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"book": "Amos",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God."
}
]
}
]
}fs_store()
[ "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers", "Deuteronomy", "Joshua", "Judges", "Ruth", "1 Samuel", "2 Samuel", "1 Kings", "2 Kings", "1 Chronicles", "2 Chronicles", "Ezra", "Nehemiah", "Esther", "Job", "Psalms", "Proverbs", "Ecclesiastes", "Song of Solomon", "Isaiah", "Jeremiah", "Lamentations", "Ezekiel", "Daniel", "Hosea", "Joel", "Amos", "Obadiah", "Jonah", "Micah", "Nahum", "Habakkuk", "Zephaniah", "Haggai", "Zechariah", "Malachi", "Matthew", "Mark", "Luke", "John", "Acts", "Romans", "1 Corinthians", "2 Corinthians", "Galatians", "Ephesians", "Philippians", "Colossians", "1 Thessalonians", "2 Thessalonians", "1 Timothy", "2 Timothy", "Titus", "Philemon", "Hebrews", "James", "1 Peter", "2 Peter", "1 John", "2 John", "3 John", "Jude", "Revelation" ]
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{
"book": "Colossians",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "(Touch not; taste not; handle not;"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen."
}
]
}
]
}fs_store()
{
"book": "Daniel",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon."
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
}
]
}
]
}fs_store()
{
"book": "Deuteronomy",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": "1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,"
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you."
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the LORD spake unto me, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "That the LORD spake unto me, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:"
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And I gave Gilead unto Machir."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?"
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;"
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;"
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:"
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,"
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:"
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;"
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,"
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Thou shalt have none other gods before me."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Thou shalt not kill."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Neither shalt thou commit adultery."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Neither shalt thou steal."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Go say to them, Get you into your tents again."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left."
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "6",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "7",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "8",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "9",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "10",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "11",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "12",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "13",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "14",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Of all clean birds ye shall eat."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And every raven after his kind,"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But of all clean fowls ye may eat."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "15",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "16",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "17",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "18",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "19",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "20",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "21",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "22",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:"
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "23",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "24",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "25",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "26",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:"
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "27",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "28",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:"
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof."
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand:"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:"
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see."
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee."
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:"
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;"
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee."
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;"
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:"
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee."
},
{
"verse": "52",
"text": "And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."
},
{
"verse": "53",
"text": "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:"
},
{
"verse": "54",
"text": "So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:"
},
{
"verse": "55",
"text": "So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates."
},
{
"verse": "56",
"text": "The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,"
},
{
"verse": "57",
"text": "And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates."
},
{
"verse": "58",
"text": "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;"
},
{
"verse": "59",
"text": "Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance."
},
{
"verse": "60",
"text": "Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee."
},
{
"verse": "61",
"text": "Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "62",
"text": "And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God."
},
{
"verse": "63",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "64",
"text": "And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone."
},
{
"verse": "65",
"text": "And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:"
},
{
"verse": "66",
"text": "And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:"
},
{
"verse": "67",
"text": "In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see."
},
{
"verse": "68",
"text": "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "29",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:"
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:"
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;"
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:"
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;"
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:"
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "30",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:"
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:"
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "31",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:"
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?"
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,"
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?"
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "32",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?"
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape."
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation."
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:"
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!"
},
{
"verse": "30",
"text": "How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?"
},
{
"verse": "31",
"text": "For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges."
},
{
"verse": "32",
"text": "For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:"
},
{
"verse": "33",
"text": "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps."
},
{
"verse": "34",
"text": "Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?"
},
{
"verse": "35",
"text": "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste."
},
{
"verse": "36",
"text": "For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left."
},
{
"verse": "37",
"text": "And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,"
},
{
"verse": "38",
"text": "Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection."
},
{
"verse": "39",
"text": "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand."
},
{
"verse": "40",
"text": "For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever."
},
{
"verse": "41",
"text": "If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me."
},
{
"verse": "42",
"text": "I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy."
},
{
"verse": "43",
"text": "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people."
},
{
"verse": "44",
"text": "And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun."
},
{
"verse": "45",
"text": "And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:"
},
{
"verse": "46",
"text": "And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law."
},
{
"verse": "47",
"text": "For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."
},
{
"verse": "48",
"text": "And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,"
},
{
"verse": "49",
"text": "Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:"
},
{
"verse": "50",
"text": "And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:"
},
{
"verse": "51",
"text": "Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": "52",
"text": "Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "33",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death."
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them."
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;"
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar."
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again."
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders."
},
{
"verse": "13",
"text": "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,"
},
{
"verse": "14",
"text": "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,"
},
{
"verse": "15",
"text": "And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,"
},
{
"verse": "16",
"text": "And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren."
},
{
"verse": "17",
"text": "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
},
{
"verse": "18",
"text": "And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents."
},
{
"verse": "19",
"text": "They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand."
},
{
"verse": "20",
"text": "And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head."
},
{
"verse": "21",
"text": "And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel."
},
{
"verse": "22",
"text": "And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan."
},
{
"verse": "23",
"text": "And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south."
},
{
"verse": "24",
"text": "And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil."
},
{
"verse": "25",
"text": "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be."
},
{
"verse": "26",
"text": "There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky."
},
{
"verse": "27",
"text": "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them."
},
{
"verse": "28",
"text": "Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew."
},
{
"verse": "29",
"text": "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": "34",
"verses": [
{
"verse": "1",
"text": "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,"
},
{
"verse": "2",
"text": "And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,"
},
{
"verse": "3",
"text": "And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar."
},
{
"verse": "4",
"text": "And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither."
},
{
"verse": "5",
"text": "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD."
},
{
"verse": "6",
"text": "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."
},
{
"verse": "7",
"text": "And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."
},
{
"verse": "8",
"text": "And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended."
},
{
"verse": "9",
"text": "And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses."
},
{
"verse": "10",
"text": "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,"
},
{
"verse": "11",
"text": "In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,"
},
{
"verse": "12",
"text": "And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel."
}
]
}
]
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