="John 4:9">9 </verse></sup>The Samaritan woman therefore said to him,
“How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink
from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no
dealings with Samaritans.)

<key:bcv=John 4:10><sup><verse bcv="John 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of
God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’
you would have asked him, and he would have given
you living water.”

<key:bcv=John 4:11><sup><verse bcv="John 4:11">11 </verse></sup>The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing
to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you
get that living water? <key:bcv=John 4:12><sup><verse bcv="John 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Are you greater than our
father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from
it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
<key:bcv=John 4:13><sup><verse bcv="John 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of
this water will thirst again, <key:bcv=John 4:14><sup><verse bcv="John 4:14">14 </verse></sup>but whoever drinks of
the water that I will give him will never thirst again;
but the water that I will give him will become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
<key:bcv=John 4:15><sup><verse bcv="John 4:15">15 </verse></sup>The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this
water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all
the way here to draw.”

<key:bcv=John 4:16><sup><verse bcv="John 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and
come here.”

<key:bcv=John 4:17><sup><verse bcv="John 4:17">17 </verse></sup>The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no
husband,’ <key:bcv=John 4:18><sup><verse bcv="John 4:18">18 </verse></sup>for you have had five husbands; and
he whom you now have is not your husband. This
you have said truly.”

<key:bcv=John 4:19><sup><verse bcv="John 4:19">19 </verse></sup>The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that
you are a prophet. <key:bcv=John 4:20><sup><verse bcv="John 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Our fathers worshiped in this
mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the
place where people ought to worship.”
<key:bcv=John 4:21><sup><verse bcv="John 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour
is coming when neither in this mountain nor in
Jerusalem will you worship the Father. <key:bcv=John 4:22><sup><verse bcv="John 4:22">22 </verse></sup>You
worship that which you don’t know. We worship
that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
<key:bcv=John 4:23><sup><verse bcv="John 4:23">23 </verse></sup>But the hour comes, and now is, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
<key:bcv=John 4:24><sup><verse bcv="John 4:24">24 </verse></sup>God is spirit, and those who worship him must
worship in spirit and truth.”

<key:bcv=John 4:25><sup><verse bcv="John 4:25">25 </verse></sup>The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah
is coming, he who is called Christ.<footnote:1>4:25 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.</footnote> When he has
come, he will declare to us all things.”
<key:bcv=John 4:26><sup><verse bcv="John 4:26">26 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks
to you.”

<key:bcv=John 4:27><sup><verse bcv="John 4:27">27 </verse></sup>Just then, his disciples came. They marveled
that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said,
“What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak
with her?” <key:bcv=John 4:28><sup><verse bcv="John 4:28">28 </verse></sup>So the woman left her water pot, went
away into the city, and said to the people, <key:bcv=John 4:29><sup><verse bcv="John 4:29">29 </verse></sup>“Come,
see a man who told me everything that I have done.
Can this be the Christ?” <key:bcv=John 4:30><sup><verse bcv="John 4:30">30 </verse></sup>They went out of the city,
and were coming to him.

<key:bcv=John 4:31><sup><verse bcv="John 4:31">31 </verse></sup>In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him,
saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

<key:bcv=John 4:32><sup><verse bcv="John 4:32">32 </verse></sup>But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you
don’t know about.”

<key:bcv=John 4:33><sup><verse bcv="John 4:33">33 </verse></sup>The disciples therefore said to one another,
“Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
<key:bcv=John 4:34><sup><verse bcv="John 4:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of
him who sent me and to accomplish his work. <key:bcv=John 4:35><sup><verse bcv="John 4:35">35 </verse></sup>
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the
harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and
look at the fields, that they are white for harvest
already. <key:bcv=John 4:36><sup><verse bcv="John 4:36">36 </verse></sup>He who reaps receives wages and
gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows
and he who reaps may rejoice together. <key:bcv=John 4:37><sup><verse bcv="John 4:37">37 </verse></sup>For
in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another
reaps.’ <key:bcv=John 4:38><sup><verse bcv="John 4:38">38 </verse></sup>I sent you to reap that for which you
haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have
entered into their labor.”

<key:bcv=John 4:39><sup><verse bcv="John 4:39">39 </verse></sup>From that city many of the Samaritans believed
in him because of the word of the woman, who
testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”
<key:bcv=John 4:40><sup><verse bcv="John 4:40">40 </verse></sup>So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged
him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
<key:bcv=John 4:41><sup><verse bcv="John 4:41">41 </verse></sup>Many more believed because of his word. <key:bcv=John 4:42><sup><verse bcv="John 4:42">42 </verse></sup>They
said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of
your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and
know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
world.”

<key:bcv=John 4:43><sup><verse bcv="John 4:43">43 </verse></sup>After the two days he went out from there
and went into Galilee. <key:bcv=John 4:44><sup><verse bcv="John 4:44">44 </verse></sup>For Jesus himself testified
that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
<key:bcv=John 4:45><sup><verse bcv="John 4:45">45 </verse></sup>So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans
received him, having seen all the things that he
did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to
the feast. <key:bcv=John 4:46><sup><verse bcv="John 4:46">46 </verse></sup>Jesus came therefore again to Cana
of Galilee, where he made the water into wine.
There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at
Capernaum. <key:bcv=John 4:47><sup><verse bcv="John 4:47">47 </verse></sup>When he heard that Jesus had come
out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged
him that he would come down and heal his son, for
he was at the point of death. <key:bcv=John 4:48><sup><verse bcv="John 4:48">48 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said
to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will
in no way believe.”

<key:bcv=John 4:49><sup><verse bcv="John 4:49">49 </verse></sup>The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down
before my child dies.”

<key:bcv=John 4:50><sup><verse bcv="John 4:50">50 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.”
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him,
and he went his way. <key:bcv=John 4:51><sup><verse bcv="John 4:51">51 </verse></sup>As he was going down,
his servants met him and reported, saying “Your
child lives!” <key:bcv=John 4:52><sup><verse bcv="John 4:52">52 </verse></sup>So he inquired of them the hour
when he began to get better. They said therefore
to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,<footnote:1>4:52 1:00 p.m. </footnote> the fever
left him.” <key:bcv=John 4:53><sup><verse bcv="John 4:53">53 </verse></sup>So the father knew that it was at that
hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.”
He believed, as did his whole house. <key:bcv=John 4:54><sup><verse bcv="John 4:54">54 </verse></sup>This is again
the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of
Judea into Galilee.

#BCV:John 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=John 5:1><sup><verse bcv="John 5:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, there was a feast of the Jews,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=John 5:2><sup><verse bcv="John 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Now in Jerusalem
by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in
Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. <key:bcv=John 5:3><sup><verse bcv="John 5:3">3 </verse></sup>In these
lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind,
lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the
water; <key:bcv=John 5:4><sup><verse bcv="John 5:4">4 </verse></sup>for an angel went down at certain times
into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever
stepped in first after the stirring of the water was
healed of whatever disease he had.<footnote:1>5:4 NU omits from “waiting” in verse 3 to the end of verse 4.</footnote> <key:bcv=John 5:5><sup><verse bcv="John 5:5">5 </verse></sup>A certain man
was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
<key:bcv=John 5:6><sup><verse bcv="John 5:6">6 </verse></sup>When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he
had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you
want to be made well?”

<key:bcv=John 5:7><sup><verse bcv="John 5:7">7 </verse></sup>The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one
to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up,
but while I’m coming, another steps down before
me.”

<key:bcv=John 5:8><sup><verse bcv="John 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and
walk.”

<key:bcv=John 5:9><sup><verse bcv="John 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Immediately, the man was made well, and took
up his mat and walked.

Now that day was a Sabbath. <key:bcv=John 5:10><sup><verse bcv="John 5:10">10 </verse></sup>So the Jews said
to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not
lawful for you to carry the mat.”

<key:bcv=John 5:11><sup><verse bcv="John 5:11">11 </verse></sup>He answered them, “He who made me well said
to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

<key:bcv=John 5:12><sup><verse bcv="John 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said
to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
<key:bcv=John 5:13><sup><verse bcv="John 5:13">13 </verse></sup>But he who was healed didn’t know who it was,
for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
<key:bcv=John 5:14><sup><verse bcv="John 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and
said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no
more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
<key:bcv=John 5:15><sup><verse bcv="John 5:15">15 </verse></sup>The man went away, and told the Jews that it
was Jesus who had made him well. <key:bcv=John 5:16><sup><verse bcv="John 5:16">16 </verse></sup>For this cause
the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him,
because he did these things on the Sabbath. <key:bcv=John 5:17><sup><verse bcv="John 5:17">17 </verse></sup>But
Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so
I am working, too.”

<key:bcv=John 5:18><sup><verse bcv="John 5:18">18 </verse></sup>For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the
more to kill him, because he not only broke the
Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making
himself equal with God. <key:bcv=John 5:19><sup><verse bcv="John 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore answered
them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do
nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father
doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son
also does likewise. <key:bcv=John 5:20><sup><verse bcv="John 5:20">20 </verse></sup>For the Father has affection
for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself
does. He will show him greater works than these,
that you may marvel. <key:bcv=John 5:21><sup><verse bcv="John 5:21">21 </verse></sup>For as the Father raises the
dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives
life to whom he desires. <key:bcv=John 5:22><sup><verse bcv="John 5:22">22 </verse></sup>For the Father judges
no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
<key:bcv=John 5:23><sup><verse bcv="John 5:23">23 </verse></sup>that all may honor the Son, even as they honor
the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t
honor the Father who sent him.

<key:bcv=John 5:24><sup><verse bcv="John 5:24">24 </verse></sup>“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my
word and believes him who sent me has eternal life,
and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out
of death into life. <key:bcv=John 5:25><sup><verse bcv="John 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, the
hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the
Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. <key:bcv=John 5:26><sup><verse bcv="John 5:26">26 </verse></sup>
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave
to the Son also to have life in himself. <key:bcv=John 5:27><sup><verse bcv="John 5:27">27 </verse></sup>He also
gave him authority to execute judgment, because
he is a son of man. <key:bcv=John 5:28><sup><verse bcv="John 5:28">28 </verse></sup>Don’t marvel at this, for the
hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will
hear his voice <key:bcv=John 5:29><sup><verse bcv="John 5:29">29 </verse></sup>and will come out; those who have
done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who
have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. <key:bcv=John 5:30><sup><verse bcv="John 5:30">30 </verse></sup>
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and
my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my
own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
<key:bcv=John 5:31><sup><verse bcv="John 5:31">31 </verse></sup>“If I testify about myself, my witness is not
valid. <key:bcv=John 5:32><sup><verse bcv="John 5:32">32 </verse></sup>It is another who testifies about me. I
know that the testimony which he testifies about
me is true. <key:bcv=John 5:33><sup><verse bcv="John 5:33">33 </verse></sup>You have sent to John, and he has
testified to the truth. <key:bcv=John 5:34><sup><verse bcv="John 5:34">34 </verse></sup>But the testimony which I
receive is not from man. However, I say these things
that you may be saved. <key:bcv=John 5:35><sup><verse bcv="John 5:35">35 </verse></sup>He was the burning and
shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a
while in his light. <key:bcv=John 5:36><sup><verse bcv="John 5:36">36 </verse></sup>But the testimony which I have
is greater than that of John; for the works which the
Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that
I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
<key:bcv=John 5:37><sup><verse bcv="John 5:37">37 </verse></sup>The Father himself, who sent me, has testified
about me. You have neither heard his voice at any
time, nor seen his form. <key:bcv=John 5:38><sup><verse bcv="John 5:38">38 </verse></sup>You don’t have his word
living in you, because you don’t believe him whom
he sent.

<key:bcv=John 5:39><sup><verse bcv="John 5:39">39 </verse></sup>“You search the Scriptures, because you think
that in them you have eternal life; and these are
they which testify about me. <key:bcv=John 5:40><sup><verse bcv="John 5:40">40 </verse></sup>Yet you will not
come to me, that you may have life. <key:bcv=John 5:41><sup><verse bcv="John 5:41">41 </verse></sup>I don’t
receive glory from men. <key:bcv=John 5:42><sup><verse bcv="John 5:42">42 </verse></sup>But I know you, that you
don’t have God’s love in yourselves. <key:bcv=John 5:43><sup><verse bcv="John 5:43">43 </verse></sup>I have come
in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If
another comes in his own name, you will receive
him. <key:bcv=John 5:44><sup><verse bcv="John 5:44">44 </verse></sup>How can you believe, who receive glory
from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that
comes from the only God?

<key:bcv=John 5:45><sup><verse bcv="John 5:45">45 </verse></sup>“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom
you have set your hope. <key:bcv=John 5:46><sup><verse bcv="John 5:46">46 </verse></sup>For if you believed
Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about
me. <key:bcv=John 5:47><sup><verse bcv="John 5:47">47 </verse></sup>But if you don’t believe his writings, how
will you believe my words?”

#BCV:John 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 6:1><sup><verse bcv="John 6:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, Jesus went away to the other
side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the
Sea of Tiberias. <key:bcv=John 6:2><sup><verse bcv="John 6:2">2 </verse></sup>A great multitude followed him,
because they saw his signs which he did on those
who were sick. <key:bcv=John 6:3><sup><verse bcv="John 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus went up into the mountain,
and he sat there with his disciples. <key:bcv=John 6:4><sup><verse bcv="John 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Now the
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. <key:bcv=John 6:5><sup><verse bcv="John 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus
therefore, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great
multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where
are we to buy bread, that these may eat?” <key:bcv=John 6:6><sup><verse bcv="John 6:6">6 </verse></sup>He said
this to test him, for he himself knew what he would
do.

<key:bcv=John 6:7><sup><verse bcv="John 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii<footnote:1>6:7 A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay. </footnote>
worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every
one of them may receive a little.”

<key:bcv=John 6:8><sup><verse bcv="John 6:8">8 </verse></sup>One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother, said to him, <key:bcv=John 6:9><sup><verse bcv="John 6:9">9 </verse></sup>“There is a boy here who has
five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these
among so many?”

<key:bcv=John 6:10><sup><verse bcv="John 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now
there was much grass in that place. So the men sat
down, in number about five thousand. <key:bcv=John 6:11><sup><verse bcv="John 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Jesus took
the loaves, and having given thanks, he distributed
to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were
sitting down, likewise also of the fish as much as
they desired. <key:bcv=John 6:12><sup><verse bcv="John 6:12">12 </verse></sup>When they were filled, he said to
his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which
are left over, that nothing be lost.” <key:bcv=John 6:13><sup><verse bcv="John 6:13">13 </verse></sup>So they
gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with
broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which
were left over by those who had eaten. <key:bcv=John 6:14><sup><verse bcv="John 6:14">14 </verse></sup>When
therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did,
they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes
into the world.” <key:bcv=John 6:15><sup><verse bcv="John 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore, perceiving that
they were about to come and take him by force to
make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by
himself.

<key:bcv=John 6:16><sup><verse bcv="John 6:16">16 </verse></sup>When evening came, his disciples went down
to the sea. <key:bcv=John 6:17><sup><verse bcv="John 6:17">17 </verse></sup>They entered into the boat, and were
going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark,
and Jesus had not come to them. <key:bcv=John 6:18><sup><verse bcv="John 6:18">18 </verse></sup>The sea was
tossed by a great wind blowing. <key:bcv=John 6:19><sup><verse bcv="John 6:19">19 </verse></sup>When therefore
they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,<footnote:1>6:19 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles </footnote>
they saw Jesus walking on the sea<footnote:1>6:19 See Job 9:8 </footnote> and drawing
near to the boat; and they were afraid. <key:bcv=John 6:20><sup><verse bcv="John 6:20">20 </verse></sup>But he
said to them, “It is I.<footnote:1>6:20 or, I AM </footnote> Don’t be afraid.” <key:bcv=John 6:21><sup><verse bcv="John 6:21">21 </verse></sup>They
were willing therefore to receive him into the boat.
Immediately the boat was at the land where they
were going.

<key:bcv=John 6:22><sup><verse bcv="John 6:22">22 </verse></sup>On the next day, the multitude that stood on
the other side of the sea saw that there was no other
boat there, except the one in which his disciples
had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with
his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had
gone away alone. <key:bcv=John 6:23><sup><verse bcv="John 6:23">23 </verse></sup>However, boats from Tiberias
came near to the place where they ate the bread
after the Lord had given thanks. <key:bcv=John 6:24><sup><verse bcv="John 6:24">24 </verse></sup>When the
multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor
his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and
came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. <key:bcv=John 6:25><sup><verse bcv="John 6:25">25 </verse></sup>When they
found him on the other side of the sea, they asked
him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
<key:bcv=John 6:26><sup><verse bcv="John 6:26">26 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you,
you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because
you ate of the loaves and were filled. <key:bcv=John 6:27><sup><verse bcv="John 6:27">27 </verse></sup>Don’t work
for the food which perishes, but for the food which
remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will
give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
<key:bcv=John 6:28><sup><verse bcv="John 6:28">28 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “What must we do,
that we may work the works of God?”

<key:bcv=John 6:29><sup><verse bcv="John 6:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God,
that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
<key:bcv=John 6:30><sup><verse bcv="John 6:30">30 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “What then do you
do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What
work do you do? <key:bcv=John 6:31><sup><verse bcv="John 6:31">31 </verse></sup>Our fathers ate the manna in the
wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out
of heaven<footnote:1>6:31 Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”. </footnote> to eat.’ ”<footnote:1>6:31 Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25</footnote>

<key:bcv=John 6:32><sup><verse bcv="John 6:32">32 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I
tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out
of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread
out of heaven. <key:bcv=John 6:33><sup><verse bcv="John 6:33">33 </verse></sup>For the bread of God is that
which comes down out of heaven and gives life to
the world.”

<key:bcv=John 6:34><sup><verse bcv="John 6:34">34 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give
us this bread.”

<key:bcv=John 6:35><sup><verse bcv="John 6:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and
whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. <key:bcv=John 6:36><sup><verse bcv="John 6:36">36 </verse></sup>But
I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t
believe. <key:bcv=John 6:37><sup><verse bcv="John 6:37">37 </verse></sup>All those whom the Father gives me will
come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way
throw out. <key:bcv=John 6:38><sup><verse bcv="John 6:38">38 </verse></sup>For I have come down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent
me. <key:bcv=John 6:39><sup><verse bcv="John 6:39">39 </verse></sup>This is the will of my Father who sent me,
that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing,
but should raise him up at the last day. <key:bcv=John 6:40><sup><verse bcv="John 6:40">40 </verse></sup>This is
the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who
sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal
life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
<key:bcv=John 6:41><sup><verse bcv="John 6:41">41 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore murmured concerning him,
because he said, “I am the bread which came down
out of heaven.” <key:bcv=John 6:42><sup><verse bcv="John 6:42">42 </verse></sup>They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of
heaven?’ ”

<key:bcv=John 6:43><sup><verse bcv="John 6:43">43 </verse></sup>Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur
among yourselves. <key:bcv=John 6:44><sup><verse bcv="John 6:44">44 </verse></sup>No one can come to
me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and
I will raise him up in the last day. <key:bcv=John 6:45><sup><verse bcv="John 6:45">45 </verse></sup>It is written
in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ <footnote:1>6:45 Isaiah 54:13</footnote>
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and
has learned, comes to me. <key:bcv=John 6:46><sup><verse bcv="John 6:46">46 </verse></sup>Not that anyone has
seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has
seen the Father. <key:bcv=John 6:47><sup><verse bcv="John 6:47">47 </verse></sup>Most certainly, I tell you, he
who believes in me has eternal life. <key:bcv=John 6:48><sup><verse bcv="John 6:48">48 </verse></sup>I am the
bread of life. <key:bcv=John 6:49><sup><verse bcv="John 6:49">49 </verse></sup>Your fathers ate the manna in
the wilderness and they died. <key:bcv=John 6:50><sup><verse bcv="John 6:50">50 </verse></sup>This is the bread
which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may
eat of it and not die. <key:bcv=John 6:51><sup><verse bcv="John 6:51">51 </verse></sup>I am the living bread which
came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I
will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
<key:bcv=John 6:52><sup><verse bcv="John 6:52">52 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore contended with one another,
saying, “How can this man give us his flesh
to eat?”

<key:bcv=John 6:53><sup><verse bcv="John 6:53">53 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly
I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of
Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in
yourselves. <key:bcv=John 6:54><sup><verse bcv="John 6:54">54 </verse></sup>He who eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
the last day. <key:bcv=John 6:55><sup><verse bcv="John 6:55">55 </verse></sup>For my flesh is food indeed, and my
blood is drink indeed. <key:bcv=John 6:56><sup><verse bcv="John 6:56">56 </verse></sup>He who eats my flesh and
drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. <key:bcv=John 6:57><sup><verse bcv="John 6:57">57 </verse></sup>As
the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because
of me. <key:bcv=John 6:58><sup><verse bcv="John 6:58">58 </verse></sup>This is the bread which came down out
of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and
died. He who eats this bread will live forever.” <key:bcv=John 6:59><sup><verse bcv="John 6:59">59 </verse></sup>He
said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum.

<key:bcv=John 6:60><sup><verse bcv="John 6:60">60 </verse></sup>Therefore many of his disciples, when they
heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can
listen to it?”

<key:bcv=John 6:61><sup><verse bcv="John 6:61">61 </verse></sup>But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples
murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause
you to stumble? <key:bcv=John 6:62><sup><verse bcv="John 6:62">62 </verse></sup>Then what if you would see
the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
<key:bcv=John 6:63><sup><verse bcv="John 6:63">63 </verse></sup>It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits
nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit,
and are life. <key:bcv=John 6:64><sup><verse bcv="John 6:64">64 </verse></sup>But there are some of you who
don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was
who would betray him. <key:bcv=John 6:65><sup><verse bcv="John 6:65">65 </verse></sup>He said, “For this cause I
have said to you that no one can come to me, unless
it is given to him by my Father.”

<key:bcv=John 6:66><sup><verse bcv="John 6:66">66 </verse></sup>At this, many of his disciples went back and
walked no more with him. <key:bcv=John 6:67><sup><verse bcv="John 6:67">67 </verse></sup>Jesus said therefore
to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do
you?”

<key:bcv=John 6:68><sup><verse bcv="John 6:68">68 </verse></sup>Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom
would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
<key:bcv=John 6:69><sup><verse bcv="John 6:69">69 </verse></sup>We have come to believe and know that you are
the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
<key:bcv=John 6:70><sup><verse bcv="John 6:70">70 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the
twelve, and one of you is a devil?” <key:bcv=John 6:71><sup><verse bcv="John 6:71">71 </verse></sup>Now he spoke
of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who
would betray him, being one of the twelve.

#BCV:John 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 7:1><sup><verse bcv="John 7:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee,
for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews
sought to kill him. <key:bcv=John 7:2><sup><verse bcv="John 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Now the feast of the Jews,
the Feast of Booths, was at hand. <key:bcv=John 7:3><sup><verse bcv="John 7:3">3 </verse></sup>His brothers
therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into
Judea, that your disciples also may see your works
which you do. <key:bcv=John 7:4><sup><verse bcv="John 7:4">4 </verse></sup>For no one does anything in secret
while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these
things, reveal yourself to the world.” <key:bcv=John 7:5><sup><verse bcv="John 7:5">5 </verse></sup>For even his
brothers didn’t believe in him.

<key:bcv=John 7:6><sup><verse bcv="John 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not
yet come, but your time is always ready. <key:bcv=John 7:7><sup><verse bcv="John 7:7">7 </verse></sup>The
world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I
testify about it, that its works are evil. <key:bcv=John 7:8><sup><verse bcv="John 7:8">8 </verse></sup>You go
up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast,
because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
<key:bcv=John 7:9><sup><verse bcv="John 7:9">9 </verse></sup>Having said these things to them, he stayed in
Galilee. <key:bcv=John 7:10><sup><verse bcv="John 7:10">10 </verse></sup>But when his brothers had gone up to
the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as
it were in secret. <key:bcv=John 7:11><sup><verse bcv="John 7:11">11 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore sought him
at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” <key:bcv=John 7:12><sup><verse bcv="John 7:12">12 </verse></sup>There was
much murmuring among the multitudes concerning
him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said,
“Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.” <key:bcv=John 7:13><sup><verse bcv="John 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Yet no
one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. <key:bcv=John 7:14><sup><verse bcv="John 7:14">14 </verse></sup>But
when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went
up into the temple and taught. <key:bcv=John 7:15><sup><verse bcv="John 7:15">15 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore
marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters,
having never been educated?”

<key:bcv=John 7:16><sup><verse bcv="John 7:16">16 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is
not mine, but his who sent me. <key:bcv=John 7:17><sup><verse bcv="John 7:17">17 </verse></sup>If anyone desires
to do his will, he will know about the teaching,
whether it is from God or if I am speaking from
myself. <key:bcv=John 7:18><sup><verse bcv="John 7:18">18 </verse></sup>He who speaks from himself seeks his
own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who
sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
<key:bcv=John 7:19><sup><verse bcv="John 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of
you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
<key:bcv=John 7:20><sup><verse bcv="John 7:20">20 </verse></sup>The multitude answered, “You have a demon!
Who seeks to kill you?”

<key:bcv=John 7:21><sup><verse bcv="John 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you
all marvel because of it. <key:bcv=John 7:22><sup><verse bcv="John 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses has given you
circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the
fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
<key:bcv=John 7:23><sup><verse bcv="John 7:23">23 </verse></sup>If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath,
that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you
angry with me because I made a man completely
healthy on the Sabbath? <key:bcv=John 7:24><sup><verse bcv="John 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Don’t judge according
to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

<key:bcv=John 7:25><sup><verse bcv="John 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said,
“Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? <key:bcv=John 7:26><sup><verse bcv="John 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Behold, he
speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it
be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the
Christ? <key:bcv=John 7:27><sup><verse bcv="John 7:27">27 </verse></sup>However, we know where this man comes
from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know
where he comes from.”

<key:bcv=John 7:28><sup><verse bcv="John 7:28">28 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching
and saying, “You both know me, and know
where I am from. I have not come of myself, but
he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. <key:bcv=John 7:29><sup><verse bcv="John 7:29">29 </verse></sup>I
know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
<key:bcv=John 7:30><sup><verse bcv="John 7:30">30 </verse></sup>They sought therefore to take him; but no one
laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet
come. <key:bcv=John 7:31><sup><verse bcv="John 7:31">31 </verse></sup>But of the multitude, many believed in
him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t
do more signs than those which this man has done,
will he?” <key:bcv=John 7:32><sup><verse bcv="John 7:32">32 </verse></sup>The Pharisees heard the multitude
murmuring these things concerning him, and the
chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest
him.

<key:bcv=John 7:33><sup><verse bcv="John 7:33">33 </verse></sup>Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while
longer, then I go to him who sent me. <key:bcv=John 7:34><sup><verse bcv="John 7:34">34 </verse></sup>You will
seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I
am.”

<key:bcv=John 7:35><sup><verse bcv="John 7:35">35 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore said among themselves,
“Where will this man go that we won’t find him?
Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and
teach the Greeks? <key:bcv=John 7:36><sup><verse bcv="John 7:36">36 </verse></sup>What is this word that he said,
‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I
am, you can’t come’?”

<key:bcv=John 7:37><sup><verse bcv="John 7:37">37 </verse></sup>Now on the last and greatest day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let
him come to me and drink! <key:bcv=John 7:38><sup><verse bcv="John 7:38">38 </verse></sup>He who believes
in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him
will flow rivers of living water.” <key:bcv=John 7:39><sup><verse bcv="John 7:39">39 </verse></sup>But he said this
about the Spirit, which those believing in him were
to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

<key:bcv=John 7:40><sup><verse bcv="John 7:40">40 </verse></sup>Many of the multitude therefore, when they
heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
<key:bcv=John 7:41><sup><verse bcv="John 7:41">41 </verse></sup>Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some
said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
<key:bcv=John 7:42><sup><verse bcv="John 7:42">42 </verse></sup>Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes
of the offspring<footnote:1>7:42 or, seed </footnote> of David,<footnote:1>7:42 2 Samuel 7:12 </footnote> and from Bethlehem,<footnote:1>7:42 Micah 5:2 </footnote>
the village where David was?” <key:bcv=John 7:43><sup><verse bcv="John 7:43">43 </verse></sup>So a division arose
in the multitude because of him. <key:bcv=John 7:44><sup><verse bcv="John 7:44">44 </verse></sup>Some of them
would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on
him. <key:bcv=John 7:45><sup><verse bcv="John 7:45">45 </verse></sup>The officers therefore came to the chief
priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why
didn’t you bring him?”

<key:bcv=John 7:46><sup><verse bcv="John 7:46">46 </verse></sup>The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like
this man!”

<key:bcv=John 7:47><sup><verse bcv="John 7:47">47 </verse></sup>The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You
aren’t also led astray, are you? <key:bcv=John 7:48><sup><verse bcv="John 7:48">48 </verse></sup>Have any of the
rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? <key:bcv=John 7:49><sup><verse bcv="John 7:49">49 </verse></sup>But
this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
<key:bcv=John 7:50><sup><verse bcv="John 7:50">50 </verse></sup>Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being
one of them) said to them, <key:bcv=John 7:51><sup><verse bcv="John 7:51">51 </verse></sup>“Does our law judge
a man unless it first hears from him personally and
knows what he does?”

<key:bcv=John 7:52><sup><verse bcv="John 7:52">52 </verse></sup>They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee?
Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of
Galilee.”<footnote:1>7:52 See Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16 </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 7:53><sup><verse bcv="John 7:53">53 </verse></sup>Everyone went to his own house,

#BCV:John 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 8:1><sup><verse bcv="John 8:1">1 </verse></sup>but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
<key:bcv=John 8:2><sup><verse bcv="John 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Now very early in the morning, he came again
into the temple, and all the people came to him.
He sat down and taught them. <key:bcv=John 8:3><sup><verse bcv="John 8:3">3 </verse></sup>The scribes and
the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the middle, <key:bcv=John 8:4><sup><verse bcv="John 8:4">4 </verse></sup>they told him,
“Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the
very act. <key:bcv=John 8:5><sup><verse bcv="John 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Now in our law, Moses commanded us to
stone such women.<footnote:1>8:5 Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22 </footnote> What then do you say about
her?” <key:bcv=John 8:6><sup><verse bcv="John 8:6">6 </verse></sup>They said this testing him, that they might
have something to accuse him of.
<br>
But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground
with his finger. <key:bcv=John 8:7><sup><verse bcv="John 8:7">7 </verse></sup>But when they continued asking
him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is
without sin among you, let him throw the first stone
at her.” <key:bcv=John 8:8><sup><verse bcv="John 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Again he stooped down and wrote on the
ground with his finger.

<key:bcv=John 8:9><sup><verse bcv="John 8:9">9 </verse></sup>They, when they heard it, being convicted by
their conscience, went out one by one, beginning
from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left
alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
<key:bcv=John 8:10><sup><verse bcv="John 8:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman,
where are your accusers? Did no one condemn
you?”

<key:bcv=John 8:11><sup><verse bcv="John 8:11">11 </verse></sup>She said, “No one, Lord.”
<br>
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your
way. From now on, sin no more.”<footnote:1>8:11 NU includes John 7:53–John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original. </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 8:12><sup><verse bcv="John 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying,
“I am the light of the world.<footnote:1>8:12 Isaiah 60:1 </footnote> He who follows me
will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light
of life.”

<key:bcv=John 8:13><sup><verse bcv="John 8:13">13 </verse></sup>The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You
testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
<key:bcv=John 8:14><sup><verse bcv="John 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about
myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I
came from, and where I am going; but you don’t
know where I came from, or where I am going. <key:bcv=John 8:15><sup><verse bcv="John 8:15">15 </verse></sup>
You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. <key:bcv=John 8:16><sup><verse bcv="John 8:16">16 </verse></sup>
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not
alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. <key:bcv=John 8:17><sup><verse bcv="John 8:17">17 </verse></sup>It’s
also written in your law that the testimony of two
people is valid.<footnote:1>8:17 Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15</footnote> <key:bcv=John 8:18><sup><verse bcv="John 8:18">18 </verse></sup>I am one who testifies about
myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about
me.”

<key:bcv=John 8:19><sup><verse bcv="John 8:19">19 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “Where is your
Father?”
<br>
Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my
Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father
also.” <key:bcv=John 8:20><sup><verse bcv="John 8:20">20 </verse></sup>Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as
he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him,
because his hour had not yet come. <key:bcv=John 8:21><sup><verse bcv="John 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus said
therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you
will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I
go, you can’t come.”

<key:bcv=John 8:22><sup><verse bcv="John 8:22">22 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself,
because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t
come’?”

<key:bcv=John 8:23><sup><verse bcv="John 8:23">23 </verse></sup>He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am
from above. You are of this world. I am not of this
world. <key:bcv=John 8:24><sup><verse bcv="John 8:24">24 </verse></sup>I said therefore to you that you will die in
your sins; for unless you believe that I am<footnote:1>8:24 or, I AM </footnote> he, you
will die in your sins.”

<key:bcv=John 8:25><sup><verse bcv="John 8:25">25 </verse></sup>They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”
Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying
to you from the beginning. <key:bcv=John 8:26><sup><verse bcv="John 8:26">26 </verse></sup>I have many things
to speak and to judge concerning you. However, he
who sent me is true; and the things which I heard
from him, these I say to the world.”

<key:bcv=John 8:27><sup><verse bcv="John 8:27">27 </verse></sup>They didn’t understand that he spoke to them
about the Father. <key:bcv=John 8:28><sup><verse bcv="John 8:28">28 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them,
“When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself,
but as my Father taught me, I say these things. <key:bcv=John 8:29><sup><verse bcv="John 8:29">29 </verse></sup>
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left
me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing
to him.”

<key:bcv=John 8:30><sup><verse bcv="John 8:30">30 </verse></sup>As he spoke these things, many believed in
him. <key:bcv=John 8:31><sup><verse bcv="John 8:31">31 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had
believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you
are truly my disciples. <key:bcv=John 8:32><sup><verse bcv="John 8:32">32 </verse></sup>You will know the truth,
and the truth will make you free.”<footnote:1>8:32 Psalm 119:45 </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 8:33><sup><verse bcv="John 8:33">33 </verse></sup>They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring,
and have never been in bondage to anyone.
How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
<key:bcv=John 8:34><sup><verse bcv="John 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you,
everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of
sin. <key:bcv=John 8:35><sup><verse bcv="John 8:35">35 </verse></sup>A bondservant doesn’t live in the house
forever. A son remains forever. <key:bcv=John 8:36><sup><verse bcv="John 8:36">36 </verse></sup>If therefore the
Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. <key:bcv=John 8:37><sup><verse bcv="John 8:37">37 </verse></sup>
I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you
seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in
you. <key:bcv=John 8:38><sup><verse bcv="John 8:38">38 </verse></sup>I say the things which I have seen with my
Father; and you also do the things which you have
seen with your father.”

<key:bcv=John 8:39><sup><verse bcv="John 8:39">39 </verse></sup>They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children,
you would do the works of Abraham. <key:bcv=John 8:40><sup><verse bcv="John 8:40">40 </verse></sup>But
now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the
truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do
this. <key:bcv=John 8:41><sup><verse bcv="John 8:41">41 </verse></sup>You do the works of your father.”
They said to him, “We were not born of sexual
immorality. We have one Father, God.”
<key:bcv=John 8:42><sup><verse bcv="John 8:42">42 </verse></sup>Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your
father, you would love me, for I came out and have
come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he
sent me. <key:bcv=John 8:43><sup><verse bcv="John 8:43">43 </verse></sup>Why don’t you understand my speech?
Because you can’t hear my word. <key:bcv=John 8:44><sup><verse bcv="John 8:44">44 </verse></sup>You are of your
father the devil, and you want to do the desires of
your father. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his
own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. <key:bcv=John 8:45><sup><verse bcv="John 8:45">45 </verse></sup>But
because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. <key:bcv=John 8:46><sup><verse bcv="John 8:46">46 </verse></sup>
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth,
why do you not believe me? <key:bcv=John 8:47><sup><verse bcv="John 8:47">47 </verse></sup>He who is of God
hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t
hear, because you are not of God.”

<key:bcv=John 8:48><sup><verse bcv="John 8:48">48 </verse></sup>Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say
well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
<key:bcv=John 8:49><sup><verse bcv="John 8:49">49 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I
honor my Father and you dishonor me. <key:bcv=John 8:50><sup><verse bcv="John 8:50">50 </verse></sup>But I
don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks
and judges. <key:bcv=John 8:51><sup><verse bcv="John 8:51">51 </verse></sup>Most certainly, I tell you, if a person
keeps my word, he will never see death.”
<key:bcv=John 8:52><sup><verse bcv="John 8:52">52 </verse></sup>Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know
that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the
prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he
will never taste of death.’ <key:bcv=John 8:53><sup><verse bcv="John 8:53">53 </verse></sup>Are you greater than
our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died.
Who do you make yourself out to be?”

<key:bcv=John 8:54><sup><verse bcv="John 8:54">54 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is
nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom
you say that he is our God. <key:bcv=John 8:55><sup><verse bcv="John 8:55">55 </verse></sup>You have not known
him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I
would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep
his word. <key:bcv=John 8:56><sup><verse bcv="John 8:56">56 </verse></sup>Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
my day. He saw it and was glad.”

<key:bcv=John 8:57><sup><verse bcv="John 8:57">57 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet
fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
<key:bcv=John 8:58><sup><verse bcv="John 8:58">58 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you,
before Abraham came into existence, I AM.<footnote:1>8:58 Exodus 3:14</footnote>”
<key:bcv=John 8:59><sup><verse bcv="John 8:59">59 </verse></sup>Therefore they took up stones to throw at him,
but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple,
having gone through the middle of them, and so
passed by.

#BCV:John 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 9:1><sup><verse bcv="John 9:1">1 </verse></sup>As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
<key:bcv=John 9:2><sup><verse bcv="John 9:2">2 </verse></sup>His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
<key:bcv=John 9:3><sup><verse bcv="John 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did
his parents, but that the works of God might be
revealed in him. <key:bcv=John 9:4><sup><verse bcv="John 9:4">4 </verse></sup>I must work the works of him
who sent me while it is day. The night is coming,
when no one can work. <key:bcv=John 9:5><sup><verse bcv="John 9:5">5 </verse></sup>While I am in the world, I
am the light of the world.” <key:bcv=John 9:6><sup><verse bcv="John 9:6">6 </verse></sup>When he had said this,
he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva,
anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, <key:bcv=John 9:7><sup><verse bcv="John 9:7">7 </verse></sup>and
said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which
means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came
back seeing.

<key:bcv=John 9:8><sup><verse bcv="John 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that
he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and
begged?” <key:bcv=John 9:9><sup><verse bcv="John 9:9">9 </verse></sup>Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others
were saying, “He looks like him.”
<br>
He said, “I am he.”

<key:bcv=John 9:10><sup><verse bcv="John 9:10">10 </verse></sup>They therefore were asking him, “How were
your eyes opened?”

<key:bcv=John 9:11><sup><verse bcv="John 9:11">11 </verse></sup>He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud,
anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of
Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I
received sight.”

<key:bcv=John 9:12><sup><verse bcv="John 9:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”

<key:bcv=John 9:13><sup><verse bcv="John 9:13">13 </verse></sup>They brought him who had been blind to the
Pharisees. <key:bcv=John 9:14><sup><verse bcv="John 9:14">14 </verse></sup>It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the
mud and opened his eyes. <key:bcv=John 9:15><sup><verse bcv="John 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Again therefore the
Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight.
He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed,
and I see.”

<key:bcv=John 9:16><sup><verse bcv="John 9:16">16 </verse></sup>Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This
man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the
Sabbath.”
<br>
Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do
such signs?” So there was division among them.
<key:bcv=John 9:17><sup><verse bcv="John 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore they asked the blind man again,
“What do you say about him, because he opened
your eyes?”
<br>
He said, “He is a prophet.”

<key:bcv=John 9:18><sup><verse bcv="John 9:18">18 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning
him, that he had been blind and had received his
sight, until they called the parents of him who had
received his sight, <key:bcv=John 9:19><sup><verse bcv="John 9:19">19 </verse></sup>and asked them, “Is this your
son, whom you say was born blind? How then does
he now see?”

<key:bcv=John 9:20><sup><verse bcv="John 9:20">20 </verse></sup>His parents answered them, “We know that this
is our son, and that he was born blind; <key:bcv=John 9:21><sup><verse bcv="John 9:21">21 </verse></sup>but how
he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his
eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He
will speak for himself.” <key:bcv=John 9:22><sup><verse bcv="John 9:22">22 </verse></sup>His parents said these
things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews
had already agreed that if any man would confess
him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
<key:bcv=John 9:23><sup><verse bcv="John 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
<key:bcv=John 9:24><sup><verse bcv="John 9:24">24 </verse></sup>So they called the man who was blind a second
time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know
that this man is a sinner.”

<key:bcv=John 9:25><sup><verse bcv="John 9:25">25 </verse></sup>He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is
a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was
blind, now I see.”

<key:bcv=John 9:26><sup><verse bcv="John 9:26">26 </verse></sup>They said to him again, “What did he do to you?
How did he open your eyes?”

<key:bcv=John 9:27><sup><verse bcv="John 9:27">27 </verse></sup>He answered them, “I told you already, and you
didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You
don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
<key:bcv=John 9:28><sup><verse bcv="John 9:28">28 </verse></sup>They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple,
but we are disciples of Moses. <key:bcv=John 9:29><sup><verse bcv="John 9:29">29 </verse></sup>We know that
God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we
don’t know where he comes from.”

<key:bcv=John 9:30><sup><verse bcv="John 9:30">30 </verse></sup>The man answered them, “How amazing! You
don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my
eyes. <key:bcv=John 9:31><sup><verse bcv="John 9:31">31 </verse></sup>We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,
but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will,
he listens to him.<footnote:1>9:31 Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=John 9:32><sup><verse bcv="John 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Since the world began it has
never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of
someone born blind. <key:bcv=John 9:33><sup><verse bcv="John 9:33">33 </verse></sup>If this man were not from
God, he could do nothing.”

<key:bcv=John 9:34><sup><verse bcv="John 9:34">34 </verse></sup>They answered him, “You were altogether born
in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him
out.

<key:bcv=John 9:35><sup><verse bcv="John 9:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and
finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of
God?”

<key:bcv=John 9:36><sup><verse bcv="John 9:36">36 </verse></sup>He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may
believe in him?”

<key:bcv=John 9:37><sup><verse bcv="John 9:37">37 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and
it is he who speaks with you.”

<key:bcv=John 9:38><sup><verse bcv="John 9:38">38 </verse></sup>He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped
him.

<key:bcv=John 9:39><sup><verse bcv="John 9:39">39 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment,
that those who don’t see may see; and that those
who see may become blind.”

<key:bcv=John 9:40><sup><verse bcv="John 9:40">40 </verse></sup>Those of the Pharisees who were with him
heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also
blind?”

<key:bcv=John 9:41><sup><verse bcv="John 9:41">41 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you
would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’
Therefore your sin remains.

#BCV:John 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=John 10:1><sup><verse bcv="John 10:1">1 </verse></sup>“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t
enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up
some other way, is a thief and a robber. <key:bcv=John 10:2><sup><verse bcv="John 10:2">2 </verse></sup>But one
who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep. <key:bcv=John 10:3><sup><verse bcv="John 10:3">3 </verse></sup>The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own
sheep by name and leads them out. <key:bcv=John 10:4><sup><verse bcv="John 10:4">4 </verse></sup>Whenever
he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them;
and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
<key:bcv=John 10:5><sup><verse bcv="John 10:5">5 </verse></sup>They will by no means follow a stranger, but will
flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of
strangers.” <key:bcv=John 10:6><sup><verse bcv="John 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesus spoke this parable to them, but
they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
<key:bcv=John 10:7><sup><verse bcv="John 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly,
I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. <key:bcv=John 10:8><sup><verse bcv="John 10:8">8 </verse></sup>All who
came before me are thieves and robbers, but the
sheep didn’t listen to them. <key:bcv=John 10:9><sup><verse bcv="John 10:9">9 </verse></sup>I am the door. If
anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will
go in and go out and will find pasture. <key:bcv=John 10:10><sup><verse bcv="John 10:10">10 </verse></sup>The thief
only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that
they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
<key:bcv=John 10:11><sup><verse bcv="John 10:11">11 </verse></sup>“I am the good shepherd.<footnote:1>10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 </footnote> The good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep. <key:bcv=John 10:12><sup><verse bcv="John 10:12">12 </verse></sup>He who is a
hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own
the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep,
and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters
them. <key:bcv=John 10:13><sup><verse bcv="John 10:13">13 </verse></sup>The hired hand flees because he is a hired
hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. <key:bcv=John 10:14><sup><verse bcv="John 10:14">14 </verse></sup>I am the
good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by
my own; <key:bcv=John 10:15><sup><verse bcv="John 10:15">15 </verse></sup>even as the Father knows me, and I know
the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. <key:bcv=John 10:16><sup><verse bcv="John 10:16">16 </verse></sup>
I have other sheep which are not of this fold.<footnote:1>10:16 Isaiah 56:8 </footnote> I
must bring them also, and they will hear my voice.
They will become one flock with one shepherd. <key:bcv=John 10:17><sup><verse bcv="John 10:17">17 </verse></sup>
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down
my life,<footnote:1>10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8 </footnote> that I may take it again. <key:bcv=John 10:18><sup><verse bcv="John 10:18">18 </verse></sup>No one
takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to
take it again. I received this commandment from
my Father.”

<key:bcv=John 10:19><sup><verse bcv="John 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore a division arose again among the
Jews because of these words. <key:bcv=John 10:20><sup><verse bcv="John 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Many of them said,
“He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen
to him?” <key:bcv=John 10:21><sup><verse bcv="John 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Others said, “These are not the sayings
of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a
demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”<footnote:1>10:21 Exodus 4:11 </footnote>
<key:bcv=John 10:22><sup><verse bcv="John 10:22">22 </verse></sup>It was the Feast of the Dedication<footnote:1>10:22 The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.</footnote> at Jerusalem.

<key:bcv=John 10:23><sup><verse bcv="John 10:23">23 </verse></sup>It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the
temple, in Solomon’s porch. <key:bcv=John 10:24><sup><verse bcv="John 10:24">24 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore
came around him and said to him, “How long will
you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell
us plainly.”

<key:bcv=John 10:25><sup><verse bcv="John 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t
believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name,
these testify about me. <key:bcv=John 10:26><sup><verse bcv="John 10:26">26 </verse></sup>But you don’t believe,
because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. <key:bcv=John 10:27><sup><verse bcv="John 10:27">27 </verse></sup>
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me. <key:bcv=John 10:28><sup><verse bcv="John 10:28">28 </verse></sup>I give eternal life to them. They will
never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my
hand. <key:bcv=John 10:29><sup><verse bcv="John 10:29">29 </verse></sup>My Father who has given them to me is
greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out
of my Father’s hand. <key:bcv=John 10:30><sup><verse bcv="John 10:30">30 </verse></sup>I and the Father are one.”
<key:bcv=John 10:31><sup><verse bcv="John 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore the Jews took up stones again to
stone him. <key:bcv=John 10:32><sup><verse bcv="John 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “I have shown
you many good works from my Father. For which of
those works do you stone me?”

<key:bcv=John 10:33><sup><verse bcv="John 10:33">33 </verse></sup>The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you
for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you,
being a man, make yourself God.”

<key:bcv=John 10:34><sup><verse bcv="John 10:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your
law, ‘I said, you are gods?’<footnote:1>10:34 Psalm 82:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=John 10:35><sup><verse bcv="John 10:35">35 </verse></sup>If he called them
gods, to whom the word of God came (and the
Scripture can’t be broken), <key:bcv=John 10:36><sup><verse bcv="John 10:36">36 </verse></sup>do you say of him
whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,
‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of
God?’ <key:bcv=John 10:37><sup><verse bcv="John 10:37">37 </verse></sup>If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t
believe me. <key:bcv=John 10:38><sup><verse bcv="John 10:38">38 </verse></sup>But if I do them, though you don’t
believe me, believe the works, that you may know
and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the
Father.”

<key:bcv=John 10:39><sup><verse bcv="John 10:39">39 </verse></sup>They sought again to seize him, and he went
out of their hand. <key:bcv=John 10:40><sup><verse bcv="John 10:40">40 </verse></sup>He went away again beyond
the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing
at first, and he stayed there. <key:bcv=John 10:41><sup><verse bcv="John 10:41">41 </verse></sup>Many came to him.
They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything
that John said about this man is true.” <key:bcv=John 10:42><sup><verse bcv="John 10:42">42 </verse></sup>Many
believed in him there.

#BCV:John 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 11:1><sup><verse bcv="John 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from
Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister,
Martha. <key:bcv=John 11:2><sup><verse bcv="John 11:2">2 </verse></sup>It was that Mary who had anointed the
Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her
hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. <key:bcv=John 11:3><sup><verse bcv="John 11:3">3 </verse></sup>The sisters
therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for
whom you have great affection is sick.”
<key:bcv=John 11:4><sup><verse bcv="John 11:4">4 </verse></sup>But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is
not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son
may be glorified by it.” <key:bcv=John 11:5><sup><verse bcv="John 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Now Jesus loved Martha,
and her sister, and Lazarus. <key:bcv=John 11:6><sup><verse bcv="John 11:6">6 </verse></sup>When therefore he
heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the
place where he was. <key:bcv=John 11:7><sup><verse bcv="John 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Then after this he said to the
disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”
<key:bcv=John 11:8><sup><verse bcv="John 11:8">8 </verse></sup>The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were
just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
<key:bcv=John 11:9><sup><verse bcv="John 11:9">9 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of
daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t
stumble, because he sees the light of this world. <key:bcv=John 11:10><sup><verse bcv="John 11:10">10 </verse></sup>
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because
the light isn’t in him.” <key:bcv=John 11:11><sup><verse bcv="John 11:11">11 </verse></sup>He said these things, and
after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has
fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him
out of sleep.”

<key:bcv=John 11:12><sup><verse bcv="John 11:12">12 </verse></sup>The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has
fallen asleep, he will recover.”

<key:bcv=John 11:13><sup><verse bcv="John 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they
thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. <key:bcv=John 11:14><sup><verse bcv="John 11:14">14 </verse></sup>So
Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. <key:bcv=John 11:15><sup><verse bcv="John 11:15">15 </verse></sup>
I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that
you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
<key:bcv=John 11:16><sup><verse bcv="John 11:16">16 </verse></sup>Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,<footnote:1>11:16 “Didymus” means “Twin”. </footnote> said
to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die
with him.”

<key:bcv=John 11:17><sup><verse bcv="John 11:17">17 </verse></sup>So when Jesus came, he found that he had been
in the tomb four days already. <key:bcv=John 11:18><sup><verse bcv="John 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Now Bethany
was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia<footnote:1>11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles</footnote> away.
<key:bcv=John 11:19><sup><verse bcv="John 11:19">19 </verse></sup>Many of the Jews had joined the women around
Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their
brother. <key:bcv=John 11:20><sup><verse bcv="John 11:20">20 </verse></sup>Then when Martha heard that Jesus was
coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in
the house. <key:bcv=John 11:21><sup><verse bcv="John 11:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord,
if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t
have died. <key:bcv=John 11:22><sup><verse bcv="John 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Even now I know that whatever you
ask of God, God will give you.”

<key:bcv=John 11:23><sup><verse bcv="John 11:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
<key:bcv=John 11:24><sup><verse bcv="John 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise
again in the resurrection at the last day.”
<key:bcv=John 11:25><sup><verse bcv="John 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the
life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he
dies. <key:bcv=John 11:26><sup><verse bcv="John 11:26">26 </verse></sup>Whoever lives and believes in me will never
die. Do you believe this?”

<key:bcv=John 11:27><sup><verse bcv="John 11:27">27 </verse></sup>She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to
believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who
comes into the world.”

<key:bcv=John 11:28><sup><verse bcv="John 11:28">28 </verse></sup>When she had said this, she went away and
called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The
Teacher is here and is calling you.”

<key:bcv=John 11:29><sup><verse bcv="John 11:29">29 </verse></sup>When she heard this, she arose quickly and
went to him. <key:bcv=John 11:30><sup><verse bcv="John 11:30">30 </verse></sup>Now Jesus had not yet come into the
village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
<key:bcv=John 11:31><sup><verse bcv="John 11:31">31 </verse></sup>Then the Jews who were with her in the house and
were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she
rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying,
“She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
<key:bcv=John 11:32><sup><verse bcv="John 11:32">32 </verse></sup>Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was
and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to
him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother
wouldn’t have died.”

<key:bcv=John 11:33><sup><verse bcv="John 11:33">33 </verse></sup>When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the
Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the
spirit and was troubled, <key:bcv=John 11:34><sup><verse bcv="John 11:34">34 </verse></sup>and said, “Where have
you laid him?”
<br>
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

<key:bcv=John 11:35><sup><verse bcv="John 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus wept.

<key:bcv=John 11:36><sup><verse bcv="John 11:36">36 </verse></sup>The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection
he had for him!” <key:bcv=John 11:37><sup><verse bcv="John 11:37">37 </verse></sup>Some of them said,
“Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him
who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

<key:bcv=John 11:38><sup><verse bcv="John 11:38">38 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself,
came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone
lay against it. <key:bcv=John 11:39><sup><verse bcv="John 11:39">39 </verse></sup>Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to
him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has
been dead four days.”

<key:bcv=John 11:40><sup><verse bcv="John 11:40">40 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you
believed, you would see God’s glory?”
<key:bcv=John 11:41><sup><verse bcv="John 11:41">41 </verse></sup>So they took away the stone from the place
where the dead man was lying.<footnote:1>11:41 NU omits “from the place where the dead man was lying.” </footnote> Jesus lifted up his
eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened
to me. <key:bcv=John 11:42><sup><verse bcv="John 11:42">42 </verse></sup>I know that you always listen to me, but
because of the multitude standing around I said this,
that they may believe that you sent me.” <key:bcv=John 11:43><sup><verse bcv="John 11:43">43 </verse></sup>When
he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus,
come out!”

<key:bcv=John 11:44><sup><verse bcv="John 11:44">44 </verse></sup>He who was dead came out, bound hand and
foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped
around with a cloth.
<br>
Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
<key:bcv=John 11:45><sup><verse bcv="John 11:45">45 </verse></sup>Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary
and saw what Jesus did believed in him. <key:bcv=John 11:46><sup><verse bcv="John 11:46">46 </verse></sup>But some
of them went away to the Pharisees and told them
the things which Jesus had done. <key:bcv=John 11:47><sup><verse bcv="John 11:47">47 </verse></sup>The chief priests
therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and
said, “What are we doing? For this man does many
signs. <key:bcv=John 11:48><sup><verse bcv="John 11:48">48 </verse></sup>If we leave him alone like this, everyone
will believe in him, and the Romans will come and
take away both our place and our nation.”
<key:bcv=John 11:49><sup><verse bcv="John 11:49">49 </verse></sup>But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high
priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing
at all, <key:bcv=John 11:50><sup><verse bcv="John 11:50">50 </verse></sup>nor do you consider that it is advantageous
for us that one man should die for the people, and
that the whole nation not perish.” <key:bcv=John 11:51><sup><verse bcv="John 11:51">51 </verse></sup>Now he didn’t
say this of himself, but being high priest that year,
he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
<key:bcv=John 11:52><sup><verse bcv="John 11:52">52 </verse></sup>and not for the nation only, but that he might also
gather together into one the children of God who
are scattered abroad. <key:bcv=John 11:53><sup><verse bcv="John 11:53">53 </verse></sup>So from that day forward
they took counsel that they might put him to death.
<key:bcv=John 11:54><sup><verse bcv="John 11:54">54 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the
Jews, but departed from there into the country near
the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed
there with his disciples.

<key:bcv=John 11:55><sup><verse bcv="John 11:55">55 </verse></sup>Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand.
Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before
the Passover, to purify themselves. <key:bcv=John 11:56><sup><verse bcv="John 11:56">56 </verse></sup>Then they
sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they
stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he
isn’t coming to the feast at all?” <key:bcv=John 11:57><sup><verse bcv="John 11:57">57 </verse></sup>Now the chief
priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if
anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that
they might seize him.

#BCV:John 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 12:1><sup><verse bcv="John 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came
to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead. <key:bcv=John 12:2><sup><verse bcv="John 12:2">2 </verse></sup>So they made him
a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one
of those who sat at the table with him. <key:bcv=John 12:3><sup><verse bcv="John 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore
Mary took a pound<footnote:1>12:3 a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams </footnote> of ointment of pure nard, very
precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his
feet with her hair. The house was filled with the
fragrance of the ointment.

<key:bcv=John 12:4><sup><verse bcv="John 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples,
who would betray him, said, <key:bcv=John 12:5><sup><verse bcv="John 12:5">5 </verse></sup>“Why wasn’t
this ointment sold for three hundred denarii<footnote:1>12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer. </footnote> and
given to the poor?” <key:bcv=John 12:6><sup><verse bcv="John 12:6">6 </verse></sup>Now he said this, not because
he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief,
and having the money box, used to steal what was
put into it.

<key:bcv=John 12:7><sup><verse bcv="John 12:7">7 </verse></sup>But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept
this for the day of my burial. <key:bcv=John 12:8><sup><verse bcv="John 12:8">8 </verse></sup>For you always have
the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
<key:bcv=John 12:9><sup><verse bcv="John 12:9">9 </verse></sup>A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that
he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake
only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom
he had raised from the dead. <key:bcv=John 12:10><sup><verse bcv="John 12:10">10 </verse></sup>But the chief priests
conspired to put Lazarus to death also, <key:bcv=John 12:11><sup><verse bcv="John 12:11">11 </verse></sup>because
on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.

<key:bcv=John 12:12><sup><verse bcv="John 12:12">12 </verse></sup>On the next day a great multitude had come to
the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming
to Jerusalem, <key:bcv=John 12:13><sup><verse bcv="John 12:13">13 </verse></sup>they took the branches of the palm
trees and went out to meet him, and cried out,
“Hosanna!<footnote:1>12:13 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”. </footnote> Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord,<footnote:1>12:13 Psalm 118:25-26 </footnote> the King of Israel!”

<key:bcv=John 12:14><sup><verse bcv="John 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on
it. As it is written, <key:bcv=John 12:15><sup><verse bcv="John 12:15">15 </verse></sup>“Don’t be afraid, daughter of
Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s
colt.”<footnote:1>12:15 Zechariah 9:9</footnote> <key:bcv=John 12:16><sup><verse bcv="John 12:16">16 </verse></sup>His disciples didn’t understand these
things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then
they remembered that these things were written
about him, and that they had done these things
to him. <key:bcv=John 12:17><sup><verse bcv="John 12:17">17 </verse></sup>The multitude therefore that was with
him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and
raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
<key:bcv=John 12:18><sup><verse bcv="John 12:18">18 </verse></sup>For this cause also the multitude went and met
him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
<key:bcv=John 12:19><sup><verse bcv="John 12:19">19 </verse></sup>The Pharisees therefore said among themselves,
“See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the
world has gone after him.”

<key:bcv=John 12:20><sup><verse bcv="John 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Now there were certain Greeks among those
who went up to worship at the feast. <key:bcv=John 12:21><sup><verse bcv="John 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore,
these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see
Jesus.” <key:bcv=John 12:22><sup><verse bcv="John 12:22">22 </verse></sup>Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn,
Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
<key:bcv=John 12:23><sup><verse bcv="John 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “The time has come for
the Son of Man to be glorified. <key:bcv=John 12:24><sup><verse bcv="John 12:24">24 </verse></sup>Most certainly I
tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth
and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it
bears much fruit. <key:bcv=John 12:25><sup><verse bcv="John 12:25">25 </verse></sup>He who loves his life will lose
it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to
eternal life. <key:bcv=John 12:26><sup><verse bcv="John 12:26">26 </verse></sup>If anyone serves me, let him follow
me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If
anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
<key:bcv=John 12:27><sup><verse bcv="John 12:27">27 </verse></sup>“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say?
‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this
time for this cause. <key:bcv=John 12:28><sup><verse bcv="John 12:28">28 </verse></sup>Father, glorify your name!”
<br>
Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have
both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
<key:bcv=John 12:29><sup><verse bcv="John 12:29">29 </verse></sup>Therefore the multitude who stood by and
heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An
angel has spoken to him.”

<key:bcv=John 12:30><sup><verse bcv="John 12:30">30 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my
sake, but for your sakes. <key:bcv=John 12:31><sup><verse bcv="John 12:31">31 </verse></sup>Now is the judgment
of this world. Now the prince of this world will be
cast out. <key:bcv=John 12:32><sup><verse bcv="John 12:32">32 </verse></sup>And I, if I am lifted up from the earth,
will draw all people to myself.” <key:bcv=John 12:33><sup><verse bcv="John 12:33">33 </verse></sup>But he said this,
signifying by what kind of death he should die.
<key:bcv=John 12:34><sup><verse bcv="John 12:34">34 </verse></sup>The multitude answered him, “We have heard
out of the law that the Christ remains forever.<footnote:1>12:34 Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8 </footnote>
How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’
Who is this Son of Man?”

<key:bcv=John 12:35><sup><verse bcv="John 12:35">35 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while
the light is with you. Walk while you have the light,
that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks
in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. <key:bcv=John 12:36><sup><verse bcv="John 12:36">36 </verse></sup>
While you have the light, believe in the light, that
you may become children of light.” Jesus said these
things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
<key:bcv=John 12:37><sup><verse bcv="John 12:37">37 </verse></sup>But though he had done so many signs before
them, yet they didn’t believe in him, <key:bcv=John 12:38><sup><verse bcv="John 12:38">38 </verse></sup>that the word
of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he
spoke:
<br>
“Lord, who has believed our report?
<br>
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
<footnote:1>12:38 Isaiah 53:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 12:39><sup><verse bcv="John 12:39">39 </verse></sup>For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah
said again:

<key:bcv=John 12:40><sup><verse bcv="John 12:40">40 </verse></sup>“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their
heart,
<br>
lest they should see with their eyes,
and perceive with their heart,
<br>
and would turn,

and I would heal them.”<footnote:1>12:40 Isaiah 6:10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 12:41><sup><verse bcv="John 12:41">41 </verse></sup>Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory,
and spoke of him.<footnote:1>12:41 Isaiah 6:1 </footnote> <key:bcv=John 12:42><sup><verse bcv="John 12:42">42 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, even many of
the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees
they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t
be put out of the synagogue, <key:bcv=John 12:43><sup><verse bcv="John 12:43">43 </verse></sup>for they loved men’s
praise more than God’s praise.

<key:bcv=John 12:44><sup><verse bcv="John 12:44">44 </verse></sup>Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in
me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
<key:bcv=John 12:45><sup><verse bcv="John 12:45">45 </verse></sup>He who sees me sees him who sent me. <key:bcv=John 12:46><sup><verse bcv="John 12:46">46 </verse></sup>I
have come as a light into the world, that whoever
believes in me may not remain in the darkness. <key:bcv=John 12:47><sup><verse bcv="John 12:47">47 </verse></sup>
If anyone listens to my sayings and doesn’t believe,
I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world. <key:bcv=John 12:48><sup><verse bcv="John 12:48">48 </verse></sup>He who rejects me, and
doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him.
The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
<key:bcv=John 12:49><sup><verse bcv="John 12:49">49 </verse></sup>For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who
sent me gave me a commandment, what I should
say and what I should speak. <key:bcv=John 12:50><sup><verse bcv="John 12:50">50 </verse></sup>I know that his
commandment is eternal life. The things therefore
which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so
I speak.”

#BCV:John 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=John 13:1><sup><verse bcv="John 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus,
knowing that his time had come that he would
depart from this world to the Father, having loved
his own who were in the world, he loved them to
the end. <key:bcv=John 13:2><sup><verse bcv="John 13:2">2 </verse></sup>During supper, the devil having already
put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to
betray him, <key:bcv=John 13:3><sup><verse bcv="John 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Jesus, knowing that the Father had
given all things into his hands, and that he came
from God and was going to God, <key:bcv=John 13:4><sup><verse bcv="John 13:4">4 </verse></sup>arose from supper,
and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel
and wrapped a towel around his waist. <key:bcv=John 13:5><sup><verse bcv="John 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Then he
poured water into the basin, and began to wash the
disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that
was wrapped around him. <key:bcv=John 13:6><sup><verse bcv="John 13:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he came to Simon
Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
<key:bcv=John 13:7><sup><verse bcv="John 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am
doing now, but you will understand later.”
<key:bcv=John 13:8><sup><verse bcv="John 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you
have no part with me.”

<key:bcv=John 13:9><sup><verse bcv="John 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head!”

<key:bcv=John 13:10><sup><verse bcv="John 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed
only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely
clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”
<key:bcv=John 13:11><sup><verse bcv="John 13:11">11 </verse></sup>For he knew him who would betray him; therefore
he said, “You are not all clean.” <key:bcv=John 13:12><sup><verse bcv="John 13:12">12 </verse></sup>So when he had
washed their feet, put his outer garment back on,
and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know
what I have done to you? <key:bcv=John 13:13><sup><verse bcv="John 13:13">13 </verse></sup>You call me, ‘Teacher’
and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. <key:bcv=John 13:14><sup><verse bcv="John 13:14">14 </verse></sup>If
I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. <key:bcv=John 13:15><sup><verse bcv="John 13:15">15 </verse></sup>
For I have given you an example, that you should
also do as I have done to you. <key:bcv=John 13:16><sup><verse bcv="John 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell
you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is
one who is sent greater than he who sent him. <key:bcv=John 13:17><sup><verse bcv="John 13:17">17 </verse></sup>
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do
them. <key:bcv=John 13:18><sup><verse bcv="John 13:18">18 </verse></sup>I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know
whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be
fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up
his heel against me.’<footnote:1>13:18 Psalm 41:9</footnote> <key:bcv=John 13:19><sup><verse bcv="John 13:19">19 </verse></sup>From now on, I tell you
before it happens, that when it happens, you may
believe that I am he. <key:bcv=John 13:20><sup><verse bcv="John 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, he
who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he
who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
<key:bcv=John 13:21><sup><verse bcv="John 13:21">21 </verse></sup>When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in
spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that
one of you will betray me.”

<key:bcv=John 13:22><sup><verse bcv="John 13:22">22 </verse></sup>The disciples looked at one another, perplexed
about whom he spoke. <key:bcv=John 13:23><sup><verse bcv="John 13:23">23 </verse></sup>One of his disciples, whom
Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’
breast. <key:bcv=John 13:24><sup><verse bcv="John 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him,
and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he
speaks.”

<key:bcv=John 13:25><sup><verse bcv="John 13:25">25 </verse></sup>He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast,
asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

<key:bcv=John 13:26><sup><verse bcv="John 13:26">26 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I
will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.”
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it
to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. <key:bcv=John 13:27><sup><verse bcv="John 13:27">27 </verse></sup>After the piece
of bread, then Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
<key:bcv=John 13:28><sup><verse bcv="John 13:28">28 </verse></sup>Now nobody at the table knew why he said this
to him. <key:bcv=John 13:29><sup><verse bcv="John 13:29">29 </verse></sup>For some thought, because Judas had
the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what
things we need for the feast,” or that he should give
something to the poor. <key:bcv=John 13:30><sup><verse bcv="John 13:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore having received
that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
<key:bcv=John 13:31><sup><verse bcv="John 13:31">31 </verse></sup>When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the
Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been
glorified in him. <key:bcv=John 13:32><sup><verse bcv="John 13:32">32 </verse></sup>If God has been glorified in
him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will
glorify him immediately. <key:bcv=John 13:33><sup><verse bcv="John 13:33">33 </verse></sup>Little children, I will be
with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and
as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t
come,’ so now I tell you. <key:bcv=John 13:34><sup><verse bcv="John 13:34">34 </verse></sup>A new commandment
I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I
have loved you, you also love one another. <key:bcv=John 13:35><sup><verse bcv="John 13:35">35 </verse></sup>By
this everyone will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.”

<key:bcv=John 13:36><sup><verse bcv="John 13:36">36 </verse></sup>Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you
going?”
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Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t
follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
<key:bcv=John 13:37><sup><verse bcv="John 13:37">37 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you
now? I will lay down my life for you.”
<key:bcv=John 13:38><sup><verse bcv="John 13:38">38 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your
life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster
won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

#BCV:John 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 14:1><sup><verse bcv="John 14:1">1 </verse></sup>“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in
God. Believe also in me. <key:bcv=John 14:2><sup><verse bcv="John 14:2">2 </verse></sup>In my Father’s house
are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told
you. I am going to prepare a place for you. <key:bcv=John 14:3><sup><verse bcv="John 14:3">3 </verse></sup>If
I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you
may be there also. <key:bcv=John 14:4><sup><verse bcv="John 14:4">4 </verse></sup>You know where I go, and you
know the way.”

<key:bcv=John 14:5><sup><verse bcv="John 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where
you are going. How can we know the way?”
<key:bcv=John 14:6><sup><verse bcv="John 14:6">6 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father, except through
me. <key:bcv=John 14:7><sup><verse bcv="John 14:7">7 </verse></sup>If you had known me, you would have known
my Father also. From now on, you know him and
have seen him.”

<key:bcv=John 14:8><sup><verse bcv="John 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father,
and that will be enough for us.”

<key:bcv=John 14:9><sup><verse bcv="John 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such
a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He
who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you
say, ‘Show us the Father?’ <key:bcv=John 14:10><sup><verse bcv="John 14:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t you believe
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The
words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but
the Father who lives in me does his works. <key:bcv=John 14:11><sup><verse bcv="John 14:11">11 </verse></sup>
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
<key:bcv=John 14:12><sup><verse bcv="John 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me,
the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do
greater works than these, because I am going to my
Father. <key:bcv=John 14:13><sup><verse bcv="John 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Whatever you will ask in my name, I will
do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
<key:bcv=John 14:14><sup><verse bcv="John 14:14">14 </verse></sup>If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
<key:bcv=John 14:15><sup><verse bcv="John 14:15">15 </verse></sup>If you love me, keep my commandments. <key:bcv=John 14:16><sup><verse bcv="John 14:16">16 </verse></sup>I
will pray to the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor, <footnote:1>14:16 Greek <greek>παρακλητον<english>: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.</footnote> that he may be with you forever: <key:bcv=John 14:17><sup><verse bcv="John 14:17">17 </verse></sup>
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive,
for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You
know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
<key:bcv=John 14:18><sup><verse bcv="John 14:18">18 </verse></sup>I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
<key:bcv=John 14:19><sup><verse bcv="John 14:19">19 </verse></sup>Yet a little while, and the world will see me no
more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will
live also. <key:bcv=John 14:20><sup><verse bcv="John 14:20">20 </verse></sup>In that day you will know that I am
in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. <key:bcv=John 14:21><sup><verse bcv="John 14:21">21 </verse></sup>One
who has my commandments and keeps them, that
person is one who loves me. One who loves me will
be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will
reveal myself to him.”

<key:bcv=John 14:22><sup><verse bcv="John 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has
happened that you are about to reveal yourself to
us, and not to the world?”

<key:bcv=John 14:23><sup><verse bcv="John 14:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will
keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will
come to him and make our home with him. <key:bcv=John 14:24><sup><verse bcv="John 14:24">24 </verse></sup>He
who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The
word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s
who sent me.

<key:bcv=John 14:25><sup><verse bcv="John 14:25">25 </verse></sup>“I have said these things to you while still living
with you. <key:bcv=John 14:26><sup><verse bcv="John 14:26">26 </verse></sup>But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, will teach
you all things, and will remind you of all that I said
to you. <key:bcv=John 14:27><sup><verse bcv="John 14:27">27 </verse></sup>Peace I leave with you. My peace I
give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you.
Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be
fearful. <key:bcv=John 14:28><sup><verse bcv="John 14:28">28 </verse></sup>You heard how I told you, ‘I am going
away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me,
you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going
to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. <key:bcv=John 14:29><sup><verse bcv="John 14:29">29 </verse></sup>
Now I have told you before it happens so that when
it happens, you may believe. <key:bcv=John 14:30><sup><verse bcv="John 14:30">30 </verse></sup>I will no more speak
much with you, for the prince of the world comes,
and he has nothing in me. <key:bcv=John 14:31><sup><verse bcv="John 14:31">31 </verse></sup>But that the world
may know that I love the Father, and as the Father
commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from
here.

#BCV:John 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=John 15:1><sup><verse bcv="John 15:1">1 </verse></sup>“I am the true vine, and my Father is the
farmer. <key:bcv=John 15:2><sup><verse bcv="John 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Every branch in me that doesn’t bear
fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit,
he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. <key:bcv=John 15:3><sup><verse bcv="John 15:3">3 </verse></sup>You are
already pruned clean because of the word which I
have spoken to you. <key:bcv=John 15:4><sup><verse bcv="John 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Remain in me, and I in
you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless
it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless
you remain in me. <key:bcv=John 15:5><sup><verse bcv="John 15:5">5 </verse></sup>I am the vine. You are the
branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears
much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
<key:bcv=John 15:6><sup><verse bcv="John 15:6">6 </verse></sup>If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out
as a branch and is withered; and they gather them,
throw them into the fire, and they are burned. <key:bcv=John 15:7><sup><verse bcv="John 15:7">7 </verse></sup>If
you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you
will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for
you.

<key:bcv=John 15:8><sup><verse bcv="John 15:8">8 </verse></sup>“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear
much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. <key:bcv=John 15:9><sup><verse bcv="John 15:9">9 </verse></sup>Even
as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain
in my love. <key:bcv=John 15:10><sup><verse bcv="John 15:10">10 </verse></sup>If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my
Father’s commandments and remain in his love. <key:bcv=John 15:11><sup><verse bcv="John 15:11">11 </verse></sup>
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may
remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
<key:bcv=John 15:12><sup><verse bcv="John 15:12">12 </verse></sup>“This is my commandment, that you love one
another, even as I have loved you. <key:bcv=John 15:13><sup><verse bcv="John 15:13">13 </verse></sup>Greater love
has no one than this, that someone lay down his life
for his friends. <key:bcv=John 15:14><sup><verse bcv="John 15:14">14 </verse></sup>You are my friends if you do
whatever I command you. <key:bcv=John 15:15><sup><verse bcv="John 15:15">15 </verse></sup>No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord
does. But I have called you friends, for everything
that I heard from my Father, I have made known to
you. <key:bcv=John 15:16><sup><verse bcv="John 15:16">16 </verse></sup>You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit,
and that your fruit should remain; that whatever
you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give
it to you.

<key:bcv=John 15:17><sup><verse bcv="John 15:17">17 </verse></sup>“I command these things to you, that you may
love one another. <key:bcv=John 15:18><sup><verse bcv="John 15:18">18 </verse></sup>If the world hates you, you
know that it has hated me before it hated you. <key:bcv=John 15:19><sup><verse bcv="John 15:19">19 </verse></sup>If
you were of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world, since I chose
you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
<key:bcv=John 15:20><sup><verse bcv="John 15:20">20 </verse></sup>Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant
is not greater than his lord.’<footnote:1>15:20 John 13:16 </footnote> If they persecuted
me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my
word, they will also keep yours. <key:bcv=John 15:21><sup><verse bcv="John 15:21">21 </verse></sup>But they will do
all these things to you for my name’s sake, because
they don’t know him who sent me. <key:bcv=John 15:22><sup><verse bcv="John 15:22">22 </verse></sup>If I had not
come and spoken to them, they would not have had
sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. <key:bcv=John 15:23><sup><verse bcv="John 15:23">23 </verse></sup>He
who hates me, hates my Father also. <key:bcv=John 15:24><sup><verse bcv="John 15:24">24 </verse></sup>If I hadn’t
done among them the works which no one else did,
they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen
and also hated both me and my Father. <key:bcv=John 15:25><sup><verse bcv="John 15:25">25 </verse></sup>But this
happened so that the word may be fulfilled which
was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a
cause.’<footnote:1>15:25 Psalm 35:19; 69:4 </footnote>

<key:bcv=John 15:26><sup><verse bcv="John 15:26">26 </verse></sup>“When the Counselor<footnote:1>15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter. </footnote> has come, whom I will
send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who
proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
<key:bcv=John 15:27><sup><verse bcv="John 15:27">27 </verse></sup>You will also testify, because you have been with
me from the beginning.

#BCV:John 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 16:1><sup><verse bcv="John 16:1">1 </verse></sup>“I have said these things to you so that you
wouldn’t be caused to stumble. <key:bcv=John 16:2><sup><verse bcv="John 16:2">2 </verse></sup>They will put you
out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that
whoever kills you will think that he offers service
to God. <key:bcv=John 16:3><sup><verse bcv="John 16:3">3 </verse></sup>They will do these things<footnote:1>16:3 TR adds “to you” </footnote> because they
have not known the Father nor me. <key:bcv=John 16:4><sup><verse bcv="John 16:4">4 </verse></sup>But I have told
you these things so that when the time comes, you
may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t
tell you these things from the beginning, because I
was with you. <key:bcv=John 16:5><sup><verse bcv="John 16:5">5 </verse></sup>But now I am going to him who
sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you
going?’ <key:bcv=John 16:6><sup><verse bcv="John 16:6">6 </verse></sup>But because I have told you these things,
sorrow has filled your heart. <key:bcv=John 16:7><sup><verse bcv="John 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Nevertheless I tell
you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away;
for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to
you. But if I go, I will send him to you. <key:bcv=John 16:8><sup><verse bcv="John 16:8">8 </verse></sup>When
he has come, he will convict the world about sin,
about righteousness, and about judgment; <key:bcv=John 16:9><sup><verse bcv="John 16:9">9 </verse></sup>about
sin, because they don’t believe in me; <key:bcv=John 16:10><sup><verse bcv="John 16:10">10 </verse></sup>about
righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and
you won’t see me any more; <key:bcv=John 16:11><sup><verse bcv="John 16:11">11 </verse></sup>about judgment,
because the prince of this world has been judged.
<key:bcv=John 16:12><sup><verse bcv="John 16:12">12 </verse></sup>“I still have many things to tell you, but you
can’t bear them now. <key:bcv=John 16:13><sup><verse bcv="John 16:13">13 </verse></sup>However, when he, the
Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into
all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but
whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to
you things that are coming. <key:bcv=John 16:14><sup><verse bcv="John 16:14">14 </verse></sup>He will glorify me,
for he will take from what is mine and will declare
it to you. <key:bcv=John 16:15><sup><verse bcv="John 16:15">15 </verse></sup>All things that the Father has are
mine; therefore I said that he takes<footnote:1>16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”</footnote> of mine and
will declare it to you.

<key:bcv=John 16:16><sup><verse bcv="John 16:16">16 </verse></sup>“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a
little while, and you will see me.”

<key:bcv=John 16:17><sup><verse bcv="John 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Some of his disciples therefore said to one
another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little
while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while,
and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the
Father’?” <key:bcv=John 16:18><sup><verse bcv="John 16:18">18 </verse></sup>They said therefore, “What is this that
he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is
saying.”

<key:bcv=John 16:19><sup><verse bcv="John 16:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted
to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire
among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A
little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little
while, and you will see me?’ <key:bcv=John 16:20><sup><verse bcv="John 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Most certainly I tell
you that you will weep and lament, but the world
will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow
will be turned into joy. <key:bcv=John 16:21><sup><verse bcv="John 16:21">21 </verse></sup>A woman, when she
gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come.
But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t
remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a
human being is born into the world. <key:bcv=John 16:22><sup><verse bcv="John 16:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore
you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and
your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy
away from you.

<key:bcv=John 16:23><sup><verse bcv="John 16:23">23 </verse></sup>“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most
certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the
Father in my name, he will give it to you. <key:bcv=John 16:24><sup><verse bcv="John 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Until
now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and
you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
<key:bcv=John 16:25><sup><verse bcv="John 16:25">25 </verse></sup>“I have spoken these things to you in figures of
speech. But the time is coming when I will no more
speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you
plainly about the Father. <key:bcv=John 16:26><sup><verse bcv="John 16:26">26 </verse></sup>In that day you will ask
in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to
the Father for you, <key:bcv=John 16:27><sup><verse bcv="John 16:27">27 </verse></sup>for the Father himself loves
you, because you have loved me, and have believed
that I came from God. <key:bcv=John 16:28><sup><verse bcv="John 16:28">28 </verse></sup>I came from the Father and
have come into the world. Again, I leave the world
and go to the Father.”

<key:bcv=John 16:29><sup><verse bcv="John 16:29">29 </verse></sup>His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are
speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

<key:bcv=John 16:30><sup><verse bcv="John 16:30">30 </verse></sup>Now we know that you know all things, and don’t
need for anyone to question you. By this we believe
that you came from God.”

<key:bcv=John 16:31><sup><verse bcv="John 16:31">31 </verse></sup>Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
<key:bcv=John 16:32><sup><verse bcv="John 16:32">32 </verse></sup>Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now
come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his
own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with me. <key:bcv=John 16:33><sup><verse bcv="John 16:33">33 </verse></sup>I have told
you these things, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have
overcome the world.”

#BCV:John 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 17:1><sup><verse bcv="John 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to
heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify
your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; <key:bcv=John 17:2><sup><verse bcv="John 17:2">2 </verse></sup>even
as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will
give eternal life to all whom you have given him. <key:bcv=John 17:3><sup><verse bcv="John 17:3">3 </verse></sup>
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the
only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=John 17:4><sup><verse bcv="John 17:4">4 </verse></sup>I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished
the work which you have given me to do. <key:bcv=John 17:5><sup><verse bcv="John 17:5">5 </verse></sup>Now,
Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory
which I had with you before the world existed.
<key:bcv=John 17:6><sup><verse bcv="John 17:6">6 </verse></sup>“I revealed your name to the people whom you
have given me out of the world. They were yours,
and you have given them to me. They have kept
your word. <key:bcv=John 17:7><sup><verse bcv="John 17:7">7 </verse></sup>Now they have known that all things
whatever you have given me are from you, <key:bcv=John 17:8><sup><verse bcv="John 17:8">8 </verse></sup>for
the words which you have given me I have given to
them; and they received them, and knew for sure
that I came from you. They have believed that you
sent me. <key:bcv=John 17:9><sup><verse bcv="John 17:9">9 </verse></sup>I pray for them. I don’t pray for the
world, but for those whom you have given me, for
they are yours. <key:bcv=John 17:10><sup><verse bcv="John 17:10">10 </verse></sup>All things that are mine are
yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in
them. <key:bcv=John 17:11><sup><verse bcv="John 17:11">11 </verse></sup>I am no more in the world, but these
are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy
Father, keep them through your name which you
have given me, that they may be one, even as we
are. <key:bcv=John 17:12><sup><verse bcv="John 17:12">12 </verse></sup>While I was with them in the world, I kept
them in your name. I have kept those whom you
have given me. None of them is lost except the son
of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
<key:bcv=John 17:13><sup><verse bcv="John 17:13">13 </verse></sup>But now I come to you, and I say these things in
the world, that they may have my joy made full in
themselves. <key:bcv=John 17:14><sup><verse bcv="John 17:14">14 </verse></sup>I have given them your word. The
world hated them because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world. <key:bcv=John 17:15><sup><verse bcv="John 17:15">15 </verse></sup>I pray not that
you would take them from the world, but that you
would keep them from the evil one. <key:bcv=John 17:16><sup><verse bcv="John 17:16">16 </verse></sup>They are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world. <key:bcv=John 17:17><sup><verse bcv="John 17:17">17 </verse></sup>
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.<footnote:1>17:17 Psalm 119:142 </footnote> <key:bcv=John 17:18><sup><verse bcv="John 17:18">18 </verse></sup>
As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent
them into the world. <key:bcv=John 17:19><sup><verse bcv="John 17:19">19 </verse></sup>For their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified
in truth.

<key:bcv=John 17:20><sup><verse bcv="John 17:20">20 </verse></sup>“Not for these only do I pray, but for those
also who will believe in me through their word, <key:bcv=John 17:21><sup><verse bcv="John 17:21">21 </verse></sup>
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in
me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us;
that the world may believe that you sent me. <key:bcv=John 17:22><sup><verse bcv="John 17:22">22 </verse></sup>
The glory which you have given me, I have given to
them, that they may be one, even as we are one, <key:bcv=John 17:23><sup><verse bcv="John 17:23">23 </verse></sup>I
in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected
into one, that the world may know that you sent me
and loved them, even as you loved me. <key:bcv=John 17:24><sup><verse bcv="John 17:24">24 </verse></sup>Father, I
desire that they also whom you have given me be
with me where I am, that they may see my glory
which you have given me, for you loved me before
the foundation of the world. <key:bcv=John 17:25><sup><verse bcv="John 17:25">25 </verse></sup>Righteous Father,
the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and
these knew that you sent me. <key:bcv=John 17:26><sup><verse bcv="John 17:26">26 </verse></sup>I made known to
them your name, and will make it known; that the
love with which you loved me may be in them, and
I in them.”

#BCV:John 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 18:1><sup><verse bcv="John 18:1">1 </verse></sup>When Jesus had spoken these words, he went
out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where
there was a garden, into which he and his disciples
entered. <key:bcv=John 18:2><sup><verse bcv="John 18:2">2 </verse></sup>Now Judas, who betrayed him, also
knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his
disciples. <key:bcv=John 18:3><sup><verse bcv="John 18:3">3 </verse></sup>Judas then, having taken a detachment
of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and
the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches,
and weapons. <key:bcv=John 18:4><sup><verse bcv="John 18:4">4 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore, knowing all the
things that were happening to him, went out and
said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
<key:bcv=John 18:5><sup><verse bcv="John 18:5">5 </verse></sup>They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am he.”
<br>
Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with
them. <key:bcv=John 18:6><sup><verse bcv="John 18:6">6 </verse></sup>When therefore he said to them, “I am he,”
they went backward and fell to the ground.
<key:bcv=John 18:7><sup><verse bcv="John 18:7">7 </verse></sup>Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you
looking for?”
<br>
They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

<key:bcv=John 18:8><sup><verse bcv="John 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If
therefore you seek me, let these go their way,” <key:bcv=John 18:9><sup><verse bcv="John 18:9">9 </verse></sup>that
the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of
those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”<footnote:1>18:9 John 6:39</footnote>
<key:bcv=John 18:10><sup><verse bcv="John 18:10">10 </verse></sup>Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew
it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his
right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. <key:bcv=John 18:11><sup><verse bcv="John 18:11">11 </verse></sup>Jesus
therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its
sheath. The cup which the Father has given me,
shall I not surely drink it?”

<key:bcv=John 18:12><sup><verse bcv="John 18:12">12 </verse></sup>So the detachment, the commanding officer,
and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound
him, <key:bcv=John 18:13><sup><verse bcv="John 18:13">13 </verse></sup>and led him to Annas first, for he was fatherin-
law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
<key:bcv=John 18:14><sup><verse bcv="John 18:14">14 </verse></sup>Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it
was expedient that one man should perish for the
people.

<key:bcv=John 18:15><sup><verse bcv="John 18:15">15 </verse></sup>Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another
disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high
priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of
the high priest; <key:bcv=John 18:16><sup><verse bcv="John 18:16">16 </verse></sup>but Peter was standing at the door
outside. So the other disciple, who was known to
the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept
the door, and brought in Peter. <key:bcv=John 18:17><sup><verse bcv="John 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Then the maid
who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one
of this man’s disciples?”
<br>
He said, “I am not.”

<key:bcv=John 18:18><sup><verse bcv="John 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Now the servants and the officers were standing
there, having made a fire of coals, for it was
cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was
with them, standing and warming himself.
<key:bcv=John 18:19><sup><verse bcv="John 18:19">19 </verse></sup>The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his
disciples and about his teaching.

<key:bcv=John 18:20><sup><verse bcv="John 18:20">20 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the
world. I always taught in synagogues and in the
temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing
in secret. <key:bcv=John 18:21><sup><verse bcv="John 18:21">21 </verse></sup>Why do you ask me? Ask those who
have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they
know the things which I said.”

<key:bcv=John 18:22><sup><verse bcv="John 18:22">22 </verse></sup>When he had said this, one of the officers
standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do
you answer the high priest like that?”
<key:bcv=John 18:23><sup><verse bcv="John 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil,
testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”
<key:bcv=John 18:24><sup><verse bcv="John 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high
priest.

<key:bcv=John 18:25><sup><verse bcv="John 18:25">25 </verse></sup>Now Simon Peter was standing and warming
himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also
one of his disciples, are you?”
<br>
He denied it and said, “I am not.”

<key:bcv=John 18:26><sup><verse bcv="John 18:26">26 </verse></sup>One of the servants of the high priest, being
a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
“Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
<key:bcv=John 18:27><sup><verse bcv="John 18:27">27 </verse></sup>Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately
the rooster crowed.

<key:bcv=John 18:28><sup><verse bcv="John 18:28">28 </verse></sup>They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into
the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves
didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might
not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. <key:bcv=John 18:29><sup><verse bcv="John 18:29">29 </verse></sup>Pilate
therefore went out to them and said, “What accusation
do you bring against this man?”

<key:bcv=John 18:30><sup><verse bcv="John 18:30">30 </verse></sup>They answered him, “If this man weren’t an
evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to
you.”

<key:bcv=John 18:31><sup><verse bcv="John 18:31">31 </verse></sup>Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves,
and judge him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us
to put anyone to death,” <key:bcv=John 18:32><sup><verse bcv="John 18:32">32 </verse></sup>that the word of Jesus
might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by
what kind of death he should die.

<key:bcv=John 18:33><sup><verse bcv="John 18:33">33 </verse></sup>Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium,
called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the
King of the Jews?”

<key:bcv=John 18:34><sup><verse bcv="John 18:34">34 </verse></sup>Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself,
or did others tell you about me?”

<key:bcv=John 18:35><sup><verse bcv="John 18:35">35 </verse></sup>Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own
nation and the chief priests delivered you to me.
What have you done?”

<key:bcv=John 18:36><sup><verse bcv="John 18:36">36 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this
world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my
servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to
the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
<key:bcv=John 18:37><sup><verse bcv="John 18:37">37 </verse></sup>Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king
then?”
<br>
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For
this reason I have been born, and for this reason I
have come into the world, that I should testify to
the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to
my voice.”

<key:bcv=John 18:38><sup><verse bcv="John 18:38">38 </verse></sup>Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
When he had said this, he went out again to the
Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge
against him. <key:bcv=John 18:39><sup><verse bcv="John 18:39">39 </verse></sup>But you have a custom that I should
release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore,
do you want me to release to you the King of the
Jews?”

<key:bcv=John 18:40><sup><verse bcv="John 18:40">40 </verse></sup>Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this
man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

#BCV:John 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 19:1><sup><verse bcv="John 19:1">1 </verse></sup>So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him. <key:bcv=John 19:2><sup><verse bcv="John 19:2">2 </verse></sup>The
soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on
his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
<key:bcv=John 19:3><sup><verse bcv="John 19:3">3 </verse></sup>They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and
they kept slapping him.

<key:bcv=John 19:4><sup><verse bcv="John 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Then Pilate went out again, and said to them,
“Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know
that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
<key:bcv=John 19:5><sup><verse bcv="John 19:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them,
“Behold, the man!”

<key:bcv=John 19:6><sup><verse bcv="John 19:6">6 </verse></sup>When therefore the chief priests and the officers
saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and
crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against
him.”

<key:bcv=John 19:7><sup><verse bcv="John 19:7">7 </verse></sup>The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by
our law he ought to die, because he made himself
the Son of God.”

<key:bcv=John 19:8><sup><verse bcv="John 19:8">8 </verse></sup>When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was
more afraid. <key:bcv=John 19:9><sup><verse bcv="John 19:9">9 </verse></sup>He entered into the Praetorium again,
and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus
gave him no answer. <key:bcv=John 19:10><sup><verse bcv="John 19:10">10 </verse></sup>Pilate therefore said to him,
“Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I
have power to release you and have power to crucify
you?”

<key:bcv=John 19:11><sup><verse bcv="John 19:11">11 </verse></sup>Jesus answered, “You would have no power at
all against me, unless it were given to you from
above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has
greater sin.”

<key:bcv=John 19:12><sup><verse bcv="John 19:12">12 </verse></sup>At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but
the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man,
you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes
himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
<key:bcv=John 19:13><sup><verse bcv="John 19:13">13 </verse></sup>When Pilate therefore heard these words, he
brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment
seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew,
“Gabbatha.” <key:bcv=John 19:14><sup><verse bcv="John 19:14">14 </verse></sup>Now it was the Preparation Day
of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.<footnote:1>19:14 “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then.</footnote> He said to
the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

<key:bcv=John 19:15><sup><verse bcv="John 19:15">15 </verse></sup>They cried out, “Away with him! Away with
him! Crucify him!”
<br>
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but
Caesar!”

<key:bcv=John 19:16><sup><verse bcv="John 19:16">16 </verse></sup>So then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus and led him away. <key:bcv=John 19:17><sup><verse bcv="John 19:17">17 </verse></sup>He
went out, bearing his cross, to the place called
“The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew,
“Golgotha”, <key:bcv=John 19:18><sup><verse bcv="John 19:18">18 </verse></sup>where they crucified him, and with
him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the
middle. <key:bcv=John 19:19><sup><verse bcv="John 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on
the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH,
THE KING OF THE JEWS.” <key:bcv=John 19:20><sup><verse bcv="John 19:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore many of the
Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was near the city; and it was written in
Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. <key:bcv=John 19:21><sup><verse bcv="John 19:21">21 </verse></sup>The chief priests
of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write,
‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of
the Jews.” ’ ”

<key:bcv=John 19:22><sup><verse bcv="John 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have
written.”

<key:bcv=John 19:23><sup><verse bcv="John 19:23">23 </verse></sup>Then the soldiers, when they had crucified
Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to
every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now
the tunic was without seam, woven from the top
throughout. <key:bcv=John 19:24><sup><verse bcv="John 19:24">24 </verse></sup>Then they said to one another, “Let’s
not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it
will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which
says,
<br>
“They parted my garments among them.

They cast lots for my clothing.”<footnote:1>19:24 Psalm 22:18 </footnote>
<br>
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
<key:bcv=John 19:25><sup><verse bcv="John 19:25">25 </verse></sup>But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother,
his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and
Mary Magdalene. <key:bcv=John 19:26><sup><verse bcv="John 19:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore when Jesus saw his
mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing
there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your
son!” <key:bcv=John 19:27><sup><verse bcv="John 19:27">27 </verse></sup>Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your
mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to
his own home.

<key:bcv=John 19:28><sup><verse bcv="John 19:28">28 </verse></sup>After this, Jesus, seeing<footnote:1>19:28 NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing” </footnote> that all things were
now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
said, “I am thirsty!” <key:bcv=John 19:29><sup><verse bcv="John 19:29">29 </verse></sup>Now a vessel full of vinegar
was set there; so they put a sponge full of the
vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. <key:bcv=John 19:30><sup><verse bcv="John 19:30">30 </verse></sup>When
Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It
is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up
his spirit.

<key:bcv=John 19:31><sup><verse bcv="John 19:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation
Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the
cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special
one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken
and that they might be taken away. <key:bcv=John 19:32><sup><verse bcv="John 19:32">32 </verse></sup>Therefore the
soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of
the other who was crucified with him; <key:bcv=John 19:33><sup><verse bcv="John 19:33">33 </verse></sup>but when
they came to Jesus and saw that he was already
dead, they didn’t break his legs. <key:bcv=John 19:34><sup><verse bcv="John 19:34">34 </verse></sup>However, one
of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out. <key:bcv=John 19:35><sup><verse bcv="John 19:35">35 </verse></sup>He who
has seen has testified, and his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth, that you may
believe. <key:bcv=John 19:36><sup><verse bcv="John 19:36">36 </verse></sup>For these things happened that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not
be broken.”<footnote:1>19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20 </footnote> <key:bcv=John 19:37><sup><verse bcv="John 19:37">37 </verse></sup>Again another Scripture says, “They
will look on him whom they pierced.”<footnote:1>19:37 Zechariah 12:10 </footnote>
<key:bcv=John 19:38><sup><verse bcv="John 19:38">38 </verse></sup>After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being
a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and
took away his body. <key:bcv=John 19:39><sup><verse bcv="John 19:39">39 </verse></sup>Nicodemus, who at first came
to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.<footnote:1>19:39 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms. </footnote>
<key:bcv=John 19:40><sup><verse bcv="John 19:40">40 </verse></sup>So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen
cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is
to bury. <key:bcv=John 19:41><sup><verse bcv="John 19:41">41 </verse></sup>Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb
in which no man had ever yet been laid. <key:bcv=John 19:42><sup><verse bcv="John 19:42">42 </verse></sup>Then,
because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb
was near at hand), they laid Jesus there.

#BCV:John 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 20:1><sup><verse bcv="John 20:1">1 </verse></sup>Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene
went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb,
and saw that the stone had been taken away from
the tomb. <key:bcv=John 20:2><sup><verse bcv="John 20:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore she ran and came to Simon
Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,
and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord
out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have
laid him!”

<key:bcv=John 20:3><sup><verse bcv="John 20:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out,
and they went toward the tomb. <key:bcv=John 20:4><sup><verse bcv="John 20:4">4 </verse></sup>They both ran
together. The other disciple outran Peter and came
to the tomb first. <key:bcv=John 20:5><sup><verse bcv="John 20:5">5 </verse></sup>Stooping and looking in, he
saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter
in. <key:bcv=John 20:6><sup><verse bcv="John 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Then Simon Peter came, following him, and
entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths
lying, <key:bcv=John 20:7><sup><verse bcv="John 20:7">7 </verse></sup>and the cloth that had been on his head, not
lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place
by itself. <key:bcv=John 20:8><sup><verse bcv="John 20:8">8 </verse></sup>So then the other disciple who came
first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and
believed. <key:bcv=John 20:9><sup><verse bcv="John 20:9">9 </verse></sup>For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture,
that he must rise from the dead. <key:bcv=John 20:10><sup><verse bcv="John 20:10">10 </verse></sup>So the disciples
went away again to their own homes.

<key:bcv=John 20:11><sup><verse bcv="John 20:11">11 </verse></sup>But Mary was standing outside at the tomb
weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked
into the tomb, <key:bcv=John 20:12><sup><verse bcv="John 20:12">12 </verse></sup>and she saw two angels in white
sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain. <key:bcv=John 20:13><sup><verse bcv="John 20:13">13 </verse></sup>They asked her,
“Woman, why are you weeping?”
<br>
She said to them, “Because they have taken away
my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid
him.” <key:bcv=John 20:14><sup><verse bcv="John 20:14">14 </verse></sup>When she had said this, she turned around
and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was
Jesus.

<key:bcv=John 20:15><sup><verse bcv="John 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Who are you looking for?”
<br>
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to
him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me
where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
<key:bcv=John 20:16><sup><verse bcv="John 20:16">16 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”<footnote:1>20:16 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.” </footnote> which is
to say, “Teacher!”<footnote:1>20:16 or, Master</footnote>

<key:bcv=John 20:17><sup><verse bcv="John 20:17">17 </verse></sup>Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t
yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers
and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your
Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

<key:bcv=John 20:18><sup><verse bcv="John 20:18">18 </verse></sup>Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples
that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said
these things to her. <key:bcv=John 20:19><sup><verse bcv="John 20:19">19 </verse></sup>When therefore it was
evening on that day, the first day of the week, and
when the doors were locked where the disciples
were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and
stood in the middle and said to them, “Peace be to
you.”

<key:bcv=John 20:20><sup><verse bcv="John 20:20">20 </verse></sup>When he had said this, he showed them his
hands and his side. The disciples therefore were
glad when they saw the Lord. <key:bcv=John 20:21><sup><verse bcv="John 20:21">21 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore
said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father
has sent me, even so I send you.” <key:bcv=John 20:22><sup><verse bcv="John 20:22">22 </verse></sup>When he had
said this, he breathed on them, and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit! <key:bcv=John 20:23><sup><verse bcv="John 20:23">23 </verse></sup>If you forgive anyone’s
sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain
anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
<key:bcv=John 20:24><sup><verse bcv="John 20:24">24 </verse></sup>But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,<footnote:1>20:24 or, Twin </footnote>
wasn’t with them when Jesus came. <key:bcv=John 20:25><sup><verse bcv="John 20:25">25 </verse></sup>The
other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen
the Lord!”
<br>
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands
the print of the nails, put my finger into the print
of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not
believe.”

<key:bcv=John 20:26><sup><verse bcv="John 20:26">26 </verse></sup>After eight days, again his disciples were inside
and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors
being locked, and stood in the middle, and said,
“Peace be to you.” <key:bcv=John 20:27><sup><verse bcv="John 20:27">27 </verse></sup>Then he said to Thomas,
“Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach
here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be
unbelieving, but believing.”

<key:bcv=John 20:28><sup><verse bcv="John 20:28">28 </verse></sup>Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
<key:bcv=John 20:29><sup><verse bcv="John 20:29">29 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me,<footnote:1>20:29 TR adds “Thomas,” </footnote>
you have believed. Blessed are those who have not
seen and have believed.”

<key:bcv=John 20:30><sup><verse bcv="John 20:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the
presence of his disciples, which are not written in
this book; <key:bcv=John 20:31><sup><verse bcv="John 20:31">31 </verse></sup>but these are written that you may
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and
that believing you may have life in his name.

#BCV:John 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=John 21:1><sup><verse bcv="John 21:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, Jesus revealed himself again
to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed
himself this way. <key:bcv=John 21:2><sup><verse bcv="John 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Simon Peter, Thomas called
Didymus,<footnote:1>21:2 or, Twin </footnote> Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the
sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were
together. <key:bcv=John 21:3><sup><verse bcv="John 21:3">3 </verse></sup>Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going
fishing.”
<br>
They told him, “We are also coming with you.”
They immediately went out and entered into the
boat. That night, they caught nothing. <key:bcv=John 21:4><sup><verse bcv="John 21:4">4 </verse></sup>But when
day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach;
yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
<key:bcv=John 21:5><sup><verse bcv="John 21:5">5 </verse></sup>Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you
anything to eat?”
<br>
They answered him, “No.”

<key:bcv=John 21:6><sup><verse bcv="John 21:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side
of the boat, and you will find some.”
They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able
to draw it in for the multitude of fish. <key:bcv=John 21:7><sup><verse bcv="John 21:7">7 </verse></sup>That disciple
therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the
Lord!”
<br>
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord,
he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was
naked), and threw himself into the sea. <key:bcv=John 21:8><sup><verse bcv="John 21:8">8 </verse></sup>But the
other disciples came in the little boat (for they
were not far from the land, but about two hundred
cubits<footnote:1>21:8 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters </footnote> away), dragging the net full of fish. <key:bcv=John 21:9><sup><verse bcv="John 21:9">9 </verse></sup>So
when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of
coals there, with fish and bread laid on it. <key:bcv=John 21:10><sup><verse bcv="John 21:10">10 </verse></sup>Jesus
said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have
just caught.”

<key:bcv=John 21:11><sup><verse bcv="John 21:11">11 </verse></sup>Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land,
full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even
though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
<key:bcv=John 21:12><sup><verse bcv="John 21:12">12 </verse></sup>Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!”
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who
are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
<key:bcv=John 21:13><sup><verse bcv="John 21:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to
them, and the fish likewise. <key:bcv=John 21:14><sup><verse bcv="John 21:14">14 </verse></sup>This is now the third
time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he
had risen from the dead. <key:bcv=John 21:15><sup><verse bcv="John 21:15">15 </verse></sup>So when they had eaten
their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon,
son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have
affection for you.”

He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” <key:bcv=John 21:16><sup><verse bcv="John 21:16">16 </verse></sup>He said to him
again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you
love me?”
<br>
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have
affection for you.”

He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” <key:bcv=John 21:17><sup><verse bcv="John 21:17">17 </verse></sup>He said to him
the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have
affection for me?”
<br>
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third
time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to
him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I
have affection for you.”

Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. <key:bcv=John 21:18><sup><verse bcv="John 21:18">18 </verse></sup>Most
certainly I tell you, when you were young, you
dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to.
But when you are old, you will stretch out your
hands, and another will dress you and carry you
where you don’t want to go.”

<key:bcv=John 21:19><sup><verse bcv="John 21:19">19 </verse></sup>Now he said this, signifying by what kind of
death he would glorify God. When he had said this,
he said to him, “Follow me.”

<key:bcv=John 21:20><sup><verse bcv="John 21:20">20 </verse></sup>Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple
following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved,
the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the
supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray
you?” <key:bcv=John 21:21><sup><verse bcv="John 21:21">21 </verse></sup>Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what
about this man?”

<key:bcv=John 21:22><sup><verse bcv="John 21:22">22 </verse></sup>Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until
I come, what is that to you? You follow me.” <key:bcv=John 21:23><sup><verse bcv="John 21:23">23 </verse></sup>This
saying therefore went out among the brothers<footnote:1>21:23 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”</footnote> that
this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to
him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he
stay until I come, what is that to you?”
<key:bcv=John 21:24><sup><verse bcv="John 21:24">24 </verse></sup>This is the disciple who testifies about these
things, and wrote these things. We know that his
witness is true. <key:bcv=John 21:25><sup><verse bcv="John 21:25">25 </verse></sup>There are also many other things
which Jesus did, which if they would all be written,
I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have
room for the books that would be written.

#OUTLINE:1,Acts
<h2>The Acts of the Apostles</h2>

<key:bcv=Acts 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all
that Jesus began both to do and to teach, <key:bcv=Acts 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:2">2 </verse></sup>until the
day in which he was received up, after he had given
commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles
whom he had chosen. <key:bcv=Acts 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:3">3 </verse></sup>To these he also showed
himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs,
appearing to them over a period of forty days and
speaking about God’s Kingdom. <key:bcv=Acts 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Being assembled
together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t
depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of
the Father, which you heard from me. <key:bcv=Acts 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:5">5 </verse></sup>For John
indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized
in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
<key:bcv=Acts 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore, when they had come together, they
asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom
to Israel?”

<key:bcv=Acts 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:7">7 </verse></sup>He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times
or seasons which the Father has set within his
own authority. <key:bcv=Acts 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will
be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
<key:bcv=Acts 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:9">9 </verse></sup>When he had said these things, as they were
looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received
him out of their sight. <key:bcv=Acts 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:10">10 </verse></sup>While they were looking
steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold,<footnote:1>1:10 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> two
men stood by them in white clothing, <key:bcv=Acts 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:11">11 </verse></sup>who also
said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking
into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from
you into the sky, will come back in the same way as
you saw him going into the sky.”

<key:bcv=Acts 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Then they returned to Jerusalem from the
mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a
Sabbath day’s journey away. <key:bcv=Acts 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:13">13 </verse></sup>When they had come
in, they went up into the upper room where they
were staying, that is Peter, John, James, Andrew,
Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the
son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the
son of James. <key:bcv=Acts 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:14">14 </verse></sup>All these with one accord continued
steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with
the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with
his brothers.

<key:bcv=Acts 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:15">15 </verse></sup>In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of
the disciples (and the number of names was about
one hundred twenty), and said, <key:bcv=Acts 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:16">16 </verse></sup>“Brothers, it was
necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled,
which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth
of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those
who took Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For he was counted with us,
and received his portion in this ministry. <key:bcv=Acts 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Now
this man obtained a field with the reward for his
wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst
open and all his intestines gushed out. <key:bcv=Acts 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:19">19 </verse></sup>It became
known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in
their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that
is, ‘The field of blood.’ <key:bcv=Acts 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:20">20 </verse></sup>For it is written in the book
of Psalms,
<br>
‘Let his habitation be made desolate.
Let no one dwell in it;’<footnote:1>1:20 Psalm 69:25 </footnote>
<br>
and,

‘Let another take his office.’<footnote:1>1:20 Psalm 109:8 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:21">21 </verse></sup>“Of the men therefore who have accompanied
us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and
out among us, <key:bcv=Acts 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:22">22 </verse></sup>beginning from the baptism of
John to the day that he was received up from us,
of these one must become a witness with us of his
resurrection.”

<key:bcv=Acts 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:23">23 </verse></sup>They put forward two: Joseph called Barsabbas,
who was also called Justus, and Matthias. <key:bcv=Acts 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:24">24 </verse></sup>They
prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts
of all men, show which one of these two you have
chosen <key:bcv=Acts 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:25">25 </verse></sup>to take part in this ministry and apostleship
from which Judas fell away, that he might go to
his own place.” <key:bcv=Acts 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 1:26">26 </verse></sup>They drew lots for them, and the
lot fell on Matthias; and he was counted with the
eleven apostles.

#BCV:Acts 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they
were all with one accord in one place. <key:bcv=Acts 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Suddenly
there came from the sky a sound like the rushing
of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where
they were sitting. <key:bcv=Acts 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Tongues like fire appeared and
were distributed to them, and one sat on each of
them. <key:bcv=Acts 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:4">4 </verse></sup>They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit
gave them the ability to speak.

<key:bcv=Acts 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout
men, from every nation under the sky. <key:bcv=Acts 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:6">6 </verse></sup>When
this sound was heard, the multitude came together
and were bewildered, because everyone heard them
speaking in his own language. <key:bcv=Acts 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:7">7 </verse></sup>They were all
amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold,
aren’t all these who speak Galileans? <key:bcv=Acts 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:8">8 </verse></sup>How
do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
<key:bcv=Acts 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people
from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus,
Asia, <key:bcv=Acts 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya
around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and
proselytes, <key:bcv=Acts 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Cretans and Arabians—we hear them
speaking in our languages the mighty works of
God!” <key:bcv=Acts 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:12">12 </verse></sup>They were all amazed and were perplexed,
saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
<key:bcv=Acts 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new
wine.”

<key:bcv=Acts 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:14">14 </verse></sup>But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted
up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of
Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be
known to you, and listen to my words. <key:bcv=Acts 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:15">15 </verse></sup>For these
aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the
third hour of the day.<footnote:1>2:15 about 9:00 a.m.</footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:16">16 </verse></sup>But this is what has been
spoken through the prophet Joel:

<key:bcv=Acts 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:17">17 </verse></sup>‘It will be in the last days, says God,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions.
<br>
Your old men will dream dreams.

<key:bcv=Acts 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens
in those days,
<br>
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
<key:bcv=Acts 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:19">19 </verse></sup>I will show wonders in the sky above,
and signs on the earth beneath:
<br>
blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
<key:bcv=Acts 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:20">20 </verse></sup>The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
<br>
before the great and glorious day of the Lord
comes.

<key:bcv=Acts 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:21">21 </verse></sup>It will be that whoever will call on the name of the
Lord will be saved.’<footnote:1>2:21 Joel 2:28-32 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:22">22 </verse></sup>“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of
Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty
works and wonders and signs which God did by him
among you, even as you yourselves know, <key:bcv=Acts 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:23">23 </verse></sup>him,
being delivered up by the determined counsel and
foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand
of lawless men, crucified and killed; <key:bcv=Acts 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:24">24 </verse></sup>whom God
raised up, having freed him from the agony of death,
because it was not possible that he should be held by
it. <key:bcv=Acts 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:25">25 </verse></sup>For David says concerning him,
‘I saw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be
moved.

<key:bcv=Acts 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue
rejoiced.
<br>
Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
<key:bcv=Acts 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:27">27 </verse></sup>because you will not leave my soul in Hades,<footnote:1>2:27 or, Hell </footnote>
neither will you allow your Holy One to see
decay.

<key:bcv=Acts 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:28">28 </verse></sup>You made known to me the ways of life.
You will make me full of gladness with your
presence.’<footnote:1>2:28 Psalm 16:8-11 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:29">29 </verse></sup>“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch
David, that he both died and was buried, and his
tomb is with us to this day. <key:bcv=Acts 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:30">30 </verse></sup>Therefore, being a
prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an
oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according
to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ<footnote:1>2:30 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> to sit on
his throne, <key:bcv=Acts 2:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:31">31 </verse></sup>he foreseeing this, spoke about the
resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left
in Hades,<footnote:1>2:31 or, Hell </footnote> and his flesh didn’t see decay. <key:bcv=Acts 2:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:32">32 </verse></sup>This
Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
<key:bcv=Acts 2:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:33">33 </verse></sup>Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God,
and having received from the Father the promise of
the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you
now see and hear. <key:bcv=Acts 2:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:34">34 </verse></sup>For David didn’t ascend into
the heavens, but he says himself,
<br>
‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
<key:bcv=Acts 2:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:35">35 </verse></sup>until I make your enemies a footstool for
your feet.” ’<footnote:1>2:35 Psalm 110:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 2:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:36">36 </verse></sup>“Let all the house of Israel therefore know
certainly that God has made him both Lord and
Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
<key:bcv=Acts 2:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:37">37 </verse></sup>Now when they heard this, they were cut to the
heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,
“Brothers, what shall we do?”

<key:bcv=Acts 2:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:38">38 </verse></sup>Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized,
every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for
the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Acts 2:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:39">39 </verse></sup>For the promise is to you and
to your children, and to all who are far off, even
as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
<key:bcv=Acts 2:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:40">40 </verse></sup>With many other words he testified and exhorted
them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked
generation!”

<key:bcv=Acts 2:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:41">41 </verse></sup>Then those who gladly received his word were
baptized. There were added that day about three
thousand souls. <key:bcv=Acts 2:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:42">42 </verse></sup>They continued steadfastly in the
apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking
of bread, and prayer. <key:bcv=Acts 2:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:43">43 </verse></sup>Fear came on every soul,
and many wonders and signs were done through the
apostles. <key:bcv=Acts 2:44><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:44">44 </verse></sup>All who believed were together, and had
all things in common. <key:bcv=Acts 2:45><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:45">45 </verse></sup>They sold their possessions
and goods, and distributed them to all, according
as anyone had need. <key:bcv=Acts 2:46><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:46">46 </verse></sup>Day by day, continuing
steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and
breaking bread at home, they took their food with
gladness and singleness of heart, <key:bcv=Acts 2:47><sup><verse bcv="Acts 2:47">47 </verse></sup>praising God and
having favor with all the people. The Lord added
to the assembly day by day those who were being
saved.

#BCV:Acts 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Peter and John were going up into the temple
at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.<footnote:1>3:1 3:00 p.m.</footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:2">2 </verse></sup>A certain
man who was lame from his mother’s womb was
being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of
the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for
the needy of those who entered into the temple.
<key:bcv=Acts 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,
he asked to receive gifts for the needy. <key:bcv=Acts 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Peter,
fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look
at us.” <key:bcv=Acts 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He listened to them, expecting to receive
something from them. <key:bcv=Acts 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:6">6 </verse></sup>But Peter said, “I have no
silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
<key:bcv=Acts 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:7">7 </verse></sup>He took him by the right hand and raised him up.
Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received
strength. <key:bcv=Acts 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Leaping up, he stood and began to walk.
He entered with them into the temple, walking,
leaping, and praising God. <key:bcv=Acts 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:9">9 </verse></sup>All the people saw him
walking and praising God. <key:bcv=Acts 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:10">10 </verse></sup>They recognized him,
that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for
the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They
were filled with wonder and amazement at what
had happened to him. <key:bcv=Acts 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:11">11 </verse></sup>As the lame man who was
healed held on to Peter and John, all the people
ran together to them in the porch that is called
Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

<key:bcv=Acts 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:12">12 </verse></sup>When Peter saw it, he responded to the people,
“You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man?
Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though
by our own power or godliness we had made him
walk? <key:bcv=Acts 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:13">13 </verse></sup>The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the
God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus,
whom you delivered up and denied in the presence
of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
<key:bcv=Acts 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and
asked for a murderer to be granted to you, <key:bcv=Acts 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:15">15 </verse></sup>and
killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the
dead, to which we are witnesses. <key:bcv=Acts 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:16">16 </verse></sup>By faith in his
name, his name has made this man strong, whom
you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through
him has given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you all.

<key:bcv=Acts 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:17">17 </verse></sup>“Now, brothers,<footnote:1>3:17 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> I know that you did this
in ignorance, as did also your rulers. <key:bcv=Acts 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:18">18 </verse></sup>But the
things which God announced by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
<key:bcv=Acts 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:19">19 </verse></sup>“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your
sins may be blotted out, so that there may come
times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
<key:bcv=Acts 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:20">20 </verse></sup>and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was
ordained for you before, <key:bcv=Acts 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:21">21 </verse></sup>whom heaven must
receive until the times of restoration of all things,
which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy
prophets. <key:bcv=Acts 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:22">22 </verse></sup>For Moses indeed said to the fathers,
‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from
among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to
him in all things whatever he says to you. <key:bcv=Acts 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:23">23 </verse></sup>It will
be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet
will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’<footnote:1>3:23 Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:24">24 </verse></sup>Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those
who followed after, as many as have spoken, also
told of these days. <key:bcv=Acts 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:25">25 </verse></sup>You are the children of the
prophets, and of the covenant which God made with
our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of
the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’<footnote:1>3:25 or, seed </footnote><footnote:1>3:25 Genesis 22:18; 26:4 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 3:26">26 </verse></sup>God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him
to you first to bless you, in turning away every one
of you from your wickedness.”

#BCV:Acts 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:1">1 </verse></sup>As they spoke to the people, the priests and the
captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to
them, <key:bcv=Acts 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:2">2 </verse></sup>being upset because they taught the people
and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the
dead. <key:bcv=Acts 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:3">3 </verse></sup>They laid hands on them, and put them in
custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
<key:bcv=Acts 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:4">4 </verse></sup>But many of those who heard the word believed,
and the number of the men came to be about five
thousand.

<key:bcv=Acts 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:5">5 </verse></sup>In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes
were gathered together in Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Annas the
high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander,
and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
<key:bcv=Acts 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:7">7 </verse></sup>When they had stood Peter and John in the middle
of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what
name, have you done this?”

<key:bcv=Acts 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to
them, “You rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
<key:bcv=Acts 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:9">9 </verse></sup>if we are examined today concerning a good deed
done to a crippled man, by what means this man
has been healed, <key:bcv=Acts 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:10">10 </verse></sup>may it be known to you all, and
to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead, this man stands here before
you whole in him. <key:bcv=Acts 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:11">11 </verse></sup>He is ‘the stone which was
regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which
has become the head of the corner.’<footnote:1>4:11 Psalm 118:22 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:12">12 </verse></sup>There is
salvation in no one else, for there is no other name
under heaven that is given among men, by which
we must be saved!”

<key:bcv=Acts 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and
John, and had perceived that they were unlearned
and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized
that they had been with Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Seeing the man
who was healed standing with them, they could
say nothing against it. <key:bcv=Acts 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:15">15 </verse></sup>But when they had
commanded them to go aside out of the council,
they conferred among themselves, <key:bcv=Acts 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:16">16 </verse></sup>saying, “What
shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable
miracle has been done through them, as can be
plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we
can’t deny it. <key:bcv=Acts 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:17">17 </verse></sup>But so that this spreads no further
among the people, let’s threaten them, that from
now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
<key:bcv=Acts 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:18">18 </verse></sup>They called them, and commanded them not to
speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
<key:bcv=Acts 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:19">19 </verse></sup>But Peter and John answered them, “Whether
it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather
than to God, judge for yourselves, <key:bcv=Acts 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:20">20 </verse></sup>for we can’t
help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
<key:bcv=Acts 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:21">21 </verse></sup>When they had further threatened them, they
let them go, finding no way to punish them, because
of the people; for everyone glorified God for that
which was done. <key:bcv=Acts 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:22">22 </verse></sup>For the man on whom this
miracle of healing was performed was more than
forty years old.

<key:bcv=Acts 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Being let go, they came to their own company
and reported all that the chief priests and the elders
had said to them. <key:bcv=Acts 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:24">24 </verse></sup>When they heard it, they lifted
up their voice to God with one accord and said, “O
Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth,
the sea, and all that is in them; <key:bcv=Acts 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:25">25 </verse></sup>who by the mouth
of your servant David, said,
<br>
‘Why do the nations rage,
<br>
and the peoples plot a vain thing?

<key:bcv=Acts 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:26">26 </verse></sup>The kings of the earth take a stand,
and the rulers plot together,

against the Lord, and against his Christ.’<footnote:1>4:26 Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One. </footnote><footnote:1>4:26 Psalm 2:1-2 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:27">27 </verse></sup>“For truly,<footnote:1>4:27 nu adds “in this city,”</footnote> both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with
the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered
together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you
anointed, <key:bcv=Acts 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:28">28 </verse></sup>to do whatever your hand and your
counsel foreordained to happen. <key:bcv=Acts 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:29">29 </verse></sup>Now, Lord, look
at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak
your word with all boldness, <key:bcv=Acts 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:30">30 </verse></sup>while you stretch
out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders
may be done through the name of your holy Servant
Jesus.”

<key:bcv=Acts 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:31">31 </verse></sup>When they had prayed, the place was shaken
where they were gathered together. They were all
filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word
of God with boldness.

<key:bcv=Acts 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:32">32 </verse></sup>The multitude of those who believed were of
one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that
anything of the things which he possessed was his
own, but they had all things in common. <key:bcv=Acts 4:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:33">33 </verse></sup>With
great power, the apostles gave their testimony of
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was
on them all. <key:bcv=Acts 4:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:34">34 </verse></sup>For neither was there among them
any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands
or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of
the things that were sold, <key:bcv=Acts 4:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:35">35 </verse></sup>and laid them at the
apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each,
according as anyone had need.

<key:bcv=Acts 4:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:36">36 </verse></sup>Joses, who by the apostles was also called
Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement),
a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

<key:bcv=Acts 4:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 4:37">37 </verse></sup>having a field, sold it and brought the money and
laid it at the apostles’ feet.

#BCV:Acts 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:1">1 </verse></sup>But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira
his wife, sold a possession, <key:bcv=Acts 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:2">2 </verse></sup>and kept back part
of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then
brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’
feet. <key:bcv=Acts 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:3">3 </verse></sup>But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled
your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back
part of the price of the land? <key:bcv=Acts 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:4">4 </verse></sup>While you kept it,
didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t
it in your power? How is it that you have conceived
this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men,
but to God.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and
died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
<key:bcv=Acts 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:6">6 </verse></sup>The young men arose and wrapped him up, and
they carried him out and buried him. <key:bcv=Acts 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:7">7 </verse></sup>About
three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had
happened, came in. <key:bcv=Acts 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Peter answered her, “Tell me
whether you sold the land for so much.”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:9">9 </verse></sup>But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have
agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?
Behold, the feet of those who have buried your
husband are at the door, and they will carry you
out.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:10">10 </verse></sup>She fell down immediately at his feet and died.
The young men came in and found her dead, and
they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
<key:bcv=Acts 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all
who heard these things.

<key:bcv=Acts 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:12">12 </verse></sup>By the hands of the apostles many signs and
wonders were done among the people. They were
all with one accord in Solomon’s porch. <key:bcv=Acts 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:13">13 </verse></sup>None of
the rest dared to join them; however, the people
honored them. <key:bcv=Acts 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:14">14 </verse></sup>More believers were added to the
Lord, multitudes of both men and women. <key:bcv=Acts 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:15">15 </verse></sup>They
even carried out the sick into the streets and laid
them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came
by, at least his shadow might overshadow some of
them. <key:bcv=Acts 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:16">16 </verse></sup>The multitude also came together from the
cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and
those who were tormented by unclean spirits; and
they were all healed.

<key:bcv=Acts 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:17">17 </verse></sup>But the high priest rose up, and all those who
were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees),
and they were filled with jealousy <key:bcv=Acts 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:18">18 </verse></sup>and laid hands
on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
<key:bcv=Acts 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:19">19 </verse></sup>But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors
by night, and brought them out and said, <key:bcv=Acts 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:20">20 </verse></sup>“Go
stand and speak in the temple to the people all the
words of this life.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:21">21 </verse></sup>When they heard this, they entered into the
temple about daybreak and taught. But the high
priest and those who were with him came and
called the council together, with all the senate of
the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to
have them brought. <key:bcv=Acts 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:22">22 </verse></sup>But the officers who came
didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and
reported, <key:bcv=Acts 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:23">23 </verse></sup>“We found the prison shut and locked,
and the guards standing before the doors, but when
we opened them, we found no one inside!”
<key:bcv=Acts 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Now when the high priest, the captain of the
temple, and the chief priests heard these words,
they were very perplexed about them and what
might become of this. <key:bcv=Acts 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:25">25 </verse></sup>One came and told them,
“Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the
temple, standing and teaching the people.” <key:bcv=Acts 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Then
the captain went with the officers, and brought
them without violence, for they were afraid that the
people might stone them.

<key:bcv=Acts 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:27">27 </verse></sup>When they had brought them, they set them
before the council. The high priest questioned
them, <key:bcv=Acts 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:28">28 </verse></sup>saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you
not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled
Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring
this man’s blood on us.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:29">29 </verse></sup>But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must
obey God rather than men. <key:bcv=Acts 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:30">30 </verse></sup>The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a
tree. <key:bcv=Acts 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:31">31 </verse></sup>God exalted him with his right hand to be a
Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and
remission of sins. <key:bcv=Acts 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:32">32 </verse></sup>We are his witnesses of these
things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has
given to those who obey him.”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:33">33 </verse></sup>But they, when they heard this, were cut to
the heart, and were determined to kill them. <key:bcv=Acts 5:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:34">34 </verse></sup>But
one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named
Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the
people, and commanded to put the apostles out
for a little while. <key:bcv=Acts 5:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:35">35 </verse></sup>He said to them, “You men of
Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you
are about to do. <key:bcv=Acts 5:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:36">36 </verse></sup>For before these days Theudas
rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to
whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined
themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed
him, were dispersed and came to nothing. <key:bcv=Acts 5:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:37">37 </verse></sup>After
this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the
enrollment, and drew away some people after him.
He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him,
were scattered abroad. <key:bcv=Acts 5:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:38">38 </verse></sup>Now I tell you, withdraw
from these men and leave them alone. For if this
counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
<key:bcv=Acts 5:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:39">39 </verse></sup>But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow
it, and you would be found even to be fighting
against God!”

<key:bcv=Acts 5:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:40">40 </verse></sup>They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles,
they beat them and commanded them not
to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
<key:bcv=Acts 5:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:41">41 </verse></sup>They therefore departed from the presence of the
council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to
suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

<key:bcv=Acts 5:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 5:42">42 </verse></sup>Every day, in the temple and at home, they
never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the
Christ.

#BCV:Acts 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in those days, when the number of the
disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from
the Hellenists<footnote:1>6:1 The Hellenists used Greek language and culture, even though they were also of Hebrew descent. </footnote> against the Hebrews, because their
widows were neglected in the daily service. <key:bcv=Acts 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:2">2 </verse></sup>The
twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples
and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake
the word of God and serve tables. <key:bcv=Acts 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore,
select from among you, brothers, seven men of good
report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom
we may appoint over this business. <key:bcv=Acts 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:4">4 </verse></sup>But we will
continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry
of the word.”

<key:bcv=Acts 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:5">5 </verse></sup>These words pleased the whole multitude. They
chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy
Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas,
and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch, <key:bcv=Acts 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:6">6 </verse></sup>whom
they set before the apostles. When they had prayed,
they laid their hands on them.

<key:bcv=Acts 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:7">7 </verse></sup>The word of God increased and the number of
the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A
great company of the priests were obedient to the
faith.

<key:bcv=Acts 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:8">8 </verse></sup>Stephen, full of faith and power, performed
great wonders and signs among the people. <key:bcv=Acts 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:9">9 </verse></sup>But
some of those who were of the synagogue called
“The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the
Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose,
disputing with Stephen. <key:bcv=Acts 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:10">10 </verse></sup>They weren’t able to
withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which
he spoke. <key:bcv=Acts 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Then they secretly induced men
to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous
words against Moses and God.” <key:bcv=Acts 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:12">12 </verse></sup>They stirred up
the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came
against him and seized him, then brought him in
to the council, <key:bcv=Acts 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:13">13 </verse></sup>and set up false witnesses who
said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous
words against this holy place and the law. <key:bcv=Acts 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:14">14 </verse></sup>For
we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth
will destroy this place, and will change the customs
which Moses delivered to us.” <key:bcv=Acts 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 6:15">15 </verse></sup>All who sat in the
council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face
like it was the face of an angel.

#BCV:Acts 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:1">1 </verse></sup>The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
<key:bcv=Acts 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:2">2 </verse></sup>He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God
of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he
was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, <key:bcv=Acts 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:3">3 </verse></sup>and
said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from
your relatives, and come into a land which I will
show you.’<footnote:1>7:3 Genesis 12:1 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Then he came out of the land of
the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there,
when his father was dead, God moved him into this
land where you are now living. <key:bcv=Acts 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:5">5 </verse></sup>He gave him no
inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot
on. He promised that he would give it to him for a
possession, and to his offspring after him, when he
still had no child. <key:bcv=Acts 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:6">6 </verse></sup>God spoke in this way: that his
offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and
that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four
hundred years. <key:bcv=Acts 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:7">7 </verse></sup>‘I will judge the nation to which
they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that
they will come out and serve me in this place.’<footnote:1>7:7 Genesis 15:13-14 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:8">8 </verse></sup>He
gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham
became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the
eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and
Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:9">9 </verse></sup>“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against
Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
<key:bcv=Acts 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:10">10 </verse></sup>and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of
Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all
his house. <key:bcv=Acts 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Now a famine came over all the land of
Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers
found no food. <key:bcv=Acts 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:12">12 </verse></sup>But when Jacob heard that there
was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first
time. <key:bcv=Acts 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:13">13 </verse></sup>On the second time Joseph was made known
to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed
to Pharaoh. <key:bcv=Acts 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:14">14 </verse></sup>Joseph sent and summoned Jacob
his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself
and our fathers; <key:bcv=Acts 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:16">16 </verse></sup>and they were brought back to
Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought
for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of
Shechem.

<key:bcv=Acts 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:17">17 </verse></sup>“But as the time of the promise came close
which God had sworn to Abraham, the people
grew and multiplied in Egypt, <key:bcv=Acts 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:18">18 </verse></sup>until there arose
a different king who didn’t know Joseph. <key:bcv=Acts 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:19">19 </verse></sup>The
same took advantage of our race and mistreated our
fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies,
so that they wouldn’t stay alive. <key:bcv=Acts 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:20">20 </verse></sup>At that time
Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome
to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s
house. <key:bcv=Acts 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:21">21 </verse></sup>When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s
daughter took him up and reared him as her own
son. <key:bcv=Acts 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:22">22 </verse></sup>Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:23">23 </verse></sup>But when he was forty years old, it came into his
heart to visit his brothers,<footnote:1>7:23 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> the children of Israel.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended
him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking
the Egyptian. <key:bcv=Acts 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:25">25 </verse></sup>He supposed that his brothers
understood that God, by his hand, was giving them
deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:26">26 </verse></sup>“The day following, he appeared to them as
they fought, and urged them to be at peace again,
saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong
one another?’ <key:bcv=Acts 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:27">27 </verse></sup>But he who did his neighbor wrong
pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler
and a judge over us? <key:bcv=Acts 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:28">28 </verse></sup>Do you want to kill me as
you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’<footnote:1>7:28 Exodus 2:14 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 7:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:29">29 </verse></sup>Moses fled
at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of
Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:30">30 </verse></sup>“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of
the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of
Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. <key:bcv=Acts 7:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:31">31 </verse></sup>When
Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came
close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him, <key:bcv=Acts 7:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:32">32 </verse></sup>‘I
am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’<footnote:1>7:32 Exodus 3:6 </footnote> Moses
trembled and dared not look. <key:bcv=Acts 7:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:33">33 </verse></sup>The Lord said to
him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where
you stand is holy ground. <key:bcv=Acts 7:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:34">34 </verse></sup>I have surely seen the
affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have
heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver
them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’<footnote:1>7:34 Exodus 3:5,7-8,10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 7:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:35">35 </verse></sup>“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who
made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him
as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the
angel who appeared to him in the bush. <key:bcv=Acts 7:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:36">36 </verse></sup>This man
led them out, having worked wonders and signs in
Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for
forty years. <key:bcv=Acts 7:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:37">37 </verse></sup>This is that Moses who said to the
children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up
a prophet for you from among your brothers, like
me.’<footnote:1>7:37 TR adds “You shall listen to him.” </footnote><footnote:1>7:37 Deuteronomy 18:15 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 7:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:38">38 </verse></sup>This is he who was in the assembly in
the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on
Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received
living revelations to give to us, <key:bcv=Acts 7:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:39">39 </verse></sup>to whom our
fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and
turned back in their hearts to Egypt, <key:bcv=Acts 7:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:40">40 </verse></sup>saying to
Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as
for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt,
we don’t know what has become of him.’<footnote:1>7:40 Exodus 32:1 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 7:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:41">41 </verse></sup>They
made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to
the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:42">42 </verse></sup>But God turned away and gave them up to serve
the army of the sky,<footnote:1>7:42 This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven”, or “angelic beings”, or “heavenly bodies.” </footnote> as it is written in the book of
the prophets,
<br>
‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
<key:bcv=Acts 7:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:43">43 </verse></sup>You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
the star of your god Rephan,
<br>
the figures which you made to worship,
so I will carry you away<footnote:1>7:43 Amos 5:25-27 </footnote> beyond Babylon.’
<key:bcv=Acts 7:44><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:44">44 </verse></sup>“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony
in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to
Moses commanded him to make it according to the
pattern that he had seen; <key:bcv=Acts 7:45><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:45">45 </verse></sup>which also our fathers,
in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they
entered into the possession of the nations whom
God drove out before the face of our fathers to the
days of David, <key:bcv=Acts 7:46><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:46">46 </verse></sup>who found favor in the sight of
God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of
Jacob. <key:bcv=Acts 7:47><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:47">47 </verse></sup>But Solomon built him a house. <key:bcv=Acts 7:48><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:48">48 </verse></sup>However,
the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with
hands, as the prophet says,

<key:bcv=Acts 7:49><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:49">49 </verse></sup>‘heaven is my throne,
<br>
and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?’ says the
Lord.
<br>
‘Or what is the place of my rest?

<key:bcv=Acts 7:50><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:50">50 </verse></sup>Didn’t my hand make all these things?’<footnote:1>7:50 Isaiah 66:1-2</footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 7:51><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:51">51 </verse></sup>“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart
and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your
fathers did, so you do. <key:bcv=Acts 7:52><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:52">52 </verse></sup>Which of the prophets
didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those
who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of
whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
<key:bcv=Acts 7:53><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:53">53 </verse></sup>You received the law as it was ordained by
angels, and didn’t keep it!”

<key:bcv=Acts 7:54><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:54">54 </verse></sup>Now when they heard these things, they were
cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their
teeth. <key:bcv=Acts 7:55><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:55">55 </verse></sup>But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked
up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God,
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, <key:bcv=Acts 7:56><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:56">56 </verse></sup>and
said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son
of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
<key:bcv=Acts 7:57><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:57">57 </verse></sup>But they cried out with a loud voice and
stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one
accord. <key:bcv=Acts 7:58><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:58">58 </verse></sup>They threw him out of the city and
stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments
at the feet of a young man named Saul. <key:bcv=Acts 7:59><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:59">59 </verse></sup>They
stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit!” <key:bcv=Acts 7:60><sup><verse bcv="Acts 7:60">60 </verse></sup>He kneeled down and cried
with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against
them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

#BCV:Acts 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Saul was consenting to his death. A great
persecution arose against the assembly which was
in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered
abroad throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria, except for the apostles. <key:bcv=Acts 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:2">2 </verse></sup>Devout men
buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:3">3 </verse></sup>But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every
house and dragged both men and women off
to prison. <key:bcv=Acts 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore those who were scattered
abroad went around preaching the word. <key:bcv=Acts 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:5">5 </verse></sup>Philip
went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed
to them the Christ. <key:bcv=Acts 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:6">6 </verse></sup>The multitudes listened with
one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip
when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For unclean spirits came out of many of those
who had them. They came out, crying with a loud
voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were
healed. <key:bcv=Acts 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:8">8 </verse></sup>There was great joy in that city.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:9">9 </verse></sup>But there was a certain man, Simon by name,
who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed
the people of Samaria, making himself out to be
some great one, <key:bcv=Acts 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:10">10 </verse></sup>to whom they all listened, from
the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that
great power of God.” <key:bcv=Acts 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:11">11 </verse></sup>They listened to him because
for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:12">12 </verse></sup>But when they believed Philip preaching
good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name
of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and
women. <key:bcv=Acts 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Simon himself also believed. Being
baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs
and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:14">14 </verse></sup>Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem
heard that Samaria had received the word of God,
they sent Peter and John to them, <key:bcv=Acts 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:15">15 </verse></sup>who, when they
had come down, prayed for them, that they might
receive the Holy Spirit; <key:bcv=Acts 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:16">16 </verse></sup>for as yet he had fallen
on none of them. They had only been baptized in
the name of Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:17">17 </verse></sup>Then they laid their
hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:18">18 </verse></sup>Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was
given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands,
he offered them money, <key:bcv=Acts 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:19">19 </verse></sup>saying, “Give me also this
power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive
the Holy Spirit.” <key:bcv=Acts 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:20">20 </verse></sup>But Peter said to him, “May
your silver perish with you, because you thought
you could obtain the gift of God with money! <key:bcv=Acts 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:21">21 </verse></sup>You
have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your
heart isn’t right before God. <key:bcv=Acts 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:22">22 </verse></sup>Repent therefore of
this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the
thought of your heart may be forgiven you. <key:bcv=Acts 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:23">23 </verse></sup>For
I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in
the bondage of iniquity.”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that
none of the things which you have spoken happen
to me.”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:25">25 </verse></sup>They therefore, when they had testified and
spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem,
and preached the Good News to many villages of the
Samaritans.

<key:bcv=Acts 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:26">26 </verse></sup>Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way
that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a
desert.”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:27">27 </verse></sup>He arose and went; and behold, there was a
man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over
all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to
worship. <key:bcv=Acts 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:28">28 </verse></sup>He was returning and sitting in his
chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
<key:bcv=Acts 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:29">29 </verse></sup>The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join
yourself to this chariot.”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah
the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you
are reading?”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:31">31 </verse></sup>He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it
to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with
him. <key:bcv=Acts 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:32">32 </verse></sup>Now the passage of the Scripture which he
was reading was this,
<br>
“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
so he doesn’t open his mouth.

<key:bcv=Acts 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:33">33 </verse></sup>In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
Who will declare His generation?

For his life is taken from the earth.”?<footnote:1>8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:34">34 </verse></sup>The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the
prophet talking about? About himself, or about
someone else?”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:35">35 </verse></sup>Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from
this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:36">36 </verse></sup>As
they went on the way, they came to some water;
and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What
is keeping me from being baptized?”

<key:bcv=Acts 8:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:37">37 </verse></sup><footnote:1>8:37 TR adds Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” He answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 8:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:38">38 </verse></sup>He commanded the chariot to stand still,
and they both went down into the water, both Philip
and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

<key:bcv=Acts 8:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:39">39 </verse></sup>When they came up out of the water, the Spirit
of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch
didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way
rejoicing. <key:bcv=Acts 8:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 8:40">40 </verse></sup>But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing
through, he preached the Good News to all the cities
until he came to Caesarea.

#BCV:Acts 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:1">1 </verse></sup>But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high
priest <key:bcv=Acts 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:2">2 </verse></sup>and asked for letters from him to the synagogues
of Damascus, that if he found any who were
of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring
them bound to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:3">3 </verse></sup>As he traveled, he got
close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the
sky shone around him. <key:bcv=Acts 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:4">4 </verse></sup>He fell on the earth, and
heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me?”

<key:bcv=Acts 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:5">5 </verse></sup>He said, “Who are you, Lord?”

The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.<footnote:1>9:5 TR adds “It’s hard for you to kick against the cattle prods.” </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:6">6 </verse></sup>But<footnote:1>9:6 TR omits “But” </footnote> rise up and enter into the city, then
you will be told what you must do.”

<key:bcv=Acts 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:7">7 </verse></sup>The men who traveled with him stood speechless,
hearing the sound, but seeing no one. <key:bcv=Acts 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Saul
arose from the ground, and when his eyes were
opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand
and brought him into Damascus. <key:bcv=Acts 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:9">9 </verse></sup>He was without
sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
<key:bcv=Acts 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus
named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision,
“Ananias!”
<br>
He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

<key:bcv=Acts 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:11">11 </verse></sup>The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street
which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of
Judah<footnote:1>9:11 or, Judas</footnote> for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For
behold, he is praying, <key:bcv=Acts 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:12">12 </verse></sup>and in a vision he has
seen a man named Ananias coming in and laying his
hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”
<key:bcv=Acts 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:13">13 </verse></sup>But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from
many about this man, how much evil he did to your
saints at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Here he has authority from
the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
<key:bcv=Acts 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:15">15 </verse></sup>But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for
he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the
nations and kings, and the children of Israel. <key:bcv=Acts 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:16">16 </verse></sup>For
I will show him how many things he must suffer for
my name’s sake.”

<key:bcv=Acts 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Ananias departed and entered into the house.
Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the
Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you
came, has sent me that you may receive your sight
and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” <key:bcv=Acts 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Immediately
something like scales fell from his eyes, and he
received his sight. He arose and was baptized. <key:bcv=Acts 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:19">19 </verse></sup>He
took food and was strengthened.
<br>
Saul stayed several days with the disciples who
were at Damascus. <key:bcv=Acts 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:20">20 </verse></sup>Immediately in the synagogues
he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son
of God. <key:bcv=Acts 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:21">21 </verse></sup>All who heard him were amazed, and
said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of
those who called on this name? And he had come
here intending to bring them bound before the chief
priests!”

<key:bcv=Acts 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:22">22 </verse></sup>But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded
the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving
that this is the Christ. <key:bcv=Acts 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:23">23 </verse></sup>When many days were
fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
<key:bcv=Acts 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:24">24 </verse></sup>but their plot became known to Saul. They
watched the gates both day and night that they
might kill him, <key:bcv=Acts 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:25">25 </verse></sup>but his disciples took him by night
and let him down through the wall, lowering him in
a basket.

<key:bcv=Acts 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:26">26 </verse></sup>When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried
to join himself to the disciples; but they were all
afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
<key:bcv=Acts 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:27">27 </verse></sup>But Barnabas took him and brought him to the
apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the
Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him,
and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in
the name of Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:28">28 </verse></sup>He was with them entering
into<footnote:1>9:28 TR and NU add “and going out” </footnote> Jerusalem, <key:bcv=Acts 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:29">29 </verse></sup>preaching boldly in the name
of the Lord Jesus.<footnote:1>9:29 TR and NU omit “Jesus” and reverse the order of verses 28 & 29. </footnote> He spoke and disputed against
the Hellenists,<footnote:1>9:29 The Hellenists were Hebrews who used Greek language and culture. </footnote> but they were seeking to kill him.
<key:bcv=Acts 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:30">30 </verse></sup>When the brothers<footnote:1>9:30 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> knew it, they brought him
down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
<key:bcv=Acts 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:31">31 </verse></sup>So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee,
and Samaria had peace and were built up. They
were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and
in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

<key:bcv=Acts 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:32">32 </verse></sup>As Peter went throughout all those parts, he
came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
<key:bcv=Acts 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:33">33 </verse></sup>There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who
had been bedridden for eight years because he was
paralyzed. <key:bcv=Acts 9:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:34">34 </verse></sup>Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ
heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately
he arose. <key:bcv=Acts 9:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:35">35 </verse></sup>All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw
him, and they turned to the Lord.

<key:bcv=Acts 9:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:36">36 </verse></sup>Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple
named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas.<footnote:1>9:36 “Dorcas” is Greek for “Gazelle.” </footnote> 
This woman was full of good works and acts
of mercy which she did. <key:bcv=Acts 9:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:37">37 </verse></sup>In those days, she
became sick and died. When they had washed
her, they laid her in an upper room. <key:bcv=Acts 9:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:38">38 </verse></sup>As Lydda
was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter
was there, sent two men<footnote:1>9:38 Reading from NU, TR; MT omits “two men” </footnote> to him, imploring him
not to delay in coming to them. <key:bcv=Acts 9:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:39">39 </verse></sup>Peter got up
and went with them. When he had come, they
brought him into the upper room. All the widows
stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and
other garments which Dorcas had made while she
was with them. <key:bcv=Acts 9:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:40">40 </verse></sup>Peter sent them all out, and
knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he
said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and
when she saw Peter, she sat up. <key:bcv=Acts 9:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:41">41 </verse></sup>He gave her
his hand and raised her up. Calling the saints and
widows, he presented her alive. <key:bcv=Acts 9:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:42">42 </verse></sup>This became
known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in
the Lord. <key:bcv=Acts 9:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 9:43">43 </verse></sup>He stayed many days in Joppa with a
tanner named Simon.

#BCV:Acts 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius
by name, a centurion of what was called
the Italian Regiment, <key:bcv=Acts 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:2">2 </verse></sup>a devout man, and one who
feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the
needy generously to the people, and always prayed
to God. <key:bcv=Acts 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:3">3 </verse></sup>At about the ninth hour of the day,<footnote:1>10:3 3:00 p.m. </footnote> he
clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to
him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:4">4 </verse></sup>He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened,
said, “What is it, Lord?”
<br>
He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to
the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
<key:bcv=Acts 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also
called Peter. <key:bcv=Acts 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:6">6 </verse></sup>He is staying with a tanner named
Simon, whose house is by the seaside.<footnote:1>10:6 TR adds “This one will tell you what it is necessary for you to do.” </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:7">7 </verse></sup>When the angel who spoke to him had departed,
Cornelius called two of his household servants and
a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
<key:bcv=Acts 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Having explained everything to them, he
sent them to Joppa.

<key:bcv=Acts 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Now on the next day as they were on their
journey and got close to the city, Peter went up
on the housetop to pray at about noon. <key:bcv=Acts 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:10">10 </verse></sup>He
became hungry and desired to eat, but while they
were preparing, he fell into a trance. <key:bcv=Acts 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:11">11 </verse></sup>He saw
heaven opened and a certain container descending
to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners
on the earth, <key:bcv=Acts 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:12">12 </verse></sup>in which were all kinds of fourfooted
animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles,
and birds of the sky. <key:bcv=Acts 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:13">13 </verse></sup>A voice came to him, “Rise,
Peter, kill and eat!”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:14">14 </verse></sup>But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never
eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
<key:bcv=Acts 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:15">15 </verse></sup>A voice came to him again the second time,
“What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
<key:bcv=Acts 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:16">16 </verse></sup>This was done three times, and immediately the
thing was received up into heaven.

<key:bcv=Acts 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself
what the vision which he had seen might mean,
behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having
made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the
gate, <key:bcv=Acts 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:18">18 </verse></sup>and called and asked whether Simon, who
was also called Peter, was lodging there. <key:bcv=Acts 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:19">19 </verse></sup>While
Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to
him, “Behold, three<footnote:1>10:19 Reading from TR and NU. MT omits “three”</footnote> men seek you. <key:bcv=Acts 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:20">20 </verse></sup>But arise,
get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for
I have sent them.”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:21">21 </verse></sup>Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold,
I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”
<key:bcv=Acts 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:22">22 </verse></sup>They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous
man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by
all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy
angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to
what you say.” <key:bcv=Acts 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:23">23 </verse></sup>So he called them in and provided
a place to stay.
<br>
On the next day Peter arose and went out with
them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied
him. <key:bcv=Acts 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:24">24 </verse></sup>On the next day they entered into
Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having
called together his relatives and his near friends.

<key:bcv=Acts 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:25">25 </verse></sup>When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down
at his feet, and worshiped him. <key:bcv=Acts 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:26">26 </verse></sup>But Peter raised
him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a
man.” <key:bcv=Acts 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:27">27 </verse></sup>As he talked with him, he went in and
found many gathered together. <key:bcv=Acts 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:28">28 </verse></sup>He said to them,
“You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing
for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come
to one of another nation, but God has shown me
that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
<key:bcv=Acts 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Therefore I also came without complaint when I
was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for
me?”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:30">30 </verse></sup>Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting
until this hour; and at the ninth hour,<footnote:1>10:30 3:00 p.m. </footnote> I prayed in
my house, and behold, a man stood before me in
bright clothing <key:bcv=Acts 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:31">31 </verse></sup>and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is
heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered
in the sight of God. <key:bcv=Acts 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Send therefore to Joppa and
summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is
staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by
the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
<key:bcv=Acts 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:33">33 </verse></sup>Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of
you to come. Now therefore we are all here present
in the sight of God to hear all things that have been
commanded you by God.”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:34">34 </verse></sup>Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I
perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; <key:bcv=Acts 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:35">35 </verse></sup>but
in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness
is acceptable to him. <key:bcv=Acts 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:36">36 </verse></sup>The word which
he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good
news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
<key:bcv=Acts 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:37">37 </verse></sup>you yourselves know what happened, which was
proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from
Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
<key:bcv=Acts 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:38">38 </verse></sup>how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing
good and healing all who were oppressed by the
devil, for God was with him. <key:bcv=Acts 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:39">39 </verse></sup>We are witnesses of
everything he did both in the country of the Jews
and in Jerusalem; whom they also<footnote:1>10:39 TR omits “also” </footnote> killed, hanging
him on a tree. <key:bcv=Acts 10:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:40">40 </verse></sup>God raised him up the third day and
gave him to be revealed, <key:bcv=Acts 10:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:41">41 </verse></sup>not to all the people, but
to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us,
who ate and drank with him after he rose from the
dead. <key:bcv=Acts 10:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:42">42 </verse></sup>He commanded us to preach to the people
and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God
as the Judge of the living and the dead. <key:bcv=Acts 10:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:43">43 </verse></sup>All the
prophets testify about him, that through his name
everyone who believes in him will receive remission
of sins.”

<key:bcv=Acts 10:44><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:44">44 </verse></sup>While Peter was still speaking these words,
the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the
word. <key:bcv=Acts 10:45><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:45">45 </verse></sup>They of the circumcision who believed
were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because
the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the
Gentiles. <key:bcv=Acts 10:46><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:46">46 </verse></sup>For they heard them speaking in other
languages and magnifying God.

Then Peter answered, <key:bcv=Acts 10:47><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:47">47 </verse></sup>“Can anyone forbid these
people from being baptized with water? They
have received the Holy Spirit just like us.” <key:bcv=Acts 10:48><sup><verse bcv="Acts 10:48">48 </verse></sup>He
commanded them to be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

#BCV:Acts 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now the apostles and the brothers<footnote:1>11:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> who were
in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received
the word of God. <key:bcv=Acts 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:2">2 </verse></sup>When Peter had come up
to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision
contended with him, <key:bcv=Acts 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:3">3 </verse></sup>saying, “You went in to
uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
<key:bcv=Acts 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:4">4 </verse></sup>But Peter began, and explained to them in order,
saying, <key:bcv=Acts 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:5">5 </verse></sup>“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and
in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container
descending, like it was a great sheet let down from
heaven by four corners. It came as far as me. <key:bcv=Acts 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:6">6 </verse></sup>When
I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw
the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals,
creeping things, and birds of the sky. <key:bcv=Acts 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:7">7 </verse></sup>I also heard a
voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter, kill and eat!’ <key:bcv=Acts 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:8">8 </verse></sup>But I
said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean
has ever entered into my mouth.’ <key:bcv=Acts 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:9">9 </verse></sup>But a voice
answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What
God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’ <key:bcv=Acts 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:10">10 </verse></sup>This
was done three times, and all were drawn up again
into heaven. <key:bcv=Acts 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, immediately three men
stood before the house where I was, having been
sent from Caesarea to me. <key:bcv=Acts 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:12">12 </verse></sup>The Spirit told me
to go with them without discriminating. These six
brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into
the man’s house. <key:bcv=Acts 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:13">13 </verse></sup>He told us how he had seen
the angel standing in his house and saying to him,
‘Send to Joppa and get Simon, who is called Peter,
<key:bcv=Acts 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:14">14 </verse></sup>who will speak to you words by which you will
be saved, you and all your house.’ <key:bcv=Acts 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:15">15 </verse></sup>As I began to
speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us
at the beginning. <key:bcv=Acts 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:16">16 </verse></sup>I remembered the word of the
Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water,
but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’ <key:bcv=Acts 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:17">17 </verse></sup>If
then God gave to them the same gift as us when we
believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I
could withstand God?”

<key:bcv=Acts 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:18">18 </verse></sup>When they heard these things, they held their
peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also
granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
<key:bcv=Acts 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:19">19 </verse></sup>They therefore who were scattered abroad by
the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled
as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking
the word to no one except to Jews only. <key:bcv=Acts 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:20">20 </verse></sup>But there
were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene,
who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the
Hellenists,<footnote:1>11:20 A Hellenist is someone who keeps Greek customs and culture.</footnote> preaching the Lord Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:21">21 </verse></sup>The hand
of the Lord was with them, and a great number
believed and turned to the Lord. <key:bcv=Acts 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:22">22 </verse></sup>The report
concerning them came to the ears of the assembly
which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to
go as far as Antioch, <key:bcv=Acts 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:23">23 </verse></sup>who, when he had come, and
had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted
them all, that with purpose of heart they should
remain near to the Lord. <key:bcv=Acts 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:24">24 </verse></sup>For he was a good man,
and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many
people were added to the Lord.

<key:bcv=Acts 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
<key:bcv=Acts 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:26">26 </verse></sup>When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch.
For a whole year they were gathered together
with the assembly, and taught many people. The
disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
<key:bcv=Acts 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Now in these days, prophets came down from
Jerusalem to Antioch. <key:bcv=Acts 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:28">28 </verse></sup>One of them named Agabus
stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there
should be a great famine all over the world, which
also happened in the days of Claudius. <key:bcv=Acts 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:29">29 </verse></sup>As any of
the disciples had plenty, each determined to send
relief to the brothers who lived in Judea; <key:bcv=Acts 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 11:30">30 </verse></sup>which
they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands
of Barnabas and Saul.

#BCV:Acts 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now about that time, King Herod stretched
out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:2">2 </verse></sup>He killed James, the brother of John, with the
sword. <key:bcv=Acts 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:3">3 </verse></sup>When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he
proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the
days of unleavened bread. <key:bcv=Acts 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:4">4 </verse></sup>When he had arrested
him, he put him in prison and delivered him to
four squads of four soldiers each to guard him,
intending to bring him out to the people after the
Passover. <key:bcv=Acts 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:5">5 </verse></sup>Peter therefore was kept in the prison,
but constant prayer was made by the assembly to
God for him. <key:bcv=Acts 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:6">6 </verse></sup>The same night when Herod was
about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between
two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in
front of the door kept the prison.

<key:bcv=Acts 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:7">7 </verse></sup>And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him,
and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the
side and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!”
His chains fell off his hands. <key:bcv=Acts 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:8">8 </verse></sup>The angel said to him,
“Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so.
He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
<key:bcv=Acts 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:9">9 </verse></sup>And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know
that what was being done by the angel was real, but
thought he saw a vision. <key:bcv=Acts 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:10">10 </verse></sup>When they were past the
first and the second guard, they came to the iron
gate that leads into the city, which opened to them
by itself. They went out and went down one street,
and immediately the angel departed from him.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:11">11 </verse></sup>When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now
I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel
and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and
from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
<key:bcv=Acts 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Thinking about that, he came to the house of
Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark,
where many were gathered together and were praying.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:13">13 </verse></sup>When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a
servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. <key:bcv=Acts 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:14">14 </verse></sup>When
she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the
gate for joy, but ran in and reported that Peter was
standing in front of the gate.

<key:bcv=Acts 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:15">15 </verse></sup>They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she
insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
<key:bcv=Acts 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:16">16 </verse></sup>But Peter continued knocking. When they had
opened, they saw him and were amazed. <key:bcv=Acts 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:17">17 </verse></sup>But
he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent,
declared to them how the Lord had brought him out
of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James
and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to
another place.

<key:bcv=Acts 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:18">18 </verse></sup>Now as soon as it was day, there was no small
stir among the soldiers about what had become
of Peter. <key:bcv=Acts 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:19">19 </verse></sup>When Herod had sought for him and
didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded
that they should be put to death. He went
down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Now Herod was very angry with the people of
Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him
and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide,
their friend, they asked for peace, because their
country depended on the king’s country for food.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:21">21 </verse></sup>On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in
royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech
to them. <key:bcv=Acts 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:22">22 </verse></sup>The people shouted, “The voice of a
god, and not of a man!” <key:bcv=Acts 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Immediately an angel of
the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the
glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:24">24 </verse></sup>But the word of God grew and multiplied.
<key:bcv=Acts 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 12:25">25 </verse></sup>Barnabas and Saul returned to<footnote:1>12:25 TR reads “from” instead of “to”</footnote> Jerusalem when
they had fulfilled their service, also taking with
them John who was called Mark.

#BCV:Acts 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the assembly that was at Antioch
there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas,
Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene,
Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch,
and Saul. <key:bcv=Acts 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:2">2 </verse></sup>As they served the Lord and fasted, the
Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for
me, for the work to which I have called them.”
<key:bcv=Acts 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid
their hands on them, they sent them away. <key:bcv=Acts 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:4">4 </verse></sup>So,
being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to
Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. <key:bcv=Acts 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:5">5 </verse></sup>When
they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word
in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as
their attendant. <key:bcv=Acts 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:6">6 </verse></sup>When they had gone through
the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer,
a false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar Jesus,
<key:bcv=Acts 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:7">7 </verse></sup>who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man
of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas
and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
<key:bcv=Acts 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:8">8 </verse></sup>But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by
interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the
proconsul away from the faith. <key:bcv=Acts 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:9">9 </verse></sup>But Saul, who is
also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened
his eyes on him <key:bcv=Acts 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:10">10 </verse></sup>and said, “You son of the devil,
full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all
righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the
right ways of the Lord? <key:bcv=Acts 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Now, behold, the hand of
the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing
the sun for a season!”
<br>
Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He
went around seeking someone to lead him by the
hand. <key:bcv=Acts 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Then the proconsul, when he saw what was
done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of
the Lord.

<key:bcv=Acts 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos
and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed
from them and returned to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:14">14 </verse></sup>But they,
passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia.
<br>
They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day
and sat down. <key:bcv=Acts 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:15">15 </verse></sup>After the reading of the law and
the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to
them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of
exhortation for the people, speak.”

<key:bcv=Acts 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:16">16 </verse></sup>Paul stood up, and gesturing with his hand said,
“Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen. <key:bcv=Acts 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:17">17 </verse></sup>The
God of this people<footnote:1>13:17 TR, NU add “Israel” </footnote> chose our fathers, and exalted
the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of
Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of
it. <key:bcv=Acts 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:18">18 </verse></sup>For a period of about forty years he put up with
them in the wilderness. <key:bcv=Acts 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:19">19 </verse></sup>When he had destroyed
seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them
their land for an inheritance for about four hundred
fifty years. <key:bcv=Acts 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:20">20 </verse></sup>After these things, he gave them
judges until Samuel the prophet. <key:bcv=Acts 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:21">21 </verse></sup>Afterward they
asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the
son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for
forty years. <key:bcv=Acts 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:22">22 </verse></sup>When he had removed him, he
raised up David to be their king, to whom he also
testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man
after my heart, who will do all my will.’ <key:bcv=Acts 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:23">23 </verse></sup>From
this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation<footnote:1>13:23 TR, NU read “a Savior, Jesus” instead of “salvation” </footnote>
to Israel according to his promise, <key:bcv=Acts 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:24">24 </verse></sup>before his
coming, when John had first preached the baptism
of repentance to Israel.<footnote:1>13:24 TR, NU read “to all the people of Israel” instead of “to Israel” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:25">25 </verse></sup>As John was fulfilling his
course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am?
I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the
sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
<key:bcv=Acts 13:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:26">26 </verse></sup>“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham,
and those among you who fear God, the word of this
salvation is sent out to you. <key:bcv=Acts 13:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:27">27 </verse></sup>For those who dwell
in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t
know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are
read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning
him. <key:bcv=Acts 13:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:28">28 </verse></sup>Though they found no cause for death, they
still asked Pilate to have him killed. <key:bcv=Acts 13:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:29">29 </verse></sup>When they
had fulfilled all things that were written about him,
they took him down from the tree and laid him in
a tomb. <key:bcv=Acts 13:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:30">30 </verse></sup>But God raised him from the dead, <key:bcv=Acts 13:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:31">31 </verse></sup>and
he was seen for many days by those who came up
with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his
witnesses to the people. <key:bcv=Acts 13:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:32">32 </verse></sup>We bring you good news
of the promise made to the fathers, <key:bcv=Acts 13:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:33">33 </verse></sup>that God has
fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised
up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm,
‘You are my Son.

Today I have become your father.’<footnote:1>13:33 Psalm 2:7 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 13:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:34">34 </verse></sup>“Concerning that he raised him up from the
dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has
spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure
blessings of David.’<footnote:1>13:34 Isaiah 55:3 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 13:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:35">35 </verse></sup>Therefore he says also in
another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to
see decay.’<footnote:1>13:35 Psalm 16:10 </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 13:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:36">36 </verse></sup>For David, after he had in his own
generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep,
was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. <key:bcv=Acts 13:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:37">37 </verse></sup>But he
whom God raised up saw no decay. <key:bcv=Acts 13:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:38">38 </verse></sup>Be it known
to you therefore, brothers,<footnote:1>13:38 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> that through this man
is proclaimed to you remission of sins; <key:bcv=Acts 13:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:39">39 </verse></sup>and by him
everyone who believes is justified from all things,
from which you could not be justified by the law of
Moses. <key:bcv=Acts 13:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:40">40 </verse></sup>Beware therefore, lest that come on you
which is spoken in the prophets:

<key:bcv=Acts 13:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:41">41 </verse></sup>‘Behold, you scoffers!
<br>
Wonder and perish,
<br>
for I work a work in your days,
<br>
a work which you will in no way believe, if one
declares it to you.’ ”<footnote:1>13:41 Habakkuk 1:5 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 13:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:42">42 </verse></sup>So when the Jews went out of the synagogue,
the Gentiles begged that these words might be
preached to them the next Sabbath. <key:bcv=Acts 13:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:43">43 </verse></sup>Now when
the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of
the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas;
who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in
the grace of God.

<key:bcv=Acts 13:44><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:44">44 </verse></sup>The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was
gathered together to hear the word of God. <key:bcv=Acts 13:45><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:45">45 </verse></sup>But
when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled
with jealousy, and contradicted the things which
were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

<key:bcv=Acts 13:46><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:46">46 </verse></sup>Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said,
“It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken
to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves,
and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal
life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. <key:bcv=Acts 13:47><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:47">47 </verse></sup>For so has
the Lord commanded us, saying,
<br>
‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles,
that you should bring salvation to the uttermost
parts of the earth.’ ”<footnote:1>13:47 Isaiah 49:6 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 13:48><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:48">48 </verse></sup>As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad
and glorified the word of God. As many as were
appointed to eternal life believed. <key:bcv=Acts 13:49><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:49">49 </verse></sup>The Lord’s
word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
<key:bcv=Acts 13:50><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:50">50 </verse></sup>But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent
women and the chief men of the city, and stirred
up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and
threw them out of their borders. <key:bcv=Acts 13:51><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:51">51 </verse></sup>But they shook
off the dust of their feet against them, and came to
Iconium. <key:bcv=Acts 13:52><sup><verse bcv="Acts 13:52">52 </verse></sup>The disciples were filled with joy and
with the Holy Spirit.

#BCV:Acts 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:1">1 </verse></sup>In Iconium, they entered together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great
multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
<key:bcv=Acts 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:2">2 </verse></sup>But the disbelieving<footnote:1>14:2 or, disobedient</footnote> Jews stirred up and embittered
the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
<key:bcv=Acts 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking
boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his
grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by
their hands. <key:bcv=Acts 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:4">4 </verse></sup>But the multitude of the city was
divided. Part sided with the Jews and part with the
apostles. <key:bcv=Acts 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:5">5 </verse></sup>When some of both the Gentiles and the
Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to
mistreat and stone them, <key:bcv=Acts 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:6">6 </verse></sup>they became aware of it
and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and
the surrounding region. <key:bcv=Acts 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:7">7 </verse></sup>There they preached the
Good News.

<key:bcv=Acts 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:8">8 </verse></sup>At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his
feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never
had walked. <key:bcv=Acts 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:9">9 </verse></sup>He was listening to Paul speaking,
who, fastening eyes on him and seeing that he
had faith to be made whole, <key:bcv=Acts 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:10">10 </verse></sup>said with a loud
voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up
and walked. <key:bcv=Acts 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:11">11 </verse></sup>When the multitude saw what Paul
had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the
language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to
us in the likeness of men!” <key:bcv=Acts 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:12">12 </verse></sup>They called Barnabas
“Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the
chief speaker. <key:bcv=Acts 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:13">13 </verse></sup>The priest of Jupiter, whose temple
was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands
to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along
with the multitudes.

<key:bcv=Acts 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:14">14 </verse></sup>But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul,
heard of it, they tore their clothes and sprang into
the multitude, crying out, <key:bcv=Acts 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:15">15 </verse></sup>“Men, why are you
doing these things? We also are men of the same
nature as you, and bring you good news, that you
should turn from these vain things to the living God,
who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is
in them; <key:bcv=Acts 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:16">16 </verse></sup>who in the generations gone by allowed
all the nations to walk in their own ways. <key:bcv=Acts 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Yet he
didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did
good and gave you<footnote:1>14:17 TR reads “us” instead of “you” </footnote> rains from the sky and fruitful
seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
<key:bcv=Acts 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Even saying these things, they hardly stopped
the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
<key:bcv=Acts 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:19">19 </verse></sup>But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came
there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they
stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing
that he was dead.

<key:bcv=Acts 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:20">20 </verse></sup>But as the disciples stood around him, he rose
up, and entered into the city. On the next day he
went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

<key:bcv=Acts 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:21">21 </verse></sup>When they had preached the Good News to that
city and had made many disciples, they returned to
Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, <key:bcv=Acts 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:22">22 </verse></sup>strengthening the
souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue
in the faith, and that through many afflictions we
must enter into God’s Kingdom. <key:bcv=Acts 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:23">23 </verse></sup>When they had
appointed elders for them in every assembly, and
had prayed with fasting, they commended them to
the Lord on whom they had believed.

<key:bcv=Acts 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:24">24 </verse></sup>They passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
<key:bcv=Acts 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:25">25 </verse></sup>When they had spoken the word in

Perga, they went down to Attalia. <key:bcv=Acts 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:26">26 </verse></sup>From there
they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been
committed to the grace of God for the work which
they had fulfilled. <key:bcv=Acts 14:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:27">27 </verse></sup>When they had arrived and had
gathered the assembly together, they reported all
the things that God had done with them, and that
he had opened a door of faith to the nations. <key:bcv=Acts 14:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 14:28">28 </verse></sup>They
stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

#BCV:Acts 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Some men came down from Judea and taught
the brothers,<footnote:1>15:1 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> “Unless you are circumcised after the
custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” <key:bcv=Acts 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore
when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and
discussion with them, they appointed Paul, Barnabas,
and some others of them to go up to Jerusalem
to the apostles and elders about this question.
<key:bcv=Acts 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:3">3 </verse></sup>They, being sent on their way by the assembly,
passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring
the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused
great joy to all the brothers. <key:bcv=Acts 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:4">4 </verse></sup>When they had come
to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly
and the apostles and the elders, and they reported
everything that God had done with them.
<key:bcv=Acts 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:5">5 </verse></sup>But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed
rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise
them, and to command them to keep the law of
Moses.”

<key:bcv=Acts 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:6">6 </verse></sup>The apostles and the elders were gathered together
to see about this matter. <key:bcv=Acts 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:7">7 </verse></sup>When there had
been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to
them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago
God made a choice among you that by my mouth
the nations should hear the word of the Good News
and believe. <key:bcv=Acts 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:8">8 </verse></sup>God, who knows the heart, testified
about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like
he did to us. <key:bcv=Acts 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:9">9 </verse></sup>He made no distinction between us
and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. <key:bcv=Acts 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Now
therefore why do you tempt God, that you should
put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither
our fathers nor we were able to bear? <key:bcv=Acts 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:11">11 </verse></sup>But we
believe that we are saved through the grace of the
Lord Jesus,<footnote:1>15:11 TR adds “Christ” </footnote> just as they are.”

<key:bcv=Acts 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:12">12 </verse></sup>All the multitude kept silence, and they listened
to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs
and wonders God had done among the nations
through them. <key:bcv=Acts 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:13">13 </verse></sup>After they were silent, James
answered, “Brothers, listen to me. <key:bcv=Acts 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:14">14 </verse></sup>Simeon has
reported how God first visited the nations to take
out of them a people for his name. <key:bcv=Acts 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:15">15 </verse></sup>This agrees
with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
<key:bcv=Acts 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:16">16 </verse></sup>‘After these things I will return.
I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has
fallen.
<br>
I will again build its ruins.

I will set it up <key:bcv=Acts 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:17">17 </verse></sup>that the rest of men may seek after
the Lord:
<br>
all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord, who does all these things.’<footnote:1>15:17 Amos 9:11-12</footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:18">18 </verse></sup>“All of God’s works are known to him from
eternity. <key:bcv=Acts 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore my judgment is that we don’t
trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to
God, <key:bcv=Acts 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:20">20 </verse></sup>but that we write to them that they abstain
from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality,
from what is strangled, and from blood. <key:bcv=Acts 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:21">21 </verse></sup>For Moses
from generations of old has in every city those who
preach him, being read in the synagogues every
Sabbath.”

<key:bcv=Acts 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Then it seemed good to the apostles and the
elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men
out of their company, and send them to Antioch
with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and
Silas, chief men among the brothers.<footnote:1>15:22 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:23">23 </verse></sup>They wrote
these things by their hand:
<br>
“The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the
brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria,
and Cilicia: greetings. <key:bcv=Acts 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Because we have heard that
some who went out from us have troubled you with
words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be
circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave
no commandment; <key:bcv=Acts 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:25">25 </verse></sup>it seemed good to us, having
come to one accord, to choose out men and send
them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
<key:bcv=Acts 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:26">26 </verse></sup>men who have risked their lives for the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=Acts 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:27">27 </verse></sup>We have sent therefore
Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the
same things by word of mouth. <key:bcv=Acts 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:28">28 </verse></sup>For it seemed good
to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden
on you than these necessary things: <key:bcv=Acts 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:29">29 </verse></sup>that you
abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood,
from things strangled, and from sexual immorality,
from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well
with you. Farewell.”

<key:bcv=Acts 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:30">30 </verse></sup>So, when they were sent off, they came to
Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together,
they delivered the letter. <key:bcv=Acts 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:31">31 </verse></sup>When they had read it,
they rejoiced over the encouragement. <key:bcv=Acts 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:32">32 </verse></sup>Judas and
Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged
the brothers with many words and strengthened
them. <key:bcv=Acts 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:33">33 </verse></sup>After they had spent some time there, they
were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the
apostles. <key:bcv=Acts 15:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:34">34 </verse></sup><footnote:1>15:34 Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.</footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 15:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:35">35 </verse></sup>But Paul and Barnabas stayed in
Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the
Lord, with many others also.

<key:bcv=Acts 15:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:36">36 </verse></sup>After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s
return now and visit our brothers in every city in
which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see
how they are doing.” <key:bcv=Acts 15:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:37">37 </verse></sup>Barnabas planned to take
John, who was called Mark, with them also. <key:bcv=Acts 15:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:38">38 </verse></sup>But
Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take
with them someone who had withdrawn from them
in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the
work. <key:bcv=Acts 15:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:39">39 </verse></sup>Then the contention grew so sharp that
they separated from each other. Barnabas took
Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, <key:bcv=Acts 15:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:40">40 </verse></sup>but Paul
chose Silas and went out, being commended by the
brothers to the grace of God. <key:bcv=Acts 15:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 15:41">41 </verse></sup>He went through
Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
#BCV:Acts 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:1">1 </verse></sup>He came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a
certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son
of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek.
<key:bcv=Acts 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:2">2 </verse></sup>The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave
a good testimony about him. <key:bcv=Acts 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Paul wanted to have
him go out with him, and he took and circumcised
him because of the Jews who were in those parts,
for they all knew that his father was a Greek. <key:bcv=Acts 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:4">4 </verse></sup>As
they went on their way through the cities, they
delivered the decrees to them to keep which had
been ordained by the apostles and elders who were
at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:5">5 </verse></sup>So the assemblies were strengthened
in the faith, and increased in number daily.
<key:bcv=Acts 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:6">6 </verse></sup>When they had gone through the region of
Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the
Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. <key:bcv=Acts 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:7">7 </verse></sup>When
they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go
into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.
<key:bcv=Acts 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. <key:bcv=Acts 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:9">9 </verse></sup>A
vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was
a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and
saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
<key:bcv=Acts 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:10">10 </verse></sup>When he had seen the vision, immediately we
sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that
the Lord had called us to preach the Good News
to them. <key:bcv=Acts 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Setting sail therefore from Troas, we
made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day
following to Neapolis; <key:bcv=Acts 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:12">12 </verse></sup>and from there to Philippi,
which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the
district, a Roman colony. We were staying some
days in this city.

<key:bcv=Acts 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:13">13 </verse></sup>On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city
by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place
of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women
who had come together. <key:bcv=Acts 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:14">14 </verse></sup>A certain woman named
Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one
who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her
heart to listen to the things which were spoken by
Paul. <key:bcv=Acts 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:15">15 </verse></sup>When she and her household were baptized,
she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be
faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.”
So she persuaded us.

<key:bcv=Acts 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:16">16 </verse></sup>As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having
a spirit of divination met us, who brought her
masters much gain by fortune telling. <key:bcv=Acts 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Following
Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants
of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of
salvation!” <key:bcv=Acts 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:18">18 </verse></sup>She was doing this for many days.
But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and
said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that
very hour. <key:bcv=Acts 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:19">19 </verse></sup>But when her masters saw that the
hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and
Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before
the rulers. <key:bcv=Acts 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:20">20 </verse></sup>When they had brought them to the
magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are
agitating our city <key:bcv=Acts 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:21">21 </verse></sup>and advocate customs which it
is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being
Romans.”

<key:bcv=Acts 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:22">22 </verse></sup>The multitude rose up together against them
and the magistrates tore their clothes from them,
then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
<key:bcv=Acts 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:23">23 </verse></sup>When they had laid many stripes on them, they
threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep
them safely. <key:bcv=Acts 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:24">24 </verse></sup>Having received such a command, he
threw them into the inner prison and secured their
feet in the stocks.

<key:bcv=Acts 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:25">25 </verse></sup>But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying
and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners
were listening to them. <key:bcv=Acts 16:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:26">26 </verse></sup>Suddenly there was a
great earthquake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors
were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
<key:bcv=Acts 16:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:27">27 </verse></sup>The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing
the prison doors open, drew his sword and was
about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners
had escaped. <key:bcv=Acts 16:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:28">28 </verse></sup>But Paul cried with a loud voice,
saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
<key:bcv=Acts 16:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:29">29 </verse></sup>He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling
before Paul and Silas, <key:bcv=Acts 16:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:30">30 </verse></sup>brought them out, and
said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
<key:bcv=Acts 16:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:31">31 </verse></sup>They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and
you will be saved, you and your household.” <key:bcv=Acts 16:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:32">32 </verse></sup>They
spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who
were in his house.

<key:bcv=Acts 16:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:33">33 </verse></sup>He took them the same hour of the night
and washed their stripes, and was immediately
baptized, he and all his household. <key:bcv=Acts 16:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:34">34 </verse></sup>He brought
them up into his house and set food before them,
and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having
believed in God.

<key:bcv=Acts 16:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:35">35 </verse></sup>But when it was day, the magistrates sent the
sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”
<key:bcv=Acts 16:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:36">36 </verse></sup>The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,
“The magistrates have sent to let you go; now
therefore come out and go in peace.”

<key:bcv=Acts 16:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:37">37 </verse></sup>But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us
publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and
have cast us into prison! Do they now release us
secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come
themselves and bring us out!”

<key:bcv=Acts 16:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:38">38 </verse></sup>The sergeants reported these words to the
magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard
that they were Romans, <key:bcv=Acts 16:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:39">39 </verse></sup>and they came and
begged them. When they had brought them out,
they asked them to depart from the city. <key:bcv=Acts 16:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 16:40">40 </verse></sup>They
went out of the prison and entered into Lydia’s
house. When they had seen the brothers, they
encouraged them, then departed.

#BCV:Acts 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:1">1 </verse></sup>Now when they had passed through Amphipolis
and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where
there was a Jewish synagogue. <key:bcv=Acts 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:2">2 </verse></sup>Paul, as was
his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath
days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
<key:bcv=Acts 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:3">3 </verse></sup>explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had
to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying,
“This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
<key:bcv=Acts 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:4">4 </verse></sup>Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul
and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude,
and not a few of the chief women. <key:bcv=Acts 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:5">5 </verse></sup>But the
unpersuaded Jews took along<footnote:1>17:5 TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of “But the unpersuaded Jews took along” </footnote> some wicked men
from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set
the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason,
they sought to bring them out to the people. <key:bcv=Acts 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:6">6 </verse></sup>When
they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain
brothers<footnote:1>17:6 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> before the rulers of the city, crying,
“These who have turned the world upside down
have come here also, <key:bcv=Acts 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:7">7 </verse></sup>whom Jason has received.
These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar,
saying that there is another king, Jesus!” <key:bcv=Acts 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:8">8 </verse></sup>The
multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled
when they heard these things. <key:bcv=Acts 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:9">9 </verse></sup>When they had
taken security from Jason and the rest, they let
them go.

<key:bcv=Acts 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:10">10 </verse></sup>The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas
away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they
went into the Jewish synagogue.

<key:bcv=Acts 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:11">11 </verse></sup>Now these were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all
readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to
see whether these things were so. <key:bcv=Acts 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:12">12 </verse></sup>Many of them
therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek
women, and not a few men. <key:bcv=Acts 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:13">13 </verse></sup>But when the Jews of
Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God
was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came
there likewise, agitating the multitudes. <key:bcv=Acts 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:14">14 </verse></sup>Then the
brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as
to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
<key:bcv=Acts 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:15">15 </verse></sup>But those who escorted Paul brought him as far
as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and
Timothy that they should come to him very quickly,
they departed.

<key:bcv=Acts 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:16">16 </verse></sup>Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his
spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city
full of idols. <key:bcv=Acts 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:17">17 </verse></sup>So he reasoned in the synagogue
with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the
marketplace every day with those who met him.
<key:bcv=Acts 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:18">18 </verse></sup>Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
also<footnote:1>17:18 TR omits “also”</footnote> were conversing with him. Some said, “What
does this babbler want to say?”
<br>
Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign
deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
<key:bcv=Acts 17:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:19">19 </verse></sup>They took hold of him and brought him to the
Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new
teaching is, which you are speaking about? <key:bcv=Acts 17:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:20">20 </verse></sup>For
you bring certain strange things to our ears. We
want to know therefore what these things mean.”
<key:bcv=Acts 17:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:21">21 </verse></sup>Now all the Athenians and the strangers living
there spent their time in nothing else, but either to
tell or to hear some new thing.

<key:bcv=Acts 17:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:22">22 </verse></sup>Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus
and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you
are very religious in all things. <key:bcv=Acts 17:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:23">23 </verse></sup>For as I passed
along and observed the objects of your worship, I
also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN
UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in
ignorance, I announce to you. <key:bcv=Acts 17:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:24">24 </verse></sup>The God who
made the world and all things in it, he, being
Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples
made with hands. <key:bcv=Acts 17:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:25">25 </verse></sup>He isn’t served by men’s
hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he
himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
<key:bcv=Acts 17:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:26">26 </verse></sup>He made from one blood every nation of men
to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having
determined appointed seasons and the boundaries
of their dwellings, <key:bcv=Acts 17:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:27">27 </verse></sup>that they should seek the Lord,
if perhaps they might reach out for him and find
him, though he is not far from each one of us.
<key:bcv=Acts 17:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:28">28 </verse></sup>‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’
As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are
also his offspring.’ <key:bcv=Acts 17:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:29">29 </verse></sup>Being then the offspring of
<br>
God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature
is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and
design of man. <key:bcv=Acts 17:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:30">30 </verse></sup>The times of ignorance therefore
God overlooked. But now he commands that all
people everywhere should repent, <key:bcv=Acts 17:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:31">31 </verse></sup>because he has
appointed a day in which he will judge the world in
righteousness by the man whom he has ordained;
of which he has given assurance to all men, in that
he has raised him from the dead.”

<key:bcv=Acts 17:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:32">32 </verse></sup>Now when they heard of the resurrection of the
dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to
hear you again concerning this.”

<key:bcv=Acts 17:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:33">33 </verse></sup>Thus Paul went out from among them. <key:bcv=Acts 17:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 17:34">34 </verse></sup>But
certain men joined with him and believed, including
Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them.

#BCV:Acts 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things Paul departed from Athens
and came to Corinth. <key:bcv=Acts 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:2">2 </verse></sup>He found a certain Jew
named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had
recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,
because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to
depart from Rome. He came to them, <key:bcv=Acts 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:3">3 </verse></sup>and because
he practiced the same trade, he lived with them
and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
<key:bcv=Acts 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:4">4 </verse></sup>He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and
persuaded Jews and Greeks.

<key:bcv=Acts 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:5">5 </verse></sup>When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia,
Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying
to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. <key:bcv=Acts 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:6">6 </verse></sup>When they
opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his
clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your
own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the
Gentiles!”

<key:bcv=Acts 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:7">7 </verse></sup>He departed there and went into the house of
a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped
God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
<key:bcv=Acts 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the
Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians,
when they heard, believed and were baptized. <key:bcv=Acts 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:9">9 </verse></sup>The
Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be
afraid, but speak and don’t be silent; <key:bcv=Acts 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:10">10 </verse></sup>for I am
with you, and no one will attack you to harm you,
for I have many people in this city.”
<key:bcv=Acts 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:11">11 </verse></sup>He lived there a year and six months, teaching
the word of God among them. <key:bcv=Acts 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:12">12 </verse></sup>But when Gallio
was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord
rose up against Paul and brought him before the
judgment seat, <key:bcv=Acts 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:13">13 </verse></sup>saying, “This man persuades men
to worship God contrary to the law.”

<key:bcv=Acts 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:14">14 </verse></sup>But when Paul was about to open his mouth,
Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter
of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be
reasonable that I should bear with you; <key:bcv=Acts 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:15">15 </verse></sup>but if they
are questions about words and names and your own
law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a
judge of these matters.” <key:bcv=Acts 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:16">16 </verse></sup>So he drove them from
the judgment seat.

<key:bcv=Acts 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:17">17 </verse></sup>Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler
of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment
seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
<key:bcv=Acts 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:18">18 </verse></sup>Paul, having stayed after this many more days,
took his leave of the brothers,<footnote:1>18:18 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> and sailed from
there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila.
He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a
vow. <key:bcv=Acts 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:19">19 </verse></sup>He came to Ephesus, and he left them
there; but he himself entered into the synagogue
and reasoned with the Jews. <key:bcv=Acts 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:20">20 </verse></sup>When they asked
him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
<key:bcv=Acts 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:21">21 </verse></sup>but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by
all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but
I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set
sail from Ephesus.

<key:bcv=Acts 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:22">22 </verse></sup>When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up
and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
<key:bcv=Acts 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:23">23 </verse></sup>Having spent some time there, he departed
and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia,
in order, establishing all the disciples. <key:bcv=Acts 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:24">24 </verse></sup>Now a
certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race,
an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty
in the Scriptures. <key:bcv=Acts 18:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:25">25 </verse></sup>This man had been instructed
in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he
spoke and taught accurately the things concerning
Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
<key:bcv=Acts 18:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:26">26 </verse></sup>He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But
when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him
aside, and explained to him the way of God more
accurately.

<key:bcv=Acts 18:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:27">27 </verse></sup>When he had determined to pass over into
Achaia, the brothers encouraged him; and wrote to
the disciples to receive him. When he had come,
he greatly helped those who had believed through
grace; <key:bcv=Acts 18:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 18:28">28 </verse></sup>for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly
showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

#BCV:Acts 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:1">1 </verse></sup>While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having
passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus
and found certain disciples. <key:bcv=Acts 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:2">2 </verse></sup>He said to them, “Did
you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that
there is a Holy Spirit.”

<key:bcv=Acts 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:3">3 </verse></sup>He said, “Into what then were you baptized?”
They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

<key:bcv=Acts 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:4">4 </verse></sup>Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism
of repentance, saying to the people that they
should believe in the one who would come after
him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”<footnote:1>19:4 NU omits Christ.</footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:5">5 </verse></sup>When they heard this, they were baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus. <key:bcv=Acts 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:6">6 </verse></sup>When Paul had laid his
hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and
they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
<key:bcv=Acts 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:7">7 </verse></sup>They were about twelve men in all.

<key:bcv=Acts 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:8">8 </verse></sup>He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly
for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading
about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
<key:bcv=Acts 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:9">9 </verse></sup>But when some were hardened and disobedient,
speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he
departed from them and separated the disciples,
reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. <key:bcv=Acts 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:10">10 </verse></sup>This
continued for two years, so that all those who lived
in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews
and Greeks.

<key:bcv=Acts 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:11">11 </verse></sup>God worked special miracles by the hands of
Paul, <key:bcv=Acts 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:12">12 </verse></sup>so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were
carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases
departed from them, and the evil spirits went
out. <key:bcv=Acts 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:13">13 </verse></sup>But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists,
took on themselves to invoke over those who had
the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying,
“We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
<key:bcv=Acts 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:14">14 </verse></sup>There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief
priest, who did this.

<key:bcv=Acts 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:15">15 </verse></sup>The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and
Paul I know, but who are you?” <key:bcv=Acts 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:16">16 </verse></sup>The man in whom
the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered
them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled
out of that house naked and wounded. <key:bcv=Acts 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:17">17 </verse></sup>This
became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who
lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the
name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. <key:bcv=Acts 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:18">18 </verse></sup>Many
also of those who had believed came, confessing
and declaring their deeds. <key:bcv=Acts 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:19">19 </verse></sup>Many of those who
practiced magical arts brought their books together
and burned them in the sight of all. They counted
their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces
of silver.<footnote:1>19:19 The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:20">20 </verse></sup>So the word of the Lord was growing
and becoming mighty.

<key:bcv=Acts 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:21">21 </verse></sup>Now after these things had ended, Paul determined
in the Spirit, when he had passed through
Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying,
“After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
<key:bcv=Acts 19:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:22">22 </verse></sup>Having sent into Macedonia two of those who
served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed
in Asia for a while. <key:bcv=Acts 19:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:23">23 </verse></sup>About that time there arose
no small disturbance concerning the Way. <key:bcv=Acts 19:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:24">24 </verse></sup>For a
certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who
made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little
business to the craftsmen, <key:bcv=Acts 19:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:25">25 </verse></sup>whom he gathered
together with the workmen of like occupation, and
said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have
our wealth. <key:bcv=Acts 19:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:26">26 </verse></sup>You see and hear that not at Ephesus
alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has
persuaded and turned away many people, saying
that they are no gods that are made with hands.
<key:bcv=Acts 19:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:27">27 </verse></sup>Not only is there danger that this our trade come
into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great
goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her
majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world
worships.”

<key:bcv=Acts 19:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:28">28 </verse></sup>When they heard this they were filled with
anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of
the Ephesians!” <key:bcv=Acts 19:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:29">29 </verse></sup>The whole city was filled with
confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the
theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men
of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel. <key:bcv=Acts 19:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:30">30 </verse></sup>When
Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples
didn’t allow him. <key:bcv=Acts 19:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:31">31 </verse></sup>Certain also of the Asiarchs,
being his friends, sent to him and begged him not
to venture into the theater. <key:bcv=Acts 19:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:32">32 </verse></sup>Some therefore cried
one thing, and some another, for the assembly was
in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they
had come together. <key:bcv=Acts 19:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:33">33 </verse></sup>They brought Alexander out
of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward.
Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have
made a defense to the people. <key:bcv=Acts 19:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:34">34 </verse></sup>But when they
perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a
time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis
of the Ephesians!”

<key:bcv=Acts 19:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:35">35 </verse></sup>When the town clerk had quieted the multitude,
he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man
is there who doesn’t know that the city of the
Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess
Artemis, and of the image which fell down from
Zeus? <key:bcv=Acts 19:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:36">36 </verse></sup>Seeing then that these things can’t be
denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing
rash. <key:bcv=Acts 19:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:37">37 </verse></sup>For you have brought these men here, who
are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers
of your goddess. <key:bcv=Acts 19:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:38">38 </verse></sup>If therefore Demetrius and
the craftsmen who are with him have a matter
against anyone, the courts are open and there are
proconsuls. Let them press charges against one
another. <key:bcv=Acts 19:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:39">39 </verse></sup>But if you seek anything about other
matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
<key:bcv=Acts 19:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:40">40 </verse></sup>For indeed we are in danger of being accused
concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning
it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account
of this commotion.” <key:bcv=Acts 19:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 19:41">41 </verse></sup>When he had thus spoken,
he dismissed the assembly.

#BCV:Acts 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:1">1 </verse></sup>After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the
disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go
into Macedonia. <key:bcv=Acts 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:2">2 </verse></sup>When he had gone through
those parts and had encouraged them with many
words, he came into Greece. <key:bcv=Acts 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:3">3 </verse></sup>When he had
spent three months there, and a plot was made
against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for
Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
<key:bcv=Acts 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:4">4 </verse></sup>These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of
Beroea, Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians,
Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and
Trophimus of Asia. <key:bcv=Acts 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:5">5 </verse></sup>But these had gone ahead, and
were waiting for us at Troas. <key:bcv=Acts 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:6">6 </verse></sup>We sailed away from
Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and
came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed
seven days.

<key:bcv=Acts 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:7">7 </verse></sup>On the first day of the week, when the disciples
were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked
with them, intending to depart on the next day;
and continued his speech until midnight. <key:bcv=Acts 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:8">8 </verse></sup>There
were many lights in the upper room where we<footnote:1>20:8 TR reads “they” instead of “we”</footnote>
were gathered together. <key:bcv=Acts 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:9">9 </verse></sup>A certain young man
named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down
with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being
weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the
third floor and was taken up dead. <key:bcv=Acts 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:10">10 </verse></sup>Paul went
down and fell upon him, and embracing him said,
“Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
<key:bcv=Acts 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:11">11 </verse></sup>When he had gone up, had broken bread and
eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even
until break of day, he departed. <key:bcv=Acts 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:12">12 </verse></sup>They brought the
boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

<key:bcv=Acts 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:13">13 </verse></sup>But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for
Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he
had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
<key:bcv=Acts 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:14">14 </verse></sup>When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard
and came to Mitylene. <key:bcv=Acts 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:15">15 </verse></sup>Sailing from there, we
came the following day opposite Chios. The next
day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium,
and the day after we came to Miletus. <key:bcv=Acts 20:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:16">16 </verse></sup>For Paul had
determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not
have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if
it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the
day of Pentecost.

<key:bcv=Acts 20:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:17">17 </verse></sup>From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to
himself the elders of the assembly. <key:bcv=Acts 20:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:18">18 </verse></sup>When they
had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves
know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how
I was with you all the time, <key:bcv=Acts 20:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:19">19 </verse></sup>serving the Lord with
all humility, with many tears, and with trials which
happened to me by the plots of the Jews; <key:bcv=Acts 20:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:20">20 </verse></sup>how
I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything
that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from
house to house, <key:bcv=Acts 20:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:21">21 </verse></sup>testifying both to Jews and to
Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our
Lord Jesus.<footnote:1>20:21 TR adds “Christ” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 20:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:22">22 </verse></sup>Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit
to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me
there; <key:bcv=Acts 20:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:23">23 </verse></sup>except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every
city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
<key:bcv=Acts 20:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:24">24 </verse></sup>But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life
dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with
joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord
Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace
of God.

<key:bcv=Acts 20:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:25">25 </verse></sup>“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom
I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see
my face no more. <key:bcv=Acts 20:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore I testify to you
today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
<key:bcv=Acts 20:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:27">27 </verse></sup>for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the
whole counsel of God. <key:bcv=Acts 20:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:28">28 </verse></sup>Take heed, therefore, to
yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy
Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the
assembly of the Lord and<footnote:1>20:28 TR, NU omit “the Lord and” </footnote> God which he purchased
with his own blood. <key:bcv=Acts 20:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:29">29 </verse></sup>For I know that after my
departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you,
not sparing the flock. <key:bcv=Acts 20:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:30">30 </verse></sup>Men will arise from among
your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw
away the disciples after them. <key:bcv=Acts 20:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:31">31 </verse></sup>Therefore watch,
remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t
cease to admonish everyone night and day with
tears. <key:bcv=Acts 20:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:32">32 </verse></sup>Now, brothers,<footnote:1>20:32 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”</footnote> I entrust you to God and
to the word of his grace, which is able to build up
and to give you the inheritance among all those
who are sanctified. <key:bcv=Acts 20:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:33">33 </verse></sup>I coveted no one’s silver,
gold, or clothing. <key:bcv=Acts 20:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:34">34 </verse></sup>You yourselves know that these
hands served my necessities, and those who were
with me. <key:bcv=Acts 20:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:35">35 </verse></sup>In all things I gave you an example,
that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and
to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he
himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to
receive.’”

<key:bcv=Acts 20:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:36">36 </verse></sup>When he had spoken these things, he knelt
down and prayed with them all. <key:bcv=Acts 20:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:37">37 </verse></sup>They all wept
freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
<key:bcv=Acts 20:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 20:38">38 </verse></sup>sorrowing most of all because of the word which
he had spoken, that they should see his face no
more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

#BCV:Acts 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:1">1 </verse></sup>When we had departed from them and had set
sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and
the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:2">2 </verse></sup>Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we
went aboard and set sail. <key:bcv=Acts 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:3">3 </verse></sup>When we had come in
sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed
to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there
to unload her cargo. <key:bcv=Acts 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:4">4 </verse></sup>Having found disciples, we
stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through
the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:5">5 </verse></sup>When those days were over, we departed and went
on our journey. They all, with wives and children,
brought us on our way until we were out of the city.
Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed. <key:bcv=Acts 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:6">6 </verse></sup>After
saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the
ship, and they returned home again.

<key:bcv=Acts 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:7">7 </verse></sup>When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we
arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and
stayed with them one day. <key:bcv=Acts 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:8">8 </verse></sup>On the next day, we
who were Paul’s companions departed and came to
Caesarea.
<br>
We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist,
who was one of the seven, and stayed with
him. <key:bcv=Acts 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:9">9 </verse></sup>Now this man had four virgin daughters
who prophesied. <key:bcv=Acts 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:10">10 </verse></sup>As we stayed there some days,
a certain prophet named Agabus came down from
Judea. <key:bcv=Acts 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:11">11 </verse></sup>Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he
bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy
Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the
man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into
the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

<key:bcv=Acts 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:12">12 </verse></sup>When we heard these things, both we and
the people of that place begged him not to go up
to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:13">13 </verse></sup>Then Paul answered, “What are
you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I
am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at
Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
<key:bcv=Acts 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:14">14 </verse></sup>When he would not be persuaded, we ceased,
saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

<key:bcv=Acts 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:15">15 </verse></sup>After these days we took up our baggage and
went up to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:16">16 </verse></sup>Some of the disciples from
Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of
Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:17">17 </verse></sup>When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers
received us gladly. <key:bcv=Acts 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:18">18 </verse></sup>The day following, Paul went
in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:19">19 </verse></sup>When he had greeted them, he reported one by
one the things which God had worked among the
Gentiles through his ministry. <key:bcv=Acts 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:20">20 </verse></sup>They, when they
heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see,
brother, how many thousands there are among the
Jews of those who have believed, and they are all
zealous for the law. <key:bcv=Acts 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:21">21 </verse></sup>They have been informed
about you, that you teach all the Jews who are
among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them
not to circumcise their children and not to walk
after the customs. <key:bcv=Acts 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:22">22 </verse></sup>What then? The assembly
must certainly meet, for they will hear that you
have come. <key:bcv=Acts 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore do what we tell you. We
have four men who have taken a vow. <key:bcv=Acts 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:24">24 </verse></sup>Take
them and purify yourself with them, and pay their
expenses for them, that they may shave their heads.
Then all will know that there is no truth in the
things that they have been informed about you,
but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:25">25 </verse></sup>But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have
written our decision that they should observe no
such thing, except that they should keep themselves
from food offered to idols, from blood, from
strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
<key:bcv=Acts 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:26">26 </verse></sup>Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified
himself and went with them into the temple,
declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification,
until the offering was offered for every one of them.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:27">27 </verse></sup>When the seven days were almost completed, the
Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple,
stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
<key:bcv=Acts 21:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:28">28 </verse></sup>crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man
who teaches all men everywhere against the people,
and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also
brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this
holy place!” <key:bcv=Acts 21:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:29">29 </verse></sup>For they had seen Trophimus the
Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed
that Paul had brought him into the temple.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:30">30 </verse></sup>All the city was moved and the people ran
together. They seized Paul and dragged him out
of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
<key:bcv=Acts 21:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:31">31 </verse></sup>As they were trying to kill him, news came up
to the commanding officer of the regiment that
all Jerusalem was in an uproar. <key:bcv=Acts 21:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:32">32 </verse></sup>Immediately
he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to
them. They, when they saw the chief captain
and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul. <key:bcv=Acts 21:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:33">33 </verse></sup>Then
the commanding officer came near, arrested him,
commanded him to be bound with two chains, and
inquired who he was and what he had done. <key:bcv=Acts 21:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:34">34 </verse></sup>Some
shouted one thing and some another, among the
crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because
of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into
the barracks.

<key:bcv=Acts 21:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:35">35 </verse></sup>When he came to the stairs, he was carried by
the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
<key:bcv=Acts 21:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:36">36 </verse></sup>for the multitude of the people followed after,
crying out, “Away with him!” <key:bcv=Acts 21:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:37">37 </verse></sup>As Paul was about
to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding
officer, “May I speak to you?”

He said, “Do you know Greek? <key:bcv=Acts 21:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:38">38 </verse></sup>Aren’t you then
the Egyptian who before these days stirred up to
sedition and led out into the wilderness the four
thousand men of the Assassins?”

<key:bcv=Acts 21:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:39">39 </verse></sup>But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia,
a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me
to speak to the people.”

<key:bcv=Acts 21:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 21:40">40 </verse></sup>When he had given him permission, Paul,
standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to
the people. When there was a great silence, he
spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

#BCV:Acts 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:1">1 </verse></sup>“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense
which I now make to you.”

<key:bcv=Acts 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:2">2 </verse></sup>When they heard that he spoke to them in the
Hebrew language, they were even more quiet.
He said, <key:bcv=Acts 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:3">3 </verse></sup>“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of
Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of
Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition
of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God,
even as you all are today. <key:bcv=Acts 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:4">4 </verse></sup>I persecuted this Way to
the death, binding and delivering into prisons both
men and women, <key:bcv=Acts 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:5">5 </verse></sup>as also the high priest and all
the council of the elders testify, from whom also
I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to
Damascus to bring them also who were there to
Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

<key:bcv=Acts 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:6">6 </verse></sup>“As I made my journey and came close to
Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light shone
around me from the sky. <key:bcv=Acts 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:7">7 </verse></sup>I fell to the ground and
heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me?’ <key:bcv=Acts 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:8">8 </verse></sup>I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you
persecute.’

<key:bcv=Acts 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:9">9 </verse></sup>“Those who were with me indeed saw the light
and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the
voice of him who spoke to me. <key:bcv=Acts 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:10">10 </verse></sup>I said, ‘What shall
I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go
into Damascus. There you will be told about all
things which are appointed for you to do.’ <key:bcv=Acts 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:11">11 </verse></sup>When
I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led
by the hand of those who were with me, I came into
Damascus.

<key:bcv=Acts 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:12">12 </verse></sup>“One Ananias, a devout man according to the
law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in
Damascus, <key:bcv=Acts 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:13">13 </verse></sup>came to me, and standing by me said to
me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very
hour I looked up at him. <key:bcv=Acts 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:14">14 </verse></sup>He said, ‘The God of our
fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to
see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his
mouth. <key:bcv=Acts 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:15">15 </verse></sup>For you will be a witness for him to all
men of what you have seen and heard. <key:bcv=Acts 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:16">16 </verse></sup>Now why
do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your
sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
<key:bcv=Acts 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:17">17 </verse></sup>“When I had returned to Jerusalem and while I
prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance <key:bcv=Acts 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:18">18 </verse></sup>and saw
him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem
quickly, because they will not receive testimony
concerning me from you.’ <key:bcv=Acts 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:19">19 </verse></sup>I said, ‘Lord, they themselves
know that I imprisoned and beat in every
synagogue those who believed in you. <key:bcv=Acts 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:20">20 </verse></sup>When the
blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was
standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding
the cloaks of those who killed him.’

<key:bcv=Acts 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:21">21 </verse></sup>“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out
far from here to the Gentiles.’”

<key:bcv=Acts 22:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:22">22 </verse></sup>They listened to him until he said that; then
they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of
this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
<key:bcv=Acts 22:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:23">23 </verse></sup>As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and
threw dust into the air, <key:bcv=Acts 22:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:24">24 </verse></sup>the commanding officer
commanded him to be brought into the barracks,
ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he
might know for what crime they shouted against
him like that. <key:bcv=Acts 22:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:25">25 </verse></sup>When they had tied him up with
thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is
it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman,
and not found guilty?”

<key:bcv=Acts 22:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:26">26 </verse></sup>When the centurion heard it, he went to the
commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you
are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
<key:bcv=Acts 22:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:27">27 </verse></sup>The commanding officer came and asked him,
“Tell me, are you a Roman?”
<br>
He said, “Yes.”

<key:bcv=Acts 22:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:28">28 </verse></sup>The commanding officer answered, “I bought
my citizenship for a great price.”
<br>
Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”

<key:bcv=Acts 22:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:29">29 </verse></sup>Immediately those who were about to examine
him departed from him, and the commanding officer
also was afraid when he realized that he was a
Roman, because he had bound him. <key:bcv=Acts 22:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 22:30">30 </verse></sup>But on the
next day, desiring to know the truth about why he
was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the
bonds and commanded the chief priests and all the
council to come together, and brought Paul down
and set him before them.

#BCV:Acts 23:0
<P align="center"><h3>23</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 23:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said,
“Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience
until today.”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:2">2 </verse></sup>The high priest, Ananias, commanded those
who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
<key:bcv=Acts 23:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:3">3 </verse></sup>Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you
whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according
to the law, and command me to be struck contrary
to the law?”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:4">4 </verse></sup>Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s
high priest?”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:5">5 </verse></sup>Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was
high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak
evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”<footnote:1>23:5 Exodus 22:28 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 23:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:6">6 </verse></sup>But when Paul perceived that the one part were
Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in
the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a
son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection
of the dead I am being judged!”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:7">7 </verse></sup>When he had said this, an argument arose between
the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd
was divided. <key:bcv=Acts 23:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:8">8 </verse></sup>For the Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees
confess all of these. <key:bcv=Acts 23:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:9">9 </verse></sup>A great clamor arose, and some
of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and
contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But
if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight
against God!”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:10">10 </verse></sup>When a great argument arose, the commanding
officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces
by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and
take him by force from among them and bring him
into the barracks.

<key:bcv=Acts 23:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:11">11 </verse></sup>The following night, the Lord stood by him and
said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about
me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
<key:bcv=Acts 23:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:12">12 </verse></sup>When it was day, some of the Jews banded together
and bound themselves under a curse, saying
that they would neither eat nor drink until they had
killed Paul. <key:bcv=Acts 23:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:13">13 </verse></sup>There were more than forty people
who had made this conspiracy. <key:bcv=Acts 23:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:14">14 </verse></sup>They came to
the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have
bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing
until we have killed Paul. <key:bcv=Acts 23:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:15">15 </verse></sup>Now therefore, you
with the council inform the commanding officer
that he should bring him down to you tomorrow,
as though you were going to judge his case more
exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes
near.”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:16">16 </verse></sup>But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in
wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and
told Paul. <key:bcv=Acts 23:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:17">17 </verse></sup>Paul summoned one of the centurions
and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding
officer, for he has something to tell him.”
<key:bcv=Acts 23:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:18">18 </verse></sup>So he took him and brought him to the commanding
officer and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned
me and asked me to bring this young man to
you. He has something to tell you.”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:19">19 </verse></sup>The commanding officer took him by the hand,
and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it
that you have to tell me?”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:20">20 </verse></sup>He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to
bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though
intending to inquire somewhat more accurately
concerning him. <key:bcv=Acts 23:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t yield to them,
for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who
have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat
nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are
ready, looking for the promise from you.”
<key:bcv=Acts 23:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:22">22 </verse></sup>So the commanding officer let the young man
go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed
these things to me.”

<key:bcv=Acts 23:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:23">23 </verse></sup>He called to himself two of the centurions, and
said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as
Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred
men armed with spears, at the third hour of the
night.”<footnote:1>23:23 about 9:00 p.m.</footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 23:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:24">24 </verse></sup>He asked them to provide mounts, that
they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to
Felix the governor. <key:bcv=Acts 23:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:25">25 </verse></sup>He wrote a letter like this:
<key:bcv=Acts 23:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:26">26 </verse></sup>“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor
Felix: Greetings.

<key:bcv=Acts 23:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:27">27 </verse></sup>“This man was seized by the Jews, and was
about to be killed by them when I came with the soldiers
and rescued him, having learned that he was
a Roman. <key:bcv=Acts 23:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:28">28 </verse></sup>Desiring to know the cause why they
accused him, I brought him down to their council.
<key:bcv=Acts 23:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:29">29 </verse></sup>I found him to be accused about questions of their
law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of
death or of imprisonment. <key:bcv=Acts 23:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:30">30 </verse></sup>When I was told that
the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you
immediately, charging his accusers also to bring
their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
<key:bcv=Acts 23:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:31">31 </verse></sup>So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took
Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. <key:bcv=Acts 23:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:32">32 </verse></sup>But
on the next day they left the horsemen to go with
him, and returned to the barracks. <key:bcv=Acts 23:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:33">33 </verse></sup>When they
came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the
governor, they also presented Paul to him. <key:bcv=Acts 23:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:34">34 </verse></sup>When
the governor had read it, he asked what province he
was from. When he understood that he was from
Cilicia, he said, <key:bcv=Acts 23:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 23:35">35 </verse></sup>“I will hear you fully when your
accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be
kept in Herod’s palace.

#BCV:Acts 24:0
<P align="center"><h3>24</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Acts 24:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:1">1 </verse></sup>After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came
down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus.
They informed the governor against Paul.
<key:bcv=Acts 24:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:2">2 </verse></sup>When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him,
saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace,
and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your
foresight, <key:bcv=Acts 24:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:3">3 </verse></sup>we accept it in all ways and in all places,
most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. <key:bcv=Acts 24:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:4">4 </verse></sup>But
that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us
and hear a few words. <key:bcv=Acts 24:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:5">5 </verse></sup>For we have found this man
to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among
all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader
of the sect of the Nazarenes. <key:bcv=Acts 24:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:6">6 </verse></sup>He even tried to
profane the temple, and we arrested him.<footnote:1>24:6 TR adds “We wanted to judge him according to our law,” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 24:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:7">7 </verse></sup><footnote:1>24:7 TR adds “but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,” </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 24:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:8">8 </verse></sup><footnote:1>24:8 TR adds “commanding his accusers to come to you.”</footnote>By
examining him yourself you may ascertain all these
things of which we accuse him.”

<key:bcv=Acts 24:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:9">9 </verse></sup>The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that
these things were so.

<key:bcv=Acts 24:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:10">10 </verse></sup>When the governor had beckoned to him to
speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you
have been a judge of this nation for many years,
I cheerfully make my defense, <key:bcv=Acts 24:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:11">11 </verse></sup>seeing that you
can verify that it is not more than twelve days
since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Acts 24:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:12">12 </verse></sup>In the
temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone
or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues
or in the city. <key:bcv=Acts 24:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:13">13 </verse></sup>Nor can they prove to you the
things of which they now accuse me. <key:bcv=Acts 24:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:14">14 </verse></sup>But this I
confess to you, that according to the Way, which
they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers,
believing all things which are according to the law,
and which are written in the prophets; <key:bcv=Acts 24:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:15">15 </verse></sup>having
hope toward God, which these also themselves look
for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and unjust. <key:bcv=Acts 24:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:16">16 </verse></sup>In this I also practice
always having a conscience void of offense toward
God and men. <key:bcv=Acts 24:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:17">17 </verse></sup>Now after some years, I came to
bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
<key:bcv=Acts 24:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:18">18 </verse></sup>amid which certain Jews from Asia found me
purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with
turmoil. <key:bcv=Acts 24:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:19">19 </verse></sup>They ought to have been here before
you and to make accusation if they had anything
against me. <key:bcv=Acts 24:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:20">20 </verse></sup>Or else let these men themselves
say what injustice they found in me when I stood
before the council, <key:bcv=Acts 24:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:21">21 </verse></sup>unless it is for this one thing
that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the
resurrection of the dead I am being judged before
you today!’ ”

<key:bcv=Acts 24:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:22">22 </verse></sup>But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning
the Way, deferred them, saying, “When
Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will
decide your case.” <key:bcv=Acts 24:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:23">23 </verse></sup>He ordered the centurion that
Paul should be kept in custody and should have
some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends
to serve him or to visit him.

<key:bcv=Acts 24:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:24">24 </verse></sup>After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his
wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and
heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
<key:bcv=Acts 24:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:25">25 </verse></sup>As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control,
and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified,
and answered, “Go your way for this time, and
when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
<key:bcv=Acts 24:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:26">26 </verse></sup>Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be
given to him by Paul, that he might release him.
Therefore also he sent for him more often and
talked with him.

<key:bcv=Acts 24:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 24:27">27 </verse></sup>But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was
succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain
favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

#BCV:Acts 25:0
<P align="center"><h3>25</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 25:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:1">1 </verse></sup>Festus therefore, having come into the province,
after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
<key:bcv=Acts 25:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:2">2 </verse></sup>Then the high priest and the principal men
of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they
begged him, <key:bcv=Acts 25:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:3">3 </verse></sup>asking a favor against him, that he
would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill
him on the way. <key:bcv=Acts 25:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:4">4 </verse></sup>However Festus answered that
Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that
he himself was about to depart shortly. <key:bcv=Acts 25:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:5">5 </verse></sup>“Let them
therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you
go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in
the man, let them accuse him.”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:6">6 </verse></sup>When he had stayed among them more than ten
days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day
he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul
to be brought. <key:bcv=Acts 25:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:7">7 </verse></sup>When he had come, the Jews who
had come down from Jerusalem stood around him,
bringing against him many and grievous charges
which they could not prove, <key:bcv=Acts 25:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:8">8 </verse></sup>while he said in
his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews,
nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I
sinned at all.”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:9">9 </verse></sup>But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews,
answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up
to Jerusalem and be judged by me there concerning
these things?”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:10">10 </verse></sup>But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s
judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have
done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know
very well. <key:bcv=Acts 25:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:11">11 </verse></sup>For if I have done wrong and have
committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse
to die; but if none of those things is true that they
accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I
appeal to Caesar!”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:12">12 </verse></sup>Then Festus, when he had conferred with the
council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar.
To Caesar you shall go.”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:13">13 </verse></sup>Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa
and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.
<key:bcv=Acts 25:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:14">14 </verse></sup>As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s
case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man
left a prisoner by Felix; <key:bcv=Acts 25:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:15">15 </verse></sup>about whom, when I was
at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the
Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against
him. <key:bcv=Acts 25:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:16">16 </verse></sup>I answered them that it is not the custom
of the Romans to give up any man to destruction
before the accused has met the accusers face to
face and has had opportunity to make his defense
concerning the matter laid against him. <key:bcv=Acts 25:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:17">17 </verse></sup>When
therefore they had come together here, I didn’t
delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat
and commanded the man to be brought. <key:bcv=Acts 25:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:18">18 </verse></sup>When
the accusers stood up, they brought no charges
against him of such things as I supposed; <key:bcv=Acts 25:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:19">19 </verse></sup>but
had certain questions against him about their own
religion and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom
Paul affirmed to be alive. <key:bcv=Acts 25:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:20">20 </verse></sup>Being perplexed how to
inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he
was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged
concerning these matters. <key:bcv=Acts 25:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:21">21 </verse></sup>But when Paul had
appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor,
I commanded him to be kept until I could send him
to Caesar.”

<key:bcv=Acts 25:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:22">22 </verse></sup>Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear
the man myself.”
<br>
“Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”
<key:bcv=Acts 25:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:23">23 </verse></sup>So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice
had come with great pomp, and they had entered
into the place of hearing with the commanding
officers and the principal men of the city, at the
command of Festus, Paul was brought in. <key:bcv=Acts 25:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:24">24 </verse></sup>Festus
said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here
present with us, you see this man about whom
all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both
at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not
to live any longer. <key:bcv=Acts 25:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:25">25 </verse></sup>But when I found that he
had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he
himself appealed to the emperor, I determined to
send him, <key:bcv=Acts 25:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:26">26 </verse></sup>of whom I have no certain thing to write
to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before
you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that,
after examination I may have something to write.
<key:bcv=Acts 25:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 25:27">27 </verse></sup>For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a
prisoner, not to also specify the charges against
him.”

#BCV:Acts 26:0
<P align="center"><h3>26</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 26:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:1">1 </verse></sup>Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.”
Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his
defense. <key:bcv=Acts 26:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:2">2 </verse></sup>“I think myself happy, King Agrippa,
that I am to make my defense before you today
concerning all the things that I am accused by
the Jews, <key:bcv=Acts 26:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:3">3 </verse></sup>especially because you are expert in all
customs and questions which are among the Jews.
Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
<key:bcv=Acts 26:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:4">4 </verse></sup>“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from
my youth up, which was from the beginning among
my own nation and at Jerusalem; <key:bcv=Acts 26:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:5">5 </verse></sup>having known me
from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after
the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
<key:bcv=Acts 26:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:6">6 </verse></sup>Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the
promise made by God to our fathers, <key:bcv=Acts 26:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:7">7 </verse></sup>which our
twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope
to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the
Jews, King Agrippa! <key:bcv=Acts 26:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:8">8 </verse></sup>Why is it judged incredible
with you if God does raise the dead?

<key:bcv=Acts 26:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:9">9 </verse></sup>“I myself most certainly thought that I ought
to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of
Nazareth. <key:bcv=Acts 26:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:10">10 </verse></sup>I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut
up many of the saints in prisons, having received
authority from the chief priests; and when they
were put to death I gave my vote against them.
<key:bcv=Acts 26:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:11">11 </verse></sup>Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I
tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly
enraged against them, I persecuted them even to
foreign cities.

<key:bcv=Acts 26:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:12">12 </verse></sup>“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the
authority and commission from the chief priests,
<key:bcv=Acts 26:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:13">13 </verse></sup>at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from
the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me
and those who traveled with me. <key:bcv=Acts 26:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:14">14 </verse></sup>When we had
all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me
in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against
the goads.’

<key:bcv=Acts 26:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:15">15 </verse></sup>“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
<br>
“He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
<key:bcv=Acts 26:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:16">16 </verse></sup>But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have
appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a
servant and a witness both of the things which you
have seen and of the things which I will reveal to
you; <key:bcv=Acts 26:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:17">17 </verse></sup>delivering you from the people and from the
Gentiles, to whom I send you, <key:bcv=Acts 26:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:18">18 </verse></sup>to open their eyes,
that they may turn from darkness to light and from
the power of Satan to God, that they may receive
remission of sins and an inheritance among those
who are sanctified by faith in me.’

<key:bcv=Acts 26:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:19">19 </verse></sup>“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient
to the heavenly vision, <key:bcv=Acts 26:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:20">20 </verse></sup>but declared first to them
of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the
country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they
should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy
of repentance. <key:bcv=Acts 26:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:21">21 </verse></sup>For this reason the Jews seized
me in the temple and tried to kill me. <key:bcv=Acts 26:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:22">22 </verse></sup>Having
therefore obtained the help that is from God, I
stand to this day testifying both to small and great,
saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses
said would happen, <key:bcv=Acts 26:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:23">23 </verse></sup>how the Christ must suffer,
and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would
be first to proclaim light both to these people and
to the Gentiles.”

<key:bcv=Acts 26:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:24">24 </verse></sup>As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a
loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning
is driving you insane!”

<key:bcv=Acts 26:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:25">25 </verse></sup>But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent
Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
<key:bcv=Acts 26:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:26">26 </verse></sup>For the king knows of these things,
to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that
none of these things is hidden from him, for this has
not been done in a corner. <key:bcv=Acts 26:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:27">27 </verse></sup>King Agrippa, do you
believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
<key:bcv=Acts 26:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:28">28 </verse></sup>Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion
are you trying to make me a Christian?”
<key:bcv=Acts 26:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:29">29 </verse></sup>Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with
little or with much, not only you, but also all that
hear me today, might become such as I am, except
for these bonds.”

<key:bcv=Acts 26:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:30">30 </verse></sup>The king rose up with the governor and Bernice,
and those who sat with them. <key:bcv=Acts 26:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:31">31 </verse></sup>When they
had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying,
“This man does nothing worthy of death or of
bonds.” <key:bcv=Acts 26:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 26:32">32 </verse></sup>Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might
have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

#BCV:Acts 27:0
<P align="center"><h3>27</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 27:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:1">1 </verse></sup>When it was determined that we should sail
for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other
prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan
band. <key:bcv=Acts 27:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:2">2 </verse></sup>Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium,
which was about to sail to places on the coast of
Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of
Thessalonica being with us. <key:bcv=Acts 27:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:3">3 </verse></sup>The next day, we
touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and
gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh
himself. <key:bcv=Acts 27:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:4">4 </verse></sup>Putting to sea from there, we sailed
under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were
contrary. <key:bcv=Acts 27:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:5">5 </verse></sup>When we had sailed across the sea which
is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a
city of Lycia. <key:bcv=Acts 27:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:6">6 </verse></sup>There the centurion found a ship of
Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.
<key:bcv=Acts 27:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:7">7 </verse></sup>When we had sailed slowly many days, and had
come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not
allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete,
opposite Salmone. <key:bcv=Acts 27:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:8">8 </verse></sup>With difficulty sailing along it
we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near
the city of Lasea.

<key:bcv=Acts 27:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:9">9 </verse></sup>When much time had passed and the voyage was
now dangerous because the Fast had now already
gone by, Paul admonished them <key:bcv=Acts 27:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:10">10 </verse></sup>and said to them,
“Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury
and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship,
but also of our lives.” <key:bcv=Acts 27:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:11">11 </verse></sup>But the centurion gave more
heed to the master and to the owner of the ship
than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
<key:bcv=Acts 27:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:12">12 </verse></sup>Because the haven was not suitable to winter in,
the majority advised going to sea from there, if by
any means they could reach Phoenix and winter
there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest
and northwest.

<key:bcv=Acts 27:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:13">13 </verse></sup>When the south wind blew softly, supposing
that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed
anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore. <key:bcv=Acts 27:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:14">14 </verse></sup>But
before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore,
which is called Euroclydon.<footnote:1>27:14 Or, “a northeaster”. </footnote> <key:bcv=Acts 27:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:15">15 </verse></sup>When the ship was
caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way
to it and were driven along. <key:bcv=Acts 27:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:16">16 </verse></sup>Running under the
lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able,
with difficulty, to secure the boat. <key:bcv=Acts 27:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:17">17 </verse></sup>After they had
hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the
ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the
Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and
so were driven along. <key:bcv=Acts 27:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:18">18 </verse></sup>As we labored exceedingly
with the storm, the next day they began to throw
things overboard. <key:bcv=Acts 27:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:19">19 </verse></sup>On the third day, they threw
out the ship’s tackle with their own hands. <key:bcv=Acts 27:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:20">20 </verse></sup>When
neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days,
and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we
would be saved was now taken away.

<key:bcv=Acts 27:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:21">21 </verse></sup>When they had been long without food, Paul
stood up in the middle of them and said, “Sirs, you
should have listened to me, and not have set sail
from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.
<key:bcv=Acts 27:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:22">22 </verse></sup>Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no
loss of life among you, but only of the ship. <key:bcv=Acts 27:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:23">23 </verse></sup>For
there stood by me this night an angel, belonging
to the God whose I am and whom I serve, <key:bcv=Acts 27:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:24">24 </verse></sup>saying,
‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar.
Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with
you.’ <key:bcv=Acts 27:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God,
that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. <key:bcv=Acts 27:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:26">26 </verse></sup>But
we must run aground on a certain island.”
<key:bcv=Acts 27:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:27">27 </verse></sup>But when the fourteenth night had come, as
we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea,
about midnight the sailors surmised that they were
drawing near to some land. <key:bcv=Acts 27:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:28">28 </verse></sup>They took soundings
and found twenty fathoms.<footnote:1>27:28 20 fathoms = 120 feet = 36.6 meters </footnote> After a little while,
they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.<footnote:1>27:28 15 fathoms = 90 feet = 27.4 meters </footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 27:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:29">29 </verse></sup>Fearing that we would run aground on
rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the
stern, and wished for daylight. <key:bcv=Acts 27:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:30">30 </verse></sup>As the sailors
were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered
the boat into the sea, pretending that they would
lay out anchors from the bow, <key:bcv=Acts 27:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:31">31 </verse></sup>Paul said to the
centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in
the ship, you can’t be saved.” <key:bcv=Acts 27:32><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:32">32 </verse></sup>Then the soldiers
cut away the ropes of the boat and let it fall off.
<key:bcv=Acts 27:33><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:33">33 </verse></sup>While the day was coming on, Paul begged
them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the
fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting,
having taken nothing. <key:bcv=Acts 27:34><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:34">34 </verse></sup>Therefore I beg you to take
some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair
will perish from any of your heads.” <key:bcv=Acts 27:35><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:35">35 </verse></sup>When he
had said this and had taken bread, he gave thanks
to God in the presence of all; then he broke it and
began to eat. <key:bcv=Acts 27:36><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:36">36 </verse></sup>Then they all cheered up, and
they also took food. <key:bcv=Acts 27:37><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:37">37 </verse></sup>In all, we were two hundred
seventy-six souls on the ship. <key:bcv=Acts 27:38><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:38">38 </verse></sup>When they had
eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing
out the wheat into the sea. <key:bcv=Acts 27:39><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:39">39 </verse></sup>When it was day,
they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a
certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try
to drive the ship onto it. <key:bcv=Acts 27:40><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:40">40 </verse></sup>Casting off the anchors,
they left them in the sea, at the same time untying
the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the
wind, they made for the beach. <key:bcv=Acts 27:41><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:41">41 </verse></sup>But coming to
a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel
aground. The bow struck and remained immovable,
but the stern began to break up by the violence of
the waves.

<key:bcv=Acts 27:42><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:42">42 </verse></sup>The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners,
so that none of them would swim out and escape.
<key:bcv=Acts 27:43><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:43">43 </verse></sup>But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped
them from their purpose, and commanded that
those who could swim should throw themselves
overboard first to go toward the land; <key:bcv=Acts 27:44><sup><verse bcv="Acts 27:44">44 </verse></sup>and the rest
should follow, some on planks and some on other
things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to
the land.

#BCV:Acts 28:0
<P align="center"><h3>28</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Acts 28:1><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:1">1 </verse></sup>When we had escaped, then they<footnote:1>28:1 NU reads “we”</footnote> learned that
the island was called Malta. <key:bcv=Acts 28:2><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:2">2 </verse></sup>The natives showed
us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and
received us all, because of the present rain and
because of the cold. <key:bcv=Acts 28:3><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:3">3 </verse></sup>But when Paul had gathered
a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a
viper came out because of the heat and fastened
on his hand. <key:bcv=Acts 28:4><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:4">4 </verse></sup>When the natives saw the creature
hanging from his hand, they said to one another,
“No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he
has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed
to live.” <key:bcv=Acts 28:5><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:5">5 </verse></sup>However he shook off the creature into
the fire, and wasn’t harmed. <key:bcv=Acts 28:6><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:6">6 </verse></sup>But they expected
that he would have swollen or fallen down dead
suddenly, but when they watched for a long time
and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed
their minds and said that he was a god.
<key:bcv=Acts 28:7><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:7">7 </verse></sup>Now in the neighborhood of that place were
lands belonging to the chief man of the island,
named Publius, who received us and courteously
entertained us for three days. <key:bcv=Acts 28:8><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:8">8 </verse></sup>The father of
Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered
in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him,
healed him. <key:bcv=Acts 28:9><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:9">9 </verse></sup>Then when this was done, the rest
also who had diseases in the island came and were
cured. <key:bcv=Acts 28:10><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:10">10 </verse></sup>They also honored us with many honors;
and when we sailed, they put on board the things
that we needed.

<key:bcv=Acts 28:11><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:11">11 </verse></sup>After three months, we set sail in a ship of
Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose
figurehead was “The Twin Brothers.” <key:bcv=Acts 28:12><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:12">12 </verse></sup>Touching
at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. <key:bcv=Acts 28:13><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:13">13 </verse></sup>From
there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium.
After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the
second day we came to Puteoli, <key:bcv=Acts 28:14><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:14">14 </verse></sup>where we found
brothers,<footnote:1>28:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> and were entreated to stay with them for
seven days. So we came to Rome. <key:bcv=Acts 28:15><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:15">15 </verse></sup>From there
the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet
us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three
Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and
took courage. <key:bcv=Acts 28:16><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:16">16 </verse></sup>When we entered into Rome, the
centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of
the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself
with the soldier who guarded him.

<key:bcv=Acts 28:17><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:17">17 </verse></sup>After three days Paul called together those who
were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come
together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I
had done nothing against the people or the customs
of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, <key:bcv=Acts 28:18><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:18">18 </verse></sup>who,
when they had examined me, desired to set me free,
because there was no cause of death in me. <key:bcv=Acts 28:19><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:19">19 </verse></sup>But
when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained
to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about
which to accuse my nation. <key:bcv=Acts 28:20><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:20">20 </verse></sup>For this cause therefore
I asked to see you and to speak with you. For
because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this
chain.”

<key:bcv=Acts 28:21><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:21">21 </verse></sup>They said to him, “We neither received letters
from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the
brothers come here and report or speak any evil of
you. <key:bcv=Acts 28:22><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:22">22 </verse></sup>But we desire to hear from you what you
think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to
us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
<key:bcv=Acts 28:23><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:23">23 </verse></sup>When they had appointed him a day, many
people came to him at his lodging. He explained
to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading
them concerning Jesus, both from the law
of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until
evening. <key:bcv=Acts 28:24><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:24">24 </verse></sup>Some believed the things which were
spoken, and some disbelieved. <key:bcv=Acts 28:25><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:25">25 </verse></sup>When they didn’t
agree among themselves, they departed after Paul
had spoken one message: “The Holy Spirit spoke
rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
<key:bcv=Acts 28:26><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:26">26 </verse></sup>saying,
<br>
‘Go to this people and say,
<br>
in hearing, you will hear,
<br>
but will in no way understand.
<br>
In seeing, you will see,
<br>
but will in no way perceive.

<key:bcv=Acts 28:27><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:27">27 </verse></sup>For this people’s heart has grown callous.
Their ears are dull of hearing.
<br>
Their eyes they have closed.
<br>
Lest they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
<br>
understand with their heart,
<br>
and would turn again,

then I would heal them.’<footnote:1>28:27 Isaiah 6:9-10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Acts 28:28><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:28">28 </verse></sup>“Be it known therefore to you that the salvation
of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
<key:bcv=Acts 28:29><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:29">29 </verse></sup>When he had said these words, the Jews departed,
having a great dispute among themselves.<footnote:1>28:29 NU omits verse 29.</footnote>
<key:bcv=Acts 28:30><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:30">30 </verse></sup>Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented
house and received all who were coming to him,
<key:bcv=Acts 28:31><sup><verse bcv="Acts 28:31">31 </verse></sup>preaching God’s Kingdom and teaching the things
concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness,
without hindrance.

#OUTLINE:1,Romans
<h2>Paul's Letter to the Romans</h2>

<key:bcv=Romans 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> called to be
an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
<key:bcv=Romans 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:2">2 </verse></sup>which he promised before through his prophets
in the holy Scriptures, <key:bcv=Romans 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:3">3 </verse></sup>concerning his Son, who
was born of the offspring<footnote:1>1:3 or, seed </footnote> of David according to the
flesh, <key:bcv=Romans 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:4">4 </verse></sup>who was declared to be the Son of God with
power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
<key:bcv=Romans 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:5">5 </verse></sup>through whom we received grace and apostleship
for obedience of faith among all the nations for his
name’s sake; <key:bcv=Romans 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:6">6 </verse></sup>among whom you are also called to
belong to Jesus Christ; <key:bcv=Romans 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:7">7 </verse></sup>to all who are in Rome,
beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

<key:bcv=Romans 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:8">8 </verse></sup>First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout
the whole world. <key:bcv=Romans 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:9">9 </verse></sup>For God is my witness, whom
I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son,
how unceasingly I make mention of you always in
my prayers, <key:bcv=Romans 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:10">10 </verse></sup>requesting, if by any means now at
last I may be prospered by the will of God to come
to you. <key:bcv=Romans 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For I long to see you, that I may impart
to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may
be established; <key:bcv=Romans 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:12">12 </verse></sup>that is, that I with you may be
encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith,
both yours and mine.

<key:bcv=Romans 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers,
that I often planned to come to you (and was
hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among
you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. <key:bcv=Romans 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:14">14 </verse></sup>I
am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to
the wise and to the foolish. <key:bcv=Romans 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:15">15 </verse></sup>So as much as is in me,
I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who
are in Rome.

<key:bcv=Romans 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:16">16 </verse></sup>For I am not ashamed of the Good News of
Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation
for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and
also for the Greek. <key:bcv=Romans 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For in it is revealed God’s
righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written,
“But the righteous shall live by faith.”<footnote:1>1:17 Habakkuk 2:4 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:18">18 </verse></sup>For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
<key:bcv=Romans 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:19">19 </verse></sup>because that which is known of God is revealed
in them, for God revealed it to them. <key:bcv=Romans 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:20">20 </verse></sup>For the
invisible things of him since the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being perceived through the
things that are made, even his everlasting power
and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
<key:bcv=Romans 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him
as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain
in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was
darkened.

<key:bcv=Romans 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools, <key:bcv=Romans 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:23">23 </verse></sup>and traded the glory of the incorruptible
God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man,
and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping
things. <key:bcv=Romans 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore God also gave them up in
the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their
bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
<key:bcv=Romans 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:25">25 </verse></sup>who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
<key:bcv=Romans 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:26">26 </verse></sup>For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions.
For their women changed the natural function
into that which is against nature. <key:bcv=Romans 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Likewise
also the men, leaving the natural function of the
woman, burned in their lust toward one another,
men doing what is inappropriate with men, and
receiving in themselves the due penalty of their
error. <key:bcv=Romans 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:28">28 </verse></sup>Even as they refused to have God in their
knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not fitting; <key:bcv=Romans 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:29">29 </verse></sup>being
filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
<key:bcv=Romans 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:30">30 </verse></sup>backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, <key:bcv=Romans 1:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:31">31 </verse></sup>without understanding, covenant breakers,
without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
<key:bcv=Romans 1:32><sup><verse bcv="Romans 1:32">32 </verse></sup>who, knowing the ordinance of God, that
those who practice such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but also approve of those who
practice them.

#BCV:Romans 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever
you are who judge. For in that which you
judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who
judge practice the same things. <key:bcv=Romans 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:2">2 </verse></sup>We know that the
judgment of God is according to truth against those
who practice such things. <key:bcv=Romans 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Do you think this, O
man who judges those who practice such things,
and do the same, that you will escape the judgment
of God? <key:bcv=Romans 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Or do you despise the riches of his
goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing
that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
<key:bcv=Romans 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:5">5 </verse></sup>But according to your hardness and unrepentant
heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in
the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous
judgment of God, <key:bcv=Romans 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:6">6 </verse></sup>who “will pay back to everyone
according to their works:”<footnote:1>2:6 Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12</footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:7">7 </verse></sup>to those who by
perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor,
and incorruptibility, eternal life; <key:bcv=Romans 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:8">8 </verse></sup>but to those
who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
<key:bcv=Romans 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:9">9 </verse></sup>oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who
does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
<key:bcv=Romans 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:10">10 </verse></sup>But glory, honor, and peace go to every man
who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek. <key:bcv=Romans 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For there is no partiality with God. <key:bcv=Romans 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:12">12 </verse></sup>For
as many as have sinned without the law will also
perish without the law. As many as have sinned
under the law will be judged by the law. <key:bcv=Romans 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:13">13 </verse></sup>For
it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous
before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
<key:bcv=Romans 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:14">14 </verse></sup>(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by
nature the things of the law, these, not having the
law, are a law to themselves, <key:bcv=Romans 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:15">15 </verse></sup>in that they show
the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts
among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
<key:bcv=Romans 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:16">16 </verse></sup>in the day when God will judge the secrets of men,
according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Romans 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on
the law, glory in God, <key:bcv=Romans 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:18">18 </verse></sup>know his will, and approve
the things that are excellent, being instructed out
of the law, <key:bcv=Romans 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:19">19 </verse></sup>and are confident that you yourself
are a guide of the blind, a light to those who
are in darkness, <key:bcv=Romans 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:20">20 </verse></sup>a corrector of the foolish, a
teacher of babies, having in the law the form of
knowledge and of the truth. <key:bcv=Romans 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:21">21 </verse></sup>You therefore who
teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who
preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
<key:bcv=Romans 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:22">22 </verse></sup>You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery,
do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do
you rob temples? <key:bcv=Romans 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:23">23 </verse></sup>You who glory in the law, do
you dishonor God by disobeying the law? <key:bcv=Romans 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:24">24 </verse></sup>For
“the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
because of you,”<footnote:1>2:24 Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22 </footnote> just as it is written. <key:bcv=Romans 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:25">25 </verse></sup>For
circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of
the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law,
your circumcision has become uncircumcision. <key:bcv=Romans 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:26">26 </verse></sup>If
therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances
of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted
as circumcision? <key:bcv=Romans 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:27">27 </verse></sup>Won’t those who are physically
uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who
with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor
of the law? <key:bcv=Romans 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:28">28 </verse></sup>For he is not a Jew who is one
outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is
outward in the flesh; <key:bcv=Romans 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 2:29">29 </verse></sup>but he is a Jew who is one
inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in
the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from
men, but from God.

#BCV:Romans 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or
what is the profit of circumcision? <key:bcv=Romans 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Much in every
way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with
the revelations of God. <key:bcv=Romans 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For what if some were
without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the
faithfulness of God? <key:bcv=Romans 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:4">4 </verse></sup>May it never be! Yes, let God
be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
“that you might be justified in your words,
and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
<footnote:1>3:4 Psalm 51:4 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:5">5 </verse></sup>But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness
of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous
who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:6">6 </verse></sup>May it never be! For then how will God judge the
world? <key:bcv=Romans 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:7">7 </verse></sup>For if the truth of God through my lie
abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged
as a sinner? <key:bcv=Romans 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Why not (as we are slanderously
reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do
evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are
justly condemned.

<key:bcv=Romans 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:9">9 </verse></sup>What then? Are we better than they? No, in
no way. For we previously warned both Jews and
Greeks that they are all under sin. <key:bcv=Romans 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:10">10 </verse></sup>As it is written,
“There is no one righteous;
<br>
no, not one.

<key:bcv=Romans 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:11">11 </verse></sup>There is no one who understands.
<br>
There is no one who seeks after God.

<key:bcv=Romans 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:12">12 </verse></sup>They have all turned away.
<br>
They have together become unprofitable.
There is no one who does good,

no, not so much as one.”<footnote:1>3:12 Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:13">13 </verse></sup>“Their throat is an open tomb.

With their tongues they have used deceit.”<footnote:1>3:13 Psalm 5:9 </footnote>
“The poison of vipers is under their lips.”<footnote:1>3:13 Psalm 140:3 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:14">14 </verse></sup>“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
<footnote:1>3:14 Psalm 10:7 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:15">15 </verse></sup>“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Destruction and misery are in their ways.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:17">17 </verse></sup>The way of peace, they haven’t known.”<footnote:1>3:17 Isaiah 59:7-8 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:18">18 </verse></sup>“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”<footnote:1>3:18 Psalm 36:1 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Now we know that whatever things the law
says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that
every mouth may be closed, and all the world may
be brought under the judgment of God. <key:bcv=Romans 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Because
by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in
his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge
of sin.

<key:bcv=Romans 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:21">21 </verse></sup>But now apart from the law, a righteousness
of God has been revealed, being testified by the
law and the prophets; <key:bcv=Romans 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:22">22 </verse></sup>even the righteousness
of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on
all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
<key:bcv=Romans 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:23">23 </verse></sup>for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of
God; <key:bcv=Romans 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:24">24 </verse></sup>being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=Romans 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:25">25 </verse></sup>whom God
sent to be an atoning sacrifice<footnote:1>3:25 or, a propitiation </footnote> through faith in
his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness
through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s
forbearance; <key:bcv=Romans 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:26">26 </verse></sup>to demonstrate his righteousness at
this present time, that he might himself be just and
the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:27">27 </verse></sup>Where then is the boasting? It is excluded.
By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law
of faith. <key:bcv=Romans 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:28">28 </verse></sup>We maintain therefore that a man is
justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:29">29 </verse></sup>Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of
Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, <key:bcv=Romans 3:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:30">30 </verse></sup>since indeed
there is one God who will justify the circumcised by
faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
<key:bcv=Romans 3:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 3:31">31 </verse></sup>Do we then nullify the law through faith? May
it never be! No, we establish the law.

#BCV:Romans 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:1">1 </verse></sup>What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather,
has found according to the flesh? <key:bcv=Romans 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:2">2 </verse></sup>For if
Abraham was justified by works, he has something
to boast about, but not toward God. <key:bcv=Romans 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For what does
the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted to him for righteousness.”<footnote:1>4:3 Genesis 15:6</footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Now
to him who works, the reward is not counted as
grace, but as something owed. <key:bcv=Romans 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:5">5 </verse></sup>But to him who
doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the
ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

<key:bcv=Romans 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Even as David also pronounces blessing on the
man to whom God counts righteousness apart from
works:

<key:bcv=Romans 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:7">7 </verse></sup>“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.

<key:bcv=Romans 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means
charge with sin.”<footnote:1>4:8 Psalm 32:1-2 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Is this blessing then pronounced only on the
circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we
say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
<key:bcv=Romans 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:10">10 </verse></sup>How then was it counted? When he
<br>
was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision. <key:bcv=Romans 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:11">11 </verse></sup>He received
the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision,
that he might be the father of all those
who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision,
that righteousness might also be accounted to
them. <key:bcv=Romans 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:12">12 </verse></sup>He is the father of circumcision to those
who not only are of the circumcision, but who also
walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,
which he had in uncircumcision.

<key:bcv=Romans 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:13">13 </verse></sup>For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring
that he would be heir of the world wasn’t
through the law, but through the righteousness of
faith. <key:bcv=Romans 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:14">14 </verse></sup>For if those who are of the law are heirs,
faith is made void, and the promise is made of no
effect. <key:bcv=Romans 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For the law produces wrath; for where
there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
<key:bcv=Romans 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:16">16 </verse></sup>For this cause it is of faith, that it may be
according to grace, to the end that the promise
may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only
which is of the law, but to that also which is of
the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
<key:bcv=Romans 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:17">17 </verse></sup>As it is written, “I have made you a father of
many nations.”<footnote:1>4:17 Genesis 17:5 </footnote> This is in the presence of him
whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead,
and calls the things that are not, as though they
were. <key:bcv=Romans 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Against hope, Abraham in hope believed,
to the end that he might become a father of many
nations, according to that which had been spoken,
“So will your offspring be.”<footnote:1>4:18 Genesis 15:5 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Without being
weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body,
already having been worn out, (he being about a
hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s
womb. <key:bcv=Romans 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Yet, looking to the promise of God, he
didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong
through faith, giving glory to God, <key:bcv=Romans 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:21">21 </verse></sup>and being fully
assured that what he had promised, he was also able
to perform. <key:bcv=Romans 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore it also was “credited to him
for righteousness.”<footnote:1>4:22 Genesis 15:6</footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:23">23 </verse></sup>Now it was not written that
it was accounted to him for his sake alone, <key:bcv=Romans 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:24">24 </verse></sup>but for
our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who
believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the
dead, <key:bcv=Romans 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 4:25">25 </verse></sup>who was delivered up for our trespasses,
and was raised for our justification.

#BCV:Romans 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; <key:bcv=Romans 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:2">2 </verse></sup>through
whom we also have our access by faith into this
grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of
the glory of God. <key:bcv=Romans 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Not only this, but we also
rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering
produces perseverance; <key:bcv=Romans 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:4">4 </verse></sup>and perseverance, proven
character; and proven character, hope; <key:bcv=Romans 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:5">5 </verse></sup>and hope
doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been
poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who
was given to us.

<key:bcv=Romans 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:6">6 </verse></sup>For while we were yet weak, at the right time
Christ died for the ungodly. <key:bcv=Romans 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:7">7 </verse></sup>For one will hardly
die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good
person someone would even dare to die. <key:bcv=Romans 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:8">8 </verse></sup>But God
commends his own love toward us, in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
<key:bcv=Romans 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Much more then, being now justified by his
blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through
him. <key:bcv=Romans 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:10">10 </verse></sup>For if while we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by
his life.

<key:bcv=Romans 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation. <key:bcv=Romans 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore, as sin
entered into the world through one man, and death
through sin, so death passed to all men because
all sinned. <key:bcv=Romans 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:13">13 </verse></sup>For until the law, sin was in the
world; but sin is not charged when there is no
law. <key:bcv=Romans 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until
Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like
Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of
him who was to come.

<key:bcv=Romans 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:15">15 </verse></sup>But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if
by the trespass of the one the many died, much
more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace
of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
<key:bcv=Romans 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:16">16 </verse></sup>The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the
judgment came by one to condemnation, but the
free gift followed many trespasses to justification.
<key:bcv=Romans 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:17">17 </verse></sup>For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned
through the one; so much more will those who
receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus
Christ.

<key:bcv=Romans 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:18">18 </verse></sup>So then as through one trespass, all men were
condemned; even so through one act of righteousness,
all men were justified to life. <key:bcv=Romans 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:19">19 </verse></sup>For as
through the one man’s disobedience many were
made sinners, even so through the obedience of
the one, many will be made righteous. <key:bcv=Romans 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:20">20 </verse></sup>The law
came in that the trespass might abound; but where
sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
<key:bcv=Romans 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 5:21">21 </verse></sup>that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might
reign through righteousness to eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.

#BCV:Romans 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Romans 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:1">1 </verse></sup>What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound? <key:bcv=Romans 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:2">2 </verse></sup>May it never be! We
who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
<key:bcv=Romans 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized
into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? <key:bcv=Romans 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:4">4 </verse></sup>We
were buried therefore with him through baptism
into death, that just as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father, so we also
might walk in newness of life.

<key:bcv=Romans 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:5">5 </verse></sup>For if we have become united with him in the
likeness of his death, we will also be part of his
resurrection; <key:bcv=Romans 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:6">6 </verse></sup>knowing this, that our old man was
crucified with him, that the body of sin might be
done away with, so that we would no longer be in
bondage to sin. <key:bcv=Romans 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:7">7 </verse></sup>For he who has died has been freed
from sin. <key:bcv=Romans 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:8">8 </verse></sup>But if we died with Christ, we believe that
we will also live with him, <key:bcv=Romans 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:9">9 </verse></sup>knowing that Christ,
being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no
longer has dominion over him! <key:bcv=Romans 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:10">10 </verse></sup>For the death that
he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he
lives, he lives to God. <key:bcv=Romans 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Thus consider yourselves
also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

<key:bcv=Romans 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal
body, that you should obey it in its lusts. <key:bcv=Romans 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Also,
do not present your members to sin as instruments
of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God
as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments
of righteousness to God. <key:bcv=Romans 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:14">14 </verse></sup>For sin will not
have dominion over you, for you are not under law,
but under grace.

<key:bcv=Romans 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:15">15 </verse></sup>What then? Shall we sin because we are not
under law but under grace? May it never be!
<key:bcv=Romans 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that when you present yourselves
as servants and obey someone, you are the servants
of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or
of obedience to righteousness? <key:bcv=Romans 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:17">17 </verse></sup>But thanks be to
God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin,
you became obedient from the heart to that form
of teaching to which you were delivered. <key:bcv=Romans 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Being
made free from sin, you became bondservants of
righteousness.

<key:bcv=Romans 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:19">19 </verse></sup>I speak in human terms because of the weakness
of your flesh; for as you presented your members
as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness
upon wickedness, even so now present your members
as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
<key:bcv=Romans 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:20">20 </verse></sup>For when you were servants of sin, you were
free from righteousness. <key:bcv=Romans 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:21">21 </verse></sup>What fruit then did
you have at that time in the things of which you
are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
death. <key:bcv=Romans 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:22">22 </verse></sup>But now, being made free from sin and
having become servants of God, you have your fruit
of sanctification and the result of eternal life. <key:bcv=Romans 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 6:23">23 </verse></sup>For
the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
#BCV:Romans 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Romans 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Or don’t you know, brothers<footnote:1>7:1 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” ? 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21 </footnote> (for I speak to
men who know the law), that the law has dominion
over a man for as long as he lives? <key:bcv=Romans 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:2">2 </verse></sup>For the
woman that has a husband is bound by law to the
husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she
is discharged from the law of the husband. <key:bcv=Romans 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:3">3 </verse></sup>So then
if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another
man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the
husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she
is no adulteress, though she is joined to another
man. <key:bcv=Romans 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore, my brothers, you also were made
dead to the law through the body of Christ, that
you would be joined to another, to him who was
raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit
to God. <key:bcv=Romans 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:5">5 </verse></sup>For when we were in the flesh, the sinful
passions which were through the law worked in our
members to bring out fruit to death. <key:bcv=Romans 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:6">6 </verse></sup>But now
we have been discharged from the law, having died
to that in which we were held; so that we serve
in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the
letter.

<key:bcv=Romans 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:7">7 </verse></sup>What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May
it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known
sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have
known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall
not covet.”? <key:bcv=Romans 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:8">8 </verse></sup>But sin, finding occasion through
the commandment, produced in me all kinds of
coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <key:bcv=Romans 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:9">9 </verse></sup>I
was alive apart from the law once, but when the
commandment came, sin revived and I died. <key:bcv=Romans 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:10">10 </verse></sup>The
commandment which was for life, this I found to be
for death; <key:bcv=Romans 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:11">11 </verse></sup>for sin, finding occasion through the
commandment, deceived me, and through it killed
me. <key:bcv=Romans 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the
commandment holy, righteous, and good.
<key:bcv=Romans 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Did then that which is good become death to
me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown
to be sin, was producing death in me through that
which is good; that through the commandment sin
might become exceedingly sinful. <key:bcv=Romans 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:14">14 </verse></sup>For we know
that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under
sin. <key:bcv=Romans 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:15">15 </verse></sup>For I don’t understand what I am doing. For
I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate,
that I do. <key:bcv=Romans 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:16">16 </verse></sup>But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I
consent to the law that it is good. <key:bcv=Romans 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:17">17 </verse></sup>So now it is no
more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. <key:bcv=Romans 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:18">18 </verse></sup>For I
know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good
thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find
it doing that which is good. <key:bcv=Romans 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:19">19 </verse></sup>For the good which I
desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire,
that I practice. <key:bcv=Romans 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:20">20 </verse></sup>But if what I don’t desire, that I
do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells
in me. <key:bcv=Romans 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:21">21 </verse></sup>I find then the law that, while I desire
to do good, evil is present. <key:bcv=Romans 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:22">22 </verse></sup>For I delight in God’s
law after the inward person, <key:bcv=Romans 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:23">23 </verse></sup>but I see a different
law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law
of sin which is in my members. <key:bcv=Romans 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:24">24 </verse></sup>What a wretched
man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of
this death? <key:bcv=Romans 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 7:25">25 </verse></sup>I thank God through Jesus Christ, our
Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s
law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

#BCV:Romans 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:1">1 </verse></sup>There is therefore now no condemnation to
those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.<footnote:1>8:1 NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”</footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:2">2 </verse></sup>For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made
me free from the law of sin and of death. <key:bcv=Romans 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:3">3 </verse></sup>For what
the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in
the flesh, <key:bcv=Romans 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:4">4 </verse></sup>that the ordinance of the law might be
fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit. <key:bcv=Romans 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:5">5 </verse></sup>For those who live
according to the flesh set their minds on the things
of the flesh, but those who live according to the
Spirit, the things of the Spirit. <key:bcv=Romans 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:6">6 </verse></sup>For the mind of
the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life
and peace; <key:bcv=Romans 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:7">7 </verse></sup>because the mind of the flesh is hostile
toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither
indeed can it be. <key:bcv=Romans 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:8">8 </verse></sup>Those who are in the flesh can’t
please God.

<key:bcv=Romans 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:9">9 </verse></sup>But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if
it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if
any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not
his. <key:bcv=Romans 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:10">10 </verse></sup>If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of
sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:11">11 </verse></sup>But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ
Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:12">12 </verse></sup>So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the
flesh, to live after the flesh. <key:bcv=Romans 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:13">13 </verse></sup>For if you live after
the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put
to death the deeds of the body, you will live. <key:bcv=Romans 8:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:14">14 </verse></sup>For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are
children of God. <key:bcv=Romans 8:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:15">15 </verse></sup>For you didn’t receive the spirit
of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit
of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!<footnote:1>8:15 Abba is an Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy”, which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven. </footnote> Father!”
<key:bcv=Romans 8:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:16">16 </verse></sup>The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that
we are children of God; <key:bcv=Romans 8:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:17">17 </verse></sup>and if children, then heirs
—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed
we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified
with him.

<key:bcv=Romans 8:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:18">18 </verse></sup>For I consider that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which will be revealed toward us. <key:bcv=Romans 8:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:19">19 </verse></sup>For the creation
waits with eager expectation for the children of God
to be revealed. <key:bcv=Romans 8:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:20">20 </verse></sup>For the creation was subjected
to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him
who subjected it, in hope <key:bcv=Romans 8:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:21">21 </verse></sup>that the creation itself
also will be delivered from the bondage of decay
into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:22">22 </verse></sup>For we know that the whole creation groans and
travails in pain together until now. <key:bcv=Romans 8:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:23">23 </verse></sup>Not only so,
but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:24">24 </verse></sup>For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen
is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
<key:bcv=Romans 8:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:25">25 </verse></sup>But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait
for it with patience.

<key:bcv=Romans 8:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:26">26 </verse></sup>In the same way, the Spirit also helps our
weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we
ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for
us with groanings which can’t be uttered. <key:bcv=Romans 8:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:27">27 </verse></sup>He who
searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s
mind, because he makes intercession for the saints
according to God.

<key:bcv=Romans 8:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:28">28 </verse></sup>We know that all things work together for good
for those who love God, for those who are called
according to his purpose. <key:bcv=Romans 8:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:29">29 </verse></sup>For whom he foreknew,
he also predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brothers.<footnote:1>8:29 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 8:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:30">30 </verse></sup>Whom he predestined, those he
also called. Whom he called, those he also justified.
Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:31">31 </verse></sup>What then shall we say about these things? If
God is for us, who can be against us? <key:bcv=Romans 8:32><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:32">32 </verse></sup>He who
didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how would he not also with him freely give
us all things? <key:bcv=Romans 8:33><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:33">33 </verse></sup>Who could bring a charge against
God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. <key:bcv=Romans 8:34><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:34">34 </verse></sup>Who is
he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather,
who was raised from the dead, who is at the right
hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
<key:bcv=Romans 8:35><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:35">35 </verse></sup>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? <key:bcv=Romans 8:36><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:36">36 </verse></sup>Even
as it is written,
<br>
“For your sake we are killed all day long.
We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
<footnote:1>8:36 Psalm 44:22 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 8:37><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:37">37 </verse></sup>No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us. <key:bcv=Romans 8:38><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:38">38 </verse></sup>For I am
persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, <key:bcv=Romans 8:39><sup><verse bcv="Romans 8:39">39 </verse></sup>nor height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing will be able to separate us from
God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

#BCV:Romans 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:1">1 </verse></sup>I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my
conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
<key:bcv=Romans 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:2">2 </verse></sup>that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in
my heart. <key:bcv=Romans 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:3">3 </verse></sup>For I could wish that I myself were
accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my
relatives according to the flesh <key:bcv=Romans 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:4">4 </verse></sup>who are Israelites;
whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the
giving of the law, the service, and the promises; <key:bcv=Romans 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:5">5 </verse></sup>of
whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as
concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed
forever. Amen.

<key:bcv=Romans 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:6">6 </verse></sup>But it is not as though the word of God has
come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that
are of Israel. <key:bcv=Romans 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Neither, because they are Abraham’s
offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring
will be accounted as from Isaac.”<footnote:1>9:7 Genesis 21:12 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:8">8 </verse></sup>That is, it is
not the children of the flesh who are children of
God, but the children of the promise are counted
as heirs. <key:bcv=Romans 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:9">9 </verse></sup>For this is a word of promise: “At the
appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a
son.”<footnote:1>9:9 Genesis 18:10,14 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by
one, by our father Isaac. <key:bcv=Romans 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:11">11 </verse></sup>For being not yet born,
neither having done anything good or bad, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him who calls,<footnote:1>9:11 NU puts the phrase “not of works, but of him who calls” at the beginning of verse 12 instead of the end of verse 11. </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:12">12 </verse></sup>it was said to
her, “The elder will serve the younger.”<footnote:1>9:12 Genesis 25:23 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Even as
it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”<footnote:1>9:13 Malachi 1:2-3 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:14">14 </verse></sup>What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness
with God? May it never be! <key:bcv=Romans 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:15">15 </verse></sup>For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion.”<footnote:1>9:15 Exodus 33:19 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:16">16 </verse></sup>So then it is not of him who wills,
nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
<key:bcv=Romans 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:17">17 </verse></sup>For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very
purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might
show in you my power, and that my name might
be proclaimed in all the earth.”<footnote:1>9:17 Exodus 9:16 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:18">18 </verse></sup>So then, he has
mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom
he desires.

<key:bcv=Romans 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:19">19 </verse></sup>You will say then to me, “Why does he still
find fault? For who withstands his will?” <key:bcv=Romans 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:20">20 </verse></sup>But
indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God?
Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why
did you make me like this?”<footnote:1>9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:21">21 </verse></sup>Or hasn’t the
potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to
make one part a vessel for honor, and another for
dishonor? <key:bcv=Romans 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:22">22 </verse></sup>What if God, willing to show his wrath
and to make his power known, endured with much
patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
<key:bcv=Romans 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:23">23 </verse></sup>and that he might make known the riches of
his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared
beforehand for glory— <key:bcv=Romans 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:24">24 </verse></sup>us, whom he also called,
not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
<key:bcv=Romans 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:25">25 </verse></sup>As he says also in Hosea,
<br>
“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my
people;

and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”<footnote:1>9:25 Hosea 2:23 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:26">26 </verse></sup>“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
<br>
there they will be called ‘children of the living
God.’ ”<footnote:1>9:26 Hosea 1:10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
<br>
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the
sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
<key:bcv=Romans 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:28">28 </verse></sup>for he will finish the work and cut it short in
righteousness,
because the Lord will make a short work upon
the earth.”<footnote:1>9:28 Isaiah 10:22-23 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 9:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:29">29 </verse></sup>As Isaiah has said before,

“Unless the Lord of Armies<footnote:1>9:29 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) </footnote> had left us a seed,
we would have become like Sodom,

and would have been made like Gomorrah.”<footnote:1>9:29 Isaiah 1:9 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 9:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:30">30 </verse></sup>What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who
didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith;
<key:bcv=Romans 9:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:31">31 </verse></sup>but Israel, following after a law of righteousness,
didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. <key:bcv=Romans 9:32><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:32">32 </verse></sup>Why?
Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by
works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling
stone, <key:bcv=Romans 9:33><sup><verse bcv="Romans 9:33">33 </verse></sup>even as it is written,

“Behold,<footnote:1>9:33 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock
of offense;
<br>
and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
<footnote:1>9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16 </footnote>

#BCV:Romans 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to
God is for Israel, that they may be saved. <key:bcv=Romans 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:2">2 </verse></sup>For I
testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but
not according to knowledge. <key:bcv=Romans 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:3">3 </verse></sup>For being ignorant of
God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their
own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves
to the righteousness of God. <key:bcv=Romans 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:4">4 </verse></sup>For Christ is the fulfillment<footnote:1>10:4 or, completion, or end </footnote>
of the law for righteousness to everyone
who believes.

<key:bcv=Romans 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:5">5 </verse></sup>For Moses writes about the righteousness of the
law, “The one who does them will live by them.”<footnote:1>10:5 Leviticus 18:5 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:6">6 </verse></sup>But the righteousness which is of faith says this,
“Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into
heaven?’<footnote:1>10:6 Deuteronomy 30:12 </footnote> (that is, to bring Christ down); <key:bcv=Romans 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:7">7 </verse></sup>or, ‘Who
will descend into the abyss?’<footnote:1>10:7 Deuteronomy 30:13 </footnote> (that is, to bring
Christ up from the dead.)” <key:bcv=Romans 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:8">8 </verse></sup>But what does it say?
“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your
heart;”<footnote:1>10:8 Deuteronomy 30:14 </footnote> that is, the word of faith which we preach:
<key:bcv=Romans 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:9">9 </verse></sup>that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus
is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised
him from the dead, you will be saved. <key:bcv=Romans 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:10">10 </verse></sup>For with
the heart one believes resulting in righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made resulting
in salvation. <key:bcv=Romans 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:11">11 </verse></sup>For the Scripture says, “Whoever
believes in him will not be disappointed.”<footnote:1>10:11 Isaiah 28:16 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:12">12 </verse></sup>For there is no distinction between Jew and
Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to
all who call on him. <key:bcv=Romans 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:13">13 </verse></sup>For, “Whoever will call on the
name of the Lord will be saved.”<footnote:1>10:13 Joel 2:32 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:14">14 </verse></sup>How then will
they call on him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in him whom they have not
heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
<key:bcv=Romans 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:15">15 </verse></sup>And how will they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written:
<br>
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the
Good News of peace,

who bring glad tidings of good things!”<footnote:1>10:15 Isaiah 52:7 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:16">16 </verse></sup>But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For
Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”<footnote:1>10:16 Isaiah 53:1 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:17">17 </verse></sup>So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God. <key:bcv=Romans 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:18">18 </verse></sup>But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most
certainly,
<br>
“Their sound went out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”<footnote:1>10:18 Psalm 19:4 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:19">19 </verse></sup>But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says,
“I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no
nation.
<br>
I will make you angry with a nation void of
understanding.”<footnote:1>10:19 Deuteronomy 32:21 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:20">20 </verse></sup>Isaiah is very bold and says,
<br>
“I was found by those who didn’t seek me.
I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for
me.”<footnote:1>10:20 Isaiah 65:1</footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 10:21">21 </verse></sup>But about Israel he says, “All day long I
stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary
people.”<footnote:1>10:21 Isaiah 65:2 </footnote>

#BCV:Romans 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:1">1 </verse></sup>I ask then, did God reject his people? May it
never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. <key:bcv=Romans 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:2">2 </verse></sup>God didn’t
reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you
know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he
pleads with God against Israel: <key:bcv=Romans 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:3">3 </verse></sup>“Lord, they have
killed your prophets. They have broken down your
altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”<footnote:1>11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:4">4 </verse></sup>But
how does God answer him? “I have reserved for
myself seven thousand men who have not bowed
the knee to Baal.”<footnote:1>11:4 1 Kings 19:18 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:5">5 </verse></sup>Even so too at this present time
also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. <key:bcv=Romans 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:6">6 </verse></sup>And if by grace, then it is no longer of works;
otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of
works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no
longer work.

<key:bcv=Romans 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:7">7 </verse></sup>What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he
didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and
the rest were hardened. <key:bcv=Romans 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:8">8 </verse></sup>According as it is written,
“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they
should not see, and ears that they should not hear,
to this very day.”<footnote:1>11:8 Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:9">9 </verse></sup>David says,
<br>
“Let their table be made a snare, a trap,
a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
<key:bcv=Romans 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
Always keep their backs bent.”<footnote:1>11:10 Psalm 69:22,23 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:11">11 </verse></sup>I ask then, did they stumble that they might
fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has
come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
<key:bcv=Romans 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and
their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more
their fullness!

<key:bcv=Romans 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:13">13 </verse></sup>For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then
as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
<key:bcv=Romans 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:14">14 </verse></sup>if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those
who are my flesh, and may save some of them. <key:bcv=Romans 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:15">15 </verse></sup>For
if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the
world, what would their acceptance be, but life from
the dead?

<key:bcv=Romans 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:16">16 </verse></sup>If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the
root is holy, so are the branches. <key:bcv=Romans 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:17">17 </verse></sup>But if some
of the branches were broken off, and you, being a
wild olive, were grafted in among them and became
partaker with them of the root and of the richness
of the olive tree, <key:bcv=Romans 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:18">18 </verse></sup>don’t boast over the branches.
But if you boast, remember that it is not you who
support the root, but the root supports you. <key:bcv=Romans 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:19">19 </verse></sup>You
will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I
might be grafted in.” <key:bcv=Romans 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:20">20 </verse></sup>True; by their unbelief they
were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t
be conceited, but fear; <key:bcv=Romans 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:21">21 </verse></sup>for if God didn’t spare the
natural branches, neither will he spare you. <key:bcv=Romans 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:22">22 </verse></sup>See
then the goodness and severity of God. Toward
those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,
if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also
will be cut off. <key:bcv=Romans 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:23">23 </verse></sup>They also, if they don’t continue
in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able
to graft them in again. <key:bcv=Romans 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:24">24 </verse></sup>For if you were cut out of
that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were
grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree,
how much more will these, which are the natural
branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
<key:bcv=Romans 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:25">25 </verse></sup>For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,<footnote:1>11:25 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote>
of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise
in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has
happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles
has come in, <key:bcv=Romans 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:26">26 </verse></sup>and so all Israel will be saved. Even
as it is written,
<br>
“There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
<key:bcv=Romans 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:27">27 </verse></sup>This is my covenant with them,
when I will take away their sins.”<footnote:1>11:27 Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Concerning the Good News, they are enemies
for your sake. But concerning the election, they are
beloved for the fathers’ sake. <key:bcv=Romans 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:29">29 </verse></sup>For the gifts and
the calling of God are irrevocable. <key:bcv=Romans 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:30">30 </verse></sup>For as you in
time past were disobedient to God, but now have
obtained mercy by their disobedience, <key:bcv=Romans 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:31">31 </verse></sup>even so
these also have now been disobedient, that by the
mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
<key:bcv=Romans 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:32">32 </verse></sup>For God has bound all to disobedience, that he
might have mercy on all.

<key:bcv=Romans 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:33">33 </verse></sup>Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom
and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are
his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
<key:bcv=Romans 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:34">34 </verse></sup>“For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”<footnote:1>11:34 Isaiah 40:13 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:35">35 </verse></sup>“Or who has first given to him,

and it will be repaid to him again?”<footnote:1>11:35 Job 41:11</footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Romans 11:36">36 </verse></sup>For of him and through him and to him are all
things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

#BCV:Romans 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies
of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
service. <key:bcv=Romans 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that
you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and
perfect will of God.

<key:bcv=Romans 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:3">3 </verse></sup>For I say through the grace that was given me, to
everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself
more highly than you ought to think; but to think
reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person
a measure of faith. <key:bcv=Romans 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:4">4 </verse></sup>For even as we have many
members in one body, and all the members don’t
have the same function, <key:bcv=Romans 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:5">5 </verse></sup>so we, who are many, are
one body in Christ, and individually members of
one another, <key:bcv=Romans 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:6">6 </verse></sup>having gifts differing according to
the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s
prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
<key:bcv=Romans 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:7">7 </verse></sup>or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he
who teaches, to his teaching; <key:bcv=Romans 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:8">8 </verse></sup>or he who exhorts,
to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with
generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who
shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

<key:bcv=Romans 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that
which is evil. Cling to that which is good. <key:bcv=Romans 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:10">10 </verse></sup>In
love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to
one another; in honor prefer one another, <key:bcv=Romans 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:11">11 </verse></sup>not
lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord, <key:bcv=Romans 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:12">12 </verse></sup>rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles,
continuing steadfastly in prayer, <key:bcv=Romans 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:13">13 </verse></sup>contributing to
the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.
<key:bcv=Romans 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t
curse. <key:bcv=Romans 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:15">15 </verse></sup>Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with
those who weep. <key:bcv=Romans 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Be of the same mind one toward
another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but
associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your
own conceits. <key:bcv=Romans 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Repay no one evil for evil. Respect
what is honorable in the sight of all men. <key:bcv=Romans 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:18">18 </verse></sup>If it is
possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with
all men. <key:bcv=Romans 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved,
but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written,
“Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the
Lord.”<footnote:1>12:19 Deuteronomy 32:35 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:20">20 </verse></sup>Therefore
<br>
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
<br>
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
<br>
for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his
head.”<footnote:1>12:20 Proverbs 25:21-22 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 12:21">21 </verse></sup>Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil
with good.

#BCV:Romans 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Let every soul be in subjection to the higher
authorities, for there is no authority except from
God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
<key:bcv=Romans 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Therefore he who resists the authority withstands
the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will
receive to themselves judgment. <key:bcv=Romans 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:3">3 </verse></sup>For rulers are not
a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you
desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that
which is good, and you will have praise from the
authority, <key:bcv=Romans 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:4">4 </verse></sup>for he is a servant of God to you for good.
But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he
doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant
of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
<key:bcv=Romans 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only
because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
<key:bcv=Romans 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:6">6 </verse></sup>For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are
servants of God’s service, continually doing this
very thing. <key:bcv=Romans 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore give everyone what you
owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then
customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then
honor.

<key:bcv=Romans 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Owe no one anything, except to love one another;
for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled
the law. <key:bcv=Romans 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:9">9 </verse></sup>For the commandments, “You shall not
commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You
shall not steal,”<footnote:1>13:9 TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” </footnote> “You shall not covet,”<footnote:1>13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 </footnote> and
whatever other commandments there are, are all
summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.”<footnote:1>13:9 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:10">10 </verse></sup>Love doesn’t harm
a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the
law.

<key:bcv=Romans 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Do this, knowing the time, that it is already
time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is
now nearer to us than when we first believed. <key:bcv=Romans 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:12">12 </verse></sup>The
night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore
throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on
the armor of light. <key:bcv=Romans 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Let’s walk properly, as in the
day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual
promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and
jealousy. <key:bcv=Romans 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 13:14">14 </verse></sup>But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

#BCV:Romans 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for
disputes over opinions. <key:bcv=Romans 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:2">2 </verse></sup>One man has faith to eat
all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
<key:bcv=Romans 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t
eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who
eats, for God has accepted him. <key:bcv=Romans 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:4">4 </verse></sup>Who are you who
judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands
or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has
power to make him stand.

<key:bcv=Romans 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:5">5 </verse></sup>One man esteems one day as more important.
Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be
fully assured in his own mind. <key:bcv=Romans 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:6">6 </verse></sup>He who observes
the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does
not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe
it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God
thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t
eat, and gives God thanks. <key:bcv=Romans 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:7">7 </verse></sup>For none of us lives to
himself, and none dies to himself. <key:bcv=Romans 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:8">8 </verse></sup>For if we live, we
live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If
therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. <key:bcv=Romans 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:9">9 </verse></sup>For to
this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he
might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
<key:bcv=Romans 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:10">10 </verse></sup>But you, why do you judge your brother? Or
you again, why do you despise your brother? For
we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
<key:bcv=Romans 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:11">11 </verse></sup>For it is written,
<br>
“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess to God.’ ”<footnote:1>14:11 Isaiah 45:23</footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:12">12 </verse></sup>So then each one of us will give account of
himself to God.

<key:bcv=Romans 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore let’s not judge one another any
more, but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion
for falling. <key:bcv=Romans 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:14">14 </verse></sup>I know and am persuaded in the Lord
Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to
him who considers anything to be unclean, to him
it is unclean. <key:bcv=Romans 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Yet if because of food your brother
is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy
with your food him for whom Christ died. <key:bcv=Romans 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Then
don’t let your good be slandered, <key:bcv=Romans 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:17">17 </verse></sup>for God’s Kingdom
is not eating and drinking, but righteousness,
peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Romans 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:18">18 </verse></sup>For he who
serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God
and approved by men. <key:bcv=Romans 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:19">19 </verse></sup>So then, let’s follow after
things which make for peace, and things by which
we may build one another up. <key:bcv=Romans 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t overthrow
God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are
clean, however it is evil for that man who creates
a stumbling block by eating. <key:bcv=Romans 14:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:21">21 </verse></sup>It is good to not eat
meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your
brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
<key:bcv=Romans 14:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before
God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in
that which he approves. <key:bcv=Romans 14:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:23">23 </verse></sup>But he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and
whatever is not of faith is sin.

<key:bcv=Romans 14:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:24">24 </verse></sup>Now to him who is able to establish you according
to my Good News and the preaching of
<br>
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery which has been kept secret through long
ages, <key:bcv=Romans 14:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:25">25 </verse></sup>but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures
of the prophets, according to the commandment
of the eternal God, is made known for obedience
of faith to all the nations; <key:bcv=Romans 14:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 14:26">26 </verse></sup>to the only wise God,
through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever!
Amen.<footnote:1>14:26 TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27. </footnote>

#BCV:Romans 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Romans 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses
of the weak, and not to please ourselves. <key:bcv=Romans 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:2">2 </verse></sup>Let
each one of us please his neighbor for that which is
good, to be building him up. <key:bcv=Romans 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:3">3 </verse></sup>For even Christ didn’t
please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches
of those who reproached you fell on me.”<footnote:1>15:3 Psalm 69:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=Romans 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:4">4 </verse></sup>For
whatever things were written before were written
for our learning, that through perseverance and
through encouragement of the Scriptures we might
have hope. <key:bcv=Romans 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:5">5 </verse></sup>Now the God of perseverance and of
encouragement grant you to be of the same mind
with one another according to Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=Romans 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:6">6 </verse></sup>that
with one accord you may with one mouth glorify
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Romans 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore accept one another, even as Christ
also accepted you,<footnote:1>15:7 TR reads “us” instead of “you” </footnote> to the glory of God. <key:bcv=Romans 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:8">8 </verse></sup>Now
I say that Christ has been made a servant of the
circumcision for the truth of God, that he might
confirm the promises given to the fathers, <key:bcv=Romans 15:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:9">9 </verse></sup>and that
the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it
is written,
<br>
“Therefore I will give praise to you among the
Gentiles

and sing to your name.”<footnote:1>15:9 2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 15:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:10">10 </verse></sup>Again he says,

“Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”<footnote:1>15:10 Deuteronomy 32:43 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 15:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Again,
<br>
“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!

Let all the peoples praise him.”<footnote:1>15:11 Psalm 117:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 15:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Again, Isaiah says,
<br>
“There will be the root of Jesse,
<br>
he who arises to rule over the Gentiles;
in him the Gentiles will hope.”<footnote:1>15:12 Isaiah 11:10 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Romans 15:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:13">13 </verse></sup>Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy
and peace in believing, that you may abound in
hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
<key:bcv=Romans 15:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:14">14 </verse></sup>I myself am also persuaded about you, my
brothers,<footnote:1>15:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> that you yourselves are full of goodness,
filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish
others. <key:bcv=Romans 15:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:15">15 </verse></sup>But I write the more boldly to you in part
as reminding you, because of the grace that was
given to me by God, <key:bcv=Romans 15:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:16">16 </verse></sup>that I should be a servant
of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest
of the Good News of God, that the offering up of
the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified
by the Holy Spirit. <key:bcv=Romans 15:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:17">17 </verse></sup>I have therefore my boasting
in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. <key:bcv=Romans 15:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:18">18 </verse></sup>For
I will not dare to speak of any things except those
which Christ worked through me for the obedience
of the Gentiles, by word and deed, <key:bcv=Romans 15:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:19">19 </verse></sup>in the power
of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit;
so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to
Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of
Christ; <key:bcv=Romans 15:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:20">20 </verse></sup>yes, making it my aim to preach the Good
News, not where Christ was already named, that I
might not build on another’s foundation. <key:bcv=Romans 15:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:21">21 </verse></sup>But, as
it is written,
<br>
“They will see, to whom no news of him came.
They who haven’t heard will understand.”<footnote:1>15:21 Isaiah 52:15 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Romans 15:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore also I was hindered these many times
from coming to you, <key:bcv=Romans 15:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:23">23 </verse></sup>but now, no longer having
any place in these regions, and having these many
years a longing to come to you, <key:bcv=Romans 15:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:24">24 </verse></sup>whenever I travel
to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you
on my journey, and to be helped on my way there
by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a
while. <key:bcv=Romans 15:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:25">25 </verse></sup>But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem,
serving the saints. <key:bcv=Romans 15:26><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:26">26 </verse></sup>For it has been the good
pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain
contribution for the poor among the saints who are
at Jerusalem. <key:bcv=Romans 15:27><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:27">27 </verse></sup>Yes, it has been their good pleasure,
and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have
been made partakers of their spiritual things, they
owe it to them also to serve them in material things.
<key:bcv=Romans 15:28><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:28">28 </verse></sup>When therefore I have accomplished this, and
have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way
of you to Spain. <key:bcv=Romans 15:29><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:29">29 </verse></sup>I know that when I come to you, I
will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good
News of Christ.

<key:bcv=Romans 15:30><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus
Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive
together with me in your prayers to God for me,
<key:bcv=Romans 15:31><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:31">31 </verse></sup>that I may be delivered from those who are
disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I
have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
<key:bcv=Romans 15:32><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:32">32 </verse></sup>that I may come to you in joy through the will of
God, and together with you, find rest. <key:bcv=Romans 15:33><sup><verse bcv="Romans 15:33">33 </verse></sup>Now the
God of peace be with you all. Amen.

#BCV:Romans 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Romans 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:1">1 </verse></sup>I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a
servant<footnote:1>16:1 or, deacon</footnote> of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, <key:bcv=Romans 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:2">2 </verse></sup>that
you receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the
saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter
she may need from you, for she herself also has been
a helper of many, and of my own self.
<key:bcv=Romans 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:3">3 </verse></sup>Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in
Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=Romans 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:4">4 </verse></sup>who risked their own necks for my
life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the
assemblies of the Gentiles. <key:bcv=Romans 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:5">5 </verse></sup>Greet the assembly that
is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who
is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ. <key:bcv=Romans 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:6">6 </verse></sup>Greet Mary,
who labored much for us. <key:bcv=Romans 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:7">7 </verse></sup>Greet Andronicus and
Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are
notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ
before me. <key:bcv=Romans 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:8">8 </verse></sup>Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
<key:bcv=Romans 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:9">9 </verse></sup>Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and
Stachys, my beloved. <key:bcv=Romans 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Greet Apelles, the approved
in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of
Aristobulus. <key:bcv=Romans 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet
them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the
Lord. <key:bcv=Romans 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor
in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored
much in the Lord. <key:bcv=Romans 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Greet Rufus, the chosen in the
Lord, and his mother and mine. <key:bcv=Romans 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Greet Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers<footnote:1>16:14 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote>
who are with them. <key:bcv=Romans 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Greet Philologus and
Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the
saints who are with them. <key:bcv=Romans 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:16">16 </verse></sup>Greet one another with
a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
<key:bcv=Romans 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:17">17 </verse></sup>Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who
are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling,
contrary to the doctrine which you learned,
and turn away from them. <key:bcv=Romans 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:18">18 </verse></sup>For those who are
such don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech
they deceive the hearts of the innocent. <key:bcv=Romans 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:19">19 </verse></sup>For
your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice
therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise
in that which is good, but innocent in that which is
evil. <key:bcv=Romans 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:20">20 </verse></sup>And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan
under your feet.
<br>
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
<key:bcv=Romans 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:21">21 </verse></sup>Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do
Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives. <key:bcv=Romans 16:22><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:22">22 </verse></sup>I,
Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.
<key:bcv=Romans 16:23><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:23">23 </verse></sup>Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly,
greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets
you, as does Quartus, the brother. <key:bcv=Romans 16:24><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:24">24 </verse></sup>The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. <key:bcv=Romans 16:25><sup><verse bcv="Romans 16:25">25 </verse></sup><footnote:1>16:25 TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers these verses 16:25-27.</footnote>

#OUTLINE:1,1 Corinthians
<h2>Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote>
through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those
who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with
all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
in every place, both theirs and ours: <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I always thank my God concerning you for the
grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>that in everything you were enriched in him, in all
speech and all knowledge— <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>even as the testimony
of Christ was confirmed in you— <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>so that you come
behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our
Lord Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>who will also confirm you until
the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>God is faithful, through whom you were
called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our
Lord.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Now I beg you, brothers,<footnote:1>1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> through the name
of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
same thing, and that there be no divisions among
you, but that you be perfected together in the same
mind and in the same judgment. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For it has been
reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by
those who are from Chloe’s household, that there
are contentions among you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Now I mean this,
that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow
Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or
were you baptized into the name of Paul? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>I thank
God that I baptized none of you except Crispus
and Gaius, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>so that no one should say that I had
baptized you into my own name. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>(I also baptized
the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t
know whether I baptized any other.) <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For Christ
sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News
—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ
wouldn’t be made void. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>For the word of the cross
is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who
are being saved it is the power of God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>For it is
written,
<br>
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
I will bring the discernment of the discerning
to nothing.”<footnote:1>1:19 Isaiah 29:14 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?
Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made
foolish the wisdom of this world? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>For seeing
that in the wisdom of God, the world through its
wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure
through the foolishness of the preaching to save
those who believe. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>For Jews ask for signs, Greeks
seek after wisdom, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>but we preach Christ crucified,
a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:24">24 </verse></sup>but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:25">25 </verse></sup>because the foolishness of God is wiser than men,
and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:26">26 </verse></sup>For you see your calling, brothers, that not
many are wise according to the flesh, not many
mighty, and not many noble; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:27">27 </verse></sup>but God chose the
foolish things of the world that he might put to
shame those who are wise. God chose the weak
things of the world that he might put to shame the
things that are strong. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:28">28 </verse></sup>God chose the lowly things
of the world, and the things that are despised, and
the things that don’t exist, that he might bring
to nothing the things that exist, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:29">29 </verse></sup>that no flesh
should boast before God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:30">30 </verse></sup>Because of him, you
are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom
from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 1:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 1:31">31 </verse></sup>that, as it is written, “He who boasts,
let him boast in the Lord.”<footnote:1>1:31 Jeremiah 9:24 </footnote>

#BCV:1 Corinthians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with
excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to
you the testimony of God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>For I determined not
to know anything among you except Jesus Christ
and him crucified. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>I was with you in weakness, in
fear, and in much trembling. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>My speech and my
preaching were not in persuasive words of human
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and
of power, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>that your faith wouldn’t stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>We speak wisdom, however, among those who
are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world
nor of the rulers of this world who are coming
to nothing. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>But we speak God’s wisdom in a
mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which
God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>which none of the rulers of this world has known.
For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified
the Lord of glory. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t
hear,
<br>
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love
him.”<footnote:1>2:9 Isaiah 64:4 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep
things of God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For who among men knows the
things of a man except the spirit of the man which
is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God
except God’s Spirit. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>But we received not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that
we might know the things that were freely given
to us by God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>We also speak these things, not
in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which
the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things
with spiritual things. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Now the natural man
doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they
are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>But he
who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself
is to be judged by no one. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>“For who has known
the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?”<footnote:1>2:16 Isaiah 40:13</footnote> 
But we have Christ’s mind.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual,
but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>I fed you
with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet
ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>for you
are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy,
strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly,
and don’t you walk in the ways of men? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>For when
one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow
Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but
servants through whom you believed, and each as
the Lord gave to him? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>I planted. Apollos watered.
But God gave the increase. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>So then neither he who
plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who
gives the increase. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Now he who plants and he who
waters are the same, but each will receive his own
reward according to his own labor. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>For we are
God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s
building.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>According to the grace of God which was given
to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation,
and another builds on it. But let each man be careful
how he builds on it. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>For no one can lay any
other foundation than that which has been laid,
which is Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>But if anyone builds on the
foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood,
hay, or straw, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>each man’s work will be revealed.
For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in
fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work
each man’s work is. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>If any man’s work remains
which he built on it, he will receive a reward. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>If
any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he
himself will be saved, but as through fire.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that you are God’s temple
and that God’s Spirit lives in you? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>If anyone
destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for
God’s temple is holy, which you are.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks
that he is wise among you in this world, let him
become a fool that he may become wise. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:19">19 </verse></sup>For the
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For
it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”<footnote:1>3:19 Job 5:13 </footnote> 
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:20">20 </verse></sup>And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning
of the wise, that it is worthless.”<footnote:1>3:20 Psalm 94:11</footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore
let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:22">22 </verse></sup>whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world,
or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come. All are yours, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 3:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 3:23">23 </verse></sup>and you are Christ’s, and
Christ is God’s.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and
stewards of God’s mysteries. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Here, moreover, it
is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>But with me it is a very small thing that I should
be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t
even judge my own self. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>For I know nothing against
myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who
judges me is the Lord. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore judge nothing
before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both
bring to light the hidden things of darkness and
reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man
will get his praise from God.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure
transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes,
that in us you might learn not to think beyond
the things which are written, that none of you be
puffed up against one another. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>For who makes you
different? And what do you have that you didn’t
receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast
as if you had not received it?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>You are already filled. You have already become
rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and
I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign
with you! <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>For I think that God has displayed us, the
apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For
we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels
and men. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you
are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong.
You have honor, but we have dishonor. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Even to
this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are
beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>We
toil, working with our own hands. When people
curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the
filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until
now.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>I don’t write these things to shame you, but to
admonish you as my beloved children. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For though
you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t
have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became
your father through the Good News. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>I beg you
therefore, be imitators of me. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Because of this
I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved
and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you
of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach
everywhere in every assembly. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Now some are
puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:19">19 </verse></sup>But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is
willing. And I will know, not the word of those who
are puffed up, but the power. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:20">20 </verse></sup>For God’s Kingdom
is not in word, but in power. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 4:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 4:21">21 </verse></sup>What do you want?
Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit
of gentleness?

#BCV:1 Corinthians 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:1">1 </verse></sup>It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality
among you, and such sexual immorality
as is not even named among the Gentiles, that
one has his father’s wife. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:2">2 </verse></sup>You are arrogant, and
didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this
deed might be removed from among you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For I
most certainly, as being absent in body but present
in spirit, have already, as though I were present,
judged him who has done this thing. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:4">4 </verse></sup>In the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered
together with my spirit with the power of our Lord
Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:5">5 </verse></sup>you are to deliver such a one to Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may
be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a
little yeast leavens the whole lump? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Purge out the
old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you
are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover,
has been sacrificed in our place. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore let’s
keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with
the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:9">9 </verse></sup>I wrote to you in my letter to have no company
with sexual sinners; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:10">10 </verse></sup>yet not at all meaning
with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the
covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for
then you would have to leave the world. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:11">11 </verse></sup>But as
it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone
who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a
drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with
such a person. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For what do I have to do with
also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge
those who are within? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 5:13">13 </verse></sup>But those who are outside,
God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among
yourselves.”<footnote:1>5:13 Deuteronomy 17:7; 19:19; 21:21; 22:21; 24:7 </footnote>

#BCV:1 Corinthians 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Dare any of you, having a matter against his
neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not
before the saints? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that the saints
will judge the world? And if the world is judged by
you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:3">3 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that we will judge angels?
How much more, things that pertain to this life? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:4">4 </verse></sup>If
then you have to judge things pertaining to this life,
do you set them to judge who are of no account in
the assembly? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:5">5 </verse></sup>I say this to move you to shame.
Isn’t there even one wise man among you who
would be able to decide between his brothers? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:6">6 </verse></sup>But
brother goes to law with brother, and that before
unbelievers! <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore it is already altogether
a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with
another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not
rather be defrauded? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:8">8 </verse></sup>No, but you yourselves do
wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will
not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived.
Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:10">10 </verse></sup>nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s
Kingdom. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Some of you were such, but you were
washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our
God.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:12">12 </verse></sup>“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things
are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but
I will not be brought under the power of anything.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:13">13 </verse></sup>“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but
God will bring to nothing both it and them. But
the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the
Lord, and the Lord for the body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Now God raised
up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that your bodies are members of
Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and
make them members of a prostitute? May it never
be! <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:16">16 </verse></sup>Or don’t you know that he who is joined to
a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says,
“will become one flesh.”<footnote:1>6:16 Genesis 2:24 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:17">17 </verse></sup>But he who is joined
to the Lord is one spirit. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:18">18 </verse></sup>Flee sexual immorality!
“Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but
he who commits sexual immorality sins against his
own body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Or don’t you know that your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God? You are not your own, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 6:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 6:20">20 </verse></sup>for you
were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in
your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Now concerning the things about which you
wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a
woman. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:2">2 </verse></sup>But, because of sexual immoralities, let
each man have his own wife, and let each woman
have her own husband. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:3">3 </verse></sup>Let the husband give his
wife the affection owed her,<footnote:1>7:3 NU and TR have “what is owed her” instead of “the affection owed her”.</footnote> and likewise also the
wife her husband. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:4">4 </verse></sup>The wife doesn’t have authority
over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise
also the husband doesn’t have authority over his
own body, but the wife does. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t deprive one
another, unless it is by consent for a season, that
you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and
may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you
because of your lack of self-control.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:6">6 </verse></sup>But this I say by way of concession, not of
commandment. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:7">7 </verse></sup>Yet I wish that all men were like
me. However, each man has his own gift from God,
one of this kind, and another of that kind. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:8">8 </verse></sup>But I
say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for
them if they remain even as I am. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:9">9 </verse></sup>But if they don’t
have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better
to marry than to burn with passion. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:10">10 </verse></sup>But to the
married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the
wife not leave her husband <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:11">11 </verse></sup>(but if she departs, let
her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her
husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:12">12 </verse></sup>But to the rest I —not the Lord —say, if any
brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content
to live with him, let him not leave her. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:13">13 </verse></sup>The woman
who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content
to live with her, let her not leave her husband. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:14">14 </verse></sup>For
the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife,
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband.
Otherwise your children would be unclean,
but now they are holy. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Yet if the unbeliever
departs, let there be separation. The brother or the
sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God
has called us in peace. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:16">16 </verse></sup>For how do you know, wife,
whether you will save your husband? Or how do you
know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:17">17 </verse></sup>Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as
God has called each, so let him walk. So I command
in all the assemblies.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:18">18 </verse></sup>Was anyone called having been circumcised?
Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone
been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be
circumcised. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:19">19 </verse></sup>Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but what matters is keeping
God’s commandments. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Let each man stay in that
calling in which he was called. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:21">21 </verse></sup>Were you called
being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you,
but if you get an opportunity to become free, use
it. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:22">22 </verse></sup>For he who was called in the Lord being a
bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he
who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:23">23 </verse></sup>You were bought with a price. Don’t become
bondservants of men. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:24">24 </verse></sup>Brothers, let each man,
in whatever condition he was called, stay in that
condition with God.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment
from the Lord, but I give my judgment as
one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be
trustworthy. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:26">26 </verse></sup>Therefore I think that because of the
distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain
as he is. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:27">27 </verse></sup>Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to
be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a
wife. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:28">28 </verse></sup>But if you marry, you have not sinned. If
a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will
have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare
you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:29">29 </verse></sup>But I say this, brothers: the time is short.
From now on, both those who have wives may be
as though they had none; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:30">30 </verse></sup>and those who weep,
as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice,
as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as
though they didn’t possess; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:31">31 </verse></sup>and those who use the
world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of
this world passes away.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:32">32 </verse></sup>But I desire to have you to be free from cares.
He who is unmarried is concerned for the things
of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:33">33 </verse></sup>but he
who is married is concerned about the things of
the world, how he may please his wife. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:34">34 </verse></sup>There
is also a difference between a wife and a virgin.
The unmarried woman cares about the things of
the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
spirit. But she who is married cares about the things
of the world —how she may please her husband.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:35">35 </verse></sup>This I say for your own benefit, not that I may
ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and
that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:36">36 </verse></sup>But if any man thinks that he is behaving
inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the
flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him
do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:37">37 </verse></sup>But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having
no urgency, but has power over his own will, and
has determined in his own heart to keep his own
virgin, does well. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:38">38 </verse></sup>So then both he who gives
his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who
doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:39">39 </verse></sup>A wife is bound by law for as long as her
husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free
to be married to whomever she desires, only in the
Lord. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 7:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 7:40">40 </verse></sup>But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my
judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
#BCV:1 Corinthians 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We
know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs
up, but love builds up. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:2">2 </verse></sup>But if anyone thinks that he
knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to
know. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:3">3 </verse></sup>But anyone who loves God is known by him.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:4">4 </verse></sup>Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed
to idols, we know that no idol is anything in
the world, and that there is no other God but one.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:5">5 </verse></sup>For though there are things that are called “gods”,
whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are
many “gods” and many “lords”— <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:6">6 </verse></sup>yet to us there is
one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we
for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom
are all things, and we live through him.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:7">7 </verse></sup>However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But
some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as
of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience,
being weak, is defiled. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:8">8 </verse></sup>But food will not commend
us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the
worse, nor if we eat are we the better. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:9">9 </verse></sup>But be
careful that by no means does this liberty of yours
become a stumbling block to the weak. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:10">10 </verse></sup>For if
a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an
idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be
emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:11">11 </verse></sup>And
through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes,
the brother for whose sake Christ died. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:12">12 </verse></sup>Thus,
sinning against the brothers, and wounding their
conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 8:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 8:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I
will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my
brother to stumble.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t
I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work
in the Lord? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:2">2 </verse></sup>If to others I am not an apostle,
yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my
apostleship in the Lord.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:3">3 </verse></sup>My defense to those who examine me is this:
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:4">4 </verse></sup>Have we no right to eat and to drink? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:5">5 </verse></sup>Have we
no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even
as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the
Lord, and Cephas? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Or have only Barnabas and I no
right to not work? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:7">7 </verse></sup>What soldier ever serves at his
own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t
eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t
drink from the flock’s milk?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:8">8 </verse></sup>Do I speak these things according to the ways of
men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:9">9 </verse></sup>For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall
not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”<footnote:1>9:9 Deuteronomy 25:4</footnote>
Is it for the oxen that God cares, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:10">10 </verse></sup>or does he say
it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for
our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in
hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake
of his hope. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:11">11 </verse></sup>If we sowed to you spiritual things, is
it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:12">12 </verse></sup>If
others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet
more?
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Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear
all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the
Good News of Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that those
who serve around sacred things eat from the things
of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have
their portion with the altar? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:14">14 </verse></sup>Even so the Lord
ordained that those who proclaim the Good News
should live from the Good News.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:15">15 </verse></sup>But I have used none of these things, and I don’t
write these things that it may be done so in my
case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should
make my boasting void. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:16">16 </verse></sup>For if I preach the Good
News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity
is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach
the Good News. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:17">17 </verse></sup>For if I do this of my own will,
I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have
a stewardship entrusted to me. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:18">18 </verse></sup>What then is my
reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may
present the Good News of Christ without charge, so
as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:19">19 </verse></sup>For though I was free from all, I brought myself
under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:20">20 </verse></sup>To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain
Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the
law,<footnote:1>9:20 NU adds: though I myself am not under the law </footnote> that I might gain those who are under the
law; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:21">21 </verse></sup>to those who are without law, as without
law (not being without law toward God, but under
law toward Christ), that I might win those who are
without law. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:22">22 </verse></sup>To the weak I became as weak, that
I might gain the weak. I have become all things to
all men, that I may by all means save some. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:23">23 </verse></sup>Now I
do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be
a joint partaker of it. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:24">24 </verse></sup>Don’t you know that those
who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize?
Run like that, so that you may win. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:25">25 </verse></sup>Every man
who strives in the games exercises self-control in
all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible
crown, but we an incorruptible. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:26">26 </verse></sup>I therefore run
like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating
the air, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 9:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 9:27">27 </verse></sup>but I beat my body and bring it into
submission, lest by any means, after I have preached
to others, I myself should be disqualified.
#BCV:1 Corinthians 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers,
that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all
passed through the sea; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:2">2 </verse></sup>and were all baptized into
Moses in the cloud and in the sea; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:3">3 </verse></sup>and all ate the
same spiritual food; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:4">4 </verse></sup>and all drank the same spiritual
drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that
followed them, and the rock was Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:5">5 </verse></sup>However
with most of them, God was not well pleased, for
they were overthrown in the wilderness.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:6">6 </verse></sup>Now these things were our examples, to the
intent we should not lust after evil things as they
also lusted. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t be idolaters, as some of them
were. As it is written, “The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.”<footnote:1>10:7 Exodus 32:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Let’s
not commit sexual immorality, as some of them
committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand
fell. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:9">9 </verse></sup>Let’s not test Christ,<footnote:1>10:9 NU reads “the Lord” instead of “Christ”. </footnote> as some of them tested,
and perished by the serpents. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t grumble, as
some of them also grumbled, and perished by the
destroyer. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Now all these things happened to them
by way of example, and they were written for our
admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have
come. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore let him who thinks he stands be
careful that he doesn’t fall.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:13">13 </verse></sup>No temptation has taken you except what is
common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow
you to be tempted above what you are able, but will
with the temptation also make the way of escape,
that you may be able to endure it.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:15">15 </verse></sup>I
speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:16">16 </verse></sup>The cup
of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the
blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it
a sharing of the body of Christ? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:17">17 </verse></sup>Because there
is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one
body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those
who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:19">19 </verse></sup>What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed
to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:20">20 </verse></sup>But I say that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God,
and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship
with demons. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:21">21 </verse></sup>You can’t both drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake
of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:22">22 </verse></sup>Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we
stronger than he?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:23">23 </verse></sup>“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things
are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but
not all things build up. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Let no one seek his own,
but each one his neighbor’s good. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:25">25 </verse></sup>Whatever is
sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question
for the sake of conscience, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:26">26 </verse></sup>for “the earth is the
Lord’s, and its fullness.”<footnote:1>10:26 Psalm 24:1 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:27">27 </verse></sup>But if one of those
who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are
inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking
no questions for the sake of conscience. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:28">28 </verse></sup>But if
anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t
eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and
for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the
Lord’s, with all its fullness.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:29">29 </verse></sup>Conscience, I say,
not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why
is my liberty judged by another conscience? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:30">30 </verse></sup>If I
partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for
something I give thanks for?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:31">31 </verse></sup>Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever
you do, do all to the glory of God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:32">32 </verse></sup>Give no
occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks,
or to the assembly of God; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 10:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 10:33">33 </verse></sup>even as I also please
all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but
the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember
me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even
as I delivered them to you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:3">3 </verse></sup>But I would have you
know that the head<footnote:1>11:3 or, origin </footnote> of every man is Christ, and
the head<footnote:1>11:3 or, origin </footnote> of the woman is man, and the head<footnote:1>11:3 or, origin</footnote> of
Christ is God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:4">4 </verse></sup>Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered, dishonors his head. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:5">5 </verse></sup>But
every woman praying or prophesying with her head
uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the
same thing as if she were shaved. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:6">6 </verse></sup>For if a woman
is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it
is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or
be shaved, let her be covered. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:7">7 </verse></sup>For a man indeed
ought not to have his head covered, because he is
the image and glory of God, but the woman is the
glory of the man. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:8">8 </verse></sup>For man is not from woman, but
woman from man; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:9">9 </verse></sup>for man wasn’t created for the
woman, but woman for the man. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:10">10 </verse></sup>For this cause
the woman ought to have authority over her own
head, because of the angels.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent
of the man, nor the man independent of the
woman, in the Lord. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:12">12 </verse></sup>For as woman came from
man, so a man also comes through a woman; but
all things are from God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:13">13 </verse></sup>Judge for yourselves. Is
it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:14">14 </verse></sup>Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man
has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:15">15 </verse></sup>But if a
woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her
hair is given to her for a covering. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:16">16 </verse></sup>But if any man
seems to be contentious, we have no such custom,
neither do God’s assemblies.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:17">17 </verse></sup>But in giving you this command I don’t praise
you, because you come together not for the better
but for the worse. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:18">18 </verse></sup>For first of all, when you come
together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist
among you, and I partly believe it. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:19">19 </verse></sup>For there
also must be factions among you, that those who
are approved may be revealed among you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:20">20 </verse></sup>When
therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is
not the Lord’s supper that you eat. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:21">21 </verse></sup>For in your
eating each one takes his own supper first. One
is hungry, and another is drunken. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:22">22 </verse></sup>What, don’t
you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you
despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who
don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I
praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:23">23 </verse></sup>For I received from the Lord that which also I
delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night
in which he was betrayed took bread. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:24">24 </verse></sup>When he
had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat.
This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this
in memory of me.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:25">25 </verse></sup>In the same way he also took
the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new
covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink,
in memory of me.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:26">26 </verse></sup>For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s
death until he comes.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:27">27 </verse></sup>Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks
the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will
be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:28">28 </verse></sup>But let a man examine himself, and so let him
eat of the bread and drink of the cup. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:29">29 </verse></sup>For he
who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and
drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern
the Lord’s body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:30">30 </verse></sup>For this cause many among you
are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:31">31 </verse></sup>For
if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:32">32 </verse></sup>But when we are judged, we are disciplined by
the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the
world. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:33">33 </verse></sup>Therefore, my brothers, when you come
together to eat, wait for one another. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 11:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 11:34">34 </verse></sup>But if
anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your
coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set
in order whenever I come.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I
don’t want you to be ignorant. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:2">2 </verse></sup>You know that
when you were heathen,<footnote:1>12:2 or Gentiles</footnote> you were led away
to those mute idols, however you might be led.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Therefore I make known to you that no man
speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.”
No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy
Spirit.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:4">4 </verse></sup>Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the
same Spirit. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:5">5 </verse></sup>There are various kinds of service,
and the same Lord. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:6">6 </verse></sup>There are various kinds of
workings, but the same God who works all things
in all. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:7">7 </verse></sup>But to each one is given the manifestation
of the Spirit for the profit of all. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:8">8 </verse></sup>For to one
is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom,
and to another the word of knowledge according
to the same Spirit, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:9">9 </verse></sup>to another faith by the same
Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the same
Spirit, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:10">10 </verse></sup>and to another workings of miracles, and
to another prophecy, and to another discerning of
spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and
to another the interpretation of languages. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:11">11 </verse></sup>But
the one and the same Spirit produces all of these,
distributing to each one separately as he desires.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:12">12 </verse></sup>For as the body is one and has many members,
and all the members of the body, being many, are
one body; so also is Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:13">13 </verse></sup>For in one Spirit we
were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or
Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to
drink into one Spirit.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:14">14 </verse></sup>For the body is not one member, but many.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:15">15 </verse></sup>If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand,
I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not
part of the body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:16">16 </verse></sup>If the ear would say, “Because
I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not
therefore not part of the body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:17">17 </verse></sup>If the whole
body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If
the whole were hearing, where would the smelling
be? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:18">18 </verse></sup>But now God has set the members, each
one of them, in the body, just as he desired. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:19">19 </verse></sup>If
they were all one member, where would the body
be? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:20">20 </verse></sup>But now they are many members, but one
body. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:21">21 </verse></sup>The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no
need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I
have no need for you.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:22">22 </verse></sup>No, much rather, those
members of the body which seem to be weaker are
necessary. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:23">23 </verse></sup>Those parts of the body which we
think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more
abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have
more abundant modesty, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:24">24 </verse></sup>while our presentable
parts have no such need. But God composed the
body together, giving more abundant honor to the
inferior part, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:25">25 </verse></sup>that there should be no division in
the body, but that the members should have the
same care for one another. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:26">26 </verse></sup>When one member
suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one
member is honored, all the members rejoice with
it.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:27">27 </verse></sup>Now you are the body of Christ, and members
individually. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:28">28 </verse></sup>God has set some in the assembly:
first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then
miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,
and various kinds of languages. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:29">29 </verse></sup>Are all
apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all
miracle workers? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:30">30 </verse></sup>Do all have gifts of healings? Do
all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 12:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 12:31">31 </verse></sup>But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I
show a most excellent way to you.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:1">1 </verse></sup>If I speak with the languages of men and of
angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding
brass or a clanging cymbal. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:2">2 </verse></sup>If I have the
gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:3">3 </verse></sup>If I
give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give
my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits
me nothing.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy.
Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:5">5 </verse></sup>doesn’t behave
itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is
not provoked, takes no account of evil; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:6">6 </verse></sup>doesn’t
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the
truth; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:7">7 </verse></sup>bears all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, and endures all things.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,
they will be done away with. Where there are
various languages, they will cease. Where there
is knowledge, it will be done away with. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:9">9 </verse></sup>For we
know in part and we prophesy in part; <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:10">10 </verse></sup>but when
that which is complete has come, then that which
is partial will be done away with. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:11">11 </verse></sup>When I was a
child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as
a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put
away childish things. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:12">12 </verse></sup>For now we see in a mirror,
dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully
known. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 13:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 13:13">13 </verse></sup>But now faith, hope, and love remain—
these three. The greatest of these is love.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:1">1 </verse></sup>Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual
gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:2">2 </verse></sup>For
he who speaks in another language speaks not to
men, but to God, for no one understands, but in the
Spirit he speaks mysteries. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:3">3 </verse></sup>But he who prophesies
speaks to men for their edification, exhortation,
and consolation. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:4">4 </verse></sup>He who speaks in another language
edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies
the assembly. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:5">5 </verse></sup>Now I desire to have you all speak
with other languages, but even more that you would
prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than
he who speaks with other languages, unless he
interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:6">6 </verse></sup>But now, brothers,<footnote:1>14:6 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> if I come to you speaking
with other languages, what would I profit you unless
I speak to you either by way of revelation, or
of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:7">7 </verse></sup>Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether
pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in
the sounds, how would it be known what is piped
or harped? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:8">8 </verse></sup>For if the trumpet gave an uncertain
sound, who would prepare himself for war? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:9">9 </verse></sup>So also
you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to
understand, how would it be known what is spoken?
For you would be speaking into the air. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:10">10 </verse></sup>There are,
it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world,
and none of them is without meaning. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:11">11 </verse></sup>If then I
don’t know the meaning of the language, I would be
to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks
would be a foreigner to me. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:12">12 </verse></sup>So also you, since
you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may
abound to the building up of the assembly.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore let him who speaks in another language
pray that he may interpret. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:14">14 </verse></sup>For if I pray in
another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding
is unfruitful.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:15">15 </verse></sup>What should I do? I will pray with the spirit,
and I will pray with the understanding also. I
will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding also. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:16">16 </verse></sup>Otherwise, if you bless with
the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the
unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks,
seeing he doesn’t know what you say? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:17">17 </verse></sup>For
you most certainly give thanks well, but the other
person is not built up. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:18">18 </verse></sup>I thank my God, I speak
with other languages more than you all. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:19">19 </verse></sup>However,
in the assembly I would rather speak five words with
my understanding, that I might instruct others also,
than ten thousand words in another language.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:20">20 </verse></sup>Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in
malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:21">21 </verse></sup>In
the law it is written, “By men of strange languages
and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this
people. They won’t even listen to me that way,
says the Lord.”<footnote:1>14:21 Isaiah 28:11-12</footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:22">22 </verse></sup>Therefore other languages are
for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the
unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to
the unbelieving, but to those who believe. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:23">23 </verse></sup>If
therefore the whole assembly is assembled together
and all speak with other languages, and unlearned
or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that
you are crazy? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:24">24 </verse></sup>But if all prophesy, and someone
unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved
by all, and he is judged by all. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:25">25 </verse></sup>And thus the secrets
of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his
face and worship God, declaring that God is among
you indeed.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:26">26 </verse></sup>What is it then, brothers? When you come
together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching,
has a revelation, has another language, or has
an interpretation. Let all things be done to build
each other up. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:27">27 </verse></sup>If any man speaks in another
language, let there be two, or at the most three,
and in turn; and let one interpret. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:28">28 </verse></sup>But if there is
no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly,
and let him speak to himself and to God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:29">29 </verse></sup>Let two
or three of the prophets speak, and let the others
discern. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:30">30 </verse></sup>But if a revelation is made to another
sitting by, let the first keep silent. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:31">31 </verse></sup>For you all
can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all
may be exhorted. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:32">32 </verse></sup>The spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:33">33 </verse></sup>for God is not a God of
confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the
saints. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:34">34 </verse></sup>Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies,
for it has not been permitted for them to be talking
except in submission, as the law also says,<footnote:1>14:34 Deuteronomy 27:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:35">35 </verse></sup>if they
desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own
husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be
talking in the assembly.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:36">36 </verse></sup>What!? Was it from you
that the word of God went out? Or did it come to
you alone?

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:37">37 </verse></sup>If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or
spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write
to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:38">38 </verse></sup>But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:39">39 </verse></sup>Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy,
and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 14:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 14:40">40 </verse></sup>Let all things be done decently and in order.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:1">1 </verse></sup>Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News
which I preached to you, which also you received, in
which you also stand, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:2">2 </verse></sup>by which also you are saved,
if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you
—unless you believed in vain.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:3">3 </verse></sup>For I delivered to you first of all that which I
also received: that Christ died for our sins according
to the Scriptures, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:4">4 </verse></sup>that he was buried, that he was
raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:5">5 </verse></sup>and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:6">6 </verse></sup>Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers
at once, most of whom remain until now, but some
have also fallen asleep. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:7">7 </verse></sup>Then he appeared to James,
then to all the apostles, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:8">8 </verse></sup>and last of all, as to the
child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me
also. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:9">9 </verse></sup>For I am the least of the apostles, who is not
worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted
the assembly of God. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:10">10 </verse></sup>But by the grace of God I am
what I am. His grace which was given to me was not
futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I,
but the grace of God which was with me. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:11">11 </verse></sup>Whether
then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:12">12 </verse></sup>Now if Christ is preached, that he has been
raised from the dead, how do some among you say
that there is no resurrection of the dead? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:13">13 </verse></sup>But
if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has
Christ been raised. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:14">14 </verse></sup>If Christ has not been raised,
then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is
in vain. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:15">15 </verse></sup>Yes, we are also found false witnesses of
God, because we testified about God that he raised
up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up if it is true that
the dead are not raised. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:16">16 </verse></sup>For if the dead aren’t
raised, neither has Christ been raised. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:17">17 </verse></sup>If Christ
has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still
in your sins. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:18">18 </verse></sup>Then they also who are fallen asleep
in Christ have perished. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:19">19 </verse></sup>If we have only hoped in
Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:20">20 </verse></sup>But now Christ has been raised from the dead.
He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:21">21 </verse></sup>For since death came by man, the resurrection of
the dead also came by man. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:22">22 </verse></sup>For as in Adam all
die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:23">23 </verse></sup>But
each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then
those who are Christ’s at his coming. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:24">24 </verse></sup>Then the
end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to
God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule
and all authority and power. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:25">25 </verse></sup>For he must reign
until he has put all his enemies under his feet. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:26">26 </verse></sup>The
last enemy that will be abolished is death. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:27">27 </verse></sup>For, “He
put all things in subjection under his feet.”<footnote:1>15:27 Psalm 8:6 </footnote> But
when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is
evident that he is excepted who subjected all things
to him. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:28">28 </verse></sup>When all things have been subjected to
him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to
him who subjected all things to him, that God may
be all in all.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:29><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:29">29 </verse></sup>Or else what will they do who are baptized
for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all,
why then are they baptized for the dead? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:30><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:30">30 </verse></sup>Why
do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:31><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:31">31 </verse></sup>I
affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ
Jesus our Lord, I die daily. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:32><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:32">32 </verse></sup>If I fought with
animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does
it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s
eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”<footnote:1>15:32 Isaiah 22:13 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:33><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:33">33 </verse></sup>Don’t
be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good
morals.” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:34><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:34">34 </verse></sup>Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for
some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your
shame.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:35><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:35">35 </verse></sup>But someone will say, “How are the dead
raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they
come?” <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:36><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:36">36 </verse></sup>You foolish one, that which you yourself
sow is not made alive unless it dies. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:37><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:37">37 </verse></sup>That which
you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but
a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other
kind. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:38><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:38">38 </verse></sup>But God gives it a body even as it pleased
him, and to each seed a body of its own. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:39><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:39">39 </verse></sup>All
flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of
men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and
another of birds. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:40><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:40">40 </verse></sup>There are also celestial bodies
and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial
differs from that of the terrestrial. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:41><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:41">41 </verse></sup>There is one
glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars; for one star differs from
another star in glory.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:42><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:42">42 </verse></sup>So also is the resurrection of the dead. The
body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:43><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:43">43 </verse></sup>It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is
sown in weakness; it is raised in power. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:44><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:44">44 </verse></sup>It is sown
a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:45><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:45">45 </verse></sup>So also it is written, “The first man Adam
became a living soul.”<footnote:1>15:45 Genesis 2:7 </footnote> The last Adam became a
life-giving spirit. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:46><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:46">46 </verse></sup>However, that which is spiritual
isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which
is spiritual. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:47><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:47">47 </verse></sup>The first man is of the earth, made
of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:48><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:48">48 </verse></sup>As is the one made of dust, such are those who
are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such
are they also that are heavenly. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:49><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:49">49 </verse></sup>As we have borne
the image of those made of dust, let’s<footnote:1>15:49 NU, TR read “we will” instead of “let’s” </footnote> also bear the
image of the heavenly. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:50><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:50">50 </verse></sup>Now I say this, brothers,<footnote:1>15:50 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote>
that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom;
neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:51><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:51">51 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>15:51 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I tell you a mystery. We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:52><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:52">52 </verse></sup>in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For
the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we will be changed. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:53><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:53">53 </verse></sup>For this
perishable body must become imperishable, and
this mortal must put on immortality. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:54><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:54">54 </verse></sup>But when
this perishable body will have become imperishable,
and this mortal will have put on immortality,
then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed
up in victory.”<footnote:1>15:54 Isaiah 25:8</footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:55><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:55">55 </verse></sup>“Death, where is your sting?

Hades,<footnote:1>15:55 or, Hell </footnote> where is your victory?”<footnote:1>15:55 See Hosea 13:14 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:56><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:56">56 </verse></sup>The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin
is the law. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:57><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:57">57 </verse></sup>But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 15:58><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 15:58">58 </verse></sup>Therefore,
my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the Lord’s work, because you
know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

#BCV:1 Corinthians 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:1">1 </verse></sup>Now concerning the collection for the saints:
as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do
likewise. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:2">2 </verse></sup>On the first day of every week, let
each one of you save as he may prosper, that no
collections are made when I come. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:3">3 </verse></sup>When I arrive, I
will send whoever you approve with letters to carry
your gracious gift to Jerusalem. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:4">4 </verse></sup>If it is appropriate
for me to go also, they will go with me.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:5">5 </verse></sup>I will come to you when I have passed through
Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:6">6 </verse></sup>But with you it may be that I will stay with you,
or even winter with you, that you may send me on
my journey wherever I go. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:7">7 </verse></sup>For I do not wish to see
you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with
you, if the Lord permits. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:8">8 </verse></sup>But I will stay at Ephesus
until Pentecost, <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:9">9 </verse></sup>for a great and effective door has
opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:10">10 </verse></sup>Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you
without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I
also do. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore let no one despise him. But set
him forward on his journey in peace, that he may
come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:12">12 </verse></sup>Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly
urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it
was not at all his desire to come now; but he will
come when he has an opportunity.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:13">13 </verse></sup>Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous!
Be strong! <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:14">14 </verse></sup>Let all that you do be done in love.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:15">15 </verse></sup>Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house
of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and
that they have set themselves to serve the saints
— <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:16">16 </verse></sup>that you also be in subjection to such, and to
everyone who helps in the work and labors. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:17">17 </verse></sup>I
rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and
Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part,
they supplied. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:18">18 </verse></sup>For they refreshed my spirit and
yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like
that.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:19">19 </verse></sup>The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and
Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, together
with the assembly that is in their house. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:20">20 </verse></sup>All the
brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy
kiss.

<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:21">21 </verse></sup>This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.
<key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:22">22 </verse></sup>If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let
him be cursed.<footnote:1>16:22 Greek: anathema. </footnote> Come, Lord!<footnote:1>16:22 Aramaic: Maranatha!</footnote> <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:23">23 </verse></sup>The grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ be with you. <key:bcv=1 Corinthians 16:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Corinthians 16:24">24 </verse></sup>My love to all of
you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Corinthians
<h2>Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle of Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> Jesus through the will
of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly
of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who
are in the whole of Achaia: <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may
be able to comfort those who are in any affliction,
through the comfort with which we ourselves are
comforted by God. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>For as the sufferings of Christ
abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds
through Christ. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>But if we are afflicted, it is for
your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted,
it is for your comfort, which produces in you the
patient enduring of the same sufferings which we
also suffer. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing
that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so
you are also of the comfort.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>For we don’t desire to have you uninformed,
brothers,<footnote:1>1:8 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”</footnote> concerning our affliction which happened
to us in Asia: that we were weighed down
exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we
despaired even of life. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Yes, we ourselves have
had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we
should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises
the dead, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>who delivered us out of so great a death,
and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope
that he will also still deliver us, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>you also helping
together on our behalf by your supplication; that,
for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks
may be given by many persons on your behalf.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>For our boasting is this: the testimony of our
conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God,
not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we
behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly
toward you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>For we write no other things
to you than what you read or even acknowledge,
and I hope you will acknowledge to the end— <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>as
also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your
boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our
Lord Jesus.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>In this confidence, I was determined to come
first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again
from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent
forward by you on my journey to Judea. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>When I
therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the
things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh,
that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the
“No, no?” <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>But as God is faithful, our word toward
you was not “Yes and no.” <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>For the Son of God,
Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us
—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and
no,” but in him is “Yes.” <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>For however many are
the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore
also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God
through us.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Now he who establishes us with you in Christ
and anointed us is God, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>who also sealed us and
gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our
hearts.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>But I call God for a witness to my soul, that
to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 1:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 1:24">24 </verse></sup>We don’t
control your faith, but are fellow workers with you
for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>But I determined this for myself, that I would
not come to you again in sorrow. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>For if I make
you grieve, then who will make me glad but he
who is made to grieve by me? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>And I wrote this
very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t
have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;
having confidence in you all that my joy would be
shared by all of you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>For out of much affliction
and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears,
not that you should be made to grieve, but that you
might know the love that I have so abundantly for
you.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused
sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too
heavily) to you all. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>This punishment which was
inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive
him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one
should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward
him. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>For to this end I also wrote, that I might
know the proof of you, whether you are obedient
in all things. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Now I also forgive whomever you
forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven
anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in
the presence of Christ, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>that no advantage may be
gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of
his schemes.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>Now when I came to Troas for the Good News
of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the
Lord, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t
find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them,
I went out into Macedonia.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Now thanks be to God who always leads us in
triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet
aroma of his knowledge in every place. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>For we
are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are
saved and in those who perish: <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>to the one a stench
from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma
from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>For we are not as so many, peddling the word of
God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight
of God, we speak in Christ.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Are we beginning again to commend ourselves?
Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation
to you or from you? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>You are our letter, written
in our hearts, known and read by all men, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>being
revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by
us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the
living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that
are hearts of flesh.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Such confidence we have through Christ toward
God, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency
is from God, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>who also made us sufficient as
servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of
the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>But if the service of death, written engraved
on stones, came with glory, so that the children
of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of
Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing
away, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>won’t service of the Spirit be with much
more glory? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>For if the service of condemnation has
glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much
more in glory. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>For most certainly that which has
been made glorious has not been made glorious in
this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>For if that which passes away was with glory,
much more that which remains is in glory.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Having therefore such a hope, we use great
boldness of speech, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>and not as Moses, who put
a veil on his face so that the children of Israel
wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which
was passing away. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But their minds were hardened,
for until this very day at the reading of the old
covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ
it passes away. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>But to this day, when Moses is
read, a veil lies on their heart. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>But whenever
someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>But we all, with
unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a
mirror, are transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even
as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>But we
have renounced the hidden things of shame, not
walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God
deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man’s conscience
in the sight of God. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Even if our Good News is
veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>in whom
the god of this world has blinded the minds of the
unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not
dawn on them. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>For we don’t preach ourselves, but
Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants
for Jesus’ sake, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>seeing it is God who said, “Light
will shine out of darkness,”<footnote:1>4:6 Genesis 1:3 </footnote> who has shone in our
hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that
the exceeding greatness of the power may be of
God and not from ourselves. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>We are pressed on
every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to
despair; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down,
yet not destroyed; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>always carrying in the body
the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life
of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>For
we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’
sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in
our mortal flesh. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>So then death works in us, but
life in you.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>But having the same spirit of faith, according
to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore
I spoke.”<footnote:1>4:13 Psalm 116:10</footnote> We also believe, and therefore we also
speak, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us
with you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For all things are for your sakes, that
the grace, being multiplied through the many, may
cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of
God.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward
person is decaying, yet our inward person
is renewed day by day. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>For our light affliction,
which is for the moment, works for us more
and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>while we don’t look at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen. For the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which
are not seen are eternal.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:1">1 </verse></sup>For we know that if the earthly house of our
tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a
house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:2">2 </verse></sup>For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be
clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:3">3 </verse></sup>if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:4">4 </verse></sup>For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being
burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but
that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may
be swallowed up by life. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Now he who made us for
this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down
payment of the Spirit.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Therefore we are always confident and know
that while we are at home in the body, we are absent
from the Lord; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:7">7 </verse></sup>for we walk by faith, not by sight.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:8">8 </verse></sup>We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to
be absent from the body and to be at home with the
Lord. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore also we make it our aim, whether
at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:10">10 </verse></sup>For
we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of
Christ that each one may receive the things in the
body according to what he has done, whether good
or bad.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we
persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I
hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For we are not commending ourselves to you
again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting
on our behalf, that you may have something to
answer those who boast in appearance and not in
heart. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:13">13 </verse></sup>For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God.
Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:14">14 </verse></sup>For the
love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus:
that one died for all, therefore all died. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:15">15 </verse></sup>He died
for all, that those who live should no longer live to
themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and
rose again.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Therefore we know no one according to the
flesh from now on. Even though we have known
Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him
so no more. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation. The old things have passed
away. Behold,<footnote:1>5:17 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> all things have become new. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:18">18 </verse></sup>But
all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself
through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry
of reconciliation; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:19">19 </verse></sup>namely, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to
them their trespasses, and having committed to us
the word of reconciliation.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:20">20 </verse></sup>We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of
Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we
beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 5:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 5:21">21 </verse></sup>For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on
our behalf, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Working together, we entreat also that you do
not receive the grace of God in vain. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:2">2 </verse></sup>For he says,
“At an acceptable time I listened to you.
In a day of salvation I helped you.”<footnote:1>6:2 Isaiah 49:8 </footnote>
Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold,
now is the day of salvation. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:3">3 </verse></sup>We give no occasion
of stumbling in anything, that our service may
not be blamed, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:4">4 </verse></sup>but in everything commending
ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in
afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:5">5 </verse></sup>in beatings,
in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings,
in fastings, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:6">6 </verse></sup>in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance,
in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:7">7 </verse></sup>in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the
armor of righteousness on the right hand and on
the left, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:8">8 </verse></sup>by glory and dishonor, by evil report and
good report, as deceivers and yet true, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:9">9 </verse></sup>as unknown
and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as
punished and not killed, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:10">10 </verse></sup>as sorrowful yet always
rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having
nothing and yet possessing all things.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our
heart is enlarged. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:12">12 </verse></sup>You are not restricted by us, but
you are restricted by your own affections. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Now in
return—I speak as to my children—you also open
your hearts.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers,
for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity
have? Or what fellowship does light have with
darkness? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:15">15 </verse></sup>What agreement does Christ have with
Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with
an unbeliever? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:16">16 </verse></sup>What agreement does a temple of
God have with idols? For you are a temple of the
living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them
and walk in them. I will be their God and they will
be my people.”<footnote:1>6:16 Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27 </footnote> <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore
<br>
“ ‘Come out from among them,
<br>
and be separate,’ says the Lord.
<br>
‘Touch no unclean thing.

I will receive you.<footnote:1>6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41 </footnote>

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 6:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 6:18">18 </verse></sup>I will be to you a Father.
<br>
You will be to me sons and daughters,’
says the Lord Almighty.”<footnote:1>6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8</footnote>

#BCV:2 Corinthians 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:1">1 </verse></sup>Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s
cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:2">2 </verse></sup>Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We
corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:3">3 </verse></sup>I
say this not to condemn you, for I have said before
that you are in our hearts to die together and live
together. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Great is my boldness of speech toward
you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am
filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our
affliction.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:5">5 </verse></sup>For even when we had come into Macedonia,
our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on
every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:6">6 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God,
comforted us by the coming of Titus, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:7">7 </verse></sup>and not by
his coming only, but also by the comfort with which
he was comforted in you while he told us of your
longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so
that I rejoiced still more.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:8">8 </verse></sup>For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not
regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my
letter made you grieve, though just for a while. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:9">9 </verse></sup>I
now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you
were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved
in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in
nothing. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:10">10 </verse></sup>For godly sorrow produces repentance
leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But
the sorrow of the world produces death. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:11">11 </verse></sup>For
behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in
a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you.
Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal,
and vindication! In everything you demonstrated
yourselves to be pure in the matter. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:12">12 </verse></sup>So although
I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the
wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong,
but that your earnest care for us might be revealed
in you in the sight of God. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore we have
been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the
more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his
spirit has been refreshed by you all. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:14">14 </verse></sup>For if in
anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was
not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you
in truth, so our glorying also which I made before
Titus was found to be truth. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:15">15 </verse></sup>His affection is more
abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of
your obedience, how with fear and trembling you
received him. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 7:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 7:16">16 </verse></sup>I rejoice that in everything I am
confident concerning you.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Moreover, brothers, we make known to you
the grace of God which has been given in the
assemblies of Macedonia, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:2">2 </verse></sup>how in a severe ordeal of
affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep
poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:3">3 </verse></sup>For according to their power, I testify, yes and
beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:4">4 </verse></sup>begging us with much entreaty to receive this
grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:5">5 </verse></sup>This was not as we had expected, but first they
gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through
the will of God. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:6">6 </verse></sup>So we urged Titus, that as he had
made a beginning before, so he would also complete
in you this grace. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:7">7 </verse></sup>But as you abound in everything
—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness,
and in your love to us—see that you also abound in
this grace.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:8">8 </verse></sup>I speak not by way of commandment, but as
proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity
also of your love. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:9">9 </verse></sup>For you know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet
for your sakes he became poor, that you through his
poverty might become rich. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:10">10 </verse></sup>I give advice in this:
it is expedient for you who were the first to start
a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:11">11 </verse></sup>But now complete the doing also, that as there
was the readiness to be willing, so there may be
the completion also out of your ability. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:12">12 </verse></sup>For if
the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to
what you have, not according to what you don’t
have. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:13">13 </verse></sup>For this is not that others may be eased and
you distressed, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:14">14 </verse></sup>but for equality. Your abundance
at this present time supplies their lack, that their
abundance also may become a supply for your lack,
that there may be equality. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:15">15 </verse></sup>As it is written, “He
who gathered much had nothing left over, and he
who gathered little had no lack.”<footnote:1>8:15 Exodus 16:18 </footnote>

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:16">16 </verse></sup>But thanks be to God, who puts the same
earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:17">17 </verse></sup>For
he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself
very earnest, he went out to you of his own
accord. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:18">18 </verse></sup>We have sent together with him the
brother whose praise in the Good News is known
throughout all the assemblies. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:19">19 </verse></sup>Not only so, but he
was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with
us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of
the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:20">20 </verse></sup>We
are avoiding this, that any man should blame us
concerning this abundance which is administered
by us. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:21">21 </verse></sup>Having regard for honorable things, not
only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of
men. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:22">22 </verse></sup>We have sent with them our brother whom
we have many times proved earnest in many things,
but now much more earnest, by reason of the great
confidence which he has in you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:23">23 </verse></sup>As for Titus, he
is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our
brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies,
the glory of Christ. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 8:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 8:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore show the proof of
your love to them before the assemblies, and of our
boasting on your behalf.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:1">1 </verse></sup>It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you
concerning the service to the saints, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:2">2 </verse></sup>for I know
your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to
those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared
for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many
of them. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:3">3 </verse></sup>But I have sent the brothers so that our
boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this
respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:4">4 </verse></sup>lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia
comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we
(to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in
this confident boasting. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:5">5 </verse></sup>I thought it necessary
therefore to entreat the brothers that they would
go before to you and arrange ahead of time the
generous gift that you promised before, that the
same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and
not of greediness.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also
reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also
reap bountifully. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:7">7 </verse></sup>Let each man give according as
he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or
under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:8">8 </verse></sup>And God is able to make all grace abound to you,
that you, always having all sufficiency in everything,
may abound to every good work. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:9">9 </verse></sup>As it is
written,
<br>
“He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.
His righteousness remains forever.”<footnote:1>9:9 Psalm 112:9</footnote>

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:10">10 </verse></sup>Now may he who supplies seed to the sower
and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed
for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:11">11 </verse></sup>you being enriched in everything for
all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God
through us. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:12">12 </verse></sup>For this service of giving that you perform
not only makes up for lack among the saints,
but abounds also through much giving of thanks
to God, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:13">13 </verse></sup>seeing that through the proof given by
this service, they glorify God for the obedience of
your confession to the Good News of Christ and for
the generosity of your contribution to them and to
all, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:14">14 </verse></sup>while they themselves also, with supplication
on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the
exceeding grace of God in you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 9:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 9:15">15 </verse></sup>Now thanks be to
God for his unspeakable gift!

#BCV:2 Corinthians 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:1">1 </verse></sup>Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility
and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am
lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward
you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present,
show courage with the confidence with which I
intend to be bold against some, who consider us to
be walking according to the flesh. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:3">3 </verse></sup>For though we
walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to
the flesh; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:4">4 </verse></sup>for the weapons of our warfare are not
of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing
down of strongholds, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:5">5 </verse></sup>throwing down imaginations
and every high thing that is exalted against the
knowledge of God and bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:6">6 </verse></sup>and being
in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your
obedience is made full.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Do you look at things only as they appear in
front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself
that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with
himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are
Christ’s. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:8">8 </verse></sup>For even if I boast somewhat abundantly
concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for
building you up and not for casting you down, I will
not be ashamed, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:9">9 </verse></sup>that I may not seem as if I desire
to terrify you by my letters. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:10">10 </verse></sup>For, “His letters”,
they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech is despised.” <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Let
such a person consider this, that what we are in
word by letters when we are absent, such are we also
in deed when we are present.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:12">12 </verse></sup>For we are not bold to number or compare
ourselves with some of those who commend themselves.
But they themselves, measuring themselves
by themselves, and comparing themselves with
themselves, are without understanding. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:13">13 </verse></sup>But we
will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the
boundaries with which God appointed to us, which
reach even to you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:14">14 </verse></sup>For we don’t stretch ourselves
too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we
came even as far as to you with the Good News of
Christ, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:15">15 </verse></sup>not boasting beyond proper limits in other
men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith
grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in
our sphere of influence, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:16">16 </verse></sup>so as to preach the Good
News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in
what someone else has already done. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:17">17 </verse></sup>But “he who
boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”<footnote:1>10:17 Jeremiah 9:24 </footnote> <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 10:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 10:18">18 </verse></sup>For it isn’t he
who commends himself who is approved, but whom
the Lord commends.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:1">1 </verse></sup>I wish that you would bear with me in a little
foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:2">2 </verse></sup>For
I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For
I promised you in marriage to one husband, that
I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:3">3 </verse></sup>But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent
deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:4">4 </verse></sup>For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom
we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit
which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”
which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well
enough. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:5">5 </verse></sup>For I reckon that I am not at all behind
the very best apostles. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:6">6 </verse></sup>But though I am unskilled
in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No,
in every way we have been revealed to you in all
things.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:7">7 </verse></sup>Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that
you might be exalted, because I preached to you
God’s Good News free of charge? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:8">8 </verse></sup>I robbed other
assemblies, taking wages from them that I might
serve you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:9">9 </verse></sup>When I was present with you and was in
need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers,
when they came from Macedonia, supplied the
measure of my need. In everything I kept myself
from being burdensome to you, and I will continue
to do so. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:10">10 </verse></sup>As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will
stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:11">11 </verse></sup>Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:12">12 </verse></sup>But what I do, that I will continue to do, that
I may cut off opportunity from those who desire
an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may
be recognized just like us. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:13">13 </verse></sup>For such men are
false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as
Christ’s apostles. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:14">14 </verse></sup>And no wonder, for even Satan
masquerades as an angel of light. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:15">15 </verse></sup>It is no great
thing therefore if his servants also masquerade
as servants of righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:16">16 </verse></sup>I say again, let no one think me foolish. But
if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may
boast a little. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:17">17 </verse></sup>That which I speak, I don’t speak
according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this
confidence of boasting. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:18">18 </verse></sup>Seeing that many boast
after the flesh, I will also boast. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:19">19 </verse></sup>For you bear
with the foolish gladly, being wise. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:20">20 </verse></sup>For you bear
with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he
devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts
himself, or if he strikes you on the face. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:21">21 </verse></sup>To
my shame, I speak as though we had been weak.
Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in
foolishness), I am bold also. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:22">22 </verse></sup>Are they Hebrews?
So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the
offspring<footnote:1>11:22 or, seed</footnote> of Abraham? So am I. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:23">23 </verse></sup>Are they servants
of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more
so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more
abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths
often. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:24">24 </verse></sup>Five times I received forty stripes minus
one from the Jews. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:25">25 </verse></sup>Three times I was beaten with
rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered
shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the
deep. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:26">26 </verse></sup>I have been in travels often, perils of rivers,
perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils
from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the
wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false
brothers; <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:27><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:27">27 </verse></sup>in labor and travail, in watchings often,
in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold
and nakedness.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:28><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:28">28 </verse></sup>Besides those things that are outside, there is
that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the
assemblies. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:29><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:29">29 </verse></sup>Who is weak, and I am not weak?
Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with
indignation?

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:30><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:30">30 </verse></sup>If I must boast, I will boast of the things that
concern my weakness. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:31><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:31">31 </verse></sup>The God and Father of the
Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more,
knows that I don’t lie. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:32><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:32">32 </verse></sup>In Damascus the governor
under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city,
desiring to arrest me. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 11:33><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 11:33">33 </verse></sup>I was let down in a basket
through a window by the wall, and escaped his
hands.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:1">1 </verse></sup>It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast,
but I will come to visions and revelations of the
Lord. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:2">2 </verse></sup>I know a man in Christ who was caught up
into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether
in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the
body, I don’t know; God knows. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:3">3 </verse></sup>I know such a
man (whether in the body, or outside of the body,
I don’t know; God knows), <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:4">4 </verse></sup>how he was caught up
into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which
it is not lawful for a man to utter. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:5">5 </verse></sup>On behalf of
such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I
will not boast, except in my weaknesses. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:6">6 </verse></sup>For if
I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I
will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man
may think more of me than that which he sees in
me or hears from me. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:7">7 </verse></sup>By reason of the exceeding
greatness of the revelations, that I should not be
exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given
to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I
should not be exalted excessively. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:8">8 </verse></sup>Concerning this
thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might
depart from me. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:9">9 </verse></sup>He has said to me, “My grace is
sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory
in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest
on me.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in
injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses,
for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak,
then am I strong. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:11">11 </verse></sup>I have become foolish in
boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have
been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior
to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among
you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and
mighty works. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:13">13 </verse></sup>For what is there in which you
were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies,
unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you?
Forgive me this wrong!

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Behold, this is the third time I am ready to
come to you, and I will not be a burden to you;
for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the
children ought not to save up for the parents, but
the parents for the children. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:15">15 </verse></sup>I will most gladly
spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you
more abundantly, am I loved the less? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:16">16 </verse></sup>Even so,
I myself didn’t burden you. But you might say that
being crafty, I caught you with deception. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:17">17 </verse></sup>Did I
take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I
have sent to you? <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:18">18 </verse></sup>I exhorted Titus, and I sent the
brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of
you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we
walk in the same steps?

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:19">19 </verse></sup>Again, do you think that we are excusing
ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in
Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:20">20 </verse></sup>For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might
find you not the way I want to, and that I might
be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps
there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger,
factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or
riots, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 12:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 12:21">21 </verse></sup>that again when I come my God would
humble me before you, and I would mourn for
many of those who have sinned before now, and
not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality,
and lustfulness which they committed.

#BCV:2 Corinthians 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:1">1 </verse></sup>This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the
mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word
be established.”<footnote:1>13:1 Deuteronomy 19:15</footnote> <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:2">2 </verse></sup>I have warned previously, and I
warn again, as when I was present the second time,
so now, being absent, I write to those who have
sinned before now and to all the rest that if I come
again, I will not spare, <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:3">3 </verse></sup>seeing that you seek a proof
of Christ who speaks in me who is not weak, but
is powerful in you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:4">4 </verse></sup>For he was crucified through
weakness, yet he lives through the power of God.
For we also are weak in him, but we will live with
him through the power of God toward you.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Examine your own selves, whether you are in
the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know
about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—
unless indeed you are disqualified. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:6">6 </verse></sup>But I hope that
you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that
we may appear approved, but that you may do that
which is honorable, though we may seem to have
failed. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:8">8 </verse></sup>For we can do nothing against the truth,
but for the truth. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:9">9 </verse></sup>For we rejoice when we are weak
and you are strong. We also pray for this: your
becoming perfect. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:10">10 </verse></sup>For this cause I write these
things while absent, that I may not deal sharply
when present, according to the authority which the
Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing
down.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:11">11 </verse></sup>Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be
comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and
the God of love and peace will be with you. <key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Greet
one another with a holy kiss.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:13">13 </verse></sup>All the saints greet you.

<key:bcv=2 Corinthians 13:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Corinthians 13:14">14 </verse></sup>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Galatians
<h2>Paul’s Letter to the Galatians</h2>

<key:bcv=Galatians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle —not from men, nor through
man, but through Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> and God the Father,
who raised him from the dead — <key:bcv=Galatians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>and all the
brothers<footnote:1>1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> who are with me, to the assemblies of
Galatia: <key:bcv=Galatians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace from God the
Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=Galatians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>who gave himself
for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this
present evil age, according to the will of our God and
Father— <key:bcv=Galatians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>to whom be the glory forever and ever.
Amen.

<key:bcv=Galatians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him
who called you in the grace of Christ to a different
“good news”, <key:bcv=Galatians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>but there isn’t another “good news.”
Only there are some who trouble you and want
to pervert the Good News of Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But even
though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach
to you any “good news” other than that which we
preached to you, let him be cursed. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>As we have
said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches
to you any “good news” other than that which you
received, let him be cursed.

<key:bcv=Galatians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of
God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were
still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
<key:bcv=Galatians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>But I make known to you, brothers, concerning
the Good News which was preached by me, that it
is not according to man. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>For I didn’t receive it
from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me
through revelation of Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>For you have
heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’
religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the
assembly of God and ravaged it. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>I advanced in the
Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among
my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous
for the traditions of my fathers. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>But when it was
the good pleasure of God, who separated me from
my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
<key:bcv=Galatians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him
among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer
with flesh and blood, <key:bcv=Galatians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>nor did I go up to Jerusalem
to those who were apostles before me, but I went
away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
<key:bcv=Galatians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to
visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>But
of the other apostles I saw no one except James,
the Lord’s brother. <key:bcv=Galatians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Now about the things which
I write to you, behold,<footnote:1>1:20 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</footnote> before God, I’m not lying.
<key:bcv=Galatians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
<key:bcv=Galatians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of
Judea which were in Christ, <key:bcv=Galatians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>but they only heard,
“He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith
that he once tried to destroy.” <key:bcv=Galatians 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 1:24">24 </verse></sup>So they glorified
God in me.

#BCV:Galatians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Galatians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Then after a period of fourteen years I went
up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus
also with me. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>I went up by revelation, and I laid
before them the Good News which I preach among
the Gentiles, but privately before those who were
respected, for fear that I might be running, or had
run, in vain. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>But not even Titus, who was with
me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
<key:bcv=Galatians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>This was because of the false brothers secretly
brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which
we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us
into bondage, <key:bcv=Galatians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>to whom we gave no place in the
way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth
of the Good News might continue with you. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But
from those who were reputed to be important —
whatever they were, it makes no difference to me;
God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who
were respected imparted nothing to me, <key:bcv=Galatians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>but to the
contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted
with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even
as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised
— <key:bcv=Galatians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship
with the circumcised also worked through
me with the Gentiles— <key:bcv=Galatians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>and when they perceived
the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas
and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave
to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship,
that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the
circumcision. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>They only asked us to remember
the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
<key:bcv=Galatians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him
to his face, because he stood condemned. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>For
before some people came from James, he ate with
the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and
separated himself, fearing those who were of the
circumcision. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>And the rest of the Jews joined him
in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried
away with their hypocrisy. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>But when I saw that
they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of
the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If
you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as
the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live
as the Jews do?

<key:bcv=Galatians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile
sinners, <key:bcv=Galatians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>yet knowing that a man is not justified
by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus
Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we
might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the
works of the law, because no flesh will be justified
by the works of the law. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>But if while we sought
to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were
found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly
not! <key:bcv=Galatians 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:18">18 </verse></sup>For if I build up again those things which
I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:19">19 </verse></sup>For I
through the law died to the law, that I might live
to God. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:20">20 </verse></sup>I have been crucified with Christ, and it
is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That
life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up
for me. <key:bcv=Galatians 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 2:21">21 </verse></sup>I don’t reject the grace of God. For if
righteousness is through the law, then Christ died
for nothing!”

#BCV:Galatians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not
to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
was openly portrayed among you as crucified? <key:bcv=Galatians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>I
just want to learn this from you: Did you receive
the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing
of faith? <key:bcv=Galatians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Are you so foolish? Having begun in
the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
<key:bcv=Galatians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is
indeed in vain? <key:bcv=Galatians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He therefore who supplies the
Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does
he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of
faith? <key:bcv=Galatians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it
was counted to him for righteousness.”<footnote:1>3:6 Genesis 15:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Know
therefore that those who are of faith are children
of Abraham. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>The Scripture, foreseeing that God
would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the
Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In
you all the nations will be blessed.”<footnote:1>3:8 Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>So then,
those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful
Abraham.

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>For as many as are of the works of the law are
under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone
who doesn’t continue in all things that are written
in the book of the law, to do them.”<footnote:1>3:10 Deuteronomy 27:26 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Now that
no man is justified by the law before God is evident,
for, “The righteous will live by faith.”<footnote:1>3:11 Habakkuk 2:4 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>The law is
not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live
by them.”<footnote:1>3:12 Leviticus 18:5 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us. For it is written,
“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”<footnote:1>3:13 Deuteronomy 21:23 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>that
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Brothers, speaking of human terms, though
it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been
confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Now
the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his
offspring.<footnote:1>3:16 or, seed </footnote> He doesn’t say, “To descendants<footnote:1>3:16 or, seeds </footnote>”, as
of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,<footnote:1>3:16 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7 </footnote> which
is Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Now I say this: A covenant confirmed
beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came
four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so
as to make the promise of no effect. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>For if the
inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise;
but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
<key:bcv=Galatians 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Then why is there the law? It was added because
of transgressions, until the offspring should
come to whom the promise has been made. It was
ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
<key:bcv=Galatians 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Now a mediator is not between one, but God is
one.

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Is the law then against the promises of God?
Certainly not! For if there had been a law given
which could make alive, most certainly righteousness
would have been of the law. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:22">22 </verse></sup>But the Scripture
imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise
by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who
believe.

<key:bcv=Galatians 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:23">23 </verse></sup>But before faith came, we were kept in custody
under the law, confined for the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:24">24 </verse></sup>So that the law has
become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we
might be justified by faith. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:25">25 </verse></sup>But now that faith
has come, we are no longer under a tutor. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:26><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:26">26 </verse></sup>For
you are all children of God, through faith in Christ
Jesus. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:27><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:27">27 </verse></sup>For as many of you as were baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:28><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:28">28 </verse></sup>There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is
neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ
Jesus. <key:bcv=Galatians 3:29><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 3:29">29 </verse></sup>If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s
offspring and heirs according to promise.
#BCV:Galatians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Galatians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he
is no different from a bondservant, though he is
lord of all, <key:bcv=Galatians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>but is under guardians and stewards
until the day appointed by the father. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>So we also,
when we were children, were held in bondage under
the elemental principles of the world. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>But when
the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son,
born to a woman, born under the law, <key:bcv=Galatians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>that he
might redeem those who were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption as children. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>And
because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of
his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,<footnote:1>4:6 Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.</footnote> Father!”
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and
if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>However at that time, not knowing God, you
were in bondage to those who by nature are not
gods. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>But now that you have come to know God,
or rather to be known by God, why do you turn
back again to the weak and miserable elemental
principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all
over again? <key:bcv=Galatians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>You observe days, months, seasons,
and years. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>I am afraid for you, that I might have
wasted my labor for you.

<key:bcv=Galatians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also
have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>but you know that because of weakness in the
flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>That which was a temptation to you in my flesh,
you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me
as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I
testify to you that, if possible, you would have
plucked out your eyes and given them to me. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>So
then, have I become your enemy by telling you the
truth? <key:bcv=Galatians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>They zealously seek you in no good way.
No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek
them. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>But it is always good to be zealous in a good
cause, and not only when I am present with you.
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:19">19 </verse></sup>My little children, of whom I am again in travail
until Christ is formed in you— <key:bcv=Galatians 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:20">20 </verse></sup>but I could wish to
be present with you now, and to change my tone,
for I am perplexed about you.

<key:bcv=Galatians 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Tell me, you that desire to be under the law,
don’t you listen to the law? <key:bcv=Galatians 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:22">22 </verse></sup>For it is written that
Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and
one by the free woman. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:23">23 </verse></sup>However, the son by the
servant was born according to the flesh, but the
son by the free woman was born through promise.
<key:bcv=Galatians 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:24">24 </verse></sup>These things contain an allegory, for these are
two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing
children to bondage, which is Hagar. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:25">25 </verse></sup>For this
Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the
Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with
her children. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:26">26 </verse></sup>But the Jerusalem that is above is
free, which is the mother of us all. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:27">27 </verse></sup>For it is written,
“Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
<br>
Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
For the desolate women have more children
than her who has a husband.”<footnote:1>4:27 Isaiah 54:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Galatians 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:28">28 </verse></sup>Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of
promise. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:29">29 </verse></sup>But as then, he who was born according
to the flesh persecuted him who was born according
to the Spirit, so also it is now. <key:bcv=Galatians 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:30">30 </verse></sup>However, what does
the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her
son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with
the son of the free woman.”<footnote:1>4:30 Genesis 21:10 </footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 4:31">31 </verse></sup>So then, brothers,
we are not children of a servant, but of the free
woman.

#BCV:Galatians 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which
Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled
again with a yoke of bondage.

<key:bcv=Galatians 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive
circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes,
I testify again to every man who receives circumcision
that he is a debtor to do the whole law. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:4">4 </verse></sup>You
are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be
justified by the law. You have fallen away from
grace. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:5">5 </verse></sup>For we through the Spirit, by faith wait
for the hope of righteousness. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:6">6 </verse></sup>For in Christ Jesus
neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts
to anything, but faith working through love.
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:7">7 </verse></sup>You were running well! Who interfered with
you that you should not obey the truth? <key:bcv=Galatians 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:8">8 </verse></sup>This
persuasion is not from him who calls you. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:9">9 </verse></sup>A little
yeast grows through the whole lump. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:10">10 </verse></sup>I have
confidence toward you in the Lord that you will
think no other way. But he who troubles you will
bear his judgment, whoever he is.

<key:bcv=Galatians 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:11">11 </verse></sup>But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision,
why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling
block of the cross has been removed. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:12">12 </verse></sup>I wish that
those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:13">13 </verse></sup>For you, brothers, were called for freedom.
Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for
the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:14">14 </verse></sup>For the whole law is fulfilled in one word,
in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”<footnote:1>5:14 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:15">15 </verse></sup>But if you bite and devour one another, be careful
that you don’t consume one another.

<key:bcv=Galatians 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:16">16 </verse></sup>But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t
fulfill the lust of the flesh. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:17">17 </verse></sup>For the flesh lusts
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
and these are contrary to one another, that you
may not do the things that you desire. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:18">18 </verse></sup>But if
you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the
law. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious,
which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness,
lustfulness, <key:bcv=Galatians 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:20">20 </verse></sup>idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife,
jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions,
heresies, <key:bcv=Galatians 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:21">21 </verse></sup>envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and
things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I
also forewarned you, that those who practice such
things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:22">22 </verse></sup>But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faith,<footnote:1>5:22 or, faithfulness</footnote> <key:bcv=Galatians 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:23">23 </verse></sup>gentleness,
and self-control. Against such things there is no
law. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Those who belong to Christ have crucified
the flesh with its passions and lusts.
<key:bcv=Galatians 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:25">25 </verse></sup>If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the
Spirit. <key:bcv=Galatians 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Let’s not become conceited, provoking one
another, and envying one another.

#BCV:Galatians 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Galatians 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault,
you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a
spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you
also aren’t tempted. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Bear one another’s burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:3">3 </verse></sup>For if a man thinks
himself to be something when he is nothing, he
deceives himself. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:4">4 </verse></sup>But let each man examine his
own work, and then he will have reason to boast in
himself, and not in someone else. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:5">5 </verse></sup>For each man
will bear his own burden.

<key:bcv=Galatians 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:6">6 </verse></sup>But let him who is taught in the word share all
good things with him who teaches.

<key:bcv=Galatians 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for
whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:8">8 </verse></sup>For he
who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap
corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from
the Spirit reap eternal life. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:9">9 </verse></sup>Let’s not be weary in
doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t
give up. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:10">10 </verse></sup>So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do
what is good toward all men, and especially toward
those who are of the household of the faith.
<key:bcv=Galatians 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:11">11 </verse></sup>See with what large letters I write to you
with my own hand. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:12">12 </verse></sup>As many as desire to make
a good impression in the flesh compel you to be
circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for
the cross of Christ. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:13">13 </verse></sup>For even they who receive
circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but
they desire to have you circumcised, so that they
may boast in your flesh. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:14">14 </verse></sup>But far be it from me to
boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been crucified to me,
and I to the world. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:15">15 </verse></sup>For in Christ Jesus neither is
circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a
new creation. <key:bcv=Galatians 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:16">16 </verse></sup>As many as walk by this rule, peace
and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
<key:bcv=Galatians 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:17">17 </verse></sup>From now on, let no one cause me any trouble,
for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my
body.

<key:bcv=Galatians 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Galatians 6:18">18 </verse></sup>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit, brothers. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Ephesians
<h2>Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians</h2>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle of Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> Jesus through the will
of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the
faithful in Christ Jesus: <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>even as
he chose us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we would be holy and without defect
before him in love, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>having predestined us for adoption
as children through Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his desire, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>to
the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he
freely gave us favor in the Beloved. <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>In him we have
our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of our trespasses, according to the riches of his
grace <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>which he made to abound toward us in all
wisdom and prudence, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>making known to us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>to an administration
of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things
in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things
on the earth, in him. <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>We were also assigned
an inheritance in him, having been foreordained
according to the purpose of him who does all things
after the counsel of his will, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>to the end that we
should be to the praise of his glory, we who had
before hoped in Christ. <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>In him you also, having
heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your
salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were
sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>who is a
pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of
God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>For this cause I also, having heard of the faith
in the Lord Jesus which is among you and the love
which you have toward all the saints, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>don’t cease
to give thanks for you, making mention of you in
my prayers, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>having the eyes of your hearts<footnote:1>1:18 TR reads “understanding” instead of “hearts”</footnote> enlightened, that
you may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance
in the saints, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>and what is the exceeding greatness
of his power toward us who believe, according to
that working of the strength of his might <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>which
he worked in Christ when he raised him from the
dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the
heavenly places, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>far above all rule, authority,
power, dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this age, but also in that which is to
come. <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>He put all things in subjection under his
feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the
assembly, <key:bcv=Ephesians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>which is his body, the fullness of him
who fills all in all.

#BCV:Ephesians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ephesians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>You were made alive when you were dead in
transgressions and sins, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>in which you once walked
according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who
now works in the children of disobedience. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>We
also all once lived among them in the lusts of our
flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind,
and were by nature children of wrath, even as the
rest. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>But God, being rich in mercy, for his great
love with which he loved us, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>even when we were
dead through our trespasses, made us alive together
with Christ—by grace you have been saved— <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>and
raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him
in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>that in the
ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
<key:bcv=Ephesians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>for by grace you have been saved through faith,
and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>not
of works, that no one would boast. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For we are
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared before that we would
walk in them.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles
in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision”
by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh,
made by hands), <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>that you were at that time separate
from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the
promise, having no hope and without God in the
world. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>But now in Christ Jesus you who once were
far off are made near in the blood of Christ. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>For he
is our peace, who made both one, and broke down
the middle wall of separation, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>having abolished
in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments
contained in ordinances, that he might create in
himself one new man of the two, making peace,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>and might reconcile them both in one body to
God through the cross, having killed the hostility
through it. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>He came and preached peace to you
who were far off and to those who were near. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:18">18 </verse></sup>For
through him we both have our access in one Spirit
to the Father. <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:19">19 </verse></sup>So then you are no longer strangers
and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints and of the household of God, <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:20">20 </verse></sup>being built on
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ
Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:21">21 </verse></sup>in
whom the whole building, fitted together, grows
into a holy temple in the Lord; <key:bcv=Ephesians 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 2:22">22 </verse></sup>in whom you also
are built together for a habitation of God in the
Spirit.

#BCV:Ephesians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ
Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>if it is so that you
have heard of the administration of that grace of
God which was given me toward you, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>how that
by revelation the mystery was made known to me,
as I wrote before in few words, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>by which, when
you read, you can perceive my understanding in the
mystery of Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>which in other generations was
not made known to the children of men, as it has
now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets
in the Spirit, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and
fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of
his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>of which I was made a servant according to the gift
of that grace of God which was given me according
to the working of his power. <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>To me, the very
least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to
the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>and
to make all men see what is the administration<footnote:1>3:9 TR reads “fellowship” instead of “administration” </footnote>
of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in
God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>to the intent that now through the assembly the
manifold wisdom of God might be made known to
the principalities and the powers in the heavenly
places, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>according to the eternal purpose which he
accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>In him we
have boldness and access in confidence through our
faith in him. <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore I ask that you may not lose
heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>from whom every family
in heaven and on earth is named, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>that he would
grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that
you may be strengthened with power through his
Spirit in the inner person, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being
rooted and grounded in love, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>may be strengthened
to comprehend with all the saints what is the
width and length and height and depth, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:19">19 </verse></sup>and to
know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that
you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Now to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the power that works in us, <key:bcv=Ephesians 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 3:21">21 </verse></sup>to him be the
glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all
generations, forever and ever. Amen.

#BCV:Ephesians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you
to walk worthily of the calling with which you
were called, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>with all lowliness and humility, with
patience, bearing with one another in love, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>being
eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
of peace. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>There is one body and one Spirit, even
as you also were called in one hope of your calling,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>one Lord, one faith, one baptism, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>one God and
Father of all, who is over all and through all and
in us all. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But to each one of us, the grace was
given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore he says,<br>
“When he ascended on high,<br>
he led captivity captive,<br>
and gave gifts to people.”<footnote:1>4:8 Psalm 68:18 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also
first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>He who descended is the one who also ascended
far above all the heavens, that he might fill all
things.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>He gave some to be apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds<footnote:1>4:11 or, pastors </footnote>
and teachers; <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>for the perfecting of the
saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of
the body of Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>until we all attain to the unity
of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature
of the fullness of Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>that we may no longer
be children, tossed back and forth and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
in craftiness, after the wiles of error; <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>but speaking
truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him
who is the head, Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>from whom all the body,
being fitted and knit together through that which
every joint supplies, according to the working in
measure of each individual part, makes the body
increase to the building up of itself in love.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles
also walk, in the futility of their mind, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>being
darkened in their understanding, alienated from
the life of God because of the ignorance that is
in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:19">19 </verse></sup>They, having become callous, gave themselves up
to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:20">20 </verse></sup>But you didn’t learn Christ that way, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:21">21 </verse></sup>if indeed
you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth
is in Jesus: <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:22">22 </verse></sup>that you put away, as concerning your
former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt
after the lusts of deceit, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:23">23 </verse></sup>and that you be renewed
in the spirit of your mind, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:24><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:24">24 </verse></sup>and put on the new
man, who in the likeness of God has been created
in righteousness and holiness of truth.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:25><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth
each one with his neighbor, for we are members of
one another. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:26><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:26">26 </verse></sup>“Be angry, and don’t sin.”<footnote:1>4:26 Psalm 4:4 </footnote> Don’t
let the sun go down on your wrath, <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:27><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:27">27 </verse></sup>and don’t
give place<footnote:1>4:27 or, opportunity</footnote> to the devil. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:28><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:28">28 </verse></sup>Let him who stole steal
no more; but rather let him labor, producing with
his hands something that is good, that he may have
something to give to him who has need. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:29><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:29">29 </verse></sup>Let no
corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only
what is good for building others up as the need
may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 4:30><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:30">30 </verse></sup>Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you
were sealed for the day of redemption. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:31><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:31">31 </verse></sup>Let all
bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put
away from you, with all malice. <key:bcv=Ephesians 4:32><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 4:32">32 </verse></sup>And be kind to
one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other,
just as God also in Christ forgave you.
#BCV:Ephesians 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and
gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:3">3 </verse></sup>But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or
covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among
you, as becomes saints; <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:4">4 </verse></sup>nor filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but
rather giving of thanks.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral
person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who
is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom
of Christ and God.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes on
the children of disobedience. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t be
partakers with them. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:8">8 </verse></sup>For you were once darkness,
but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of
light, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:9">9 </verse></sup>for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:10">10 </verse></sup>proving what is well
pleasing to the Lord. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Have no fellowship with
the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even
reprove them. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For it is a shame even to speak of
the things which are done by them in secret. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:13">13 </verse></sup>But
all things, when they are reproved, are revealed
by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and
arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as
unwise, but as wise, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:16">16 </verse></sup>redeeming the time, because
the days are evil. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore, don’t be foolish, but
understand what the will of the Lord is. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:18">18 </verse></sup>Don’t
be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but
be filled with the Spirit, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:19">19 </verse></sup>speaking to one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and
making melody in your heart to the Lord; <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:20">20 </verse></sup>giving
thanks always concerning all things in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:21">21 </verse></sup>subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear
of Christ.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:22><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as
to the Lord. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:23><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:23">23 </verse></sup>For the husband is the head of the
wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly,
being himself the savior of the body. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:24><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:24">24 </verse></sup>But as the
assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also
be to their own husbands in everything.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:25><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:26><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:26">26 </verse></sup>that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her
by the washing of water with the word, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:27><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:27">27 </verse></sup>that he
might present the assembly to himself gloriously,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
that she should be holy and without defect. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:28><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:28">28 </verse></sup>Even
so husbands also ought to love their own wives as
their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
himself. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:29><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:29">29 </verse></sup>For no man ever hated his own flesh,
but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also
does the assembly, <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:30><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:30">30 </verse></sup>because we are members of his
body, of his flesh and bones. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:31><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:31">31 </verse></sup>“For this cause a man
will leave his father and mother and will be joined
to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”<footnote:1>5:31 Genesis 2:24 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Ephesians 5:32><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:32">32 </verse></sup>This mystery is great, but I speak concerning
Christ and the assembly. <key:bcv=Ephesians 5:33><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 5:33">33 </verse></sup>Nevertheless each of you
must also love his own wife even as himself; and let
the wife see that she respects her husband.

#BCV:Ephesians 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
is right. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:2">2 </verse></sup>“Honor your father and mother,” which
is the first commandment with a promise: <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:3">3 </verse></sup>“that it
may be well with you, and you may live long on the
earth.”<footnote:1>6:3 Deuteronomy 5:16 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:4">4 </verse></sup>You fathers, don’t provoke your children to
wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction
of the Lord.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:5">5 </verse></sup>Servants, be obedient to those who according to
the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling,
in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:6">6 </verse></sup>not in the
way of service only when eyes are on you, as men
pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of
God from the heart, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:7">7 </verse></sup>with good will doing service as
to the Lord and not to men, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:8">8 </verse></sup>knowing that whatever
good thing each one does, he will receive the same
good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or
free.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:9">9 </verse></sup>You masters, do the same things to them, and
give up threatening, knowing that he who is both
their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no
partiality with him.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:10">10 </verse></sup>Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the
strength of his might. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:11">11 </verse></sup>Put on the whole armor of
God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:12">12 </verse></sup>For our wrestling is not against flesh
and blood, but against the principalities, against the
powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of
this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness
in the heavenly places. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore put on
the whole armor of God, that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:14">14 </verse></sup>Stand therefore, having the utility belt of
truth buckled around your waist, and having put
on the breastplate of righteousness, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:15">15 </verse></sup>and having
fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good
News of peace, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:16">16 </verse></sup>above all, taking up the shield of
faith, with which you will be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the evil one. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:17">17 </verse></sup>And take the helmet
of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word<footnote:1>6:17 from the Greek “<greek>ῥῆμα<english>” (<transgreek>rhema<english>), which means “spoken word”</footnote> of God; <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:18">18 </verse></sup>with all prayer and requests,
praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful
to this end in all perseverance and requests for all
the saints. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:19">19 </verse></sup>Pray for me, that utterance may be
given to me in opening my mouth, to make known
with boldness the mystery of the Good News, <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:20">20 </verse></sup>for
which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may
speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:21><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:21">21 </verse></sup>But that you also may know my affairs, how
I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and
faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you
all things. <key:bcv=Ephesians 6:22><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:22">22 </verse></sup>I have sent him to you for this very
purpose, that you may know our state and that he
may comfort your hearts.

<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:23><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:23">23 </verse></sup>Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith,
from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Ephesians 6:24><sup><verse bcv="Ephesians 6:24">24 </verse></sup>Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus
Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Philippians
<h2>Paul’s Letter to the Philippians</h2>

<key:bcv=Philippians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> to
all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi,
with the overseers<footnote:1>1:1 or, superintendents, or bishops </footnote> and servants:<footnote:1>1:1 Or, deacons </footnote> <key:bcv=Philippians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

<key:bcv=Philippians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>I thank my God whenever I remember you,
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>always in every request of mine on behalf of
you all, making my requests with joy, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>for your
partnership<footnote:1>1:5 The word translated “partnership” (<greek>κοινωνίᾳ<english>) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”. </footnote> in furtherance of the Good News from
the first day until now; <key:bcv=Philippians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>being confident of this very
thing, that he who began a good work in you will
complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>It is even
right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you,
because I have you in my heart, because both in my
bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the
Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>For God is my witness, how I long after all of you
in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>This I pray, that your love may abound yet more
and more in knowledge and all discernment, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>so
that you may approve the things that are excellent,
that you may be sincere and without offense to
the day of Christ, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>being filled with the fruits of
righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to
the glory and praise of God.

<key:bcv=Philippians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Now I desire to have you know, brothers,<footnote:1>1:12 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> that
the things which happened to me have turned out
rather to the progress of the Good News, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>so that it
became evident to the whole palace<footnote:1>1:13 or, praetorian </footnote> guard, and to
all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>and that
most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident
through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to
speak the word of God without fear. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Some indeed
preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some
also out of good will. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>The former insincerely
preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that
they add affliction to my chains; <key:bcv=Philippians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>but the latter out
of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense
of the Good News.

<key:bcv=Philippians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>What does it matter? Only that in every
way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is
proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>For I know that this will turn out to my salvation
through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of
Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>according to my earnest expectation
and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but
with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be
magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>But
if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my
work; yet I don’t know what I will choose. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>But I am
hard pressed between the two, having the desire to
depart and be with Christ, which is far better. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Yet
to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
<key:bcv=Philippians 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:25">25 </verse></sup>Having this confidence, I know that I will remain,
yes, and remain with you all for your progress and
joy in the faith, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:26">26 </verse></sup>that your boasting<footnote:1>1:26 or, rejoicing</footnote> may abound
in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you
again.

<key:bcv=Philippians 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good
News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or
am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand
firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the
faith of the Good News; <key:bcv=Philippians 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:28">28 </verse></sup>and in nothing frightened
by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of
destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from
God. <key:bcv=Philippians 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:29">29 </verse></sup>Because it has been granted to you on behalf
of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to
suffer on his behalf, <key:bcv=Philippians 1:30><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 1:30">30 </verse></sup>having the same conflict
which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

#BCV:Philippians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ,
if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the
Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>make
my joy full by being like-minded, having the same
love, being of one accord, of one mind; <key:bcv=Philippians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>doing
nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in
humility, each counting others better than himself;
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>each of you not just looking to his own things, but
each of you also to the things of others.
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Have this in your mind, which was also in
Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>who, existing in the form of God,
didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be
grasped, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>but emptied himself, taking the form of
a servant, being made in the likeness of men. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>And
being found in human form, he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the
death of the cross. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Therefore God also highly
exalted him, and gave to him the name which is
above every name, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth,
and those under the earth, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father.

<key:bcv=Philippians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>So then, my beloved, even as you have always
obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>For it is God who works
in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Do all things without complaining and arguing,
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>that you may become blameless and harmless,
children of God without defect in the middle of a
crooked and perverse generation, among whom you
are seen as lights in the world, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>holding up the
word of life, that I may have something to boast in
the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in
vain. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice
and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with
you all. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:18">18 </verse></sup>In the same way, you also should be glad
and rejoice with me.

<key:bcv=Philippians 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:19">19 </verse></sup>But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to
you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know
how you are doing. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:20">20 </verse></sup>For I have no one else likeminded,
who will truly care about you. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:21">21 </verse></sup>For they
all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:22">22 </verse></sup>But you know that he has proved himself. As
a child serves a father, so he served with me in
furtherance of the Good News. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Therefore I hope
to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go
with me. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:24">24 </verse></sup>But I trust in the Lord that I myself also
will come shortly.

<key:bcv=Philippians 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:25">25 </verse></sup>But I thought it necessary to send to you
Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow
soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
<key:bcv=Philippians 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:26">26 </verse></sup>since he longed for you all, and was very troubled
because you had heard that he was sick. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:27">27 </verse></sup>For
indeed he was sick nearly to death, but God had
mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me
also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:28">28 </verse></sup>I
have sent him therefore the more diligently, that
when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I
may be the less sorrowful. <key:bcv=Philippians 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:29">29 </verse></sup>Receive him therefore
in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in
honor, <key:bcv=Philippians 2:30><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 2:30">30 </verse></sup>because for the work of Christ he came
near to death, risking his life to supply that which
was lacking in your service toward me.

#BCV:Philippians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Philippians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To
write the same things to you, to me indeed is not
tiresome, but for you it is safe.

<key:bcv=Philippians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers;
beware of the false circumcision. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For we are the
circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice
in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh; <key:bcv=Philippians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>though I myself might have confidence even
in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has
confidence in the flesh, I yet more: <key:bcv=Philippians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>circumcised
the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the
law, a Pharisee; <key:bcv=Philippians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>concerning zeal, persecuting the
assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in
the law, found blameless.

<key:bcv=Philippians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>However, I consider those things that were gain
to me as a loss for Christ. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Yes most certainly, and
I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom
I suffered the loss of all things, and count them
nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ <key:bcv=Philippians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>and
be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
own, that which is of the law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is
from God by faith, <key:bcv=Philippians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>that I may know him and the
power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, <key:bcv=Philippians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>if
by any means I may attain to the resurrection from
the dead. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Not that I have already obtained, or am
already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take
hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by
Christ Jesus.

<key:bcv=Philippians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having
taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things
which are behind and stretching forward to the
things which are before, <key:bcv=Philippians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>I press on toward the
goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Let us therefore, as many as are perfect,
think this way. If in anything you think otherwise,
God will also reveal that to you. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, to
the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk
by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
<key:bcv=Philippians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Brothers, be imitators together of me, and
note those who walk this way, even as you have
us for an example. <key:bcv=Philippians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>For many walk, of whom I
told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as
the enemies of the cross of Christ, <key:bcv=Philippians 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:19">19 </verse></sup>whose end is
destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory
is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
<key:bcv=Philippians 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:20">20 </verse></sup>For our citizenship is in heaven, from where
we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
<key:bcv=Philippians 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 3:21">21 </verse></sup>who will change the body of our humiliation to
be conformed to the body of his glory, according to
the working by which he is able even to subject all
things to himself.

#BCV:Philippians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Philippians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for,
my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way,
my beloved.

<key:bcv=Philippians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think
the same way in the Lord. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>Yes, I beg you also, true
partner, help these women, for they labored with
me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest
of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book
of life.

<key:bcv=Philippians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say,
“Rejoice!” <key:bcv=Philippians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Let your gentleness be known to all
men. The Lord is at hand. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>In nothing be anxious,
but in everything, by prayer and petition with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to
God. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>And the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your
thoughts in Christ Jesus.

<key:bcv=Philippians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Finally, brothers, whatever things are true,
whatever things are honorable, whatever things are
just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there
is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of
praise, think about these things. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Do the things
which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me,
and the God of peace will be with you.
<key:bcv=Philippians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at
length you have revived your thought for me; in
which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked
opportunity. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Not that I speak because of lack,
for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be
content in it. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>I know how to be humbled, and I also
know how to abound. In any and all circumstances
I have learned the secret both to be filled and to
be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>I
can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>However you did well that you shared in my
affliction. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>You yourselves also know, you Philippians,
that in the beginning of the Good News, when I
departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with
me in the matter of giving and receiving but you
only. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>For even in Thessalonica you sent once and
again to my need. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Not that I seek for the gift, but
I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
<key:bcv=Philippians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>But I have all things and abound. I am filled,
having received from Epaphroditus the things that
came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an
acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:19><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:19">19 </verse></sup>My
God will supply every need of yours according to his
riches in glory in Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:20><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Now to our God and
Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
<key:bcv=Philippians 4:21><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers
who are with me greet you. <key:bcv=Philippians 4:22><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:22">22 </verse></sup>All the saints greet
you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.
<key:bcv=Philippians 4:23><sup><verse bcv="Philippians 4:23">23 </verse></sup>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Colossians
<h2>Paul’s Letter to the Colossians</h2>

<key:bcv=Colossians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle of Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> Jesus through the will
of God, and Timothy our brother, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to the saints and
faithful brothers<footnote:1>1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

<key:bcv=Colossians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, praying always for you, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>having heard
of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which
you have toward all the saints, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>because of the hope
which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which
you heard before in the word of the truth of the
Good News <key:bcv=Colossians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>which has come to you, even as it is
in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing,
as it does in you also, since the day you heard and
knew the grace of God in truth, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>even as you learned
from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a
faithful servant of Christ on your<footnote:1>1:7 NU reads our </footnote> behalf, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>who also
declared to us your love in the Spirit.
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>For this cause, we also, since the day we heard
this, don’t cease praying and making requests for
you, that you may be filled with the knowledge
of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to
please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every
good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>strengthened with all power, according to the
might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance
with joy, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>giving thanks to the Father, who
made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:13">13 </verse></sup>who delivered us out of the power
of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom
of the Son of his love, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:14">14 </verse></sup>in whom we have our
redemption,<footnote:1>1:14 TR adds “through his blood,”</footnote> the forgiveness of our sins.
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:15">15 </verse></sup>He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of all creation. <key:bcv=Colossians 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:16">16 </verse></sup>For by him all things were
created in the heavens and on the earth, visible
things and invisible things, whether thrones or
dominions or principalities or powers. All things
have been created through him and for him. <key:bcv=Colossians 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:17">17 </verse></sup>He is
before all things, and in him all things are held together.
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:18">18 </verse></sup>He is the head of the body, the assembly,
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he might have the preeminence.
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:19">19 </verse></sup>For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:20">20 </verse></sup>and through him to reconcile all things to himself
by him, whether things on the earth or things in the
heavens, having made peace through the blood of
his cross.

<key:bcv=Colossians 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:21">21 </verse></sup>You, being in past times alienated and enemies
in your mind in your evil deeds, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:22">22 </verse></sup>yet now he has
reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and without defect and blameless
before him, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:23">23 </verse></sup>if it is so that you continue in the faith,
grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from
the hope of the Good News which you heard, which
is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of
which I, Paul, was made a servant.

<key:bcv=Colossians 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,
and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the
afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake,
which is the assembly, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:25">25 </verse></sup>of which I was made a
servant according to the stewardship of God which
was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:26><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:26">26 </verse></sup>the mystery which has been hidden for ages and
generations. But now it has been revealed to his
saints, <key:bcv=Colossians 1:27><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:27">27 </verse></sup>to whom God was pleased to make known
what are the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory. <key:bcv=Colossians 1:28><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:28">28 </verse></sup>We proclaim him, admonishing every
man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that
we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
<key:bcv=Colossians 1:29><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 1:29">29 </verse></sup>for which I also labor, striving according to his
working, which works in me mightily.

#BCV:Colossians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Colossians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>For I desire to have you know how greatly I
struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for
as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; <key:bcv=Colossians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>that
their hearts may be comforted, they being knit
together in love, and gaining all riches of the full
assurance of understanding, that they may know
the mystery of God, both of the Father and of
Christ, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>in whom all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge are hidden. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Now I say this that no one
may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For
though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in
the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the
steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
<key:bcv=Colossians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord,
walk in him, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>rooted and built up in him and
established in the faith, even as you were taught,
abounding in it in thanksgiving.

<key:bcv=Colossians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you
through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the
world, and not after Christ. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>For in him all the
fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>and in him you
are made full, who is the head of all principality
and power. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>In him you were also circumcised
with a circumcision not made with hands, in the
putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the
circumcision of Christ, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>having been buried with
him in baptism, in which you were also raised with
him through faith in the working of God, who raised
him from the dead. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>You were dead through your
trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He
made you alive together with him, having forgiven
us all our trespasses, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>wiping out the handwriting
in ordinances which was against us. He has taken
it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Having
stripped the principalities and the powers, he made
a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
<key:bcv=Colossians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Let no one therefore judge you in eating or
drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new
moon or a Sabbath day, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>which are a shadow of
the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. <key:bcv=Colossians 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Let
no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and
worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things
which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his
fleshly mind, <key:bcv=Colossians 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:19">19 </verse></sup>and not holding firmly to the Head,
from whom all the body, being supplied and knit
together through the joints and ligaments, grows
with God’s growth.

<key:bcv=Colossians 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:20">20 </verse></sup>If you died with Christ from the elemental
spirits of the world, why, as though living in the
world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
<key:bcv=Colossians 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:21">21 </verse></sup>“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” <key:bcv=Colossians 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:22">22 </verse></sup>(all of
which perish with use), according to the precepts
and doctrines of men? <key:bcv=Colossians 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 2:23">23 </verse></sup>These things indeed appear
like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility,
and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value
against the indulgence of the flesh.

#BCV:Colossians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Colossians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>If then you were raised together with Christ,
seek the things that are above, where Christ is,
seated on the right hand of God. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Set your mind
on the things that are above, not on the things that
are on the earth. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For you died, and your life is
hidden with Christ in God. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>When Christ, our life,
is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him
in glory.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Put to death therefore your members which
are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness,
depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness,
which is idolatry. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>For these things’ sake the wrath
of God comes on the children of disobedience. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>You
also once walked in those, when you lived in them,
<key:bcv=Colossians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath,
malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your
mouth. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you
have put off the old man with his doings, <key:bcv=Colossians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>and
have put on the new man, who is being renewed in
knowledge after the image of his Creator, <key:bcv=Colossians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>where
there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and
uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant,
or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
<key:bcv=Colossians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy
and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness,
humility, and perseverance; <key:bcv=Colossians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>bearing with
one another, and forgiving each other, if any man
has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave
you, so you also do.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Above all these things, walk in love, which is
the bond of perfection. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>And let the peace of God
rule in your hearts, to which also you were called
in one body, and be thankful. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Let the word of
Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching
and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns,
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart
to the Lord.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the
Father through him.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is
fitting in the Lord.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:19">19 </verse></sup>Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter
against them.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Children, obey your parents in all things, for
this pleases the Lord.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that
they won’t be discouraged.

<key:bcv=Colossians 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:22">22 </verse></sup>Servants, obey in all things those who are your
masters according to the flesh, not just when they
are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of
heart, fearing God. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:23><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:23">23 </verse></sup>And whatever you do, work
heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, <key:bcv=Colossians 3:24><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:24">24 </verse></sup>knowing
that from the Lord you will receive the reward of
the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. <key:bcv=Colossians 3:25><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 3:25">25 </verse></sup>But
he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong
that he has done, and there is no partiality.

#BCV:Colossians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Colossians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Masters, give to your servants that which is just
and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in
heaven.

<key:bcv=Colossians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it
with thanksgiving, <key:bcv=Colossians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>praying together for us also,
that God may open to us a door for the word, to
speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds, <key:bcv=Colossians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
<key:bcv=Colossians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside,
redeeming the time. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Let your speech always be
with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know
how you ought to answer each one.

<key:bcv=Colossians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>All my affairs will be made known to you by
Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and
fellow bondservant in the Lord. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>I am sending him
to you for this very purpose, that he may know your
circumstances and comfort your hearts, <key:bcv=Colossians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>together
with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother,
who is one of you. They will make known to you
everything that is going on here.

<key:bcv=Colossians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you,
and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom
you received instructions, “if he comes to you, receive
him”), <key:bcv=Colossians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>and Jesus who is called Justus. These
are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who
are of the circumcision, men who have been a
comfort to me.

<key:bcv=Colossians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ,
salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers,
that you may stand perfect and complete in all the
will of God. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>For I testify about him that he has
great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for
those in Hierapolis. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Luke the beloved physician
and Demas greet you. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Greet the brothers who are
in Laodicea, with Nymphas and the assembly that
is in his house. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>When this letter has been read
among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly
of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter
from Laodicea. <key:bcv=Colossians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the
ministry which you have received in the Lord, that
you fulfill it.”

<key:bcv=Colossians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="Colossians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Thessalonians
<h2>Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of
the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ:<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>We always give thanks to God for all of you,
mentioning you in our prayers, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>remembering
without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love
and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,
before our God and Father. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>We know, brothers<footnote:1>1:4 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote>
loved by God, that you are chosen, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>and that our
Good News came to you not in word only, but also
in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much
assurance. You know what kind of men we showed
ourselves to be among you for your sake. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>You
became imitators of us and of the Lord, having
received the word in much affliction, with joy of the
Holy Spirit, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>so that you became an example to all
who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>For from
you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only
in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place
your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need
not to say anything. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>For they themselves report
concerning us what kind of a reception we had from
you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve
a living and true God, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>and to wait for his Son from
heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who
delivers us from the wrath to come.

#BCV:1 Thessalonians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to
you wasn’t in vain, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>but having suffered before and
been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi,
we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News
of God in much conflict. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>For our exhortation is
not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>But even as we have been approved by God to be
entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as
pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For
neither were we at any time found using words of
flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness
(God is witness), <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>nor seeking glory from men
(neither from you nor from others), when we might
have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>But
we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother
cherishes her own children.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were
well pleased to impart to you not the Good News
of God only, but also our own souls, because you
had become very dear to us. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>For you remember,
brothers, our labor and travail; for working night
and day, that we might not burden any of you, we
preached to you the Good News of God. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>You
are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and
blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who
believe. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>As you know, we exhorted, comforted,
and implored every one of you, as a father does
his own children, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>to the end that you should
walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own
Kingdom and glory.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>For this cause we also thank God without
ceasing that when you received from us the word
of the message of God, you accepted it not as the
word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which
also works in you who believe. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>For you, brothers,
became imitators of the assemblies of God which
are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered
the same things from your own countrymen, even
as they did from the Jews <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>who killed both the
Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out,
and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they
may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath
has come on them to the uttermost.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a
short season in presence, not in heart, tried even
harder to see your face with great desire, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:18">18 </verse></sup>because
we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and
again —but Satan hindered us. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:19">19 </verse></sup>For what is our
hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you,
before our Lord Jesus<footnote:1>2:19 TR adds “Christ”</footnote> at his coming? <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 2:20">20 </verse></sup>For you are
our glory and our joy.

#BCV:1 Thessalonians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer,
we thought it good to be left behind at Athens
alone, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s
servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you
and to comfort you concerning your faith, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>that
no one would be moved by these afflictions. For
you know that we are appointed to this task. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>For
most certainly, when we were with you, we told
you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even
as it happened, and you know. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>For this cause I
also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that
I might know your faith, for fear that by any means
the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would
have been in vain.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>But Timothy has just now come to us from you,
and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and
that you have good memories of us always, longing
to see us, even as we also long to see you. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>For
this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you
in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>For what thanksgiving can we render again to God
for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for
your sakes before our God, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>night and day praying
exceedingly that we may see your face and may
perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Now may our God and Father himself, and our
Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>May
the Lord make you to increase and abound in love
toward one another and toward all men, even as we
also do toward you, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>to the end he may establish
your hearts blameless in holiness before our God
and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all
his saints.

#BCV:1 Thessalonians 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in
the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you
ought to walk and to please God, that you abound
more and more. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:2">2 </verse></sup>For you know what instructions
we gave you through the Lord Jesus. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For this is
the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain
from sexual immorality, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:4">4 </verse></sup>that each one of you know
how to control his own body<footnote:1>4:4 literally, possess his own vessel</footnote> in sanctification and
honor, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:5">5 </verse></sup>not in the passion of lust, even as the
Gentiles who don’t know God, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:6">6 </verse></sup>that no one should
take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister
in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in
all these things, as also we forewarned you and
testified. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:7">7 </verse></sup>For God called us not for uncleanness,
but in sanctification. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore he who rejects this
doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his
Holy Spirit to you.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:9">9 </verse></sup>But concerning brotherly love, you have no need
that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught
by God to love one another, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:10">10 </verse></sup>for indeed you do it
toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia.
But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more
and more; <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:11">11 </verse></sup>and that you make it your ambition to
lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and
to work with your own hands, even as we instructed
you, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:12">12 </verse></sup>that you may walk properly toward those
who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:13">13 </verse></sup>But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers,
concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that
you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:14">14 </verse></sup>For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so God will bring with him those who have
fallen asleep in Jesus. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For this we tell you by the
word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left
until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede
those who have fallen asleep. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:16">16 </verse></sup>For the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The
dead in Christ will rise first, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:17">17 </verse></sup>then we who are alive,
who are left, will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will
be with the Lord forever. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 4:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore comfort one
another with these words.

#BCV:1 Thessalonians 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:1">1 </verse></sup>But concerning the times and the seasons,
brothers, you have no need that anything be written
to you. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:2">2 </verse></sup>For you yourselves know well that the
day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then
sudden destruction will come on them, like birth
pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no
way escape. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:4">4 </verse></sup>But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness,
that the day should overtake you like a thief. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:5">5 </verse></sup>You
are all children of light and children of the day. We
don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:6">6 </verse></sup>so then
let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be
sober. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:7">7 </verse></sup>For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and
those who are drunk are drunk in the night. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:8">8 </verse></sup>But
since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on
the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet,
the hope of salvation. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:9">9 </verse></sup>For God didn’t appoint us to
wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:10">10 </verse></sup>who died for us, that, whether
we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore exhort one another, and build each
other up, even as you also do.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:12">12 </verse></sup>But we beg you, brothers, to know those who
labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and
admonish you, <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:13">13 </verse></sup>and to respect and honor them in
love for their work’s sake.

Be at peace among yourselves. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:14">14 </verse></sup>We exhort you,
brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the
faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward
all. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:15">15 </verse></sup>See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone,
but always follow after that which is good for one
another and for all.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Always rejoice. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Pray without ceasing. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:18">18 </verse></sup>In
everything give thanks, for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus toward you. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t quench the
Spirit. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Don’t despise prophecies. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Test all things,
and hold firmly that which is good. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Abstain from
every form of evil.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:23">23 </verse></sup>May the God of peace himself sanctify you
completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body
be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:24">24 </verse></sup>He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:25">25 </verse></sup>Brothers, pray for us.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:26><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:26">26 </verse></sup>Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. <key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:27><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:27">27 </verse></sup>I
solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter
be read to all the holy brothers.

<key:bcv=1 Thessalonians 5:28><sup><verse bcv="1 Thessalonians 5:28">28 </verse></sup>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Thessalonians
<h2>Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of
the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ: <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:3">3 </verse></sup>We are bound to always give thanks to God
for you, brothers,<footnote:1>1:3 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> even as it is appropriate, because
your faith grows exceedingly, and the love
of each and every one of you toward one another
abounds, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:4">4 </verse></sup>so that we ourselves boast about you in
the assemblies of God for your perseverance and
faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions
which you endure. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:5">5 </verse></sup>This is an obvious sign of the
righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may
be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you
also suffer. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:6">6 </verse></sup>For it is a righteous thing with God to
repay affliction to those who afflict you, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:7">7 </verse></sup>and to
give relief to you who are afflicted with us when
the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels in flaming fire, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:8">8 </verse></sup>punishing those who
don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the
Good News of our Lord Jesus, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:9">9 </verse></sup>who will pay the
penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the
Lord and from the glory of his might, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:10">10 </verse></sup>when he
comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and
to be admired among all those who have believed,
because our testimony to you was believed.
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:11">11 </verse></sup>To this end we also pray always for you that
our God may count you worthy of your calling, and
fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith
with power, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 1:12">12 </verse></sup>that the name of our Lord Jesus<footnote:1>1:12 TR adds “Christ” </footnote> may
be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

#BCV:2 Thessalonians 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to
him, we ask you <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:2">2 </verse></sup>not to be quickly shaken in your
mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by
letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ
has already come. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:3">3 </verse></sup>Let no one deceive you in
any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion<footnote:1>2:3 or, falling away, or, defection</footnote>
comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the
son of destruction. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:4">4 </verse></sup>He opposes and exalts himself
against all that is called God or that is worshiped,
so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting
himself up as God. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Don’t you remember that
when I was still with you, I told you these things?
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Now you know what is restraining him, to the end
that he may be revealed in his own season. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:7">7 </verse></sup>For
the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only
there is one who restrains now, until he is taken
out of the way. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Then the lawless one will be
revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of
his mouth and destroy by the manifestation of his
coming; <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:9">9 </verse></sup>even he whose coming is according to the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:10">10 </verse></sup>and with all deception of wickedness
for those who are being lost, because they didn’t
receive the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Because of this, God sends them a powerful
delusion, that they should believe a lie, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:12">12 </verse></sup>that they
all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:13">13 </verse></sup>But we are bound to always give thanks to God
for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God
chose you from the beginning for salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:14">14 </verse></sup>to which he called you through our Good News,
for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:15">15 </verse></sup>So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the
traditions which you were taught by us, whether by
word or by letter.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God
our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort
and good hope through grace, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 2:17">17 </verse></sup>comfort your
hearts and establish you in every good work and
word.

#BCV:2 Thessalonians 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of
the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even
as also with you, <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:2">2 </verse></sup>and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have
faith. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:3">3 </verse></sup>But the Lord is faithful, who will establish
you and guard you from the evil one. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:4">4 </verse></sup>We have
confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you
both do and will do the things we command. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:5">5 </verse></sup>May
the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into
the perseverance of Christ.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Now we command you, brothers, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother who walks in rebellion and not
after the tradition which they received from us.
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:7">7 </verse></sup>For you know how you ought to imitate us. For
we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:8">8 </verse></sup>neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without
paying for it, but in labor and travail worked
night and day, that we might not burden any of
you. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:9">9 </verse></sup>This was not because we don’t have the right,
but to make ourselves an example to you, that you
should imitate us. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:10">10 </verse></sup>For even when we were with
you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not
willing to work, don’t let him eat.” <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:11">11 </verse></sup>For we hear of
some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t
work at all, but are busybodies. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Now those who
are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord
Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat
their own bread.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:13">13 </verse></sup>But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what
is right. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:14">14 </verse></sup>If any man doesn’t obey our word in this
letter, note that man and have no company with
him, to the end that he may be ashamed. <key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t
count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a
brother.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Now may the Lord of peace himself give you
peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you
all.

<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:17">17 </verse></sup>I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand,
which is the sign in every letter. This is how I write.
<key:bcv=2 Thessalonians 3:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Thessalonians 3:18">18 </verse></sup>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Timothy
<h2>Paul’s First Letter to Timothy</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the
commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus
Christ<footnote:1>1:1 NU reads Christ Jesus and omits the Lord. </footnote> our hope, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to Timothy, my true child in
faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father
and Christ Jesus our Lord.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:3">3 </verse></sup>As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia,
stay at Ephesus that you might command certain
men not to teach a different doctrine, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:4">4 </verse></sup>and not
to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies,
which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship,
which is in faith. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:5">5 </verse></sup>But the goal of this command
is love from a pure heart, a good conscience,
and sincere faith, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:6">6 </verse></sup>from which things some, having
missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:7">7 </verse></sup>desiring to be teachers of the law, though they
understand neither what they say nor about what
they strongly affirm.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But we know that the law is good if a person
uses it lawfully, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:9">9 </verse></sup>as knowing this, that law is not
made for a righteous person, but for the lawless
and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for
the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers
and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:10">10 </verse></sup>for
the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slavetraders,
for liars, for perjurers, and for any other
thing contrary to the sound doctrine, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:11">11 </verse></sup>according
to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God,
which was committed to my trust.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:12">12 </verse></sup>I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our
Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing
me to service, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:13">13 </verse></sup>although I used to be a blasphemer,
a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained
mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:14">14 </verse></sup>The
grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith
and love which is in Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:15">15 </verse></sup>The saying is
faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom
I am chief. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:16">16 </verse></sup>However, for this cause I obtained
mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display
all his patience for an example of those who were
going to believe in him for eternal life. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Now to the
King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone
is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:18">18 </verse></sup>I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy,
according to the prophecies which were given
to you before, that by them you may wage the good
warfare, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:19">19 </verse></sup>holding faith and a good conscience,
which some having thrust away made a shipwreck
concerning the faith, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 1:20">20 </verse></sup>of whom are Hymenaeus
and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they
might be taught not to blaspheme.

#BCV:1 Timothy 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:1">1 </verse></sup>I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions,
prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be
made for all men, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:2">2 </verse></sup>for kings and all who are in
high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet
life in all godliness and reverence. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:3">3 </verse></sup>For this is
good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:4">4 </verse></sup>who desires all people to be saved and come to
full knowledge of the truth. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For there is one God
and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:6">6 </verse></sup>who gave himself as a ransom for
all, the testimony at the proper time, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:7">7 </verse></sup>to which
I was appointed a preacher and an apostle —I am
telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of
the Gentiles in faith and truth.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:8">8 </verse></sup>I desire therefore that the men in every place
pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and
doubting. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:9">9 </verse></sup>In the same way, that women also adorn
themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and
propriety, not<footnote:1>2:9 The word for “not” is the negative particle “<greek>μη<english>” which denies an expected idea, as opposed to the usual word for “not” (<greek>ου<english>) which denies a fact. Thus “<greek>µ?<english>” in this context is denying an expected idea (that women can be properly dressed without good works). </footnote> with braided hair, gold, pearls, or
expensive clothing, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:10">10 </verse></sup>but with good works, which is
appropriate for women professing godliness. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Let
a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:12">12 </verse></sup>But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise
authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:13">13 </verse></sup>For Adam was formed first, then Eve. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Adam
wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived,
has fallen into disobedience; <key:bcv=1 Timothy 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 2:15">15 </verse></sup>but she will be saved
through her childbearing, if they continue in faith,
love, and holiness with sobriety.

#BCV:1 Timothy 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:1">1 </verse></sup>This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to
be an overseer<footnote:1>3:1 or, superintendent, or bishop </footnote> desires a good work. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:2">2 </verse></sup>The overseer
therefore must be without reproach, the husband of
one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable,
good at teaching; <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:3">3 </verse></sup>not a drinker, not violent, not
greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome,
not covetous; <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:4">4 </verse></sup>one who rules his own house well,
having children in subjection with all reverence;
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:5">5 </verse></sup>(for how could someone who doesn’t know how
to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:6">6 </verse></sup>not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into
the same condemnation as the devil. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Moreover
he must have good testimony from those who are
outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare
of the devil.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Servants,<footnote:1>3:8 or, Deacons. </footnote> in the same way, must be reverent,
not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine,
not greedy for money, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:9">9 </verse></sup>holding the mystery of the
faith in a pure conscience. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Let them also first be
tested; then let them serve<footnote:1>3:10 or, serve as deacons </footnote> if they are blameless.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Their wives in the same way must be reverent,
not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Let servants<footnote:1>3:12 or, deacons </footnote> be husbands of one wife, ruling
their children and their own houses well. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:13">13 </verse></sup>For
those who have served well<footnote:1>3:13 or, served well as deacons</footnote> gain for themselves a
good standing and great boldness in the faith which
is in Christ Jesus.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:14">14 </verse></sup>These things I write to you, hoping to come
to you shortly, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:15">15 </verse></sup>but if I wait long, that you may
know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s
house, which is the assembly of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Without
controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:
God<footnote:1>3:16 NU replaces “God” with “who” </footnote> was revealed in the flesh,
<br>
justified in the spirit,
<br>
seen by angels,
<br>
preached among the nations,
<br>
believed on in the world,
<br>
and received up in glory.

#BCV:1 Timothy 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:1">1 </verse></sup>But the Spirit says expressly that in later times
some will fall away from the faith, paying attention
to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:2">2 </verse></sup>through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies,
branded in their own conscience as with a hot
iron, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:3">3 </verse></sup>forbidding marriage and commanding to
abstain from foods which God created to be received
with thanksgiving by those who believe and know
the truth. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:4">4 </verse></sup>For every creature of God is good,
and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with
thanksgiving. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:5">5 </verse></sup>For it is sanctified through the word
of God and prayer.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:6">6 </verse></sup>If you instruct the brothers of these things, you
will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished
in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine
which you have followed. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But refuse profane
and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward
godliness. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:8">8 </verse></sup>For bodily exercise has some value, but
godliness has value in all things, having the promise
of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:9">9 </verse></sup>This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:10">10 </verse></sup>For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach,
because we have set our trust in the living God, who
is the Savior of all men, especially of those who
believe. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Command and teach these things.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Let no man despise your youth; but be an example
to those who believe, in word, in your way of
life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Until I
come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and
to teaching. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Don’t neglect the gift that is in you,
which was given to you by prophecy with the laying
on of the hands of the elders. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Be diligent in these
things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your
progress may be revealed to all. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Pay attention
to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these
things, for in doing this you will save both yourself
and those who hear you.

#BCV:1 Timothy 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as
a father; the younger men as brothers; <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:2">2 </verse></sup>the elder
women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all
purity.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Honor widows who are widows indeed. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:4">4 </verse></sup>But if
any widow has children or grandchildren, let them
learn first to show piety toward their own family
and to repay their parents, for this is<footnote:1>5:4 TR adds “good and” </footnote> acceptable
in the sight of God. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Now she who is a widow
indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and
continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:6">6 </verse></sup>But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead
while she lives. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Also command these things, that
they may be without reproach. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:8">8 </verse></sup>But if anyone
doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own
household, he has denied the faith and is worse than
an unbeliever.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty
years old, having been the wife of one man, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:10">10 </verse></sup>being
approved by good works, if she has brought up
children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if
she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved
the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every
good work.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:11">11 </verse></sup>But refuse younger widows, for when they have
grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:12">12 </verse></sup>having condemnation, because they have rejected
their first pledge. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Besides, they also learn to be
idle, going about from house to house. Not only
idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things
which they ought not. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:14">14 </verse></sup>I desire therefore that
the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the
household, and give no occasion to the adversary
for insulting. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:15">15 </verse></sup>For already some have turned away
after Satan. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:16">16 </verse></sup>If any man or woman who believes
has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the
assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those
who are widows indeed.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy
of double honor, especially those who labor in the
word and in teaching. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:18">18 </verse></sup>For the Scripture says,
“You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out
the grain.”<footnote:1>5:18 Deuteronomy 25:4 </footnote> And, “The laborer is worthy of his
wages.”<footnote:1>5:18 Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13</footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Don’t receive an accusation against an elder except
at the word of two or three witnesses. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:20">20 </verse></sup>Those
who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also
may be in fear. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:21">21 </verse></sup>I command you in the sight of God,
and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels,
that you observe these things without prejudice,
doing nothing by partiality. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:22">22 </verse></sup>Lay hands hastily on
no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins.
Keep yourself pure.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:23">23 </verse></sup>Be no longer a drinker of water only, but
use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your
frequent infirmities.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:24">24 </verse></sup>Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to
judgment, and some also follow later. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 5:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 5:25">25 </verse></sup>In the same
way also there are good works that are obvious, and
those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

#BCV:1 Timothy 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke
count their own masters worthy of all honor, that
the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Those who have believing masters, let
them not despise them because they are brothers,
but rather let them serve them, because those who
partake of the benefit are believing and beloved.
Teach and exhort these things.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:3">3 </verse></sup>If anyone teaches a different doctrine and
doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
according to godliness, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:4">4 </verse></sup>he is conceited, knowing
nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting,
evil suspicions, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:5">5 </verse></sup>constant friction of people
of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who
suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw
yourself from such.<footnote:1>6:5 NU omits “Withdraw yourself from such.”</footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:6">6 </verse></sup>But godliness with contentment is great gain.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:7">7 </verse></sup>For we brought nothing into the world, and we
certainly can’t carry anything out. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:8">8 </verse></sup>But having
food and clothing, we will be content with that.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:9">9 </verse></sup>But those who are determined to be rich fall into a
temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful
lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:10">10 </verse></sup>For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some have been led astray from the faith in their
greed, and have pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:11">11 </verse></sup>But you, man of God, flee these things, and
follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
perseverance, and gentleness. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:12">12 </verse></sup>Fight the good
fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to
which you were called, and you confessed the good
confession in the sight of many witnesses. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:13">13 </verse></sup>I command
you before God who gives life to all things,
and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate
testified the good confession, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:14">14 </verse></sup>that you keep the
commandment without spot, blameless until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:15">15 </verse></sup>which at the
right time he will show, who is the blessed and only
Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords. <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:16">16 </verse></sup>He
alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable
light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom
be honor and eternal power. Amen.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:17">17 </verse></sup>Charge those who are rich in this present age
that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set
on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God,
who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:18">18 </verse></sup>that they do good, that they be rich in good
works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to
share; <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:19">19 </verse></sup>laying up in store for themselves a good
foundation against the time to come, that they may
lay hold of eternal life.

<key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:20">20 </verse></sup>Timothy, guard that which is committed to you,
turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions
of what is falsely called knowledge, <key:bcv=1 Timothy 6:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Timothy 6:21">21 </verse></sup>which
some profess, and thus have wandered from the
faith.
<br>
Grace be with you. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Timothy
<h2>Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> through the will
of God, according to the promise of the life which
is in Christ Jesus, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to Timothy, my beloved child:
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:3">3 </verse></sup>I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers
did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is
my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:4">4 </verse></sup>longing to see you, remembering your tears, that
I may be filled with joy; <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:5">5 </verse></sup>having been reminded
of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first
in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice
and, I am persuaded, in you also.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:6">6 </verse></sup>For this cause, I remind you that you should
stir up the gift of God which is in you through the
laying on of my hands. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:7">7 </verse></sup>For God didn’t give us a
spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony
of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure
hardship for the Good News according to the power
of God, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:9">9 </verse></sup>who saved us and called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given to
us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:10">10 </verse></sup>but has
now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior,
Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life
and immortality to light through the Good News.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle,
and a teacher of the Gentiles. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:12">12 </verse></sup>For this cause I also
suffer these things.
<br>
Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I
have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to
guard that which I have committed to him against
that day.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Hold the pattern of sound words which you
have heard from me, in faith and love which is
in Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:14">14 </verse></sup>That good thing which was
committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit
who dwells in us.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:15">15 </verse></sup>This you know, that all who are in Asia turned
away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:16">16 </verse></sup>May the Lord grant mercy to the house of
Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not
ashamed of my chain, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:17">17 </verse></sup>but when he was in Rome,
he sought me diligently and found me <key:bcv=2 Timothy 1:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 1:18">18 </verse></sup>(the Lord
grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day);
and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you
know very well.

#BCV:2 Timothy 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:1">1 </verse></sup>You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the
grace that is in Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:2">2 </verse></sup>The things which
you have heard from me among many witnesses,
commit the same things to faithful men who will
be able to teach others also. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:3">3 </verse></sup>You therefore must
endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:4">4 </verse></sup>No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs
of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as
a soldier. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he
isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:6">6 </verse></sup>The farmer who labors must be the first to get a
share of the crops. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Consider what I say, and may
the Lord give you understanding in all things.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead,
of the offspring<footnote:1>2:8 or, seed </footnote> of David, according to my Good
News, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:9">9 </verse></sup>in which I suffer hardship to the point of
chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’
sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which
is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:11">11 </verse></sup>This saying
is trustworthy:
<br>
“For if we died with him,
<br>
we will also live with him.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:12">12 </verse></sup>If we endure,
<br>
we will also reign with him.
<br>
If we deny him,
<br>
he also will deny us.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:13">13 </verse></sup>If we are faithless,
<br>
he remains faithful;
<br>
for he can’t deny himself.”

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Remind them of these things, charging them
in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about
words to no profit, to the subverting of those who
hear.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Give diligence to present yourself approved by
God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed,
properly handling the Word of Truth. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:16">16 </verse></sup>But shun
empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:17">17 </verse></sup>and those words will consume like gangrene, of
whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus: <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:18">18 </verse></sup>men who
have erred concerning the truth, saying that the
resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the
faith of some. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:19">19 </verse></sup>However, God’s firm foundation
stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who
are his,”<footnote:1>2:19 Numbers 16:5 </footnote> and, “Let every one who names the name
of the Lord<footnote:1>2:19 TR reads “Christ” instead of “the Lord”</footnote> depart from unrighteousness.”
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:20">20 </verse></sup>Now in a large house there are not only vessels
of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay.
Some are for honor and some for dishonor. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:21">21 </verse></sup>If
anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will
be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the
master’s use, prepared for every good work.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness,
faith, love, and peace with those who call on
the Lord out of a pure heart. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:23><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:23">23 </verse></sup>But refuse foolish
and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate
strife. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:24><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:24">24 </verse></sup>The Lord’s servant must not quarrel,
but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:25><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:25">25 </verse></sup>in gentleness correcting those who oppose him.
Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a
full knowledge of the truth, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 2:26><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 2:26">26 </verse></sup>and they may recover
themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been
taken captive by him to do his will.

#BCV:2 Timothy 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:1">1 </verse></sup>But know this: that in the last days, grievous
times will come. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:2">2 </verse></sup>For men will be lovers of
self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:3">3 </verse></sup>without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:4">4 </verse></sup>traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:5">5 </verse></sup>holding a form of
godliness but having denied its power. Turn away
from these, also. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:6">6 </verse></sup>For some of these are people
who creep into houses and take captive gullible
women loaded down with sins, led away by various
lusts, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:7">7 </verse></sup>always learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Even as Jannes
and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose
the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning
the faith are rejected. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:9">9 </verse></sup>But they will proceed no
further. For their folly will be evident to all men,
as theirs also came to be.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:10">10 </verse></sup>But you followed my teaching, conduct,
purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:11">11 </verse></sup>persecutions, and sufferings—those things that
happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra.
I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered
me out of them all. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Yes, and all who desire to
live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:13">13 </verse></sup>But evil men and impostors will grow worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But you
remain in the things which you have learned and
have been assured of, knowing from whom you have
learned them. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:15">15 </verse></sup>From infancy, you have known the
holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:16">16 </verse></sup>Every Scripture is God-breathed and<footnote:1>3:16 or, Every writing inspired by God is</footnote> profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for
instruction in righteousness, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 3:17">17 </verse></sup>that each person
who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly
equipped for every good work.

#BCV:2 Timothy 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:1">1 </verse></sup>I command you therefore before God and the
Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the
dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:2">2 </verse></sup>preach
the word; be urgent in season and out of season;
reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and
teaching. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For the time will come when they will
not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching
ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after
their own lusts, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:4">4 </verse></sup>and will turn away their ears from
the truth, and turn away to fables. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:5">5 </verse></sup>But you be
sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of
an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:6">6 </verse></sup>For I am already being offered, and the time of
my departure has come. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:7">7 </verse></sup>I have fought the good
fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the
faith. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:8">8 </verse></sup>From now on, the crown of righteousness
is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, will give to me on that day; and not to
me only, but also to all those who have loved his
appearing.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Be diligent to come to me soon, <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:10">10 </verse></sup>for Demas
left me, having loved this present world, and went
to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to
Dalmatia. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Only Luke is with me. Take Mark
and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for
service. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:12">12 </verse></sup>But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Bring
the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you
come—and the books, especially the parchments.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Alexander the coppersmith did much evil to me.
The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:16">16 </verse></sup>At my first defense, no one came to help
me, but all left me. May it not be held against
them. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:17">17 </verse></sup>But the Lord stood by me and strengthened
me, that through me the message might be fully
proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So
I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:18">18 </verse></sup>And
the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and
will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him
be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of
Onesiphorus. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:20">20 </verse></sup>Erastus remained at Corinth, but
I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. <key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:21">21 </verse></sup>Be diligent to
come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do
Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
<key:bcv=2 Timothy 4:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Timothy 4:22">22 </verse></sup>The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace
be with you. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Titus
<h2>Paul’s Letter to Titus</h2>

<key:bcv=Titus 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus
Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.</footnote> according to the faith of God’s chosen ones
and the knowledge of the truth which is according
to godliness, <key:bcv=Titus 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:2">2 </verse></sup>in hope of eternal life, which God,
who can’t lie, promised before time began; <key:bcv=Titus 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:3">3 </verse></sup>but in
his own time revealed his word in the message with
which I was entrusted according to the commandment
of God our Savior, <key:bcv=Titus 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:4">4 </verse></sup>to Titus, my true child
according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and
peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
our Savior.

<key:bcv=Titus 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:5">5 </verse></sup>I left you in Crete for this reason, that you
would set in order the things that were lacking and
appoint elders in every city, as I directed you —
<key:bcv=Titus 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:6">6 </verse></sup>if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife,
having children who believe, who are not accused of
loose or unruly behavior. <key:bcv=Titus 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:7">7 </verse></sup>For the overseer must be
blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not
easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not
greedy for dishonest gain; <key:bcv=Titus 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:8">8 </verse></sup>but given to hospitality,
a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, selfcontrolled,
<key:bcv=Titus 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:9">9 </verse></sup>holding to the faithful word which is
according to the teaching, that he may be able to
exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those
who contradict him.

<key:bcv=Titus 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:10">10 </verse></sup>For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers
and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
<key:bcv=Titus 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:11">11 </verse></sup>whose mouths must be stopped: men who
overthrow whole houses, teaching things which
they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. <key:bcv=Titus 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:12">12 </verse></sup>One
of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are
always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.” <key:bcv=Titus 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:13">13 </verse></sup>This
testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them
sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, <key:bcv=Titus 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:14">14 </verse></sup>not
paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments
of men who turn away from the truth. <key:bcv=Titus 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:15">15 </verse></sup>To
the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are
defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both
their mind and their conscience are defiled. <key:bcv=Titus 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Titus 1:16">16 </verse></sup>They
profess that they know God, but by their deeds they
deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit
for any good work.

#BCV:Titus 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Titus 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:1">1 </verse></sup>But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
<key:bcv=Titus 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:2">2 </verse></sup>that older men should be temperate, sensible,
sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
<key:bcv=Titus 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:3">3 </verse></sup>and that older women likewise be
<br>
reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved
to much wine, teachers of that which is good, <key:bcv=Titus 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:4">4 </verse></sup>that
they may train the young wives to love their husbands,
to love their children, <key:bcv=Titus 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:5">5 </verse></sup>to be sober minded,
chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection
to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be
blasphemed.

<key:bcv=Titus 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober
minded. <key:bcv=Titus 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:7">7 </verse></sup>In all things show yourself an example of
good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness,
incorruptibility, <key:bcv=Titus 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:8">8 </verse></sup>and soundness of speech
that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you
may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about
us.

<key:bcv=Titus 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:9">9 </verse></sup>Exhort servants to be in subjection to their
own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things,
not contradicting, <key:bcv=Titus 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:10">10 </verse></sup>not stealing, but showing all
good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of
God, our Savior, in all things. <key:bcv=Titus 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For the grace of
God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
<key:bcv=Titus 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:12">12 </verse></sup>instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts, we would live soberly,
righteously, and godly in this present age; <key:bcv=Titus 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:13">13 </verse></sup>looking
for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of
our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=Titus 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:14">14 </verse></sup>who gave
himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own
possession, zealous for good works.

<key:bcv=Titus 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Titus 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Say these things and exhort and reprove with
all authority. Let no one despise you.

#BCV:Titus 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Titus 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Remind them to be in subjection to rulers
and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready
for every good work, <key:bcv=Titus 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:2">2 </verse></sup>to speak evil of no one,
not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all
humility toward all men. <key:bcv=Titus 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For we were also once
foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts
and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful,
and hating one another. <key:bcv=Titus 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:4">4 </verse></sup>But when the kindness
of God our Savior and his love toward mankind
appeared, <key:bcv=Titus 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:5">5 </verse></sup>not by works of righteousness which
we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he
saved us through the washing of regeneration and
renewing by the Holy Spirit, <key:bcv=Titus 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:6">6 </verse></sup>whom he poured
out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;
<key:bcv=Titus 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:7">7 </verse></sup>that being justified by his grace, we might be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life. <key:bcv=Titus 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:8">8 </verse></sup>This
saying is faithful, and concerning these things I
desire that you insist confidently, so that those who
have believed God may be careful to maintain good
works. These things are good and profitable to
men; <key:bcv=Titus 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:9">9 </verse></sup>but shun foolish questionings, genealogies,
strife, and disputes about the law; for they are
unprofitable and vain. <key:bcv=Titus 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Avoid a factious man after
a first and second warning, <key:bcv=Titus 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:11">11 </verse></sup>knowing that such a
one is perverted and sinful, being self-condemned.
<key:bcv=Titus 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:12">12 </verse></sup>When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be
diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined
to winter there. <key:bcv=Titus 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Send Zenas the lawyer and
Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may
be lacking for them. <key:bcv=Titus 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Let our people also learn to
maintain good works to meet necessary needs, that
they may not be unfruitful.

<key:bcv=Titus 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Titus 3:15">15 </verse></sup>All who are with me greet you. Greet those who
love us in faith.
<br>
Grace be with you all. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Philemon
<h2>Paul’s Letter to Philemon</h2>

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Paul, a prisoner of Christ<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> Jesus, and Timothy
our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow
worker, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:2">2 </verse></sup>to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our
fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
<key:bcv=Philemon 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I thank my God always, making mention of you
in my prayers, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:5">5 </verse></sup>hearing of your love and of the faith
which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward
all the saints, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:6">6 </verse></sup>that the fellowship of your faith may
become effective in the knowledge of every good
thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. <key:bcv=Philemon 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:7">7 </verse></sup>For we have
much joy and comfort in your love, because the
hearts of the saints have been refreshed through
you, brother.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ
to command you that which is appropriate, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:9">9 </verse></sup>yet for
love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as
Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=Philemon 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:10">10 </verse></sup>I
appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have
become the father of in my chains,<footnote:1>1:10 Onesimus means “useful”.</footnote> <key:bcv=Philemon 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:11">11 </verse></sup>who once was
useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
<key:bcv=Philemon 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:12">12 </verse></sup>I am sending him back. Therefore receive him,
that is, my own heart, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:13">13 </verse></sup>whom I desired to keep with
me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my
chains for the Good News. <key:bcv=Philemon 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:14">14 </verse></sup>But I was willing to do
nothing without your consent, that your goodness
would not be as of necessity, but of free will. <key:bcv=Philemon 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:15">15 </verse></sup>For
perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a
while that you would have him forever, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:16">16 </verse></sup>no longer
as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—
especially to me, but how much rather to you, both
in the flesh and in the Lord.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:17">17 </verse></sup>If then you count me a partner, receive him as
you would receive me. <key:bcv=Philemon 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:18">18 </verse></sup>But if he has wronged you
at all or owes you anything, put that to my account.
<key:bcv=Philemon 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:19">19 </verse></sup>I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay
it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even
your own self besides). <key:bcv=Philemon 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:20">20 </verse></sup>Yes, brother, let me have
joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the
Lord.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Having confidence in your obedience, I write
to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what
I say.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope
that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
<key:bcv=Philemon 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:23">23 </verse></sup>Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus,
greets you, <key:bcv=Philemon 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:24">24 </verse></sup>as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and
Luke, my fellow workers.

<key:bcv=Philemon 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Philemon 1:25">25 </verse></sup>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Hebrews
<h2>The Letter to the Hebrews</h2>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:1">1 </verse></sup>God, having in the past spoken to the fathers
through the prophets at many times and in various
ways, <key:bcv=Hebrews 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:2">2 </verse></sup>has at the end of these days spoken to us
by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things,
through whom also he made the worlds. <key:bcv=Hebrews 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:3">3 </verse></sup>His Son
is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his
substance, and upholding all things by the word of
his power, who, when he had by himself purified
us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high, <key:bcv=Hebrews 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:4">4 </verse></sup>having become as much better
than the angels as the more excellent name he has
inherited is better than theirs. <key:bcv=Hebrews 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:5">5 </verse></sup>For to which of the
angels did he say at any time,
<br>
“You are my Son.

Today I have become your father?”<footnote:1>1:5 Psalm 2:7 </footnote>
<br>
and again,
<br>
“I will be to him a Father,

and he will be to me a Son?”<footnote:1>1:5 2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:6">6 </verse></sup>When he again brings in the firstborn into the
world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship
him.”<footnote:1>1:6 Deuteronomy 32:43 LXX </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Of the angels he says,
<br>
“He makes his angels winds,

and his servants a flame of fire.”<footnote:1>1:7 Psalm 104:4 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:8">8 </verse></sup>But of the Son he says,
<br>
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of
your Kingdom.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:9">9 </verse></sup>You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
<footnote:1>1:9 Psalm 45:6-7 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:10">10 </verse></sup>And,
<br>
“You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of
the earth.
<br>
The heavens are the works of your hands.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:11">11 </verse></sup>They will perish, but you continue.
They all will grow old like a garment does.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:12">12 </verse></sup>You will roll them up like a mantle,
and they will be changed;
<br>
but you are the same.

Your years won’t fail.”<footnote:1>1:12 Psalm 102:25-27 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:13">13 </verse></sup>But which of the angels has he told at any time,
“Sit at my right hand,
<br>
until I make your enemies the footstool of your
feet?”<footnote:1>1:13 Psalm 110:1 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 1:14">14 </verse></sup>Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to
do service for the sake of those who will inherit
salvation?

#BCV:Hebrews 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to
the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift
away. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:2">2 </verse></sup>For if the word spoken through angels
proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience
received a just penalty, <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:3">3 </verse></sup>how will we
escape if we neglect so great a salvation —which
at the first having been spoken through the Lord,
was confirmed to us by those who heard, <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:4">4 </verse></sup>God also
testifying with them, both by signs and wonders,
by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy
Spirit, according to his own will?

<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:5">5 </verse></sup>For he didn’t subject the world to come, of
which we speak, to angels. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But one has somewhere
testified, saying,
<br>
“What is man, that you think of him?
<br>
Or the son of man, that you care for him?
<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:7">7 </verse></sup>You made him a little lower than the angels.
You crowned him with glory and honor.<footnote:1>2:7 TR adds “and set him over the works of your hands” </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:8">8 </verse></sup>You have put all things in subjection under his
feet.”<footnote:1>2:8 Psalm 8:4-6 </footnote>
<br>
For in that he subjected all things to him, he left
nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t
yet see all things subjected to him. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But we see him
who has been made a little lower than the angels,
Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned
with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he
should taste of death for everyone.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For it became him, for whom are all things
and through whom are all things, in bringing many
children to glory, to make the author of their salvation
perfect through sufferings. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For both he who
sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from
one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brothers,<footnote:1>2:11 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:12">12 </verse></sup>saying,
<br>
“I will declare your name to my brothers.
Among the congregation I will sing your
praise.”<footnote:1>2:12 Psalm 22:22 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again,
“Behold, here I am with the children whom God has
given me.”<footnote:1>2:13 Isaiah 8:18 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:14">14 </verse></sup>Since then the children have shared
in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way
partook of the same, that through death he might
bring to nothing him who had the power of death,
that is, the devil, <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:15">15 </verse></sup>and might deliver all of them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:16">16 </verse></sup>For most certainly, he doesn’t
give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring<footnote:1>2:16 or, seed</footnote>
of Abraham. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Therefore he was obligated
in all things to be made like his brothers, that he
might become a merciful and faithful high priest
in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for
the sins of the people. <key:bcv=Hebrews 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 2:18">18 </verse></sup>For in that he himself has
suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who
are tempted.

#BCV:Hebrews 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly
calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest
of our confession: Jesus, <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:2">2 </verse></sup>who was faithful to him
who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his
house. <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:3">3 </verse></sup>For he has been counted worthy of more
glory than Moses, because he who built the house
has more honor than the house. <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:4">4 </verse></sup>For every house
is built by someone; but he who built all things is
God. <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:5">5 </verse></sup>Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a
servant, for a testimony of those things which were
afterward to be spoken, <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:6">6 </verse></sup>but Christ<footnote:1>3:6 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> is faithful as a
Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast
our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to
the end. <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you will hear his voice,

<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:8">8 </verse></sup>don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:9">9 </verse></sup>where your fathers tested me and tried me,
and saw my deeds for forty years.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore I was displeased with that generation,
and said, ‘They always err in their heart,
but they didn’t know my ways.’

<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:11">11 </verse></sup>As I swore in my wrath,

‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”<footnote:1>3:11 Psalm 95:7-11 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be
in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling
away from the living God; <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:13">13 </verse></sup>but exhort one another
day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any
one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:14">14 </verse></sup>For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold
the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:15">15 </verse></sup>while it is said,
<br>
“Today if you will hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”<footnote:1>3:15 Psalm 95:7-8 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:16">16 </verse></sup>For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t
it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
<key:bcv=Hebrews 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:17">17 </verse></sup>With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t
it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the
wilderness? <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:18">18 </verse></sup>To whom did he swear that they
wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were
disobedient? <key:bcv=Hebrews 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 3:19">19 </verse></sup>We see that they weren’t able to
enter in because of unbelief.

#BCV:Hebrews 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you
should seem to have come short of a promise of
entering into his rest. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:2">2 </verse></sup>For indeed we have had
good news preached to us, even as they also did,
but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because
it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For we who have believed do enter into that rest,
even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they
will not enter into my rest;”<footnote:1>4:3 Psalm 95:11 </footnote> although the works
were finished from the foundation of the world.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:4">4 </verse></sup>For he has said this somewhere about the seventh
day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his
works;”<footnote:1>4:4 Genesis 2:2 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:5">5 </verse></sup>and in this place again, “They will not
enter into my rest.”<footnote:1>4:5 Psalm 95:11 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Seeing therefore it remains that some should
enter into it, and they to whom the good news was
preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:7">7 </verse></sup>he again defines a certain day, “today”,
saying through David so long a time afterward (just
as has been said),
<br>
“Today if you will hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts.”<footnote:1>4:7 Psalm 95:7-8 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:8">8 </verse></sup>For if Joshua had given them rest, he would
not have spoken afterward of another day. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:9">9 </verse></sup>There
remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of
God. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:10">10 </verse></sup>For he who has entered into his rest has
himself also rested from his works, as God did from
his. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into
that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example
of disobedience. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:12">12 </verse></sup>For the word of God is living
and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of
both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the
thoughts and intentions of the heart. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:13">13 </verse></sup>There is no
creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things
are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to
whom we must give an account.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Having then a great high priest who has passed
through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s
hold tightly to our confession. <key:bcv=Hebrews 4:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For we don’t
have a high priest who can’t be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been
in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 4:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 4:16">16 </verse></sup>Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the
throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may
find grace for help in time of need.

#BCV:Hebrews 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:1">1 </verse></sup>For every high priest, being taken from among
men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to
God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
for sins. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:2">2 </verse></sup>The high priest can deal gently with
those who are ignorant and going astray, because he
himself is also surrounded with weakness. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Because
of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the
people, as well as for himself. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Nobody takes this
honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like
Aaron was. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:5">5 </verse></sup>So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to
be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him,
“You are my Son.

Today I have become your father.”<footnote:1>5:5 Psalm 2:7 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:6">6 </verse></sup>As he says also in another place,
<br>
“You are a priest forever,

after the order of Melchizedek.”<footnote:1>5:6 Psalm 110:4</footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:7">7 </verse></sup>He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up
prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears
to him who was able to save him from death, and
having been heard for his godly fear, <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:8">8 </verse></sup>though he
was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things
which he suffered. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Having been made perfect, he
became to all of those who obey him the author
of eternal salvation, <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:10">10 </verse></sup>named by God a high priest
after the order of Melchizedek.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:11">11 </verse></sup>About him we have many words to say, and
hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of
hearing. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:12">12 </verse></sup>For although by this time you should
be teachers, you again need to have someone teach
you the rudiments of the first principles of the
revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and
not solid food. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:13">13 </verse></sup>For everyone who lives on milk is
not experienced in the word of righteousness, for
he is a baby. <key:bcv=Hebrews 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 5:14">14 </verse></sup>But solid food is for those who are
full grown, who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern good and evil.

#BCV:Hebrews 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles
of Christ, let’s press on to perfection —not
laying again a foundation of repentance from dead
works, of faith toward God, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:2">2 </verse></sup>of the teaching of
baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:3">3 </verse></sup>This will we
do, if God permits. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:4">4 </verse></sup>For concerning those who were
once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:5">5 </verse></sup>and
tasted the good word of God and the powers of the
age to come, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:6">6 </verse></sup>and then fell away, it is impossible
to renew them again to repentance; seeing they
crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and
put him to open shame. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:7">7 </verse></sup>For the land which has
drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a
crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled,
receives blessing from God; <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:8">8 </verse></sup>but if it bears thorns
and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed,
whose end is to be burned.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:9">9 </verse></sup>But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things
for you, and things that accompany salvation, even
though we speak like this. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:10">10 </verse></sup>For God is not unrighteous,
so as to forget your work and the labor
of love which you showed toward his name, in that
you served the saints, and still do serve them. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:11">11 </verse></sup>We
desire that each one of you may show the same
diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:12">12 </verse></sup>that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those
who through faith and perseverance inherited the
promises.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:13">13 </verse></sup>For when God made a promise to Abraham,
since he could swear by no one greater, he swore
by himself, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:14">14 </verse></sup>saying, “Surely blessing I will bless
you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”<footnote:1>6:14 Genesis 22:17 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:15">15 </verse></sup>Thus,
having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:16">16 </verse></sup>For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in
every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:17">17 </verse></sup>In this way God, being determined to
show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise
the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an
oath, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:18">18 </verse></sup>that by two immutable things, in which it
is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong
encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take
hold of the hope set before us. <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:19">19 </verse></sup>This hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and
steadfast and entering into that which is within the
veil, <key:bcv=Hebrews 6:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 6:20">20 </verse></sup>where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us,
having become a high priest forever after the order
of Melchizedek.

#BCV:Hebrews 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:1">1 </verse></sup>For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of
God Most High, who met Abraham returning from
the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:2">2 </verse></sup>to
whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being
first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”,
and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of
peace”, <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:3">3 </verse></sup>without father, without mother, without
genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor
end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a
priest continually.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:4">4 </verse></sup>Now consider how great this man was, to whom
even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth out of the
best plunder. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:5">5 </verse></sup>They indeed of the sons of Levi who
receive the priest’s office have a commandment
to take tithes from the people according to the
law, that is, of their brothers, though these have
come out of the body of Abraham, <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:6">6 </verse></sup>but he whose
genealogy is not counted from them has accepted
tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has
the promises. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:7">7 </verse></sup>But without any dispute the lesser
is blessed by the greater. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:8">8 </verse></sup>Here people who die
receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom
it is testified that he lives. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:9">9 </verse></sup>We can say that through
Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid
tithes, <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:10">10 </verse></sup>for he was yet in the body of his father
when Melchizedek met him.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:11">11 </verse></sup>Now if perfection was through the Levitical
priesthood (for under it the people have received
the law), what further need was there for another
priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and
not be called after the order of Aaron? <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:12">12 </verse></sup>For the
priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a
change made also in the law. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:13">13 </verse></sup>For he of whom
these things are said belongs to another tribe, from
which no one has officiated at the altar. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:14">14 </verse></sup>For it
is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah,
about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning
priesthood. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:15">15 </verse></sup>This is yet more abundantly evident,
if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises
another priest, <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:16">16 </verse></sup>who has been made, not after the
law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power
of an endless life; <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:17">17 </verse></sup>for it is testified,
“You are a priest forever,

according to the order of Melchizedek.”<footnote:1>7:17 Psalm 110:4 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:18">18 </verse></sup>For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment
because of its weakness and uselessness
<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:19">19 </verse></sup>(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing
in of a better hope, through which we draw near to
God. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:20">20 </verse></sup>Inasmuch as he was not made priest without
the taking of an oath <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:21">21 </verse></sup>(for they indeed have been
made priests without an oath), but he with an oath
by him that says of him,
<br>
“The Lord swore and will not change his mind,
‘You are a priest forever,

according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”<footnote:1>7:21 Psalm 110:4</footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:22">22 </verse></sup>By so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of
a better covenant.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:23">23 </verse></sup>Many, indeed, have been made priests, because
they are hindered from continuing by death. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:24">24 </verse></sup>But
he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood
unchangeable. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:25">25 </verse></sup>Therefore he is also able to save to
the uttermost those who draw near to God through
him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession
for them.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 7:26><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:26">26 </verse></sup>For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy,
guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and
made higher than the heavens; <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:27><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:27">27 </verse></sup>who doesn’t need,
like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily,
first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the
people. For he did this once for all, when he offered
up himself. <key:bcv=Hebrews 7:28><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 7:28">28 </verse></sup>For the law appoints men as high
priests who have weakness, but the word of the
oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son
forever who has been perfected.

#BCV:Hebrews 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:1">1 </verse></sup>Now in the things which we are saying, the
main point is this: we have such a high priest, who
sat down on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens, <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:2">2 </verse></sup>a servant of the sanctuary
and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched,
not man. <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:3">3 </verse></sup>For every high priest is appointed
to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is
necessary that this high priest also have something
to offer. <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:4">4 </verse></sup>For if he were on earth, he would not
be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who
offer the gifts according to the law, <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:5">5 </verse></sup>who serve a
copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as
Moses was warned by God when he was about to
make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall
make everything according to the pattern that was
shown to you on the mountain.”<footnote:1>8:5 Exodus 25:40 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:6">6 </verse></sup>But now he has
obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as
he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which
on better promises has been given as law.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:7">7 </verse></sup>For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
no place would have been sought for a second. <key:bcv=Hebrews 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:8">8 </verse></sup>For
finding fault with them, he said,

“Behold,<footnote:1>8:8 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> the days are coming”, says the Lord,
“that I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:9">9 </verse></sup>not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers
<br>
in the day that I took them by the hand to lead
them out of the land of Egypt;
<br>
for they didn’t continue in my covenant,
and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:10">10 </verse></sup>“For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel
<br>
after those days,” says the Lord:
<br>
“I will put my laws into their mind;
<br>
I will also write them on their heart.
I will be their God,
<br>
and they will be my people.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:11">11 </verse></sup>They will not teach every man his fellow citizen<footnote:1>8:11 TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen” </footnote>
and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the
Lord,’
<br>
for all will know me,
<br>
from their least to their greatest.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:12">12 </verse></sup>For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no
more.”<footnote:1>8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 8:13">13 </verse></sup>In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has
made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming
obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

#BCV:Hebrews 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:1">1 </verse></sup>Now indeed even the first<footnote:1>9:1 TR adds “tabernacle” </footnote> covenant had ordinances
of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:2">2 </verse></sup>For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part
were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread,
which is called the Holy Place. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:3">3 </verse></sup>After the second
veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:4">4 </verse></sup>having a golden altar of incense and the ark
of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in
which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s
rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:5">5 </verse></sup>and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the
mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in
detail.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:6">6 </verse></sup>Now these things having been thus prepared,
the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the services, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:7">7 </verse></sup>but into the
second the high priest alone, once in the year,
not without blood, which he offers for himself and
for the errors of the people. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:8">8 </verse></sup>The Holy Spirit is
indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place
wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was
still standing. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:9">9 </verse></sup>This is a symbol of the present
age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are
incapable, concerning the conscience, of making
the worshiper perfect, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:10">10 </verse></sup>being only (with foods and
drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances,
imposed until a time of reformation.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:11">11 </verse></sup>But Christ having come as a high priest of
the coming good things, through the greater and
more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this creation, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:12">12 </verse></sup>nor yet through
the blood of goats and calves, but through his own
blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place,
having obtained eternal redemption. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:13">13 </verse></sup>For if the
blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify
to the cleanness of the flesh, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:14">14 </verse></sup>how much more
will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse
your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God? <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:15">15 </verse></sup>For this reason he is the mediator of a
new covenant, since a death has occurred for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first covenant, that those who have been called
may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:16">16 </verse></sup>For where a last will and testament is, there
must of necessity be the death of him who made
it. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:17">17 </verse></sup>For a will is in force where there has been
death, for it is never in force while he who made
it lives. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:18">18 </verse></sup>Therefore even the first covenant has not
been dedicated without blood. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:19">19 </verse></sup>For when every
commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of the
calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool
and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and
all the people, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:20">20 </verse></sup>saying, “This is the blood of the
covenant which God has commanded you.”<footnote:1>9:20 Exodus 24:8</footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:21">21 </verse></sup>He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels
of the ministry in the same way with the
blood. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:22">22 </verse></sup>According to the law, nearly everything
is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of
blood there is no remission.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:23">23 </verse></sup>It was necessary therefore that the copies of
the things in the heavens should be cleansed with
these, but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these. <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:24">24 </verse></sup>For Christ hasn’t
entered into holy places made with hands, which
are representations of the true, but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:25">25 </verse></sup>nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the
high priest enters into the holy place year by year
with blood not his own, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:26><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:26">26 </verse></sup>or else he must have
suffered often since the foundation of the world.
But now once at the end of the ages, he has been
revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 9:27><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:27">27 </verse></sup>Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once,
and after this, judgment, <key:bcv=Hebrews 9:28><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 9:28">28 </verse></sup>so Christ also, having
been offered once to bear the sins of many, will
appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to
save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
#BCV:Hebrews 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:1">1 </verse></sup>For the law, having a shadow of the good to
come, not the very image of the things, can never
with the same sacrifices year by year, which they
offer continually, make perfect those who draw
near. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:2">2 </verse></sup>Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be
offered, because the worshipers, having been once
cleansed, would have had no more consciousness
of sins? <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:3">3 </verse></sup>But in those sacrifices there is a yearly
reminder of sins. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:4">4 </verse></sup>For it is impossible that the blood
of bulls and goats should take away sins. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:5">5 </verse></sup>Therefore
when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:6">6 </verse></sup>You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:7">7 </verse></sup>Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll
of the book it is written of me)

to do your will, O God.’ ”<footnote:1>10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:8">8 </verse></sup>Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and
whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you
didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those
which are offered according to the law), <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:9">9 </verse></sup>then he
has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.”
He takes away the first, that he may establish the
second, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:10">10 </verse></sup>by which will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:11">11 </verse></sup>Every priest indeed stands day by day serving
and offering often the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:12">12 </verse></sup>but he, when he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right
hand of God, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:13">13 </verse></sup>from that time waiting until his
enemies are made the footstool of his feet. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:14">14 </verse></sup>For
by one offering he has perfected forever those who
are being sanctified. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:15">15 </verse></sup>The Holy Spirit also testifies
to us, for after saying,

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:16">16 </verse></sup>“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days,” says the Lord,
<br>
“I will put my laws on their heart,

I will also write them on their mind;”<footnote:1>10:16 Jeremiah 31:33 </footnote>
then he says,

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:17">17 </verse></sup>“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no
more.”<footnote:1>10:17 Jeremiah 31:34 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:18">18 </verse></sup>Now where remission of these is, there is no
more offering for sin.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:19">19 </verse></sup>Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter
into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:20">20 </verse></sup>by the
way which he dedicated for us, a new and living
way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:21">21 </verse></sup>and
having a great priest over God’s house, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:22">22 </verse></sup>let’s draw
near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having
our body washed with pure water, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:23">23 </verse></sup>let’s hold fast
the confession of our hope without wavering; for he
who promised is faithful.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:24">24 </verse></sup>Let’s consider how to provoke one another
to love and good works, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:25">25 </verse></sup>not forsaking our own
assembling together, as the custom of some is, but
exhorting one another, and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:26><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:26">26 </verse></sup>For if we sin willfully after we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a
sacrifice for sins, <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:27><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:27">27 </verse></sup>but a certain fearful expectation
of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will
devour the adversaries. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:28><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:28">28 </verse></sup>A man who disregards
Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word
of two or three witnesses. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:29><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:29">29 </verse></sup>How much worse
punishment do you think he will be judged worthy
of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and
has counted the blood of the covenant with which
he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted
the Spirit of grace? <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:30><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:30">30 </verse></sup>For we know him who said,
“Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the
Lord.<footnote:1>10:30 Deuteronomy 32:35 </footnote> Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”<footnote:1>10:30 Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:31><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:31">31 </verse></sup>It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:32><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:32">32 </verse></sup>But remember the former days, in which, after
you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle
with sufferings: <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:33><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:33">33 </verse></sup>partly, being exposed to both
reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming
partakers with those who were treated so. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:34><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:34">34 </verse></sup>For
you both had compassion on me in my chains and
joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions,
knowing that you have for yourselves a better
possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:35><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:35">35 </verse></sup>Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which
has a great reward. <key:bcv=Hebrews 10:36><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:36">36 </verse></sup>For you need endurance so
that, having done the will of God, you may receive
the promise.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:37><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:37">37 </verse></sup>“In a very little while,
<br>
he who comes will come and will not wait.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:38><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:38">38 </verse></sup>But the righteous one will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in
him.”<footnote:1>10:38 Habakkuk 2:3-4</footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 10:39><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 10:39">39 </verse></sup>But we are not of those who shrink back to
destruction, but of those who have faith to the
saving of the soul.

#BCV:Hebrews 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:1">1 </verse></sup>Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof
of things not seen. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:2">2 </verse></sup>For by this, the elders obtained
approval. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:3">3 </verse></sup>By faith we understand that the universe
has been framed by the word of God, so that what
is seen has not been made out of things which are
visible.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:4">4 </verse></sup>By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony
given to him that he was righteous, God
testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it
he, being dead, still speaks.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:5">5 </verse></sup>By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he
wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because
God translated him. For he has had testimony given
to him that before his translation he had been well
pleasing to God. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:6">6 </verse></sup>Without faith it is impossible to be
well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must
believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of
those who seek him.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:7">7 </verse></sup>By faith Noah, being warned about things not
yet seen, moved with godly fear,<footnote:1>11:7 or, reverence </footnote> prepared a ship
for the saving of his house, through which he
condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:8">8 </verse></sup>By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed
to go out to the place which he was to receive for
an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he
went. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:9">9 </verse></sup>By faith he lived as an alien in the land of
promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents
with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
promise. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:10">10 </verse></sup>For he was looking for the city which has
foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:11">11 </verse></sup>By faith even Sarah herself received power
to conceive, and she bore a child when she was
past age, since she counted him faithful who had
promised. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore as many as the stars of the
sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand
which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man,
and him as good as dead.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:13">13 </verse></sup>These all died in faith, not having received
the promises, but having seen<footnote:1>11:13 TR adds “and being convinced of” </footnote> them and embraced
them from afar, and having confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:14">14 </verse></sup>For
those who say such things make it clear that they
are seeking a country of their own. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:15">15 </verse></sup>If indeed
they had been thinking of that country from which
they went out, they would have had enough time to
return. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:16">16 </verse></sup>But now they desire a better country, that
is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of
them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a
city for them.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:17">17 </verse></sup>By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up
Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises
was offering up his only born<footnote:1>11:17 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> son, <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:18">18 </verse></sup>to whom it
was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from
Isaac,”<footnote:1>11:18 Genesis 21:12 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:19">19 </verse></sup>concluding that God is able to raise up
even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also
did receive him back from the dead.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:20">20 </verse></sup>By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even
concerning things to come.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:21">21 </verse></sup>By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each
of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the
top of his staff.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:22">22 </verse></sup>By faith Joseph, when his end was near, made
mention of the departure of the children of Israel,
and gave instructions concerning his bones.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:23">23 </verse></sup>By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden
for three months by his parents, because they saw
that he was a beautiful child; and they were not
afraid of the king’s commandment.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:24">24 </verse></sup>By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:25">25 </verse></sup>choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s
people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:26><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:26">26 </verse></sup>considering the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the
reward. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:27><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:27">27 </verse></sup>By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the
wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:28><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:28">28 </verse></sup>By faith he kept the Passover and
the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the
firstborn should not touch them.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:29><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:29">29 </verse></sup>By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on
dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they
were swallowed up.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:30><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:30">30 </verse></sup>By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they
had been encircled for seven days.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:31><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:31">31 </verse></sup>By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with
those who were disobedient, having received the
spies in peace.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:32><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:32">32 </verse></sup>What more shall I say? For the time would
fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah,
David, Samuel, and the prophets— <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:33><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:33">33 </verse></sup>who through
faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,<footnote:1>11:33 Daniel 6:22-23 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:34><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:34">34 </verse></sup>quenched the power of fire,<footnote:1>11:34 Daniel 3:1-30 </footnote> escaped the edge of
the sword,<footnote:1>11:34 1 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31–7:20 </footnote> from weakness were made strong, grew
mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:35><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:35">35 </verse></sup>Women received their dead by resurrection.<footnote:1>11:35 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37 </footnote>
Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance,
that they might obtain a better resurrection.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:36><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:36">36 </verse></sup>Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes,
moreover by bonds and imprisonment. <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:37><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:37">37 </verse></sup>They
were stoned.<footnote:1>11:37 2 Chronicles 24:20-21 </footnote> They were sawn apart. They were
tempted. They were slain with the sword.<footnote:1>11:37 Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10</footnote> They
went around in sheep skins and in goat skins;
being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated— <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:38><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:38">38 </verse></sup>of whom
the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts,
mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 11:39><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:39">39 </verse></sup>These all, having been commended for their
faith, didn’t receive the promise, <key:bcv=Hebrews 11:40><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 11:40">40 </verse></sup>God having
provided some better thing concerning us, so that
apart from us they should not be made perfect.

#BCV:Hebrews 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded
by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every
weight and the sin which so easily entangles us,
and let’s run with perseverance the race that is
set before us, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:2">2 </verse></sup>looking to Jesus, the author and
perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has
sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:3">3 </verse></sup>For consider him who has endured such contradiction
of sinners against himself, that you don’t
grow weary, fainting in your souls. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:4">4 </verse></sup>You have not
yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:5">5 </verse></sup>You have
forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you
as with children,
<br>
“My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the
Lord,
<br>
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:6">6 </verse></sup>for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”<footnote:1>12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:7">7 </verse></sup>It is for discipline that you endure. God deals
with you as with children, for what son is there
whom his father doesn’t discipline? <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:8">8 </verse></sup>But if you
are without discipline, of which all have been made
partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:9">9 </verse></sup>Furthermore, we had the fathers of our
flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall
we not much rather be in subjection to the Father
of spirits and live? <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:10">10 </verse></sup>For they indeed for a few
days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but
he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his
holiness. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:11">11 </verse></sup>All chastening seems for the present to
be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields
the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who
have been trained by it. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore lift up the
hands that hang down and the feeble knees,<footnote:1>12:12 Isaiah 35:3 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:13">13 </verse></sup>and
make straight paths for your feet,<footnote:1>12:13 Proverbs 4:26 </footnote> so what is lame
may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification
without which no man will see the Lord,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:15">15 </verse></sup>looking carefully lest there be any man who falls
short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you and many be defiled by
it, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:16">16 </verse></sup>lest there be any sexually immoral person or
profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright
for one meal. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:17">17 </verse></sup>For you know that even when he
afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was
rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind
though he sought it diligently with tears.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:18">18 </verse></sup>For you have not come to a mountain that
might be touched and that burned with fire, and
to blackness, darkness, storm, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:19">19 </verse></sup>the sound of a
trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who
heard it begged that not one more word should be
spoken to them, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:20">20 </verse></sup>for they could not stand that
which was commanded, “If even an animal touches
the mountain, it shall be stoned”.<footnote:1>12:20 TR adds “or shot with an arrow” </footnote><footnote:1>12:20 Exodus 19:12-13 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:21">21 </verse></sup>So fearful
was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified
and trembling.”<footnote:1>12:21 Deuteronomy 9:19 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:22">22 </verse></sup>But you have come to Mount Zion and to the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and
to innumerable multitudes of angels, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:23">23 </verse></sup>to the festal
gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are
enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the
spirits of just men made perfect, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:24">24 </verse></sup>to Jesus, the
mediator of a new covenant,<footnote:1>12:24 Jeremiah 31:31 </footnote> and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:25">25 </verse></sup>See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For
if they didn’t escape when they refused him who
warned on the earth, how much more will we not
escape who turn away from him who warns from
heaven, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:26><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:26">26 </verse></sup>whose voice shook the earth then, but
now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I
will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”<footnote:1>12:26 Haggai 2:6 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 12:27><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:27">27 </verse></sup>This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies
the removing of those things that are shaken, as
of things that have been made, that those things
which are not shaken may remain. <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:28><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:28">28 </verse></sup>Therefore,
receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have
grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with
reverence and awe, <key:bcv=Hebrews 12:29><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 12:29">29 </verse></sup>for our God is a consuming
fire.<footnote:1>12:29 Deuteronomy 4:24 </footnote>

#BCV:Hebrews 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Let brotherly love continue. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:2">2 </verse></sup>Don’t forget
to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so,
some have entertained angels without knowing it.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:3">3 </verse></sup>Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with
them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are
also in the body. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:4">4 </verse></sup>Let marriage be held in honor
among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will
judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:5">5 </verse></sup>Be free from the love of money, content with
such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in
no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake
you.”<footnote:1>13:5 Deuteronomy 31:6 </footnote> <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:6">6 </verse></sup>So that with good courage we say,
“The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”<footnote:1>13:6 Psalm 118:6-7 </footnote>

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:7">7 </verse></sup>Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you
the word of God, and considering the results of
their conduct, imitate their faith. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:8">8 </verse></sup>Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today, and forever. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t be
carried away by various and strange teachings, for it
is good that the heart be established by grace, not by
foods, through which those who were so occupied
were not benefited.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:10">10 </verse></sup>We have an altar from which those who serve
the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:11">11 </verse></sup>For the
bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought
into the holy place by the high priest as an offering
for sin, are burned outside of the camp.<footnote:1>13:11 Leviticus 16:27 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people through his own blood, suffered outside of
the gate. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:13">13 </verse></sup>Let’s therefore go out to him outside of
the camp, bearing his reproach. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:14">14 </verse></sup>For we don’t have
here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to
come. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:15">15 </verse></sup>Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice
of praise to God<footnote:1>13:15 Psalm 50:23</footnote> continually, that is, the fruit of
lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:16">16 </verse></sup>But
don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:17">17 </verse></sup>Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they
watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give
account, that they may do this with joy and not with
groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have
a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all
things. <key:bcv=Hebrews 13:19><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:19">19 </verse></sup>I strongly urge you to do this, that I may
be restored to you sooner.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:20><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:20">20 </verse></sup>Now may the God of peace, who brought again
from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with
the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:21><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:21">21 </verse></sup>make you complete in every good work to do his
will, working in you that which is well pleasing in
his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory
forever and ever. Amen.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:22><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:22">22 </verse></sup>But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of
exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:23><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:23">23 </verse></sup>Know that our brother Timothy has been freed,
with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:24><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:24">24 </verse></sup>Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The
Italians greet you.

<key:bcv=Hebrews 13:25><sup><verse bcv="Hebrews 13:25">25 </verse></sup>Grace be with you all. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,James
<h2>The Letter from James</h2>

<key:bcv=James 1:1><sup><verse bcv="James 1:1">1 </verse></sup>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus
Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion:
Greetings.

<key:bcv=James 1:2><sup><verse bcv="James 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Count it all joy, my brothers,<footnote:1>1:2 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote> when you fall
into various temptations, <key:bcv=James 1:3><sup><verse bcv="James 1:3">3 </verse></sup>knowing that the testing
of your faith produces endurance. <key:bcv=James 1:4><sup><verse bcv="James 1:4">4 </verse></sup>Let endurance
have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing.

<key:bcv=James 1:5><sup><verse bcv="James 1:5">5 </verse></sup>But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of
God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him. <key:bcv=James 1:6><sup><verse bcv="James 1:6">6 </verse></sup>But let him ask in
faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is
like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
<key:bcv=James 1:7><sup><verse bcv="James 1:7">7 </verse></sup>For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive
anything from the Lord. <key:bcv=James 1:8><sup><verse bcv="James 1:8">8 </verse></sup>He is a double-minded
man, unstable in all his ways.

<key:bcv=James 1:9><sup><verse bcv="James 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Let the brother in humble circumstances glory
in his high position; <key:bcv=James 1:10><sup><verse bcv="James 1:10">10 </verse></sup>and the rich, in that he
is made humble, because like the flower in the
grass, he will pass away. <key:bcv=James 1:11><sup><verse bcv="James 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For the sun arises with
the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the
flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance
perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his
pursuits.

<key:bcv=James 1:12><sup><verse bcv="James 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Blessed is a person who endures temptation,
for when he has been approved, he will receive the
crown of life which the Lord promised to those who
love him.

<key:bcv=James 1:13><sup><verse bcv="James 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am
tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil,
and he himself tempts no one. <key:bcv=James 1:14><sup><verse bcv="James 1:14">14 </verse></sup>But each one is
tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and
enticed. <key:bcv=James 1:15><sup><verse bcv="James 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Then the lust, when it has conceived,
bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces
death. <key:bcv=James 1:16><sup><verse bcv="James 1:16">16 </verse></sup>Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
<key:bcv=James 1:17><sup><verse bcv="James 1:17">17 </verse></sup>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights, with
whom can be no variation nor turning shadow. <key:bcv=James 1:18><sup><verse bcv="James 1:18">18 </verse></sup>Of
his own will he gave birth to us by the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his
creatures.

<key:bcv=James 1:19><sup><verse bcv="James 1:19">19 </verse></sup>So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; <key:bcv=James 1:20><sup><verse bcv="James 1:20">20 </verse></sup>for
the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness
of God. <key:bcv=James 1:21><sup><verse bcv="James 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Therefore, putting away all filthiness and
overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility
the implanted word, which is able to save your
souls.<footnote:1>1:21 or, preserve your life. </footnote>

<key:bcv=James 1:22><sup><verse bcv="James 1:22">22 </verse></sup>But be doers of the word, and not only hearers,
deluding your own selves. <key:bcv=James 1:23><sup><verse bcv="James 1:23">23 </verse></sup>For if anyone is a
hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
looking at his natural face in a mirror; <key:bcv=James 1:24><sup><verse bcv="James 1:24">24 </verse></sup>for he sees
himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was. <key:bcv=James 1:25><sup><verse bcv="James 1:25">25 </verse></sup>But he who looks into
the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being
a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this
man will be blessed in what he does.

<key:bcv=James 1:26><sup><verse bcv="James 1:26">26 </verse></sup>If anyone among you thinks himself to be
religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but
deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
<key:bcv=James 1:27><sup><verse bcv="James 1:27">27 </verse></sup>Pure religion and undefiled before our God and
Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the
world.

#BCV:James 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=James 2:1><sup><verse bcv="James 2:1">1 </verse></sup>My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious
Lord Jesus Christ with partiality. <key:bcv=James 2:2><sup><verse bcv="James 2:2">2 </verse></sup>For if a man
with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your
synagogue,<footnote:1>2:2 or, meeting </footnote> and a poor man in filthy clothing also
comes in, <key:bcv=James 2:3><sup><verse bcv="James 2:3">3 </verse></sup>and you pay special attention to him who
wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good
place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or
“Sit by my footstool” <key:bcv=James 2:4><sup><verse bcv="James 2:4">4 </verse></sup>haven’t you shown partiality
among yourselves, and become judges with evil
thoughts? <key:bcv=James 2:5><sup><verse bcv="James 2:5">5 </verse></sup>Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God
choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in
faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised
to those who love him? <key:bcv=James 2:6><sup><verse bcv="James 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But you have dishonored
the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and
personally drag you before the courts? <key:bcv=James 2:7><sup><verse bcv="James 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Don’t they
blaspheme the honorable name by which you are
called?

<key:bcv=James 2:8><sup><verse bcv="James 2:8">8 </verse></sup>However, if you fulfill the royal law according
to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as
yourself,”<footnote:1>2:8 Leviticus 19:18 </footnote> you do well. <key:bcv=James 2:9><sup><verse bcv="James 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But if you show partiality,
you commit sin, being convicted by the law as
transgressors. <key:bcv=James 2:10><sup><verse bcv="James 2:10">10 </verse></sup>For whoever keeps the whole
law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become
guilty of all. <key:bcv=James 2:11><sup><verse bcv="James 2:11">11 </verse></sup>For he who said, “Do not commit
adultery,”<footnote:1>2:11 Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18 </footnote> also said, “Do not commit murder.”<footnote:1>2:11 Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 </footnote>
Now if you do not commit adultery but do murder,
you have become a transgressor of the law. <key:bcv=James 2:12><sup><verse bcv="James 2:12">12 </verse></sup>So
speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the
law of freedom. <key:bcv=James 2:13><sup><verse bcv="James 2:13">13 </verse></sup>For judgment is without mercy
to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs
over judgment.

<key:bcv=James 2:14><sup><verse bcv="James 2:14">14 </verse></sup>What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he
has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
<key:bcv=James 2:15><sup><verse bcv="James 2:15">15 </verse></sup>And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of
daily food, <key:bcv=James 2:16><sup><verse bcv="James 2:16">16 </verse></sup>and one of you tells them, “Go in peace.
Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the
things the body needs, what good is it? <key:bcv=James 2:17><sup><verse bcv="James 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Even so
faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. <key:bcv=James 2:18><sup><verse bcv="James 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Yes, a
man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”
Show me your faith without works, and I will show
you my faith by my works.

<key:bcv=James 2:19><sup><verse bcv="James 2:19">19 </verse></sup>You believe that God is one. You do well. The
demons also believe—and shudder. <key:bcv=James 2:20><sup><verse bcv="James 2:20">20 </verse></sup>But do you
want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works
is dead? <key:bcv=James 2:21><sup><verse bcv="James 2:21">21 </verse></sup>Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by
works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the
altar? <key:bcv=James 2:22><sup><verse bcv="James 2:22">22 </verse></sup>You see that faith worked with his works,
and by works faith was perfected. <key:bcv=James 2:23><sup><verse bcv="James 2:23">23 </verse></sup>So the Scripture
was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him as righteousness,”<footnote:1>2:23 Genesis 15:6</footnote>
and he was called the friend of God. <key:bcv=James 2:24><sup><verse bcv="James 2:24">24 </verse></sup>You see
then that by works a man is justified, and not only
by faith. <key:bcv=James 2:25><sup><verse bcv="James 2:25">25 </verse></sup>In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the
prostitute also justified by works when she received
the messengers and sent them out another way?
<key:bcv=James 2:26><sup><verse bcv="James 2:26">26 </verse></sup>For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even
so faith apart from works is dead.

#BCV:James 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=James 3:1><sup><verse bcv="James 3:1">1 </verse></sup>Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers,
knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
<key:bcv=James 3:2><sup><verse bcv="James 3:2">2 </verse></sup>For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who
doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able
to bridle the whole body also. <key:bcv=James 3:3><sup><verse bcv="James 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Indeed, we put
bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey
us, and we guide their whole body. <key:bcv=James 3:4><sup><verse bcv="James 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>3:4 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> the
ships also, though they are so big and are driven by
fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder,
wherever the pilot desires. <key:bcv=James 3:5><sup><verse bcv="James 3:5">5 </verse></sup>So the tongue is also
a little member, and boasts great things. See how
a small fire can spread to a large forest! <key:bcv=James 3:6><sup><verse bcv="James 3:6">6 </verse></sup>And the
tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our
members is the tongue, which defiles the whole
body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is
set on fire by Gehenna.<footnote:1>3:6 or, Hell </footnote> <key:bcv=James 3:7><sup><verse bcv="James 3:7">7 </verse></sup>For every kind of animal,
bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and
has been tamed by mankind; <key:bcv=James 3:8><sup><verse bcv="James 3:8">8 </verse></sup>but nobody can tame
the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
<key:bcv=James 3:9><sup><verse bcv="James 3:9">9 </verse></sup>With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we
curse men who are made in the image of God. <key:bcv=James 3:10><sup><verse bcv="James 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Out
of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My
brothers, these things ought not to be so. <key:bcv=James 3:11><sup><verse bcv="James 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Does
a spring send out from the same opening fresh and
bitter water? <key:bcv=James 3:12><sup><verse bcv="James 3:12">12 </verse></sup>Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield
olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both
salt water and fresh water.

<key:bcv=James 3:13><sup><verse bcv="James 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Who is wise and understanding among you?
Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds
are done in gentleness of wisdom. <key:bcv=James 3:14><sup><verse bcv="James 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But if you
have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your
heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
<key:bcv=James 3:15><sup><verse bcv="James 3:15">15 </verse></sup>This wisdom is not that which comes down from
above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. <key:bcv=James 3:16><sup><verse bcv="James 3:16">16 </verse></sup>For
where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is
confusion and every evil deed. <key:bcv=James 3:17><sup><verse bcv="James 3:17">17 </verse></sup>But the wisdom
that is from above is first pure, then peaceful,
gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without hypocrisy. <key:bcv=James 3:18><sup><verse bcv="James 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Now
the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those
who make peace.

#BCV:James 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=James 4:1><sup><verse bcv="James 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Where do wars and fightings among you come
from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that
war in your members? <key:bcv=James 4:2><sup><verse bcv="James 4:2">2 </verse></sup>You lust, and don’t have.
You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight
and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t
ask. <key:bcv=James 4:3><sup><verse bcv="James 4:3">3 </verse></sup>You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask
with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on
your pleasures. <key:bcv=James 4:4><sup><verse bcv="James 4:4">4 </verse></sup>You adulterers and adulteresses,
don’t you know that friendship with the world is
hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy
of God. <key:bcv=James 4:5><sup><verse bcv="James 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Or do you think that the Scripture says in
vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
<key:bcv=James 4:6><sup><verse bcv="James 4:6">6 </verse></sup>But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God
resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”<footnote:1>4:6 Proverbs 3:34 </footnote>
<key:bcv=James 4:7><sup><verse bcv="James 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you. <key:bcv=James 4:8><sup><verse bcv="James 4:8">8 </verse></sup>Draw near to God, and he will
draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners.
Purify your hearts, you double-minded. <key:bcv=James 4:9><sup><verse bcv="James 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Lament,
mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned
to mourning and your joy to gloom. <key:bcv=James 4:10><sup><verse bcv="James 4:10">10 </verse></sup>Humble
yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt
you.

<key:bcv=James 4:11><sup><verse bcv="James 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Don’t speak against one another, brothers.
He who speaks against a brother and judges his
brother, speaks against the law and judges the law.
But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the
law but a judge. <key:bcv=James 4:12><sup><verse bcv="James 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Only one is the lawgiver, who is
able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge
another?

<key:bcv=James 4:13><sup><verse bcv="James 4:13">13 </verse></sup>Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow
let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade,
and make a profit.” <key:bcv=James 4:14><sup><verse bcv="James 4:14">14 </verse></sup>Yet you don’t know what your
life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life?
For you are a vapor that appears for a little time
and then vanishes away. <key:bcv=James 4:15><sup><verse bcv="James 4:15">15 </verse></sup>For you ought to say,
“If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or
that.” <key:bcv=James 4:16><sup><verse bcv="James 4:16">16 </verse></sup>But now you glory in your boasting. All
such boasting is evil. <key:bcv=James 4:17><sup><verse bcv="James 4:17">17 </verse></sup>To him therefore who knows
to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

#BCV:James 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=James 5:1><sup><verse bcv="James 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your
miseries that are coming on you. <key:bcv=James 5:2><sup><verse bcv="James 5:2">2 </verse></sup>Your riches
are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
<key:bcv=James 5:3><sup><verse bcv="James 5:3">3 </verse></sup>Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their
corrosion will be for a testimony against you and
will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your
treasure in the last days. <key:bcv=James 5:4><sup><verse bcv="James 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Behold, the wages of
the laborers who mowed your fields, which you
have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of
those who reaped have entered into the ears of the
Lord of Armies.<footnote:1>5:4 Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)</footnote> <key:bcv=James 5:5><sup><verse bcv="James 5:5">5 </verse></sup>You have lived in luxury on the
earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished
your hearts as in a day of slaughter. <key:bcv=James 5:6><sup><verse bcv="James 5:6">6 </verse></sup>You have
condemned and you have murdered the righteous
one. He doesn’t resist you.

<key:bcv=James 5:7><sup><verse bcv="James 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming
of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the
precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it,
until it receives the early and late rain. <key:bcv=James 5:8><sup><verse bcv="James 5:8">8 </verse></sup>You also
be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of
the Lord is at hand.

<key:bcv=James 5:9><sup><verse bcv="James 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another,
so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge
stands at the door. <key:bcv=James 5:10><sup><verse bcv="James 5:10">10 </verse></sup>Take, brothers, for an example
of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who
spoke in the name of the Lord. <key:bcv=James 5:11><sup><verse bcv="James 5:11">11 </verse></sup>Behold, we call
them blessed who endured. You have heard of the
perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the
outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and
mercy.

<key:bcv=James 5:12><sup><verse bcv="James 5:12">12 </verse></sup>But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—
not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath;
but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so
that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.<footnote:1>5:12 TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”</footnote>

<key:bcv=James 5:13><sup><verse bcv="James 5:13">13 </verse></sup>Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is
any cheerful? Let him sing praises. <key:bcv=James 5:14><sup><verse bcv="James 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Is any among
you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly,
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil
in the name of the Lord; <key:bcv=James 5:15><sup><verse bcv="James 5:15">15 </verse></sup>and the prayer of faith
will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him
up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
<key:bcv=James 5:16><sup><verse bcv="James 5:16">16 </verse></sup>Confess your sins to one another and pray for
one another, that you may be healed. The insistent
prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
<key:bcv=James 5:17><sup><verse bcv="James 5:17">17 </verse></sup>Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t
rain on the earth for three years and six months.
<key:bcv=James 5:18><sup><verse bcv="James 5:18">18 </verse></sup>He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the
earth produced its fruit.

<key:bcv=James 5:19><sup><verse bcv="James 5:19">19 </verse></sup>Brothers, if any among you wanders from the
truth and someone turns him back, <key:bcv=James 5:20><sup><verse bcv="James 5:20">20 </verse></sup>let him know
that he who turns a sinner from the error of his
way will save a soul from death and will cover a
multitude of sins.

#OUTLINE:1,1 Peter
<h2>Peter’s First Letter</h2>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> to the chosen
ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion
in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:2">2 </verse></sup>according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey
Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace
to you and peace be multiplied.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who according to his great mercy caused
us to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:4">4 </verse></sup>to
an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that
doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:5">5 </verse></sup>who
by the power of God are guarded through faith for
a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:6">6 </verse></sup>In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little
while, if need be, you have been grieved in various
trials, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:7">7 </verse></sup>that the proof of your faith, which is more
precious than gold that perishes, even though it
is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise,
glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ
— <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:8">8 </verse></sup>whom, not having known, you love. In him,
though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you
rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full
of glory, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:9">9 </verse></sup>receiving the result of your faith, the
salvation of your souls.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought
and searched diligently. They prophesied of the
grace that would come to you, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:11">11 </verse></sup>searching for who
or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was
in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings
of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:12">12 </verse></sup>To them it was revealed that they served not
themselves, but you, in these things, which now
have been announced to you through those who
preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit
sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to
look into.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore prepare your minds for action.<footnote:1>1:13 literally, “gird up the waist of your mind” or “put on the belt of the waist of your mind” </footnote> Be
sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that
will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ— <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:14">14 </verse></sup>as children of obedience, not conforming
yourselves according to your former lusts as in your
ignorance, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:15">15 </verse></sup>but just as he who called you is holy,
you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:16">16 </verse></sup>because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am
holy.”<footnote:1>1:16 Leviticus 11:44-45 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:17">17 </verse></sup>If you call on him as Father, who without
respect of persons judges according to each man’s
work, pass the time of your living as foreigners
here in reverent fear, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:18">18 </verse></sup>knowing that you were
redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or
gold, from the useless way of life handed down from
your fathers, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:19">19 </verse></sup>but with precious blood, as of a lamb
without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:20">20 </verse></sup>who
was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the
world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:21">21 </verse></sup>who through him are believers in God, who raised
him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your
faith and hope might be in God.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:22">22 </verse></sup>Seeing you have purified your souls in your
obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere
brotherly affection, love one another from the heart
fervently, <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:23">23 </verse></sup>having been born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of
God, which lives and remains forever. <key:bcv=1 Peter 1:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:24">24 </verse></sup>For,
“All flesh is like grass,
<br>
and all of man’s glory like the flower in the
grass.
<br>
The grass withers, and its flower falls;
<key:bcv=1 Peter 1:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 1:25">25 </verse></sup>but the Lord’s word endures forever.”<footnote:1>1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8 </footnote>
This is the word of Good News which was
preached to you.

#BCV:1 Peter 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:1">1 </verse></sup>Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit,
hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:2">2 </verse></sup>as
newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk,
that with it you may grow, <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:3">3 </verse></sup>if indeed you have
tasted that the Lord is gracious. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:4">4 </verse></sup>Come to him, a
living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by
God, precious. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:5">5 </verse></sup>You also as living stones are built up
as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer
up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through
Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:6">6 </verse></sup>Because it is contained in Scripture,
“Behold,<footnote:1>2:6 “Behold”, from “<hebrew>הִנּ͏ֵה<english>” or “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen
and precious.
<br>
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
<footnote:1>2:6 Isaiah 28:16 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:7">7 </verse></sup>For you who believe therefore is the honor, but
for those who are disobedient,
<br>
“The stone which the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone,”<footnote:1>2:7 Psalm 118:22 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:8">8 </verse></sup>and,

“a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.”<footnote:1>2:8 Isaiah 8:14</footnote>
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient,
to which also they were appointed. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:9">9 </verse></sup>But you are
a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for God’s own possession, that you may
proclaim the excellence of him who called you out
of darkness into his marvelous light. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:10">10 </verse></sup>In the
past, you were not a people, but now are God’s
people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained mercy.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:11">11 </verse></sup>Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims
to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the
soul, <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:12">12 </verse></sup>having good behavior among the nations, so
in that of which they speak against you as evildoers,
they may see your good works and glorify God in the
day of visitation.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:13">13 </verse></sup>Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance
of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the
king, as supreme, <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:14">14 </verse></sup>or to governors, as sent by
him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to
those who do well. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:15">15 </verse></sup>For this is the will of God,
that by well-doing you should put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Live as free people, yet
not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness,
but as bondservants of God.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:17">17 </verse></sup>Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear
God. Honor the king.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Servants, be in subjection to your masters with
all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but
also to the wicked. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:19">19 </verse></sup>For it is commendable if
someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because
of conscience toward God. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:20">20 </verse></sup>For what glory is it if,
when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if
when you do well, you patiently endure suffering,
this is commendable with God. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:21">21 </verse></sup>For you were
called to this, because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving you<footnote:1>2:21 TR reads “us” instead of “you” </footnote> an example, that you should follow
his steps, <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:22">22 </verse></sup>who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit
found in his mouth.”<footnote:1>2:22 Isaiah 53:9 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:23><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:23">23 </verse></sup>When he was cursed,
he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t
threaten, but committed himself to him who judges
righteously. <key:bcv=1 Peter 2:24><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:24">24 </verse></sup>He himself bore our sins in his body
on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.<footnote:1>2:24 or, stripes </footnote>
<key:bcv=1 Peter 2:25><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 2:25">25 </verse></sup>For you were going astray like sheep; but now
you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer<footnote:1>2:25 “Overseer” is from the Greek <greek>ἐπίσκοπον<english>, which can mean overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent. </footnote>
of your souls.

#BCV:1 Peter 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:1">1 </verse></sup>In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your
own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the
Word, they may be won by the behavior of their
wives without a word, <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:2">2 </verse></sup>seeing your pure behavior in
fear. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Let your beauty come not from the outward
adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold
ornaments or of putting on fine clothing, <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:4">4 </verse></sup>but from
the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible
adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is
very precious in God’s sight. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:5">5 </verse></sup>For this is how in
the past the holy women who hoped in God also
adorned themselves, being in subjection to their
own husbands. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:6">6 </verse></sup>So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling
him lord, whose children you now are if you do well
and are not put in fear by any terror.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:7">7 </verse></sup>You husbands, in the same way, live with your
wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the
woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint
heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not
be hindered.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:8">8 </verse></sup>Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate,
loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:9">9 </verse></sup>not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but
instead blessing, knowing that you were called to
this, that you may inherit a blessing. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:10">10 </verse></sup>For,
“He who would love life
<br>
and see good days,
<br>
let him keep his tongue from evil
<br>
and his lips from speaking deceit.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Let him turn away from evil and do good.
Let him seek peace and pursue it.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:12">12 </verse></sup>For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears open to their prayer;
<br>
but the face of the Lord is against those who do
evil.”<footnote:1>3:12 Psalm 34:12-16 </footnote>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Now who will harm you if you become imitators
of that which is good? <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:14">14 </verse></sup>But even if you should suffer
for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t
fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”<footnote:1>3:14 Isaiah 8:12</footnote> <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:15">15 </verse></sup>But
sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be
ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you
a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with
humility and fear, <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:16">16 </verse></sup>having a good conscience.
Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers,
they may be disappointed who curse your good way
of life in Christ. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:17">17 </verse></sup>For it is better, if it is God’s
will, that you suffer for doing what is right than
for doing evil. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:18">18 </verse></sup>Because Christ also suffered for
sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that
he might bring you to God, being put to death in
the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:19">19 </verse></sup>in whom
he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:20">20 </verse></sup>who before were disobedient when God waited
patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was
being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were
saved through water. <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:21">21 </verse></sup>This is a symbol of baptism,
which now saves you —not the putting away of
the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God—through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, <key:bcv=1 Peter 3:22><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 3:22">22 </verse></sup>who is at the right hand of God,
having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and
powers being made subject to him.

#BCV:1 Peter 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 Peter 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the
flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for
he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from
sin, <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:2">2 </verse></sup>that you no longer should live the rest of your
time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the
will of God. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:3">3 </verse></sup>For we have spent enough of our past
time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having
walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies,
carousings, and abominable idolatries. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:4">4 </verse></sup>They think
it is strange that you don’t run with them into the
same excess of riot, speaking evil of you. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:5">5 </verse></sup>They
will give account to him who is ready to judge the
living and the dead. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:6">6 </verse></sup>For to this end the Good News
was preached even to the dead, that they might be
judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God
in the spirit.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:7">7 </verse></sup>But the end of all things is near. Therefore be
of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:8">8 </verse></sup>And above all things be earnest in your love among
yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:9">9 </verse></sup>Be
hospitable to one another without grumbling. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:10">10 </verse></sup>As
each has received a gift, employ it in serving one
another, as good managers of the grace of God in
its various forms. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:11">11 </verse></sup>If anyone speaks, let it be as it
were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it
be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all
things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to
whom belong the glory and the dominion forever
and ever. Amen.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:12">12 </verse></sup>Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial
which has come upon you to test you, as though
a strange thing happened to you. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:13">13 </verse></sup>But because
you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that
at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice
with exceeding joy. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:14">14 </verse></sup>If you are insulted for the
name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit
of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is
blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:15">15 </verse></sup>But
let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or
an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:16">16 </verse></sup>But if one of you suffers for being a Christian,
let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in
this matter. <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:17">17 </verse></sup>For the time has come for judgment
to begin with the household of God. If it begins
first with us, what will happen to those who don’t
obey the Good News of God? <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:18">18 </verse></sup>“If it is hard for
the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the
ungodly and the sinner?”<footnote:1>4:18 Proverbs 11:31 </footnote> <key:bcv=1 Peter 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 4:19">19 </verse></sup>Therefore let them
also who suffer according to the will of God in doing
good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful
Creator.

#BCV:1 Peter 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as
a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of
Christ, and who will also share in the glory that
will be revealed: <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:2">2 </verse></sup>shepherd the flock of God which
is among you, exercising the oversight, not under
compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain,
but willingly; <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:3">3 </verse></sup>not as lording it over those entrusted
to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:4">4 </verse></sup>When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will
receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the
elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility
and subject yourselves to one another; for “God
resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”<footnote:1>5:5 Proverbs 3:34</footnote>
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:6">6 </verse></sup>Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty
hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:7">7 </verse></sup>casting all your worries on him, because he cares
for you.

<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your
adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour. <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:9">9 </verse></sup>Withstand
him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your
brothers who are in the world are undergoing the
same sufferings. <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:10">10 </verse></sup>But may the God of all grace, who
called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after
you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish,
strengthen, and settle you. <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:11">11 </verse></sup>To him be the glory
and the power forever and ever. Amen.
<key:bcv=1 Peter 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:12">12 </verse></sup>Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider
him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting
and testifying that this is the true grace of God in
which you stand. <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:13">13 </verse></sup>She who is in Babylon, chosen
together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my
son. <key:bcv=1 Peter 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 Peter 5:14">14 </verse></sup>Greet one another with a kiss of love.
Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus.
Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,2 Peter
<h2>Peter’s Second Letter</h2>

<key:bcv=2 Peter 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> to those who have obtained a like precious
faith with us in the righteousness of our God and
Savior, Jesus Christ: <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Grace to you and peace be
multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus
our Lord, <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:3">3 </verse></sup>seeing that his divine power has granted
to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him who called us by his
own glory and virtue, <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:4">4 </verse></sup>by which he has granted to
us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that
through these you may become partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped from the corruption
that is in the world by lust. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Yes, and for this very
cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith
supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence,
knowledge; <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:6">6 </verse></sup>and in knowledge, self-control; and
in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance,
godliness; <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:7">7 </verse></sup>and in godliness, brotherly affection;
and in brotherly affection, love. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:8">8 </verse></sup>For if these things
are yours and abound, they make you to not be
idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:9">9 </verse></sup>For he who lacks these things is
blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the
cleansing from his old sins. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore, brothers,<footnote:1>1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” </footnote>
be more diligent to make your calling and election
sure. For if you do these things, you will never
stumble. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:11">11 </verse></sup>For thus you will be richly supplied with
the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore I will not be negligent to remind
you of these things, though you know them and
are established in the present truth. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:13">13 </verse></sup>I think it
right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up
by reminding you, <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:14">14 </verse></sup>knowing that the putting off
of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus
Christ made clear to me. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:15">15 </verse></sup>Yes, I will make every
effort that you may always be able to remember
these things even after my departure.
<key:bcv=2 Peter 1:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:16">16 </verse></sup>For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables
when we made known to you the power and coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses
of his majesty. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:17">17 </verse></sup>For he received from God the
Father honor and glory when the voice came to him
from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased.”<footnote:1>1:17 Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35 </footnote> <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:18">18 </verse></sup>We heard this voice
come out of heaven when we were with him on the
holy mountain.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 1:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:19">19 </verse></sup>We have the more sure word of prophecy;
and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and
the morning star arises in your hearts, <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:20">20 </verse></sup>knowing
this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private
interpretation. <key:bcv=2 Peter 1:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 1:21">21 </verse></sup>For no prophecy ever came by
the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being
moved by the Holy Spirit.

#BCV:2 Peter 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:1">1 </verse></sup>But false prophets also arose among the people,
as false teachers will also be among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even
the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves
swift destruction. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:2">2 </verse></sup>Many will follow their
immoral<footnote:1>2:2 TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral” </footnote> ways, and as a result, the way of the truth
will be maligned. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:3">3 </verse></sup>In covetousness they will exploit
you with deceptive words: whose sentence now
from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will
not slumber.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:4">4 </verse></sup>For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned,
but cast them down to Tartarus,<footnote:1>2:4 Tartarus is another name for Hell</footnote> and committed
them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:5">5 </verse></sup>and didn’t spare the ancient world, but
preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of
righteousness, when he brought a flood on the
world of the ungodly, <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:6">6 </verse></sup>and turning the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them
to destruction, having made them an example to
those who would live in an ungodly way, <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:7">7 </verse></sup>and
delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by
the lustful life of the wicked <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:8">8 </verse></sup>(for that righteous
man dwelling among them was tormented in his
righteous soul from day to day with seeing and
hearing lawless deeds), <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:9">9 </verse></sup>then the Lord knows how
to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep
the unrighteous under punishment for the day of
judgment, <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:10">10 </verse></sup>but chiefly those who walk after the
flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority.
Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil
of dignitaries, <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:11">11 </verse></sup>whereas angels, though greater in
might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment
against them before the Lord. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:12">12 </verse></sup>But these, as
unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be
taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about
which they are ignorant, will in their destroying
surely be destroyed, <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:13">13 </verse></sup>receiving the wages of unrighteousness;
people who count it pleasure to revel
in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their
deceit while they feast with you; <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:14">14 </verse></sup>having eyes full
of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing
unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed,
accursed children! <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Forsaking the right way, they
went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the
son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:16">16 </verse></sup>but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A
speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and
stopped the madness of the prophet.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:17">17 </verse></sup>These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness
has been reserved forever. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:18">18 </verse></sup>For, uttering great
swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts
of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed
escaping from those who live in error; <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:19><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:19">19 </verse></sup>promising
them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants
of corruption; for a man is brought into
bondage by whoever overcomes him.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 2:20><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:20">20 </verse></sup>For if, after they have escaped the defilement of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it
and overcome, the last state has become worse for
them than the first. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:21><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:21">21 </verse></sup>For it would be better for
them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy
commandment delivered to them. <key:bcv=2 Peter 2:22><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 2:22">22 </verse></sup>But it has
happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns to his own vomit again,”<footnote:1>2:22 Proverbs 26:11</footnote> and “the
sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

#BCV:2 Peter 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=2 Peter 3:1><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:1">1 </verse></sup>This is now, beloved, the second letter that I
have written to you; and in both of them I stir
up your sincere mind by reminding you <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:2><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:2">2 </verse></sup>that you
should remember the words which were spoken
before by the holy prophets and the commandment
of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:3><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:3">3 </verse></sup>knowing
this first, that in the last days mockers will come,
walking after their own lusts <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:4><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:4">4 </verse></sup>and saying, “Where
is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that
the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the creation.” <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:5><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:5">5 </verse></sup>For they
willfully forget that there were heavens from of old,
and an earth formed out of water and amid water
by the word of God, <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:6><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:6">6 </verse></sup>by which means the world
that existed then, being overflowed with water,
perished. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:7><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:7">7 </verse></sup>But the heavens that exist now and the
earth, by the same word have been stored up for
fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly men.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 3:8><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:8">8 </verse></sup>But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that
one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:9><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:9">9 </verse></sup>The Lord is
not slow concerning his promise, as some count
slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that
anyone should perish, but that all should come to
repentance. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:10><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:10">10 </verse></sup>But the day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass
away with a great noise, and the elements will be
dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the
works that are in it will be burned up. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:11><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:11">11 </verse></sup>Therefore,
since all these things will be destroyed like this,
what kind of people ought you to be in holy living
and godliness, <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:12><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:12">12 </verse></sup>looking for and earnestly desiring
the coming of the day of God, which will cause the
burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements
will melt with fervent heat? <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:13><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:13">13 </verse></sup>But, according to his
promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth,
in which righteousness dwells.

<key:bcv=2 Peter 3:14><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:14">14 </verse></sup>Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for
these things, be diligent to be found in peace,
without defect and blameless in his sight. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:15><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Regard
the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our
beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom
given to him, wrote to you, <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:16><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:16">16 </verse></sup>as also in all of his
letters, speaking in them of these things. In those,
there are some things that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they
also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
<key:bcv=2 Peter 3:17><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:17">17 </verse></sup>You therefore, beloved, knowing these
things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away
with the error of the wicked, you fall from your
own steadfastness. <key:bcv=2 Peter 3:18><sup><verse bcv="2 Peter 3:18">18 </verse></sup>But grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,1 John
<h2>John’s First Letter</h2>

<key:bcv=1 John 1:1><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:1">1 </verse></sup>That which was from the beginning, that which
we have heard, that which we have seen with our
eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched,
concerning the Word of life <key:bcv=1 John 1:2><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:2">2 </verse></sup>(and the life was
revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare
to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was revealed to us); <key:bcv=1 John 1:3><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:3">3 </verse></sup>that which we have
seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may
have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship
is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.<footnote:1>1:3 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote>
<key:bcv=1 John 1:4><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:4">4 </verse></sup>And we write these things to you, that our joy may
be fulfilled.

<key:bcv=1 John 1:5><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:5">5 </verse></sup>This is the message which we have heard from
him and announce to you, that God is light, and
in him is no darkness at all. <key:bcv=1 John 1:6><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:6">6 </verse></sup>If we say that we
have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness,
we lie and don’t tell the truth. <key:bcv=1 John 1:7><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:7">7 </verse></sup>But if we walk in
the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship
with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son, cleanses us from all sin. <key:bcv=1 John 1:8><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:8">8 </verse></sup>If we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. <key:bcv=1 John 1:9><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:9">9 </verse></sup>If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. <key:bcv=1 John 1:10><sup><verse bcv="1 John 1:10">10 </verse></sup>If we say that we
haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word
is not in us.

#BCV:1 John 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 John 2:1><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:1">1 </verse></sup>My little children, I write these things to you
so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have
a Counselor<footnote:1>2:1 Greek <greek>παρακλητον<english>: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter. </footnote> with the Father, Jesus Christ, the
righteous. <key:bcv=1 John 2:2><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:2">2 </verse></sup>And he is the atoning sacrifice<footnote:1>2:2 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “<greek>ιλασμος<english>”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. </footnote> for our
sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole
world. <key:bcv=1 John 2:3><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:3">3 </verse></sup>This is how we know that we know him:
if we keep his commandments. <key:bcv=1 John 2:4><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:4">4 </verse></sup>One who says, “I
know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is
a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. <key:bcv=1 John 2:5><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:5">5 </verse></sup>But God’s love has
most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his
word. This is how we know that we are in him: <key:bcv=1 John 2:6><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:6">6 </verse></sup>he
who says he remains in him ought himself also to
walk just like he walked.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:7><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:7">7 </verse></sup>Brothers, I write no new commandment to you,
but an old commandment which you had from the
beginning. The old commandment is the word
which you heard from the beginning. <key:bcv=1 John 2:8><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:8">8 </verse></sup>Again, I
write a new commandment to you, which is true
in him and in you, because the darkness is passing
away and the true light already shines. <key:bcv=1 John 2:9><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:9">9 </verse></sup>He who
says he is in the light and hates his brother is
in the darkness even until now. <key:bcv=1 John 2:10><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:10">10 </verse></sup>He who loves
his brother remains in the light, and there is no
occasion for stumbling in him. <key:bcv=1 John 2:11><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:11">11 </verse></sup>But he who
hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in
the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going,
because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
<key:bcv=1 John 2:12><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:12">12 </verse></sup>I write to you, little children, because your sins
are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
<key:bcv=1 John 2:13><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:13">13 </verse></sup>I write to you, fathers, because you know him
who is from the beginning.
<br>
I write to you, young men, because you have
overcome the evil one.
<br>
I write to you, little children, because you know
the Father.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:14><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:14">14 </verse></sup>I have written to you, fathers, because you
know him who is from the beginning.
<br>
I have written to you, young men, because you
are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and
you have overcome the evil one.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:15><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:15">15 </verse></sup>Don’t love the world or the things that are in
the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s
love isn’t in him. <key:bcv=1 John 2:16><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:16">16 </verse></sup>For all that is in the world—the
lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. <key:bcv=1 John 2:17><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:17">17 </verse></sup>The
world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does
God’s will remains forever.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:18><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:18">18 </verse></sup>Little children, these are the end times, and as
you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now
many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that
it is the final hour. <key:bcv=1 John 2:19><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:19">19 </verse></sup>They went out from us, but
they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged
to us, they would have continued with us. But they
left, that they might be revealed that none of them
belong to us. <key:bcv=1 John 2:20><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:20">20 </verse></sup>You have an anointing from the Holy
One, and you all have knowledge.<footnote:1>2:20 Or, “know what is true”, or, “know all things”</footnote> <key:bcv=1 John 2:21><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:21">21 </verse></sup>I have not
written to you because you don’t know the truth,
but because you know it, and because no lie is of the
truth. <key:bcv=1 John 2:22><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus
is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies
the Father and the Son. <key:bcv=1 John 2:23><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:23">23 </verse></sup>Whoever denies the Son
doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son
has the Father also.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:24><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:24">24 </verse></sup>Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you
which you heard from the beginning. If that which
you heard from the beginning remains in you, you
also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. <key:bcv=1 John 2:25><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:25">25 </verse></sup>This
is the promise which he promised us, the eternal
life.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:26><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:26">26 </verse></sup>These things I have written to you concerning
those who would lead you astray. <key:bcv=1 John 2:27><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:27">27 </verse></sup>As for you,
the anointing which you received from him remains
in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach
you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning
all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it
taught you, you will remain in him.

<key:bcv=1 John 2:28><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:28">28 </verse></sup>Now, little children, remain in him, that when
he appears, we may have boldness and not be
ashamed before him at his coming. <key:bcv=1 John 2:29><sup><verse bcv="1 John 2:29">29 </verse></sup>If you know
that he is righteous, you know that everyone who
practices righteousness has been born of him.

#BCV:1 John 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 John 3:1><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:1">1 </verse></sup>See how great a love the Father has given to us,
that we should be called children of God! For this
cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t
know him. <key:bcv=1 John 3:2><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Beloved, now we are children of God.
<br>
It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know
that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we
will see him just as he is. <key:bcv=1 John 3:3><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:3">3 </verse></sup>Everyone who has this
hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
<key:bcv=1 John 3:4><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness.
Sin is lawlessness. <key:bcv=1 John 3:5><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:5">5 </verse></sup>You know that he was revealed
to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
<key:bcv=1 John 3:6><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:6">6 </verse></sup>Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins
hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
<key:bcv=1 John 3:7><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:7">7 </verse></sup>Little children, let no one lead you astray. He
who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is
righteous. <key:bcv=1 John 3:8><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:8">8 </verse></sup>He who sins is of the devil, for the
devil has been sinning from the beginning. To
this end the Son of God was revealed: that he
might destroy the works of the devil. <key:bcv=1 John 3:9><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Whoever is
born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed
remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is
born of God. <key:bcv=1 John 3:10><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:10">10 </verse></sup>In this the children of God are
revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever
doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is
he who doesn’t love his brother. <key:bcv=1 John 3:11><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:11">11 </verse></sup>For this is the
message which you heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another— <key:bcv=1 John 3:12><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:12">12 </verse></sup>unlike Cain, who
was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did
he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his
brother’s righteous.

<key:bcv=1 John 3:13><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:13">13 </verse></sup>Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world
hates you. <key:bcv=1 John 3:14><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:14">14 </verse></sup>We know that we have passed out
of death into life, because we love the brothers.
He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
<key:bcv=1 John 3:15><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:15">15 </verse></sup>Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you
know that no murderer has eternal life remaining
in him.

<key:bcv=1 John 3:16><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:16">16 </verse></sup>By this we know love, because he laid down
his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives
for the brothers. <key:bcv=1 John 3:17><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:17">17 </verse></sup>But whoever has the world’s
goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his
heart of compassion against him, how does God’s
love remain in him?

<key:bcv=1 John 3:18><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:18">18 </verse></sup>My little children, let’s not love in word only,
or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
<key:bcv=1 John 3:19><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:19">19 </verse></sup>And by this we know that we are of the truth and
persuade our hearts before him, <key:bcv=1 John 3:20><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:20">20 </verse></sup>because if our
heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart,
and knows all things. <key:bcv=1 John 3:21><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:21">21 </verse></sup>Beloved, if our hearts don’t
condemn us, we have boldness toward God; <key:bcv=1 John 3:22><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:22">22 </verse></sup>so
whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we
keep his commandments and do the things that are
pleasing in his sight. <key:bcv=1 John 3:23><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:23">23 </verse></sup>This is his commandment,
that we should believe in the name of his Son,
Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he
commanded. <key:bcv=1 John 3:24><sup><verse bcv="1 John 3:24">24 </verse></sup>He who keeps his commandments
remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that
he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

#BCV:1 John 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=1 John 4:1><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:1">1 </verse></sup>Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the
spirits, whether they are of God, because many false
prophets have gone out into the world. <key:bcv=1 John 4:2><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:2">2 </verse></sup>By this you
know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
<key:bcv=1 John 4:3><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:3">3 </verse></sup>and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is
the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard
that it comes. Now it is in the world already. <key:bcv=1 John 4:4><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:4">4 </verse></sup>You
are of God, little children, and have overcome them,
because greater is he who is in you than he who is in
the world. <key:bcv=1 John 4:5><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:5">5 </verse></sup>They are of the world. Therefore they
speak of the world, and the world hears them. <key:bcv=1 John 4:6><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:6">6 </verse></sup>We
are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who
is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know
the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
<key:bcv=1 John 4:7><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:7">7 </verse></sup>Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves has been born of God and
knows God. <key:bcv=1 John 4:8><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:8">8 </verse></sup>He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God,
for God is love. <key:bcv=1 John 4:9><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:9">9 </verse></sup>By this God’s love was revealed in
us, that God has sent his only born<footnote:1>4:9 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “<greek>μονογενη<english>”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. </footnote> Son into the
world that we might live through him. <key:bcv=1 John 4:10><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:10">10 </verse></sup>In this is
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice<footnote:1>4:10 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “<greek>ιλασμος<english>”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. </footnote> for our
sins. <key:bcv=1 John 4:11><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:11">11 </verse></sup>Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also
ought to love one another. <key:bcv=1 John 4:12><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:12">12 </verse></sup>No one has seen God
at any time. If we love one another, God remains in
us, and his love has been perfected in us.
<key:bcv=1 John 4:13><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:13">13 </verse></sup>By this we know that we remain in him and he
in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. <key:bcv=1 John 4:14><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:14">14 </verse></sup>We
have seen and testify that the Father has sent the
Son as the Savior of the world. <key:bcv=1 John 4:15><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:15">15 </verse></sup>Whoever confesses
that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him,
and he in God. <key:bcv=1 John 4:16><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:16">16 </verse></sup>We know and have believed the
love which God has for us. God is love, and he who
remains in love remains in God, and God remains
in him. <key:bcv=1 John 4:17><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:17">17 </verse></sup>In this, love has been made perfect
among us, that we may have boldness in the day of
judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this
world. <key:bcv=1 John 4:18><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:18">18 </verse></sup>There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He
who fears is not made perfect in love. <key:bcv=1 John 4:19><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:19">19 </verse></sup>We love
him,<footnote:1>4:19 NU omits “him”.</footnote> because he first loved us. <key:bcv=1 John 4:20><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:20">20 </verse></sup>If a man says,
“I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for
he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen,
how can he love God whom he has not seen? <key:bcv=1 John 4:21><sup><verse bcv="1 John 4:21">21 </verse></sup>This
commandment we have from him, that he who loves
God should also love his brother.

#BCV:1 John 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>

<key:bcv=1 John 5:1><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:1">1 </verse></sup>Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has
been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also
loves the child who is born of him. <key:bcv=1 John 5:2><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:2">2 </verse></sup>By this we
know that we love the children of God, when we
love God and keep his commandments. <key:bcv=1 John 5:3><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:3">3 </verse></sup>For this is
loving God, that we keep his commandments. His
commandments are not grievous. <key:bcv=1 John 5:4><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:4">4 </verse></sup>For whatever
is born of God overcomes the world. This is the
victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
<key:bcv=1 John 5:5><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:5">5 </verse></sup>Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
<key:bcv=1 John 5:6><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:6">6 </verse></sup>This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus
Christ; not with the water only, but with the water
and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because
the Spirit is the truth. <key:bcv=1 John 5:7><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:7">7 </verse></sup>For there are three who
testify:<footnote:1>5:7 Only a few recent manuscripts add “in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth:”</footnote> <key:bcv=1 John 5:8><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:8">8 </verse></sup>the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and
the three agree as one. <key:bcv=1 John 5:9><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:9">9 </verse></sup>If we receive the witness
of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is
God’s testimony which he has testified concerning
his Son. <key:bcv=1 John 5:10><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:10">10 </verse></sup>He who believes in the Son of God has the
testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God
has made him a liar, because he has not believed
in the testimony that God has given concerning his
Son. <key:bcv=1 John 5:11><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:11">11 </verse></sup>The testimony is this: that God gave to us
eternal life, and this life is in his Son. <key:bcv=1 John 5:12><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:12">12 </verse></sup>He who has
the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son
doesn’t have the life.

<key:bcv=1 John 5:13><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:13">13 </verse></sup>These things I have written to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God, that you may
know that you have eternal life, and that you may
continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
<key:bcv=1 John 5:14><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:14">14 </verse></sup>This is the boldness which we have toward him,
that if we ask anything according to his will, he
listens to us. <key:bcv=1 John 5:15><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:15">15 </verse></sup>And if we know that he listens to
us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions which we have asked of him.
<key:bcv=1 John 5:16><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:16">16 </verse></sup>If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not
leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him
life for those who sin not leading to death. There is
sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make
a request concerning this. <key:bcv=1 John 5:17><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:17">17 </verse></sup>All unrighteousness is
sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
<key:bcv=1 John 5:18><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:18">18 </verse></sup>We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t
sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and
the evil one doesn’t touch him. <key:bcv=1 John 5:19><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:19">19 </verse></sup>We know that we
are of God, and the whole world lies in the power
of the evil one. <key:bcv=1 John 5:20><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:20">20 </verse></sup>We know that the Son of God has
come and has given us an understanding, that we
know him who is true; and we are in him who is
true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God
and eternal life.

<key:bcv=1 John 5:21><sup><verse bcv="1 John 5:21">21 </verse></sup>Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

#OUTLINE:1,2 John
<h2>John’s Second Letter</h2>

<key:bcv=2 John 1:1><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The elder, to the chosen lady and her children,
whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all
those who know the truth, <key:bcv=2 John 1:2><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:2">2 </verse></sup>for the truth’s sake,
which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
<key:bcv=2 John 1:3><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God
the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:3 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.</footnote> the Son
of the Father, in truth and love.

<key:bcv=2 John 1:4><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your
children walking in truth, even as we have been
commanded by the Father. <key:bcv=2 John 1:5><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Now I beg you, dear
lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment,
but that which we had from the beginning,
that we love one another. <key:bcv=2 John 1:6><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:6">6 </verse></sup>This is love, that we
should walk according to his commandments. This
is the commandment, even as you heard from the
beginning, that you should walk in it.
<key:bcv=2 John 1:7><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:7">7 </verse></sup>For many deceivers have gone out into the
world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ
came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
Antichrist. <key:bcv=2 John 1:8><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose
the things which we have accomplished, but that
we receive a full reward. <key:bcv=2 John 1:9><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:9">9 </verse></sup>Whoever transgresses
and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ doesn’t
have God. He who remains in the teaching has both
the Father and the Son. <key:bcv=2 John 1:10><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:10">10 </verse></sup>If anyone comes to you
and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him
into your house, and don’t welcome him, <key:bcv=2 John 1:11><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:11">11 </verse></sup>for he
who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.
<key:bcv=2 John 1:12><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Having many things to write to you, I don’t
want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come
to you and to speak face to face, that our joy may
be made full. <key:bcv=2 John 1:13><sup><verse bcv="2 John 1:13">13 </verse></sup>The children of your chosen sister
greet you. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,3 John
<h2>John’s Third Letter</h2>

<key:bcv=3 John 1:1><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:1">1 </verse></sup>The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:2><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:2">2 </verse></sup>Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:3><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:3">3 </verse></sup>For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:4><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:4">4 </verse></sup>I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:5><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:6><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:6">6 </verse></sup>They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God, 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:7><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:7">7 </verse></sup>because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:8><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:8">8 </verse></sup>We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:9><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:9">9 </verse></sup>I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:10><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:10">10 </verse></sup>Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, 
he doesn’t receive the brothers himself, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:11><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:12><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:12">12 </verse></sup>Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true. 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:13><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:13">13 </verse></sup>I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; 
<key:bcv=3 John 1:14><sup><verse bcv="3 John 1:14">14 </verse></sup>but I hope to see you soon. Then we will speak face to face. Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.

#OUTLINE:1,Jude
<h2>The Letter from Jude</h2>

<key:bcv=Jude 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:1">1 </verse></sup>Jude,<footnote:1>1:1 or, Judah </footnote> a servant of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> and brother of
James, to those who are called, sanctified by God
the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: <key:bcv=Jude 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:2">2 </verse></sup>May mercy,
peace, and love be multiplied to you.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you
about our common salvation, I was constrained to
write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly
for the faith which was once for all delivered to
the saints. <key:bcv=Jude 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:4">4 </verse></sup>For there are certain men who crept
in secretly, even those who were long ago written
about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning
the grace of our God into indecency, and denying
our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:5">5 </verse></sup>Now I desire to remind you, though you already
know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out
of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who
didn’t believe. <key:bcv=Jude 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:6">6 </verse></sup>Angels who didn’t keep their first
domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he
has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for
the judgment of the great day. <key:bcv=Jude 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Even as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the
same way as these given themselves over to sexual
immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown
as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal
fire. <key:bcv=Jude 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:8">8 </verse></sup>Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming
defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander
celestial beings. <key:bcv=Jude 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:9">9 </verse></sup>But Michael, the archangel, when
contending with the devil and arguing about the
body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive
condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke
you!” <key:bcv=Jude 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:10">10 </verse></sup>But these speak evil of whatever things
they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things
that they understand naturally, like the creatures
without reason. <key:bcv=Jude 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:11">11 </verse></sup>Woe to them! For they went in
the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of
Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:12">12 </verse></sup>These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts
when they feast with you, shepherds who without
fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried
along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots; <key:bcv=Jude 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:13">13 </verse></sup>wild waves of
the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been
reserved forever. <key:bcv=Jude 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:14">14 </verse></sup>About these also Enoch, the
seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,<footnote:1>1:14 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote>
the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
<key:bcv=Jude 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:15">15 </verse></sup>to execute judgment on all, and to convict all
the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which
they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the
hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.” <key:bcv=Jude 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:16">16 </verse></sup>These are murmurers and complainers,
walking after their lusts—and their mouth
speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to
gain advantage.

<key:bcv=Jude 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:17">17 </verse></sup>But you, beloved, remember the words which
have been spoken before by the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ. <key:bcv=Jude 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:18">18 </verse></sup>They said to you, “In the
last time there will be mockers, walking after their
own ungodly lusts.” <key:bcv=Jude 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:19">19 </verse></sup>These are those who cause
divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:20">20 </verse></sup>But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:21><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:21">21 </verse></sup>Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. <key:bcv=Jude 1:22><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:22">22 </verse></sup>On
some have compassion, making a distinction, <key:bcv=Jude 1:23><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:23">23 </verse></sup>and
some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear,
hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
<key:bcv=Jude 1:24><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:24">24 </verse></sup>Now to him who is able to keep them<footnote:1>1:24 TR and NU read “you”</footnote> from
stumbling, and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory in great joy, <key:bcv=Jude 1:25><sup><verse bcv="Jude 1:25">25 </verse></sup>to God our
Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,Revelation
<h2>The Revelation to John</h2>

<key:bcv=Revelation 1:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:1">1 </verse></sup>This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ,<footnote:1>1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. </footnote> which
God gave him to show to his servants the things
which must happen soon, which he sent and made
known by his angel<footnote:1>1:1 or, messenger (here and wherever angel is mentioned) </footnote> to his servant, John, <key:bcv=Revelation 1:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:2">2 </verse></sup>who
testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ, about everything that he saw.
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:3">3 </verse></sup>Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the
words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are
written in it, for the time is near.

<key:bcv=Revelation 1:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:4">4 </verse></sup>John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who
was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits
who are before his throne; <key:bcv=Revelation 1:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:5">5 </verse></sup>and from Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and
the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves
us, and washed us from our sins by his blood— <key:bcv=Revelation 1:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:6">6 </verse></sup>and
he made us to be a Kingdom, priests<footnote:1>1:6 Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6 </footnote> to his God
and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion
forever and ever. Amen.

<key:bcv=Revelation 1:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:7">7 </verse></sup>Behold,<footnote:1>1:7 “Behold”, from “<greek>ἰδοὺ<english>”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. </footnote> he is coming with the clouds, and every
eye will see him, including those who pierced him.
All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even
so, Amen.

<key:bcv=Revelation 1:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:8">8 </verse></sup>“I am the Alpha and the Omega,<footnote:1>1:8 TR adds “the Beginning and the End” </footnote>” says the Lord
God,<footnote:1>1:8 TR omits “God” </footnote> “who is and who was and who is to come, the
Almighty.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 1:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:9">9 </verse></sup>I John, your brother and partner with you in the
oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ
Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because
of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:10">10 </verse></sup>I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard
behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet <key:bcv=Revelation 1:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:11">11 </verse></sup>saying,<footnote:1>1:11 TR adds “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last.” </footnote>
“What you see, write in a book and send to the seven
assemblies:<footnote:1>1:11 TR adds “which are in Asia” </footnote> to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum,
Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:12">12 </verse></sup>I turned to see the voice that spoke with me.
Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:13">13 </verse></sup>And among the lamp stands was one like a son
of man,<footnote:1>1:13 Daniel 7:13 </footnote> clothed with a robe reaching down to his
feet, and with a golden sash around his chest. <key:bcv=Revelation 1:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:14">14 </verse></sup>His
head and his hair were white as white wool, like
snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. <key:bcv=Revelation 1:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:15">15 </verse></sup>His feet
were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined
in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many
waters. <key:bcv=Revelation 1:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:16">16 </verse></sup>He had seven stars in his right hand. Out
of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword.
His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:17">17 </verse></sup>When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.
He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be
afraid. I am the first and the last, <key:bcv=Revelation 1:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:18">18 </verse></sup>and the Living
one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and
ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.<footnote:1>1:18 or, Hell </footnote>
<key:bcv=Revelation 1:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:19">19 </verse></sup>Write therefore the things which you have seen,
and the things which are, and the things which will
happen hereafter. <key:bcv=Revelation 1:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 1:20">20 </verse></sup>The mystery of the seven
stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven
golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the
angels<footnote:1>1:20 or, messengers (here and wherever angels are mentioned) </footnote> of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp
stands are seven assemblies.

#BCV:Revelation 2:0
<P align="center"><h3>2</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 2:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:1">1 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:
“He who holds the seven stars in his right hand,
he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands
says these things:

<key:bcv=Revelation 2:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:2">2 </verse></sup>“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance,
and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and
have tested those who call themselves apostles, and
they are not, and found them false. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:3">3 </verse></sup>You have
perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake,
and have <footnote:1>2:3 TR adds “have labored and” </footnote> not grown weary. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:4">4 </verse></sup>But I have
this against you, that you left your first love. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:5">5 </verse></sup>
Remember therefore from where you have fallen,
and repent and do the first works; or else I am
coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp
stand out of its place, unless you repent. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:6">6 </verse></sup>But this
you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:7">7 </verse></sup>He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him
who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life,
which is in the Paradise of my God.

<key:bcv=Revelation 2:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:8">8 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write:
“The first and the last, who was dead, and has
come to life says these things:

<key:bcv=Revelation 2:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:9">9 </verse></sup>“I know your works, oppression, and your
poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of
those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but
are a synagogue of Satan. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:10">10 </verse></sup>Don’t be afraid of the
things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the
devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that
you may be tested; and you will have oppression for
ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you
the crown of life. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:11">11 </verse></sup>He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who
overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
<key:bcv=Revelation 2:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:12">12 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum
write:
<br>
“He who has the sharp two-edged sword says
these things:

<key:bcv=Revelation 2:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:13">13 </verse></sup>“I know your works and where you dwell,
where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my
name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of
Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was
killed among you, where Satan dwells. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:14">14 </verse></sup>But I
have a few things against you, because you have
there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who
taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols,
and to commit sexual immorality. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:15">15 </verse></sup>So also you
likewise have some who hold to the teaching of
the Nicolaitans.<footnote:1>2:15 TR reads “which I hate” instead of “likewise”</footnote> <key:bcv=Revelation 2:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:16">16 </verse></sup>Repent therefore, or else I am
coming to you quickly and I will make war against
them with the sword of my mouth. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:17">17 </verse></sup>He who
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will
give of the hidden manna, <footnote:1>2:17 Manna is supernatural food, named after the Hebrew for “What is it?”. See Exodus 11:7-9. </footnote> and I will give him a
white stone, and on the stone a new name written
which no one knows but he who receives it.
<key:bcv=Revelation 2:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:18">18 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write:
“The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of
fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these
things:

<key:bcv=Revelation 2:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:19">19 </verse></sup>“I know your works, your love, faith, service,
patient endurance, and that your last works are
more than the first. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:20">20 </verse></sup>But I have this against
you, that you tolerate your<footnote:1>2:20 TR, NU read “that” instead of “your” </footnote> woman Jezebel, who
calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces
my servants to commit sexual immorality and to
eat things sacrificed to idols. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:21">21 </verse></sup>I gave her time
to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual
immorality. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:22><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:22">22 </verse></sup>Behold, I will throw her and
those who commit adultery with her into a bed of
great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
<key:bcv=Revelation 2:23><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:23">23 </verse></sup>I will kill her children with Death, and all the
assemblies will know that I am he who searches the
minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you
according to your deeds. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:24><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:24">24 </verse></sup>But to you I say, to
the rest who are in Thyatira—as many as don’t have
this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the
deep things of Satan’—to you I say, I am not putting
any other burden on you. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:25><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:25">25 </verse></sup>Nevertheless, hold
that which you have firmly until I come. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:26><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:26">26 </verse></sup>He who
overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end,
to him I will give authority over the nations. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:27><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:27">27 </verse></sup>He
will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them
like clay pots,<footnote:1>2:27 Psalm 2:9 </footnote> as I also have received of my Father;
<key:bcv=Revelation 2:28><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:28">28 </verse></sup>and I will give him the morning star. <key:bcv=Revelation 2:29><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 2:29">29 </verse></sup>He who
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies.

#BCV:Revelation 3:0
<P align="center"><h3>3</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 3:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:1">1 </verse></sup>“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write:
“He who has the seven Spirits of God and the
seven stars says these things:
<br>
“I know your works, that you have a reputation
of being alive, but you are dead. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:2">2 </verse></sup>Wake up
and strengthen the things that remain, which you
were about to throw away,<footnote:1>3:2 NU & TR read “which were about to die” instead of “which you were about to throw away”. </footnote> for I have found no
works of yours perfected before my God. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:3">3 </verse></sup>
Remember therefore how you have received and
heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t
watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know
what hour I will come upon you. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:4">4 </verse></sup>Nevertheless
you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile
their garments. They will walk with me in white,
for they are worthy. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:5">5 </verse></sup>He who overcomes will be
arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot
his name out of the book of life, and I will confess
his name before my Father, and before his angels.
<key:bcv=Revelation 3:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:6">6 </verse></sup>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the assemblies.

<key:bcv=Revelation 3:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:7">7 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia
write:
<br>
“He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the
key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and
who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
<key:bcv=Revelation 3:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:8">8 </verse></sup>“I know your works (behold, I have set before
you an open door, which no one can shut), that you
have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t
deny my name. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:9">9 </verse></sup>Behold, I make some of the
synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews,
and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them
to come and worship before your feet, and to know
that I have loved you. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:10">10 </verse></sup>Because you kept my
command to endure, I also will keep you from the
hour of testing which is to come on the whole world,
to test those who dwell on the earth. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:11">11 </verse></sup>I am coming
quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no
one takes your crown. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:12">12 </verse></sup>He who overcomes, I will
make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he
will go out from there no more. I will write on him
the name of my God and the name of the city of my
God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of
heaven from my God, and my own new name. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:13">13 </verse></sup>
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says
to the assemblies.

<key:bcv=Revelation 3:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:14">14 </verse></sup>“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write:
“The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the
Beginning<footnote:1>3:14 or, Source, or Head</footnote> of God’s creation, says these things:
<key:bcv=Revelation 3:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:15">15 </verse></sup>“I know your works, that you are neither cold
nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:16">16 </verse></sup>So, because
you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will
vomit you out of my mouth. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:17">17 </verse></sup>Because you say,
‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of
nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched
one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; <key:bcv=Revelation 3:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:18">18 </verse></sup>I counsel
you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you
may become rich; and white garments, that you
may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your
nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to
anoint your eyes, that you may see. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:19">19 </verse></sup>As many as I
love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore,
and repent. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:20">20 </verse></sup>Behold, I stand at the door and
knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, then I will come in to him and will dine with
him, and he with me. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:21">21 </verse></sup>He who overcomes, I will
give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I
also overcame and sat down with my Father on his
throne. <key:bcv=Revelation 3:22><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 3:22">22 </verse></sup>He who has an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit says to the assemblies.”

#BCV:Revelation 4:0
<P align="center"><h3>4</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 4:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things I looked and saw a door
opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard,
like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying,
“Come up here, and I will show you the things which
must happen after this.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 4:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:2">2 </verse></sup>Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there
was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on
the throne <key:bcv=Revelation 4:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:3">3 </verse></sup>that looked like a jasper stone and a
sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne,
like an emerald to look at. <key:bcv=Revelation 4:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:4">4 </verse></sup>Around the throne were
twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twentyfour
elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with
crowns of gold on their heads. <key:bcv=Revelation 4:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:5">5 </verse></sup>Out of the throne
proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There
were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne,
which are the seven Spirits of God. <key:bcv=Revelation 4:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:6">6 </verse></sup>Before the
throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to
crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the
throne were four living creatures full of eyes before
and behind. <key:bcv=Revelation 4:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:7">7 </verse></sup>The first creature was like a lion, the
second creature like a calf, the third creature had
a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying
eagle. <key:bcv=Revelation 4:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:8">8 </verse></sup>The four living creatures, each one of them
having six wings, are full of eyes around and within.
They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy,
holy, holy<footnote:1>4:8 Hodges/Farstad MT reads “holy” 9 times instead of 3. </footnote> is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was
and who is and who is to come!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 4:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:9">9 </verse></sup>When the living creatures give glory, honor,
and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him
who lives forever and ever, <key:bcv=Revelation 4:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:10">10 </verse></sup>the twenty-four elders
fall down before him who sits on the throne and
worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw
their crowns before the throne, saying, <key:bcv=Revelation 4:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 4:11">11 </verse></sup>“Worthy
are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,<footnote:1>4:11 TR omits “and God, the Holy One,” </footnote> to receive
the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created
all things, and because of your desire they existed
and were created!”

#BCV:Revelation 5:0
<P align="center"><h3>5</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 5:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the
throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed
shut with seven seals. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw a mighty angel
proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to
open the book, and to break its seals?” <key:bcv=Revelation 5:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:3">3 </verse></sup>No one in
heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth,
was able to open the book or to look in it. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:4">4 </verse></sup>Then
I wept much, because no one was found worthy to
open the book or to look in it. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:5">5 </verse></sup>One of the elders
said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of
the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome:
he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 5:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:6">6 </verse></sup>I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four
living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a
Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having
seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:7">7 </verse></sup>Then
he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him
who sat on the throne. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:8">8 </verse></sup>Now when he had taken the
book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four
elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having
a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are
the prayers of the saints. <key:bcv=Revelation 5:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:9">9 </verse></sup>They sang a new song,
saying,
<br>
“You are worthy to take the book
<br>
and to open its seals,
<br>
for you were killed,
<br>
and bought us for God with your blood
out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
<key:bcv=Revelation 5:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:10">10 </verse></sup>and made us kings and priests to our God;
and we will reign on the earth.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 5:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:11">11 </verse></sup>I looked, and I heard something like a voice
of many angels around the throne, the living creatures,
and the elders. The number of them was
ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of
thousands, <key:bcv=Revelation 5:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:12">12 </verse></sup>saying with a loud voice, “Worthy
is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the
power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and
blessing!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 5:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:13">13 </verse></sup>I heard every created thing which is in heaven,
on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and
everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on
the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the
honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and
ever! Amen!”<footnote:1>5:13 TR omits “Amen!” </footnote>

<key:bcv=Revelation 5:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 5:14">14 </verse></sup>The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then
the<footnote:1>5:14 TR adds “twenty-four” </footnote> elders fell down and worshiped.<footnote:1>5:14 TR adds “the one living forever and ever” </footnote>

#BCV:Revelation 6:0
<P align="center"><h3>6</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 6:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven
seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures
saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”
<key:bcv=Revelation 6:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:2">2 </verse></sup>Then a white horse appeared, and he who sat on it
had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came
out conquering, and to conquer.

<key:bcv=Revelation 6:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:3">3 </verse></sup>When he opened the second seal, I heard the
second living creature saying, “Come!” <key:bcv=Revelation 6:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:4">4 </verse></sup>Another
came out, a red horse. To him who sat on it was
given power to take peace from the earth, and that
they should kill one another. There was given to
him a great sword.

<key:bcv=Revelation 6:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:5">5 </verse></sup>When he opened the third seal, I heard the third
living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold,
a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance
in his hand. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:6">6 </verse></sup>I heard a voice in the middle of the
four living creatures saying, “A choenix<footnote:1>6:6 A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a liter (a little more than a quart). </footnote> of wheat
for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a
denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”
<key:bcv=Revelation 6:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:7">7 </verse></sup>When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the
fourth living creature saying, “Come and see!” <key:bcv=Revelation 6:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:8">8 </verse></sup>And
behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on
it was Death. Hades<footnote:1>6:8 or, Hell </footnote> followed with him. Authority
over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword,
with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of
the earth was given to him.

<key:bcv=Revelation 6:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:9">9 </verse></sup>When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath
the altar the souls of those who had been killed for
the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb
which they had. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:10">10 </verse></sup>They cried with a loud voice,
saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until
you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell
on the earth?” <key:bcv=Revelation 6:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:11">11 </verse></sup>A long white robe was given to
each of them. They were told that they should rest
yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their
brothers,<footnote:1>6:11 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”</footnote> who would also be killed even as they
were, should complete their course.

<key:bcv=Revelation 6:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:12">12 </verse></sup>I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there
was a great earthquake. The sun became black as
sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became
as blood. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:13">13 </verse></sup>The stars of the sky fell to the earth,
like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is
shaken by a great wind. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:14">14 </verse></sup>The sky was removed
like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain
and island was moved out of its place. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:15">15 </verse></sup>The kings
of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers,
the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person,
hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the
mountains. <key:bcv=Revelation 6:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:16">16 </verse></sup>They told the mountains and the
rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him
who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb, <key:bcv=Revelation 6:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 6:17">17 </verse></sup>for the great day of his wrath has come,
and who is able to stand?”

#BCV:Revelation 7:0
<P align="center"><h3>7</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 7:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:1">1 </verse></sup>After this, I saw four angels standing at the
four corners of the earth, holding the four winds
of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the
earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. <key:bcv=Revelation 7:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw another
angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the
living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four
angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and
the sea, <key:bcv=Revelation 7:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:3">3 </verse></sup>saying, “Don’t harm the earth, the sea, or
the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of
our God on their foreheads!” <key:bcv=Revelation 7:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:4">4 </verse></sup>I heard the number
of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four
thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children
of Israel:

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:5">5 </verse></sup>of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed,
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:6">6 </verse></sup>of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,
<key:bcv=Revelation 7:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:7">7 </verse></sup>of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,
<key:bcv=Revelation 7:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:8">8 </verse></sup>of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand,
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, and
of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were
sealed.

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:9">9 </verse></sup>After these things I looked, and behold, a great
multitude which no man could count, out of every
nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb,
dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their
hands. <key:bcv=Revelation 7:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:10">10 </verse></sup>They cried with a loud voice, saying,
“Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:11">11 </verse></sup>All the angels were standing around the throne,
the elders, and the four living creatures; and they
fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped
God, <key:bcv=Revelation 7:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:12">12 </verse></sup>saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom,
thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our
God forever and ever! Amen.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:13">13 </verse></sup>One of the elders answered, saying to me,
“These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are
they, and where did they come from?”

<key:bcv=Revelation 7:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:14">14 </verse></sup>I told him, “My lord, you know.”
<br>
He said to me, “These are those who came out of
the great suffering.<footnote:1>7:14 or, oppression </footnote> They washed their robes and
made them white in the Lamb’s blood. <key:bcv=Revelation 7:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:15">15 </verse></sup>Therefore
they are before the throne of God, and they serve
him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the
throne will spread his tabernacle over them. <key:bcv=Revelation 7:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:16">16 </verse></sup>They
will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun
won’t beat on them, nor any heat; <key:bcv=Revelation 7:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 7:17">17 </verse></sup>for the Lamb
who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them
and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

#BCV:Revelation 8:0
<P align="center"><h3>8</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 8:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:1">1 </verse></sup>When he opened the seventh seal, there was
silence in heaven for about half an hour. <key:bcv=Revelation 8:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw
the seven angels who stand before God, and seven
trumpets were given to them.

<key:bcv=Revelation 8:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:3">3 </verse></sup>Another angel came and stood over the altar,
having a golden censer. Much incense was given
to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all
the saints on the golden altar which was before the
throne. <key:bcv=Revelation 8:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:4">4 </verse></sup>The smoke of the incense, with the prayers
of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s
hand. <key:bcv=Revelation 8:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:5">5 </verse></sup>The angel took the censer, and he filled it
with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth.
Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake
followed.

<key:bcv=Revelation 8:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:6">6 </verse></sup>The seven angels who had the seven trumpets
prepared themselves to sound.

<key:bcv=Revelation 8:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:7">7 </verse></sup>The first sounded, and there followed hail and
fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the
earth. One third of the earth was burned up,<footnote:1>8:7 TR omits “One third of the earth was burned up” </footnote> and
one third of the trees were burned up, and all green
grass was burned up.

<key:bcv=Revelation 8:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:8">8 </verse></sup>The second angel sounded, and something like
a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea.
One third of the sea became blood, <key:bcv=Revelation 8:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:9">9 </verse></sup>and one third
of the living creatures which were in the sea died.
One third of the ships were destroyed.
<key:bcv=Revelation 8:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:10">10 </verse></sup>The third angel sounded, and a great star fell
from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on
one third of the rivers, and on the springs of water.
<key:bcv=Revelation 8:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:11">11 </verse></sup>The name of the star is “Wormwood.” One third
of the waters became wormwood. Many people died
from the waters, because they were made bitter.
<key:bcv=Revelation 8:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:12">12 </verse></sup>The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the
sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one
third of the stars, so that one third of them would
be darkened; and the day wouldn’t shine for one
third of it, and the night in the same way. <key:bcv=Revelation 8:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 8:13">13 </verse></sup>I saw,
and I heard an eagle,<footnote:1>8:13 TR reads “angel” instead of “eagle” </footnote> flying in mid heaven, saying
with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who
dwell on the earth, because of the other blasts of the
trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”

#BCV:Revelation 9:0
<P align="center"><h3>9</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 9:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:1">1 </verse></sup>The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from
the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to
the pit of the abyss was given to him. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:2">2 </verse></sup>He opened
the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the
pit, like the smoke from a<footnote:1>9:2 TR adds “great”</footnote> burning furnace. The
sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke
from the pit. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:3">3 </verse></sup>Then out of the smoke came locusts
on the earth, and power was given to them, as the
scorpions of the earth have power. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:4">4 </verse></sup>They were told
that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only
those people who don’t have God’s seal on their
foreheads. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:5">5 </verse></sup>They were given power, not to kill
them, but to torment them for five months. Their
torment was like the torment of a scorpion when
it strikes a person. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:6">6 </verse></sup>In those days people will seek
death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to
die, and death will flee from them.

<key:bcv=Revelation 9:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:7">7 </verse></sup>The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared
for war. On their heads were something like
golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s
faces. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:8">8 </verse></sup>They had hair like women’s hair, and
their teeth were like those of lions. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:9">9 </verse></sup>They had
breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of
their wings was like the sound of many chariots and
horses rushing to war. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:10">10 </verse></sup>They have tails like those
of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have
power to harm men for five months. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:11">11 </verse></sup>They have
over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name
in Hebrew is “Abaddon”,<footnote:1>9:11 “Abaddon” is a Hebrew word that means “ruin”, “destruction”, or “the place of destruction” </footnote> but in Greek, he has the
name “Apollyon”.<footnote:1>9:11 “Apollyon” means “Destroyer”. </footnote>

<key:bcv=Revelation 9:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:12">12 </verse></sup>The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two
woes coming after this.

<key:bcv=Revelation 9:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:13">13 </verse></sup>The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from
the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
<key:bcv=Revelation 9:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:14">14 </verse></sup>saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,
“Free the four angels who are bound at the great
river Euphrates!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 9:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:15">15 </verse></sup>The four angels were freed who had been
prepared for that hour and day and month and
year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
<key:bcv=Revelation 9:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:16">16 </verse></sup>The number of the armies of the horsemen was
two hundred million.<footnote:1>9:16 literally, “ten thousands of ten thousands” </footnote> I heard the number of them.
<key:bcv=Revelation 9:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:17">17 </verse></sup>Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those
who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red,
hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’
heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths
proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:18">18 </verse></sup>By these three
plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the
fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out
of their mouths. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:19">19 </verse></sup>For the power of the horses is in
their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are
like serpents, and have heads; and with them they
harm.

<key:bcv=Revelation 9:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:20">20 </verse></sup>The rest of mankind, who were not killed with
these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their
hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and
the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and
of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or
walk. <key:bcv=Revelation 9:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 9:21">21 </verse></sup>They didn’t repent of their murders, their
sorceries,<footnote:1>9:21 The word for “sorceries” (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs </footnote> their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

#BCV:Revelation 10:0
<P align="center"><h3>10</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 10:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky,
clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head.
His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of
fire. <key:bcv=Revelation 10:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:2">2 </verse></sup>He had in his hand a little open book. He set
his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
<key:bcv=Revelation 10:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:3">3 </verse></sup>He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When
he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
<key:bcv=Revelation 10:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:4">4 </verse></sup>When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to
write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal
up the things which the seven thunders said, and
don’t write them.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 10:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:5">5 </verse></sup>The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and
on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky
<key:bcv=Revelation 10:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:6">6 </verse></sup>and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who
created heaven and the things that are in it, the
earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and
the things that are in it, that there will no longer be
delay, <key:bcv=Revelation 10:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:7">7 </verse></sup>but in the days of the voice of the seventh
angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery
of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the
prophets.

<key:bcv=Revelation 10:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:8">8 </verse></sup>The voice which I heard from heaven, again
speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which
is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the
sea and on the land.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 10:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:9">9 </verse></sup>I went to the angel, telling him to give me the
little book.
<br>
He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will make
your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as
sweet as honey.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 10:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:10">10 </verse></sup>I took the little book out of the angel’s hand,
and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
<key:bcv=Revelation 10:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 10:11">11 </verse></sup>They<footnote:1>10:11 TR reads “He” instead of “They”</footnote> told me, “You must prophesy again over
many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

#BCV:Revelation 11:0
<P align="center"><h3>11</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:1">1 </verse></sup>A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone
said, “Rise and measure God’s temple, and the altar,
and those who worship in it. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:2">2 </verse></sup>Leave out the court
which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure
it, for it has been given to the nations. They will
tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:3">3 </verse></sup>I will give power to my two witnesses, and they
will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days,
clothed in sackcloth.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 11:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:4">4 </verse></sup>These are the two olive trees and the two lamp
stands, standing before the Lord of the earth. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:5">5 </verse></sup>If
anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of
their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone
desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:6">6 </verse></sup>These have the power to shut up the sky, that it
may not rain during the days of their prophecy.
They have power over the waters, to turn them into
blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as
often as they desire.

<key:bcv=Revelation 11:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:7">7 </verse></sup>When they have finished their testimony, the
beast that comes up out of the abyss will make
war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:8">8 </verse></sup>Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also their Lord was crucified. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:9">9 </verse></sup>From among
the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people
will look at their dead bodies for three and a half
days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be
laid in a tomb. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:10">10 </verse></sup>Those who dwell on the earth
will rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They
will give gifts to one another, because these two
prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:11">11 </verse></sup>After the three and a half days, the breath of
life from God entered into them, and they stood on
their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:12">12 </verse></sup>I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,
“Come up here!” They went up into heaven in a
cloud, and their enemies saw them. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:13">13 </verse></sup>In that day
there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the
city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the
earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave
glory to the God of heaven.

<key:bcv=Revelation 11:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:14">14 </verse></sup>The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe
comes quickly.

<key:bcv=Revelation 11:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:15">15 </verse></sup>The seventh angel sounded, and great voices
in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the
world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of
his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:16">16 </verse></sup>The twenty-four elders, who sit on their
thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and
worshiped God, <key:bcv=Revelation 11:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:17">17 </verse></sup>saying: “We give you thanks,
Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who
was,<footnote:1>11:17 TR adds “and who is coming” </footnote> because you have taken your great power
and reigned. <key:bcv=Revelation 11:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:18">18 </verse></sup>The nations were angry, and your
wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be
judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets,
their reward, as well as to the saints and those who
fear your name, to the small and the great, and to
destroy those who destroy the earth.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 11:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 11:19">19 </verse></sup>God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and
the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple.
Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake,
and great hail followed.

#BCV:Revelation 12:0
<P align="center"><h3>12</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 12:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:1">1 </verse></sup>A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,
and on her head a crown of twelve stars. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:2">2 </verse></sup>She was
with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give
birth.

<key:bcv=Revelation 12:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:3">3 </verse></sup>Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a
great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns,
and on his heads seven crowns. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:4">4 </verse></sup>His tail drew one
third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the
earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was
about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he
might devour her child. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:5">5 </verse></sup>She gave birth to a son,
a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a
rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to
his throne. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:6">6 </verse></sup>The woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God, that there
they may nourish her one thousand two hundred
sixty days.

<key:bcv=Revelation 12:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:7">7 </verse></sup>There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels
made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels
made war. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:8">8 </verse></sup>They didn’t prevail. No place was found
for them any more in heaven. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:9">9 </verse></sup>The great dragon
was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called
the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.
He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels
were thrown down with him.

<key:bcv=Revelation 12:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:10">10 </verse></sup>I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now
the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our
God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for
the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down,
who accuses them before our God day and night.
<key:bcv=Revelation 12:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:11">11 </verse></sup>They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood,
and because of the word of their testimony. They
didn’t love their life, even to death. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:12">12 </verse></sup>Therefore
rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to
the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone
down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he
has but a short time.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 12:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:13">13 </verse></sup>When the dragon saw that he was thrown down
to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave
birth to the male child. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:14">14 </verse></sup>Two wings of the great
eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly
into the wilderness to her place, so that she might
be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from
the face of the serpent. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:15">15 </verse></sup>The serpent spewed water
out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that
he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
<key:bcv=Revelation 12:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:16">16 </verse></sup>The earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which
the dragon spewed out of his mouth. <key:bcv=Revelation 12:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 12:17">17 </verse></sup>The dragon
grew angry with the woman, and went away to
make war with the rest of her offspring,<footnote:1>12:17 or, seed </footnote> who keep
God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
#BCV:Revelation 13:0
<P align="center"><h3>13</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 13:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:1">1 </verse></sup>Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast
coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and
seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on
his heads, blasphemous names. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:2">2 </verse></sup>The beast which I
saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those
of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion.
The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and
great authority. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:3">3 </verse></sup>One of his heads looked like it had
been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed,
and the whole earth marveled at the beast. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:4">4 </verse></sup>They
worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority
to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying,
“Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with
him?”

<key:bcv=Revelation 13:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:5">5 </verse></sup>A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy
was given to him. Authority to make war for fortytwo
months was given to him. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:6">6 </verse></sup>He opened his
mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, his dwelling, and those who dwell in
heaven. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:7">7 </verse></sup>It was given to him to make war with
the saints and to overcome them. Authority over
every tribe, people, language, and nation was given
to him. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:8">8 </verse></sup>All who dwell on the earth will worship
him, everyone whose name has not been written
from the foundation of the world in the book of
life of the Lamb who has been killed. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:9">9 </verse></sup>If anyone
has an ear, let him hear. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:10">10 </verse></sup>If anyone is to go into
captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to
be killed with the sword, he must be killed.<footnote:1>13:10 TR reads “If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword.” instead of “If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed.”</footnote> Here is
the endurance and the faith of the saints.

<key:bcv=Revelation 13:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:11">11 </verse></sup>I saw another beast coming up out of the earth.
He had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a
dragon. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:12">12 </verse></sup>He exercises all the authority of the first
beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those
who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose
fatal wound was healed. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:13">13 </verse></sup>He performs great signs,
even making fire come down out of the sky to the
earth in the sight of people. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:14">14 </verse></sup>He deceives my own<footnote:1>13:14 NU omits “my own” </footnote>
people who dwell on the earth because of the signs
he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to
those who dwell on the earth that they should make
an image to the beast who had the sword wound
and lived. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:15">15 </verse></sup>It was given to him to give breath to
the image of the beast, that the image of the beast
should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t
worship the image of the beast to be killed. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:16">16 </verse></sup>He
causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the
poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks
on their right hands or on their foreheads; <key:bcv=Revelation 13:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:17">17 </verse></sup>and
that no one would be able to buy or to sell unless he
has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the
number of his name. <key:bcv=Revelation 13:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 13:18">18 </verse></sup>Here is wisdom. He who has
understanding, let him calculate the number of the
beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is
six hundred sixty-six.

#BCV:Revelation 14:0
<P align="center"><h3>14</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount
Zion, and with him a number, one hundred fortyfour
thousand, having his name and the name of his
Father written on their foreheads. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:2">2 </verse></sup>I heard a sound
from heaven like the sound of many waters and like
the sound of a great thunder. The sound which
I heard was like that of harpists playing on their
harps. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:3">3 </verse></sup>They sing a new song before the throne and
before the four living creatures and the elders. No
one could learn the song except the one hundred
forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed
out of the earth. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:4">4 </verse></sup>These are those who were not
defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are
those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These
were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first
fruits to God and to the Lamb. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:5">5 </verse></sup>In their mouth was
found no lie, for they are blameless.<footnote:1>14:5 TR adds “before the throne of God” ? 14:14 Daniel 7:13 </footnote>
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:6">6 </verse></sup>I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an
eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell
on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and
people. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:7">7 </verse></sup>He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord,
and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment
has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the
earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:8">8 </verse></sup>Another, a second angel, followed, saying,
“Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all
the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her
sexual immorality.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 14:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:9">9 </verse></sup>Another angel, a third, followed them, saying
with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast
and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead
or on his hand, <key:bcv=Revelation 14:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:10">10 </verse></sup>he also will drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the
cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and
sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the
presence of the Lamb. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:11">11 </verse></sup>The smoke of their torment
goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and
night, those who worship the beast and his image,
and whoever receives the mark of his name.
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:12">12 </verse></sup>Here is the perseverance of the saints, those
who keep the commandments of God and the faith
of Jesus.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 14:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:13">13 </verse></sup>I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write,
‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now
on.’ ”
<br>
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from
their labors, for their works follow with them.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:14">14 </verse></sup>I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the
cloud one sitting like a son of man,? having on his
head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
<key:bcv=Revelation 14:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:15">15 </verse></sup>Another angel came out of the temple, crying
with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send
your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come;
for the harvest of the earth is ripe!” <key:bcv=Revelation 14:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:16">16 </verse></sup>He who sat
on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the
earth was reaped.

<key:bcv=Revelation 14:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:17">17 </verse></sup>Another angel came out of the temple which is
in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:18">18 </verse></sup>Another
angel came out from the altar, he who has power
over fire, and he called with a great voice to him
who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp
sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the
earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!” <key:bcv=Revelation 14:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:19">19 </verse></sup>The
angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered
the vintage of the earth and threw it into the great
wine press of the wrath of God. <key:bcv=Revelation 14:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 14:20">20 </verse></sup>The wine press
was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out
of the wine press, up to the bridles of the horses, as
far as one thousand six hundred stadia.<footnote:1>14:20 1600 stadia = 296 kilometers or 184 miles </footnote>
#BCV:Revelation 15:0
<P align="center"><h3>15</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 15:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw another great and marvelous sign in the
sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for
in them God’s wrath is finished.

<key:bcv=Revelation 15:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with
fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image,<footnote:1>15:2 TR adds “his mark,”</footnote>
and the number of his name, standing on the sea of
glass, having harps of God. <key:bcv=Revelation 15:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:3">3 </verse></sup>They sang the song of
Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb,
saying,
<br>
“Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the
Almighty!
<br>
Righteous and true are your ways, you King of
the nations.

<key:bcv=Revelation 15:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:4">4 </verse></sup>Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord,
<br>
and glorify your name?
<br>
For you only are holy.
<br>
For all the nations will come and worship
before you.
<br>
For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 15:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:5">5 </verse></sup>After these things I looked, and the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.
<key:bcv=Revelation 15:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:6">6 </verse></sup>The seven angels who had the seven plagues came
out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing
golden sashes around their chests.

<key:bcv=Revelation 15:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:7">7 </verse></sup>One of the four living creatures gave to the seven
angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God,
who lives forever and ever. <key:bcv=Revelation 15:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 15:8">8 </verse></sup>The temple was filled
with smoke from the glory of God and from his
power. No one was able to enter into the temple
until the seven plagues of the seven angels would
be finished.

#BCV:Revelation 16:0
<P align="center"><h3>16</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 16:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:1">1 </verse></sup>I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to
the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls
of the wrath of God on the earth!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:2">2 </verse></sup>The first went, and poured out his bowl into the
earth, and it became a harmful and painful sore on
the people who had the mark of the beast, and who
worshiped his image.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:3">3 </verse></sup>The second angel poured out his bowl into the
sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every
living thing in the sea died.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:4">4 </verse></sup>The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and
springs of water, and they became blood. <key:bcv=Revelation 16:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:5">5 </verse></sup>I heard
the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous,
who are and who were, O Holy One, because you
have judged these things. <key:bcv=Revelation 16:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:6">6 </verse></sup>For they poured out the
blood of saints and prophets, and you have given
them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 16:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:7">7 </verse></sup>I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the
Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 16:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:8">8 </verse></sup>The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun,
and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
<key:bcv=Revelation 16:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:9">9 </verse></sup>People were scorched with great heat, and people
blasphemed the name of God who has the power
over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him
glory.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:10">10 </verse></sup>The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne
of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They
gnawed their tongues because of the pain, <key:bcv=Revelation 16:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:11">11 </verse></sup>and
they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their
pains and their sores. They still didn’t repent of
their works.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:12">12 </verse></sup>The sixth poured out his bowl on the great
river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that
the way might be prepared for the kings that come
from the sunrise.<footnote:1>16:12 or, east </footnote> <key:bcv=Revelation 16:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:13">13 </verse></sup>I saw coming out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and
out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean
spirits, something like frogs; <key:bcv=Revelation 16:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:14">14 </verse></sup>for they are spirits
of demons, performing signs, which go out to the
kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them
together for the war of that great day of God the
Almighty.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:15">15 </verse></sup>“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who
watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t
walk naked, and they see his shame.” <key:bcv=Revelation 16:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:16">16 </verse></sup>He gathered
them together into the place which is called in
Hebrew, “Harmagedon”.

<key:bcv=Revelation 16:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:17">17 </verse></sup>The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A
loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from
the throne, saying, “It is done!” <key:bcv=Revelation 16:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:18">18 </verse></sup>There were lightnings,
sounds, and thunders; and there was a great
earthquake such as has not happened since there
were men on the earth—so great an earthquake and
so mighty. <key:bcv=Revelation 16:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:19">19 </verse></sup>The great city was divided into three
parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the
great was remembered in the sight of God, to give
to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his
wrath. <key:bcv=Revelation 16:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:20">20 </verse></sup>Every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found. <key:bcv=Revelation 16:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 16:21">21 </verse></sup>Great hailstones, about the
weight of a talent,<footnote:1>16:21 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds. </footnote> came down out of the sky on
people. People blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail, for this plague was exceedingly
severe.

#BCV:Revelation 17:0
<P align="center"><h3>17</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 17:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:1">1 </verse></sup>One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls
came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I
will show you the judgment of the great prostitute
who sits on many waters, <key:bcv=Revelation 17:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:2">2 </verse></sup>with whom the kings
of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those
who dwell in the earth were made drunken with
the wine of her sexual immorality.” <key:bcv=Revelation 17:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:3">3 </verse></sup>He carried
me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of
blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten
horns. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:4">4 </verse></sup>The woman was dressed in purple and
scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones
and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full
of abominations and the impurities of the sexual
immorality of the earth. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:5">5 </verse></sup>And on her forehead
a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF
THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” <key:bcv=Revelation 17:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:6">6 </verse></sup>I saw the
woman drunken with the blood of the saints and
with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw
her, I wondered with great amazement.
<key:bcv=Revelation 17:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:7">7 </verse></sup>The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I
will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the
beast that carries her, which has the seven heads
and the ten horns. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:8">8 </verse></sup>The beast that you saw was,
and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss
and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the
earth and whose names have not been written in
the book of life from the foundation of the world
will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is
not, and shall be present.<footnote:1>17:8 TR reads “yet is” instead of “shall be present”</footnote>

<key:bcv=Revelation 17:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:9">9 </verse></sup>Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven
heads are seven mountains on which the woman
sits. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:10">10 </verse></sup>They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the
one is, and the other has not yet come. When he
comes, he must continue a little while. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:11">11 </verse></sup>The beast
that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is
of the seven; and he goes to destruction. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:12">12 </verse></sup>The ten
horns that you saw are ten kings who have received
no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as
kings with the beast for one hour. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:13">13 </verse></sup>These have
one mind, and they give their power and authority
to the beast. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:14">14 </verse></sup>These will war against the Lamb, and
the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords
and King of kings; and those who are with him are
called, chosen, and faithful.” <key:bcv=Revelation 17:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:15">15 </verse></sup>He said to me, “The
waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are
peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:16">16 </verse></sup>The
ten horns which you saw, they and the beast will
hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will
strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her
utterly with fire. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:17">17 </verse></sup>For God has put in their hearts
to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to
give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of
God should be accomplished. <key:bcv=Revelation 17:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 17:18">18 </verse></sup>The woman whom
you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings
of the earth.”

#BCV:Revelation 18:0
<P align="center"><h3>18</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 18:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things, I saw another angel coming
down out of the sky, having great authority. The
earth was illuminated with his glory. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:2">2 </verse></sup>He cried with
a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the
great, and she has become a habitation of demons,
a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of
every unclean and hated bird! <key:bcv=Revelation 18:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:3">3 </verse></sup>For all the nations
have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual
immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual
immorality with her, and the merchants of the
earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 18:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:4">4 </verse></sup>I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
“Come out of her, my people, that you have no
participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive
of her plagues, <key:bcv=Revelation 18:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:5">5 </verse></sup>for her sins have reached to the sky,
and God has remembered her iniquities. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:6">6 </verse></sup>Return to
her just as she returned, and repay her double as she
did, and according to her works. In the cup which
she mixed, mix to her double. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:7">7 </verse></sup>However much she
glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her
of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart,
‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way
see mourning.’ <key:bcv=Revelation 18:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:8">8 </verse></sup>Therefore in one day her plagues
will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she
will be utterly burned with fire, for the Lord God
who has judged her is strong.

<key:bcv=Revelation 18:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:9">9 </verse></sup>The kings of the earth who committed sexual
immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep
and wail over her, when they look at the smoke
of her burning, <key:bcv=Revelation 18:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:10">10 </verse></sup>standing far away for the fear
of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has
come in one hour.’ <key:bcv=Revelation 18:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:11">11 </verse></sup>The merchants of the earth
weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their
merchandise any more: <key:bcv=Revelation 18:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:12">12 </verse></sup>merchandise of gold,
silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple,
silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of
ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and
of brass, and iron, and marble; <key:bcv=Revelation 18:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:13">13 </verse></sup>and cinnamon,
incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine
flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s
bodies and souls. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:14">14 </verse></sup>The fruits which your soul
lusted after have been lost to you. All things that
were dainty and sumptuous have perished from
you, and you will find them no more at all. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:15">15 </verse></sup>The
merchants of these things, who were made rich by
her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment,
weeping and mourning, <key:bcv=Revelation 18:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:16">16 </verse></sup>saying, ‘Woe, woe, the
great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple,
and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls! <key:bcv=Revelation 18:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:17">17 </verse></sup>For in an hour such great
riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and
everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and
as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
<key:bcv=Revelation 18:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:18">18 </verse></sup>and cried out as they looked at the smoke of
her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
<key:bcv=Revelation 18:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:19">19 </verse></sup>They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping
and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in
which all who had their ships in the sea were made
rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made
desolate in one hour.

<key:bcv=Revelation 18:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:20">20 </verse></sup>“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles,
and prophets, for God has judged your judgment
on her.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 18:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:21">21 </verse></sup>A mighty angel took up a stone like a great
millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus
with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown
down, and will be found no more at all. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:22><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:22">22 </verse></sup>The voice
of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters
will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman
of whatever craft will be found any more at all in
you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all
in you. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:23><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:23">23 </verse></sup>The light of a lamp will shine no more at
all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the
bride will be heard no more at all in you, for your
merchants were the princes of the earth; for with
your sorcery all the nations were deceived. <key:bcv=Revelation 18:24><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 18:24">24 </verse></sup>In her
was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and
of all who have been slain on the earth.”

#BCV:Revelation 19:0
<P align="center"><h3>19</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:1">1 </verse></sup>After these things I heard something like a loud
voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah!
Salvation, power, and glory belong to our
God; <key:bcv=Revelation 19:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:2">2 </verse></sup>for his judgments are true and righteous. For
he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted
the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:3">3 </verse></sup>A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up
forever and ever.” <key:bcv=Revelation 19:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:4">4 </verse></sup>The twenty-four elders and the
four living creatures fell down and worshiped God
who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:5">5 </verse></sup>A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give
praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear
him, the small and the great!”

<key:bcv=Revelation 19:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:6">6 </verse></sup>I heard something like the voice of a great multitude,
and like the voice of many waters, and like
the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! <key:bcv=Revelation 19:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:7">7 </verse></sup>Let’s
rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the
glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his wife has made herself ready.” <key:bcv=Revelation 19:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:8">8 </verse></sup>It was given
to her that she would array herself in bright, pure,
fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of
the saints.

<key:bcv=Revelation 19:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who
are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He
said to me, “These are true words of God.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:10">10 </verse></sup>I fell down before his feet to worship him.
He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow
bondservant with you and with your brothers who
hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the
testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:11">11 </verse></sup>I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white
horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and
True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:12">12 </verse></sup>His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are
many crowns. He has names written and a name
written which no one knows but he himself. <key:bcv=Revelation 19:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:13">13 </verse></sup>He
is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His
name is called “The Word of God.” <key:bcv=Revelation 19:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:14">14 </verse></sup>The armies
which are in heaven, clothed in white, pure, fine
linen, followed him on white horses. <key:bcv=Revelation 19:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:15">15 </verse></sup>Out of his
mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword that
with it he should strike the nations. He will rule
them with an iron rod.<footnote:1>19:15 Psalm 2:9 </footnote> He treads the wine press
of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:16">16 </verse></sup>He has on his garment and on his thigh a name
written, “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 19:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:17">17 </verse></sup>I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried
with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in
the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great
supper of God,<footnote:1>19:17 TR reads “supper of the great God” instead of “great supper of God” </footnote> <key:bcv=Revelation 19:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:18">18 </verse></sup>that you may eat the flesh of
kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them,
and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small
and great.” <key:bcv=Revelation 19:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:19">19 </verse></sup>I saw the beast, the kings of the earth,
and their armies, gathered together to make war
against him who sat on the horse and against his
army. <key:bcv=Revelation 19:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:20">20 </verse></sup>The beast was taken, and with him the false
prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with
which he deceived those who had received the mark
of the beast and those who worshiped his image.
These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire
that burns with sulfur. <key:bcv=Revelation 19:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 19:21">21 </verse></sup>The rest were killed with
the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword
which came out of his mouth. So all the birds were
filled with their flesh.

#BCV:Revelation 20:0
<P align="center"><h3>20</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 20:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw an angel coming down out of heaven,
having the key of the abyss and a great chain in
his hand. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:2">2 </verse></sup>He seized the dragon, the old serpent,
who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole
inhabited earth,<footnote:1>20:2 TR and NU omit “who deceives the whole inhabited earth”. </footnote> and bound him for a thousand
years, <key:bcv=Revelation 20:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:3">3 </verse></sup>and cast him into the abyss, and shut it
and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the
nations no more until the thousand years were
finished. After this, he must be freed for a short
time.

<key:bcv=Revelation 20:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:4">4 </verse></sup>I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment
was given to them. I saw the souls of those
who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus
and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship
the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark
on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:5">5 </verse></sup>The rest
of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrection. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:6">6 </verse></sup>Blessed
and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.
Over these, the second death has no power, but they
will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign
with him one thousand years.

<key:bcv=Revelation 20:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:7">7 </verse></sup>And after the thousand years, Satan will be
released from his prison <key:bcv=Revelation 20:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:8">8 </verse></sup>and he will come out to
deceive the nations which are in the four corners of
the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together
to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
<key:bcv=Revelation 20:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:9">9 </verse></sup>They went up over the width of the earth and
surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and
devoured them. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:10">10 </verse></sup>The devil who deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the
beast and the false prophet are also. They will be
tormented day and night forever and ever.
<key:bcv=Revelation 20:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:11">11 </verse></sup>I saw a great white throne and him who sat on
it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled
away. There was found no place for them. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:12">12 </verse></sup>I saw
the dead, the great and the small, standing before
the throne, and they opened books. Another book
was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were
judged out of the things which were written in the
books, according to their works. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:13">13 </verse></sup>The sea gave up
the dead who were in it. Death and Hades<footnote:1>20:13 or, Hell </footnote> gave up
the dead who were in them. They were judged, each
one according to his works. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:14">14 </verse></sup>Death and Hades<footnote:1>20:14 or, Hell </footnote>
were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second
death, the lake of fire. <key:bcv=Revelation 20:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 20:15">15 </verse></sup>If anyone was not found
written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake
of fire.

#BCV:Revelation 21:0
<P align="center"><h3>21</h3></p>
<key:bcv=Revelation 21:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:1">1 </verse></sup>I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth have passed away,
and the sea is no more. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:2">2 </verse></sup>I saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:3">3 </verse></sup>I
heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold,
God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with
them, and they will be his people, and God himself
will be with them as their God. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:4">4 </verse></sup>He will wipe away
every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more;
neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain
any more. The first things have passed away.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 21:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:5">5 </verse></sup>He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am
making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these
words of God are faithful and true.” <key:bcv=Revelation 21:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to
me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning
and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty
from the spring of the water of life. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:7">7 </verse></sup>He who
overcomes, I will give him these things. I will
be his God, and he will be my son. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:8">8 </verse></sup>But for
the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners,<footnote:1>21:8 TR and NU omit “sinners” </footnote> abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,<footnote:1>21:8 The word for “sorcerers” here also includes users of potions and drugs.</footnote> idolaters,
and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with
fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 21:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:9">9 </verse></sup>One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls
which were loaded with the seven last plagues
came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here.
I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” <key:bcv=Revelation 21:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:10">10 </verse></sup>He
carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high
mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, <key:bcv=Revelation 21:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:11">11 </verse></sup>having the
glory of God. Her light was like a most precious
stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; <key:bcv=Revelation 21:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:12">12 </verse></sup>having
a great and high wall with twelve gates, and at the
gates twelve angels, and names written on them,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the
children of Israel. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:13">13 </verse></sup>On the east were three gates,
and on the north three gates, and on the south three
gates, and on the west three gates. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:14">14 </verse></sup>The wall of the
city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve
names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
<key:bcv=Revelation 21:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:15">15 </verse></sup>He who spoke with me had for a measure a
golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its
walls. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:16">16 </verse></sup>The city is square. Its length is as great
as its width. He measured the city with the reed:
twelve thousand twelve stadia.<footnote:1>21:16 12,012 stadia = 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia. </footnote> Its length, width,
and height are equal. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:17">17 </verse></sup>Its wall is one hundred
forty-four cubits,<footnote:1>21:17 144 cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet </footnote> by the measure of a man, that
is, of an angel. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:18">18 </verse></sup>The construction of its wall was
jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:19">19 </verse></sup>The
foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with
all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper, the second sapphire;<footnote:1>21:19 or, lapis lazuli </footnote> the third chalcedony,
the fourth emerald, <key:bcv=Revelation 21:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:20">20 </verse></sup>the fifth sardonyx,
the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth
beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the
eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:21">21 </verse></sup>The
twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the
gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city
was pure gold, like transparent glass.
<key:bcv=Revelation 21:22><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:22">22 </verse></sup>I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:23><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:23">23 </verse></sup>The city
has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the
very glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the
Lamb. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:24><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:24">24 </verse></sup>The nations will walk in its light. The kings
of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations
into it. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:25><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:25">25 </verse></sup>Its gates will in no way be shut by day
(for there will be no night there), <key:bcv=Revelation 21:26><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:26">26 </verse></sup>and they shall
bring the glory and the honor of the nations into
it so that they may enter. <key:bcv=Revelation 21:27><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 21:27">27 </verse></sup>There will in no way
enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an
abomination or a lie, but only those who are written
in the Lamb’s book of life.

#BCV:Revelation 22:0
<P align="center"><h3>22</h3></p>

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:1><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:1">1 </verse></sup>He showed me a<footnote:1>22:1 TR adds “pure” </footnote> river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of
the Lamb, <key:bcv=Revelation 22:2><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:2">2 </verse></sup>in the middle of its street. On this side
of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing
twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month.
The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:3><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:3">3 </verse></sup>There will be no curse any more. The
throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his
servants will serve him. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:4><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:4">4 </verse></sup>They will see his face, and
his name will be on their foreheads. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:5><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:5">5 </verse></sup>There will be
no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light;
for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will
reign forever and ever.

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:6><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:6">6 </verse></sup>He said to me, “These words are faithful and
true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets
sent his angel to show to his bondservants the
things which must happen soon.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:7><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:7">7 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who
keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
<key:bcv=Revelation 22:8><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:8">8 </verse></sup>Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw
these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to
worship before the feet of the angel who had shown
me these things. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:9><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:9">9 </verse></sup>He said to me, “You must not do
that! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with
your brothers, the prophets, and with those who
keep the words of this book. Worship God.” <key:bcv=Revelation 22:10><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:10">10 </verse></sup>He
said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy
of this book, for the time is at hand. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:11><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:11">11 </verse></sup>He who acts
unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy,
let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him
do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be
holy still.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:12><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:12">12 </verse></sup>“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with
me, to repay to each man according to his work. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:13><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:13">13 </verse></sup>
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the
Last, the Beginning and the End. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:14><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:14">14 </verse></sup>Blessed are
those who do his commandments,<footnote:1>22:14 NU reads “wash their robes” instead of “do his commandments”. </footnote> that they may
have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in
by the gates into the city. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:15><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:15">15 </verse></sup>Outside are the dogs,
the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers,
the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices
falsehood. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:16><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:16">16 </verse></sup>I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify
these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root
and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning
Star.”

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:17><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:17">17 </verse></sup>The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who
hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let
him come. He who desires, let him take the water
of life freely.

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:18><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:18">18 </verse></sup>I testify to everyone who hears the words of the
prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God
will add to him the plagues which are written in this
book. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:19><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:19">19 </verse></sup>If anyone takes away from the words of the
book of this prophecy, God will take away his part
from the tree<footnote:1>22:19 TR reads “Book” instead of “tree”</footnote> of life, and out of the holy city, which
are written in this book. <key:bcv=Revelation 22:20><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:20">20 </verse></sup>He who testifies these
things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!

<key:bcv=Revelation 22:21><sup><verse bcv="Revelation 22:21">21 </verse></sup>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all
the saints. Amen.

#OUTLINE:1,World English Bible Glossary
<h1>World English Bible Glossary</h1>

This companion glossary to the World English
Bible is in the Public Domain. You may not copyright
it or claim authorship over it, but you are free
to use, sell, distribute, or copy it.

The following words used in the World English
Bible (WEB) are not very common, either because
they refer to ancient weights, measures, or money,
or because they are in some way unique to the Bible.

#OUTLINE:2,Abaddon
<h2>Abaddon</h2>

Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction.

#OUTLINE:2,Abba
#TOPIC:Abba
<h2><topicname>Abba</topicname></h2>

Abba is a Chaldee word for father, used in a
respectful, affectionate, and familiar way, like
papa, dad, or daddy. Often used in prayer to
refer to our Father in Heaven.

#OUTLINE:2,Adultery
#TOPIC:Adultery
<h2><topicname>Adultery</topicname></h2>

Adultery is having sexual intercourse with someone
besides your own husband or wife. In the
Bible, the only legitimate sexual intercourse is
between a man and a woman who are married
to each other.

#OUTLINE:2,Alpha
<h2><topicname>Alpha</topicname></h2>

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is
sometimes used to mean the beginning or the
first.

#OUTLINE:2,Amen
#TOPIC:Amen
<h2><topicname>Amen</topicname></h2>

Amen means “So be it” or “I believe it is certainly
so.”

#OUTLINE:2,Angel
#TOPIC:Angel
<h2><topicname>angel</topicname></h2>

“Angel” literally means “messenger” or “envoy,”
and is usually used to refer to spiritual beings
who normally are invisible to us, but can also
appear as exceedingly strong creatures or as
humans.

#OUTLINE:2,Apollyon
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Apollyon</topicname></h2>

Apollyon is Greek for destroyer.

#OUTLINE:2,Apostle
#TOPIC:Apostles
<h2><topicname>Apostle</topicname></h2>

“Apostle” means a delegate, messenger, or one
sent forth with orders. This term is applied
in the New Testament in both a general sense
connected with a ministry of establishing and
strengthening church fellowships, as well as
in a specific sense to “The 12 Apostles of
the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). The former
category applies to a specific ministry that
continues in the Church (Ephesians 4:11-13)
and which includes many more than 12 people,
while the latter refers to the apostles named
in Matthew 10:2-4, except with Judas Iscariot
replaced by Matthias (Acts 1:26).

#OUTLINE:2,Armageddon
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Armageddon</topicname></h2>

See Har-magedon.

#OUTLINE:2,Assarion
#TOPIC:Assarions
<h2>Assarion</h2>

An assarion is a small Roman copper coin worth
one tenth of a drachma, or about an hour’s
wages for an agricultural laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,Aureus
#TOPIC:Aureus
<h2><topicname>Aureus</topicname></h2>

An aureus is a Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver
denarii. An aureus weighed from 115 to 126.3
grains (7.45 to 8.18 grams).

#OUTLINE:2,Baptize
#TOPIC:Baptism
<h2><topicname>Baptize</topicname></h2>

Baptize means to immerse in, or wash with something,
usually water. Baptism in the Holy
Spirit, fire, the Body of Christ, and suffering are
also mentioned in the New Testament, along
with baptism in water. Baptism is not just to
cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an
inward spiritual cleansing and commitment.
Baptism is a sign of repentance, as practiced by
John the Baptizer, and of faith in Jesus Christ,
as practiced by Jesus’ disciples.

#OUTLINE:2,Bath
#TOPIC:Bath
<h2><topicname>Bath</topicname></h2>

A bath is a liquid measure of about 22 liters, 5.8
U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons.

#OUTLINE:2,Batos
#TOPIC:Batos
<h2><topicname>Batos</topicname></h2>

A batos is a liquid measure of about 39.5 liters,
10.4 U. S. gallons, or 8.7 imperial gallons.

#OUTLINE:2,Beelzebul
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Beelzebul</topicname></h2>

Literally, lord of the flies. A name used for the
devil.

#OUTLINE:2,Beersheba
#TOPIC:Beersheba, city
<h2><topicname>Beersheba</topicname></h2>

Beersheba is Hebrew for “well of the oath” or
“well of the seven.” A city in Israel.

#OUTLINE:2,Behold
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Behold</topicname></h2>

Look! See! Wow! Notice this! Lo!

#OUTLINE:2,Cherub
#TOPIC:Cherub
<h2><topicname>Cherub</topicname></h2>

A cherub is a kind of angel with wings and hands
that is associated with the throne room of God
and guardian duty. See Ezekiel 10.

#OUTLINE:2,Cherubim
<h2><topicname>Cherubim</topicname></h2>

Cherubim means more than one cherub or a
mighty cherub.

#OUTLINE:2,Choenix
#TOPIC:Choenix
<h2><topicname>Choenix</topicname></h2>

A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little
more than a liter (which is a little more than a
quart). A choenix was the daily ration of grain
for a soldier in some armies.

#OUTLINE:2,Concubine
#TOPIC:Concubines
<h2><topicname>Concubine</topicname></h2>

A woman who is united to a man for the purpose
of providing him with sexual pleasure
and children, but not being honored as a full
partner in marriage; a second-class wife. In Old
Testament times (and in some places now), it
was the custom of middle-eastern kings, chiefs,
and wealthy men to marry multiple wives and
concubines, but God commanded the Kings
of Israel not to do so (<bcv=Deu 17:17>Deuteronomy 17:17)</bcv>
and Jesus encouraged people to either remain
single or marry as God originally intended: one
man married to one woman (<bcv=Mat 19:3-12>Matthew 19:3-12;</bcv>
<bcv=1Cor 7:1-13>1 Corinthians 7:1-13).</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Cor
#TOPIC:Cor
<h2><topicname>Cor</topicname></h2>

A cor is a dry measure of about 391 liters, 103 U.
S. gallons, or 86 imperial gallons.

#OUTLINE:2,Corban
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Corban</topicname></h2>

Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted
to God.

#OUTLINE:2,Crucify
#TOPIC:Crucifixion
<h2><topicname>Crucify</topicname></h2>

Crucify means to execute someone by nailing
them to a cross with metal spikes. Their hands
are stretched out on the crossbeam with spikes
driven through their wrists or hands. Their
feet or ankles are attached to a cross with a
metal spike. The weight of the victim’s body
tends to force the air out of his lungs. To rise
up to breathe, the victim has to put weight on
the wounds, and use a lot of strength. The
victim is nailed to the cross while the cross
is on the ground, then the cross is raised
up and dropped into a hole, thus jarring the
wounds. Before crucifixion, the victim was
usually whipped with a Roman cat of nine
tails, which had bits of glass and metal tied
to its ends. This caused chunks of flesh to
be removed and open wounds to be placed
against the raw wood of the cross. The victim
was made to carry the heavy crossbeam of
his cross from the place of judgment to the
place of crucifixion, but often was physically
unable after the scourging, so another person
would be pressed into involuntary service to
carry the cross for him. Roman crucifixion was
generally done totally naked to maximize both
shame and discomfort. Eventually, the pain,
weakness, dehydration, and exhaustion of the
muscles needed to breathe make breathing
impossible, and the victim suffocates.

#OUTLINE:2,Cubit
#TOPIC:Cubits
<h2><topicname>Cubit</topicname></h2>

A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow
to the tip of the longest finger of a man. This
unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or
18 inches, although that varies with height of
the man doing the measurement. There is also
a “long” cubit that is longer than a regular
cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)

#OUTLINE:2,Cummin
#TOPIC:Cummin
<h2><topicname>Cummin</topicname></h2>

Cummin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum
cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and
appearance. It is used as a spice.

#OUTLINE:2,Darnel
#TOPIC:Darnel
<h2><topicname>Darnel</topicname></h2>

Darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel
or Lolium temulentum) that looks very much
like wheat until it is mature, when the seeds
reveal a great difference. Darnel seeds aren’t
good for much except as chicken feed or to
burn to prevent the spread of this weed.

#OUTLINE:2,Denarii
#TOPIC:Denarii
<h2><topicname>Denarii</topicname></h2>
 
The plural form of denarius, a silver Roman
coin worth about a day’s wages for a laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,Denarius
<h2><topicname>Denarius</topicname></h2>

A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth about
a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer. A
denarius was worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus.

#OUTLINE:2,Devil
#TOPIC:Devil
<h2>Devil</h2>

The word “devil” comes from the Greek “<transgreek>diabolos<english>,”
which means “one prone to slander;
a liar.” “Devil” is used to refer to a fallen
angel, also called “Satan,” who works to steal,
kill, destroy, and do evil. The devil’s doom is
certain, and it is only a matter of time before he
is thrown into the Lake of Fire, never to escape.

#OUTLINE:2,Didrachma
#TOPIC:Didrachma
<h2><topicname>Didrachma</topicname></h2>

A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas,
about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or
about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to
pay the half-shekel temple tax.

#OUTLINE:2,Disciple
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Disciple</topicname></h2>

A student who follows a teacher to learn both by
precept and example.

#OUTLINE:2,Distaff
#TOPIC:Distaff
<h2><topicname>Distaff</topicname></h2>

Part of a spinning wheel used for twisting
threads.

#OUTLINE:2,Drachma
#TOPIC:Drachma
<h2><topicname>Drachma</topicname></h2>

A drachma is a Greek silver coin worth about one
Roman denarius, or about a day’s wages for an
agricultural laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,El-Elohe-Israel
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>El-Elohe-Israel</topicname></h2>

El-Elohe-Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or
“The God of Israel is mighty.”

#OUTLINE:2,Ephah
#TOPIC:Ephah, measure
<h2><topicname>Ephah</topicname></h2>

An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22
liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or
a bit more than half a bushel.

#OUTLINE:2,Gehenna
#TOPIC:Gehenna
<h2><topicname>Gehenna</topicname></h2>

Gehenna is one word used for Hell. It comes from
the Hebrew Gey-Hinnom, literally “valley of
Hinnom.” This word originated as the name for
a place south of the old city of Jerusalem where
the city’s rubbish was burned. At one time, live
babies were thrown crying into the fire under
the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die there. This
place was so despised by the people after the
righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous
practice that it was made into a garbage heap.
Bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals
were thrown there and burned.

#OUTLINE:2,Gittith
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Gittith</topicname></h2>

Gittith is a musical term possibly meaning “an
instrument of Gath.”

#OUTLINE:2,Goad
<h2><topicname>Goad</topicname></h2>

A sharp, pointed prodding device used to motivate
reluctant animals (such as oxen and
mules) to move in the right direction.

#OUTLINE:2,Gospel
#TOPIC:Gospel
<h2><topicname>Gospel</topicname></h2>

Gospel means “good news” or “glad tidings,”
specifically the Good News of Jesus’ life, death,
and resurrection for our salvation, healing,
and provision; and the hope of eternal life that
Jesus made available to us by God’s grace.

#OUTLINE:2,Hades
<h2><topicname>Hades</topicname></h2>

The nether realm of the disembodied
spirits. Also known as “hell.” See also “Sheol”.

#OUTLINE:2,Har-magedon
#TOPIC:Har-magedon
<h2><topicname>Har-magedon</topicname></h2>

Har-magedon, also called Armegeddon, is most
likely a reference to hill (“har”) of Megiddo,
near the Carmel Range in Israel. This area has
a large valley plain with plenty of room for
armies to maneuver.

#OUTLINE:2,Hin
#TOPIC:Hin
<h2><topicname>Hin</topicname></h2>

A hin is a measure of volume of about about 6.5
liters or 1.7 gallons.

#OUTLINE:2,Homer
#TOPIC:Homer
<h2><topicname>Homer</topicname></h2>

One homer is about 220 liters, 6.2 U. S. bushels,
6.1 imperial bushels, 58 U. S. gallons, or 48.4
imperial gallons.

#OUTLINE:2,Hypocrite
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Hypocrite</topicname></h2>

a stage actor; someone who pretends to be
someone other than who they really are; a
pretender; a dissembler.

#OUTLINE:2,Ishmael
#TOPIC:Ishmael
<h2><topicname>Ishmael</topicname></h2>

Ishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar. Ishmael
literally means, “God hears.”

#OUTLINE:2,Jehovah
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Jehovah</topicname></h2>

See “Yahweh.”

#OUTLINE:2,Jesus
<h2><topicname>Jesus</topicname></h2>

“Jesus” is Greek for the Hebrew name “Yeshua,”
which is a short version of “Yehoshua,” which
comes from “Yoshia,” which means “He will
save.”

#OUTLINE:2,Kodrantes
#TOPIC:Kodrantes
<h2><topicname>Kodrantes</topicname></h2>

A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an
Attic chalcus or two lepta. It is worth less than
2% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,Lepta
#TOPIC:Lepta
<h2><topicname>Lepta</topicname></h2>

Lepta are very small, brass, Jewish coins worth
half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth
a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are
worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s
daily wages.

#OUTLINE:2,Leviathan
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Leviathan</topicname></h2>

Leviathan is a poetic name for a large aquatic
creature, possibly a crocodile or a dinosaur.

#OUTLINE:2,Mahalath
<h2><topicname>Mahalath</topicname></h2>

Mahalath is the name of a tune or a musical term.

#OUTLINE:2,Manna
#TOPIC:Manna
<h2><topicname>Manna</topicname></h2>

Name for the food that God miraculously provided
to the Israelites while they were wandering
in the wilderness between Egypt and the
promised land. From Hebrew man-hu (What is
that?) or manan (to allot). See <bcv=Exo 16:14-35>Exodus 16:14-35.</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Marriage
#TOPIC:Marriage
<h2><topicname>Marriage</topicname></h2>

the union of a husband and a wife for the purpose
of cohabitation, procreation, and to enjoy each
other’s company. God’s plan for marriage is
between one man and one woman (Mark 10:6-9; 
1 Corinthians 7). Although there are many
cases of a man marrying more than one woman
in the Old Testament, being married to one
wife is a requirement to serve in certain church
leadership positions (1 Timothy 3:2,12; Titus 1:5-6).

#OUTLINE:2,Maschil
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Maschil</topicname></h2>

Maschil is a musical and literary term for “contemplation”
or “meditative psalm.”

#OUTLINE:2,Michtam
<h2><topicname>Michtam</topicname></h2>

A michtam is a poem.

#OUTLINE:2,Mina
#TOPIC:Mina
<h2><topicname>Mina</topicname></h2>

A mina is a Greek coin worth 100 Greek drachmas
(or 100 Roman denarii), or about 100 day’s
wages for an agricultural laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,Myrrh
#TOPIC:Myrrh
<h2><topicname>Myrrh</topicname></h2>

Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes
out of the stems and branches of the low,
shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or commiphora
kataf native to the Arabian deserts
and parts of Africa. The fragrant gum drops to
the ground and hardens into an oily yellowish-brown
resin. Myrrh was highly valued as a
perfume, and as an ingredient in medicinal and
ceremonial ointments.

#OUTLINE:2,Nicolaitans
#TOPIC:Nicolaitans
<h2><topicname>Nicolaitans</topicname></h2>

Nicolaitans were most likely Gnostics who taught
the detestable lie that the physical and spiritual
realms were entirely separate and that immorality
in the physical realm wouldn’t harm
your spiritual health.

#OUTLINE:2,Omega
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Omega</topicname></h2>

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It
is sometimes used to mean the last or the end.

#OUTLINE:2,Peniel
<h2><topicname>Peniel</topicname></h2>

Peniel is Hebrew for “face of God.”

#OUTLINE:2,Phylactery
#TOPIC:Phylacteries
<h2><topicname>Phylactery</topicname></h2>

a leather container for holding a small scroll containing
important Scripture passages that is
worn on the arm or forehead in prayer. These
phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew) are still used
by orthodox Jewish men. See Deuteronomy 6:8.

#OUTLINE:2,Praetorium
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Praetorium</topicname></h2>

The Roman governor’s residence and
office building, and those who work there.

#OUTLINE:2,Quadrans
#TOPIC:Quadrans
<h2><topicname>Quadrans</topicname></h2>

A quadrans is a Roman coin worth about 1/64 of a
denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages
for an agricultural laborer.

#OUTLINE:2,Rabbi
#NOTOPIC
<h2><topicname>Rabbi</topicname></h2>

Rabbi is a transliteration of the Hebrew word
for “my teacher,” used as a title of respect for
Jewish teachers.

#OUTLINE:2,Rahab
#TOPIC:Rahab
<h2><topicname>Rahab</topicname></h2>

Rahab is either (1) The prostitute who hid
Joshua’s 2 spies in Jericho (<bc=Jos 2>Joshua 2</bc>,<bc=Jos 6>6)</bc> and later
became an ancestor of Jesus (<bcv=Mat 1:5>Matthew 1:5)</bcv>
and an example of faith (<bcv=Heb 11:31>Hebrews 11:31;</bcv> 
<bcv=Jam 2:25>James 2:25);</bcv> or (2) Literally, “pride” or “arrogance” —
possibly a reference to a large aquatic creature
(<bcv=Job 9:13>Job 9:13;</bcv> <bcv=Job 26:12>26:12;</bcv> 
<bcv=Isa 51:9>Isaiah 51:9)</bcv> or symbolically
referring to Egypt (<Bcv=Psa 87:4>Psalm 87:4;</bcv> 
<bcv=Psa 89:10>89:10;</bcv> <bcv=Isa 30:7>Isaiah 30:7).</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Repent
#TOPIC:Repentance
<h2><topicname>Repent</topicname></h2>

To change one’s mind; turn away from sin and
turn toward God; to abhor one’s past sins and
determine to follow God.

#OUTLINE:2,Rhabboni
<h2><topicname>Rhabboni</topicname></h2>

A transliteration of the Hebrew word
for “great teacher.”

#OUTLINE:2,Sabbath
<h2><topicname>Sabbath</topicname></h2>

The seventh day of the week, set aside by God for
man to rest.

#OUTLINE:2,Saints
#TOPIC:Saints
<h2><topicname>Saints</topicname></h2>

The Greek word for “saints” literally means “holy
ones.” Saints are people set apart for service to
God as holy and separate, living in righteousness.
Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians
and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old
Testament times.

#OUTLINE:2,Samaritan
#TOPIC:SAMARITANS
<h2><topicname>Samaritan</topicname></h2>

A Samaritan is a resident of Samaria. The Samaritans
and the Jews generally detested each
other during the time that Jesus walked among us.

#OUTLINE:2,Sanctify
<h2><topicname>Sanctify</topicname></h2>

To declare or set apart something as holy. To
purify and separate a person from sin.

#OUTLINE:2,Sata
#TOPIC:Sata
<h2>Sata</h2>

A sata is a dry measure of capacity approximately
equal to 13 liters or 1.5 pecks.

#OUTLINE:2,Satan
#NOTOPIC
<h2>Satan</h2>

Satan means “accuser.” This is one name for the
devil, an enemy of God and God’s people.

#OUTLINE:2,Scribe
<h2><topicname>scribe</topicname></h2>

A scribe is one who copies God’s law. They were
often respected as teachers and authorities on
God’s law.

#OUTLINE:2,Selah
<h2><topicname>Selah</topicname></h2>

Selah is a musical term indicating a pause or
instrumental interlude for reflection.

#OUTLINE:2,Seraphim
#TOPIC:Seraphim
<h2><topicname>Seraphim</topicname></h2>

Seraphim are 6-winged angels. See <bcv=Isa 6:2-6>Isaiah 6:2-6.</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Sexual Immorality
#TOPIC:Sexual immorality
<h2><topicname>Sexual Immorality</topicname></h2>

The term “sexual immorality” in the New Testament
comes from the Greek “porneia,” which
refers to any sexual activity besides that between
a husband and his wife. In other words,
prostitution (male or female), bestiality, homosexual
activity, any sexual intercourse outside
of marriage, and the production and consumption
of pornography all are included in this term.

#OUTLINE:2,Shekel
#TOPIC:Shekel
<h2><topicname>Shekel</topicname></h2>

A measure of weight, and when referring to that
weight in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A
shekel is approximately 16 grams, about a half
an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).

#OUTLINE:2,Sheol
#NOTOPIC
<h2>Sheol</h2>

Sheol is the place of the dead. See also “Hades”.

#OUTLINE:2,Shibah
<h2>Shibah</h2>

Shibah is Hebrew for “oath” or “seven.” See
Beersheba.

#OUTLINE:2,Shigionoth
<h2>Shigionoth</h2>

Victorious music.

#OUTLINE:2,Soul
#TOPIC:Soul
<h2><topicname>Soul</topicname></h2>

“Soul” refers to the emotions and intellect of
a living person, as well as that person’s very
life. It is distinguished in the Bible from a
person’s spirit and body. (<bcv=1Th 5:23>1 Thessalonians 5:23,</bcv>
<bcv=Heb 4:12>Hebrews 4:12)</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Span
#TOPIC:Span
<h2><topicname>Span</topicname></h2>

A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb
to the tip of his little finger when his hand is
stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches,
or 22.8 cm.)

#OUTLINE:2,Spirit
#TOPIC:Spirit
<h2><topicname>Spirit</topicname></h2>

Spirit, breath, and wind all derive from the same
Hebrew and Greek words. A person’s spirit is
the very essence of that person’s life, which
comes from God, who is a Spirit being <bcv=John 4:24>(John 4:24, </bcv>
<bcv=Gen 1:2>Genesis 1:2;</bcv> <bcv=Gen 2:7>2:7).</bcv> The Bible distinguishes
between a person’s spirit, soul, and body
(<bcv=1Th 5:23>1 Thessalonians 5:23,</bcv> <bcv=Heb 4:12>Hebrews 4:12).</bcv>
Some beings may exist as spirits without necessarily
having a visible body, such as angels and
demons (<bcv=Luk 9:39>Luke 9:39,</bcv> <bcv=1John 4:1-3>1 John 4:1-3).</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Stadia
#TOPIC:Stadia
<h2><topicname>Stadia</topicname></h2>

Stadia is plural for “stadion,” a linear measure of
about 184.9 meters or 606.6 feet (the length of
the race course at Olympia).

#OUTLINE:2,Stater
#TOPIC:Staters
<h2><topicname>Stater</topicname></h2>

A stater is a Greek silver coin equivalent to four
Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish
shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel
Temple Tax for two people.

#OUTLINE:2,Tabernacle
#NOTOPIC
<h2>Tabernacle</h2>

A dwelling place or place of worship, usually a
tent.

#OUTLINE:2,Talent
#TOPIC:Talent
<h2><topicname>Talent</topicname></h2>

A measure of weight or mass of 3000 shekels.

#OUTLINE:2,Tartarus
#NOTOPIC
<h2>Tartarus</h2>

Tartarus is the Greek name for an underworld for
the wicked dead; another name for Gehenna or
Hell.

#OUTLINE:2,Teraphim
#TOPIC:Teraphim
<h2><topicname>Teraphim</topicname></h2>

Teraphim are household idols that may have
been associated with inheritance rights to the
household property.

#OUTLINE:2,Yah
#NOTOPIC
<h2>Yah</h2>

“Yah” is a shortened form of “Yahweh,” which is
God’s proper name. This form is used occasionally
in the Old Testament, mostly in the Psalms.
See “Yahweh.”

#OUTLINE:2,Yahweh
#TOPIC:Yahweh
<h2><topicname>Yahweh</topicname></h2>
“Yahweh” is God’s proper name. In Hebrew, the
four consonants roughly equivalent to YHWH
were considered too holy to pronounce, so
the Hebrew word for “Lord” (<transhebrew>Adonai<english>) was
substituted when reading it aloud. When
vowel points were added to the Hebrew Old
Testament, the vowel points for “Adonai”
were mixed with the consonants for “Yahweh,”
which if you pronounced it literally as written,
would be pronounced “Yehovah” or “Jehovah.”
When the Old Testament was translated to
Greek, the tradition of substituting “Lord” for
God’s proper name continued in the translation
of God’s name to “Lord” (<transgreek>Kurios<english>). Some
English Bibles translate God’s proper name to
“LORD” or “GOD” (usually with small capital
letters), based on that same tradition. This
can get really confusing, since two other words
(“Adonai” and “Elohim”) translate to “Lord”
and “God,” and they are sometimes used together.
The ASV of 1901 (and some other
translations) render YHWH as “Jehovah.” The
most probable pronunciation of God’s proper
name is “Yahweh.” In Hebrew, the name
“Yahweh” is related to the active declaration
“I AM.” See <bcv=Exo 3:13-14>Exodus 3:13-14.</bcv> Since Hebrew
has no tenses, the declaration “I AM” can also
be interpreted as “I WAS” and “I WILL BE.”
Compare <bcv=Rev 1:8>Revelation 1:8.</bcv>

#OUTLINE:2,Zion
#TOPIC:Zion
<h2><topicname>Zion</topicname></h2>

Zion is a name which originally referred one of
the mountains of Jerusalem. It became a term
synonymous with Jerusalem itself. The term
“Heavenly Zion” is also used to refer the future
dwelling place of God’s people.
